"Forty-three experts with bounties over a hundred million, all taken down by one man? The world's strongest pirate hunter truly lives up to his name!"
The Marines stared at Jovian, who stood on Diamond Jozu's back with his arms crossed in front of his chest, releasing an overwhelming pressure. They felt as if they were witnessing something unreal. In less than an hour, one man had taken down more than forty great pirates, each with a bounty over one hundred million, and each of whom had accomplished something in the New World. This was too incredible. Was this some wish-fulfillment serial from a newspaper?
"What kind of joke is this?!"
"Our captains are famous powerhouses in the New World! How could they have been defeated by someone like you, a guy who hid away in Paradise?!"
One pirate clenched his fists. Although he already believed what Jovian had said, his pride would not allow him to accept it.
Bzzzzzzzz...
When Jovian heard the pirate's voice, he turned his head. In the next second, his eyes instantly lit up with a scarlet glow. A dazzling beam flashed by, and the pirate who refused to believe Jovian had defeated his captains was split apart by the red light. In an instant, blood splattered across the ground.
"Ah, that's one more pirate I've taken down."
In front of the gathered pirates, Jovian spoke lazily.
"Monster..."
The pirates stared at Jovian, who killed without blinking, and their expressions changed in horror.
"You seem to have misunderstood something. I never told you lawless ocean trash to believe me. I was notifying the Marines. Whether trash like you believes it or not won't stop me from getting paid."
Jovian looked at the pirates with disdain. He had not been talking to these pieces of garbage from the sea in the first place. He had been talking to the Marines helping him keep count. He was telling the Marines that after the war ended, they had better not forget to pay him.
"You..."
The pirates grew furious after hearing Jovian's words. All of them were people with names and reputations, and being looked down on by Jovian like this made them feel deeply humiliated.
"Everyone, don't fall for it!"
"This is all part of the enemy's trap!"
"Everyone, don't forget what we should be doing."
"These evil Marines would love nothing more than for us to stop here, but can we afford to stop?!"
"They don't want us to save Ace, so we are going to save Ace anyway and let him leave this place alive! Everyone, so many of our people have died. Right now, what we're fighting for is this last breath of pride. We absolutely cannot let the Marines have their way!"
Seeing the pirates around him preparing to risk their lives against Jovian, Rakuyo, captain of the Whitebeard Pirates' Seventh Division, immediately helped steady everyone's minds and explained what they should be doing right now.
"That's right! Brothers, keep moving! Absolutely do not stop!"
Izo held two pistols and shouted loudly to the friends beside him.
"Damn it! We're absolutely going to rescue Ace and show you!"
After hearing this, the pirates clenched their fists. In the end, they finally understood what they should do now. One by one, they turned around, shouted, and charged toward the execution platform behind them.
"Huh?!"
"Don't flatter yourselves. What does what you want to do have to do with me?"
Jovian stood in the middle of the battlefield, his eyes lighting up with a scarlet glow.
Then beams of red light shot toward the advancing pirates.
It had to be said that the Whitebeard Pirates' division commanders did possess real strength. Facing Jovian's heat vision, all of them could react in advance and use various methods to effectively dodge his attacks.
This left Jovian somewhat dissatisfied. After all, the personnel on the battlefield were too mixed together, so he could not sweep through a wide area. If he did that, he would kill plenty of Marines while killing pirates, and that would be extremely unfavorable for collecting his bounty money. He would not do something like that.
However, the pirates whose Observation Haki was not quite as refined were not so lucky. One after another, they were either blasted through the head by Jovian's heat vision or cut directly in half.
As Jovian continued firing, blood scattered all over the ground. The once clean marble floor was gradually dyed crimson.
"Stop! Please stop!"
On the viewing platform, tears flowed from Ace's eyes. This was war. Even without counting Jovian, who was standing still and firing nonstop, pirates were still being defeated by the Marines every second.
This was a battlefield, a battlefield like a meat grinder.
"Old man Whitebeard, your people are almost finished. Why don't you just surrender?"
