The entire sea tilted.
Parts of the crust rose while others suddenly sank.
The abrupt upheaval beneath the sea turned its surface into something like uneven steps.
Lightning flashed and thunder roared across the sky.
The sea churned with raging waves.
The full eruption of the Tremor-Tremor Fruit's power directly caused an unprecedented earthquake in these waters.
What Sengoku had said during the Summit War had not been without reason.
When Whitebeard, the strongest among Paramecia Devil Fruit users, unleashed his full power, if he possessed limitless stamina, then he truly had the ability to destroy the entire world.
With the help of pure gold and the world's most advanced technology, Whitebeard's strength had now nearly returned to its peak.
Therefore, against a Whitebeard like this, fully unleashing his abilities, let alone Ryokugyu, even if Akainu came, he would have no good way to stop such a monster.
The waves rose like towering walls, climbing endlessly toward the sky.
Beneath the cloud-shrouded sea lay a scene of apocalypse.
Under Whitebeard's control of the Tremor-Tremor Fruit, the sea seemed poised to swallow the entire Leviathan Base.
At the same time, shaken by Whitebeard's Tremor-Tremor Fruit, the barren island below, filled with hard basalt, began to split open with savage cracks as the crust shifted.
Seawater surged inland.
The island collapsed and tore apart.
The Marines still conscious across the island wore expressions of utter despair.
They had originally believed that transporting the warriors knocked unconscious by Ryokugyu from the base onto the ships would allow them to escape this disaster.
But the massive tsunami blotting out the sky in the distance brutally extinguished their hopes without leaving even a spark.
The Leviathan Base built upon the barren island was now being flooded by seawater.
As for the Marine soldiers who had