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

Moria stood to Luffy's left, the power of the Shadow-Shadow Fruit surging beneath his feet.

The shadow bats flew out in swarms, crashing into the charging naval soldiers and temporarily taking away their shadows.

Those who lost their shadows collapsed unconscious in the sunlight, but more soldiers stepped over their comrades' bodies and continued to charge forward.

Jinbe stood on the right, unleashing one Fishman Karate move after another.

Ocean Current Shoulder Throw, Five Thousand Tire Punch, Gun Wave—each move could send a large number of marines flying, but the marines' formation seemed endless, with one row being knocked away only to be replaced by another.

Hancock stood behind Luffy, alternating between using Fragrant Kick and Arrow of the Captive.

The petrified naval soldiers became natural obstacles, temporarily blocking the attack route from the rear.

But her stamina was also waning, and the number of pink arrows she had was noticeably less than before.

Although the few individuals were strong, the navy simply had far too many men.

The 100,000 elite troops were no joke. There were dozens of vice admirals around, not to mention the three admirals. Although Kizaru was temporarily held back by them, Akainu and Aokiji were still on the battlefield.

"This can't go on!"

Jinbe sent a Marine Rear Admiral flying with a single punch, and shouted without turning his head.

"We'll be worn down!"

Luffy punched a commodore, sending him flying, and then gasped for breath.

His stamina was being depleted quickly; the battle in Impel Down, the fighting on the battlefield, and the blow he had just taken for Ace—all the fatigue was piling up in his body.

But he gritted his teeth and fired another shot from his rubber machine gun, sweeping away a group of naval soldiers who rushed up to him.

"Ace! You go first!"

Luffy shouted as he fought.

"fart!"

Ace's flames burned even brighter. He stood beside Luffy, back to back, and declared, "We'll go together!"

"Wow, what a deep brotherly bond!"

A lazy voice came from above.

Kizaru.

His body solidified in mid-air, his right leg already filled with golden light.

"But now's not the time for reminiscing."

Kizaru lifted his leg.

Have you ever been kicked at the speed of light?

Golden light exploded at the toes.

But in that very instant—

"Phoenix Seal!"

A sharp bird cry came from afar.

Blue flames shot into the sky from the ice surface, leaving a straight trail of flame.

The flames transformed into a giant phoenix in mid-air, its blue wings fully extended, blocking Kizaru's light-speed kick.

Kizaru's toe struck the blue flame.

Flames exploded, and Marco's figure emerged from the flames.

His face still bore the bruises from Garp's beating, and his wrists were stained with blood from the seastone chains, but his blue flames reignited.

At some point, Onigumo broke free of the seastone chains.

"Marco!"

Luffy exclaimed in surprise.

Don't be too happy yet.

Marco's voice was a little hoarse, but his blue flames burned even more fiercely than before.

"Leave Kizaru to me, you guys get out of here."

He flapped his wings and charged toward Kizaru, the blue flames and golden beams clashing in mid-air once more.

The pace of their fight was faster than before.

Marco completely abandoned defense, focusing solely on offense. His blue flames burned wildly, blocking Kizaru's laser beams one after another.

At the same time, the captains of the Whitebeard Pirates also arrived.

Vista wielded his twin swords in a dazzling display, the trajectory of the foils drawing countless arcs in the air, forcing back a Marine Vice Admiral who was trying to approach Ace.

Jozu transformed half of his body into diamond, using his shoulder to withstand the charge of an entire row of Marine soldiers, standing like a wall in front of Luffy.

The other captains were also charging forward, each covered in wounds, but their eyes burned with the same fire.

"Ace!"

Vista cleaved a commodore's weapon in two with a single blow, then turned to Ace and shouted, "Go! We'll cover your retreat!"

Ace's eyes reddened as he looked at his comrades who were risking their lives to save him.

"Everyone……"

"Stop dawdling!"

Joz withstood a barrage of artillery fire with his diamond-like back, roaring without turning his head.

"Dad's still blocking Akainu's way! You guys get out of here!"

On the battlefield, the fighting on Whitebeard's side has entered its most brutal phase.

His duel with Akainu continued.

The tremors and the collision of lava shook the entire Marineford region, and the ice surface was covered with traces of their battle.

Cracked ice layers, melting ice caves, scorched bomb craters, and shattered spatial fissures.

Whitebeard had another wound on his chest.

It wasn't Akainu who did it; Squard's sword wound completely reopened during the intense battle.

Blood gushed from the wound, staining half of his body red.

The charred skin on his chest kept tearing apart with the vibrations, and each punch created an even bigger gash.

But Whitebeard seemed completely oblivious to the pain.

His naginata left a deep gash on Akainu's body.

The blade cleaved from Akainu's left shoulder to his right waist, leaving a gash across his entire chest. Magma gushed from the wound, mingling with the blood.

Akainu gritted his teeth and didn't back down.

"Haunted Dog—!!!"

The magma fist blasted out again.

Whitebeard also threw a punch to meet it.

"boom--!!!"

The two fists collided again.

High in the sky, atop the Ark's Proverbs, Roy's brow furrowed even more deeply.

His Observation Haki made it very clear—the white-bearded man's aura was weakening at a visible rate.

A pure gold ring can maintain his physical condition, but not his stamina.

The prolonged, high-intensity battle, coupled with the injury inflicted by Squard's sword, caused Whitebeard to exhaust himself several times faster than normal.

"Whitebeard won't last much longer."

Roy tapped the hilt of the Autumn Water Sword twice with his fingers.

"Barrett".

Barrett leaped from the gunwale, the tiger stripes dancing merrily beneath his skin.

"Finally, it's my turn?"

"Don't rush."

Roy turned his gaze back to the battlefield. "Wait a little longer."

"Still waiting?"

Barrett nearly jumped up. "Whitebeard can't hold on much longer!"

"The best time for us to enter the game is when Whitebeard can't hold on any longer."

Roy's voice was calm.

"The moment the Navy thinks they've got it all figured out is when they're most likely to be stunned."

Tesoro opened his eyes, and a flash of golden lightning disappeared within them.

"And Luffy and his crew are not completely out of danger yet."

Going down now will draw all the firepower to them.

"right."

Roy nodded, his gaze returning to the two besieged figures on the battlefield.

"Let them run even further away."

Just when Ace and Luffy escaped the encirclement, just when Whitebeard delivered his final blow, just when the Marines thought the battle was about to end—

Roy's lips curled up slightly.

"We'll just crash down from the sky."

"You, me, Mihawk, and Yamato will first use Conqueror's Haki to clear the area."

What remains is the navy's high command!

"Then we'll show the navy what true despair is."