Sakazuki glanced at the tremendous advantage behind him and revealed a somewhat pleased smile. This war was going much more smoothly than he had imagined. Although many of their designs against the pirates had gone unused because of Jovian, it seemed now that they did not need them anyway. With a top-tier force like Jovian standing on the battlefield, he was far more useful than many of their plans.
"You want me to surrender?! You're not qualified to say that, magma brat!"
Whitebeard still called Akainu a brat, even though the current Akainu already had the strength to wrestle with him. Even so, Whitebeard still did not take Akainu seriously. He was the famed Whitebeard, the uncrowned king of the New World after Roger's death, the strongest existence among the Four Emperors. He was the strongest man in the world.
"You stubborn old man!"
Sakazuki looked displeased. He was deeply disdainful of Whitebeard's stubborn defiance. In an instant, Sakazuki's body once again transformed into countless streams of magma. A massive fist blasted toward Whitebeard.
Boom!
Edward Newgate looked at the huge magma fist with an extremely calm expression. He lightly swung his arm, and immediately, the air before the strongest man in the world filled with countless cracks.
As the atmosphere shook, Sakazuki's magma fist was forcibly intercepted by Edward Newgate.
Boom!
For a moment, the power of earthquakes and tsunamis clashed endlessly against the power of volcanic eruption. The area around the two men began shaking violently, causing the entire artificial island of Marineford to start tilting. This strongest fortress seemed far too fragile before these two human nuclear weapons.
"Next is..."
Jovian stood on Jozu's body, using the huge diamond man as his own lookout tower. At this moment, Jovian had seized the high ground.
However, as Whitebeard, Edward Newgate, and Akainu, Sakazuki, clashed desperately with their abilities without caring about stamina, the entire fortress of Marineford tilted. Jovian staggered and almost slid off Jozu's body.
"Seriously..."
"Why make the scene so huge, like it's the end of the world? We're just killing some pirates."
Jovian landed on the ground and frowned as he looked at the shattered ice around him, along with the giant surging tsunami that had already grown hundreds of meters tall.
As Whitebeard unleashed his full power, even Marineford, more than ten kilometers across and carrying an entire town, seemed like a lone boat on the sea, ready to be completely destroyed at any moment by the rolling waves, which towered hundreds or even thousands of meters high.
Boom!
Just as those waves were about to crash down, the seabed around Marineford shook violently.
In the next instant, countless undersea volcanoes erupted at the same time.
The power, rivaling the simultaneous explosion of countless nuclear weapons, directly shattered the waves surrounding Marine Headquarters, Marineford, into countless fragments, turning them into a continuous drizzle falling from the sky.
"He even used Devil Fruit awakening..."
"But other than setting off a beautiful firework, he didn't take out a single enemy, did he? Honestly..."
Jovian shook his head as he looked at the drizzle filling the sky and the occasional fireworks exploding overhead.
"An opening!"
Just as Jovian was estimating that his accumulated bounty money had almost reached ten billion and was starting to slow his firing pace, Diamond Jozu, who had been treated as a footrest by Jovian this whole time, suddenly stood up from the ground and charged into Jovian.
"Hm?!"
Jovian seemed completely unprepared for Jozu to pull something like this. Caught off guard, he was sent flying by Jozu's collision.
Bang!
Amid a burst of flying dust, Jovian landed directly among the crowd of pirates and Marines fighting one another.
"What was that?!"
"Uh, this is..."
The people who had been locked in fierce battle stopped when they saw Jovian land among them. Their eyes widened with shock.
"Ah..."
Jovian looked at the blue sky, a vein bulging on his forehead. First, he stood up and patted the dust from his body. Then he sent several nearby pirates who had been watching the show flying with a single heavy slap each.
"Hahahahaha..."
"Did you see how strong I am, pirate hunter?!"
Diamond Jozu, who still had no idea how serious the problem had become, actually kept grinning and laughed loudly at Jovian, mocking him for being knocked away.
"So you're good at ramming people?"
"What use is ramming people?"
Jovian moved his body and walked up to Jozu, who had transformed into a diamond man.
"Pirate hunter, your lasers are useless against me. Your fists can't easily defeat me either, not when my body is transformed into diamond and coated in Armament Haki!"
Jozu seemed extremely confident in his body. He was convinced that Jovian's strength could not defeat him.
