"Not good! Garp!" Sengoku's expression changed drastically.
But Garp's face was grim, and he just walked out without saying a word.
Whitebeard's eyes burned with fighting spirit.
"Gurararara! Garp you old fool, let me be your opponent!"
"Whitebeard," Garp's eyes narrowed.
He had also taken a Monster Cell, and while the effect wasn't as dramatic as it was for Akainu due to his age, it had still given him a significant improvement.
He had a certain amount of confidence in facing the current Whitebeard.
"Mamamama," Big Mom laughed.
"Marine Hero Garp... if he were to fight Whitebeard now, he'd probably just be defeated." She looked on contemptuously.
And she was right.
Unless Garp also gained two or even three Devil Fruit abilities, he couldn't match the current Emperors.
"Gurararara! Let's fight, Garp!" Whitebeard roared, shooting forward.
His body shifted into his dragon form, and a shockwave containing the power of the Tremor-Tremor Fruit surged from his fist.
"Fuck you, old man!" Garp roared, meeting the attack head-on.
The two fought, and the very island trembled.
Sengoku gritted his teeth.
Their top fighters were completely outnumbered.
With an explosion, he saw an Admiral-class Seraphim be directly destroyed by Mihawk.
Not only that, but the Vice Admirals fighting the pirate commanders were also at a disadvantage, being forced to retreat.
The worst of it was the regular Marine soldiers below; under the assault of the former Warlords, they were already fighting for their lives.
Doflamingo cackled, his invisible Parasite Strings cutting through the ranks of the Marines.
The Tyrant Kuma had already turned to help the Vice Admirals, and with his aid, the Marine officers were being pushed back even faster.
At this time, the Marines' disadvantage was gradually expanding.
"Damn it..." Sengoku couldn't help but grit his teeth.
The only trump card he had left was the Overlord.
"Mamamama! Let's join the war too!" Big Mom said to Kaido with a cruel smile.
"Of course we're going to fight!" Kaido laughed ferociously.
Shanks just glanced at them, his eyes focused on the execution platform in the distance.
His goal was Luffy, Ace, and Vista.
He didn't share the other Emperors' ambitions of destroying the Marines or ruling the world.
But the Golden Lion on the other hand, was ready to move.
Seeing that the Marines were on the verge of total defeat, he could no longer hold back.
"Big Mom! Kaido! Shiki!" Sengoku's expression turned even uglier.
"Seraphim Overlord! You go deal with Kaido and Big Mom! As for Shiki... I will deal with him!"
Even with his enhanced intellect from the Brain-Brain Fruit, he couldn't see a path to victory.
All they could do was resist.
However, just when Sengoku was about to walk out, an anywhere door suddenly appeared beside him.
"Sengoku, we've come."
"Hm?!" Sengoku looked on in shock.
It was the Five Elders.
Following them were the agents of CP0: Rob Lucci, Kaku, and the others.
"Lucci, you and your team go and help the Marines!" one of the elders commanded.
"Yes, sir!" Lucci and the others immediately rushed into battle, their own dual-fruit abilities and Monster Cell-enhanced bodies flaring to life.
But not only that, a burly man with an M-shaped beard also followed them out.
Sengoku was shocked.
It was the former Fleet Admiral of the Marines, the current Commander-in-Chief of the World Government—Kong.
"Sengoku, long time no see," Kong nodded.
"We and Kong will also join the fight," Ethanbaron V Nusjuro of the Five Elders spoke.
Sengoku was stunned.
The Five Elders, the supreme leaders of the World Government, were going to join the battle themselves?
"You..." Sengoku's face was complex.
"Alright, Sengoku," Ju Peter said. "If we lose this battle, the Marines will cease to exist. If the force that protects the World Government is destroyed, then the World Government itself won't be able to survive."
"But..." Sengoku hesitated.
He had never seen them make a move.
"Don't worry," another elder explained. "We asked you for those Monster Cells some time ago. Aside from the ones for CP0, we and Kong took the rest. Although our strength hasn't improved as much as Akainu's, we can still play a role."
Hearing this, Sengoku was silent. He took another look at the dire battle situation below and had to take a deep breath.
"Okay. Then I'm counting on you all!"
With that, he saluted with a solemn face.
"Old fellows," Nusjuro said to the others.
"I didn't expect we would still have the chance to fight on the battlefield. Don't hold back."
Immediately, he rushed forward, drawing his sword.
In an instant, a fierce wave of sword energy shot out, fiercely slashing towards Mihawk in the distance.
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The war raged on.
With the addition of the Five Elders—five powerhouses comparable to the Four Emperors—the tide began to turn.
Three of them engaged the pirates' replica Emperor-class Seraphim, while the remaining two dealt with the other models.
Commander-in-Chief Kong, for his part, charged into the fray on the ground like a peerless tiger, leading the Marines against the pirate hordes.
