"Hmph!"
Seeing Aokiji neutralize the tsunami, Shiki's eyes turned cold.
His Devil Fruit ability activated.
The next moment, a huge boulder from his flying islands plummeted from the sky, aimed directly at the Marine soldiers below.
"Oooooh my, how scary," Kizaru said with a pout, slowly extending his finger.
A point of light appeared at his fingertip, then erupted into a laser beam that shot towards the sky.
CLANG!
The laser struck the boulder, instantly shattering it into countless pieces of rock that flew in all directions, leaving only a flash of fire and crackling arcs of electricity.
The rock fragments rained down towards the Whitebeard Pirates' fleet.
"What?!" Both Whitebeard and Shiki were shocked.
Everyone watching immediately recognized the secondary effect.
It was the power of the Rumble-Rumble Fruit.
...
"He already had the Glint-Glint Fruit, and now he have the Rumble-Rumble Fruit..." Shanks marveled from afar.
"Kizaru is simply on another level."
Even as a non-Devil Fruit user, he couldn't help but feel a pang of envy.
Dragon looked on with surprise. "Indeed. Combining two of the most powerful Logia fruits... his power has multiplied."
...
The rock fragments splashed down towards the Moby Dick, but Whitebeard remained unmoved.
Marco, standing behind him, made his move.
He fired thin, sharp threads from his fingertips.
Swish! Swish! Swish!
The white threads instantly pierced through the huge rock fragments, shattering them into harmless particles that rained down gently.
"That's... the ability of the String-String Fruit! How is this possible?!" Sengoku and the other top Marine officials turned pale.
How could Marco have a second Devil Fruit ability?
He was a Mythical Zoan user!
Had their "second Devil Fruit" technology been leaked?
Did Whitebeard possess it as well?
Thinking this, Sengoku's confident expression turned extremely ugly.
Among the Seven Warlords, all eyes turned to Doflamingo, whose own face was a mask of fury.
Knowing about the technology was one thing, but seeing his own signature ability copied and used against them was infuriating.
...
"It's Doflamingo's String-String Fruit..." Kaido exclaimed from his viewing position.
"Yes," Big Mom's expression also soured.
They didn't expect Marco to obtain such a powerful and versatile ability.
If Marco was a dual-fruit user now, what about Whitebeard himself?
...
"Interesting," Mihawk murmured, a flash of surprise in his hawk-like eyes.
He then looked at Whitebeard.
"I wonder what the gap is between myself and the world's strongest man."
A thrill of excitement ran through him as he grasped the hilt of his great black sword, Yoru.
Slash!
In an instant, a peerless sword arc soared into the sky, cutting through the endless ice as it shot straight towards Whitebeard.
Just as it was about to reach its target, Diamond Jozu appeared on its path, intercepting it.
But instead of transforming his body into a diamond, he merely extended a single, open palm.
"What?!" Everyone was stunned.
That was a slash from the world's greatest swordsman.
To block it with one bare hand seemed arrogant to the point of suicide.
However, the top-tier fighters on the Marine side felt their pupils constrict.
They saw that on Jozu's palm were fleshy pads, like those of a cat's paw.
"That's..."
The terrifying slash finally reached Jozu.
The next moment, it was instantly repelled, shooting violently back towards the Marines.
"That's Bartholomew Kuma's Paw-Paw Fruit ability!" Sengoku's expression became even uglier.
"I can't believe it! Besides Marco, the Whitebeard Pirates have another dual-fruit user! And he has that fruit!"
In the Marine camp, Kuma himself was filled with shock, his expression turning grim.
"He possesses my Devil Fruit ability. What a surprise."
...
"The power of the Paw-Paw Fruit... was obtained by the Whitebeard Pirates," Dragon frowned, watching the screen intently.
The world gasped.
"Another dual-fruit user! The Whitebeard Pirates already have two!"
The strength displayed by the pirates had already exceeded everyone's imagination.
...
"Hmph! Pirates!"
On the high platform, Akainu's face turned ashen, a sharp killing intent flashing in his eyes.
"You dare to challenge the dignity of the Marines!"
With an angry roar, lava erupted from his entire body.
"Great Eruption!"
His hands became magma cannons, launching countless terrifying magma fists into the sky.
Each one was coated in a transparent, crackling aura—the power of the Tremor-Tremor Fruit.
The lava bombs arced through the air, threatening to bring about the end of the world as they rained down on the Whitebeard Pirates.
"Gurararara... Magma brat, that's child's play," Whitebeard sneered.
But before he could move, the Golden Lion stepped forward, launching himself into the sky.
"Jihahahaha! Akainu! Now, I am a true Golden Lion!" Shiki hovered in the air, looking down at the Admiral.
"Let me show you my current strength! Let me show the whole world my new ability!"
HAH!
With a furious roar, Shiki's body suddenly swelled up, transforming into a towering giant.
At the same time, his entire body began to glow with a brilliant, holy golden light.
"How is this possible?!!"
"Isn't that Fleet Admiral Sengoku's Great Buddha form?!!"
Seeing this, almost everyone's pupils constricted in indescribable shock.
That was the power of the Mythical Zoan, Human-Human Fruit, Model: Daibutsu—Sengoku's strongest battle form and one of his greatest trump cards.
"Great Buddha Transformation!" Sengoku himself was both shocked and enraged, gritting his teeth as his eyes went wide.
No one understood the power of that fruit better than him.
Before the world could process what was happening, the buddha Shiki made his move.
He raised one hand and slapped it toward the sky.
A terrifying shockwave erupted immediately, shaking the very air.
BOOM!
The shockwave violently collided with the rain of magma.
The next moment, the lava meteors were instantly shattered into a harmless, gentle rain of embers.
"Hahahahaha! Akainu, is that all the strength you have?"
A giant, golden Buddha in the form of the Golden Lion hovered in mid-air, looking down on the Marines with an arrogant, disdainful expression.
The world was stunned.
"That's really Sengoku's Devil Fruit ability!"
"The Golden Lion was already a legend who fought the Pirate King. Now with two fruits... his strength must be terrifying!"
"It seems the Marines' strength has increased, but the Whitebeard Pirates haven't been left behind!"
"How do the Whitebeard Pirates have so many dual-fruit users?! Do they have a top scientist on their side too?" Shanks and Dragon looked at each other, shaking their heads in disbelief.
"With these powers," Benn Beckman said, taking a slow drag from his cigarette, "the Whitebeard Pirates are now unshakeably the strongest of the Four Emperors. And don't underestimate Whitebeard himself; I'm sure he has his own secrets. But how did they do it? Who is providing them with this technology?"
The Marines' expressions were extremely ugly.
They had thought Shiki was a relic of the past, but he had returned stronger than ever.
"Damn you, Golden Lion!" Akainu seethed, the anger in his heart about to explode.
"Oh... that's really scary," Kizaru said, a surprised look on his face.
He extended a finger, pointing it at Shiki.
"You can't just copy my brother's work like that." He activated both of his Devil Fruit abilities.
"Judgment of God!"
Kizaru's arm turned into a bolt of lightning that shot into the sky.
The clouds gathered, and terrifying thunder exploded.
BOOM!
Accompanied by a deafening roar, a colossal pillar of lightning descended from the sky, as if the gods themselves were about to strike down the pirates.
"Gurararara," Whitebeard looked at the falling lightning and sneered.
"Now, it's my turn to play."
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