BOOM!
Countless cannons fired, the shells bombarding the Marine lines.
The armies of both sides were now clashing fiercely.
"Marines, you are at a disadvantage in this confrontation!" Whitebeard's voice boomed, his eyes sparkling.
"Mamamama! Our strongest forces haven't even joined the battle yet!" Big Mom sneered.
"Don't give them a chance! Seraphim, go!" Kaido ordered directly.
Immediately, their army of custom Seraphim swarmed forward.
With the addition of these powerful machines, the Marine soldiers were beaten back steadily, freeing up the former Warlords to engage the Vice Admirals.
"Damn it!" Sengoku's face darkened.
He had been forced to dispatch all of the Marines' standard Seraphim ahead of time, leaving only the Imperial Angel and the Overlord in reserve.
"Imperial Angel, go and stop—"
He hadn't even finished speaking when a massive explosion rocked the battlefield.
In the distance, one of the five Admiral-class Seraphim was directly hit by a terrifyingly giant air shockwave and was instantly blown apart.
"The Paw-Paw Fruit is already powerful," Sengoku thought, his face grim, "and with the massive increase from the More-More Fruit... an ordinary Admiral-class model can no longer stop 'The Tyrant' Kuma. Imperial Angel, go! Deal with him!"
"Yes!" The Imperial Angel soared into the sky.
"Hmph, so their Emperor-class has been dispatched? Go!" Whitebeard sneered.
Two of their own custom Seraphim—one modeled after a young Whitebeard, the other after Shanks—shot forward together, intercepting the Imperial Angel.
Although these two were only Admiral-level, they had each been granted a Devil Fruit ability.
It was more than enough to handle a single Imperial Angel that had no fruit power of its own.
"Damn..." Sengoku's face darkened further.
"Gurararara! Sengoku, are you afraid to dispatch your Admirals?" Whitebeard taunted.
"Are you afraid our own top powerhouses will join the battlefield? After all, we have more of them than you!"
"Mamamama! It's useless!" Big Mom laughed ferociously.
Kaido spoke up. "Since you Marines are afraid to fight, then let's get started!"
As his voice fell, Douglas Bullet rushed out first.
"Let me take the first battle!" he roared, a cruel smile on his face as he looked toward the Marine side and smiled contemptuously.
"Which one of you dares to fight me?!"
"Bullet..." A tyrannical madness flashed in Akainu's eyes.
"The majesty of the Marines will not be insulted by you! I'll fight you!" He suddenly transformed into magma and shot into the sky.
"Hahahahaha! Then let me show you my strength!" Bullet laughed.
"Combine-Combine Fruit!"
The next moment, a strange power emerged from his body, and the forty or fifty pirate ships he was standing on were instantly swallowed up, merging into his body to form a colossal giant.
"And that's not all! Let me show you the fruit I got from a new hunt! The Castle-Castle Fruit!"
The next moment, the giant golem transformed, becoming a massive, walking fortress.
Under the superposition of the two abilities, his strength skyrocketed again.
"Akainu, let's fight!" Bullet roared, throwing a huge stone fist toward the Admiral.
"Is that it?" Akainu sneered. "You think having two Devil Fruit abilities is enough to defeat me? You're dreaming!"
He gritted his teeth, his own fist turning into a giant magma dog imbued with the power of the Tremor-Tremor Fruit.
"Let's go!"
BOOM!
A strong wind erupted as their fists exchanged blows, and the very color of the sky seemed to change.
"How can this be?!" The faces of both Bullet and Akainu changed dramatically.
'I have the power of three Devil Fruits, the enhancement from a Monster Cell, and my own immense physical strength', Akainu thought, furious.
'Yet it's just a tie?!'
"Marine, you guys really gave us a big surprise!" Kaido and the other Emperors looked on, shocked.
"We knew about the Monster Cells, but we didn't expect them to be so powerful! Leon really lives up to his reputation as the 'God of Technology'!"
"Hmph! Let's see how many people in the Marines possess such power!" Whitebeard said.
"Go! Seraphim!"
Immediately, three replica Emperor-class Seraphim appeared.
These were the machines jointly developed by the Whitebeard-Red Hair alliance.
The first replica instantly showed its power: the Door-Door Fruit, the Glint-Glint Fruit, and the Barrier-Barrier Fruit.
It possessed extreme speed, elusiveness, and absolute defense.
"...That's really scary," a flicker of apprehension appeared in Kizaru's eyes.
But with his own Rumble-Rumble and Glint-Glint Fruits, he also possessed ultimate speed.
It was most appropriate for him to deal with it.
The second replica also revealed its power, transforming into the Mythical Zoan form of Okuchi-no-Makami.
Endless ice and snow flew from its body.
It possessed the powers of the Ice-Ice Fruit and the Snow-Snow Fruit—three abilities all containing the ultimate expression of cold.
Not only that, but the third replica possessed the Magma-Magma Fruit, the Flame-Flame Fruit, and the Heat-Heat Fruit—a combination of ultimate high temperature.
Two Seraphim with diametrically opposed, ultimate horror abilities, one of hot and one of cold, now stood in the sky, making the hearts of countless Marines tremble.
