On the sea.
After Roy unleashed Deep Forest Emergence, the massive trees he created were still rapidly taking root and spreading like bamboo shoots after the rain.
They even began spreading toward the Marine warship!
Thick, enormous trees twisted and surged like winding dragons and snakes.
The disaster-like scene was utterly shocking.
“Not good!
These huge trees that suddenly grew out are about to spread onto the warship!
If the warship gets tangled up, it might be lifted into the sky by those giant trees!”
“What exactly is going on?
What are these trees?
Did we accidentally enter some strange island?”
“Why would there be such a bizarre place in East Blue?
This isn’t even the Grand Line!”
“Not good!
Hurry, hurry and avoid those strange trees!”
The soldiers on the warship stared at the massive, overwhelming forest and fell into panic.
But with their current strength, there was simply no way for them to stop this dense forest that had suddenly attacked.
The warship did have cannons, but against a scene like this…
Would those cannons really be useful?
“Retreat!”
“Turn the sails!
Turn the rudder and retreat backward!”
“First combat squad, put down your guns and head into the cabin to grab the manual oars!
Use every ounce of strength you have and row with everything you’ve got to help us withdraw!”
A Marine Headquarters commander aboard the warship looked at the dense forest about to spread toward them and immediately issued orders in urgency.
“Commander, this forest is spreading too fast!
I’m afraid we won’t be able to avoid it!”
The helmsman on the warship turned the wheel with all his strength.
But based on his experience, after calculating the time needed for the ship to turn around and the speed at which the forest was surging toward them…
He feared that before they could complete the turn and retreat, the spreading trees would pierce through the warship and lift it into midair.
If that happened, they would fall into an extremely dangerous situation.
After hearing the helmsman’s report, the commander hurriedly turned his gaze toward Garp and anxiously asked him for help.
“Vice Admiral Garp, I’m afraid there won’t be enough time to turn the ship around!
Can you stop the forest spreading toward us?”
Commander Ryan knew that as long as Vice Admiral Garp took action, he would definitely be able to resolve the crisis before them.
Because this Vice Admiral Garp standing before him was the heroic vice admiral of Marine Headquarters!
But unless it was absolutely necessary, he truly did not want to ask Vice Admiral Garp for help.
As the commander, asking for help so quickly made him look incompetent.
“Mm, relax.
I’m here, aren’t I?”
After hearing Commander Ryan’s request, Garp grinned and nodded.
He stepped on the air, using the Moonwalk from the Six Powers, and stood in midair.
Looking at the forest surging toward him, Garp put away his carefree grin.
Then he loosened his muscles and bones, looking as if he were casually throwing a punch.
However, as this punch was thrown, a massive blue fist imprint formed from compressed air and blasted toward the giant forest spreading ahead!
Six Powers extension technique—Finger Pistol: Flying Fist Cannon!
Boom!!!!
Countless towering trees ahead collapsed under Garp’s air fist imprint and floated across the surface of the sea.
“Excellent.
Vice Admiral Garp has solved the problem.
We don’t need to turn the rudder and flee anymore!”
After seeing the stretch of forest ahead shattered across the sea by Garp’s air fist imprint, Commander Ryan let out a long breath of relief and announced it to the soldiers under him.
At the same time, he felt deeply shaken by Garp’s powerful strength.
So this was a Marine hero vice admiral?
His reputation was truly deserved!
“Phew, that was terrifying.
I never expected to run into something so dangerous right after leaving the recruit training camp and going out to sea.
I thought… I thought I was really about to die.
Thankfully, Vice Admiral Garp solved the problem!”
A Marine recruit who had only joined a few days ago saw the scene before him.
His strength seemed to leave his body as he collapsed to the ground, looking as if he had just survived a disaster.
However, before they could celebrate for long, Garp’s surprised voice suddenly rang out.
“Mm?
These strange trees can actually regenerate?”
Garp saw that the trees his fist imprint had shattered and broken were unexpectedly sprouting and rapidly extending new branches.
In an extremely short period of time, those branches thickened again, then continued spreading outward.
This made him frown slightly.
If this forest continued developing like this, then even if he attacked again and destroyed another stretch of trees around him, the forest would still continue multiplying.
“Not good!
These trees are starting to spread again!”
Commander Ryan also saw the forest spreading toward them once more, and his expression changed slightly.
“Looks like I can only let the warship retreat first!”
Garp glanced at the warship behind him, where the Marine soldiers had fallen into panic once again, and made a decision in his heart.
Although he himself was not afraid of anything, the soldiers on the warship could easily be dragged into this.
Most of the soldiers aboard the warship he had brought were recruits from headquarters.
He had only brought these soldiers to East Blue so they could get a taste of real battle and see some blood.
Garp did not want these soldiers to die in a place like this.
Otherwise, Sengoku would definitely scold him to death.
“You all turn around and retreat first.
I’ll hold back the forest spreading this way for you!”
At the same time Garp gave the order, he threw another punch.
As the air fist imprint shot out, another stretch of trees spreading toward them was destroyed once again.
“Take advantage of the opening Vice Admiral Garp created by destroying those trees!
Withdraw as fast as possible!”
Commander Ryan carried out Garp’s order for the Marine warship to retreat.
He strained his voice.
Then hurriedly roared.