Is This Your Power, Whitebeard?

At the same time.

A faint smile curled up at the corner of Whitebeard's lips.

A powerful aura began to erupt from Whitebeard's body and coil around him.

It was powerful Armament Haki!

Roya could still sense these powers very clearly.

Even so.

This powerful Armament Haki exerted an invisible pressure over the entirety of Marineford.

Judging by this.

Whitebeard was truly about to use his real strength!

As expected of Whitebeard, the man known as the strongest in the world. He had actually developed his Armament Haki to the point where it could create pressure similar to some effects of Conqueror's Haki.

"Good!"

"Whitebeard, let me see just how strong you are—the man known as the strongest in the Pirate World, the one who possesses the strongest Paramecia, the Tremor-Tremor Fruit!"

A faint smile also rose on Roya's lips. Facing the now-serious Whitebeard, he showed no panic whatsoever. Instead, his interest grew even stronger.

In an instant.

Whitebeard moved.

His enormous body stood firmly in a horse stance. As a gust of wind swept through, the white cloak on his body billowed in the breeze. Then, his fists, covered in white spherical barriers, smashed heavily backward.

Crack!

In an instant!

The entire stretch of air behind Whitebeard instantly froze. The spot struck by his fists shattered like a fragile pane of glass.

After a brief second.

Rumble...

The ground across all of Marineford began to quake wildly, while the sea surface churned without cease.

Gradually, dark clouds appeared in the sky, tightly shrouding all of Marineford as the violent tremors grew increasingly stronger.

After countless cracks began spreading across the frozen, snow-covered ground.

Even more powerful, bone-chilling force erupted from Whitebeard's body and battered everyone in Marineford. Roya suffered the most, since he was closest to Whitebeard.

While everyone