In an instant, lightning raged, converging from all directions above the Demon Slayer Fleet, and before all the naval soldiers could retreat into their cabins, ten thousand thunderbolts descended.
Countless bolts struck the warships. These lightning bolts, as if possessing consciousness, changed direction and shot towards those around them after missing or being blocked.
In a short period, many naval soldiers were stunned or injured. Seeing this, a vice admiral with a long saber hanging from his waist could no longer stand by.
He leaped onto the deck, drew the renowned saber at his waist, enveloped it with Armament Haki, and swung it, releasing a comet-shaped sword energy that shot into the sky, growing larger with the wind.
By the time it pierced the dark clouds, it was already a hundred meters in size. The sword energy exploded, like a stone thrown into water, its ripples spreading outwards.
This instantly cleared a large swathe of dark clouds above the fleet, while simultaneously ordering soldiers to rescue the wounded.
The officers of each ship also appeared on deck, converging towards the warships ahead, watching the several great pirates on the distant beach with vigilance.
"Boro Breath!!!"
Charlotte Linlin's enraged roar echoed as she manipulated her ability to gather all the thunderclouds at the breach, layering them one upon another.
The thunderous roars intensified, transforming into a colossal thundercloud, which then unleashed thick bolts of lightning towards the warships, while sword energies flew from the warships to slash at the lightning...
*Crack, crack, crack, crack...*
The sound of Martin boots meeting ship planks signaled a steady and powerful boarding. Golden Lion turned his head to look at the person he had finally awaited, his smile deepening. He spoke with sincerity and gravity.
"Newgate, let's cooperate and turn this world upside down."
"Cora-cora-cora-cora, you know I'm not interested in that, Shiki."
"What I want is... family."
Whitebeard, who arrived last, stood beside Shiki and spoke to the sea, his gaze distant. As if seeing something, a faint smile touched his lips.
"All of you really are..."
Though he had long known the outcome, a sense of disappointment couldn't help but surface. Shiki sighed helplessly.
"Alright, Linlin."
"It's time to depart."
He then adjusted his mindset and spoke to Charlotte Linlin. Raising his right hand, he hooked his finger and swept it forward.
The remaining few pirate ships soared into the sky, heading towards the New World.
Charlotte Linlin, having vented for a while, regained some of her reason. Without further words, she controlled Zeus to solidify the thunderclouds and press them down upon the Demon Slayer Fleet.
Just as the thunderclouds were hundreds of meters away from pressing down on the fleet, the vice admiral who had shattered the clouds held a shell in his left hand and a saber in his right. He gathered strength and pushed off the ground.
*Swish!*
He appeared a hundred meters in the air, facing the descending thundercloud, and unleashed a saber strike.
"Ittoryu: Dankū."
An invisible sword energy was unleashed, passing through the thundercloud from bottom to top. The thundercloud showed no abnormalities and continued to descend.
When the swordsman vice admiral landed back on the deck.
*Click!*
A sheathing sound echoed. The thundercloud seemed to finally react, splitting in half with a resounding boom, and fell onto the sea on either side of the Demon Slayer Fleet.
*Boom! Boom! Boom!.....*
The endless thunderous explosions struck the sea, causing countless fish and sea kings to drift into the surrounding waters for a hundred miles.
Meanwhile, Sakazuki had stopped several hundred meters below the central battlefield. He emitted a trace of Observation Haki, probing upwards. Upon reaching the ground, he quickly retracted it.
The rampant Conqueror's Haki intertwined in the sky and earth, yet the combatants did not perceive the fleeting trace of Observation Haki from the ground.
He manipulated magma flows, set up several eruption paths, and then Sakazuki retreated. It was not until he was near the outer perimeter of God Valley that he broke through the earth and walked towards the outside of the island.
All that was needed was for their battle to shake the island's foundation or for time to run out, and the endless magma would erupt, destroying the island in an extremely short period as if to bring about an apocalypse.
Along with the super battleship buried underground, marked with a number, belonging to no era...