Whitebeard's waters.
The new headquarters.
At that moment, flames and smoke filled the sky, and the sounds of cannon fire and battle rang out everywhere.
As a huge mushroom cloud rose, the battle descended into chaos.
"Kaido, you're asking for it!"
Whitebeard threw a punch, shattering the air before him. His surging Conqueror's Haki stirred the winds and clouds, while countless black-and-red lightning bolts crackled all around.
"Hand over Roger's son, or today will mark the end of the Whitebeard Pirates!"
Kaido remained in his dragon-man form and met Whitebeard's attack head-on with a powerful Thunder Bagua.
Elsewhere,
the All-Stars and the Flying Six were fighting Marco and the other division commanders, while countless pirates on both sides clashed around them.
That's right.
Kaido had led his forces in an attack on the Whitebeard Pirates.
Their target was Ace.
They wanted to use Ace to learn about the existence of One Piece. If they could get their hands on One Piece, they could surpass the Richest Group in one fell swoop and become the most powerful force in the world.
Two rumors were circulating across the seas.
One concerned the living One Piece, a title that had once referred to the Golden Emperor, Gaia Chaos.
But for all these years, no person or force had managed to capture the Golden Emperor. On the contrary, he had flourished, eventually becoming someone who stood above the Four Emperors.
There were all kinds of outlandish stories about him.
Capturing the Golden Emperor was said to be next to impossible, but things were different now.
Another living One Piece had appeared: Fire Fist Ace.
People all over the world believed that Fire Fist Ace, as the son of the Pirate King Gol D. Roger, must know where Laugh Tale was and where Roger had