Noah and his group didn't pay much attention to the impact of the desert island incident.
Noah is mainly confident in his own strength. Unless the Five Elders join forces to attack him, he is not afraid at all.
Even if they can't win, they can use Ray's wormhole to escape, or temporarily use the Float-Float Fruit to leave directly from the sky.
Therefore, Noah chose to continue wandering within the White Mountain Kingdom with Galdino, Kuro, and others, searching for the Tone-Tone Fruit hidden there.
More than a week has passed in the blink of an eye.
Noah and his companions searched all eight islands within the White Mountain Kingdom and finally found the Tone-Tone Fruit stuck in a crevice in the cliff on the eighth island.
Having acquired another Devil Fruit, Noah had no intention of staying in the White Mountain Kingdom any longer.
The Wangcai adjusted its course and headed further south toward the Lost Sea.
However, just as the Wangcai left the territory of the White Mountain Kingdom, it encountered a naval fleet head-on.
Noah, who was drinking tea and reading the newspaper, didn't pay much attention to the navy, after all, he was now flying the flag of a merchant ship.
Unfortunately, sometimes just because you don't want trouble doesn't mean trouble won't come knocking.
"Stop your ships immediately and submit to naval inspection," a small warship shouted through a loudspeaker from a short distance away.
Kuro glanced at Noah, Noah nodded.
The Wangcai then came to a stop.
The small warship was also anchored nearby.
Soon, a lieutenant colonel wearing a naval Justice cape jumped onto the deck of the Wangcai.
Kuro immediately forced a smile, "Lieutenant Colonel, we are law-abiding citizens. This is the qualification certificate and permit for commercial transport ships..."
The lieutenant colonel took the pass and qualification certificate, glanced at Kuro, and, noticing that his appearance wasn't on the wanted poster, nodded. "Is it just a routine check? May I enter the cabin?"
Kuro nodded. "No problem, I'll lead the way."
Suddenly, a soldier whispered a few words in the lieutenant colonel's ear, and the lieutenant colonel immediately looked at Noah and Galdino, who were drinking tea not far away.
Kuro noticed this as well, and explained with a smile, "Mr. Galdino was hired by our company to provide escort."
"The bounty hunter Galdino the Candle Man?" The lieutenant colonel didn't doubt anything; after all, it was perfectly normal for a transport ship to hire a bounty hunter for protection.
But things soon took a sudden turn.
The sea around the Wangcai was quickly frozen over.
A layer of ice and snow condensed on the deck.
"Have you been to that deserted island?"
Noah brushed the ice crystals off his clothes and glanced at the tall, middle-aged man in front of him.
Why does Your Excellency Vice Admiral, think so?
"You smell like Heaven Mushroom."
"I see, so your navy also has people with the ability to sense smell?" Noah asked with a smile.
Kuzan's gaze behind his glasses grew increasingly serious. "Why don't you come back to Marineford with me and cooperate with our investigation into the White Mountain Kingdom's desert island incident? If it's a misunderstanding, we're willing to compensate your trading company for its losses."
" Vice Admiral Kuzan is really confident!"
The next second.
A violent yet solid Conqueror's Haki suddenly erupted.
Boom! Hundreds of sailors on the small warship instantly collapsed unconscious.
"Are you going to resist?" Kuzan's body temperature dropped rapidly.
"I want to test whether you, the future Marine Admiral, truly deserve the title!"
Ice Gauntlet!
High-Heat Fist!
Boom! Iron Fist, hotter than ordinary magma, instantly smashed through Kuzan's Ice Gauntlet.
But instead of retreating, Kuzan advanced, his Ice Saber sweeping towards Noah's neck.
Iron Sand Wings! High-Frequency Oscillation Blade!
Clang, clang, clang... Even though Kuzan maintained his ice blades at all times, they were still torn apart by the continuous high-frequency vibrations of the iron sand blades.
