"Old Man, don't!"
"Why propose such a wager? We haven't lost yet!"
The pirates of the Whitebeard Pirates fell to their knees, their faces smeared with tears and snot as they cried out at the top of their lungs.
Whitebeard remained unmoved. He did not even turn around to look at his sons.
He knew very well that what appeared to be an evenly matched situation could collapse completely in the next moment with just one trigger.
After all, these pirates were not a unified whole. If he waited until everything had utterly fallen apart before negotiating, he would not even have the right to speak anymore!
"Gurararara! Whose funeral it will be is still uncertain!" Whitebeard stepped forward with his right leg and brought his raised Naginata crashing down.
Incomparably immense power, combined with the force of vibration, surged forward. At that moment, it seemed as though even space could not bear such strength and shattered apart.
Cracks in the air stretched for thousands of meters. Anyone who did not know better might have thought lightning had streaked across the sky.
There was no probing and no pressure. He had begun with his ultimate power. Whitebeard knew that only by overwhelming his opponent with absolute strength could he avoid being dragged into a quagmire.
"Too terrifying... Is the world about to be destroyed?"
"Whitebeard has actually become even stronger. Is he continuously unsealing the limits of his past?"
Seeing the sky seemingly shatter, the people before the screens were dumbfounded with fear. Even though they were not present, they could still feel Whitebeard's power through that horrifying sight.
"Going this hard from the start? He really is an old man who loves recklessness." Longinus sighed softly, covering his entire body in Armament Haki as though donning a suit of