Boom!
Two unforeseen attacks came crushing in ahead of everyone else.
Charlotte Linlin and Red-Haired Shanks, who had been focused on the father-son battle between Whitebeard and Blackbeard, had their expressions change drastically.
Without time to think, they struck out at once.
"Emperor Sword: Hakoku!"
"One Sword Style: Hurricane!"
Boom!
The savage attacks collided with neither side yielding an inch.
The explosive shockwave sent the gathered subordinates around them flying.
At the same time, a figure riding on black magma arrived. With a fierce flap of the demonic wings on his back, he shot toward Charlotte Linlin at extreme speed.
The one facing Red-Haired Shanks was none other than Douglas Bullet, who had suffered the backlash of the Guardian's power.
However, at this moment, he had clearly assumed the Devil's true form.
As his feet rooted into the ground, his violent Devil Fruit power surged forth wildly under the enhancement.
Under the effects of the Clank-Clank Fruit, the surrounding earth was rapidly assimilated by his power.
In the blink of an eye, a thousand-meter-tall demon with horns on its head and pitch-black wings on its back appeared before everyone.
That towering, sky-blotting figure made everyone's faces turn pale.
"Akainu, you dare ambush me? Aren't you afraid that I'll overturn Marine Headquarters afterward?" Charlotte Linlin roared.
Watching her already heavily injured subordinates get swept away, her heart bled.
She had painstakingly gathered these powerful members of every race from across the seas.
Some of those races could even be considered extinct in this world.
More importantly, there were her sons.
She had even killed quite a few of their biological fathers.
If all those sons were swept away at once, leaving Charlotte Linlin a commander without an army—
Even if she managed to leave the final island, Laugh Tale, alive, she