"What should we do then?" Thatch also knew the seriousness of the matter, so he asked.
Akira said, "I've fought Akainu more than once. If I'm not mistaken, he's preparing to use Meteor Volcano to attack us. The characteristic of that move is..."
He told Thatch about Akainu's Meteor Volcano attack method, and then said, "So we absolutely can't let him attack so easily, otherwise it will cause extremely heavy casualties."
"Then what should we do?" Thatch asked.
Akira said, "Akainu's ability is magma, his attacks are very terrifying, but there's still a way to restrain him. Thatch, your ability is snow. Later, when Akainu uses Meteor Volcano, use your ability with all your might. Even if you can't block Akainu's Meteor Volcano, you can at least weaken his attack to a certain extent. I'll also use freezing abilities. The two of us, passively receiving his attack, although we can't completely negate it, we can reduce a lot of casualties."
Magma was actually a type of fire, just liquid fire, while snow and the ice-type Zanpakutō Hyōrinmaru were extremely cold. Using extreme cold to fight against extreme heat would definitely be able to achieve good results to a certain extent, just like Akainu and Aokiji. In the original story, although Aokiji lost to Akainu, it was only a very slight defeat. So, their abilities were mutually restraining.
And now, Akira's strength was no less than Akainu's, plus Thatch, a Snow-Snow Fruit ability user who also belonged to the cold system. If the two of them joined forces, he was still relatively confident.
While Akira and Thatch were discussing, Sengoku, not caring about anything else, shouted angrily at Akainu, "We can't worry about so much anymore, Akainu, it's your turn to take the stage, start!"
Akainu slowly walked to the front, his expression extremely cold. They saw his hands turn into magma fists, and his red clothes, plus the crimson magma, looked very eerie. He raised his hand, and then suddenly aimed at the sky, shooting one magma fist after another from his fists. Pieces of magma shot towards the sky like meteors.
"Ryusei Kazan (Meteor Volcano)!"
All the pirates in the bay looked towards the sky following Akainu's attack. They saw those magma fists fly into the atmosphere, and then slowly disappear. Until Akainu stopped, nothing unusual happened.
"What's going on? After those magma fists flew into the air, why isn't there any reaction?"
Many people saw that the magma had no reaction after flying into the air, and they all seemed a little dazed.
"Everyone be careful!"
Suddenly, just as everyone was a little relaxed, Akira shouted loudly. At the instant his voice fell, the atmosphere, which had been relatively calm, suddenly began to roll, and then the entire sky seemed to be dyed red.
"Not good." Many pirates, seeing this scene, also felt a tightness in their hearts.
"Thatch."
Akira called out, and then he quickly pulled out the Death God Blade, "Hyōrinmaru!"
"Sit Upon the Frozen Heavens! Hyōrinmaru!"
"Bankai! Daiguren Hyōrinmaru!"
They saw Akira undergo an amazing change. His body suddenly became much larger. What was even more terrifying was that ice crystals appeared all over his body, enveloping his entire person. Moreover, a huge ice crystal dragon appeared around him, the dragon lingering around his side, raising its head high, standing side by side with Akira.
When the ice dragon appeared, intense coldness enveloped a large area, causing the surrounding temperature to drop a lot.
Thatch had the same movements as Akira, but unlike Akira, snowflakes were floating around him. His entire person had turned into a white snowman. Together with Akira, they instantly lowered the surrounding environment to the lowest point. Even with the two of them as the center, the surroundings had quickly emptied. Few people could resist the cold domain created by the two of them.
"Everyone, try to spread out and dodge, the attack is coming!" Akira shouted loudly.
Hearing Akira's words, Whitebeard didn't hesitate at all, and immediately ordered, "Do as Akira says."
Whitebeard knew very well that among these people, only Akira had fought Akainu, so Akira would definitely know Akainu's attack pattern best. Since Akira had reminded them like this, then there definitely wouldn't be any mistakes.
The pirates under Whitebeard's command immediately spread out slowly according to what Akira had said, each and every one of them nervously staring at the sky, and at Akira.
