Whitebeard, who had slammed his fists into the empty space on both sides, suddenly retracted them, shifting to a downward press, sending a spherical shockwave crashing into the ground beneath him.
Rocks, who had originally intended to turn and stab his sword into the ground beneath Whitebeard, saw this and could only focus again, swinging his sword toward Garp, who had already rushed in front of him.
Almost simultaneously.
The ground beneath Whitebeard abruptly opened up, as if a door panel had been flipped downward, revealing a large circular hole.
Inside the large hole, the current Fleet Admiral Gustav, with his aged appearance, the former Marine Admiral Haines, dressed in a snow-White military uniform, and Impel Down Warden Columbus suddenly appeared.
And the moment the three appeared.
They all struck together, launching an attack on Whitebeard above them through the opened hole!
Gustav's clenched fist, wrapped in pitch-black Haki, crossed space the instant it was thrown, appearing beside Whitebeard's face, the dark fist smashing toward Whitebeard's head!
"Space Door Opening! Space Leap Punch!"
Haines stood motionless, but his entire body instantly turned pitch black.
Tentacles as black as ink drilled out from all over his body, multiplying hundreds of times in an instant, turning into enormous tentacles that coiled around Whitebeard.
"Purgatory Cage!"
Columbus, meanwhile, swung the giant scythe in his hand, aiming to slice Whitebeard's ankles!
The giant scythe, the moment it was swung, stretched out like a shadow, then suddenly materialized behind Whitebeard's feet, slashing down fiercely and sinisterly.
"Scythe of Shadow! Ankle Cutter!"
Simultaneously facing the siege of three powerful experts.
Whitebeard's expression was grim.
But the momentary image he saw in Future Sight allowed him to react preemptively.
Above his downward-smashing fists, a vast White shockwave erupted beneath him.
"Kaka Kaka Kaka..."
Where the fists struck, the air cracked open like shattered glass.
Following this was a mountain-toppling, sea-overturning shockwave, roaring down toward the ground!
The next moment.
Centered on Whitebeard's location, the ground along the coast of Puttelocrone, extending for hundreds of meters in all directions, cracked and shattered like a spiderweb!
The earth collapsed, and the air exploded with shock.
The mighty shockwave sent Carlo, who was standing nearby, flying away.
Even Rocks and Garp, who were already engaged in combat, had to temporarily avoid the brunt of the force and shift their battleground further away.
An indescribable great force traveled through the air, crashing into the open sea.
An even more terrifying sight appeared.
The seawater rapidly twisted and surged, as if suddenly pushed by an invisible giant hand, instantly generating monstrous waves dozens or even hundreds of meters high that roared and crashed toward the outer sea!
The vast sea surface rolled wildly like a giant carpet being flipped up.
Tossing the numerous Marine warships on the surface of the sea precariously.
The shockwave continued to spread, propagating to even greater distances.
Soon, all of Puttelocrone was affected.
Temples collapsed one after another.
The Rocks Pirates members who were looting, and the monks who were fiercely resisting, were all affected and injured to varying degrees.
Linlin, carrying a large treasure chest, stumbled, nearly falling to the ground.
She frowned, steadied herself, and looked up in the direction the shockwave had come from.
"Is this Newgate's Devil Fruit Power? What is he doing? This is far too reckless."
The entire island was shaking.
As if the apocalypse had arrived!
And this was only the result of Whitebeard hastily changing the direction of the shockwave and holding back somewhat.
Otherwise.
If he had unleashed his full power, the entire island, and even the sea surface, would have been split apart.
This is the terror of the Paramecia-type Tremor-Tremor Fruit!
Beneath Whitebeard.
Inside the opened hole.
Haines, whose body had sprouted black tentacles, shattered, turning into countless splattering black liquids.
Columbus's scythe and body were also blasted apart by the shockwave, turning into a sky full of black bats that rustled up into the sky.
The aged Fleet Admiral Gustav's face suddenly flushed red.
Unable to hold it in, he opened his mouth and coughed up a mouthful of blood.
As for Whitebeard himself, he took a punch from Fleet Admiral Gustav on his left cheek, causing his entire body to tilt sideways.
