Ice Age

On the boundless sea, a colossal warship stretching a thousand meters long rode the wind and waves at top speed.

The vast deck was now packed with prisoners dressed in black-and-white uniforms.

They crowded together, constantly looking around.

Most of them had confusion and unease in their eyes.

This time, Bullet had brought more than six thousand prisoners out of Impel Down.

Around four hundred of them were vicious criminals from Infinite Hell.

Originally, that number should have exceeded six hundred.

More than a hundred had died in the battle against Magellan.

Most of the remaining prisoners were ordinary pirates and criminals who had committed serious offenses.

Now, Bullet had ordered Shiryu and the others to release every prisoner held in the cells.

He would lead this group into Marine Headquarters and become a third force capable of influencing the situation.

However, in Bullet's eyes, fewer than twenty of them possessed truly formidable combat strength.

Although he had already decided to formally establish his own pirate crew after this Summit War.

That did not mean he would accept just anyone.

He would use the Marineford War to eliminate the vast majority of the trash and select the elites among them.

"Everyone, hold on tight! A tsunami is coming!"

At the top of the towering pillar in the middle of the Hell Battleship, Jinbe, who had jumped up to observe their course, suddenly shouted down below.

"A tsunami? What is Boss Jinbe talking about?"

"How could a tsunami suddenly appear at a time like this?"

The prisoners heard Jinbe's warning, but none of them took it too seriously.

But soon, they all felt the ship beneath their feet begin to rock.

The sea churned violently, with massive waves rolling across its surface.

Even the enormous Hell Battleship appeared incomparably small before the vast ocean.

It was continuously hurled high into the air.

"Ahhh! Help! Help!"

Some unlucky people failed to react in time and were easily flung off the deck when the warship bucked violently, plunging into the raging deep sea.

This stretch of ocean seemed to have become a carpet someone had violently flipped upward.

"Zehahaha! So this is the Seaquake caused by Whitebeard. What awe-inspiring power!"

Among the crowd, Teach's eyes burned with intense emotion as he secretly watched the figure standing at the bow, as steady as a mountain.

I haven't completely lost my chance to seize the Tremor-Tremor Fruit!

Just you wait, Devil's Heir!

At the bow, Bullet sensed the Hell Battleship's speed continuously increasing as it was carried by the tsunami.

His foot gave a light stomp.

The power of the Combine-Combine Fruit flowed through the deck and deep into the ship's hull.

Silently, unnoticed by anyone, a portion of the thousand-meter-long colossal warship was separated from its middle downward.

The lower section of the hull turned into an endless torrent of purple, contracting and gathering into a massive sphere that sank straight into the depths of the sea.

Inside the sphere were Magellan, Luffy, and the others who had been imprisoned.

The space inside was not very large, and the oxygen within could only sustain them for half a day.

If Bullet did not return in time.

Then Magellan, Luffy, and the others would suffocate to death inside that perfectly sealed spherical prison.

Rumble!

The towering waves surged and roared, carrying the enormous Hell Battleship as it howled toward the hazy silhouette of an island in the distance.

Marine Headquarters, Marineford.

In the vast plaza, densely packed elite Marines raised their heads one after another.

Reflected in their eyes were towering waves piling ever higher, like two enormous mountains about to collapse.

Anyone standing before those waves that blotted out the sky would feel their own insignificance.

"Gurararara! Marine brats, this is my greeting gift to you."

Whitebeard's booming laughter rang out from the deck of the Moby Dick.

"Woooh! Pops is invincible! Destroy the Marines!"

"Destroy Marine Headquarters! Save Ace!"

In an instant,

Tens of thousands of pirates from the Whitebeard Pirates erupted into earthshaking cheers.

Their morale immediately soared to its peak.

"Fufufufu, so this is the power of the world's strongest man. That's really outrageous."

Doflamingo burst into laughter.

"Ah la la, what a grand gift."

Below the execution platform, the lean Aokiji let out a breath and rose to his feet.

Whoosh!

A burst of snow-white ice crystals exploded where he had stood, and his figure vanished instantly.

Amid the towering waves crashing down from hundreds of meters overhead, Aokiji suddenly spread his arms and fired two slender streams of ice crystals at the waves pressing in from both sides.

"Ice Age!!"

In an instant,

A surging, ultra-low-temperature current poured madly from his hands toward both sides.

Crack crack crack crack!

Starting from the very tops of the waves, vast sheets of thick ice spread at an astonishing speed.

In merely four or five seconds.

The wave crests, hundreds of meters tall and resembling two mountains, became two motionless snow-white icebergs.

The pirates' cheers on the sea came to an abrupt halt.

The temperature in the air rapidly dropped.

"I can't let you destroy this island so easily, Whitebeard."

Aokiji plummeted at high speed, while two coldly gleaming spears formed in his hands and shot toward Whitebeard.

"Ice Block: Partisan!"

"What an annoying ice brat."

Whitebeard grinned, bent his right arm, and hurled a punch through the air!

Crack! Crack!

Clearly visible fractures suddenly appeared in the air.

The two ice spears shooting toward him were stopped outside by the fractured atmosphere.

Boom!!

A surging shockwave blasted forth, crushing straight upward through the air.

"Ah la la."

Aokiji let out a sigh as the roaring shockwave crushed through him, and his body exploded in midair into ice crystal fragments that filled the sky.

Strands of snow-white ice crystals drifted down, landing on the sea before the Moby Dick.

White mist curled upward as ice rapidly gathered atop the sea, quickly shaping itself into Aokiji's crouching figure.

Crack crack crack!

In an instant, centered on where Aokiji landed, the seawater rapidly froze into a thick layer of ice as hard as iron.

At an inconceivable speed, the ice spread madly in every direction.

In the blink of an eye, the entire sea within sight had become a vast glacial expanse.

Whether they were the Whitebeard Pirates' ships or the Marines' warships, all of them were sealed beneath thick ice and unable to move!

At that moment, even the air seemed to fall silent.

Both sides revealed intense shock.

This was the highest military power of Marine Headquarters, Admiral Aokiji.

Freezing the sea with the power of one man!

After the brief silence, countless Marines in the plaza of Marine Headquarters immediately erupted into fervent cheers.

"Admiral Aokiji! We have the invincible Marine Admirals!"

"The tsunami Whitebeard created was stopped by the Admiral!"

On the execution platform, Sengoku's taut nerves finally relaxed.

Listening to the countless Marines cheering around him, Sengoku thought that their morale was strong.

He immediately picked up the Loudspeaker Transponder Snail.

"Everyone, attack! Destroy the Whitebeard Pirates!!"