"Master, I've brought him back."
In the sky beside Brian, a figure appeared.
Griffin spread her wide wings, with Shiki's unconscious body hanging from them.
He had already fainted and was completely unconscious.
It was Griffin who had taken Shiki away from beneath the three admirals earlier.
Only a Beast Girl like Griffin, who specialized in speed, could have managed this feat.
"Excellent."
"Griffin, let's go."
"Understood, Master!"
Whoosh~
Whoosh~
Brian issued the retreat order and quickly flew into the distance with Griffin.
A real man never looks back at explosions!
The three admirals below would survive anyway.
As for the other Navy soldiers, it would depend on their individual fortunes.
Having lit this fire, Brian chose to make his escape.
There was no point in staying any longer - what mattered was that Shiki had been rescued.
The three admirals could only watch helplessly as Brian and Griffin flew away, unable to take action.
The three exchanged glances, their lips twisting in frustration.
Then with solemn expressions, they gathered all their physical strength and Haki.
They unleashed their most powerful moves currently available.
Their target: the Destruction Lotus descending right before their eyes.
"Fist Bone Meteor Shower!"
"Thousand-Hand Buddha Palm Buddha Kingdom!"
"Crush Burst Wave Fist!"
Three ultimate attacks were simultaneously launched by the three powerhouses.
At nearly a thousand meters high, they met the descending small lotus.
Hum~
An extreme, silent void enveloped the entire sea area.
In this expanse of ocean, all hope for life seemed to vanish instantly.
Including the eight warships that were continuously sailing away from the area.
All were completely enveloped by this void.
"This is..."
On the ship, Tsuru's expression changed dramatically.
In her perception, after being covered by this destructive void,
She suddenly felt no desire to live at all.
Her first reaction was actually a willingness to permanently sleep in these waters.
Fortunately, her will was strong, and she quickly snapped out of this dangerous thought.
But she immediately realized.
Just because she could wake up didn't mean other Navy soldiers could do the same.
Tsuru quickly turned to look at the other soldiers on the warship.
Indeed!
The soldiers who had been performing their duties moments ago now stood like they were bewitched.
They all stood motionless in place, faces filled with terrified expressions.
Some weaker Navy soldiers even had puddles of yellow liquid forming at their feet.
And there were quite a number of these weaker soldiers.
Suddenly~
"Ahhh!!"
Splash~
A Navy soldier suddenly screamed loudly and leaped from the warship into the sea.
Instantly, he was swallowed by the ocean, disappearing without a trace.
This opened the floodgates.
Large numbers of surrounding Navy soldiers followed his example.
They leaped into the sea one after another, as if the ocean were their eternal home.
Splash~
Splash~
Within moments, dozens of Navy soldiers had jumped into the sea, vanishing forever.
"Damn it."
"Stop them, stop them quickly!"
Tsuru shouted urgently, but it was no use.
There were too few conscious Navy soldiers on the warship, with only a handful besides her.
How could these few people restrain the entire ship's crew?
In no time, the ship's personnel were reduced by more than half.
"Saint Naya, Saint Naya!"
"Please wake up, wake up, my lord!"
Meanwhile, on a warship not far from Tsuru's location, a dramatic scene was unfolding.
The Celestial Dragon Saint Naya, who had been exchanged back by the Navy, was desperately trying to charge into the sea.
Several CP0 agents nearby were grabbing his arms and legs, struggling to hold him back.
If this Celestial Dragon jumped into the sea, they might as well follow him.
However, Saint Naya was harder to restrain than a New Year's pig.
Hundreds of pounds of fat straining together made it quite challenging.
The CP0 agents dared not use violence against him, so they could only pull gently while trying to reason with him.
The scene was both absurd and ridiculous.
Even Tsuru found it hard to keep a straight face amid such a farcical situation.
Then, a new development occurred.
The previous void of fear had passed smoothly.
It was replaced by a violent explosion.
A mushroom cloud began to form.
The mushroom cloud continued to rise, blotting out the sky.
Boom~~~~~
Boom~~~~~
The sky-obscuring mushroom cloud appeared alongside explosions that reverberated across the entire sea.
The powerful wind generated by the blast swept fiercely toward them.
Caught off guard, the warships began to tilt and sway.
The sails were torn to shreds instantly, leaving the ships without their most crucial means of propulsion.
With the Navy incapacitated, many warships started spinning aimlessly on the sea.
During this process, numerous soldiers were thrown overboard.
After the mushroom cloud explosion, Garp and the other two were sent flying by the violent hurricane.
They were flung backward a considerable distance before gradually coming to a stop.
Hovering in mid-air, Sengoku stared in horror at the scene.
"This is..."
His eyes nearly popped out of his head.
Where the mushroom cloud billowed, the sea surface had been blasted into a massive crater.
The crater, hundreds of meters deep, continued to drill downward.
Within the crater, countless Sea Kings' bodies were being pulverized, turning into nutrients for the ocean.
The seawater around the crater was quickly dyed crimson, creating a sea of blood.
The intense shockwave from the explosion then began pushing the seawater outward.
Not far from the warships, a tsunami over ten meters high rapidly surged.
The tsunami swelled quickly, soaring to dozens of meters high by the time it reached the warships.
Bam~
The nearest warship, caught completely unprepared, was overturned by the tsunami.
The merciless tsunami swept away every single Navy soldier on board, leaving none behind.
Then the second ship, the third ship%
The speed was so fast that Sengoku and the others had no time to rescue them.
By the time they reacted and attempted to help, four warships had already been capsized.
All personnel on board were lost, without exception.
Void, explosion, tsunami.
Multiple catastrophic blows, each comparable to a natural disaster, struck the Navy all at once.
They suffered immense losses.
It took a full ten minutes for the sea to gradually calm down.
Thud~
Thud~
Thud~
Sengoku, Garp, and Zephyr landed on the warship, gazing at the devastation around them.
They looked at each other in silence, overwhelmed with grief.
Especially Sengoku, who had always held a strong sense of honor and shame for the Navy.
Seeing that he had suffered even greater losses this time than before, his heart felt as if it had shattered into pieces.
It was truly hard on him.
Both massive losses had occurred under his watch.
It was as if a huge black pot of blame had been placed largely on his shoulders.
For Sengoku, such blame was also damaging to his reputation.
Including his prestige within the Navy, which would suffer a heavy blow.
It could only be said that his future path in the Navy would be much more difficult than in the original storyline.
"Rocks Pirates!"
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