Just as he was about to fall toward the ground.
The ground, which was already shattered and collapsed, suddenly opened up an even larger hole!
"Creak—"
In an instant.
The sound of a door opening rang out again.
Beneath Whitebeard, a massive hole over a hundred meters in diameter opened up, leading to a Different Space!
The aged Fleet Admiral Gustav stood inside the hole, suddenly reached out, and grabbed the falling Whitebeard!
He roared, his hair standing on end:
"Proceed according to plan!"
"I will handle this Earthquake Boy!"
"Haines! Columbus! You two coordinate with Garp and the others, and use all your strength to eliminate the Rocks Pirates!"
"Understood! Fleet Admiral, please take care of yourself!" Without hesitation, Haines, who had turned into countless black liquids, and Columbus, who had turned into a mass of black bats, rushed out together.
Watching the two rush out.
Gustav, who was holding Whitebeard tightly, activated his Devil Fruit Power again.
The large hole in the ground instantly closed.
Whitebeard and he vanished into thin air!
The current Fleet Admiral Gustav is a Paramecia-type Door-Door Fruit User!
Having developed this Devil Fruit to its absolute limit.
He can open a door leading to the Door Space anywhere.
Inside the Door-Door Space he opens, if he doesn't actively open a Spatial Door leading outside.
The person he takes inside has only one way to get out.
That is to defeat him, the Devil Fruit User!
Before they arrived, this battle plan targeting Whitebeard had already been strictly finalized by the Marine Staff Headquarters.
Gustav and the others were well aware of the impact of Whitebeard's Devil Fruit Power on the overall battle situation.
It could be said that Whitebeard alone could change the ultimate outcome of the battle.
With him present, the Marines would have no numerical advantage.
No amount of warships could withstand a tsunami that swept across the world.
Therefore.
Fleet Admiral Gustav decided that he himself would personally trap Whitebeard.
While the others would focus all their efforts on besieging the Rocks Pirates.
And have fifty warships initiate a Buster Call to provide fire coverage over the island.
However, a slight flaw still appeared in the plan.
No one had expected.
Whitebeard, whom they attacked, still managed to use his Devil Fruit Power to disrupt the sea, preventing the warships from commencing bombardment for the time being.
"Damn Whitebeard! His power is too great a threat to us Marines. I should have joined Gustav to surround and eliminate him first!"
Haines, who had transformed into black liquid and rushed high into the sky, quickly reformed half of his body and looked down upon Puttelocrone Island.
"White's son."
He coldly glanced at Carlo in the distance, then sharply turned his head and shouted toward the black bats flying behind him: "Columbus! Help me!"
"Alright!"
The black bats filling the sky gathered, rapidly outlining Columbus's figure.
He held a black box in his left hand and grasped a giant scythe in his right.
The moment he appeared, Columbus tossed aside the scythe and opened the black box.
As soon as the box opened, shadows like boiling black water immediately emerged, attempting to escape the box.
Columbus grabbed a large handful of wriggling shadows from it and slapped them onto Haines's back in front of him.
"Let's start you off with ten shadows from Eternal Hell prisoners and ninety shadows from Extreme Cold Hell prisoners."
"Guard your self! Brace for the shadows' mental impact, Haines!"
"Bring it on! I can handle a mere hundred shadows! After all, I'm a Marine Admiral!"
As one hundred shadows of Impel Down prisoners were injected into his body.
Haines, who had reformed half of his body, began to swell rapidly like a black balloon!
"Uwaaahhh!!"
Streams of black viscous liquid erupted from his body surface, wrapping around his entire form in layers.
His entire body rapidly expanded from three meters to ten, twenty, and then fifty meters!
Finally, he swelled into a sphere one hundred meters in diameter, composed of endless black viscous liquid!
Suspended high above Puttelocrone, it looked like a black sun, attracting the gaze of countless people.
Then the black sphere began to fall downward.
The moment this massive black sphere formed and began to descend, Columbus took out a lighter, flicked it open, causing a flame to rise, and casually tossed it toward the black sphere.
"Come on, Haines! Let me see if our Combined Technique can blast this island away in one shot!"
"Fall! Crimson Lotus Black Sun!!"