Chapter 239: Conqueror's Haki of the New and Old Eras! The Demon God That Cuts Through Despair
On the execution platform, Fleet Admiral Sengoku looked down at the ice from his commanding height.
When he saw with his own eyes that Squad's lethal assassination attempt was forcibly interrupted by Tatsuya, and that he even exposed the Marines' scheme to sow discord in public...
Sengoku's face, which usually carried an air of natural authority, darkened completely.
He clearly realized that the situation he had painstakingly orchestrated was completely out of control.
A Whitebeard at his peak could never be contained by schemes alone.
"Activate the Siege Walls!" Sengoku swung his right arm down violently, issuing the iron-blooded order.
Accompanied by a deafening mechanical roar, the ice surrounding Marineford's Crescent Bay shattered instantly.
Huge steel walls, towering into the clouds, incredibly thick, and coated with Sea Stone, rose slowly from the seabed like iron behemoths.
These indestructible Siege Walls connected end to end, trapping all the pirates from the Whitebeard Pirates and the prison-break group inside the bay like fish in a barrel.
Meanwhile, the figure of Admiral Akainu appeared atop the towering iron walls.
With a cold expression, his arms had already transformed into churning, dark red magma, and he began recklessly pouring "Great Eruption" down into the enclosed bay below.
Dense magma meteors rained down like a storm, and the originally thick ice layer rapidly melted and boiled under the terrifying high temperature.
In just a few minutes, the entire Crescent Bay turned into a veritable death furnace.
"Forget it, execute Fire Fist Ace immediately!"
Watching the pirates below still putting up a desperate resistance, Sengoku gritted his teeth and issued the final order.
Upon receiving the Fleet Admiral's death order, the two executioners on the platform raised their gleaming long blades high without hesitation, aiming at Ace's neck.
Watching the butcher's blade about to fall mercilessly, Luffy, who was sprinting through the sea of fire below, had his eyes split with rage.
He reached out desperately, as if wanting to cross the distance of space to grab something, and a desperate roar that pierced the heavens erupted from his throat:
"Stop..."
"Stop it—!!!"
Boom!
With this roar, a violent, unparalleled Conqueror's Haki, filled with the posture of an unyielding king, erupted from within Luffy like an invisible storm.
Almost at the same instant!
Whitebeard, maintaining his peak state, also let out a heavy cold snort.
His lion-like eyes widened suddenly, and a dark red Conqueror's Haki, even deeper and more terrifying than Luffy's, shot up from the ground like a pillar of light piercing the sky.
Two currents of Conqueror's Haki, representing the peaks of the "New Era" and the "Old Era," produced a terrifying resonance and collision over the plaza of Marineford.
Even the dark clouds in the sky were forcibly dispersed by this momentum.
On the execution platform, the two executioners holding the long blades high bore the brunt of it.
They instantly rolled their eyes, foamed at the mouth, and collapsed limply to the ground.
Not only that, tens of thousands of ordinary Marine elites present whose resolve was not firm enough also collapsed like harvested wheat, rolling their eyes and fainting in droves, the sound of weapons dropping ringing out incessantly.
Although the dual outburst of Conqueror's Haki successfully interrupted the execution, buying precious time for Ace.
The pirates were still trapped inside the boiling Siege Walls.
"Diamond" Jozu and several other division commanders rushed forward with roars, attempting to use brute force to smash through the iron walls blocking their way.
However, accompanied by dull thuds, they discovered in despair that this special Siege Wall, mixed with a large amount of Sea Stone, was indestructible.
Even a commander's full-force strike could not leave even a trace of a crack on it.
Scorching magma continued to fall, and a sense of despair began to spread rapidly through the pirates' ranks.
At this desperate moment of being caught between a rock and a hard place, Tatsuya stepped forward to the very front of the group.
He lifted his head slightly, his black, shaggy hair fluttering in the hot wind.
Those originally deep eyes were now spinning crazily at an extraordinary speed.
Due to continuous high-intensity, high-load operation, a trace of crimson blood slowly overflowed from the corners of his eyes, sliding down his cold, stern face.
Under the horrified gazes of the 100,000 Marines and countless pirates present.
