The pirates surrounded the three, shielding them in the center, making it impossible for the navy to break through.
This meant that if Good failed this time, if that massive hand was destroyed, the navy would no longer have any chance to capture Ace, Luffy, and Cain.
Whitebeard, Shanks, Hawkeye, and the others unleashed their attacks, aiming to smash apart Good's giant hand.
Blades, sword strikes, slashes—various forms of attacks rained down on the massive hand.
"Zhenlonglong!"
The barrage made the gigantic hand tremble violently, almost shattering.
But in the next moment, the entire hand turned pitch black—Armament Haki!
With Armament hardening, although the following attacks cracked the massive arm apart, it still did not collapse.
The hand remained intact, and its terrifying grip captured Luffy and Ace, dragging them toward Marineford despite Sabo's desperate resistance.
If Whitebeard and the others together couldn't break through, how could Sabo alone?
Meanwhile, Cain was also seized by Good, pulled toward Marineford.
Luffy and Ace were similarly swallowed into the giant's grasp.
Whitebeard, Shanks, and Hawkeye's faces turned extremely grim.
"Damn it!!" For the first time, Whitebeard's expression was twisted with fury.
"We were just a step away from escaping…" Hawkeye lamented bitterly.
Dragon's silence was telling, but his face betrayed uncontrollable rage.
They had fought tooth and nail, and freedom was within sight—only a few hundred meters to the open sea.
But now everything was ruined.
On the navy's side, Sengoku's eyes lit up. "Good!! After this war, you'll surely be promoted as the next candidate for Fleet Admiral!"
Beside him, Steel Bone Kong laughed in delight. Good had succeeded in reclaiming the prisoners—though Kaido hadn't been captured, Roger's son and Dragon's son were far more crucial.
"With these two in our grasp, the Whitebeard Pirates, Red Hair Pirates, and the Revolutionary Army won't be able to retreat freely!"
"Kong, after this war, Good will become the navy's pillar!!"
But before Steel Bone Kong could finish, Sengoku snapped coldly, "Shut up!!"
Kong stared in disbelief—how dare Sengoku curse his superior?!
But Sengoku didn't care, cutting him off sharply: "Anyone else we can negotiate with—but not Good."
Around them, countless marines erupted in cheers.
"Once again, Admiral Reckless has stood up!"
"He's truly the light of the navy!"
If before, Good had been the navy's rallying point, now he had become its very pillar—the soul of the marines.
Such a man could never be abandoned.
Inside the giant, Good pressed Ace and Luffy into its chest, fusing them within the body of the Clank-Clank Fruit construct.
The pirates' faces grew darker.
This meant that if they wanted to rescue Ace and Luffy, they'd have to shatter Good himself—and that was unthinkable.
"Reckless Maniac!!!"
Whitebeard roared, his Conqueror's Haki erupting violently.
"Pops!!" Marco, Joz, and the others cried in alarm.
Whitebeard's body was riddled with illness and wounds. To unleash such Haki now could very well kill him.
But Whitebeard no longer cared.
He bellowed to the pirates: "We've come this far—we cannot fall short now! Together, rescue Ace and Luffy!!"
At his command, the Whitebeard Pirates, Red Hair Pirates, Revolutionary Army, and others hardened their resolve.
United, they launched a massive offensive against Good.
Whitebeard, Shanks, Hawkeye, Dragon, Marco, Beckman, Jinbei, Crocodile, Ivankov—even the Straw Hats—everyone struck at Good's massive titan.
As long as the giant collapsed, Ace and Luffy could be freed.
The war had reached its climax; Ace and Luffy had to be rescued at any cost.
But Good stood tall inside his creation, the giant's fist raised high.
Even if earlier he could only fight three Yonko-class powers at once, now after countless battles, after crushing Barrett and Redfield, after withstanding the combined onslaught of Whitebeard's coalition—Good was no longer the same.
"Come!!"
"Let me show you—the strongest strike in this new world!!"
Good's roar shook the heavens.
Within his raised fist surged the power of the Tremor-Tremor Fruit, the searing flames of the Magma Fruit, countless other Devil Fruits, along with Armament and Conqueror's Haki.
This was every ability he possessed, gathered into one blow.
"This punch is called…Sea-Quake!!"
One strike to shake the very seas, to dominate the world itself!
The sky darkened, sun and moon eclipsed.
As the fist descended, the world itself seemed to hold its breath.
The explosion was apocalyptic. Tremor energy shattered everything into fragments. Magma scorched the air into blazing currents. Conqueror's Haki suppressed all existence.
Under this catastrophic eruption, Marco, Beckman, Sabo, and countless commanders vomited blood and were hurled away.
Shanks, Hawkeye, and the Yonko-level fighters were all blasted back, crashing heavily into the earth.
Even marines were swept off their feet, rolling helplessly along the ground.
The entire world was shaken!
(End of Chapter)
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