The salty, fishy sea breeze rolled through the smoke, carrying the stench of blood.
Lead-gray clouds nearly pressed down upon the heads of every soldier on the battlefield.
Waves crashed against the shore, repeatedly washing away crimson human bloodstains and the dark green, viscous fluids of sea monsters.
As far as the eye could see.
There were shattered corpses of soldiers, heroes, and Deep Sea Folk everywhere, along with the wreckage of various destroyed armored vehicles.
Yet neither side still locked in battle had the mind to care about any of it.
Amid the deafening, furious gunfire, it was either turn the other side into corpses or become one of the bodies on the ground yourself.
War between races had always been this cruel.
At this moment.
One of the many battlefields here was much the same as the others.
With numerous Super Continent Unified Government soldiers and armored vehicles in the background.
Heroes from the Hero Association, Hero Association, and Neo Heroes fought side by side without distinction.
They were fiercely battling enormous, bizarre-looking Deep Sea Folk.
Honestly.
If they had not been holding the line, the army's defensive perimeter behind them would have been overrun long ago.
The heroes representing the Hero Association were Smoker, Hina, and Sentomaru.
They had fully thrown themselves into the battle, sometimes fending off incoming attacks, sometimes striking down sea monsters.
Their bodies were also covered in quite a bit of foul-smelling green slime.
This incredibly real battlefield experience was a first for all three of them.
They had been somewhat unaccustomed to it at first, but gradually adapted amid the slaughter.
"Ashigara Dokkoi!"
Standing atop a massive corpse, Sentomaru fiercely thrust both palms at a Deep Sea Folk charging toward him in huge strides.
Armament Haki burst forth with tremendous force, forming