A thunderous explosion engulfed Whitebeard.
But immediately after, the shockwave condensed again, forming a small lion's head that supported Whitebeard.
It shot outward at high speed.
A sonic boom exploded beneath Garp's feet as he charged toward Whitebeard with violent momentum.
In a flash, he closed the distance.
Whitebeard's eyes narrowed. He activated his ability with his right hand and slammed forward.
Crack!
The air in front of him shattered, colliding with Garp's charging iron fist.
Feeling the tremendous force from ahead, Garp grinned.
"AAAAAHHHHHH!!!!"
With Garp's roar, his aura exploded with wild intensity.
Crack!
The atmosphere shattered into fragments and vanished, leaving nothing in Garp's way.
Enduring the shockwave, he drove his fist straight toward Whitebeard's heart.
Whitebeard's eyes sharpened, and at the last instant, he twisted his body slightly to the right.
Garp's lethal iron fist grazed his ribs.
Crunch!
Although it didn't strike his heart, the sound of bones cracking rang out clearly.
Only Whitebeard knew that half the ribs on his left side had been crushed.
Then Garp's whole body rammed into him.
In the split second of impact, Whitebeard released his power to explode the air in front of him.
But this time, the shockwave burst in both directions.
It stalled Garp momentarily, and the force sent Whitebeard hurtling backward at high speed.
He flew toward where the Golden Lion was.
...
On the other side, just as the Golden Lion finished using his ability to attack the two, he hadn't yet taken to the skies when—
Kong arrived from behind.
Twin afterimages of fists shimmered as his Armament Haki congealed into conical shock blasts, pinning the Golden Lion to the ground.
BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM!...
The Golden Lion swung his blades to block, retreating step after step.
At that moment, the ground around him softened and writhed as countless glowing red dots appeared.
The sound of air being pierced rang out.
From the ground shot out numerous magma spears laced with Armament Haki, crossing and intertwining—
Trapping the Golden Lion in the center.
He stabbed both swords into the ground and spun his body. Two massive lion heads made of magma followed his motion, spinning and condensing.
The giant lion heads imbued with Haki shattered the surrounding magma spears.
With the two lion heads swirling around him, the Golden Lion soared into the sky.
As soon as he rose tens of meters into the air, Fleet Admiral Kong appeared directly above him.
With a downward punch, Kong struck.
The Golden Lion crossed his swords diagonally in front of him.
The two massive lion heads converged and charged toward Kong.
BANG BANG!
Two loud booms. A conical blast wave pierced the lion heads and smashed into the Golden Lion.
CLANG!
The clash of metal rang out. The conical shock dissipated, revealing the figure behind it.
It was Fleet Admiral Kong, whose punch slammed down onto the Golden Lion's crossed blades, forcing him down.
BOOM!
A hundred meters of land collapsed and cracked from the impact.
A violent shockwave blasted through the shattered ground into the sky.
At the bottom of the crater, the Golden Lion lay on his back, holding his swords crossed to block Kong.
Then the hardened black volcanic rock surrounding them began to writhe, as if about to rise and assemble.
Suddenly, the black rock turned red and liquified into magma. The Golden Lion's pupils contracted.
All the black stone summoned with the Float-Float Fruit detonated into magma.
Then, from the ground, the molten magma reformed into countless magma spears that stretched endlessly, piercing toward the Golden Lion.
Unable to dodge, he encased himself in Armament Haki.
Several magma spears struck his body and exploded.
The series of blasts sent searing pain through him, awakening his feral fury. His arm muscles bulged, and he actually managed to lift Kong slightly.
At that moment, a shockwave burst through the ground, shooting straight at the two of them in the pit.
BOOM!
A violent blast split the two apart.
The Golden Lion shot into the sky, with Kong right on his heels.
The instant Whitebeard and the Golden Lion regrouped, they turned and slashed behind them in unison.
Then, the Golden Lion placed one hand on Whitebeard's cloak, imbuing it with the power to float.
The two rose high into the air, hovering hundreds of meters above the ground as they looked down.
The Golden Lion glanced sideways at the falling snowflakes.
Below, Kong and Garp had regrouped, with Sakazuki's body slowly reforming beside them.
The Golden Lion's lips curled into a cocky smirk, and his arrogant voice rang out:
"Now it's 3 versus 3."
As his words fell, the drifting snowflakes suddenly multiplied.
Driven by strong winds, they swirled into a storm.
A figure formed—human from the waist up, a flurry of snow from the waist down—hovering beside the Golden Lion, madness in his eyes as he stared at the three men below.
Mike Frank entered the battle.
As massive snow clouds swept in from the distance, the battlefield split into two extremes.
On one side, magma surged endlessly.
On the other, snow and ice thickened atop the sea, freezing layer by layer.
In midair, the Golden Lion extended his right hand. Snowflakes fell onto his palm. He flipped it, letting them fall.
When those flakes touched the frozen sea—
The Golden Lion's eyes narrowed as he raised his right hand.
Several colossal snow lion heads, each 300 meters tall, formed and howled around the three airborne figures.
As the Golden Lion laughed maniacally, the giant lion heads multiplied endlessly, charging toward the three on the ground.
Sakazuki snorted coldly and pressed his hands together.
In the blink of an eye, torrents of lava merged into an 800-meter-tall magma titan with eight arms. Its legs fused with the earth, and thick black smoke poured from each arm.
Under Sakazuki's command, the eight arms aimed at the trio in the sky and the infinite lion heads.
An endless roar filled the air.
Each of the eight arms blasted massive jets of force, launching like rockets at their targets.
The magma titan's legs remained fused with the earth, continuously drawing magma from below, generating and firing endless limbs.
BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM!!!!
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