G-46 Fortress falls, the Marines respond

Hades could clearly sense that Neuer was finished. His muscles had been brutally torn apart, his sinews severed, and his bones shattered.

None of his organs had escaped unscathed, and his heart and brain had suffered devastating damage.

If he had not instinctively defended himself with Haki, he would already have died.

Even so, his current condition was little different from death.

His body hit the ground as though it had fallen apart, then lay motionless.

Only the faintest trace of breathing remained, as if to show that he was not yet dead.

Before long, he was drenched in blood.

His flickering flame of life did not last long. By the time Titan and the others landed, Neuer was already dead.

As an Admiral Candidate whose strength approached that of a Top Combatant, it was a shame for him to die like this.

Facing Titan's Hell Roar had inflicted far too much damage on him.

More importantly, the devouring power had consumed his Haki, which had already been insufficient and further "diluted" by spreading it over such a large area.

Otherwise, even with severe injuries, he would not have been killed by a single blow from Newgate.

In a true head-on, one-on-one fight, he would have had a forty-percent chance against Newgate's sixty.

Throughout the battle, he had never had a chance to unleash his true strength.

It was an especially frustrating way to die.

But there was no helping it. He had made his own choice, choosing the wrong way to respond.

More importantly, no matter how hard he struggled, the outcome would not have changed.

With the three Marine Vice Admirals Hades had killed also gone, no one at G-46 Fortress remained capable of stopping the Pirate Army.

No one noticed Titan secretly swallowing Neuer's corpse.

Pirate ships