A scarlet Chakra, vast enough to be suffocating, surged out from Tatsuya's body like an erupting volcano.
Flesh and blood proliferated, and meridians intertwined.
Accompanied by a shrill energy roar.
A complete Susanoo, clad in heavy Tengu armor and with massive wings spreading to cover the sky behind it, rose directly from the ground!
This hundred-meter-tall energy demon god, like a Shura descending to the world, instantly filled the space of the entire Crescent Bay.
In front of the complete Susanoo's towering and massive figure.
Even the tall Marine Vice Admirals below seemed like insignificant ants at this moment.
Tatsuya's body was suspended within the flickering diamond-shaped crystal on the forehead of the Susanoo.
He slammed his hands together, his eyes cold and resolute.
"Clang—!"
The massive scarlet demon god made the same movement synchronously.
It extended that massive hand that covered the sky and drew the Chakra light sword radiating an aura of destruction from its waist!
Tatsuya focused his mind.
In an instant, the deep blue, violent Chidori lightning, the dark red, profound high-level Ryuo Haki, and the black "Amaterasu" flames that could never be extinguished.
Three distinct yet equally lethal powers intertwined crazily on the massive blade, and even the surrounding space was cut with tiny black glimmers.
"The so-called absolute iron wall..."
Tatsuya's voice, transmitted through the massive Chakra demon god, exploded over Marineford like rolling thunder:
"Can it withstand a sword that cuts through all of creation?!"
His eyes wide open, he let out a desperate, hoarse roar:
"——[Susanoo Secret Technique: Takemikazuchi's Judgment]!!!"
Accompanied by this shout, the hundred-meter great sword, carrying the terrifying power to destroy heaven and earth, tore through the sky and slashed down towards the indestructible Siege Wall in front.
"Boom—!!!"
The earth-shattering roar made the entire island tremble violently.
The Siege Wall, on which the Marine high command had placed high hopes, along with the massive, mountain-like ice layer behind it, was neatly sliced open with a huge gap under this destructive sword strike!
Steel shattered, and glaciers collapsed.
Debris and ice chunks rained down from the sky, and a wide path leading directly to the plaza was forcibly opened.
The pirates who had escaped death looked at the massive rift, and after a moment of stunned silence, they instantly erupted into fanatical cheers that shook the heavens.
However, the price for unleashing this earth-shattering strike was equally heavy.
Continuously using high-level Dojutsu, large-scale Ninjutsu, and repeatedly activating and maintaining the complete Susanoo.
Every ounce of strength and Chakra in the vast sea within Tatsuya's body was finally completely drained.
The massive scarlet demon god let out a low hum, then turned into countless tiny specks of light in the wind, dissipating with the wind.
Tatsuya, suspended in mid-air, felt his vision go black, and an intense wave of dizziness instantly devoured all his consciousness.
He lost control of his body, and like a kite with a broken string, he fell straight from a hundred meters high toward the cold ground below.
"Tatsuya!"
Luffy, sprinting below, saw this and his eyes widened in anxiety.
He shouted, his legs tensing and exerting force, preparing to launch himself to catch the falling Vice Captain.
"Leave it to me! Straw Hat Luffy!"
Just as Luffy's voice died down.
An afterimage burning with brilliant cyan-blue flames streaked across the smoke-filled sky like a meteor.
The Whitebeard Pirates' 1st Division Commander, "Marco the Phoenix".
Relying on the absolute speed advantage of flight, he steadily caught the rapidly falling Tatsuya in mid-air.
Marco lowered his head, looking at the face in his arms, which appeared exceptionally pale due to the exhaustion.
In the eyes of this battle-hardened commander, for the first time ever, there was a deep sense of admiration and shock.
He knew deeply what kind of incredible power that sword strike just now contained.
Marco stabilized himself in mid-air, vibrating the pair of beautiful wings burning with cyan flames on his back.
He protected Tatsuya tightly behind his broad back, lifted his head, and facing the war flames filling the sky, he let out a shout that resounded through the heavens to Luffy and Sabo, who were preparing to charge below:
"Straw Hat Luffy, your Vice Captain has already done enough!"
"The rest of the way, even if we, the Whitebeard Pirates, have to die, we will pave it for you!"
"Go, go save your brother!"
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