"Prepare for battle!"
Seeing that the rifles were not very effective against Cracker, the Marine Vice Admiral drew the saber at his waist and stepped through the air with Geppo, flying toward him.
From the other ships nearby, more Marine Vice Admirals also stepped into the air with Geppo, seemingly intending to stop Cracker's advance.
Seeing several Vice Admirals appear, Issho, who had originally intended to act, temporarily stopped moving.
He decided to remain on the main ship and observe the combat methods and strength of the other Marine Vice Admirals.
Zephyr opened his eyes and glanced at Issho but said nothing.
He understood Issho's thoughts very well.
Those who had never experienced the pain of war naturally could not understand its cruelty.
This was a war of survival.
Only by understanding this could one strike decisively when the time came.
The more outstanding the enemy, the stronger their personal charisma and strength, the more they were existences that had to be completely killed.
"Wave Pretzel!"
Cracker raised Pretzel in his hand and quickly attacked the Marine Vice Admiral in front of him.
A powerful sword-aura shockwave gathered along the blade of Pretzel, seemingly ready to pierce through every obstacle ahead at any moment.
"Not a chance!"
The Marine Vice Admiral saw through Cracker's intention. Without a doubt, he wanted to break through from his position.
After understanding this, the Vice Admiral's face flushed red, and anger surged in his heart.
The distance between the two sides shrank rapidly. In the blink of an eye, they had already collided.
Clang!
The two famous blades crossed.
Before the Marine Vice Admiral could even catch his breath, the sword-aura shockwave on Pretzel erupted.
After a deadlock lasting less than half a second, that shockwave forced the Marine Vice Admiral back.
Cracker did not stop for even a moment. He charged straight toward the Marine warship below.
The instant he landed on the deck, several sabers around him chopped onto his body.
Fortunately, Cracker's body was covered in hard biscuit armor layered with Armament Haki.
The sparks bursting out one after another proved how powerful his defense was.
Cracker ignored the damage the Marines were dealing to him and quickly clapped his hands.
"Biscuit Crumbs."
In an instant, a large number of biscuit fragments appeared across the deck, separating Cracker's body from the Marine soldiers.
Cracker thrust both hands into the biscuit fragments on the deck and activated his ability.
One biscuit soldier after another was created by Cracker.
During this process, white smoke emerged from Cracker's body, and his own aura rapidly weakened.
Before the Marine Vice Admirals could descend, Cracker had created more than a hundred biscuit soldiers in total.
At the same time, he did not hesitate to waste stamina by covering every biscuit soldier with a layer of Armament Haki.
Then his figure flashed, and he walked straight into the biscuit soldiers.
Boom!
With a loud crash, one biscuit soldier had not even moved before an iron fist smashed into its face.
The tremendous impact shattered half of the biscuit soldier's head, causing its entire body to sway and fall onto the deck.
The Marine Vice Admiral looked at his fist and the biscuit soldier on the ground in surprise.
He had not expected the biscuit soldier to be so hard. He had thought that with the power of that strike, the biscuit soldier would be directly blown apart.
Unexpectedly, only half of its head had shattered.
"Be careful. These biscuit soldiers are strange. They are extremely hard!"
The Marine Vice Admiral spoke with a serious expression.
Judging by his own attack power, these biscuit soldiers would be very difficult for ordinary Marine soldiers to break.
In other words, only officers at Rear Admiral level or above could interfere when dealing with these biscuit soldiers.
Under Cracker's control, the biscuit soldier whose head had just been half-shattered quickly repaired itself.
Soon, it stood up again.
Several Vice Admirals arrived one after another and surrounded the biscuit soldiers.
"Can you find the real body?"
A Marine Vice Admiral holding a famous blade pursed his lips.
He had just launched a probing attack, and if he did not attack with full force, he could not break through the biscuit soldiers' defense.
That was because he leaned more toward being a speed-focused swordsman. He was good at dealing with pirates, but against things like these, he was somewhat limited.
An older-looking Marine Vice Admiral shook his head.
He had already used Observation Haki to scan all the biscuit soldiers just now, but he discovered that all of them had exactly the same aura.
There was no way to determine which one was the real body.
"It does not matter. No matter which one is the real body, we just need to smash them all."
A giant Vice Admiral, four or five times taller than ordinary Marines, spoke disdainfully.
His strength was far greater than that of ordinary Vice Admirals of the same level, and the weapon in his hand was an especially brutal spiked club. He was not afraid of this kind of hard-on-hard opponent at all.
In the attack just now, one full-force strike from him had smashed a biscuit soldier apart.
Hidden among the biscuit soldiers, Cracker activated his Devil Fruit ability and began controlling the biscuit soldiers to attack the Marine Vice Admirals.
Whether he could defeat the Vice Admirals did not matter.
What he needed to do was create chaos and delay time.
Originally, he had wanted to go to the main ship, but the thought of the two Admirals aboard it made him lose his nerve.
Two Admirals would never give him a chance to create biscuit soldiers. He would probably be suppressed directly the moment he made a move.
The current situation was much better.
In order to stop him, many Marine Vice Admirals had already gathered on this warship.
Without the Vice Admirals commanding them, the Marines' offensive was clearly much weaker than before.
Clang! Clang! Clang!
Boom!
Sounds of battle rang out everywhere.
The Marine Vice Admirals and biscuit soldiers fought at great speed. In almost every exchange, a biscuit soldier would be defeated.
Unfortunately, under Cracker's ability, the biscuit soldiers could revive without limit.
Those merely cut in two by swordsmen were much easier to repair than those completely smashed apart by the giant Vice Admiral.
Watching the biscuit soldiers that simply refused to die, the sword-wielding Marine Vice Admiral from earlier jumped out from among the crowd of biscuit soldiers.
"We cannot continue like this. We need to find his real body, or this will consume a great deal of time."
He did not know how much stamina it took to create one biscuit soldier, but judging from the speed at which the biscuit soldiers were being produced, Cracker clearly still had plenty of energy left.
The number of biscuit soldiers had already grown from just over a hundred to nearly two hundred.
Boom!
The giant Vice Admiral's spiked club smashed heavily into a biscuit soldier's waist. After breaking it in half, the club continued swinging backward with the momentum.
Clang!
The spiked club was blocked by an ordinary biscuit soldier.
While the giant Vice Admiral froze in surprise, that ordinary biscuit soldier launched an attack.
"Roll Pretzel!"
Pretzel, carrying a shockwave, stabbed straight toward the giant Vice Admiral's abdomen.
"Careful!"
The Marine Vice Admiral who had spoken just now instantly appeared beside the giant Vice Admiral, his long blade stabbing toward the biscuit soldier's chest.
Crack.
The biscuit soldier swung Pretzel toward the Marine Vice Admiral rushing over.
"The real body is here!"
The attacked Marine Vice Admiral was not angered at all. Instead, he shouted in surprise.