The battle began again, but what happened next left Blackbeard trembling with fear.
Boom!
With a thunderous crash, he was sent flying, skidding hundreds of meters across the ice.
"Damn it, what the hell is that power?"
"My whole body froze!"
Marshall D. Teach was furious, yet helpless.
River was hiding a great secret. Like Teach himself, he most likely wielded the power of more than one Devil Fruit.
After rolling over and scrambling to his feet, he panted heavily. Seeing his opponent charge toward him again, he bent his knees and violently pulled both hands forward.
Hum!
The Tremor-Tremor Fruit's power erupted once more. A vast wave of tremors swept forward, engulfing an immense area.
The ice shook, buckling into overlapping layers, and screams rang out across the battlefield.
Even the enormous Gate of Justice split apart, breaking into several tilted sections that crashed into the sea.
The tsunamis on either side of Marineford roared again, surging into the sky.
This was Whitebeard's technique, capable of shaking a vast area. It looked as though heaven and earth were collapsing, as though the world were ending.
River's charging figure vanished at that moment, swallowed by the collapsing, buckling ice.
Everything lost its balance.
"Hah, hah, hah, hah!"
Marshall D. Teach gasped for breath, staring ahead with wide eyes.
Yet a few breaths later, his pupils contracted. That figure appeared again. Battle aura seethed behind him, soaring into the sky like billowing signal smoke.
His body looked utterly ordinary, but his overwhelming presence made people shudder.
A breath later, he crossed the buckled ice and appeared before Teach, throwing a single, straightforward punch.
Bam!
Marshall D. Teach was sent flying again, coughing up mouthfuls of blood.
His pupils contracted, shock filling his heart.
He could do nothing but take the beating.