"Is that... Red-Haired Shanks?" Luo Chen squinted.
The figure rushing toward the meteor in the sky wore a black cloak, had red hair, a middle-aged face, and an empty left sleeve.
He slashed at the giant meteor.
The entire meteor actually trembled slightly.
"Attack together!" Red-Haired Shanks's voice spread.
From the distant sea, a roar came from a crimson-toned pirate ship.
A dozen black bullets shot across a thousand-meter distance, slamming into the meteor.
A violent explosion occurred on the meteor's surface, the cracks becoming more pronounced.
Shanks slashed again, cutting off a large chunk from the meteor's underside.
Although Akainu, Garp, and the others didn't understand why Shanks would intervene, they also saw a glimmer of hope for survival.
Garp gathered his Haki and strength, preparing to punch, but he suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood.
Akainu glanced at him, leaped into the air, and smashed a giant magmafist into the meteor.
He roared with a ferocious expression, unleashing his full power, but still couldn't stop the meteor.
Red-Haired Shanks landed on the island, and a black pentagram formation appeared beneath his feet.
A mysterious aura diffused from the formation.
The air filled with a large amount of black lightning, striking the pentagram.
This scene stunned Sengoku, Akainu, and the others.
The next moment, four figures appeared in the center of the pentagram.
A young woman covered in bandages and wearing a cloak.
A scruffy old man with long golden hair.
A man with a human body and a qilin's head.
And a red-haired man wearing a mask.
They first looked at Red-Haired Shanks, then raised their heads.
Looking at the meteor falling right above them, the long-golden-haired old man exclaimed, "This is a bit troublesome, isn't it?"
"Commander, can you cut it?"
"Let's attack together," the mysterious red-haired man in the mask said.
Obviously, he alone could not cut this meteor.
The mysterious masked red-haired man drew the Western sword at his waist, exuding a powerful aura no weaker than the Emperor Shanks.
A massive three-headed hound rushed out from the sword.
The three-headed hound had sharp teeth and was surrounded by dark flaming clouds, just like the Cerberus of mythology.
It roared and charged at the meteor above.
The cloaked, bandaged girl's right hand was wrapped in circles of strips, making her entire right fist a hundred meters huge. The end of the strips formed an arrowhead shape, rushing toward the meteor.
A black hole appeared at the feet of the man with the qilin head.
One after another, monsters crawled out of the hole.
Some monsters were over a thousand meters tall, somewhat resembling the Susanoo Luo Chen had summoned.
Some monsters had a thousand arms, somewhat resembling a Guanyin statue.
There were also monsters with demonic faces, wearing black windbreakers, possessing a thousand arms, each arm holding a wooden sword.
These strange monsters collectively charged at the meteor above.
Luo Chen watched this scene, his eyes flashing.
'The four people Red-Haired Shanks summoned through the pentagram magic formation... should be members of the God's Knights.'
'The God's Knights are a powerful legion composed of Celestial Dragons. They even have the right to pass judgment on other Celestial Dragons.'
'The mysterious red-haired man in the mask is the Knight Commander. He is also Red-Haired Shanks's twin brother. The mask is to hide his face, which is identical to Shanks's.'
'I remember the God's Knights have a Mythical Zoan, Qilin Fruit user, who can make people fall asleep and then summon monsters from their nightmares, materializing the power of dreams.'
Luo Chen looked at the man with the human body and qilin head.
In the capsules he had created earlier, many Marines had already fallen asleep.
The qilin-headed man had brought the monsters from these Marines' nightmares into reality.
'The reason they resemble my Susanoo and Thousand-Hand Guanyin... is probably because I am the most terrifying existence in these Marines' dreams.'
'This is getting a bit troublesome.'
'Shanks can actually summon the God's Knights.'
Luo Chen's expression turned grim.
'The God's Knights have a deep connection with Imu. Imu can even descend remotely using the bodies of the God's Knights. I'm afraid I'm not their match right now.'
'What is Shanks's goal? And he can inscribe a pentagram formation... that's unexpected.'
Luo Chen's thoughts raced.
He had guessed that the Red Hair Pirates might arrive at Marineford as in the original story.
But he hadn't expected Shanks to summon the God's Knights in public just to stop that meteor.
Ordinary people might not understand.
But Whitebeard, Akainu, Sengoku, and the others would surely realize that Shanks has a deep connection with the Celestial Dragons.
"Rumble—!"
On the ruined island of Marineford, the attacks of the numerous powerhouses collided with the giant meteor.
The meteor shattered layer by layer, but it still smashed down.
Its speed was much slower than at first, and a deep hole had been gouged out above the crowd.
In the end, it still smashed onto the island of Marineford, covering the figures of the many powerhouses below.
The sea trembled violently at this moment.
The flames on the meteor's surface touched the sea, evaporating white steam that filled the sky.
Thousand-meter-high waves surged, rolling out in all directions.
On the sea, the giant wooden boat carrying the pirates and the capsules where the Marines slept shook violently.
Whitebeard threw a punch, shattering the atmosphere.
The thousand-meter tsunami in front of him disintegrated.
Atop the wood man's head, Luo Chen's clone used Shinra Tsheng, likewise crushing the thousand-meter wave rushing toward him.
Everyone watched in shock as Marineford disappeared.
They watched the meteor swallow Marineford, then slowly disappear beneath the sea level.
Even with so many powerful people on the island, they had failed to stop the meteor's impact.
It sank into the sea along with the island.
Were Red-Haired Shanks, the several high-ranking Marines, and those four strangely dressed people who suddenly appeared still alive?
Many people stared intently at the sea surface ahead.
In the sky, atop the wood dragon's head, Luo Chen perceived with his Observation Haki, his expression cold.
Sengoku was still alive.
In fact, not a single person in that group had died.
'The God's Knights possess immortality; normal attacks are useless against them.'
'Only by using Conqueror's Haki can one effectively harm them.'
'The meteor couldn't hurt them.'
Luo Chen's gaze shifted to the distant sea where the meteor had sunk.
A massive, thousand-armed black monster was slowly rising from the seabed.
On the monster lay Akainu, Sengoku, Tsuru, and the other Devil Fruit users.
It seemed their stamina hadn't recovered due to the sea's influence.
Garp, Shanks, and the other pure physical and Haki users were unaffected, only their hair and clothes were soaked.
Their gazes all turned toward Luo Chen.
The masked Figarland Shamrock's voice was frigid:
"You killed Saint Lorenzo on Star Island, stole the Heavenly Tribute, and now you've destroyed Marine Headquarters."
"Luo Chen, you have some nerve!"
"What, you want to start a war with me?" Luo Chen chuckled lightly. "I wonder, if I summon a few meteors over Mary Geoise, will you be able to stop them?"
The faces of the four God's Knights turned even colder.
Shanks took a step forward and said in a deep voice, "Let it end here. Tens of thousands have already died in this war. Let there be no more casualties."
He looked at the surrounding sea.
That meteor Luo Chen summoned just now had killed at least twenty thousand Marine soldiers.
Even though Luo Chen had created capsules to shelter the Marines before...
He had only sheltered a little over half of them.
There were over eighty thousand Marines, scattered across the sea.
When this meteor struck, more than twenty thousand were still killed or injured.
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