In the blink of an eye, countless pirates fell in a pool of blood.
"It's Commander Kong!"
"We're saved! Go!"
"Kill all the pirates!"
The Marine soldiers, seeing their ultimate leaders join the fight, found a renewed sense of purpose and followed Kong into battle.
"Kong!" Whitebeard, seeing Kong slaughtering his sons, roared in fury.
Kong gave Whitebeard a single cold look before ignoring him, continuing to carve a path through the enemy like a sharp knife.
His target was one of the pirates' top weapons: the ice Seraphim.
This machine, in its Okuchi-no-Makami form, was sweeping through the battlefield with an endless cold, and Kong intended to unite with Aokiji to destroy it.
Not only was Aokiji struggling to resist it, but Kong knew that if it was destroyed, Aokiji would be free to help dealing with Big Mom.
At that moment, Big Mom and Kaido were both attacking the Seraphim Overlord together, forcing it back step by step.
"Shiki, kill him!" Whitebeard commanded.
"Yes!" Shiki transformed into his golden Buddha form and blasted a shockwave toward Kong.
Kong dodged, but his plan to launch a sneak attack had been thwarted.
"I'll be your opponent, Kong!" the Golden Lion grinned, hovering in the sky and looking down on him.
'Damn it,' Kong thought.
'It seems they won't give me the chance'.
Without the element of surprise, it was incredibly difficult to defeat a Seraphim in a one-on-one fight, especially a counterfeit Emperor model that knew no tiredness or pain.
But with the addition of the Five Elders and Kong, the Marines had managed to reverse the situation, which boosted the morale of their soldiers.
"Mamamama! Overlord!" Big Mom laughed ferociously.
She met the Seraphim's attack with her sword, Napoleon, while Kaido, in his dragon-man form, slammed his massive kanabo into the Overlord's back, a club engulfed in high-temperature magma.
BOOM!
The Overlord was smashed to the ground, but Big Mom immediately followed up.
Transforming into her Nine-Tailed Fox form, she gathered terrifying thunder in her hands and smashed down.
The Overlord rolled, looking a little battered.
A few more cracks appeared on its body, but they recovered quickly.
Its own strength was originally extremely powerful, and even against two Emperors, it was only at a slight disadvantage.
With its heaven-defying recovery speed and its immunity to pain and fatigue, it was more than capable of tying both of them down.
"Sun Fruit!"
Seeing that mere physical attacks weren't enough, blazing flames and dazzling light burst forth from the Overlord as it unleashed the power of the world's most powerful fruit.
"SOLAR STORM!"
Endless light and heat condensed and swept across the battlefield, bombarding Kaido and Big Mom like a hurricane.
"Attack together!"
Facing this terrifying blow, Kaido and Big Mom dared not be careless.
Kaido's three fruit abilities surged as he transformed into a giant magma dragon.
The terrifying impact of his attack was amplified by his Strength" fruit.
At the same time, Big Mom's three fruit abilities also emerged.
In her Nine-Tailed Fox form, she gathered the terrifying power of the Soul-Soul Fruit and the endless thunder of the Rumble-Rumble Fruit—an ability they had obtained by hunting down Enel.
In an instant, their two terrifying attacks entwined and merged.
BOOM!!!
At that moment, it seemed like the whole world was shaking.
Terrible energy ripples swept out, cracking the earth and churning the sea.
"Mamamama, Although your Seraphim Overlord is powerful, it have no chance against our current strength!" Big Mom, having stabilized her position, laughed, her face full of mockery and disdain.
"Hmph, the Marines will lose this battle!" Kaido added.
"However, we don't have the patience to waste any more time with you. Big Mom, hold off the Overlord for a moment. Let me show them a great spectacle... and the true meaning of despair!"
"Worororo, Blackbeard!"
"Hehehe, here I come," Blackbeard said, stepping out from the shadows, dragging a damaged, young Whitebeard-model Seraphim with him.
"Kaido, it's exactly as I expected!" Blackbeard cackled. "The Devil Fruit within a Seraphim's body can also be extracted! So, I found a Devil Fruit ability that should suit you well. What do you think?"
Kaido threw his head back and laughed.
"Worororo, good! With such a powerful fruit ability, the side effects on me will be minimal! Come on! Let the world feel despair!"
"Then let me show you this great spectacle!" Blackbeard grinned grimly.
Endless darkness instantly enveloped the damaged Seraphim.
"Dark Vortex!"
A strange energy manifested in Blackbeard's hand, and then shot directly into Kaido's body.
"What are they doing?!" the surrounding Marines wondered.
"Could it be... they're not acquiring Devil Fruit abilities through science and technology?!"
"Not good! Stop them!" Sengoku, seeming to guess their plan, shouted.
However, it was too late.
Kaido let out a great laugh, and from his gigantic body, nine purple, venomous dragons appeared instantly.
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