Chapter 257
Chapter 257
"What the hell kind of monster is this?"
Aokiji was at a loss.
"No matter what kind of monster it is, it must have a weakness."
"You two hold it off. I’ll find a chance to get past it. We have to kill the son of evil — Ace — the Revolutionary Army officer Sabo, and Straw Hat Luffy right here."
Akainu said to the two behind him.
Then his body turned into magma as he tried to chase after the three.
The sea inside the bay had already frozen over. Melting it would take a massive amount of effort. Even Fire Fist Ace couldn’t easily melt this ice field.
So Ace and the other two chose to escape outside the bay. As long as they crossed the bay wall, they could reach the open sea.
Once they seized a warship, they could leave safely.
Jinbe was following behind them. In the ocean, he could still unleash tremendous power and briefly hold off an Admiral.
"Chirp!"
Of course, Little Silver wouldn’t let Akainu chase after them so easily. With a roar, it fired lightning from its mouth without holding back.
Like a massive plasma cannon, thick bolts of lightning blocked Akainu’s path.
"Tch... How annoying... What are you two still standing there for? Stop it already!"
Akainu gritted his teeth and shouted.
"Oh my, we can’t let you keep blocking us like this."
"Isn’t it a bit rude to ignore us?"
Aokiji and Kizaru instantly appeared in front of Little Silver.
One held an ice saber, the other held Ame-no-Murakumo. They attacked at the same time, using swordsmanship to cut through Little Silver’s lightning cannon.
Akainu took the opportunity to accelerate past them.
Little Silver wanted to stop him, but Aokiji and Kizaru blocked its path.
Continuous large-scale attacks forced it to elementalize and dodge.
Finally, Aokiji used Ice Ball, freezing Little Silver inside a massive sphere of ice.
He didn’t think this would do much damage, but it could buy some time.
Although Akainu wasn’t as speed-oriented as Kizaru, he was still fast.
Whitebeard’s two previous attacks had injured him significantly, but after resting for a while, he had recovered somewhat.
Crack... Crack...
The ice began to tremble violently, slowly breaking apart with loud cracking sounds.
Through the transparent ice, Little Silver’s crimson eyes could be seen, along with its barely contained rage.
BOOM!
The ice shattered and flew in all directions.
Little Silver stood there, staring at them with its crimson eyes.
It had even stopped chasing Akainu.
In the next second—
The seawater began to churn. The water both inside and outside the bay started slowly rising into the air.
One after another, lifelike dragons made entirely of water condensed in the sky.
This time, Little Silver wasn’t playing around.
It had directly emptied out a massive portion of the sea.
Looking up, one would see dragons large enough to block out the sky. They were all made of seawater — and this world had no shortage of that.
Little Silver could obtain this material anytime and anywhere, and create as many as it wanted.
As for stamina? With its physique fused with Rorschach’s, it could bombard like this for ten days and ten nights without any problem.
Moreover, by controlling the rhythm of its attacks, it could even slowly recover its stamina, essentially becoming a perpetual motion machine.
This phenomenon made both Marines and pirates stop what they were doing.
They looked up in shock at the sky.
"This is... the shape of that dragon?! Rorschach, was this your doing?!"
Sengoku shouted at Rorschach in shock after looking up.
Only the Float-Float Fruit could achieve something like this.
Rorschach simply shrugged and didn’t answer.
Instead, he kicked the unconscious Doflamingo toward Sengoku.
Sengoku didn’t even glance at him. The World Government had ordered that he not be killed, but there was no need to take special care of him either. As long as he didn’t die, it was fine.
However, an unexpected guest broke the tension on the battlefield.
The Marines had failed to execute Ace and hadn’t achieved their goal.
At this moment, the deserter king Coby could have stepped forward to stop the war.
But Shanks arrived right on time.
A powerful wave of Conqueror’s Haki swept across the entire battlefield.
Both Marines and pirates stopped fighting at the same time.
Shanks stood in front of Akainu, blocking his magma fist with Griffin.
Even Akainu couldn’t help but break out in cold sweat at that moment.
"It’s Red-Haired Shanks!"
"The Red Force has arrived too!"
"The Red-Haired Pirates — the entire crew is here!"
The Marines shouted in shock.
Another one had arrived.
How many Emperors was this war going to attract? First Whitebeard, then Rorschach, and now Shanks.
Unlike Rorschach, Shanks had brought his entire crew’s combat power.
This was not good news.
With the Marines’ current fighting strength, it was already unlikely they could completely take them down.
In terms of high-level combat power, the pirates were nearly equal to them now.
There were also quite a few people who were just a step below that level.
"Why are you here?! Answer me, Red-Haired Shanks!"
Akainu roared.
The sudden appearance of so many high-level fighters made him lose some of his composure. He was no longer as calm as before.
"Red-Haired Shanks... The man who led Roger’s son and Dragon’s son onto the path of piracy."
Garp’s eyes in the distance had become terrifyingly fierce.
But the bigger picture came first. He didn’t dare attack rashly. This would be a massive war of attrition for the Marines.
"I came here... to end this war."
Shanks slowly sheathed his sword and spoke in a calm tone.
This posture, combined with his unfathomable Haki, was extremely cool.
"Red-Hair, you bastard! How dare you bring Roger’s son and Dragon’s son here..."
Akainu was so angry he wanted to attack again.
His right arm had already turned into magma.
"Lower your arm, Akainu."
A figure suddenly appeared beside Akainu, pointing a gun at his head. It was Ben Beckman, vice-captain of the Red-Haired Pirates.
"Whitebeard is already dead. That’s already a huge victory for you pirates. Ace is the captain’s son. No matter what, I won’t let him die here."
"If you still want to fight, then from now on... we’ll be your opponents!"
Shanks slowly drew his sword again and spoke to everyone present.
All the Marines present stopped moving at his words and took several fearful steps back.
"Tsk tsk... It’s over. There’s nothing left to do. I guess I’ve at least fulfilled that old man’s dying wish, right?"
Rorschach clapped his hands, put them back in his pockets, and spoke with a bored expression.
However, everyone else around him didn’t dare relax their guard — especially the remaining members of Blackbeard’s crew.
Not a single one of them lowered their vigilance.
Seeing that no one spoke, Shanks sheathed his sword once more.
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