"..."
Jovian ignored Diamond Jozu. He simply moved his neck slightly, then lifted Jozu with one hand.
"Hm?!"
Jozu froze. He had considered many ways Jovian might deal with him, but the one thing he had not expected was for Jovian to pick him up.
"Go die, idiot!"
Before Jozu could react, Jovian directly threw Jozu, a Devil Fruit user, into the sky.
Boom!!
In an instant, Jozu broke through the air at far beyond the speed of sound and vanished into the sky like a meteor.
"Ah..."
"He threw Jozu straight off the battlefield..."
Borsalino looked at Jozu being hurled away and curled his lips.
"What use is ramming people?"
"What this world needs is strength!"
Jovian did not pay any more attention to Jozu after throwing him away. In fact, even if he had wanted to, he could no longer do so, because Jozu had already left Marineford by more than ten kilometers and fallen straight into the sea with a splash.
"Jozu was defeated too?!"
Vista of the Flower Swords, who was trying to stop Borsalino, looked at the now-vanished Jozu and widened his eyes.
"You were careless."
Before Vista could recover, a lazy voice sounded beside his ear.
"Damn it!"
Only then did Vista snap back to his senses. His current opponent was that monster-like Kizaru, Borsalino.
However, when fighting Kizaru, Borsalino, there was one law that all strong people knew, by the time you heard Kizaru's voice, you had already been hit.
Vista originally wanted to defend, but the pain in his abdomen made his body tremble. Yes, before he heard Kizaru's voice, his abdomen had already been pierced through by Kizaru's laser.
Pew, pew, pew...
Before Vista could recover, his body was hit by several more of Kizaru's shots in succession.
"Guh..."
A large mouthful of blood immediately poured from Vista's mouth, and he dropped to one knee.
"Kizaru!!"
Vista roared at the lofty figure above him.
"Eh..."
Kizaru, Borsalino, looked at the furious Vista with a smug smile at the corner of his mouth. Seeing Vista heavily injured, Borsalino instead seemed in no hurry and stopped attacking.
"Are you pitying me, Kizaru...?"
Vista became even angrier when he saw Kizaru stop attacking. He picked up the twin swords on the ground and prepared to slash at Kizaru.
"You misunderstand. It's just that your opponent isn't me anymore."
Kizaru, Borsalino, kept both hands in his pockets, showing no intention of defending against Vista's attack, and spoke with that same smug tone.
"What?!"
After hearing Kizaru's words, Vista instantly realized something was wrong. He had focused all his attention on Borsalino and completely forgotten that there were other enemies around him. Especially...
As Vista thought of this, he instantly felt waves of killing intent coming from behind him. That killing intent made every hair on his body stand on end.
"Damn..."
Vista instinctively wanted to turn around, but the moment he moved, he saw Kizaru's finger, which had somehow already been raised.
Precisely because Kizaru dragged away Vista's attention for those few tenths of a second, Vista had completely lost his chance to fight back.
Boom!
Along with a burst of air pressure, Vista was directly smashed unconscious by the nearly ten-meter-long giant hammer behind him.
"Ah, that felt good..."
Jovian swung the hammer in his hand, which looked almost like a utility pole, and revealed a satisfied smile as he looked at Vista, whom he had knocked unconscious.
"Uh, that's my weapon..."
The giant Vice Admiral behind Jovian looked at him weakly. The hammer in Jovian's hands had originally been his weapon, but after Jovian took a liking to it, it had been snatched away.
"Huh? Do you have a problem with that?"
Jovian looked at the giant Vice Admiral behind him and asked.
"No, no, no, I don't have a problem..."
The giant Vice Admiral panicked and shook his head, indicating that he had absolutely no objection.
Although he was a member of the world's strongest race, the giants, he still did not dare provoke this god of slaughter before him.
"Who's next?"
Jovian swung the hammer in his hands. He had decided to properly beat the arrogance out of these ignorant pirates.
"Without Pops personally stepping in, there is absolutely no way we can stop this monster on our own..."
The Whitebeard Pirates' division commanders looked at Jovian swinging the hammer, each of them drenched in cold sweat and standing on full alert.
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