"Maha Padme!"
Esdeath used the ultimate move she had created to channel all the freezing power within her body into her shura sword.
Her shura sword was a Supreme Grade Sword that had consumed the Paramecia-type Hie Hie no Mi. With the enhancement of the shura sword, her freezing power could erupt with even greater freezing force!
An intense freezing power bloomed from the shura sword, and a chilling white halo instantly enveloped an area of five hundred meters, just enough to cover Carl.
In an instant, everything in this area was frozen. Whether it was the airflow, space, or time, everything was instantly frozen solid.
This area was completely peeled away from the World by Esdeath, forming a separate frozen world.
Here, Esdeath was the World King, controlling the only rule in this world, which was the rule of freezing.
Carl, who had originally intended to escape, was frozen in an instant, or rather, he was fixed in place.
He still maintained his posture of escape, but he was rigidly fixed, not only his body but even his consciousness was fixed at the moment he intended to escape.
In this World, the only person unaffected by the freezing rule was Esdeath, the queen who was equivalent to the World King!
"Die!!!"
Esdeath said nothing more, erupting with powerful force from her feet, instantly shattering the ice layer on the ground, and instantly arriving in front of Carl. Her shura sword slashed down towards his throat!
Although Carl's consciousness was frozen, his body instinctively sensed the danger at his neck, and his arm wanted to raise up to protect it, but with space and his body frozen, he couldn't raise his hand at all.
A white sword light shattered the frozen area that had been peeled away from the World, and instantly all freezing rules were completely lifted, and this world returned to its original state.
And Carl still maintained the thought of escaping from before, and his body quickly rushed out.
"What's going on? Why is my body running out, but my head is gone?"
However, as Carl watched his body run out, he found that his body didn't have a head. No, it was that he had lost his head, and that wasn't right either. It was that he hadn't taken his head with him when he escaped.
The next moment, his body that had run out suddenly fell to the ground, and his vision shifted with it. No, it was his head falling from the air.
"Am I dead?"
At this moment, he realized that his head had been cut off by Esdeath, and he was already dead. This was just his dying moments.
It was just, how exactly did he die? Why didn't he even know that his head had been cut off by Esdeath? When exactly did this happen?
Unfortunately, no one would tell him what happened, and he would never know how he died, because his consciousness had already dissipated, and he was truly dead. Even if someone told him after he died, he wouldn't be able to hear it!
"After the Awakening, this move consumes even more!"
Looking at Carl's separated corpse, Esdeath withdrew her gaze and couldn't help but sigh.
She had created this all-freezing move a long time ago, but at that time, she could only freeze space and the consciousness of others, but could not freeze time.
It was only after her Awakening that she could freeze time, but the consumption was truly enormous. Just freezing time for a single instant consumed more than half of her stamina.
This was after she had already prepared the surrounding environment and injected freezing cold air into Carl's body before activating this move.
If she had used this move from the beginning, even if she could instantly kill Carl, she might have been unable to continue fighting due to complete exhaustion of her stamina!
"Is that Father's true strength? It's truly powerful. When Father fought with us before, he was holding back too much!"
Feeling the waves of oppressive force coming from the sky above, she looked up at the sky. The sky here had already been divided into two colors, black and blood-red, and waves of thunder echoed through the clouds.
Even from a distance of ten thousand meters, she could feel that oppressive sense of death. If she were to intervene in that battle, even if her Devil Fruit had Awaken, she would still be instantly killed. That was an instinctive premonition!
"But it is precisely because of this power that he is qualified to be my Father!"
"Since I cannot help Father defeat Imu, then I will kill all these lackeys of the World Government!"
After withdrawing her gaze, Esdeath began to search for her next prey.
However, she no longer insisted on fighting alone. Just as Bullet thought, she wanted to end this war as quickly as possible!
Golden Lion had already been defeated. The only person capable of becoming the World King was her Father, and she believed that her Father would definitely defeat Imu and become the World King!
"Damn it, Esdeath's ability, like Bullet's, has Awaken, and it's terrifyingly strong. Carl was instantly killed by her!"
"What's going on? Why are these guys from the Limitless Pirates so strong, and strong in a way that makes absolutely no sense!"
