One Piece: The user of the Nen-Nen Fruit, who overturned the sea.

On the execution platform, Zhan Guo's face was ashen.

He stared at the chaotic battlefield below, tapping his fingers twice on the edge of the execution platform.

Zefa continuously directed the reserve forces from the command platform, and orders were broadcast across the battlefield through loudspeakers.

"Third formation, cover the left flank!"

"Giants Squadron, advance and block the breach!"

"All batteries are aimed at the harbor entrance, cutting off their retreat!"

High above the clouds, the members of the Hive Island on Ark Maxim could no longer contain themselves.

Barrett pointed down in the direction of Akainu.

"I'll deal with that lava dog! I can smash him into the ice with one punch!"

Roy glanced at him. "Wait a little longer." Barrett plopped back down on the gunwale, muttering something under his breath, the tiger stripes on his skin twitching even more.

The Ark Proverb continues to float in the clouds.

The sounds of battle below grew louder and louder, while golden lightning danced silently around the ship.

The roar of Vice Admiral Longz, the giant of the navy, shook the ice surface.

This battle-hardened giant wielded a massive double-edged battle axe, hacking straight through the gap in the pirate defenses.

As the battle axe swept across, it tore a gap in the pirates' formation, sending seven or eight pirates flying with the force of the axe's blow, their severed limbs tumbling through the air.

Lontz, blinded by rage, hacked his way through the entire front line, his target the bow of the Moby Dick.

"Whitebeard—!!!"

When the giant axe came down, the resulting wind pressure caused the sails of the Moby Dick to billow backward.

Whitebeard didn't even touch his naginata.

He raised his right hand, slightly bent his index finger, and gently tapped it in the direction from which the giant axe had cleaved.

The Tremor-Tremor Fruit's power explodes at the point where the knuckles come into contact with the air.

The atmosphere shattered, and cracks spread forward from his knuckles, striking the blade of the giant axe.

The axe blade shattered into pieces.

The fragments flew back, each one traveling at an even greater speed than when they came, embedding themselves in Lontz's chest.

The giant general screamed as he staggered backward, his chest armor shattered by fragments of his own axe, blood gushing from the gaps between the fragments.

Whitebeard leaped up.

When the giant grabbed Ronz's head with one hand, his entire body froze.

The Tremor-Tremor Fruit activated again, sending vibrations from the palm of the giant's hand into the skull, and then through the bones into the brain.

Lonzi's eyes instantly became bloodshot, blood gushed from all seven orifices at the same time, and his brain was shaken into a mess inside his skull.

Whitebeard casually tossed the giant's corpse away.

The towering body, several tens of meters tall, crashed into the naval formation, crushing a group of soldiers and creating a huge crater in the ground.

The pirates on the ice erupted in a deafening cheer.

"Dad—!!!" The shouts echoed throughout the harbor.

This is the fourth naval giant vice admiral to fall since the start of the war.

But Zefa's voice immediately came from the command post.

"The reserve force—two giant squadrons, three major general squadrons, and five thousand elite troops—will all be deployed to the main battlefield."

His voice was completely flat, as if he were reciting a string of ordinary numbers.

The naval reinforcements surged up from behind the square, their dense footsteps echoing in unison.

Two giant squadrons strode heavily across the ice, each step sending ice shards flying.

Three major generals followed closely behind, and five thousand elite troops formed a neat square formation, their bayonets creating a silvery-white wave in the sunlight.

The ice surface was already piled high with corpses.

The navy's white uniforms and the pirates' colorful clothes mingled together, creating a mottled pattern on the ice.

Blood flowed from beneath the corpse, trickling across the ice in countless dark red streams before pooling into puddles at the cracks in the ice.

"Raise the encirclement barrier!"

As the Whitebeard Pirates advanced, Sengoku on the high platform gave another order.

"Boom!"

The moment Sengoku's order was broadcast throughout the square via a loudspeaker Den Den Mushi, the foundations of Marineford began to shake.

