“Sakazuki!”
“Sakazuki!”
“Sakazuki!”
Seeing Sakazuki’s destructive power, which was comparable to a natural disaster, the morale of the Marine soldiers soared.
They began cheering Sakazuki’s name.
“No matter how many times I see it, Sakazuki’s ability is still shocking.”
“Of course.
Sakazuki was called a monster back when he was still in the recruit camp.
His Magma-Magma Fruit might be the Logia with the highest offensive power, right?”
“Sakazuki is about to become a Marine admiral.
Perhaps he’ll become the strongest Marine admiral in Marine history!”
Seeing Sakazuki suppress the Chimera Ant army by himself, the vice admirals also began discussing in low voices.
“Don’t get careless.
Those Chimera Ants aren’t that easy to eliminate!”
Sakazuki frowned.
Although the steam rising from the sea had now covered the area ahead, according to what his Observation Haki sensed, the Chimera Ants he had eliminated were not even one-tenth of the Chimera Ant army.
Those Chimera Ants could not only fly, they were also extremely mobile.
When Akainu’s Meteor Volcano fell, most of the Chimera Ants used their extremely high mobility to dodge it.
Furthermore, when his technique smashed into the sea, he discovered that there were also quite a number of Chimera Ants beneath the water.
“Watch out under the sea!
Those monsters are beneath the surface!”
A Marine saw one black shadow after another rapidly shuttle beneath the surface and hurriedly warned the others.
But it was already somewhat late.
The moment his words left his mouth, three warships were overturned in an instant.
The few Chimera Ants beneath the surface were comparable in size to Sea Kings.
Just now, they had been hiding in the sea and launching attacks against the Marines.
While the Chimera Ants on the sea surface were being attacked by the Marines, they had already taken the lead and dived toward the Marine warships.
The sea was full of Chimera Ants, to the point that the Marines had not discovered them at all.
Those three ships were only the beginning.
The remaining warships also began shaking violently.
“Kill these monsters!”
Vice Admiral Momonga reacted extremely quickly.
He stepped through the air with Moonwalk and released slashes toward the sea.
As those Chimera Ants were cut apart by the slashes, the warship that had been about to capsize stabilized once more.
The other Marine vice admirals also took action one after another, and the Chimera Ants beneath the sea were killed one by one.
The Marine vice admirals only managed to save seven warships.
As for the three warships that had been overturned by the Chimera Ants first, the moment they fell into the water, the Marine soldiers were brutally killed beneath the Chimera Ants’ sharp teeth.
Aside from three commodores and seven colonels who had mastered Armament Haki and fought their way out, all the other Marines were reduced to piles of white bones in less than ten seconds.
The expressions of Sakazuki and the Marine vice admirals were extremely ugly.
The Marines were the maintainers of order on this sea.
They had never fought such a miserable battle before.
Before they had even exchanged blows with Morin, they had already lost three-tenths of their soldiers.
As the supreme commander of this operation, Sakazuki’s face was terrifyingly dark.
So many Marines had died at once.
Morin had basically pressed Sakazuki’s face into the ground and slapped it with the sole of his shoe.
Thinking back to the bold declaration he had made when leaving Headquarters, saying he would capture Morin and send him to Impel Down without any losses, and then looking at the Marines’ current miserable state…
If he could not capture Morin, this would become a lifelong stain on his Marine career.
Under the surprise attack of the Chimera Ants beneath the sea, the Marines’ defense on the surface weakened, and the Chimera Ants that had been sniped down by Akainu also rushed forward.
At this moment, the Chimera Ants formed a three-dimensional attack network from the sky, the sea surface, and beneath the sea.
The Marine vice admirals’ slashes could kill Chimera Ants and save the Marine warships, but they could not prevent the Chimera Ants from damaging the ships.
Under the Chimera Ants’ gnawing, the walls of the Marine warships were already riddled with holes, and large amounts of seawater began pouring into the ships.
“Hurry and think of something, Sakazuki!
Once our ships sink into the sea, all the Marines will be devoured by the Chimera Ants!”
While the Marine vice admirals fought hard to slaughter the Chimera Ants, they shouted at Sakazuki.
Among these Marines, if anyone could resolve the current predicament, it could only be Sakazuki.
Although the Chimera Ants could not harm the Marine vice admirals who could use Armament Haki, under the Chimera Ants’ fearless attacks, they had no spare energy to support the Marines.
For ordinary Marines, facing the Chimera Ants was simply a disaster.
Screams of Marine soldiers rang out from the warships from time to time.
“So this is the terror of the Chimera Ants?”
Golden Lion looked at this cruel scene and laughed loudly.
These Chimera Ants were all created using the genes of those ferocious animals from Merveille.
They were stronger than those animals.
Furthermore, their outstanding defenses rendered cannonballs and attacks from ordinary Marines useless.
Adding their terrifying numbers and fearless fighting style on top of that, even Golden Lion in his prime would only have been able to retreat if he encountered monsters like these.
At this moment, Golden Lion’s desire to take control of Morin grew even stronger.
“Great Eruption!”
Sakazuki punched forward, and with his fist as the center, a massive wall of magma engulfed all the Chimera Ants in front of him.
After the wall shattered, those magma projectiles smashed toward the Chimera Ants like a torrential rainstorm.
Sakazuki’s strike actually eliminated all the Chimera Ants in front of the Marine warships.
“What powerful offensive force.
This Sakazuki already has the strength to stand at the peak of the sea!”
Sensing the destructive power of Sakazuki’s punch, Golden Lion’s expression also became serious.
No wonder this guy had dared to keep pursuing them.
It turned out his strength had already reached the same level as Sengoku and Garp.
Admiral-level strength was already the peak combat power on this sea.
Morin had not even made a move yet, and relying only on his Chimera Ant army, he had already forced out Sakazuki’s true strength.
As the magma continued cooling, hard land formed from cooled magma actually began appearing on the sea.
Sakazuki had actually used his ability to create a piece of land on the ocean.
In this way, the Chimera Ants could no longer launch attacks from beneath the sea.
Sakazuki truly had some skill.
Morin had not expected Sakazuki to find a way to break the situation so quickly, and his evaluation of Sakazuki rose even higher.
This still was not Sakazuki’s limit.
After this land formed, Sakazuki pressed his hand against the magmatic rock, and a massive volcano rose from the ground.
This piece of land had actually been forcibly turned into a volcanic field by Sakazuki.
“He can permanently change the terrain.
This guy’s Devil Fruit ability has definitely awakened!”
Golden Lion looked at this scene, and his expression also turned solemn.
Logia Devil Fruit abilities were called the strongest among the three types.
This was the first time Golden Lion had seen an awakened Logia Devil Fruit user.
Just now, the Chimera Ants had already formed a crushing advantage over the Marines, but Sakazuki had forcibly turned the battle situation back around with this move.