In the New World, at the second defensive line within the Charlotte Family's sphere of influence.
The sounds of battle rang out one after another, shaking the sky.
"Ikoku Sovereignty!"
An unparalleled, massive sword beam was easily cleaved out by Charlotte Linlin, carrying an aura of destruction as it rushed straight toward the Marine formation.
It seemed as if she intended to wipe out the Marine soldiers in one strike.
"Not a chance!"
Zephyr's expression became even more solemn.
His right arm was already completely covered in Armament Haki. Raising his wrist high, he drove a fist violently into the sword beam.
Boom!
It sounded like a great bell being struck. At the point where his fist and the sword beam clashed, several cracks appeared in space.
As Zephyr continued applying force, one crack after another began spreading across the sword beam.
Crack.
An almost inaudible sound appeared on the battlefield.
Then more and more cracks spread across the entire sword beam.
Bang!
The enormous golden sword beam, after being blocked by Zephyr, suddenly exploded into countless tiny wind blades that swept out in every direction.
The Marine soldiers had already made full preparations for battle. Using the favorable terrain, they avoided the wind blades produced by the shattered sword beam.
The pirates, meanwhile, were also doing their best to block them.
On the other side, Issho's cane sword was already pressing down against Katakuri's trident.
The gravity attached to the blade forced Katakuri's body to sink downward continuously.
"Mochi Domain."
Katakuri realized that with his strength alone, he could not resist this gravity. In an instant, he transformed this area into the domain of his Mochi-Mochi Fruit.
"What a troublesome ability."
Issho frowned.
Killing Katakuri within the Mochi Domain was already an extremely difficult task.
"DIE Marine!"
A biscuit soldier appeared behind Issho, raising the sword in its hand and chopping hard toward Issho's back.
"Gravity Blade: Fierce Tiger!"
Issho swung backward and struck the biscuit soldier behind him.
The tremendous gravity caused cracks to appear across the originally solid body of the biscuit soldier.
Even though Cracker tried his hardest to maintain the biscuit soldier's body, he still could not erase the damage inflicted upon it.
Crack.
Without Cracker's power continuing to support it, the biscuit soldier was instantly crushed into powder by gravity.
The blade in Issho's hand turned toward Cracker on the other side.
His Observation Haki left Cracker, who had originally been hiding inside the biscuit soldier, with nowhere to hide.
"Meteor!"
Issho's body suddenly withdrew backward.
He decided to use an enormous meteor to deal with this batch of abnormally hard biscuit soldiers.
After taking a deep breath, Issho gathered the range of his Observation Haki together, extending his senses toward outer space to search for a suitable meteor.
"Found one."
The instant Issho found the meteor, the cane sword in his hand swung, sending ring-shaped gravity ripples flying toward the depths of space.
"I have a bad feeling."
Even though Katakuri had not foreseen the image of Issho's next attack, an unusual tremor still stirred in his heart.
He did not know what Issho had summoned from space, but he knew that Issho's next strike would be earth-shattering.
Boom!
Even before the attack descended, Katakuri and Cracker on the ground already felt fear rising inside them.
They could not help raising their heads to look at the sky.
Charlotte Linlin and Zephyr, whose mastery of Haki was even more advanced, stopped at the same time.
The two of them tacitly looked toward the sky.
Behind the thick dark clouds, something seemed to be rapidly approaching, producing a terrifying whistling sound.
"Issho, you bastard."
After realizing what kind of attack Issho had launched, even Zephyr could not help cursing.
Although his attitude toward pirates had already changed, and killing pirates would no longer make him feel merciful, what Issho was doing was still far too extreme.
After all, at this moment, Marines and pirates were intertwined on the battlefield. It was impossible to clearly separate Marines from pirates.
"Move!"
"All Marine units, disengage from battle immediately and regroup toward the warships!"
Facing the enormous meteor Issho had summoned, even Zephyr, a former Admiral, did not dare treat it lightly.
After receiving Zephyr's order, every Marine soldier immediately began alternating their retreat, pulling back from the battlefield where they had been fighting pirates.
"The Marines are running again! I will wipe them out completely!"
"Brothers, charge! The Marines have no strength left now! Only by killing them can we seize more wealth!"
The pirates, seeing the Marines retreat, immediately assumed that the Marines had lost their courage to fight.
They were unwilling to let these Marine soldiers withdraw to the supply island between the first and second defensive lines.
Once the Marines completed their retreat and resupplied on that island, the next Marine offensive would become even harder to deal with.
Cracker desperately summoned countless biscuit soldiers, attempting to stop the Marine soldiers from retreating.
"Cracker, get out of here!"
Sensing that something was wrong, Katakuri suddenly raised his head and looked into the depths of the clouds, as if something terrifying were hidden behind them.
Under the eyes of everyone on the battlefield, the originally thick dark clouds began to change.
The clouds at the center slowly spread outward, as if something were squeezing apart the space they occupied.
When the first side of the meteor revealed itself before the people below, even Charlotte Linlin and the other members of the Charlotte Family, who had experienced countless battles, could not help feeling fear.
Because the meteor Issho had summoned this time was more than three times larger than the previous one.
Even before the meteor truly fell, just seeing its size made countless pirates drop their weapons.