The lackeys of the Blackbeard Pirates, who had just barely survived Whitebeard's Conqueror's Haki and were preparing to take Whitebeard's head at Teach's urging, were once again enveloped by a powerful aura.
"What... What..."
They had no time to react. After managing to utter only a word or two, the lackeys collapsed in groups once again.
The Conqueror's Haki came and went in an instant.
But two consecutive Conqueror's Haki clashes were enough to leave everyone on the battlefield utterly bewildered.
Even the people from the Whitebeard Pirates stared strangely at their old man.
It was obvious from the way their old man was also gazing strangely at the sky, searching for something, that this Conqueror's Haki clearly hadn't come from him.
Then who was it?
On the Blackbeard Pirates' main ship, the members of the Blackbeard Pirates also looked horrified.
"Captain Teach, something seems to be wrong!"
Devil Sheriff Lafitte said, overcome by a bad feeling.
Teach was also nervously looking around, searching for the source of this Conqueror's Haki.
Compared to the old man's Conqueror's Haki, this sudden burst was clearly much weaker. Teach could withstand it with ease, but this sudden, unknown force made him deeply uneasy.
He had thought that this war was already entirely within his grasp.
Everything had developed as he expected. The aging old man and the Whitebeard Pirates, surrounded by the Blackbeard Pirates and the Marines—if he pushed just a little harder, he could completely wipe out the Whitebeard Pirates.
But the unknown force that had appeared at this moment had disrupted all his plans.
Just as everyone was curiously observing the battlefield, a huge shadow suddenly enveloped them all.
The people on the battlefield thought it was merely a cloud or something similar and paid it no attention, until a fierce