Chapter 244

Jinbe's gaze was resolute as he said, "We absolutely have to rescue little brother Ace!"

"Well said."

Sabo clenched his fists, staring at Garp ahead and Ace on the execution platform behind him: "Only three hundred meters left. We have to break through this layer!"

"Grandpa…"

Luffy stared at Garp ahead and clenched his teeth.

……

Apart from Luffy's group, who had charged up onto the plaza surrounded by walls at the very front, charging straight toward the execution platform.

The central position of the frozen inner sea.

Surrounded by a host of Marines, and under the joint attack of Aokiji and Huang Yuan, Luo En, holding the blood blade 'Yue', strolled leisurely step by step toward the execution platform.

Every cannonball fired at him was blocked by an invisible force several meters away from him.

Watching him approach step by step, the Marine elites ahead were all streaming cold sweat, their expressions tense and uneasy, unable to resist stepping back.

"Do not fear!"

A Marine vice admiral roared.

"He's only one person, there's nothing to be afraid of!"

He raised the long blade in his hand, hardened by Armament Haki, stamped his foot, used Soru to appear in front of Luo En, and swung his blade to slash at Luo En.

A green slash reaching the level of a swordsman, wrapped in Armament Haki, slashed toward Luo En.

"Fool!"

Not far away, Momonga, witnessing this scene, couldn't help but curse under his breath.

Facing the vice admiral's slash, Luo En's expression was calm; he casually swung the blood blade in his hand.

A blood-colored slash crushed through and split open that slash.

It slashed toward that Marine vice admiral.

"D-dodge, can't dodge it!"

In that Marine vice admiral's drastically constricted, horrified pupils, that slender, crescent-moon-like blood-colored slash appeared before him at extreme speed, slashing down toward him head-on.

Death!

That Marine vice admiral seemed to already see himself being split in two, dead.

Just at this moment.

Aokiji's voice rang out not far away.

"Ice Spear!"

An ice spear descended from the sky, landing on the ground between that Marine vice admiral and that blood-red slash, instantly forming an extremely thick ice wall that blocked that slash Luo En had casually swung out.

Luo En looked at Aokiji, who had leaped into the air, his azure Rinnegan carrying a hint of a smile: "You feel the gap in strength, yet still come to block me? Aokiji."

"Ice Pillar!"

Two enormous ice pillars shot out from Aokiji's hands, charging straight toward Luo En.

Luo En held his sword and swung once.

A massive, thick, fresh-red sword qi swept across the sky, directly shattering those two ice pillars, and with unabated momentum, slashed toward Aokiji who had leaped into the air.

Aokiji's ice-elementalized form was directly cut in two at the waist by this slash; his separated body, like ice, emitted a white-mist-like cold air from the cut.

The sky was also split open by this blood-colored slash, leaving a long fissure.

"Controlling elementalization, huh…"

Luo En glanced at Aokiji, whose form was rapidly recovering; his pupil power circulated slightly, and a brilliant light flashed in his azure Rinnegan.

Before Aokiji could recover his form, he was instantly sent flying by a terrifying repulsive force that descended abruptly!

His ice-elementalized body instantly shattered apart like ice!

Cough!

Aokiji opened his mouth and spat out a mouthful of fresh blood, his face showing pain, his eyes horrified and terrified.

"That power again…?!"

Luo En's eyes swept back.

The next second.

Several laser beams shot toward him from the air behind Luo En!

What they hit was merely an afterimage like a bubble.

Several lasers struck the ground, causing consecutive explosions; the shockwave blew the Marines and pirates nearby away.

"Dodged again?"

Huang Yuan, holding Ame-no-Murakumo, stood in the air, looking down below, his expression full of vigilance and wariness, his Observation Haki activated at full power as never before.

Whoosh!

A blood-colored slash, a thousand meters long, wrapped in Armament Haki, slashed down toward Huang Yuan from the explosion's smoke and dust.

Huang Yuan felt the might of that strike, dared not take it head-on, and had just thought to dodge.

Luo En's figure appeared from within the explosion; he extended his empty left hand, made a grasping motion in the air toward Huang Yuan, his azure eyes gleaming with a divine light.

"Bansho, Ten'in."

In an instant!

A shocking gravitational force fell upon Huang Yuan, who wanted to dodge, forcibly pulling him toward Luo En, causing him, who had wanted to evade, to instead crash head-on into that blood-colored slash cleaving from the ground toward the sky.

"What!"

Huang Yuan's face turned to one of horror.

At the critical moment, he gripped the Ame-no-Murakumo in his hands with both hands, released his Armament Haki at full power, and slashed down a sword at this slash.

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