Finally, the sky, which had been dyed half red, underwent a huge change. Magma giant fists, like meteors, descended from the sky, carrying terrifying impact force and destructive power. If they fell down, they would definitely cause an explosive force that was much more terrifying than artillery fire. More importantly, the pirates were standing on ice, and if these magma fists fell down, the ice surface wouldn't be able to withstand the heat at all, and would definitely be melted quickly. At that time, everyone would have no place to stand, and would become the Navy's targets.
Akira would never allow the Whitebeard Pirates to fall into such a situation, so he quickly used Hyōrinmaru's abilities to the extreme, and at the same time shouted to Thatch, "Thatch, let's begin!"
"Okay!"
Akira and Thatch both used all their strength. They saw snowflakes flying all over the sky, enveloping the entire bay, but this was only the beginning. When the snowflakes appeared, Akira also took action. Snowflakes were originally light and fluttering, without any gravity, but Akira used Hyōrinmaru's abilities, the biting cold, and enveloped the cold air on the snowflakes, making Thatch's snowflakes suddenly become larger, and also become sharp.
At the same time, they saw more than a hundred ice pillars suddenly rush out of the sea surface, which was originally ice. The ice pillars soared into the sky, and coordinated with the ice flowers all over the sky, like a terrifying extreme cold domain.
Aokiji, seeing this scene in the plaza, had his expression instantly change, and said in a low voice, "That guy, he's actually using my abilities."
The sea was frozen by Aokiji, but now it was being used by Akira, fusing his freezing abilities into his own abilities, so he was able to create those hundreds of ice pillars so easily.
At this time, the meteors all over the sky had already fallen. The ice flowers all over the sky, which Akira and Thatch had created with all their strength, also quickly met the meteors all over the sky.
Akainu's Meteor Volcano was shot into the sky, carrying various substances in the atmosphere, and descending again, so the power was also increased a bit. Although the ice flowers all over the sky, which Akira and Thatch had joined forces to create, had a large number, their power couldn't compare to Akainu's Meteor Volcano. After all, this was a temporary cooperation between him and Thatch, while Meteor Volcano was Akainu's ultimate move.
"Boom boom boom..."
The ice flowers and the meteors collided. Although the power wasn't as good as the Meteor Volcano, it was better in that there were a large number of them, so it greatly reduced the power of the Meteor Volcano. And the erected ice pillars also destroyed the Meteor Volcano's attack again.
Although many meteors also crashed onto the ice surface, destroying a lot of the ice surface, it was far from reaching the effect that the Navy had imagined. Moreover, because the pirates had received Akira's reminder, they had prepared in advance, so there were losses, but not too many pirates were killed or injured.
Even with Akira's ice pillars present, the number of Meteor Volcanoes was simply too large. Most of those ice pillars were quickly destroyed, and the ice surface was also melted. But what surprised the Navy was that those destroyed ice pillars didn't melt. Instead, they turned into ice chips, and then re-condensed the destroyed ice surface, forming the ice surface again.
"That damn guy, he actually possesses such strong freezing abilities." Sengoku, seeing this, was instantly very angry.
Aokiji also said somewhat helplessly, "To actually think of this method to fight against Sakazuki's Meteor Volcano, that kid is really difficult to deal with."
Akainu snorted coldly. This was his attack, and it was blocked by Akira. His face naturally had no light.
This was a contest between ice and magma. Even though Akainu had made the first move, Akira and Thatch, who had been prepared, still used their abilities to reduce the Whitebeard Pirates' losses to the minimum, not achieving the results that Navy Headquarters wanted.
The sea surface was constantly being bombarded, and then frozen again. The two abilities were constantly clashing, and neither of them could do anything to the other.
"Well done, Akira, Thatch!"
Seeing this scene, the pirates of the Whitebeard Pirates all shouted excitedly. Before, they had indeed been shocked by Akainu's attack, but fortunately Akira and the others were strong enough, forcibly changing the situation, turning the tide.
The angry Akainu once again increased his abilities. More meteors fell from the sky. Although the power had become much stronger again, Akira and Thatch's cooperation was getting better and better. The extremely cold air quickly offset the heat of the magma, unable to cause more casualties.
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