Doomsday

"Meteor Volcano!!"

From behind the towering walls came Akainu's bone-chilling voice.

As he raised his right fist, clusters of crimson magma billowing thick black smoke continuously shot into the sky.

The pirates on the ice had long noticed the strange activity on Akainu's side.

"It's Akainu! What is he doing?"

Everyone watched the scene in confusion.

But they soon learned the answer.

Far off in the sky, a vast crimson glow gradually lit up.

The red light filled the sky above the entire inner bay, like a vivid, fiery sunset.

Then, before everyone's horrified, frozen eyes—

Specks of fire began to appear, drawing nearer, growing larger.

A violent whistling tore through the sky.

It was as though Sea Trains were speeding past right beside them.

The pirates' bodies trembled uncontrollably, their eyes filled with despairing terror.

"It's... it's volcanic bombs! Magma meteors!"

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Enormous fists formed from crimson magma, trailing long tails of flame, came screaming down from high above and crashed into the ice of the inner bay.

Rumble!

Huge stretches of ice exploded, effortlessly destroyed, crushed, and vaporized by that Volcanic Eruption-like force.

Wave after wave of pirates and prisoners, beneath the bombardment of those massive magma fists—

Could not even scream before they were blasted into mangled fragments and burned into charcoal.

Even more people fell into the water as the ice melted beneath them.

But the frigid seawater had also been boiled by the magma, bubbling violently.

Those who fell into the sea immediately let out shrieks of utter agony as they were boiled alive in the scalding water.

Across the boiling sea—

People screamed as their skin turned bright red in the boiling water, huge blisters rapidly rising across their bodies.

Before long, the blisters swelled and burst, exposing bloody wounds to the seawater.

"AAAAAH! Kill me! Kill me! I can't take it anymore! AAAAAH!"

"Help! Pops! Save me! I don't want to die! It hurts so much!"

Through the live broadcast of the Image Transponder Snail, everyone who witnessed this inhuman scene turned deathly pale, their throats churning and legs shaking.

Many simply closed their eyes, turned away, and vomited.

The inner bay had become a true apocalyptic scene.

It was a living hell!

Whitebeard, who witnessed it all, trembled slightly. The fingers gripping his Pheasant Blade had gone white.

He desperately wanted to save every pirate in the inner bay.

But his power could not do that.

So Whitebeard threw back his head and roared.

"Bullet, you brat!!"

"Do something, now!"

As he roared, Whitebeard, overcome with grief and fury—

Leaped high from one of the few remaining patches of ice, hanging in midair.

His right fist had already smashed fiercely toward Akainu's position!

"Akainu! I'll kill you!"

Rumble!!

The Shockwave Whitebeard unleashed in fury was incomparably ferocious—

Like a roaring tsunami, it poured down from the sky with overwhelming force.

Akainu bared his teeth in a cruel smile.

Facing the powerful Shockwave roaring toward him, his magma-burning right fist also slammed forward!

"The Whitebeard Pirates will be erased from this world today!!"

"Hell Hound!"

The compressed, blood-red magma fist blasted forth, colliding with the violent shockwave.

Rumble!!

At the edge of the plaza, it was as if the heavens and earth had collapsed in an instant.

The ground cracked open with countless massive fissures.

Large numbers of Marine soldiers cried out in terror as they tumbled into the bottomless cracks.

Violent hurricane winds swept in every direction, flinging hundreds upon hundreds of Marine soldiers away.

At the same time, Akainu's pupils contracted sharply.

His crimson magma fist burst apart inch by inch.

His entire body was blown apart as well, becoming a rain of magma and fire that whistled down across the plaza.

Many Marines were scorched into screaming as they collapsed and rolled desperately across the ground, wailing without end.

Boom!

From a corner of the plaza came another heaven-shaking explosion.

A savage, violent figure streaked across the ground.

Wherever he passed, friend and foe alike were sent flying with bang, bang, bang, tossed into the air amid crackling bursts of breaking bones.

"Yasakani no Magatama!"

Dozens of meters above the ground, Kizaru crossed his hands and formed countless light bullets, firing them in a torrential barrage at the figure racing below.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

Clusters of golden light bullets rained down, blanketing the ground below in devastating fire.

The light bullets were immensely powerful. Every beam of golden light was no weaker than the laser beams fired by Pacifistas.

Terrifying explosions immediately erupted across the ground one after another.

Yet even under such a dense curtain of light bullets, only a small portion struck the man below.

They were then blocked by an invisible armor as thick and heavy as a city wall.

Rumble!

Countless cracks burst across the ground within a hundred meters as Bullet's Demon God-like figure crushed the earth beneath his feet.

He shot skyward like a comet and, before Kizaru's furious, alarmed eyes, drove a fist into the arms he had hastily raised to block!

Bang!

A dull burst of compressed air exploded. Kizaru felt an overwhelming force crush down from Bullet's fist, completely impossible to resist.

A great spray of blood burst from between his teeth.

Kizaru groaned, his body turning into a thick laser beam. Like a golden sword of light piercing heaven and earth, he was sent flying backward in an instant.

Before countless stunned eyes, Marine Headquarters' towering Justice Fortress was struck by that golden sword of light and exploded across a vast area.

"Hahahaha! Kizaru, I'll kill you outright next time!"

Bullet laughed loudly, stomping repeatedly through the air and blasting apart bursts of air. In the blink of an eye, he appeared not far in front of Whitebeard.

"Whitebeard, after all these years, you really haven't changed at all. You still grieve over the cries of some weaklings."

"Only the strong can survive in the New World. As for trash and garbage like those people, if one batch dies, another can always be found. Why waste your strength on them?"

Bullet landed on the bow of the Hell Battleship.

Now, beneath Akainu's Meteor Volcano bombardment—

This thousand-meter warship had been devastated beyond recognition.

Part of its hull had even broken away and sunk beneath the sea.

Many pirates and prisoners stood or lay atop the shattered hull.

The ice had been melted by magma, while the seawater had been boiled.

Those closest to the warship immediately treated it as a place to stand.

Though they had made it aboard—

Some of them were covered in blisters, their bodies bright red as they lay on the deck barely clinging to life, with little time left to live.

"Enough nonsense! Use your power to send everyone onto the plaza! I know you can do it!"