With the Giant Race joining the fray, the situation on this battlefield became unpredictable once more.
Although the Pirate Alliance was somewhat disadvantaged when it came to top-tier combat power, it instead held the upper hand over Marine Headquarters in terms of mid-level strength.
Setting aside the Big Mom Pirates and the Beasts Pirates, the Whitebeard Pirates alone had fourteen Division Captains and forty-three allied captains, most of whom possessed combat power somewhere between that of rear admirals and vice admirals.
Although Marine Headquarters also had the Shichibukai and Pacifistas as outside support, one group put in effort without truly fighting, while the other lacked flexibility. Neither had done much to change the course of the battle.
These Giant Race members who had suddenly arrived numbered only around one hundred and twenty, but every one of them was powerful. They completely filled Marine Headquarters' shortage of mid-level forces. The Giant King's presence in particular allowed Marine Headquarters to devote far more strength to controlling the battlefield.
At the center of the battlefield, Whitebeard and Akainu's battle was gradually reaching its climax.
Under normal circumstances, top-tier fighters usually had to battle for days and nights before a victor could be decided.
But this time was different. Whitebeard's body could not support a prolonged fight, so they had entered the final showdown from the very beginning.
"Great Eruption!"
"Tremor: Earthsplit!"
The world's strongest attack and the world's strongest destructive force intertwined, annihilating everything around them and turning the area nearby into a forbidden zone of death.
Seeing that ordinary tremors were completely ineffective against his opponent, Whitebeard gripped his Naginata and brought it down in a fierce, tyrannical slash. The edge of the Supreme Great Sword Murakumogiri combined with the destruction of the Tremor-Tremor Fruit, and wherever its blade pointed, even space