Chapter 53: Admirals Enter One After Another — The Moment Has Come!
"It's coming!"
"That quake he just triggered is turning into tsunamis!!!"
"Gura Gura no Mi user — Yonko Edward Newgate — Whitebeard!"
The instant the legendary pirate launched his attack and tore open the curtain of war,
the entire Marineford trembled.
Even Hero of the Marines Garp wore a grave expression.
Very few pirates could make the Marines panic.
Whitebeard was absolutely one of them.
"All hands! Do not let your guard down! The ones who lose this war could very well be us!"
"This man possesses the power to destroy the world!"
Fleet Admiral Sengoku roared through the speakers, reinforcing Garp's warning.
The moment his words ended,
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Monstrous waves rose on both sides of the bay like primordial sea beasts, opening their jaws to devour Marineford whole!
"So this is the Gura Gura no Mi… the presence really is terrifying."
Rok, watching the apocalyptic scene, couldn't help but marvel inwardly.
The quakes were on the level of natural disasters—truly one of the strongest Devil Fruits.
If Whitebeard weren't old, riddled with illness, and later betrayed by Teach, the Marines might never have been able to stop him.
Of course… that assumed certain people actually fought seriously instead of slacking.
"Admirals, it's your turn!"
Rok immediately shifted his gaze to the three figures seated beneath the highest execution platform.
These three represented the pinnacle of Marine power.
Faced with Whitebeard's tsunami, they had to move soon.
At that exact moment,
as if sensing Rok's stare,
Admiral Aokiji subtly glanced in his direction—expression unchanged.
Then—
the instant the sky-blotting tsunamis were about to crash down,
Aokiji vanished from his chair.
He reappeared high in the sky, standing between the two monstrous waves.
"It's Admiral Kuzan!"
The Marines cheered.
"Ice Age!!"
Aokiji unleashed his power.
Arctic chill exploded outward.
In a single heartbeat,
both tsunamis were frozen solid, transformed into two colossal walls of ice!
"You brat, Kuzan!"
Whitebeard glared up at the Admiral, clearly annoyed.
An Admiral? In his eyes, still just a snot-nosed kid.
"Ice Spears — Two-Thorn Spear!"
Aokiji followed up instantly.
Three massive ice lances formed and shot toward Whitebeard.
Whitebeard answered with a single punch into the air.
DUANG!
CRACK—CRACK—CRACK!
Space shattered again.
The ice spears disintegrated long before reaching him.
The shockwave continued upward, slamming into Aokiji.
BOOM!
"Oh dear~"
Aokiji's body turned to ice and shattered on impact, falling to the ground in pieces.
Moments later, the shards reformed into the Admiral.
Then—
a wave of absolute zero spread from him.
In seconds,
the entire inner bay was frozen solid.
Rok's blood raced.
Aokiji had just created the perfect battlefield.
As expected—
with the bay frozen,
Whitebeard's pirates charged the shore.
The clash between 100,000 elite Marines and the Whitebeard armada officially began!
Moments later,
Admiral Kizaru vanished from his seat in a flash of light.
"Yasakani no Magatama!"
Countless beams of light rained down like a storm.
Kizaru was actually being… proactive?
Rok nearly laughed.
Kizaru and Aokiji started strong,
but everyone knew how that would end later…
Just when the Marines thought Kizaru's barrage would cause trouble—
a massive blue-flamed phoenix suddenly intercepted every beam!
"Undying Phoenix — Marco!!?"
"Oh no~ Whitebeard's crew is sooo scary~"
Kizaru drawled, instantly losing interest.
He and Aokiji both decided it was break time.
"Gurararara! Go, my sons! Rescue Ace!"
Whitebeard swung his Supreme Grade blade Murakumogiri, issuing the attack order.
Morale on the pirate side skyrocketed.
Then—
HUMMM—
A colossal cyan slash, like an ancient dragon, tore across the battlefield toward Whitebeard!
"Hm? Hawkeye?!"
Even Doflamingo's expression changed.
Mihawk was actually fighting for real?!
On the second execution platform,
Rok watched that terrifying slash and inwardly applauded.
As expected of the World's Greatest Swordsman.
Even though Diamond Jozu blocked it,
the sheer power behind a casual swing from Mihawk was on another level.
Of course, Rok only admired it for a second.
He had no time to waste.
With Marco and Jozu holding back Kizaru and Mihawk,
in the opening phase of the war,
the Whitebeard Pirates were actually pushing back the Marines.
And that—
was exactly the moment Rok had been waiting for.
As expected,
moments
later,
the last Admiral — Akainu Sakazuki — could no longer sit still.
He stood up and entered the battlefield.
At the exact same instant—
Rok drew Nether Spirit from his system storage.
Shing—
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