"Ah..."
At that moment, whether it was Whitebeard, Edward Newgate, the strongest man in the world, or the Vice Admirals and Admirals who had been suppressing Whitebeard's commanders and attacking them relentlessly, everyone stopped moving.
"That damn brat..."
Edward Newgate glared at Jovian through gritted teeth, but there was nothing he could do.
"Hahaha..."
"Not bad."
Akainu, Sakazuki, revealed a faint smile.
"Oars!!"
On the execution platform, tears rolled down Ace's eyes one drop at a time. He collapsed to his knees on the wooden execution platform, regretting his own recklessness.
If he had not been too careless, if he had properly recognized the difference in strength between friend and foe and had not run off to get revenge on Blackbeard, Marshall D. Teach, then he would not have been defeated by Teach and handed over to the Marines. If the Marines had never gotten their hands on him, they would not have organized this earth-shaking execution. His father, Whitebeard, and his friends would not have come to the perilous battlefield of Marineford, and they would not have placed all their lives on the line here.
"Captain Oars!"
"Damn it, we have to avenge Captain Oars!"
One pirate after another roared and charged toward Jovian, who looked as if nothing had happened.
Bzzzzzzzz...
The blinding heat vision instantly tore across the sky, and the roaring pirates collapsed to the ground in an instant.
"Understand the difference in strength already, you bastards!"
Jovian looked at the pirates before him, whose bounties were only in the hundreds of thousands or a few million, with an annoyed expression.
"Guys like you are meaningless no matter how many show up!"
As Jovian spoke, he lowered the Marine major he had been holding over his head to block the blood, the man had already turned completely red.
"Damn it, this guy isn't someone we can handle at all..."
The pirates stared at the arrogant Jovian. Although endless rage burned in their hearts, none of them dared to step forward. They had all lost their nerve, because the strength Jovian had displayed had truly exceeded their expectations.
"Bastards! All of you, get out of my way..."
Just as the pirates hesitated to advance, a slightly sharp voice entered their ears.
"It's... Gecko Moria, one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea!"
The pirates looked at the tall figure walking toward Jovian and cried out in surprise.
"Bastard! Jovian, you actually destroyed my beloved Little Oars Jr. Are you trying to die?"
Moria, whose forehead was still wrapped in bandages, rushed up to Jovian with a huge pair of scissors in his hand and spoke arrogantly.
"Huh?!"
"You're the one who wants to die, aren't you?!"
Jovian's expression immediately darkened. He had not expected even someone like Moria to dare run over and bark in front of him.
"Kishishishishi..."
"Jovian, don't think hunting a few small fries makes you invincible!"
"That little bit of strength of yours means nothing in the eyes of true powerhouses..."
Moria laughed loudly as he looked at Jovian. The scissors in his hand split into two halves, then began spinning rapidly, letting out a buzzing whistle.
"The pirate hunter and a Warlord are clashing?!"
"Are they going to fight?!"
The surrounding pirates began gossiping as they watched Jovian and Moria come into conflict.
"Moria! Don't interfere with the battle!"
The Marines around Moria tried to stop him. In their eyes, Jovian was basically their Admiral now.
Seeing an inconsiderate Warlord come over to disturb Jovian, they naturally rushed forward to stop him. Besides, in their eyes, even if Moria was one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea, a pirate legally recognized by the World Government, that still could not erase Moria's identity as a pirate. A pirate was a pirate. Even if they received the legal title of Warlord, it could not change the essential nature of these damn pirates.
"What do you know?!"
"That was Little Oars Jr.'s body! If I had gotten my hands on it, it would have become an enormous fighting force!"
Moria was beyond furious. Looking at the Marines around him who were interrupting him, he felt anger he could not vent. Originally, as long as he obtained Little Oars Jr.'s body, he would once again have the qualifications to challenge that monster entrenched in the New World. And yet...
Moria clenched his fists, veins bulging across his forehead. That qualification had been destroyed by this pirate hunter in front of him, a man who understood nothing. It was absolutely intolerable.
"You think what you're missing is a body?"
