Hearing Marco's inspiring words, the pirates whose morale had just collapsed suddenly felt their eyes light up again. They gripped their weapons tightly and roared.
"That's right, even if we die, we'll still bite off a piece of their flesh!" "Kill them, wipe out the Marines!" "And the God's Knights and the Gorosei, we'll take care of them too!"
Seeing the pirates, now driven to desperation with no way out, charge forward to fight to the death, the Marines immediately became nervous.
Those who had just recovered after being stunned by Marco's Conqueror's Haki saw the pirates rushing toward them and their expressions turned extremely grim.
However, the God's Knights and the Gorosei were not worried at all. They possessed immortality, and apart from Marco, no one present was capable of breaking it.
They did not care about the lives of the Marines. They only wanted to use this battle to completely destroy the Three Emperors Alliance.
As for how many Marines would die, it did not matter to them. In their eyes, there were as many insects as they wanted. Even if all thirty thousand Marines were wiped out, as long as the Three Emperors Alliance was eliminated, it would still be a victory.
What's more, the alliance had repeatedly challenged their authority. To them, this was an unforgivable crime that deserved complete annihilation.
"Marco…"
Looking at Marco in the sky, Ace could not help but feel worried. After he and Yamato had taken down Aramaki, his stamina was already close to exhaustion. As a user of Conqueror's Haki, he also wanted to help, but his current condition would not allow it.
Marco ignored Ace's voice and shouted loudly, "Imu, Gorosei, and you trash from the God's Knights, if you want to kill me, then come and try!"
With that, Marco suddenly turned and flew toward the garbage disposal plant on Egghead Island.
"Bastard, how dare you insult us!" Saint Nusjuro roared in anger and immediately chased after him.
The members of the God's Knights were also furious. As the elite among the Celestial Dragons, they had never been insulted like this before. Being mocked by someone they considered a mere ant was something they could not tolerate.
Imu, however, spoke coldly, "God's Knights, stay here and guard Kaido and Big Mom. Both of them will become excellent war slaves. We cannot allow these insects to rescue them."
"Yes, Lord Imu."
Even though the members of the God's Knights were furious, they still obeyed the order and remained behind to guard Kaido and Big Mom together with the Marines.
At that moment, Kaido had already returned to his human form. His body was tightly bound by Seastone chains and he was completely unconscious. Big Mom lay beside him in the same condition.
King the Conflagration charged toward the Marines and the God's Knights like a madman.
"Bastards, release Kaido-sama immediately!"
"King the Conflagration, do not be arrogant." Figarland Gorumbusaint stepped forward and blocked his path.
Saint Garling then gave the order coldly, "Marines, advance. Wipe out all these pirates. Leave no one alive."
Very soon, the pirates of the Three Emperors Alliance clashed once again with the Marines and the God's Knights.
If they were only facing the Marines, they could still hold their ground. However, they had no effective way to deal with the immortality of the God's Knights. For them, the only possible method was to cut them into pieces and throw the remains into the sea.
But there were more than a dozen God's Knights present, and every one of them possessed strength at least at the level of a Yonko commander. Defeating so many powerful enemies at once was extremely difficult.
"Don't think you can escape."
Marco completely ignored the three Gorosei chasing behind him.
Soon, he arrived at the garbage disposal plant of Egghead Island. Although it was called a garbage plant, the "garbage" here was not ordinary trash. Most of it was advanced technology that Vegapunk had discarded after considering it inferior.
Marco quickly noticed a massive figure buried under piles of technological debris. Half of its body was covered by broken machines and electronic parts, but its enormous size was still impossible to miss.
It was the ancient robot.
This was Marco's final trump card.
When Marco first arrived on Egghead Island, he already knew that the World Government would never allow Vegapunk to be taken away so easily. Vegapunk himself was also unwilling to leave the island because of the huge amount of research equipment and data stored there.
At that time, Marco was already certain that a large scale battle would eventually take place here.
That was why he had specifically asked Vegapunk to show him the ancient robot.
Marco was not Luffy, and he was not Joy Boy. He did not have the ability to awaken the ancient robot. However, that did not matter.
Because Marco had discovered something else.
Around the robot's waist was a rope. Inside that rope was Joy Boy's Conqueror's Haki.
Originally, Marco had only considered it as a last resort. He had never expected that the situation would become so desperate that he would actually need to use it.
The main reason was that Marco had underestimated the strength of the Gorosei. He had believed they were still the same as before, but in reality their power had increased drastically. On top of that, the appearance of the God's Knights and Imu had completely overwhelmed the Three Emperors Alliance.
Just then, Imu also arrived above him.
"Do not think you can escape from me," Imu said coldly. "Dark Torrent."
A magic circle appeared in Imu's hand, and countless dark arms made of black energy stretched out toward Marco.
Marco kept dodging again and again. Just as one of the dark arms was about to grab him, he suddenly swung his hand like a blade and cut it apart.
Imu's expression changed slightly.
"This is…"
She saw a blade completely formed from Haki condensed on Marco's palm. Her eyes became more serious.
"You should not have been able to use this before. Did you hide your strength, or did you grow stronger again?"
Marco looked at Imu and the three Gorosei, a faint and dangerous smile appearing on his lips.
"So the king of the world, Imu, and three of the Gorosei are coming after me together. You really think highly of me."
The blade in Marco's hand was formed from his newly upgraded Legendary Armament Haki.
Top tier Armament Haki allowed internal destruction. Legendary Armament Haki allowed Haki to take physical form.
Marco called this technique Gathering Haki into a blade.
The Haki blade in his hand was dark purple, sharp and unstable, as if it could cut through anything. However, it was still not very long, most likely because even Marco's Haki had limits.
Imu looked at Marco carefully. A trace of caution appeared in her eyes.
She could clearly feel that Marco had grown stronger again.