Seeing this scene, Sengoku's complexion became even more ashen.
"Damn it! Aokiji, you deal with that ice Seraphim immediately!" Sengoku commanded.
"Fujitora, you and Akainu will fight the fiery one!"
For his strategy, Akainu and the others had complete faith and immediately implemented it.
This was because Sengoku himself had awakened a second Devil Fruit—the Brain-Brain Fruit—which granted him an incredibly high intellect.
This, of course, was an absolute secret known only to the highest levels of the Marine command.
Hearing Sengoku's order, Fujitora walked out, pulling the blade from his cane staff.
An invisible force instantly enveloped the colossal fortress-golem that Bullet had become.
BOOM!
A terrible gravity instantly began to crush Bullet's body.
"What?!"
Feeling this terrifying power, Bullet was extremely shocked.
Not far away, Kaido, Whitebeard, and the others wore the same look of astonishment.
"Gurarara... I never thought the Marines would find such a terrifying powerhouse through the World Conscription."
"Mamamama! But that's all!" Big Mom pouted, her face showing disdain.
After all, Bullet had three fruit abilities!
"The power of the More-More Fruit!"
Feeling his body suppressed by the terrible gravity, Bullet instantly used his third ability to amplify his own strength.
But then, Fujitora swung his blade, and a ray of strange light instantly shone on the giant castle-man.
"Huh?! That's..." Shanks's face changed.
"Not good! It's the Slow-Slow Fruit's light!"
But it was too late.
Bullet's speed instantly became as slow as a turtle's.
"DAMN IT!" Bullet roared, trying to break free, but his massive size made him an easy target for the slowing light.
He could only resist with his Haki.
Fujitora grunted, and a purple halo of gravitational force instantly soared into the sky.
The next moment, a terrifying meteorite fell from the SKY as if to destroy the world, aimed directly at Bullet.
He supported himself against the crushing gravity, turned, and punched out.
BOOM!
The two powerhouses clashed, and the aftermath of the impact instantly turned into a strong wind that swept across the ground.
At the same time, Akainu came before the hot Seraphim, and Aokiji entangled the ice Seraphim.
They had all clashed—ultimate heat against ultimate heat, and ultimate cold against ultimate cold.
For a moment, both sides were evenly matched.
'In my calculations, this is the only way to maximize our fighting force,' Sengoku muttered to himself.
Lava is resistant to heat, and ice is resistant to cold.
As far as the current situation was concerned, the confrontation of the top powers was a stalemate.
But his face remained extremely grim.
The battle between the lower and middle ranks was at a disadvantage, and there were still many top fighters on the other side who had not yet made a move.
"Big Mom, Kaido.... Let me take on the new Admiral," Redfield said, a strange and mysterious smile on his lips.
The next moment, his figure disappeared, reappearing directly behind Ryokugyu.
"Not good!" Sengoku growled in shock, subconsciously wanting to warn him.
But Redfield had already transformed into a vampire and struck out with his horrible claws.
"Argh!" Ryokugyu let out a mournful cry as he was injured with just one blow.
He bleeding from the corner of his mouth, and a venomous look flashed in his eyes.
"Forest-Forest Fruit!"
The next moment, countless plants grew instantly on the surrounding ground.
Horrible vines, covered in Armament Haki, swept out and stabbed toward Redfield.
"Hahahaha, no you don't!" Redfield laughed, his figure flickering.
"I have the ability of the Flash-Flash Fruit. Did you really think you could attack me?"
Hearing this,Ryokugyu's face sank, but then he sneered.
"But you can't beat me! Because..." Before he finished speaking, the vines broke out from the ground and pierced through the chests of countless fallen pirates.
"I can transform the vitality of others into my own strength and heal my injuries!"
A flash of surprise appeared in Redfield eyes, but he immediately sneered back.
"So what? My Bat-Bat Fruit, Mythical Model: Vampire, can do the same!"
He was confident he could simply wear Redfield down.
However, Ryokugyu only smiled coldly.
"Causal Loop!"
As his voice fell, his tree-man form grew even larger.
"This is my second Devil Fruit ability. The more you attack, the stronger I become!" He had also taken a Monster Cell, making his physical power more terrifying.
With his own fruit for recovery and his second fruit to continuously improve his strength, he had the confidence to fight a prolong war.
Without another word, Redfield attacked, and the two began to fight.
Kaido, Whitebeard, and the others saw this, but they weren't worried.
The powerhouses on the Marine side had almost all been dispatched.
At the moment, only Sengoku, Garp, and the Seraphim Overlord remained.
On their side, the Four Emperors, Shiki and their remaining Seraphim had not yet made a move.
Their advantage was absolute.
"Seraphim, go!"
At Kaido and Big Mom's command, their entire force of twenty-one Seraphim was sent out: three Emperor-class, six Admiral-class, and twelve Warlord-class replicas.
"You guys go, too," Whitebeard said.
He and Shanks also had six Admiral-level Seraphim, all with a fruit ability.
"Oh Crap..."
Seeing so many Seraphim pour onto the battlefield, Sengoku's heart sank instantly.
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