"Ace pilot, request to deploy!"
"Wahahaha, my Kouchi's glorious moment has arrived!"
High above the void, on the massive island controlled by Yasuo.
Thirty bombers were already in position.
As the World Government dispatched their augmented humans, Kouchi eagerly contacted Bai Qi to request deployment.
Air force versus air force, that's where the sense of accomplishment lies.
Air force versus ground forces is pure abuse; the sense of accomplishment cannot compare to fighting the air force.
"Permission granted!"
Bai Qi, at this moment, naturally would not refuse.
The roar of the bombers starting up echoed. With a short acceleration charge, the thirty bombers left the massive island, entered the clouds, and then appeared in public view.
"What is that sound?"
"What's up there?"
"Are those aircraft?"
"They seem to be heading towards those augmented humans."
"Is this an aerial duel?"
...
On the vast battlefield, people quickly noticed the bombers appearing from the sky.
Amidst confused exchanges, some remained silent, others felt uneasy.
"Are they aerial weapons?"
"And from the looks of it, they've been hiding in the clouds."
"I wonder how powerful they are?"
Doflamingo looked at the thirty bombers, somewhat shocked by the aerial weapons and extremely intrigued.
He hadn't expected that someone had already developed them and put them into the battlefield.
Doflamingo, who controlled underground forces across the seas, was no stranger to weapon production and sales.
Among them, he had conceived the idea of aerial weapons, and some had practiced and researched it.
Although the results were not ideal.
However, the appearance of augmented humans also gave Doflamingo's underground arms dealing business new ideas.
For instance, aerial weapons like bombers.
Sengoku, looking at the appearing bombers, though only thirty in number, seemed insignificant against tens of thousands of augmented humans.
Yet, for some reason, Sengoku had a bad premonition.
"Fire!"
"Fire!"
"Dada dada dada!"
Without Kouchi's cry, the bombers entered firing range and began attacking the augmented humans flying at low altitude below.
The dense gunfire rained down like a thousand needles.
Many augmented humans, without even a chance to react, were directly turned into a honeycomb.
The augmented humans who reacted from behind raised their weapons and began to counterattack the bombers flying rapidly in the sky.
But soon, they discovered that their upward firing range could not reach the bombers.
The bombers fired from altitudes of thousands of meters.
The augmented humans' firing range was only around five hundred meters.
Even if they managed to fly up two to three hundred meters, there was still a significant gap.
Furthermore, their upward flight speed could not compare to that of the bombers.
This huge disparity predetermined one outcome.
Backwardness leads to being beaten.
Akainu, seeing his augmented subordinates being passively beaten like this, was so enraged that his face turned as red as magma.
"Great Eruption!"
Akainu leaped up, continuously striking out with his hands.
Fistfuls of magma-infused flames hurtled towards the bombers flying in the sky.
The result was:
Every punch couldn't even catch the tail of a bomber; they only served to create fireworks in the sky, adding some color to the battle.
Kouchi, piloting a bomber, performed a 360-degree aerial maneuver, then swooped down, his gaze fixed on the warship where Akainu was.
"Wahahaha, a truly wonderful target."
"Let you experience the art of bombs."
Kouchi adjusted his angle, aimed at Akainu, and then pressed the red button.
"Destroy yourselves, and enjoy the charm of the Hegelin missiles."
Each bomber carried two Hegelin missiles, weighing half a ton each.
These were missiles Kouchi had created himself; each Hegelin missile had the power equivalent to twenty cannonballs.
Akainu, watching the shells hurtling towards him, indifferently element-transformed.
"Hound Burning Red!"
A giant magma dog head opened its massive jaws and swallowed the Hegelin missile.
Boom!
A colossal mushroom cloud soared into the sky.
Countless magma splattered and erupted.
Some augmented humans, unable to dodge, were directly hit by the splashing magma, and within moments, holes were melted through them.
The magma landed in the sea with a sizzling sound, emitting large plumes of steam.
However, Akainu was not facing just one Hegelin missile.
As Kouchi released them, the thirty bombers also dropped their Hegelin missiles.
The deafening booms echoed across the sea continuously.
Before the augmented humans could even approach the Xuanwu Fleet, they were almost annihilated by the bombardment.
Even the nearly one hundred warships were almost completely wiped out in this artillery bombardment.
The scene before them stunned everyone.
Even many within the Xuanwu Navy who knew of the bombers' existence were shocked by the spectacular scene.
After all, training was one thing, but witnessing the actual combat and its effects was something they were seeing for the first time.
Sengoku's face turned grim, and he clenched his fist, finding it difficult to accept this reality.
Those were tens of thousands of augmented humans and over a hundred warships.
More importantly, this was a fleet led by Akainu.
At this moment, under such bombardment, its destructive power was no less than that of ten Buster Calls.
"Fortunately, this firepower didn't land on us."
"Otherwise, with this level of destruction, we'd be finished."
Blackbeard, after his shock, patted his chest and exclaimed.
"Others might die, but that's difficult for you," Doflamingo, upon hearing Blackbeard's words, retorted with a mocking laugh.
Blackbeard chuckled heartily and then said, "That annoying fellow Akainu, under this bombardment, he must be dead by now, right?"
Sengoku turned his head, his cold gaze falling upon Blackbeard.
Blackbeard met Sengoku's gaze, smiling without speaking.
Sengoku let out a cold snort, and from the massive explosion, golden light shot out.
Borsalino flew out with a heavily injured Akainu.
"Cough, cough, cough!"
Akainu's body was covered in blood, especially his left hand, which had been half-blown off in the great explosion.
"Truly terrifying,"
Borsalino looked up at the bombers disappearing into the clouds, saying with a hint of awe.
In that moment, even he felt that his life might have been at stake.
"Those aerial weapons can probably only bomb once, right?" Crocodile, seeing the bombers disappear into the clouds and thinking they had left, muttered.
"This is going to be troublesome," Garp looked up at the sky, his expression solemn.
"If I recall correctly, the Xuanwu Navy has an officer named 'Yasuo'."
"He possesses Shiki the Golden Lion's fruit, the Float-Float Fruit."
"Within the clouds, there are floating islands, and they are likely replenishing ammunition right now."
Upon hearing Garp's words, Sengoku's face grew even darker, and he then shouted loudly to Borsalino beside him.
"Borsalino, you go up there and absolutely destroy the floating island above, stop them from replenishing their ammunition."