Iron Sand Tornado! The card in Noah's sleeve released tens of tons of iron sand, while his body's mimicry Rubidium Magnet Mode activated at 100% power, accelerating blood flow and turning his body into a humanoid generator.
Countless iron filings were swirled up, forming a terrifying Iron Sand Tornado.
Kuzan immediately conjured several ice walls, not because he needed to defend himself, but to protect the ordinary marines.
The group of marines who came with Kuzan from the Marine Headquarters, led by Kuzan's adjutant, quickly took the naval lieutenant commander and a dozen or so marines away from the Wangcai.
Similarly, Kuro and the others on the Wangcai quickly moved away from the fighting range of Noah and Kuzan to avoid being caught in the crossfire.
Of course, Kuro, Galdino, Ray, and the others were also highly vigilant about their surroundings, avoiding any sneak attacks from other naval forces, and ready to support Noah at any time.
Iron Sand Tornado and Blizzard collided and rubbed violently in mid-air.
Kuzan's expression grew increasingly serious. " Ice Ball!"
Five ice pillars burst forth from the ice field, shooting straight towards Noah within the Iron Sand Tornado.
Noah's body had turned a dazzling crimson red. " Furnace Meteor!"
He soared into the sky, and a large amount of easily molten alloy steel sand was rapidly heated to a molten state by electromagnetic induction, and then condensed from high in the air into molten iron balls the size of basketballs.
Hundred Plans of molten iron balls crashed down from the sky.
All of this happened in the blink of an eye.
Upon seeing this, Kuzan immediately thought of a colleague he didn't get along with, and then raised his hand to beckon.
" Pheasant Beak!"
Ice birds soared into the sky, while iron balls descended from above.
Boom boom boom!
Noah's Observation Haki instantly detected the danger, and in a flash, he used Magnetic Levitation levitation to accelerate and dodge the Seastone Bullets that came from not far away.
'Other officers at Marine Headquarters?'
The next moment, the Seastone Bullets was burned and vaporized by the flames.
Lilian appeared not far from the ice field, clearly indicating that Ray had Vice Admiral brought over several of the family's high-ranking combatants to prevent Noah from being ganged up on by the Navy.
Kuzan looked at the blazing Lilian: " Devil Fruit User?"
Among the Marines who came with Kuzan, a Rear Admiral Commodore Two-Sword Style charged out, his longswords covered in Armament Haki unleashing a fierce slashing wave.
"Don't think you can do whatever you want just because you're Logia!" The dual- Commodore brigadier charged straight at Lilian using Geppo.
Lilian showed no sign of nervousness. Blue flames erupted from her hands. "I'm not one of those guys who can only cook and start fires! Fire Dragon's Roar!"
The deep blue flame dragon instantly vaporized the incoming slashing wave and charged towards the dual- Commodore brigadier.
"Oh no!" Kuzan's expression changed. " Ice Age! Two-Pronged Spear!"
The Freezing Air lowered the fire dragon's temperature slightly, but the terrifying heat of 4990 degrees Celsius was still not something that could be suppressed in an instant. The ice spear that followed only provided slight resistance.
However, in that instant, the dual-wielding brigadier was Commodore to react, and he quickly used Consecutive Shaves to avoid the fire dragon's impact.
The next moment, the fire dragon evaporated a crater with a radius of several hundred meters at the spot where he had just stood.
At this moment, a trickle of blood appeared at the corner of Kuzan's mouth.
Because he had just been hit by Noah's molten iron ball while trying to save people, even though he used active Elementalization, the high temperature naturally countered the Ice-Ice Devil Fruit User, and that blow still caused him some damage.
At this moment, both sides were on guard against each other.
On Kuzan's side, besides himself, there were two Commodore generals as adjutants, more than a dozen Marine Headquarters Colonel, and more than a dozen warships.
On Noah's side were Lilian, Ray, Galdino, Kuro, and Joshua and Monet, who were hidden high in the sky.