"Pops!!"
Witnessing Whitebeard's tragic state, the pirates of the Whitebeard Pirates immediately let out heart-wrenching cries.
Marco's eyes nearly split open. His mind thundered, and his body suddenly swayed a few times.
"Pops... actually ignored his body, already riddled with wounds and illness, and forcibly used Conqueror's Haki Coating, a technique that requires immense stamina and a powerful physique to sustain."
"Damn it! What am I supposed to do to save Ace and protect Pops?!"
Marco closed his eyes in anguish as two streams of tears poured down his face.
"I'm sorry, Ace, Pops. I'm too weak, too useless!"
On the execution platform, Ace trembled all over. Tears gushed out like a spring, dripping steadily onto the ground before him.
"Pops!!"
Garp's eyes dimmed as he sighed. "Is this the end? Whitebeard..."
Elsewhere, Bullet's expression shifted slightly as he sensed Whitebeard's aura rapidly weakening.
"I didn't expect that even without being stabbed by his own son, Whitebeard still wouldn't last much longer. If that's the case..."
Surging purple energy began to rise from Bullet's body, spreading like a tide across the ground beneath his feet in all directions.
"Then we can't keep playing."
"Ice Storm!"
Seeing Bullet's movements, Aokiji suddenly felt a bad premonition rise within him.
Looking at the ever-spreading purple energy, he acted decisively, freezing the ground within a radius of several hundred meters solid.
He tried to stop the purple energy from spreading.
Boom!
The frozen ground shattered. Bullet shot forward like a cannonball, clashing with Aokiji in an instant.
Elsewhere.
Blood continued to flow from Whitebeard's mouth.
Chunks of scorching magma covered his massive body.
The Armament Haki covering his body had briefly failed to keep up with the rate of consumption and was burned through by the magma.
Black smoke with the stench of charred