As Saint Saturn's head rolled to Saint Shepherd Ju Peter's feet, the fear of his final moments before death remained frozen on his wrinkled face.
The clamor of the battlefield vanished in an instant.
Saint Shepherd Ju Peter looked down at the head at his feet.
Saint Saturn's eyes were still open, his cloudy eyeballs reflecting the shattered sky of Marineford.
" Saint Saturn..."
Saint Shepherd Ju Peter's lips moved slightly, and when he uttered the name, his voice was so hoarse it didn't sound like his own.
The simultaneous roars of the four Five Elders shattered the clouds above Marineford.
Four bursts of Conqueror's Haki exploded simultaneously, and dark red Inazuma struck wildly in all directions.
The ice surface was torn open with cracks, and seawater gushed out from the cracks, forming water columns tens of meters high.
Saint Shepherd Ju Peter was the first to transform.
His body began to swell, and a layer of dark golden scales appeared on his skin.
The moment its arms were spread out, they transformed into a pair of sky-covering bird wings with a wingspan of over fifty meters, the wing bones covered with serrated horny protrusions.
His neck suddenly stretched out, his head deformed, and his mouth protruded forward, turning into a huge bird beak.
The edges of its beak are covered with fine serrations, and each tooth gleams with a metallic sheen.
Itsumade Model.
With a snake's head, bird's wings, serrated beak and claws, its cry is terrifying.
Mars Saint Shepherd Ju Peter let out a piercing scream.
The sound was extremely piercing, like the screams of a thousand birds being choked at the same time.
Everyone on the battlefield who heard the shriek covered their ears at the same time.
Some nearby naval soldiers collapsed to the ground, bleeding from all seven orifices.
With a flap of his wings, he soared into the sky and hovered in mid-air.
The bird opened its beak, and a burst of blazing white flame erupted from deep within its throat, pouring down on Roy's head.
"Another Mythical Zoan?"
" The World Government's collection is truly astonishing!"
Roy cleaved the flames with a single strike, his body vanishing from the spot and reappearing in mid-air dozens of meters away.
The spot where he had just stood was engulfed in flames, the ice surface instantly vaporized, and even the Water 7 below was burned open, creating a hole more than ten meters in diameter, from which scalding steam shot into the sky.
At the same time, Mercury Saint Warcury also completed its transformation.
His body expanded even faster than Saint Shepherd Ju Peter's, his height suddenly increasing from three meters to over fifty meters.
Its skin turned into a thick, dark brown hide, covered with bristles as sharp as steel needles.
The head transformed into a gigantic boar's head, with two tusks curving upwards from the corners of its mouth, each seven or eight meters long, their tips gleaming coldly.
Fengxi Model.
Mercury Saint Warcury four hooves, each landing sending shivers down the spine of Marineford.
He looked down at Bullet, exhaled two streams of hot white breath from his nostrils, and let out a deafening roar.
"Pirates—Die!!!"
Mercury Saint Warcury charged toward Bullet with his head down.
The two fangs were like two giant scimitars, carving deep furrows into the ice wherever they went, and the wind whipped up by the fangs pushed the ice and seawater up into the air.
Bullet, seeing the giant boar charging towards him, didn't back down; instead, he grinned.
"That's more like it!"
Bullet roared to the sky, unleashing his full White Tiger Model.
Its body, hundreds of meters long, was larger than that of Saint Warcury, and its surroundings were a mixture of Demonic Aura and Conqueror's Haki Inazuma.
A black and red whirlwind formed, enveloping his entire body.
The two colossal beasts collided violently.
The moment the fangs collided with the tiger's claws, the resulting shockwave overturned the ice surface within a radius of several hundred meters.
The ice shards were compressed in mid-air by the two Conqueror's Haki, turning into powder before they even hit the ground.
Bullet gripped the two fangs of Saint Warcury with his claws, and plowed two deep furrows in the ice with his feet, being pushed backward by Saint Warcury for dozens of meters.
But he stubbornly refused to fall; the muscles on his tiger-like arms bulged to their limit, and the veins stood out beneath his fur.
"Strong enough--!!!"
Bullet roared and twisted his waist violently, throwing the massive body of Saint Warcury to the side.
The side of Saint Warcury crashed into the ruins of a building, flattening the entire structure and sending bricks and concrete fragments flying everywhere.
On the other side, Jupiter Saint Mars's transformation is equally terrifying.
His body did not swell; instead, it began to elongate.
Its two legs merged into a thick tail, and its skin turned into a grayish-brown keratin layer covered with ring-shaped patterns.
He transformed into a giant sandworm over 100 meters long and plunged headfirst into the ice beneath his feet.
The ice surface was drilled through like tofu in front of him.
Saint Mars moved at high speed beneath the ice, causing the ice to collapse and form deep, bottomless ravines wherever he went.
His goal was clear— Roy.
Just as Roy was repelling Saint Shepherd Ju Peter's diving attack with a single strike, the ice beneath his feet suddenly exploded.
Saint Mars's gaping maw opened from beneath the ice, revealing a dense array of rotating, sharp teeth, each one spinning at high speed, like a giant meat grinder.
Roy teleported instantly, appearing tens of meters away.
The spot where he had just been standing was bitten to pieces by Saint Mars, who swallowed it along with the ice and seawater.
The sound of those steel teeth chewing ice was as piercing as metal tearing apart, and shards of ice flew out from between their teeth, smashing countless small holes in the surrounding ice surface.
Saint Mars bit into empty air, his massive body burrowing back into the ice and disappearing underground once more.
Just as Roy regained his footing, Saint Shepherd Ju Peter swooped down from above again.
The bird opened its beak, and blazing white flames erupted once more. At the same time, the serrated bone spikes on its wings detached from the wing bones and transformed into dozens of bone spears that shot towards Roy.
Flames and bone spears fell simultaneously.
A cold glint flashed in Roy's eyes.
With a single horizontal slash, a massive shockwave split the flames in two, shattering the arrows into dust upon impact.
But then Saint Mars emerged from the ice beneath his feet.
This time, Saint Mars didn't bite directly. Instead, he opened his mouth wide, and a terrifying suction force surged from deep within his throat.
The surrounding air, ice shards, seawater, and corpses—all were sucked in by this suction force.
A massive vortex formed. The ice beneath Roy's feet began to crack, and he was pulled by the suction force towards the gaping maw of Saint Mars.
Just then, a pale green slash came flying from the side.
Hawk Eyes's Black Blade Yoru struck precisely at Saint Mars's jaws, severing several spinning teeth that flew out and embedded themselves in the ice.
Saint Mars let out a painful roar, and the suction force suddenly weakened.
"Your opponent is me."
Hawk Eyes's voice was as calm as still water, but his opponent was already standing in front of him.
Venus Saint Nusjuro.
Bakotsu Model.
His upper body remained human-shaped, but his skin had turned deathly white, and his skeletal structure was clearly visible through his skin, with each rib looking as if it were about to pierce out of his chest cavity.
The lower body was entirely a horse skeleton, with stark white leg bones resting on the ice.
Each step produced a crisp, crunching sound.