Meteor Volcano

The Rocks Pirates.

As Rocks finished speaking, Golden Lion grinned beside him and stepped forward.

He raised his right hand and flicked his fingers downward.

Countless pirate ships swooped down toward God Valley.

They slammed into the slave army and the hastily mustered branch Marines on the perimeter, leaving countless dead and wounded.

And that was only the beginning.

After the ships crashed into the ground, countless pirates leaped from their decks.

They clashed with the army on the ground.

Rocks and the others charged toward the palace in the deepest part of the island.

"Buddha Shockwave!"

A voice rang out like a great bell.

A golden shockwave hundreds of meters across followed, tearing through the sound waves and shooting toward Rocks and the others.

"Gurararara!"

"Sengoku, huh?"

Whitebeard leaped forward.

He drew his right hand behind him.

A white halo enveloped his fist as he punched toward the shockwave.

Crack! Crack!

Cracks spread through the air before him.

An endless surge of tremor force erupted forward, colliding with the shockwave.

Boom!

It was like a sudden thunderclap.

The explosion blasted a crater hundreds of meters across into the ground ahead.

A fierce gust swept through, scattering the smoke.

The two sides finally faced each other head-on...

"Buru buru, buru buru."

The Den Den Mushi Kong had left in the palace rang, and the burly member of the Five Elders answered:

"Kong isn't here. This is one of the Five Elders. What is it? Speak."

"Ah! Elder, sir! The Buster Call fleet will reach God Valley in half a day. Please give us your orders."

"Launch the Buster Call upon arrival. Eliminate the pirates on the perimeter first, then we'll decide how to proceed."

"Yes, sir!"

"..."

"..."

Half a day later...

On God Valley's perimeter, more than half the slave army and the Marines brought in from the branches were dead or wounded.

After all, one side consisted of vicious pirates from the New World, while the other was merely slaves and Marines from branches in the Four Seas.

Holding out against two waves of attacks was already no small feat.

Unless something unexpected happened...

Something unexpected happened!

Just as the defensive line was about to break.

At some point, the blue sky and white clouds had changed, turning a brilliant fiery red like clouds ablaze at sunset.

Countless pirates looked up at the sky in confusion.

As countless tiny dots broke through the blazing clouds, everyone's expression changed, and they fled in panic.

"Hey, hey, is this for real? You've got to be kidding!"

"How the hell is that stuff falling from the sky?!"

"Take cover!"

"Hurry!!!!"

Boom, boom, boom...

Huge fists of magma rained down from the sky.

Like falling meteors, they smashed into the chaotic mass of pirates.

Those struck melted away in the magma before they could even scream.

Upon hitting the ground, all the magma exploded.

It destroyed everything around it, but even more terrifying were the magma's powerful corrosiveness and toxicity.

"Aaaaargh...!"

"Help me!!!!"

"Pull me out!!!"

"Please, take me with you! Take me with you!"

Piercing screams rang out endlessly. Flesh melted on contact, leaving countless pirates with severed limbs.

The giant magma fists raining from above mercilessly reaped one life after another.

Within moments, thirty percent of the attacking pirates had vanished, all melted away by the magma.

The fiery sky mirrored the molten lava on the ground.

At that moment, this place seemed no longer part of the mortal world, but...

Hell!!!

Meanwhile, the Marines from the Four Seas branches all cried out in excitement. They knew this magma all too well!

"Magma! It's magma!"

"Rear Admiral Sakazuki is here!!"

"Hahaha!"

"Brothers, hold the line! Reinforcements are here!"

"Yeah!!!!"

After the last giant magma fist landed in front of the defensive line.

Sakazuki swept the area with his Observation Haki. Seeing that more than half the Marine soldiers were dead or wounded, his expression darkened:

"Still too late, huh."

"Damned trash of the seas."

"Great Funeral Array!!!"

Amid his surging killing intent, the last giant magma fist to land took on Sakazuki's form.

Then countless pools of magma on the ground churned and took shape.