Killing the Giant Beasts

As the houses collapsed, blood seeped from the ruins from time to time, its vivid red standing out painfully against the dust.

Needless to say, most of it belonged to innocent civilians.

After the giant beasts landed, they began their endless destruction, trampling and charging recklessly. Amid the civilians' heart-wrenching screams, the entire back street was instantly plunged into chaos and despair.

Mu Chen and the others did everything they could in the sky to stop the beasts from landing. Borsalino's light bullets bombarded the floating island like a raging storm, blasting away wave after wave, yet the locust-like beasts continued to descend in an endless stream.

The tremendous commotion from the back street instantly caught Sengoku's attention as he fought fiercely. Catching sight of the devastation there from the corner of his eye, the rage in his heart erupted like a volcano.

"Golden Lion, you're nothing but a beast!"

He roared, his voice filled with fury and despair.

Sengoku's body was covered in countless wounds, blood continuously seeping from them and staining his clothes red.

Even so, he did not dare retreat even half a step. Though he had just glimpsed the scene on the back street, no matter how furious he was, he knew the responsibility on his shoulders and could not give ground.

Across from him, Golden Lion wore a sinister smile as he looked at Sengoku mockingly.

"Ah, Sengoku, you're too weak. You can't stop me." "Even if I can't stop you, I'll still try!"

Sengoku gritted his teeth and spoke each word slowly. He still hoped Garp would arrive soon, knowing full well that he was no match for Golden Lion alone.

The Marines on the harbor ground had also seen the giant beasts rampaging through the back street. They were frantic with worry, like ants on a hot pan, because their families and companions were all there!

But they were tightly pinned down and unable to move. The Flying Fleet in the sky was locked in fierce battle, and many pirates had fallen into the sea. Countless more pirates had even climbed ashore from the water.

Gunfire and cannon fire rose and fell without end, like a dense drumbeat.

The Marines stubbornly resisted the pirates' assault amid the hail of bullets. Their figures looked small in the smoke and flames, yet incomparably resolute.

At that moment, Steel Bone Kong's authoritative voice spread through the transponder snails to every corner of the battlefield and harbor.

"All ground Marines of officer rank and above, proceed to the back street and kill the giant beasts!"

He made this decision because he could see that the giant beasts were exceptionally powerful. Ordinary Marine soldiers would only be throwing their lives away. Apart from Kuzan and Sakazuki, the forces of rear admiral rank and above had gone to fight in the sky, and they too had to head to the back street to provide support.

In an instant, countless Marines broke away from their current battles and sprinted toward the back street.

"Mu Chen, it seems your guess was correct."

Sakazuki looked at Mu Chen, who was fighting in the sky, his eyes revealing even greater admiration and fervor.

When the battle had first begun, the back street had remained quiet, and he had thought Mu Chen's guess was wrong. But the facts proved that he had been mistaken.

With so many giant beasts on the back street, if Borsalino and Mu Chen had not fought desperately to hold them back at the front, even more beasts would have landed. If that happened, the losses would truly have been impossible to estimate.

A moment later, numerous Marines arrived before the giant beasts. Dozens of them swiftly surrounded each beast in a tight circle, their weapons gleaming coldly as they stood ready.

Then all kinds of attacks poured down upon the giant beasts like rain. Bullets whistled through the air, while shells exploded amid billowing smoke.

Yet the giant beasts were thick-skinned and tough-fleshed, suffering only superficial injuries.

A Marine soldier stared wide-eyed and shouted in shock, "What? My gun can't pierce it? Even my cannon only scraped its skin?"

The other Marines were dumbfounded. They looked at one another, their eyes filled with helplessness and despair.

Faced with the giant beasts' rock-solid defenses, they felt their own strength was pitifully insignificant, and the light of hope in their hearts gradually dimmed.

"What do we do now?"

"It's over!"

The Marines' hearts had turned ice-cold, as though they had fallen into an ice cellar. They could not see even a shred of hope.

Just then, a sharp-eyed Marine accurately shot and burst one of the beast's pustules. In an instant, blood sprayed everywhere like a fountain, and the giant beast let out a miserable howl filled with pain and fury.

"Those pustules, shoot them!"

"Those pustules are their weak points!"

After discovering this weakness, the Marines, who had just been trapped in despair and helplessness, now seemed to have been injected with a stimulant. Their morale soared.

They quickly adjusted their strategy and concentrated all their firepower on the giant beasts' pustules.

Kuzan came alone before one of the giant beasts, which was frantically destroying houses.

In the corner of one house, a male and female civilian clung tightly to each other. Their bodies trembled violently, and their eyes held nothing but fear and despair, as though darkness had completely swallowed them.

Just as the giant beast raised its enormous trunk high and was about to slam it down, Kuzan swung one hand. In an instant, a massive ice shield appeared out of thin air. Crystal-clear and radiating bone-piercing cold, it firmly protected the two civilians.

Once Kuzan saw that the civilians were unharmed, his eyes instantly turned fierce, and the mist from his mouth grew thicker.

Clearly, Kuzan had been completely enraged by the sight before him. "Damn beasts!"

At that moment, a gigantic magma arm carrying rolling heat swept past Kuzan's side like a blazing bolt of lightning.

The next second, the giant beast's body was directly pierced by magma. The magma arm was like a burning python, instantly boring straight through its body.