Chapter 1805

Whitebeard danced his naginata with great vigor. The half of Aokiji's body in front of him shattered, turning into broken ice and falling to the ground, while Kizaru's expression remained as usual.

Whitebeard was already very valiant to take on two Admirals at the same time. Fresh blood seeped from a finger-thick hole in his chest; this had been pierced by Kizaru's photon ray.

Stabs of pain came from Whitebeard's chest. Su Xiao had once told Whitebeard that his illness wasn't cured, but suppressed and alleviated. To fully recover, it required long-term rest combined with Su Xiao's medicinal conditioning. Unfortunately, Whitebeard didn't have time to complete these; his illness had only been suppressed for a few days before he came to fight the Navy to the death.

Whitebeard's breathing began to grow heavy, and the familiar wringing pain in his chest appeared. If he continued high-intensity combat, his heart would go on strike sooner or later.

Bright light flashed in front of Whitebeard. As he tilted his body to dodge, he swung his fist sideways. With a 'thud', the atmosphere was hammered into cracks, and Kizaru, who had ended his elementalization, staggered back a few steps.

Aokiji and Kizaru looked at each other; they both discovered that Whitebeard's breathing was starting to grow heavy.

Whitebeard also knew that he couldn't maintain his current combat power for long. Fighting three Admirals at the same time earlier had triggered his old illness. Now that Ace had suddenly broken free, as long as someone could charge over, they would have a chance to save Ace, and then they would only need to consider the problem of retreating.

Whitebeard's peripheral vision looked at the huge ice walls on both sides of the battlefield. These were the waves frozen by Aokiji at the very beginning. These two ice walls would clearly hinder the pirates' retreat.

Thinking of this, Whitebeard bent his arms in front of his chest, preparing to use the Tremor-Tremor Fruit to shatter the ice walls on both sides of the battlefield.

Seeing Whitebeard's posture, the Qiyuezhe behind the ice walls on both sides retreated quickly. They were all a bit excited. Once Whitebeard shattered these two tall ice walls, large areas of broken ice would appear on both sides of the battlefield, forming numerous bunkers. This was the perfect opportunity for them to reap benefits.

"Don't even think about it."

A voice full of vigor came. At the same time this voice appeared, several finger-thick bullets attacked Whitebeard.

Whitebeard flicked his naginata to block two bullets while turning sideways. What he didn't expect was that those two bullets pierced through the naginata and hit his chest.

Slap, slap.

The bullets didn't enter Whitebeard's body, but opened up before hitting him, sticking to his chest like suction cups.

The ground under Whitebeard's feet cracked. The gravity around him suddenly surged, causing the ground under his feet to sink by a large area.

"Two."

A man wearing a combat suit with his hair cut very short walked over. In his hand was a large-caliber black revolver.

The man flicked the revolver, the cylinder popped out, and several empty shell casings fell to the ground. Without seeing him make any movements, six bullets were inserted into the chamber—four pure black, two pure white.

"Black Obsidian, I thought you would hide until Whitebeard was heavily injured."

A slightly hoarse voice came, and the man holding the revolver paused his steps.

"Apus."

The man in the combat suit, Black Obsidian, looked toward the source of the sound. A thin, pale man with dark green short hair walked over.

"Since you've come, of course I won't continue to watch the fun. Besides... there's a fierce 'newcomer' over there, though that guy doesn't look like a 'newcomer' who just promoted to the Fifth Tier at all."

Apus didn't give off a strong sense of oppression, but the pregnant woman following behind him was terrifying. The pregnant woman's belly was very large, and the thing inside seemed as if it would break out of the body at any moment.

Aokiji and Kizaru only glanced at those two Fifth Tier Qiyuezhe. Clearly, these two had already gained the initial trust of the Navy, but the looks Aokiji and Kizaru gave Apus were a bit off, especially Aokiji—he had seen the pregnant woman behind Apus last night.

"Then let's begin. Even if Portgas D. Ace can leave, it must be as a corpse."

