Chapter 102: How Will You Deal With the Second One?

At this moment, the tense atmosphere suddenly darkened the sky. Dark clouds gathered at a speed visible to the naked eye.

A massive oppressive feeling descended abruptly, as if an invisible giant hand had clamped around everyone's throat. Unease was written on every face.

Luffy and Ivankov both looked up at the sky simultaneously, their expressions shifting from puzzlement to shock.

Whitebeard also frowned, his gaze solemn as he watched the sky.

"This is..." Ivankov's words were cut off by Luffy's cry of surprise before he could finish.

"What a huge rock!!" Luffy's eyes widened as he pointed at the sky and shouted.

As his voice fell, the cloud layer slowly dispersed, revealing a suffocating scene.

A gigantic meteorite slowly appeared in everyone's field of vision; its volume was larger than the entire Marineford Island, like an inverted mountain peak.

Luffy stared blankly at the giant rock in the sky, his mouth wide open. "Hey, Iva," he nudged Ivankov beside him with his elbow, "is that thing really going to fall?"

Whitebeard suddenly gripped the naginata in his hand tightly; his signature hearty smile vanished, replaced by unprecedented solemnity.

The entire battlefield fell into dead silence in an instant.

Whether Marine or Pirate, everyone's gaze was drawn to that gigantic meteorite.

"Th-this is what?" A pirate's voice was full of fear.

"Are you kidding? If that thing falls, all of Marineford will be destroyed!" A Marine soldier said tremblingly, his face pale as paper.

Even the ever-calm Aokiji couldn't help but suck in a cold breath: "This has already exceeded our expectations."

Akainu gritted his teeth, fists clenched: "Damn it, what exactly does this Madara Uchiha want to do?"

At this moment, Madara Uchiha's voice reverberated across the entire battlefield like thunder, carrying an unrivaled arrogance:

"Despair, this is the power of the Uchiha, the power of a god!"

At this moment, everyone was awed by this presence; for a time they even forgot to breathe.

Sengoku snapped back to his senses, realizing the situation had reached the most critical juncture. His gaze suddenly sharpened, and he roared: "Execute the death penalty immediately!"

The two executioners moved on command, the great swords in their hands raised high, cold light flashing, pointed straight at Ace's skull.

Seeing this, Luffy's eyes instantly widened, and he screamed at the top of his lungs: "Ace!"

At the critical moment, a blue flame suddenly tore across the sky.

"Don't move, Ace!"

"Boom!"

With a huge crash, the two executioners were blown away by a powerful shockwave before they could even react. Marco's figure appeared beside Ace.

Seeing this, Sengoku flew into a rage; he pressed his palms together, golden light flaring. "Buddha's Shock!"

An invisible shockwave whistled out, heading straight for Marco and Ace. Marco reacted extremely fast; he grabbed Ace, his wings spreading abruptly to shield Ace.

"Bang!"

The shockwave slammed heavily into Marco's wings, the tremendous force blowing both of them away. Marco held Ace tight, adjusting his posture mid-air, using the momentum to fly off into the distance.

Sengoku gritted his teeth, about to pursue, when he suddenly felt a powerful oppressive feeling descend from the sky.

He jerked his head up, only to see that gigantic meteorite plummeting at an astonishing speed.

"Damn it!" Sengoku cursed in a low voice, cold sweat streaming down his forehead.

He knew he could no longer worry about pursuing Marco; he had to find a way to deal with this greater threat. Sengoku gritted his teeth, eyes locked on the descending giant rock. He abruptly turned and roared at Garp beside him: "Garp! Stop spacing out!"

Garp started at the words, a complex look flashing in his eyes. He took a deep breath, clenched his fist, and nodded.

Sengoku, Garp, and Akainu — the three of them — almost simultaneously launched into the sky, charging toward that gigantic meteorite.

Their figures drew three long trails in the air, like three meteors streaming upstream.

"Buddha's Shock!"

"Great Eruption!"

"Fist Bone Impact!"

The three struck simultaneously; in an instant heaven and earth changed color.

Sengoku's Buddha palm was like a golden mountain, slamming heavily onto the meteorite. Garp's iron fist, wrapped in unmatched momentum, struck the meteorite's center. Akainu's magma, like a roaring fire dragon, coiled around the meteorite's surface.

"Boom!"

The three forces erupted simultaneously; all of Marineford trembled. Air waves spread outward like a physical substance, raising towering tsunamis.

The ground trembled, the sea roared, gale winds whistled as they rolled up towering waves.

The Marine soldiers and ordinary pirates on the ground could not withstand this terrifying pressure and fell to their knees one after another; even some strong elite soldiers felt a bout of dizziness, their faces turning white.

Under the all-out strikes of the three top Marine powerhouses, the giant meteorite's descent speed began to slow. Dense cracks appeared on its surface, spreading rapidly like spider webs.

"It's working!" A Marine soldier shouted excitedly, and the surrounding crowd burst into cheers.

However, although the meteorite had begun to shatter, its volume remained enormous. Hundreds-of-meters-large giant rocks kept falling, threatening the Marine Headquarters below. Kizaru and Aokiji, seeing this, immediately took action.

Aokiji pressed his hands to the ground; countless ice pillars rose from the earth, forming a solid barrier. Kizaru's figure turned into countless beams of light, each precisely striking the falling debris.

With the efforts of the two, most debris was intercepted, and the Marine Headquarters buildings were temporarily safe.

Just as everyone let out a breath of relief, Madara Uchiha's cold voice rang out again.

"Heh, not a bad performance." Madara stood atop Susanoo, looking down on everyone from above, a smile tugging at the corner of his mouth, "Then, how will you deal with the second one?"

The moment Madara Uchiha's words fell, a heart-palpitating low rumble suddenly came from the sky. Everyone looked up in unison.

They saw the cloud layer split open once more, revealing a meteorite twice as massive as the previous one, slowly manifesting and smashing downward.

Kizaru narrowed his eyes gazing up at the sky, the corner of his mouth twitching slightly: "Hey hey, you've got to be kidding."

Boom! The two gigantic meteorites collided violently in mid-air, emitting a deafening roar.

Facing the second, even more gigantic meteorite, Sengoku, Akainu, and Garp — the three of them — instantly felt a pressure impossible to resist.

"Aaaah!"

They gritted their teeth, pouring everything into resisting this terrifying power. However, even with the Marine's strongest three joining forces, they could not completely halt the giant rock's descending momentum.

At this Critical Moment, a booming laugh suddenly thundered through the clouds.

Sunlight, Whitebeard stood on the Moby Dick, his tall figure looking especially imposing in the sunlight.

"You little Demons, it seems this old man still has to take action!"

Although Whitebeard did not want to help the Marine, he knew very well that if this meteorite really fell, not only would the Marine be destroyed, but even his sons would not escape. As the strongest man in The World, he could not stand by and do nothing.

Whitebeard gripped his Naginata, his Muscles Tense, his whole body seeming to become a volcano about to erupt.

Chapter End