"Those five old guys from the Gorosei have immortality, yet they are being suppressed to such an extent by those five little kids that they don't even have the strength to come out and help us. They're useless!"
"What should we do now? Bullet and Esdeath have already killed two of our comrades. If this continues, it will be our turn!"
"..."
While Esdeath was searching for her prey, her undisguised Kenbunshoku Haki was detected by the strong individuals of the World Government who were currently fighting. When they used their Kenbunshoku Haki to check on Esdeath's situation, Carl's headless corpse filled them with terror.
They never expected that after Bullet, Esdeath of the Limitless Pirates had killed another top-tier strong individual of their World Government.
That was a top-tier strong individual! Generally speaking, even after fighting continuously for three days and three nights, their stamina would be able to hold up...
How long had they been fighting now? He was instantly killed. This could only happen if one's strength was so overwhelmingly superior that they could instantly kill a top-tier fighter in such a short amount of time!
Now they could see that as Esdeath and Bullet joined forces with other Limitless Pirates members again, they would likely kill two more top-tier strong individuals on the World Government side in a short period of time.
This trend was like a snowball rolling downhill, growing larger and larger, and when it finally became uncontrollable, it would be the time of their World Government's defeat.
This situation was clear to any strong individual on the World Government side, but seeing it was one thing, and being able to change it was another.
The most terrifying thing was that they could only watch this trend gradually expand, watching their World Government's strong individuals being constantly killed without being able to take any effective measures.
Imu, the World King on whom they placed high hopes, had not been able to defeat Nox up to now, and they even doubted whether Imu could defeat Nox.
"Get lost!"
Saint Warcury, in his complete form as a Feng Xi wild boar, with Busoshoku Haki covering his head, charged directly at Valent.
He had also seen two strong individuals of the World Government killed by Bullet and Esdeath respectively, and knew that this couldn't continue, so he planned to use his immortality to tie down more enemies.
After all, the five Gorosei were not afraid of death. If they could tie down five more strong individuals from the Limitless Pirates in addition to Gaenie's group of five, then the World Government's situation could be greatly alleviated.
At least they could hold on until Lord Imu defeated Nox, so that Lord Imu wouldn't defeat Nox only for their World Government to be completely annihilated by the Pirate Alliance.
"Hahahaha, just a wild boar, and you want to escape from this young master's hands? Even roasted suckling pig isn't as beautiful as you imagine.
Seeing Saint Warcury's anxious appearance, Valent chuckled. His body immediately turned into lightning and retreated several hundred meters, preventing Saint Warcury from directly colliding with him.
But as Valent retreated, he waved his hand, and a vast amount of lightning power surged together, forming a lightning abyss magnetic field.
"Thunder Cannon!"
As Saint Warcury wanted to continue charging towards the battlefields of other top-tier strong individuals, Valent's massive lightning cannon fired.
"Go back!"
Instantly, the massive lightning cannon blasted Saint Warcury's entire boar body.
The powerful impact directly sent Saint Warcury's massive boar body flying, and the surging lightning power blasted a huge hole in his body, turning blood and flesh into ashes.
Saint Warcury, who had just run out and left the battlefield not far behind, was instantly blasted back.
"If you want to get rid of me, you have to defeat me first, otherwise you will definitely not escape, I said so!"
Valent looked down at Saint Warcury lying on the ground and said.
If it weren't for his immortality being too troublesome, he would have killed Saint Warcury long ago, and wouldn't have needed to just restrict his movements.
"Bastard, go to hell!"
After Saint Warcury stood up from the ground, he stomped his four limbs on the ground and instantly flew up into the sky, then flicked his boar tail, whipping it like a whip at Valent.
However, just as he was about to hit Valent, Valent had already dodged. As a lightning Devil Fruit user, as long as he wasn't foolish, basically no one could hit him.
It wasn't just Saint Warcury; the other Gorosei also took action, trying to shake off their opponents, but without exception, they all failed.
Their opponents were all Nox's sons, the top-tier individuals in this World, besides Nox and Imu.
Trying to escape from their hands was truly not an easy task, at least the Gorosei did not have this ability.
Who told them that although they had immortality, their true strength was slightly weaker than Gaenie and the other five, and their speed was also a weakness. It was simply impossible to get rid of Gaenie and the others!
