Boiling Sea, Towering Waves

The moment Marco finished speaking, everyone used their own methods and jumped down from the Moby Dick.

Flames burst from Ace's hands and feet as he shot into the sky. Yamato transformed into her half-beast form and leaped into the sea, instantly creating a sheet of ice.

Yota circulated his Chakra and stood firmly atop the water. Several of Whitebeard's other sons used techniques similar to Geppo to leave the massive ship.

Meanwhile, wind and thunder raged aboard the Moby Dick, and the air boomed. After taking several heavy blows from Whitebeard, Kaido reverted from his dragon form into his half-beast form, and the two began fighting directly on the deck.

Damn! Aren't Pops and Kaido going to sink the Moby Dick? Yota thought as he glanced back at the battle.

The Moby Dick was likely built from the finest timber, perhaps even the legendary Adam Wood, harder than steel. But with two Four Emperors using it as their battlefield, it was still hard not to worry.

At that moment, Yamato began channeling her Cold Air. The ice rapidly spread, freezing a vast stretch of sea as it swept toward the ships opposite them.

But just as the ice spread, a man with orange hair and a bizarre hairstyle appeared on one of the Homies ships belonging to the Big Mom Pirates. He used his own ability as well, and the sea actually began to boil. The scalding water and Yamato's freezing power collided at once, raising great clouds of steam across the ocean.

"That guy is Charlotte Oven, the Heat-Heat Fruit user?" Yota frowned slightly. The Charlotte Family's Devil Fruits were all rather strange. Thanks to their food-obsessed mother, most of their abilities were related to food.

For that reason, it was only natural that the combat potential of those Devil Fruits was generally less than ideal. But Charlotte Oven's Devil Fruit abilities were definitely among the strongest in battle.

The so-called Heat-Heat Fruit was actually a mistranslation. Its true meaning was the Bake-Bake Fruit. Thus, not only could he create high temperatures, he could instantly transfer that heat to other objects, effortlessly baking the sea until it boiled.

"He was probably trying to attack our ships, but Yamato stopped him."

Watching the boiling ocean, Yota smiled. "Since you've already created the perfect conditions for me, wouldn't it be a waste not to hit you with something brutal?"

Water Clone Technique!

In an instant, nine Water Clones split off from Yota.

Water Clones could not compare to a high-level Clone Technique like the Shadow Clone, but each clone still carried one-tenth of Yota's Chakra. Of course, the main reason was that Yota simply did not know the Shadow Clone Technique.

Ever since he had modified his body after first encountering Ace, the amount of Chakra in Yota's body had been continuously skyrocketing. Although he had not yet further modified himself according to Whitebeard's physical structure, the amount of Chakra within him was already faintly exceeding the bounds of Kage-level.

Even one-tenth of his Chakra was no less than that of an ordinary Kage-level powerhouse. If the ninjutsu he had learned had not all been such common techniques, perhaps his strongest side would actually have been his ninja abilities!

The nine Water Clones and Yota himself raced to the very front of the battlefield, their hands continuously forming seals.

Both sides on the battlefield saw the sight. Queen and Maria in particular, having suffered at Yota's hands before, both changed expression slightly when they saw him forming seals. "Stop that brat!"

"Not good, we're too late!"

Water Release - Great Waterfall Technique! ×10

How powerful was the Water Release - Great Waterfall Technique when ten Kage-level powerhouses poured all their Chakra into it over an endless sea? Beneath the towering waves, even Whitebeard's sea-quakes were several meters shorter than this enormous tsunami!

Most terrifying of all—the tsunami was a hundred degrees Celsius, boiling water hot enough to cook ordinary pirate ships to ruin!

"Whew..." Feeling the meager Chakra left in his body and the nine Water Clones that could no longer be sustained, Yota let out a long breath.

Fortunately, he was not merely a ninja. Otherwise, with the tiny amount of Chakra he had left, even any random senior officer on the other side could have easily taken his life.

But now, the pirates on the other side were struggling to save themselves! The senior officers of both Pirate Crews were mostly Devil Fruit users, and none possessed large-scale Devil Fruit abilities. Faced with such a massive tsunami, they simply lacked the power to protect everyone and could only look after themselves.

Katakuri, tall and dressed in leather, with a scarf covering his mouth, roared. The sea around his ships was assimilated into mochi by his Mochi-Mochi Fruit, rising into a towering mochi wall that protected several nearby ships.

Charlotte Cracker slapped his hands together fiercely. Countless biscuit soldiers formed a great biscuit wall. Apparently aware that biscuits softened in water, he made the wall several times thicker.

Big Mom's eldest son, Charlotte Perospero, raised a candy castle that was also continuously thickening. The candy he created was not afraid of seawater, but it feared high temperatures! If he did not make it thicker, it might melt at once.

The three Devil Fruit users capable of resisting the tsunami gave it their all. Big Mom's other children also exerted every ounce of strength they had, desperately unleashing all kinds of Flying Slashes, fist blasts, and wind kicks, all to blunt the force of the waves and lessen the pressure of the coming defense.

The Big Mom Pirates had a wider variety of Devil Fruit abilities, and since they had come as reinforcements, their numbers were relatively small. With Katakuri, Cracker, and Perospero working together, they barely managed to shield all their ships. The Beasts Pirates, however, were in terrible trouble.

These people were mostly Zoan-type Fruit users and had no large-scale long-range defensive abilities. Only King knew a little about projecting Armament Haki for defense, but before such a tsunami, that was merely a drop in the bucket.

Thus, faced with this situation, the pirates of the Beasts Pirates could only continuously unleash long-range attacks, hoping to slow the momentum of the waves, dozens or even hundreds of meters high, and reduce the impact somewhat.

Seeing that the waves could not be stopped, King, who could fly, soared into the air. After looking around, he grabbed Jack and flew up with him.

Queen transformed into a half-dragon form, flames bursting from beneath his feet as he flew up using his modifications. Suddenly, he felt a web wrap around him. Looking down, he saw Black Maria. He hesitated slightly, then took Black Maria into the sky with him.

As for Who's Who, the Saber-Toothed Tiger Fruit user, he leaped into the air with Geppo. The other members of the Tobi Roppo also knew some means of staying airborne, and amid their frantic scrambling, they barely escaped the giant wave.