Jovian pushed aside the Marines beside him, walked up to Moria, and asked.
"Kid, what do you know?! Before I saw that monster, I was just as naive as you. I thought the body wasn't important, but..."
"After clashing with that monster, I finally understood. Without a body so invincible that no attack can cause any damage, I can never defeat him!!"
When Moria said this, he sounded utterly desperate. Only those who had personally fought a monster like that could understand what kind of feeling it was. Physical techniques, abilities, Haki, every single thing had failed to cause even the slightest injury to the enemy. No matter how many attacks the other side took, he still picked up his club, full of life, and continued fighting him. Until, until right in front of Moria's eyes, that monster killed every last member of his crew. That monster's name was Kaido of the Beasts, one of the Four Emperors of the New World, the immortal strongest creature on land, sea, and air. According to the Ace novel, Kaido was already called the strongest one-on-one fighter and the strongest creature on land, sea, and air while Whitebeard was still alive. That was why Ace first went after Kaido in pursuit of the title of strongest. After failing to encounter Kaido, he had no choice but to challenge the elderly Whitebeard, and that was that...
"You're wrong, Moria. What you're missing isn't a body. It's a brain!"
Jovian lightly leaped up in front of Moria's head and spoke with a savage grin.
"Hm?!"
Moria stared at Jovian, who had suddenly appeared in front of his face, and his pupils shrank violently.
Smack!
Jovian gave Moria no time to react at all. He grabbed Moria's head and slammed it straight into the hard ice.
Boom!
As the ice surface shattered in every direction, Moria's head was embedded into the ice layer like a nail.
"He got one-shot!"
The Marines and pirates around them, who had been looking forward to a world-shaking battle between a Warlord and the strongest pirate hunter, stared wide-eyed at Moria, who had been slapped into the ice by Jovian.
"..."
On the execution platform, Sengoku looked at the utterly humiliating Moria and fell silent for a while.
"Remove Moria from the Warlords immediately. This is too embarrassing..."
After thinking for a few minutes, Sengoku gave the order to the Marine beside him.
"Yes, sir. Once the Paramount War ends, Moria will be removed immediately."
The Marine colonel nodded lightly, indicating that once the war ended, the best outcome awaiting Moria would be a lifetime tour of Impel Down.
"Take some time to cool your head, Moria! Use that not-so-bright brain of yours and think carefully about who in this world you can't afford to provoke, and who you can't beat..."
Jovian looked at Moria, whose head was embedded in the ice and was gradually staining it red. Without caring whether Moria was dead or alive, he spoke coldly.
"This guy stopped me from killing pirates and seriously interfered with the progress of the war. I crippled him. That's not excessive, right?"
After dealing with Moria, Jovian looked at the Marines beside him. It sounded like a question, but it was really an order.
"Of course it's not excessive..."
The Marine did not dare defy this god of slaughter. The moment he imagined Jovian doing to the Marines what he had done to these pirates, his scalp went numb.
"Fuffuffuffuffu..."
"He deserved it. That idiot Moria still doesn't understand that in this world, there are some people he absolutely cannot afford to offend. As a smart man, you should always stand in the middle, helping neither side so you can earn the greatest profit and survive!"
Doflamingo grinned as he watched Moria get taken down. Not only did he feel no dissatisfaction over Moria, his fellow Warlord, being defeated, after watching this entertaining show, Doflamingo laughed wildly and mocked Moria's disgrace.
"Hah..."
Crocodile calmly smoked his cigar while looking at Doflamingo, who had once again begun talking to himself as if no one else were around. This was exactly why he did not want to work with that damn edgelord Doflamingo.
"Crocodile, work with me! As long as you and I cooperate, we can gain even greater benefits on our current foundation and then climb to an entirely new peak!"
"Crocodile, you haven't given up either, have you? On the position of one of the Four Emperors, and on the position of Pirate King!"
"If you work with me, those positions won't be impossible, you know."
After laughing at Moria, who had been defeated by Jovian, Doflamingo looked toward Crocodile and extended an olive branch to him.