"Mary Geoise, it's actually just disappeared!"
At this moment, Hawkeye Mihawk, who had just come up from below, was shocked by this scene. He didn't expect this World war to be so intense that even Mary Geoise was gone!
"Is that the battlefield of the World's Greatest Swordsman? Who exactly is that, who can fight Nox, who has already broken through the peak of the sword road, to this extent? The entire sky has been shattered by them. Is this the battle between the World's strongest?"
When he looked up at the black and red sky, he was even more shocked beyond belief. This power that could change the World was too shocking, leaving him unable to recover for a long time.
He once thought that even if his strength was not the most top-tier in the World, it was at least in the first tier, and he was not afraid even of the Admiral.
Now, seeing the battlefield in the sky and the intense battle between top-tier strong individuals in the Mary Geoise Ruins, he felt that he had underestimated the heroes of the World back then.
Leaving aside everything else, even Gaenie, whom he once regarded as an opponent, was someone he couldn't deal with after using his Devil Fruit power, let alone the other strong individuals who were comparable to Gaenie.
"Shichibukai Hawkeye Mihawk, what is he doing here? Could he be here to help the World Government?!"
When Hawkeye arrived at the Mary Geoise battlefield, some Pirates quickly discovered the presence of Hawkeye Mihawk.
The people guarding the periphery of the Pirate Alliance were individuals whose strength was insufficient to participate in the World war. They quickly stopped Hawkeye, preventing him from approaching the battlefield!
"It's a Shichibukai! Our World Government's Shichibukai has come! Quickly come and help us kill these damn Pirates!"
Some sharp-eyed Celestial Dragons strong individuals kept some attention outside the battlefield, hoping to see the support of the Marine and Army, but they didn't expect that the Marine had come but had betrayed them, and they didn't see any Army but saw a Shichibukai!
Unfortunately, the Celestial Dragons strong individual who just said this probably didn't have the habit of reading newspapers, or was poorly informed, and didn't know that the Shichibukai system had been abolished and that Hawkeye had also left the ranks of the Shichibukai.
"Hahahaha, Mihawk, are you here to help me? Welcome, welcome!"
At this moment, Gaenie, who was blocking Saint Satan's breakthrough, shouted towards Hawkeye.
And the Pirates who were blocking Hawkeye were bewildered. They couldn't figure out whether Hawkeye was here to help the World Government or to help them Pirates!
Hawkeye sensed many streams of Kenbunshoku Haki sweeping over, and knew that many people on the entire battlefield were paying attention to the situation here, and paying attention to his own position.
If he chose to stand with the World Government, he would definitely face the encirclement of the Pirate Alliance.
If he chose to stand with the Pirates, he would need to set an example.
And upon arriving here, Hawkeye Mihawk had already clearly seen the general situation of the entire battlefield.
In the sky above, Nox was fighting an unknown enemy of the World Government. On the Mary Geoise Ruins battlefield, the Pirate Alliance was overwhelmingly encircling the World Government. Even if he were stupid, he wouldn't choose the World Government side!
"I don't like what you said!"
After thinking for a while, Hawkeye drew his Supreme Grade Sword, the Black Blade Yoru, and slashed at the Celestial Dragons strong individual Saint Nol Hernandez.
"Damn Shichibukai, you despicable Untouchables (jianmin - commoner/lowly person), even you dare to betray the great Celestial Dragons?"
Seeing the massive green slash coming towards him, Saint Nol Hernandez instantly cursed loudly. How could he not know that this Shichibukai, like the Admiral before, had also betrayed them Celestial Dragons!
"Hahahaha, Mihawk, well done. After we defeat the World Government, we'll see if there are any Great Swords in the World Government's treasury, and we'll give you one then!"
Seeing that Mihawk had made his choice, Gaenie laughed loudly, and at the same time explained Hawkeye's stance to the others: Hawkeye was on their Pirate side!
Since Hawkeye made his move, he, along with Karoo Kano, began to Siege (weigon - besiege/encircle) Saint Nol Hernandez.
However, Hawkeye's attention was mostly focused on the powerful sword soul force coming from the sky. He wanted to experience this sword soul force and see if he could gain any enlightenment from it.
After all, this was a power that had surpassed the peak of the old era's sword road and become the new peak of the sword road!