Maud Pirates

The fighting within the battle zone grew increasingly fierce.

The Maud Pirates' side.

In theory, Aokiji's wide-area battlefield control could relieve most of the pressure on his allies.

He only needed to use Ice Age frequently to efficiently divide the battlefield and suppress the enemy's numerical advantage.

However, the existence of Fire Fist Ace offset Aokiji's battlefield control to a certain extent.

The awakened Flame-Flame Fruit ability...

In every respect, although it still could not contend with Akainu's Magma-Magma Fruit ability, it now possessed the capital to stand against Aokiji's Ice-Ice Fruit ability.

The seemingly endless flames had been trying to melt the ice Aokiji released from beginning to end.

Clearly, Ace understood his role in this war.

Regardless of victory or defeat, he had to desperately keep Aokiji occupied.

Under Ace's fierce suppression, the pressure Aokiji could share with his companions was almost negligible.

Flames and ice fiercely clashed in one area of the battlefield.

The berserk elemental energy reduced the surrounding terrain to a ruin.

Because they held an overwhelming advantage in numbers, the elites of the Whitebeard Pirates had considered going to support Ace.

But after seeing the chaos Ace and Aokiji had caused, they rationally abandoned the impractical idea.

This was a battle between awakened Logia-type ability users.

Within its range, ice and fire showed no mercy.

If outsiders tried to interfere, they probably would not be able to help at all and would instead be caught in the Logia-type powers.

Ace faced Aokiji alone.

Without outside interference, he went all out without holding anything back.

For the short term, he could barely keep Aokiji here.

Elsewhere.

Lafitte also went alone to fight Marco.

In this one-on-one battle, although Lafitte possessed the abilities of two Devil Fruits—Siren and Sound-Sound—he was still suppressed by Marco.

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