"The Five Elders?!!"
As the Marines' announcement spread across Egghead Island, almost everyone was startled.
The Holy Knights, who had been planning to flee, no longer dared to run. Contrary to their usual behavior, they began fighting the pirates with their lives on the line.
Most of the national forces hoping to fish in troubled waters turned and fled, leaving only a handful of greedy ones still wavering.
"The Five Elders? What are those?"
Some pirates looked bewildered. Whether because they were young or because they lacked strength, they had never heard of the Five Elders, the World Government's "highest authority."
But as the black aura within the circle dispersed, they had no attention left for their confusion.
As the pentagram magic circle on the ground vanished, the two figures wreathed in black aura were fully revealed before everyone-
The burly, half-human, half-spider Warrior God of Science and Defense, Jaygarcia Saturn Saint, and the tall, thin, half-human, half-bird Warrior God of the Environment, Saint Marcus Mars.
Both had appeared in enormous hybrid forms, wrapped in black flame clouds that seemed to mark awakened Zoan Devil Fruits. Their appearance was overwhelmingly oppressive. Marines and pirates alike nearby felt as though some invisible force had bound them, leaving them utterly unable to move.
"Wh-what are those monsters?!"
Even though they knew Mythical Zoan Devil Fruits existed in this world, with Kaido serving as a living example not far away, many were still shaken by the two Elders' bizarre, oppressive forms.
Then, a moment later, light shone in Saint Saturn's and Saint Mars's eyes, and they killed everyone who had spoken disrespectfully with a glare, making no distinction between friend and foe.
"The mortal realm? It has been a long time..."
Only after glaring several disrespectful Marines and pirates to death did Saint