Crack! Crack!
The steel breakwater beneath his feet shattered inch by inch under the crushing pressure of Conqueror's Haki, while the raging air currents stripped a thick layer off the hard bluestone ground!
"What... what kind of Haki is this?!"
The commander of the heavily armored shield guards at the very front stared with bulging eyes. The refined steel shield in his hands screeched under the impact of the Conqueror's Haki storm.
"I can't breathe... I can't breathe at all! It's like the entire sky is crashing down!"
"Help... my consciousness..."
Thud!
The first spear-wielding Marine's eyes suddenly rolled back. All strength left his body, and he crashed heavily to the ground.
Then came the second, the tenth, the hundredth!
The dark gold storm of Conqueror's Haki swept across the entire bay's defensive positions like an unstoppable, world-destroying tsunami!
"Damn it... I'm a Headquarters Rear Admiral... how can I fall here..."
One commanding officer bit his tongue to keep himself conscious, but a moment later, that raging will smashed through his mind's defenses. He collapsed into a pool of blood with a thud.
"No... stay away!"
"A monster like this is beyond any mortal!"
"Fleet Admiral... we can't hold him!"
Heart-wrenching cries and screams were swiftly swallowed by the gale.
On the decks of the fifty Marine battleships anchored outside the harbor, thousands of gunners and helmsmen collapsed in swathes, falling into deep unconsciousness.
Inside the fortifications, the once orderly, imposing formations of tens of thousands of elite troops fell one after another in concentric circles, like fields of wheat cut down by a gale.
In just three breaths!
Across the entire steel breakwater and harbor waters, not a single Marine soldier remained standing. Only Lorne stood tall!
A full fifty thousand fully armed elite Marines and elite Impel Down