As the middleman between Kaido of the Beasts, one of the Four Emperors of the New World, and the World Government, as one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea, as a former Celestial Dragon and the current king of Dressrosa, Doflamingo had the greatest power and influence in the entire New World besides the four Emperors of the Sea.
As long as, on his current foundation, he could recruit the powerful fighting force known as Sir Crocodile, and obtain Trafalgar Law's help according to his plan, then with the support of those allies of his, he could continue carrying out his plan.
"You want me to work with you?!"
"Ahahahaha..."
"That's so ridiculous it could explode, Joker! You're nothing but a clown. You're not qualified to work with me!"
Crocodile looked at Doflamingo and laughed loudly.
"Fuffuffuffuffu..."
"Should I take that as you dumping me?"
Doflamingo asked Crocodile.
"If that's how you want to understand it, I don't really care..."
Crocodile spoke coldly.
"Fuffuffuffuffu..."
"Then go die!"
As Doflamingo spoke, his fingers moved slightly. Bang! In an instant, Crocodile's head vanished.
Whoosh...
Then, with the sound of flowing sand, Crocodile's head returned to normal once again.
"You really hurt my feelings, Crocodile!"
Doflamingo said, pretending to be wounded.
"Hey! Sand bastard, you're the one who threw sand all over me earlier, right?!"
Just as Doflamingo was planning to continue attacking Crocodile, Jovian's figure slowly walked out from the crowd, accompanied by a deep baritone voice filled with pressure.
"Fuffuffuffuffu..."
"Sand bastard, your enemy is here!"
"I'm not going to help you fight this bastard who dumped me. Goodbye, Crocodile..."
Doflamingo looked at the approaching Jovian, and a flash of apprehension passed through the eyes hidden behind his sunglasses. Based on the strength Jovian had shown so far, he was already enough to be compared with real monsters. And just now, Jovian had dealt with Moria, one of the Seven Warlords just like him. Doflamingo did not want to come into conflict with a monster like Jovian, who acted without restraint toward everything.
"Pirate hunter..."
Crocodile frowned as he looked at the approaching Jovian. Clearly, clashing with a monster like Jovian right now was not worth it at all.
Bzzzzzzzz...
However, Jovian did not seem to intend to let Crocodile off. A scorching beam shot from Jovian's eyes and pierced directly through Crocodile's body.
"Hah..."
"Aren't you going to keep dealing with Whitebeard's commanders, pirate hunter?"
"If you fight me, this war might end before we decide a winner."
"Instead of wasting time like this, you'd be better off continuing to hunt those high-bounty idiots!"
"Because even if you keep wasting time with me here, you won't get any money from it."
Crocodile exhaled trails of white smoke. He let Jovian use heat vision to cut his body into countless fragments, yet he still stood in place, calmly smoking.
"You talk too much, Logia bastard..."
Jovian punched Crocodile's head apart and spoke with annoyance.
"I'm only stating the facts..."
Crocodile's head recovered, and he remained calm. After all, his head was only worth a pitiful eighty-one million Berries.
"Forget it. I don't feel like getting my hands too wet. I'll spare your life this time, bastard. After the Paramount War ends, I'll personally go to the New World and finish you off. So once the war is over, you'd better run fast. Run as far as you can. You'd better hope I never see you again, sand bastard..."
Jovian looked at the calm Crocodile, thought for a few seconds, then shook his head. Eighty million Berries was not worth wasting his time. After Crocodile escaped and the World Government raised his bounty, it would not be too late to make his move.
"Hah..."
Crocodile watched Jovian leave and continued calmly smoking.
Boom!
After leaving Crocodile's area, Jovian found his new enemy, a man wearing a captain's hat and holding an enormous saber. Jovian looked at the enemy before him without explaining anything, then immediately went up and threw a punch.
"Captain A O!"
Countless pirates shouted in agitation as they looked at the saber-wielding man, whose head had burst like a watermelon.
"So noisy..."
Bzzzzzzzz...
Jovian's eyes lit up with a scarlet glow, and he instantly dealt with the pirates who kept shouting and chattering.
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