With the fighting below all but over, the battle entered its final stage: rounding up prisoners and clearing the battlefield.
Robert let out a deep breath, his face turning somewhat pale.
Clearly, the Oxygen Deprivation Field he had spread across the entire battlefield had taken a considerable toll on him.
He casually took an unlabeled vial of medicine from inside his clothes and swallowed its contents. After recovering a little, Robert once again wore the icy gaze of the King of Assassins.
He turned that gaze on the Marine elites being thoroughly thrashed by the pirate fighters led by the Saint Legion!
Everyone his cold eyes landed on felt a chill down their spine. They had all witnessed Robert's display of power just moments earlier.
Though it had not been as spectacular as Shiki's Planetary Devastation, no one dared underestimate it.
Many even guessed what Robert might do next, and worry spread across their faces.
After carefully surveying the Marines still locked in fierce combat, Robert turned his eyes toward Charlotte Linlin in the sky. She was handling Garp and Sengoku while watching the scene below with interest.
Their eyes met, and Charlotte Linlin smiled as she spoke to Kong.
"Mamamama! Well? Ready to surrender, Kong? It looks like your men won't hold out much longer."
Kong's expression darkened at Charlotte Linlin's words. With the World Government's reinforcements still nowhere in sight, surrender seemed to be his only option besides waiting to die!
The despair in his heart seemed to age Kong more than a decade in an instant. A faint air of death suddenly settled over him.
"I surren-"
"Wait! You cannot surrender!"
Just as Kong began to surrender, the reinforcements he had been waiting for finally arrived.
Saint Saturn suddenly appeared on the battlefield, accompanied by a masked