Sengoku's brow furrowed deeply.
"A Devil Fruit?"
Was he massacring the Sabaody Archipelago over a single Devil Fruit?
Although a bloodbath was very much in keeping with Sakazuki's character, what kind of fruit could have caused this...
"Go get Borsalino."
The soldier saluted.
"Yes, sir!"
He hurried out.
Sengoku immediately picked up his Den Den Mushi and called, but no one answered on the other end...
"Damn it..."
The Grand Line, Sabaody Archipelago.
The Sabaody Archipelago had lost every trace of its pleasant, picturesque charm.
The islands formed by seventy-nine massive mangroves were now surrounded by a towering ring of magma walls, with no way out.
The walls rose higher than the massive mangroves, making it impossible to see what was happening inside.
Many ships that had just arrived from around the world lingered outside, their crews at a loss.
Some of the smarter ones had already turned around and left, but those short on supplies had no choice but to wait anxiously.
As more and more ships gathered, the pirates among them grew restless and prepared to start plundering.
But just then, magma spears suddenly began shooting from the enormous walls, hurtling straight toward every pirate ship.
Boom, boom, boom-
An unbroken series of explosions rang out, sending those pirates to their graves at sea.
Inside the Sabaody Archipelago.
Towering magma walls also divided the massive mangroves from one another, making the archipelago look like an enormous honeycomb from above.
Above the walls, densely packed magma spears crisscrossed like a spiderweb, covering the sky.
Pirate corpses hung from countless magma spears, their bodies impaled and suspended overhead.
They were all pirates who had thought their strength would let them escape through the air.
Every one of them had been impaled up there. Blood dripped ceaselessly, as though a