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"This is really scary~~"

Kizaru stood at the front of the warship with his hands tucked in his pockets, looking at the outline of Water Star Island as it slowly came into view.

A cold sea breeze blew from the distance, making everyone's Marine coats and seagull flags flutter loudly in the wind.

"What's troublesome, old man?"

Sentomaru stood next to Kizaru, holding his giant axe. He heard the Admiral's quiet words and looked ahead with confidence. "We've got the strongest artificial humans with us, plus countless Marines and government elites. And there's that red-haired guy too... This won't be a tough fight against those guys."

"Everything's still uncertain. We've all taken quite a beating from that Alex guy before."

Kizaru glanced at Chief of Staff Tsuru, who stood there with a calm expression. Thinking about how Sentomaru was his direct student after taking over from Vegapunk, he touched his chin and warned, "Anyway, the situation on the island is still very unstable. Remember to protect yourself - it's hard for anyone to support you in a battle at this level."

Sentomaru scratched his head but didn't ask any more questions. However, his grip on the giant axe tightened even more.

"By the way, with our large fleet's size, just using artillery fire should be enough to wipe out Water Star Island completely," Ryokugyu said, looking at the island getting closer.

"If it were really that simple, the Sky Kingdom and Kaido's crew wouldn't have set up their evil operations on such small and medium-sized islands."

Jaygarcia Saturn, one of the Five Elders who joined this expedition, spoke calmly from his position between the Marine Admiral and Chief of Staff. His words made Ryokugyu nod immediately with a look of understanding.

Countless light particles gathered and took shape as Kizaru appeared on the front mast of the warship.

"Well then, let me take a look."

The moment he finished speaking, Kizaru turned into a flash of golden light and disappeared from the mast. Then, in full view of Marines, pirates, and people watching all over the world, he appeared high above Water Star Island, bursting with dazzling light.

His figure emerged from the golden glow, and he crossed his hands in front of him. Light flickered between his fingers in the shape of a cross.

"Yasakani no Magatama!"

In an instant, countless golden light bullets rained down toward Water Star Island like a fierce storm.

Just as the golden light bombs were falling, a huge, fat figure leaped up from the deck of the flying battleship in the air, instantly transforming into a giant bird covered in blue flames.

In a flash, it spread its massive wings nearly a hundred meters wide and directly blocked the Yasakani no Magatama light bullets with its body.

Sizzle! Sizzle! Sizzle!

When the golden rain of light bullets touched the blue flames, they erupted violently like cold water dropping into hot oil.

You could see with your naked eyes that the blue flames on the huge wings seemed to keep getting destroyed, but they were reborn instantly, then destroyed and reborn again - this happened countless times.

In the end, the massive blue flames completely absorbed all the golden light bullets falling from the air.

BOOM!

When the rain of golden light bullets was blocked, the huge blue flames exploded instantly, creating violent gusts of wind that swept through the air.

After using all his power, Kizaru landed on the red-haired crew's docked ship and looked at Charlotte Linlin, who had transformed into a phoenix in the air, with rare surprise on his face.

Steel balloon body plus the terrifying recovery power of a phoenix... The Sky Kingdom really knows how to create such incredible monsters!

"The Admiral's attack was actually blocked!"

"What's going on?"

"Who is that?!"

"Is it the second division commander of the Whitebeard Pirates, Phoenix Marco?"

"No! No! It's the strongest artificial weapon of the Sky Kingdom! The BIGMOM unit!"

"So it's true that the remnants of the Whitebeard Pirates were all taken care of by the Sky Kingdom. I bet the same thing happened to Blackbeard and Whitebeard II back then!"

Whispers spread across the warships and the island, especially when people saw the phoenix wrapped in blue flames in the sky. Their eyes were filled with shock.

"Ara ara, looks like it's time for me to make a move."

On the flying battleship, Kuzan looked at the approaching Marine warship. His figure flashed as his whole body quickly turned into an ice ball and landed on the sea.

"Ice Age!"

His slightly cold voice echoed across the empty sea.

Aokiji stretched out his arms toward the sea below. A thin icicle spread out from his palm, and the rapidly expanding ice quickly touched the ocean.

Along with the terrifying cold temperature...

Crack! Crack!

The sound of seawater freezing rapidly filled the air all at once.

The terrifying ice layer expanded toward the sea area in front of the Marine fleet at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Even because of the extreme cold, the water vapor in the sky condensed into snowflakes that fell down. Many Marines and pirates shivered from the sudden drop in temperature.

Almost instantly, the frozen sea surface had spread across several kilometers of ocean, directly forcing the advancing warships to get stuck in the ice.

"This is... Kuzan's ability!"

"The rudder is frozen! We can't move it! What should we do?!"

"Damn it! Admiral Aokiji has really joined the Sky Kingdom, and now he's attacking us!"

"Impossible! Why is this happening?!"

All the Marine executives changed their expressions because of this, especially the dove faction Vice Admirals and Sengoku, who had supported Kuzan.

"Since he's become garbage floating on the sea, there's no reason to let him go any longer!"

The cigar in his mouth burned out from anger as Akainu stared at the figure on the ice. He gritted his teeth and ordered, "Don't let me spare any of this sea trash!"

Under the Fleet Admiral's command, more than hundreds of thousands of troops began rushing toward the coast of Water Star Island. The powerful aura emitted by the many Marine generals taking the lead, as well as the strong presence hovering over the ice, created a majestic atmosphere that made people feel the pressure of the approaching war.

Seeing the arrival of the large Marine army, the pirates of Water Star Island could only grit their teeth and prepare to fight back against the Marine attack, no matter how scared they were.

At the very least, seeing the powerful resources and combat strength of the Sky Kingdom appear on the scene gave them some peace of mind.

And the people watching the live broadcast all held their breath in concentration - the ultimate war had already begun.