Faced with the four men's ferocious attack, Chaos remained impassive. He extended his right hand toward them, and Almighty Push formed a ten-colored repulsion wave that swept forward with unstoppable force.
"Watch out."
Listening to the Voice of All Things activated.
Ace heard the sound of danger.
Pfft!
The overwhelming force was impossible to resist.
Ace, Marco, Vista, and Jozu held out for only a moment before all of them spat blood and flew away like cannonballs. They carved four separate trails through the ground before finally collapsing among the rubble and dirt, their faces pale.
One blow.
It had taken only one blow.
Ace and the others couldn't help questioning everything they knew.
They had worked themselves to the bone training all these years. They might not have stood at the very peak of the world, but they hadn't been far off.
Ace especially.
With Whitebeard and Bullet as his sparring partners, he had enjoyed an advantage few could match. His Voice of All Things had reached a certain level. Perhaps he still couldn't compare to Roger, but he wasn't far behind.
Yet reality remained as cruel as ever.
"Even though he was my enemy, I respected Edward Newgate!"
"Before he died, I promised him I would spare your lives, on the condition that you didn't overestimate yourselves."
By then, Whitebeard's life signs had vanished.
The light in his eyes had gone out completely.
All that remained was a battered body, growing colder by the moment.
A legendary powerhouse had died just like that.
Without Gai's arrival from another world, this era would never have become such a chaotic, colorful mess. According to the original course of history, before the Summit War, this era should have been known as the age of Whitebeard Edward Newgate.
But now, this era