Admiral VS Four Emperors

Not only that.

Some of the weaker Whitebeard Pirates crew members were also affected by Aokiji's Ice-Ice Fruit.

After the chill swept across them,

many unlucky ones among them were frozen into blocks of ice.

Fortunately, those nearby reacted quickly.

They freed them from their predicament at once.

Otherwise,

just as they had met,

they would have already lost quite a few allies!

Meanwhile,

after unleashing Ice Age,

Aokiji landed before Marineford's bay.

The Ice-Ice Fruit exerted its power once again.

Before his eyes,

even the bay was frozen solid!

Ice froze the hulls of the four Moby Dick mother-and-son ships in the distance, along with the vessels of the forty-three Whitebeard Pirates allied crews surrounding them.

They were left unable to move.

The tsunami created by the Tremor-Tremor Fruit

had been neutralized by Aokiji!

"W-We're saved..."

"Look, it's Admiral Aokiji!"

"An admiral has made a move! An admiral has made a move!"

Having survived the disaster,

the Marines still immersed in fear could not help wiping the cold sweat from their foreheads.

Just moments ago,

they had thought they were doomed.

Before the battle had even begun, they had nearly gone to collect their funeral rations.

Was this Whitebeard's power?

Before this,

they had merely heard that the strongest figures of the New World could sink islands and devastate the heavens and earth at the drop of a hat.

At the time, they had thought it was just exaggeration.

But now,

when they truly encountered it,

with a mere wave of his hand,

he had nearly destroyed Marineford and wiped out the hundred thousand elite Marines on the island.

The Marine soldiers swallowed hard.

Just how vast was the gap

between them and the strongest figures at the peak of the New World?

One had to know,

this was