Rumble!!
The immense Shockwave, carrying the terrifying might of splitting heaven and earth, crushed across the ice of the inner bay like an avalanche.
Bang!
Aokiji's flying body suddenly shattered into countless shards of ice.
The momentary earth-shaking tremor made the entire battlefield of Marineford sway and quake.
A massive trench several hundred meters long tore open across the sea, yet the violent Shockwave did not stop, charging straight toward the plaza!
Just as that mountain-toppling impact was about to send countless Marine soldiers flying—
Suddenly!
Several figures leaped over at incredible speed, standing shoulder to shoulder atop the harbor embankment. Each extended both hands, releasing walls of Armament Haki as solid as fortress ramparts.
Boom!!
The surging Shockwave exploded in midair, kicking up a violent hurricane.
"It's the three Admirals!"
A Marine cried out excitedly.
Whitebeard frowned and looked over.
There, atop the embankment, Kizaru, Akainu, and Aokiji stood side by side, each with both hands extended to block the Shockwave he had unleashed.
"Gurararara! You Navy brats are quite capable."
Whitebeard laughed, then turned to search the battlefield for Bullet.
He quickly spotted Bullet slaughtering his way through the ranks of the Giant Vice Admirals amid the chaos.
Before Bullet's terrifying strength, even Giant Vice Admirals renowned for their power could not withstand a casual blow from him.
In barely a dozen seconds, he had beaten two Giant Vice Admirals to death and sent three or four giants flying when they tried to stop him.
"That damned bastard cannot be held back without Admiral-level strength." Kizaru gritted his teeth and raised a hand, firing a thick laser beam at Bullet in the distance.
His figure flashed, and he charged at Bullet once more.
"Leave the pirates in the inner bay to you." Aokiji spoke coldly to Akainu beside him before rushing toward Marco and the others locked in battle.
Akainu folded his arms and looked down from above at the devastated waters within the bay.
At that moment, Whitebeard's ears suddenly twitched, as though he had heard something strange.
"What is that?"
He listened closely for a moment, a trace of confusion appearing on his face.
The sound seemed to be coming from beneath the ice of the inner bay.
It sounded as though ships coated in bubble resin were rising toward the surface beneath the ice.
But where could so many ships have come from beneath the inner bay?
He released his Observation Haki and swept it outward.
The next instant, Whitebeard's expression changed drastically, and he immediately shouted:
"Everyone! Get onto the plaza at once!"
At that moment, the ice field within the bay had expanded considerably again due to the earlier battle between Aokiji and Whitebeard.
As a result, tens of thousands of pirates, Marines, and prisoners were still fighting madly across the vast ice sheet.
When Whitebeard's shout rang out, the fighting pirates froze for a moment, failing to understand what he truly meant.
Before they could react, dull sounds of ice breaking rang out one after another beneath the harbor shore near the plaza, along the edges of the frozen ground.
Crack, crack, crack, crack!
A dense barrage of heavy grinding gears erupted.
Then, before the stunned eyes of the pirates and prisoners, towering walls smashed through the thick ice with a series of crunches, forming a long, curved defensive perimeter around the edge of the inner bay.
At some point, the Marines fighting them had also begun retreating while they fought, moving closer to the edges near the walls.
Then the pirates saw entrances opening beneath the towering walls, dozens of meters high.
The Marine soldiers beneath the walls swiftly filed inside in an orderly stream.
The entrances quickly closed again.
Yet several thousand Marines who had not managed to withdraw wore expressions of utter resolve as they fearlessly charged into the pirate hordes.
"Walls? Why are walls rising from beneath the sea?" The pirates stared dumbfounded at the sudden development.
"Such a simple obstruction? The Navy has underestimated our strength! I'll blow these walls apart!"
Some pirates wore savage expressions as they rolled over cannons and lit the fuses of the shells aimed at the walls.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The cannon barrels shook as more than a dozen shells screamed through the air and exploded against the towering walls, sending up clouds of black smoke.
When the smoke cleared, the walls were completely unscathed, marked only by a few blackened spots.
"What? How is that possible? Are these walls made entirely of steel?"
Before the pirates could figure it out, grinding sounds rang out again from the tops of the towering walls, and pitch-black openings appeared one after another.
"Cannons! They're cannons!"
"There are an incredible number of them! And they're specially made, large-caliber cannons!"
The pirates stood stunned for a second before scattering in panic, sprinting away from the base of the walls.
Boom, boom, boom!
Boom, boom, boom!
In an instant, the thunderous roar of hundreds upon thousands of shells exploded above the inner bay like a string of firecrackers going off in succession.
Massive specialized shells exploded amid the pirates and prisoners, instantly killing hundreds on the spot.
But it was not over yet.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!
Golden laser beams pierced across the distant sky from beyond Marineford Island, setting off explosions after explosions across the ice of the inner bay.
"Help! It's Kizaru's lasers! Has an Admiral attacked us? Where are the commanders? Hurry and stop the Admiral!"
The pirates fled in every direction, blasted into the air by beam after beam of laser light.
"Idiots! It's not Kizaru at all!"
Some calmer pirates took out telescopes and looked toward the distant sea.
Their faces immediately turned pale with despair.
Several thousand meters away, on the frozen outer sea, hulking figures as majestic as mountains stood in rows, forming a black-and-white wall.
Golden beams continuously fired from their palms and open mouths.
The pirate ships frozen in the outer sea had already been almost completely destroyed.
"It's Tyrant Bartholomew Kuma!"
"No! They're copies of the Tyrant—the Navy's war machines, the Pacifistas!"
"Our ships have all been destroyed by the lasers! Damn it! How are we supposed to return to the New World?"
"Old man! Think of something!"
Listening to the terrified cries of the pirates under his command, Whitebeard clenched his teeth and fists tightly, then struck the wall ahead with a Shockwave!
Rumble!
The air split open with cracks, and the surging Shockwave roared like an enraged dragon as it slammed into the towering wall.
Bang!
The wall let out a dull explosive boom and shook violently, yet showed no sign of crumbling or collapsing.
Whitebeard's expression turned extremely grim.
"Is Sea-Prism Stone mixed into the walls?"
Before he could make another move, thick smoke billowed from Akainu, who stood on the embankment. He raised his right fist and launched blazing masses of magma into the sky.
Meteor Volcano!!
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