Wave after wave of angry shouts shattered the silence as countless bullets poured down like a heavy rainstorm, all aimed right at Ron and Nami.
Each round carried the pirates' hatred and their desperate need to survive.
Cannonballs tore through the air with long trails of fire, drawing beautiful arcs that packed enough power to blow a building to pieces.
Arrows sliced through the wind with sharp whistles, and several lower-ranking Devil Fruit users fully activated their powers, mixing fireballs, venom, and sticky slime into the storm of bullets, weaving an impossible net of death in the sky that completely swallowed Ron and Nami up, making it look like they were doomed.
Ron slowly let out a soft sigh that drifted quietly through the air.
"Why must it always come to this..."
He slowly opened his eyes, and deep inside his calm black pupils, a quick flash of pity appeared.
That pity looked like faint starlight twinkling in the night sky—not blinding, but clear enough for anyone paying attention to see the complicated feelings behind it.
That tiny, quiet look sent a sudden chill straight through the hearts of the pirates charging at the very front.
Their bodies naturally went stiff for a split second, their eyes showing a flash of total panic as they suddenly realized exactly what kind of terrifying monster they were actually facing.
The very next second—
"BOOM!!!"
A violent, crushing wave of Conqueror's Haki exploded outward like a raging tsunami!
Centered completely around Ron, an invisible but massive force wildly expanded in all directions.
The air within a hundred-meter radius was instantly gripped by an invisible hand, turning completely solid!
The blowing sea breeze instantly stopped dead. Dust particles hung frozen in mid-air, as if time itself had just been paused.
Visible dark-red energy waves swept across the dirt like a roaring beast, howling as they swallowed everything in their path.
The rocks on the ground groaned under the crushing weight of the power, cracking inch by inch as spiderweb fractures rapidly spread across the dirt.
The surrounding cliffs crumbled under the heavy pressure, sending thick clouds of dust rolling into the air.
All the incoming attacks mysteriously stopped dead exactly ten meters away from him, as if they had just slammed into an invisible, unbreakable wall.
Bullets hung frozen in mid-air, their tips shaking slightly from the leftover momentum, the cold metal reflecting the terrified faces of the pirates around them.
Cannonballs froze right in front of the guns that fired them, the fire from their fuses burning completely still, giving off a suffocating, heavy pressure.
Even the sound of the battlefield was completely cut off, dropping the entire area into a creepy, dead silence.
In this deathly quiet, only the violent, panicked heartbeats and heavy breathing of the massive crowd could be heard.
It felt as if the entire world was holding its breath, just waiting for a god to pass judgment.
Then—
BOOM!
The Haki wave exploded again!
An even more terrifying scene played out as all the frozen weapons suddenly reversed direction, flying backward even faster than before!
Bullets spun around like an angry swarm of bees, whistling right back toward the men who fired them, cannonballs traced their paths backward, exploding violently inside the crowd and unleashing absolute carnage, arrows shot in reverse, slicing through the air with sharp screams.
The incoming Devil Fruit attacks were instantly shattered into pure, raw energy, surging wildly through the air like furious, roaring spirits.
"This... impossible...!!!"
The pirates widened their eyes in pure terror, their eyeballs looking like they were going to pop right out of their skulls.
Their pupils shrank to tiny dots, their faces completely packed with absolute fear and defeat.
Some stood with their mouths hanging wide open, completely unable to make a single sound, their throats choked shut by pure terror.
Others tried to move their feet to run away, but found their bodies glued to the ground, unable to twitch a single finger.
The terrifying, crushing pressure of Ron's Conqueror's Haki weighed on everyone's hearts like a falling mountain.
The weaker pirates were already foaming at the mouth, their eyes rolling back into their heads as they collapsed onto the dirt like broken puppets.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
The returning bullets struck their owners first, blood blooming in the air like bright cruel flowers.
The reversed cannonballs exploded deep inside the crowd, the massive shockwaves throwing dozens of people to the ground, hot shrapnel flying everywhere through a chorus of endless screams...
The Zoan users, who were still stuck in their charging poses, were blasted into bloody pulps by their own crew's attacks.
Due to the intense, crushing weight of the Conqueror's Haki, they were forcefully knocked right out of their beast forms.
Their normally tough bodies instantly became incredibly weak, leaving them twisting in pure agony on the ground.
As the final echoes of the explosions faded away, there were absolutely no enemies left standing in the entire area.
Hundreds of pirates lay scattered across the broken ground—some totally knocked out, letting out faint snores; others groaning in deep pain, their bodies twitching out of control and even more who had stopped breathing forever, their blood spreading beneath them and staining the dirt a shocking, dark red.
Ron slowly pulled his stare away.
His black coat blew gently like a flag in the breeze.
Every fold of the fabric seemed to tell the story of the absolute, overwhelming power that had just exploded from him.
He turned his head slightly, his focus shifting to the breathtaking, world-ending battle in the distance where Kaido and Whitebeard continued to clash.
That area looked like the eye of a massive hurricane, with world-breaking attacks crashing and twisting together, bright flashes of Haki lighting up the thick, swirling dust.
Ron's brow furrowed slightly as he thought to himself.
'Is the captain simply enjoying the thrill of the fight and dragging it out on purpose?'
'Or has Kaido's strength actually reached such an insane level that they are perfectly matched?'
At that moment, a gentle breeze swept across the scarred, broken battlefield.
It softly lifted several blood-stained scraps of pirate clothing, which drifted helplessly through the air like dead leaves, their edges stained with dark red.
Amid the deathly silence that had fallen over this section of the war, everything seemed completely frozen by the brutal onesided slaughter.
Only Ron's steady, calm footsteps could be heard in the quiet air.
He walked step by step toward the massive skull dome ahead, each footstep firm and powerful.
Nami, watching from behind, quickly jogged to catch up and follow right by his side.
Meanwhile, the other Whitebeard Commanders around the island were all totally focused on their own fights—some swinging their weapons in desperate, high-speed combat, others using their Devil Fruits to break through enemy lines.
Each person had their hands completely full, with no extra energy to spare to notice Ron and Nami walking away.
The Conqueror's Haki that Ron had just unleashed exploded like a massive crack of thunder, causing the entire chaotic battlefield to completely freeze for just a split second.
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