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In the elder's eyes, even if they won this battle, they could not escape blame.
And all of it was the fault of the Marines' incompetence-
What answered him was not words.
It was a red light so searing that it warped the air, as though ten thousand years of fury pent up deep within the earth had found its only outlet, condensing into a claw of lava that tore through everything.
Its speed exceeded what the eye could follow, and its destructive power was even more terrifying.
Within it lay heat enough to eat through steel, flames that burned all things to ash, and the Armament Haki of one who stood at the pinnacle of these seas.
Hiss-
Dark red light swept across the top of the mercury giant.
The elder who had once rebuked Akainu with, "What does your dignity matter?"
Did not even have time to form an expression before half his face and skull vanished with a faint sound like a hot knife slicing into fat.
"Sakazuki?!"
"Have you gone mad-"
"Are the Marines abandoning the alliance entirely?!"
The other elders who held the world's power roared in shock and fury.
Yet the man, his entire body now covered in dark red lava, silently became a scorching meteor and hurtled straight toward that most mysterious figure ** on the battlefield.
His roar rumbled like an erupting volcano, rolling over Mary Geoise's shattered masonry and rubble:
"All troops, heed my orders!"
"The Celestial Dragons are rotten and depraved, trampling on life. Their rule has reached its end-"
As the searing torrent of magma thundered toward its target, his unquestionable command exploded above the ruins:
**"All Cipher Pol Aigis Zero members, all Celestial Dragons and their servants, and all forces directly under the Five Elders, cease resistance