The flesh on Apus's face withered. With a 'thud', the pregnant woman behind him fell to the ground, and a transparent creature about one meter tall crawled out from the pregnant woman's abdomen. If it weren't for the blood on this creature's body, everyone present except Apus wouldn't have noticed its existence. This wasn't invisibility, but traveling through the cracks of a different dimension.

Black Obsidian, Apus, Aokiji, and Kizaru surrounded Whitebeard in a diagonal shape. This situation was several times more dangerous than Whitebeard being besieged by three Admirals.

An abnormal fluctuation appeared on Whitebeard's left side. He raised his arm almost instinctively. Before any attack appeared, a piece of skin and flesh on his forearm disappeared, feeling as if it had been shaved off by an invisible blade.

Whitebeard wasn't surprised. He had been roaming the seas for decades and had fought against fruit ability users even more bizarre than this.

The gravity around him that was gradually becoming stronger was affecting Whitebeard. These two bullets didn't know what structure they were, but they hadn't been destroyed by the Tremor-Tremor Fruit ability. Whitebeard's hand clawed toward the bullets on his chest, but Aokiji and Kizaru had already charged forward.

On the other side of the battlefield, Su Xiao stood among a large group of pirates. After Ace broke free, he stopped charging forward, with Amu, covered in cold air, standing behind him.

The process of the Whitebeard Pirates killing their way onto the port earlier had been too smooth. According to Su Xiao's memory, in the original work, Sengoku had set up steel walls in front of the port. Once those walls rose from the outer ring of the port, they could trap the Whitebeard Pirates within the U-shaped port. Combined with the interception of the Pacifistas under the sea in the rear, the Whitebeard Pirates would definitely suffer heavy casualties.

But until now, Sengoku hadn't done so, instead letting the Whitebeard Pirates charge into the plaza within the port.

Su Xiao looked toward the vicinity of the execution platform. Ace's situation was already precarious; Sengoku alone had beaten Ace until he had no power to fight back.

Ace was very weak. He had been imprisoned in Impel Down before, suffering several brutal beatings every day. Even without the Sea Prism Stone shackles now, the combat power he could exert was very limited.

Clearly, Sengoku had a backup plan, and this plan went against the Navy's style, which was why the other party was in such a hurry to cut off all broadcast Den Den Mushi within ten minutes.

Sengoku's plan was not yet known, but Su Xiao could be certain of one thing: Sengoku's plan wasn't aimed at Ace, but at Whitebeard.

Why did the Navy execute Ace with such fanfare? To announce that Ace was the son of the Pirate King? To increase the Navy's deterrent power? To eradicate evil pirates?

None of those. Su Xiao could be certain that Sengoku setting up such a big scene was to target Whitebeard, or rather, to crush the Whitebeard Pirates. Executing Roger's only son sounded shocking, but in reality, the Navy couldn't gain much; most of it was honorary. For such an ethereal thing, would Sengoku set up such a big scene? Consuming several years of military budget? War is the most money-burning thing, bar none.

But once Whitebeard fell, the New World would immediately become chaotic. The other Four Emperors would begin to fight for Whitebeard's territory. That would be the Navy's opportunity—the opportunity to enter the New World.

The New World had always been a thorn in the Navy's heart. The Four Emperors had already formed a balance. Although they would fight among themselves, once the Navy showed signs of entering the New World, they would immediately turn their guns and drive the Navy out.

Publicly executing Ace was just for the public to see. The Navy's true purpose was to break the balance of the New World, find a way to create a large piece of fat meat for the pirates to fight over, and have the Navy take the opportunity to enter the New World in force and gain a firm foothold.

The Four Blues and the first and second halves of the Grand Line were all Navy stations. As long as the Navy entered the New World and controlled it, they would have a chance to prevent the emergence of great pirates at the source.

"It can begin."

Su Xiao contacted Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang. Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, who had been waiting for a long time, approached Ace.

Boom!

A roar came from near the execution platform; it was the shockwave emitted by Sengoku. But Ace had already disappeared from near the execution platform. Just now, this little master of courting death had been hammered half-dead by Sengoku, and Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang took the opportunity to approach him and use the Wolf Clan heirloom to escape.