Ascend to the Holy Land!

"Ace, are you alright?!"

Marco looked at Ace worriedly. When he saw Blackbeard's move just now—

He had nearly been scared to death.

Marco had considered the powers of those two fruits before. He knew they definitely would not be weak.

After all, Blackbeard had been willing to abandon years of friendship just to obtain the Dark-Dark Fruit. He had even done so at the risk of being hunted down by Whitebeard.

If there was nothing special about it, Marco certainly would not believe it.

But as he had said—

He had anticipated it, but he had never imagined it would be this outrageous.

Thankfully—

When he saw Ace vanish just now, Marco had nearly thought it was all over.

Fortunately, Ace was unharmed.

"I'm fine."

Hearing Marco's concern, Ace shook his head.

He really had been startled just now.

Still, he had dodged quickly enough, using his Devil Fruit power to leave his original position. Otherwise, he probably would have been swallowed up just like that enormous crater.

So, this had truly taught Ace a lesson.

He knew very well that he needed to curb the slight contempt in his heart.

If he did not, he knew exactly what awaited him.

"Gurararara! Ace, how about letting me handle this?!"

Whitebeard's voice rang across the battlefield.

He had nearly stepped in just now.

Fortunately, Ace had dodged it himself.

In truth, Whitebeard had already seen it from that exchange. The gap in strength between Ace and Blackbeard was quite large.

It had to be said that Blackbeard had obtained an extraordinary power.

However—

He had originally promised Ace that he would not interfere.

After all, Ace had said that Blackbeard was a traitor from his division, so naturally, Ace should be the one to deal with him.

At first, Whitebeard