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"So what? In a place like this, the nature of garbage won't change one bit."

Mihawk hung the cross-shaped knife back around his neck, looked calmly at the platform, and spoke indifferently.

"This power is still too immature."

Yamato picked at his ear and muttered, "So noisy. You dare to use such a weak level of Conqueror's Haki to yell like that?"

midair.

Borsalino forced Garp back with a light-speed kick, tilting his head and speaking with his usual flippant tone.

"Wow, what amazing potential!"

"This... makes it even more impossible to keep it."

Chapter 284 The Final Captain's Order! Paving the Way for a New Era!

Borsalino's gaze turned completely cold.

He withdrew his left leg, which had been kicking at Garp, while his right leg was raised high in the air.

The dazzling golden photons were compressed to an extreme degree towards the toes.

The target was Luffy's forehead on the execution platform.

"Don't think about it!"

With bloodshot eyes, and despite the excruciating pain of his charred left arm, Dorrag's dragon claws ripped wildly through the air.

Five blue hurricanes rose from the ground, attempting to shatter Borsalino's attack.

Garp's iron fist was once again wrapped with black and red lightning, his muscles throbbing as he prepared for a second burst of power.

"Oh dear, this road is blocked."

Kuzan slowly stepped out from the swirling ice shards, the deep blue freezing air spreading wildly with each breath he took.

He slammed his hands heavily on the broken ground.

Ice Age!

Click click click—!

The frigid air flowed upstream at a speed that defied the laws of physics. Dorrag's five blue hurricanes couldn't even withstand it for a second before being completely frozen into five enormous ice pillars that pierced the sky and the earth.

At the same time, an absolute ice wall, hundreds of meters thick and radiating a bone-chilling cold, suddenly rose between the execution platform and Garp and Dragon, cutting off the father and son's escape route.

The three generals reached a tacit agreement and vowed to eliminate all variables today.

On the other side of the battlefield, Whitebeard stood on the cratered ice.

The overwhelming aura of domineering power that swept across the entire arena caused his white cloak to flutter.

He raised his blood-covered face and looked at the frail figure struggling desperately on the cross.

In that unstoppable aura, he seemed to see the man from decades ago, wearing a straw hat and grinning broadly.

Whitebeard looked at the 100,000-strong G-5 army that had transformed into war machines in front of him, at Kaido who was seriously injured by Yamato not far away, and at the captains who were struggling in the battle.

The order of the sea has been completely shattered.

There is no place in this era to accommodate this ship.

"Gulalalalala..."

Whitebeard suddenly let out a low laugh, and the confusion and hesitation in his eyes completely disappeared.

The life force within his towering body disregarded his severe injuries and surged dramatically, instantly returning him to his peak!

He abandoned suppressing the fatal injuries within his body, squeezing out all his domineering aura, all his vibrational power, and all his life potential to the limit.

He slammed his great sword, "Murakumo-giri," heavily onto the ground.

"Whitebeard Pirates, all crew members, heed my command!"

The roar drowned out all the gunfire and fighting, exploding in the ears of every pirate.

Captains Joz, Vista, and others suddenly turned around.

"Dad!"

Whitebeard's eyes widened, his expression authoritative even without anger: "Everyone, cover the spark of the new era! Retreat! This is my final order!!!"

Upon hearing this, countless pirates on the ice of Marineford instantly turned red in the eyes.

They knew very well what it meant when their father gave this order.

"Let's go! The flame of a new era must not be extinguished here!" Whitebeard spread his arms wide, his broad chest meeting the guns and cannons of 100,000 marines. "I am Whitebeard!"

"Still dreaming even when death is imminent?"

Sakazuki watched the pirates trying to retreat and sneered mercilessly.

"You trash, do you really think this is a place where you can come and go as you please? Today, none of you will leave Marineford alive!"

Sakazuki exerted force with his feet, and the ground instantly melted. His entire body transformed into a rolling dark red lava, moving so fast that only a burning afterimage could be seen.

"Netherhound!"

The extremely condensed lava fist, carrying the heat of melting steel, aimed straight for Whitebeard's chest.

This time, Whitebeard neither dodged nor raised his sword to block.

He simply stood there quietly, his eyes fixed on Sakazuki as he lunged forward.

Pfft—!

The dark red magma fist pierced through Whitebeard's abdomen without any resistance!

The intense heat instantly carbonized his muscles, burned most of his internal organs, and scalding lava gushed out from the back of the white-bearded man.

"Dad—!!!"

Marco, Joz, and the others had their eye sockets torn open instantly, and their shrill, desperate screams echoed through the sky.

"Successful."

Sakazuki's lips curled into a cold smile as he prepared to withdraw his arm and deliver a fatal second blow to Whitebeard.

However, he couldn't free his arm.

Whitebeard's powerful abdominal muscles held his magma-like arm firmly in place.

"Lava brat, you're way too hot to light a birthday candle."

A deep, husky voice sounded above Sakazuki's head.

Sakazuki looked up abruptly, and what he saw was not the despair of a dying man, but a pair of cold eyes filled with murderous intent!

A large hand gripped half of his head tightly.

"you……"

Just as Sakazuki's Armament Haki was about to protect his head, a blinding white aura was already extremely compressed in Whitebeard's palm.

The power of the Tremor-Tremor Fruit, combined with the black and red Conqueror's Haki, reached its peak at this moment.

Go back underground!

Whitebeard's right arm muscles bulged as he gripped Sakazuki's head and slammed it violently into the depths of Marineford with overwhelming force!

Thump—! ! !

The terrifying shockwave traveled down Sakazuki's head and penetrated deep into the earth's crust without reservation.

Rumble! ...

The fortress square in Marineford collapsed wildly, like a fragile biscuit.

Centered on the feet of the white-bearded man, a bottomless crack spread rapidly in all directions in a net-like pattern, and tens of thousands of tons of gravel and soil rose into the sky with the surging air waves.

Sakazuki let out a muffled groan, blood mixed with lava splattering as his body was crushed by the devastating shock, buried hundreds of meters deep in the crevice.

A trench, hundreds of meters wide and unfathomably deep, was smashed open by Whitebeard's attack!

The churning seawater poured back into the abyss, stirring up a cloud of mist.

This abyss completely divided the battlefield in two.

Tens of thousands of naval troops were isolated in the inner bay, while the remaining pirates were pushed to a safe zone that retreated to the sea.

Whitebeard stood alone on the edge of the abyss, sword in hand.

Half of his abdomen was burned through, and he bled to death, but his massive body still stood straight, his back like an insurmountable cliff, shielding all his sons from the threat of death.

Before the execution platform, Kuzan and Borsalino paused for a fraction of a second.

They could no longer sense Sakazuki's presence.

It was in that instant of vulnerability.

"My fists aren't so old that they can't break a few pieces of ice!"

Garp's eyes were bloodshot, his right arm muscles bulged, and he slammed a fist wrapped in extreme Conqueror's Haki into the hundred-meter-high ice wall.

Snap! Boom!

A huge gap was blasted open in the ice wall.

Amidst the swirling icy mist, Dorrag transformed into a raging blue eye of wind, instantly breaking through the defenses and leaping onto the execution platform.

His claws were wrapped with high-level Armament Haki, and he precisely gripped the Seastone chains that bound Marco and Luffy.

"Dragon Claw Fist - Shatter!"

Click!

The hard sea stone chain snapped instantly.

With Luffy in one hand and Marco in the other, Dragon leaped off the execution platform and sprinted toward the other side of the abyss.

"Don't even think about escaping!"

Borsalino snapped out of his daze and transformed into a flash of light, attempting to give chase.

Swish!