A few days later, news that shocked the world swept across the seas.
"The Marines' strongest fighters joined forces to ambush Ice Dragon Loa, but were defeated. Three of them perished!"
The news caused an uproar!
If earlier reports about Loa had only hinted at how powerful he was, this one proved it outright!
If the Sabaody Newspaper had not been the Grand Line's most famous newspaper, backed by the World Government, no one would have believed the report!
But it was true!
Marine Headquarters had sent its finest into battle. From Fleet Admiral Buddha Sengoku to Garp, whose rank of Headquarters Vice Admiral was the lowest among them, every one of its top fighters had joined the assault! Such a force would have been enough to take down a Yonko!
And what had happened?
There was no hiding the fact that Ice Dragon Loa had returned to the New World. Wherever he flew, snow and hail followed. By displaying his presence so openly, Loa had made it clear he had suffered no serious harm.
The Marines, on the other hand, had fared far worse. Vice Admiral Tsuru was unscathed, but Navy Hero Garp lay gravely wounded, and Admiral Aokiji was barely clinging to life. The other three—Fleet Admiral Sengoku, Admiral Akainu, and Admiral Kizaru—had all been left behind in that frozen expanse!
Even as the report went out, their bodies, frozen into ice sculptures, still stood on the icefield!
The news sent shockwaves everywhere.
The whole world was in an uproar!
That vast Ice Domain stretched across a third of the Grand Line. Even from the Red Line, no one could see its end! From that moment on, the name Ice Dragon became a sword hanging over the entire world!
Because Loa truly possessed the power to destroy it!