Dozens of giant steel pillars suddenly rose from the seabed on both sides of the harbor.

Each steel column is over ten meters in diameter and its surface is covered with patterns of sea stone, which gleam with a cold, bluish light in the sunlight.

The steel column rose from the seabed at an extremely fast speed, and the seawater was pushed to both sides by the huge thrust, creating layers of white waves.

Between the steel columns, a thick iron wall slowly rose.

The iron wall is hundreds of meters high, and its surface is covered with sea stone alloy plates. Rivets are densely arranged at the joints, each one the size of a washbasin.

The entrance to the harbor was completely blocked.

The sea route between the Moby Dick and the forty-three pirate ships in the open sea was cut off by steel pillars and iron walls.

The captains at sea instantly realized what had happened—they were trapped outside, while Old Man and the sixteen captains were trapped inside.

"Dad—!!!"

Exclamations of alarm rose and fell from the pirate ships at sea. Some were desperately firing cannons at the iron walls.

The shells exploded upon impact with the sea stone alloy plate, leaving only a few charred marks and serving no other purpose.

Someone tried to ram the iron wall with the boat, but the moment the bow hit the steel pillar, it shattered into wood chips.

The pirates on the ice were also thrown into a panic.

Their path forward was blocked, and the supplies and reinforcements for the forty-three ships were all cut off from the outside. Now, the pirates in the bay consisted only of the initial group that landed, totaling less than 30,000.

They were facing 100,000 elite naval troops.

"Encirclement barrier raised—all personnel into annihilation formation!"

The voice of the Warring States period resounded throughout the square through the loudspeakers, each word carrying an undeniable air of authority.

All cannons adjusted their firing angles, locking onto the bay—and then onto the pirates on the ice.

"Fire—!!!"

Artillery fire rained down from all directions.

The pirates on the ice had nowhere to hide.

The shells exploded in the crowd, each one taking several lives.

The ice surface was shattered and cracked open, and swarms of pirates fell into the icy seawater before they could even scream.

The navy's elite fleet pressed forward from the square, their bayonet formations advancing in perfect unison, pushing the pirates' lines back inch by inch.

On the ice, one pirate after another fell.

The blood stained the ice surface dark red, and the blood flowed into the sea through the cracks in the ice, turning the harbor waters a pale red.

Fortunately, when Oz fell, he landed right on the bay wall, and the wall was breached due to Oz's weight.

"Look over there!"

"Oz's weight prevented the enclosure from rising."

Whitebeard on the Moby Dick also noticed this and ordered his crew to attack in that direction.

"Rush——!!!"

A pirate captain, brandishing his sword, led the charge, but before he could finish speaking, he was blown away by a cannonball.

Another captain took command and led the remaining crew forward, before being killed by a vice admiral.

The pirates' morale was slowly on the verge of collapse.

On the execution platform, Ace knelt on the cold stone slab, watching the pirates fall one after another on the ice below, watching those who fought desperately to save him, those who died trying to save him.

His body began to tremble violently, the sea stone chains making a screeching sound as he shook them, and the chain buckles rubbed bloody marks on his wrists.

"Stop hitting him..."

His lips were moving, but the sound was too faint and was completely swallowed up by the sound of gunfire.

"Don't do it for me anymore..."

He remembered Oars calling his name as he fell, and the images of the pirates at the forefront being blown away by cannonballs.

I remember my father standing on the bow of the ship, blocking everyone's view.

He recalled his stubbornness when chasing Blackbeard, and how he slammed the door and left when his father tried to persuade him not to go.

"Dad...everyone...I'm sorry..."

Ace lowered his head, his forehead pressed against the cold stone slab.

"Don't come...don't do it for me..."

His voice was so hoarse it was almost inaudible, and his tears fell onto the stone slab, spreading a small patch of dark color.

The next second, he suddenly looked up and roared with all his might at the battlefield below—

"stop--!!!"