"Sound waves? The Mythical Zoan Nine-Tailed Fox form even has this ability?"
The four Vice Admirals, who used Haki to block the sound wave attack, looked at the Marine soldiers. In just an instant, half of them had fallen, and it was unknown how long it would take them to recover. They were in a much more miserable state than those knocked out by Conqueror's Haki. Their faces grew heavy.
Vice Admiral Momonga, who had just unleashed the giant slash, spoke: "The enemy possesses the means to steal Devil Fruits. 'Black Hole' Yami's Maid Corps might all be ability users, and the Kuja Pirates are all Haki masters."
"The only ones who can fight them are fellow ability users and Haki masters. Perhaps it's a good thing they've fallen now."
"We can't let the Admirals shield us from all the wind and rain. Let's go!"
The hawk faction's Doberman drew the katana from his waist and shouted loudly, "All soldiers who can still move, follow me!"
After speaking, he leaped down from the warship.
The Marine soldiers, also of the hawk faction, followed closely behind.
"Your opponent is not me."
Hancock, standing on the golden nine-tailed fox's head, placed one hand on her hip, looking down on Aokiji below with arrogance. She said domineeringly, "Admiral, if you don't want the battle to affect them, then let's change battlefields."
"No one who hasn't defeated me is qualified to approach Master."
Finished speaking, Hancock pointed in a direction: "Carina, go over there!"
"Okay, Sister Hancock."
The golden nine-tailed fox nodded obediently, then with a single leap, its massive body flew hundreds of meters into the air, treading on flame clouds as it rapidly rushed in the opposite direction of Nami and Kizaru.
Aokiji also showed no sign of laziness, using his Ice Soru to follow closely behind.
Just as Hancock said, if he didn't deal with her, he couldn't go help Mr. Garp deal with "Black Hole" Yami.
Therefore, he must defeat Hancock at the fastest possible speed, along with that maid named Carina, who ate the Mythical Zoan Nine-Tailed Fox fruit.
Seeing their Admiral follow the enemy (kanbu) to a different battlefield, Doberman and the others weren't tactless enough to follow.
They knew their own limits!
If the enemy was someone they could handle, Admiral Aokiji would have been able to instantly kill them.
If they could fight Admiral Aokiji back and forth, or to a stalemate, going would not only be of no help, but would instead drag Admiral Aokiji down.
Thus, they locked their gazes on the Big Emperor, which was slowly advancing towards them and gradually transforming from a tank into a mobile fortress.
And then... and then tragedy struck!
On the Big Emperor, which was eighty meters long and weighed 585 tons, two giant gates were lowered. A shrunken Sandersonia and Marigold, each leading dozens of Kuja warriors, appeared there and raised their hands, ordering: "Fire!"
Swoosh swoosh swoosh swoosh swoosh...
In an instant, over a hundred Kuja warriors all shot wooden arrows wrapped in Armament Haki towards the sky.
The moment these arrows left the string, they immediately hit an invisible substance. After passing through this substance, the arrows, originally smaller than toothpicks, were instantly magnified countless times, rushing into the sky and turning into a black rain of arrows.
"Not good! Anyone who hasn't mastered Haki, evade immediately!"
Doberman, charging at the front, seemed to sense something with his Observation Haki. While swinging a giant slash at the arrow rain, he issued an order to the soldiers behind him.
BOOM—
When the flying slash hit the arrow rain, it didn't result in the slash shattering all the wooden arrows.
Instead, like igniting the fuses of cannonballs, a series of explosions was set off in the air.
The terrifying airflow from the Haki explosion instantly shattered the flying slash that could have easily cut a large ship in two.
A large number of arrows still shot down violently towards Doberman and the other Marines.
Seeing this, the soldiers—who had first survived Yami's Haki clearing, then Carina's sound wave clearing, and were the elite of the elites even at Marine Headquarters—began to cooperate with tacit understanding.
The officers skilled in Soru organized the soldiers to disperse.
The officers skilled in flying slashes and Rankyaku continuously fired flying slashes into the air, blowing up all the wooden arrows that were more powerful than cannonballs.
However, before they could destroy all the arrows and continue advancing on the mobile castle, another wave of arrows rained down from the sky.
Before this new wave of arrows even landed, another wave flew out from the Big Emperor.
Even with the other three Headquarters Vice Admirals leading their respective teams to support, they couldn't advance under the arrow-filled sky. Instead, they were forced to scatter.
"Soldiers who don't know Haki and haven't mastered 'cutting steel' or the Six Powers, all return to the warship and bombard that castle! Everyone else, charge the castle with me!"
Vice Admiral Momonga, while swinging flying slashes at the sky, issued orders to the soldiers behind him.
Immediately, he did a horizontal sweep with the katana in his hand.
A giant, crescent-moon-shaped slash immediately roared towards the Big Emperor.
Unfortunately, just as his slashes couldn't stop the rain of arrows...
This giant slash was blasted to bits by a wave of arrows before it could even touch the mobile castle.
Facing the attacks of over a hundred Haki masters, even a Headquarters Vice Admiral was extremely passive, only able to advance slowly.
At this moment, another wave of arrows fell from the sky.
Different from the previous ones, this time, mixed within the arrow rain, were five white, smiling ghosts.
These ghosts danced, letting out unique laughs.
Neither the arrow rain, the flying slashes, nor the Haki explosions could harm these ghosts.
The five ghosts ignored all attacks, diving down towards the Marines below, indiscriminately attacking the nearest ones.
Some disbelieving Marines attacked the ghosts with various weapons, but all of them passed right through.
Some Marines, because they were defending against the arrow rain, couldn't dodge in time and were passed through. Among them was the hawk faction Vice Admiral Doberman, who was leading the charge.
And then, from the Headquarters Vice Admiral down to the lowest-ranking officers who had mastered at least one or two of the Marine Six Powers, their weapons all clattered to the ground. Ignoring the arrow rain attacking from the sky, they knelt on the ground, uttering words filled with negativity:
"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have been born into this world."
"If there's a next life, I want to be a seashell."
"..."
As the five ghosts continued to weave through, more and more figures knelt on the ground, and the number of people helping to block the rain of arrows from the sky dwindled.
This scene left Momonga and the others dumbfounded, roaring in terror: "What are you doing?! Pull yourselves together! You'll die like this!"
Almost as his words fell, another negative voice rang out, as if in response:
"What's the point of fighting? There's no future in being a Marine. It's better to just die!"
Vice Admiral Momonga: "..."
"Horohorohoro... This is too much fun."
Perona, watching this scene through her Negative Hollows, couldn't help but clutch her stomach, laughing.
"Gulp..."
Sandersonia and Marigold, who witnessed this firsthand, along with some of the more rational Kuja warriors, couldn't help but swallow, looking at Perona as if she were a demon.
Especially Sandersonia, who had taught Perona Observation Haki. She was even more glad that she had treated Perona very well over the past six months.
Otherwise, she really didn't dare to imagine her own fate.
The maids by Lord Yami's side... sure enough, not a single one is a simple character. Too terrifying!
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