Many Commanders felt a chill rise in their hearts. They immediately grabbed their Den Den Mushi and contacted the Bosses of their respective forces, asking what they should do next. After all, firing a cannon at Ronglin now was no longer a matter of how the Star Alliance would deal with the aftermath—it was a question of whether the entire fleet could even make it back alive.
The battle around the Starry was far more spectacular than Cracker had imagined. Forty Devil Fruit users, all of them Zoan users, displayed astonishing combat power. Their bulging muscles, savage beast forms, brutal attacks, and soaring fighting spirit completely destroyed the first warship at the first clash. It took only nine minutes.
Those formidable fighters who already had some skill had enhanced their strength after consuming the Artificial Devil Fruits developed by Caesar. With Burgess's training, their combat power had surpassed what it once was. Although the BIGMOM Pirates had some exceptionally skilled fighters, they were swarmed by dozens of Devil Fruit users and torn into pieces on the spot, blood staining the battlefield.
The BIGMOM Pirates had never seen a force that could retain such fierce combat awareness when facing one of the Four Emperors' crews. They were stunned at first, then crushed the next moment. The Team Leaders and Captains who charged forward could not last even a minute.
They were basically seized by five or six Devil Fruit users in a single exchange, lifted high into the air, and torn into five or six pieces on the spot.
This terrifying, bloody method of killing intimidated the other pirates. They killed often enough, but they had never seen such a cruel way of murdering people. Worse still, the victim had been a Captain. The Captain was so much stronger than they