Boom!!
The ferocious, boundless shockwave blasted the massive pillar of magma shooting toward them out of the air without any suspense.
Akainu's body also exploded under the devastating impact, turning into countless fiery drops of magma.
Rumble!
The dragon-like impact was like a roaring tsunami.
After blowing Akainu apart, it still had force to spare, carving a trench more than ten meters wide through the plaza and crashing straight toward the execution platform ahead.
On the execution platform, Sengoku's expression changed. He frowned, tossed the Transponder Snail in his hand aside, and rings of golden light rippled from his rapidly expanding body.
In the blink of an eye.
A massive golden Buddha Form appeared beside Ace, radiating boundless majesty like a supreme monarch ruling over the world.
A gigantic golden Buddha palm slammed down from above.
"Buddha Shockwave!"
Buzz!!
A spherical wave of golden light erupted from the palm of Sengoku's giant Buddha Form and collided head-on with the roaring shockwave.
Boom!!
An earth-shattering collision exploded in midair.
Everyone fighting nearby was blown away by the blast.
Thud! Thud! Thud!
The golden giant Buddha staggered back three steps, nearly falling off the execution platform.
Its heavy Buddha body made the platform creak and groan as it swayed incessantly.
"He blocked it!"
"He actually blocked the shockwave from both captains! What form is that? A Buddha Form?"
"It's the Marine Fleet Admiral, Sengoku the Buddha!"
"A Zoan, Human-Human Fruit, Mythical Zoan, Buddha Form!"
The pirates cried out in amazement.
Yet no one was intimidated by Sengoku. They continued howling as they charged at their respective opponents.
Elsewhere, Bullet and Whitebeard, who had joined forces to blast Akainu apart, advanced straight toward the execution platform in an awe-inspiring display of power.
No one could stop them. No one could stand against them!
"Move! Stop Whitebeard and the Devil's Heir!"
"Don't let them get near the execution platform!"
Wave after wave of Marines charged forward without fear of death, wielding every kind of weapon as they attacked Bullet and Whitebeard.
"Shockwave!"
Whitebeard coated his Pheasant Blade with a spherical vibration wave. With a casual swing, he sent hundreds of Marine soldiers flying.
Bullet, meanwhile, charged forward with the utmost brutality. His burly body became a blurred afterimage, drawing a straight black line across the plaza.
Every Marine standing in his path was easily smashed into twisted shapes like a straw doll, sent flying in all directions with repeated bangs.
"Ice! Pheasant Beak!"
Just as Bullet charged forward with unstoppable ferocity and was about to reach the foot of the execution platform, a surging cold current appeared out of nowhere.
Then a hoarse voice rang out.
Aokiji swung his right hand, unleashing endless cold that formed into an ice crystal phoenix spreading its wings as it pecked toward Bullet.
The phoenix's beak was crystalline and translucent, its ice compressed to the extreme, like dreamlike crystal or diamond.
Powerful Armament Haki coated it, granting the sharp beak even greater hardness and destructive force.
Facing the ice crystal phoenix rushing toward him, Bullet neither dodged nor retreated. He clenched his right fist, and a blue-black Haki coated his entire right arm, erupting with a savage, violent aura.
His massive arm, as thick as a heavenly pillar, punched out directly, shattering the air on the spot.
"Demon God Cannon!"
The phoenix's sharp beak collided violently with the blue-black fist.
Boom!!
Centered on the point of impact, the ground within a hundred meters suddenly exploded, cracking into a dense web of fissures.
Bullet's strength had already surpassed the limits of humanity. It was incomparably powerful to begin with.
Combined with his unusually immense Armament Haki and the tremendous enhancement of his Half-Demon Form.
As the terrifying giant fist struck out, its tremendous force erupted like a Volcanic Eruption. Under Aokiji's changed expression, the ice crystal phoenix dozens of meters wide began shattering bit by bit from its hardest part, the beak.
Bang!
Ice crystals scattered across the sky, transforming into shrieking, deadly shards that shot in every direction, piercing many unlucky bystanders on the spot.
Whoosh!
His powerful body vanished from where it stood. Bullet pushed his speed to the limit, seeming to teleport as he struck at the solemn-faced Aokiji.
Aokiji pulled his hands apart, and a sharp ice blade surrounded by icy mist appeared in his grip. He slashed at the Bullet who was shooting toward him like lightning!
Buzz!
A freezing current like a high-pressure water cannon burst forth instantly, freezing everything along the path ahead!
However, Bullet was nowhere within the ice.
Boom!
The air behind him burst apart. A blue-black giant fist exploded with rings of white airwaves and smashed toward Aokiji's body like a meteor.
"Ah la la, how violent you are, Douglas Bullet."
Aokiji frowned tightly. Bullet's excessively immense Haki and unmatched brute strength gave him a terrible headache.
In this world, perhaps only a handful of inhuman monsters like Kaido of the Beasts Pirates and Charlotte Linlin could compete with the man before him in pure strength.
Trying to stop Bullet alone was somewhat difficult!
Bang!
Ice crystals exploded through the air. Aokiji's true body transformed into an element once more and fled, reforming in the distance.
Bullet rolled his thick neck, and bloodshot veins gradually appeared in his domineering eyes.
"Don't run, Aokiji! How could a dignified Marine Admiral shrink back before a pirate?"
With that, he was about to pursue him again.
But suddenly, a clear and pleasant female voice, laced with the arrogance of someone long accustomed to high status, came from the side.
"Douglas Bullet! I ask you, have you seen Straw Hat Luffy?"
Bullet paused and looked in the direction of the voice.
In his line of sight, amid the shattered ground, a beautiful sight appeared.
A tall, slender woman in a pink-and-white high-slit qipao strode toward him on a pair of fair, smooth, long legs.
The woman possessed breathtaking beauty. Her exquisite features seemed to gather every virtue in the world, flawless to the point of perfection.
The pink-and-white qipao could barely restrain her swelling peaks. They trembled and bounced with every step, utterly enchanting.
She was beautiful, but her tone and expression were incomparably arrogant.
She did not even reach Bullet's thigh in height.
Yet she held her chin high when speaking, as though she were looking down at him from above.
She was none other than the Pirate Empress, one of the Shichibukai, Boa Hancock.
Seeing that Bullet had not answered her, Hancock's lightly arched brows drew together as she said displeasedly,
"I'm talking to you! Filthy man!"
"He's dead."
Bullet answered indifferently. He stamped his foot, flashed away, and once more chased in Aokiji's direction.
"You dare speak of my beloved man that way, Douglas Bullet? You're courting death!"
Anger and killing intent appeared on Hancock's face.
Her red high heel tapped the ground, and her speed surged. She leaped into the air and kicked hard at Bullet's back.
"This woman has something wrong with her head."
A violent aura surged from Bullet's body as he vanished in a flash.
The next moment, Hancock's slender, fair calf was seized by a large blue-black hand.
"Let me go!"
She gave a delicate snort and tried to break free.
But Bullet lifted her upside down with one hand and violently smashed her into the ground!
Boom!
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