A huge contribution! Kong, Garp, Zephyr, and Sengoku routed
"Damn it, Celestial Dragons have been killed!"
"Three of them died at once!"
"We have to stop him! We absolutely cannot let him strike again!"
The fully armed guards present had never expected three Celestial Dragons to be killed in an instant!
"You worthless guards, what the hell are you doing? Stop him!"
"Run! The [Most Evil Criminal] is no joke!"
"Damn it, you useless trash! There are so many of you, and you can't stop one man!"
"And those useless Marines! Can't even one Admiral come protect us? What the hell are those Marine trash doing?"
"Aah! Stay away!"
Seeing three Celestial Dragons killed in an instant, the remaining sixteen panicked too!
Their voices were as loud as squealing pigs!
For a moment, curses, insults, and cries of flight rose into the sky!
"This is bad! We're finished!"
Tsuru stood to the side, deathly pale and frozen in shock!
Had Garp, Sengoku, and Zephyr not been fighting, they would have been stunned to see her expression!
After all, Tsuru always remained calm and composed. When had she ever looked like this?
These nineteen Celestial Dragons each belonged to a different family.
Anyone sent to attend such a grand conference had to hold a significant position within their family!
Three had died at once. If the World Government demanded accountability later, the Marines might not be able to bear the consequences!
"Damn it, something seems to have happened over by the Celestial Dragons!"
The massive commotion Rono caused instantly drew the attention of the Marines present!
Zephyr was the first. Only after hearing the Celestial Dragons squealing like swine did he realize Rono had killed three of them!
"Zephyr, where are you looking?"
"You dare get distracted while fighting me? Do you take me for a joke?"
In the sky, Golden Lion keenly noticed Zephyr's momentary lapse in attention as they fought!
"Lion: Thousand-Cut Valley!"
A wicked grin curled Golden Lion's lips as his two famous swords, Oto and Kogarashi, unleashed terrifying sword aura!
Slash!
Zephyr failed to defend in time, and the sword aura pierced him!
He slammed heavily into the ground, leaving a shockingly deep crater!
When the dust cleared, Zephyr appeared before everyone again!
His formerly crisp Marine uniform had been slashed to shreds by the sword aura.
Seven or eight bloody wounds had opened across his body, deep enough to expose bone. He was clearly badly hurt!
More importantly, the imposing aura surrounding him had weakened considerably!
"Jihahaha! You bastard, Zephyr! This time next year will be the anniversary of your death!"
Golden Lion laughed, already seeing victory within reach!
He dove from the sky, hurtling toward Zephyr like a human bomb!
Damn it, I can't afford even a moment's distraction against someone this strong.
Zephyr barely blocked the attack, inwardly cursing his mistake!
He could clearly no longer match Golden Lion as evenly as before and had begun to lose ground!
Before long, Zephyr would likely be defeated!
Meanwhile, the fight between Whitebeard and Sengoku unfolded in almost exactly the same way.
Has something happened to the Celestial Dragons? Sengoku worried.
He could not help stealing a glance!
Then shock crashed through him like waves against the shore, making his heart pound!
Rono had killed three Celestial Dragons!
"Sengoku... you seem distracted!"
Whitebeard spotted an opening and split his lips in a smug grin.
"Murakumogiri!"
He combined the Tremor-Tremor Fruit's power with his own Great Swordsman level slash!
Sengoku's golden Buddha Form was knocked back hundreds of meters!
As a great mouthful of blood spilled from his lips, his Buddha Form vanished outright!
Back in human form, Sengoku clutched his profusely bleeding abdomen, his face ashen.
I'm finished!
How could I let myself get distracted while fighting someone as powerful as Whitebeard?
That was how battles between Emperor-Admiral level fighters went!
If both sides gave their all without outside interference, they might fight for ten days and nights before a winner emerged!
But how complicated was the situation in an all-out war?
Avoiding outside interference was impossible.
Once one side exposed an opening, the battle could very well be decided in an extremely short time!
"Gurararara! Nicely done, Rono!"
Whitebeard could also tell that his slash had seriously injured Sengoku.
He could not even maintain his Buddha Form anymore!
Whitebeard was confident he would defeat the man before long!
Elsewhere, something similar had happened on the battlefield where Rocks fought Kong and Garp!
Kong had been distracted by his concern for the Celestial Dragons.
Garp was different. He could not care less whether the Celestial Dragons lived or died.
He had only been distracted because he saw his friends Sengoku and Zephyr beaten back in an instant!
Rocks had seized the openings both men offered, leaving them seriously injured!
And judging by their wounds, Kong and Garp were hurt far worse than Zephyr and Sengoku!
After all, they were facing Rocks, the Overlord of the Sea!
"Hahaha! You've made a huge contribution, Rono!"
Rocks roared with laughter. Even he had not expected things to go this smoothly!
In such a short time, Garp and Kong were already seriously injured!
And Zephyr and Sengoku were also showing signs of defeat!
The Marines' rout was now a foregone conclusion!
With luck, they would not only kill these Celestial Dragons, but the Rocks Pirates would also wipe out most of the Marines' fighting strength!
If that really happened, his next attack would not merely target Celestial Dragons. He would strike directly at the Holy Land, Mary Geoise!
Without the Marines to hold him back, those in Mary Geoise would be nothing to fear!
The throne of the King of the World would be within his grasp!
All of this was thanks to Rono killing three Celestial Dragons!
That had set off a chain reaction among the Marines!
It had all happened almost simultaneously, taking only a single second!
That was war. One seemingly insignificant event could very well determine the outcome of the entire conflict.
Just like the blade that pierced Whitebeard in that act of "filial devotion" during the Paramount War in the original story!
Because Whitebeard had been stabbed, the Marine Admirals of that time, Aokiji and Kizaru, had found openings against Marco and Diamond Jozu!
The Marines had instantly turned the tide of the war!
Only this time, it was the Rocks Pirates who had turned the tide against the Marines!
"That damned [Most Evil Criminal]!"
Tsuru was gritting her teeth so hard she nearly shattered them!
The Marines' situation was grim. It could only be described as a rout!
Zephyr, Sengoku, Garp, and Kong, all four Admiral-level fighters, were seriously injured!
They could no longer stop powerhouses like Rocks, Whitebeard, and Shiki from unleashing a massacre!
All of this had begun when Rono cut down those Celestial Dragons.
Simply adding the [Most Evil Criminal], Rono, had left the Marines completely unable to gain any advantage against the Rocks Pirates!
Could one person's power really make such an enormous difference?
"Leave the Celestial Dragons to Rono! Finish off the Marine heavyweights in front of you first!"
The next moment, Rocks issued his order with barely a pause!
The order was clearly meant for Golden Lion and Whitebeard.
If they could kill Sengoku, Zephyr, Kong, and Garp...
His grand plan to become King of the World would succeed!