This was not groundless speculation on everyone's part. The scene before them was simply far too unsettling.
Especially the hundreds of thousands of Marines deep in the battlefield.
They gasped for breath, their faces filled with terror as they clung desperately to the ice and lay atop the glacier.
Looking around, it seemed that the previous strike had severed them from the rest of the battlefield. Stranded on a small island of ice in the middle of the sea, they were surrounded by shattered glaciers that had become open water, cutting them off from the entire world.
Zephyr watched the scene and felt an inexplicable sense of unease.
Just then, bubbles began rising from the surrounding sea.
"Glug, glug..."
Zephyr's powerful Observation Haki keenly sensed that something was about to emerge from the seabed. Realizing what was happening, his expression changed drastically as he roared,
"Quick, fall back! Fall back! Get out of here!"
But it was clearly too late.
Before these elite Marines could understand what was happening, dozens of pirate ships wrapped in bubbles suddenly leaped out of the sea.
The dazzling light shone upon the bubbles, making them glow with seven colors before they burst.
"One..."
"Two..."
"..."
"Fifteen..."
In just a few breaths, fifteen pirate ships appeared in the sights of every Marine. They surrounded the isolated island of ice at the center of the battlefield, along with the hundreds of thousands of Marines trapped there.
"What are those...?"
"The Sky Pirate Crew's First Fleet: the Thunder God Pirate Crew..."
"The Sky Pirate Crew's Second Fleet: the Sun Pirates..."
"The Sky Pirate Crew's Third Fleet: the Sword Wind Pirate Crew..."
Under the sunlight, the flags on the ships' sails were dazzling.
The only difference was that besides the flags of their respective pirate crews, another emblem