Chapter 251

"Only just now? It seems you're nothing special as the Navy's so-called brilliant strategist."

Hearing his words, Zoro, Sanji, and Nami and the others in the distance, the Navy group, as well as Ma Erke, Jozu, and the rest of the Whitebeard Pirates all widened their eyes.

"Not for Ace…"

Brook scratched his head, thoroughly confused.

"What exactly does that mean?"

Chopper, who had transformed into his battle form, was also full of puzzlement.

Law was also staring fixedly at that side.

"If not to rescue Ace, then what did he come to this Marineford for?"

Tashigi asked in confusion.

Smoker's pupils suddenly widened.

"Could it be…"

Tina noticed his suddenly changed expression, her brows slightly drawn, and asked Smoker: "Hey, do you know something?"

Smoker did not answer her. His face looked ugly as he stared fixedly at the execution platform.

That madman—does he really mean to declare war on the World Government?!

……

Under everyone's gaze.

Fleet Admiral Zhan Guo and the Traveler Luo En faced off directly, and their conversation sent a monstrous wave crashing through everyone's heart.

"All the prisoners in Impel Down's Infinite Hell were killed by you too?!"

"That's right."

Blackbeard's expression turned somewhat ugly upon hearing this.

He hadn't expected that those 'ideal companions' he had his eye on had all been killed by him…

There's no way to take revenge now, so forget it after all.

No!

Blackbeard narrowed his eyes and glanced at Whitebeard in the distance.

As long as he could seize the Tremor-Tremor Fruit, combined with his own Dark-Dark Fruit, he might not necessarily be unable to beat that guy…

"With your ability, you could have rescued Fire Fist Ace at any time, but you didn't do that. Instead, you joined this war… If not to rescue 'Fire Fist' Ace, then what exactly are you trying to do? Answer me, Traveler Luo En!"

Zhan Guo stared at Luo En and asked the key question that everyone was concerned about.

"Declare war."

"What?"

Zhan Guo's brows knit tightly.

Luo En casually waved the blood blade Moon in his hand: "Didn't I already say? Declare war, declare war."

With a single slash he sent out a crescent-moon-like slender slash, thousands of meters long, cutting across the sky, severing the high platform behind the execution platform along with a mountain peak dozens of kilometers away, accompanied by the thunderous roar of collapsing rocks.

Luo En, who looked like a god or demon in ordinary people's eyes, looked up and smiled at Zhan Guo: "Still don't understand? I said I came here to declare war on the World Government… Fleet Admiral Zhan Guo."

Zhan Guo's pupils contracted sharply.

Garp and Vice Admiral Tsuru's expressions changed drastically.

Aokiji, Kizaru, Onigiri, Momonga and the others also had their expressions change abruptly.

The elite Navy officers were even more left with blank minds.

Luo En's words exploded like thunder in everyone's hearts, stunning into shock—whether Navy, Straw Hats, Seven Warlords, Blackbeard Pirates, or Whitebeard Pirates—none could speak.

Ace also stared blankly at Luo En.

Declare war on the World Government…

This was Luo En's purpose?

This was what he had planned to do?!

Even Marineford fell silent for an instant.

Before the screens of the visual Den Den Mushi, the ordinary people of the whole world watching this Summit War also gaped at this moment, dumbfounded.

"Declare war on the World Government…?!"

Whitebeard was also shocked by Luo En's words, stunned for a moment, then burst into laughter.

"Gurararara, declaring war on the World Government… what an extraordinary goal!!"

"This is something even Luo Jie couldn't do, kid. Can you really do it?"

A glint of anticipation flashed deep in Whitebeard's eyes.

…………

Mariejois, World Government.

The Five Elder Stars, who were watching the battle, instantly darkened in expression, and a powerful aura emanated from all five of them.

"That damned brat…"

"Daring to declare war on our World Government… how foolish!"

"Fine! Let's erase him from this world completely!"

217. The dragon head descending from the sky

"Declare war on the World Government?!"

Akainu's expression was dark and grim, killing intent surging along with his boiling magma.

"Don't be ridiculous!"

He let out a fierce roar, stomped heavily, and a large amount of magma exploded beneath his feet. The ground was forged into crimson rock, and his figure leapt high into the plaza under the force of that eruption.

Akainu's magma-liquefied massive right arm, wrapped in astonishing Armament Haki and carrying an unwavering killing intent, slammed a killing blow toward Luo En with all his might.

"Volcano. Hell Hound!"

Unleashed with the explosive force of an erupting volcano, this magma giant-fist was the equivalent of combining Great Flame with Hell Hound, perfectly displaying the terrifying destructive power of the Magma-Magma Fruit at its extreme!

Facing this killing blow from behind, from Akainu.

Luo En turned his head and glanced slightly. In an instant, Advanced Armament Haki dyed the Blood Blade Moon in his hand a purple-black color. A fresh-red, intense sword momentum intertwined with hell-black-flame-like pitch-black Haki, spiraling around the blade.

Under the stunned gazes of Zoro and Sanji.

Luo En swung his sword backward in a single slash.

"Purgatory."

That slash transformed into a violent black dragon wreathed in blood-colored flames, its ferocious eyes glaring, its body twisting with the agility of a spirit snake, and slammed hard into Akainu's incoming punch!

Heaven and earth fell silent; the wind was light and the clouds were calm.

The sword-qi black dragon and the magma Hell Hound collided violently. The surrounding air warped, scorching wind surged outward in all directions, and under countless terrified gazes, the two energies clashed ever more fiercely.

A few seconds later.

Accompanied by a deafening roar, the two gusts of wind pressure condensed to the extreme exploded with a boom. The terrifying shockwave produced by the eruption of the two massive energies, wrapped in scorching-hot air, surged outward in all directions!

In an instant, the earth shook and the mountains trembled; the entire plaza quaked.

Dozens of cracks oozing magma snaked outward from the explosion site. Some unlucky Marines were caught up in them and instantly turned to ash.

That execution platform could hold on no longer and began to collapse.

Just as Sengoku, transformed into a golden great Buddha, was about to grab Ace and jump down, Aokiji's voice rang out in the air.

"Ice… World!"

The about-to-collapse execution platform was instantly frozen, transforming into a crystalline, transparent, sturdy ice platform.

Sengoku and Tsuru, as well as naval commanders like Nezumi, turned their heads to look over there.

Aokiji and Fujitora, following Akainu, ascended onto this plaza from the frozen inner sea beneath the encirclement walls.

Right after that.

The Moby Dick, carrying Bai Huzi and Ma Erke and others, crashed through the encirclement wall that Luo En had cleaved open. Following that breach, Bai Huzi wielding his naginata, along with Ma Erke and others, also stepped onto this massive plaza in front of the execution platform.

At this point.

The battlefield of the Summit War had shifted from multiple locations to a single one.

The Marines, the Seven Warlords, the Revolutionary Army, the Traveler Luo En's group, and the entire Whitebeard Pirates had all gathered on this plaza!

"Now the real showdown is about to begin!"

On the streets of Sabaody Archipelago, Lei Li, among the crowd, stared at the screen showing Marineford and grinned: "Marines and pirates—who will actually win this war? Facing that kid Luo En's declaration of war, how will the World Government respond? Things are getting more and more interesting."

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