But no matter how loudly they shouted now, it would not change the fact that the Whitebeard Pirates had arrived!
"Quick, stop them from landing! Report the situation to Fleet Admiral Sengoku immediately!" Doberman was the first to snap out of his shock.
The Iron-Blood Faction did not merely stand for a hardline attitude toward pirates; it also represented extensive combat experience!
The instant Doberman regained his senses, he made the most appropriate response. That was the benefit of having ample experience fighting pirates.
"Right, hurry!"
The others quickly came to their senses as well and hurriedly aimed their cannons at the Moby Dick!
"Marines, I won't let you damage our ship!" Marco transformed into a phoenix, spreading wings wreathed in blue flames and intercepting the cannonballs that should have struck the Moby Dick.
Bang! Bang!
Bang! Bang! Bang!
The cannonballs exploded in midair, and smoke instantly engulfed Marco in his phoenix form.
"Did we get him?" A marine tightly gripped the flintlock rifle in his hands, staring at the smoke ahead.
"Idiots, retreat now!" Doberman roared anxiously at the motionless marines.
He was not as ignorant as those marines. Marco, captain of the Whitebeard Pirates' First Division, was the user of the Phoenix Fruit. How could he possibly be defeated by attacks like that?
"Marines! That's not enough!"
As the smoke dispersed, Marco emerged. The flaming phoenix charged toward the marines standing amid the haze.
The marines instinctively pulled the triggers of their flintlock rifles. Countless bullets flew toward Marco, but it was as though Marco had confiscated them all. They were fired, yet they caused him no harm.
In phoenix form, Marco charged into the crowd as though no one was there. Quite a few marines were sent flying by his blue-flamed wings, collapsing to the ground and