Chapter 281

"I understand."

Vice Admiral Tsuru had just risen to her feet.

The air pressure in the sky suddenly sank.

The Five Elder Stars inside the World Government's tallest building changed expression.

Steelbone Kong, Sengoku, and the commander of CP0 all jerked their heads up.

Inside the underground prison.

Garp, who had been sitting cross-legged in front of Lucci's cage, also stood up, his gaze heavy as he looked upward.

Their line of sight seemed to pierce through layer upon layer of walls, seeing the sky above Mariejois.

"He's come!"

At this very moment.

Above the plaza of Mariejois.

Gathered there were the most elite—five thousand Navy officers and soldiers capable of using both types of Haki, along with three thousand of the Government's finest troops.

All wore coats of justice, swords in hand, expressions solemn and cold, their momentum like a rainbow.

Aokiji, Fujitora, and Akainu—the three Navy Admirals—wore their coats of justice, standing at the front of the crowd.

The atmosphere was tense and oppressive, like the prelude to an approaching storm, pressing down so heavily that many battle-hardened elite Navy soldiers could barely breathe.

The instant they felt the sudden change in air pressure around them.

The three raised their heads to look at the sky at the same time.

Aokiji frowned, his gaze solemn,

Fujitora stared with eyes that were only whites, his expression calm.

"So it's an attack from the sky after all…"

Akainu gazed at the sky, his face grim, his right arm gradually beginning to turn to magma.

The surrounding Navy officers and marines followed the three men's gaze toward the unremarkable sky, most of them looking utterly bewildered.

What's going on?

Some Navy officers seemed to realize something, their pupils shrinking sharply as they looked at the sky.

"Could it be…?!"

Boom boom boom!

As if to confirm their guess.

The clouds in the sky were suddenly torn apart, and a massive shadow instantly appeared above Mariejois!

"You've got to be kidding!"

"An attack like this…"

"Damn it!"

A crowd of Navy officers and World Government members stared at the sky, their faces draining of color in horror.

Some who had not yet reacted, upon seeing the enormous black shadow in the sky growing closer, now realized what was happening, their hearts trembling violently.

"I-is that an entire island!!!"

This island was far larger than the one Luo En had previously hurled at Mariejois.

At least ten times bigger, if not more.

Now, pulled by gravity, it plummeted downward, faster and faster.

And that wasn't all.

Along with the appearance of that island, a heaven-shaking dragon's roar rang out across the sky.

Under the horrified gazes of the crowd.

The massive form of the great dragon Kaido burst out from the clouds, charging together with that island straight toward the Holy Land of Mariejois!

The density of the air was rising rapidly, and many window panes exploded outright under the powerful wind pressure!

The residents of the Holy Land of Mariejois and the Celestial Dragons stared at this scene like a world-ending catastrophe, their eyes nearly popping out of their skulls, terror at its absolute peak! "No…!!!!!!"

Steelbone Kong, Sengoku, and the CP0 commander had just rushed out of the palace when they witnessed this scene, their expressions instantly turning ugly beyond measure.

The great dragon Kaido plunged toward Mariejois below, a wild, arrogant roar erupting from his maw: "Let the World Government be destroyed this day!"

Some Celestial Dragons fainted on the spot from his roar alone.

Many of the older Celestial Dragons also turned deathly pale.

"T-this must be a dream, right?!"

"How could the World Government possibly be destroyed! That's absolutely impossible!"

Some Celestial Dragons wore twisted, crazed expressions.

"We are Celestial Dragons, descendants of the gods! There is no power on this sea that can destroy us!"

Watching the island and the great dragon draw closer and closer.

"Ice…"

Aokiji struck first.

He waved his hand, and a ring of blue ripples spread toward the great dragon Kaido, everything they passed over freezing into ice.

The great dragon Kaido opened his jaws and spewed a blast of fiery breath, scorching flames colliding with the cold air!

Fujitora drew his blade and slashed, sending a ring of purple gravity waves soaring into the sky, sinking into the plummeting island; the island's descending speed gradually slowed.

"Great Eruption!"

Akainu leaped high into the air, his magma-wreathed fist smashing down toward the island above Mariejois like a volcanic eruption!

Boom!

Countless streams of lava splashed outward in all directions, incinerating and melting anything they touched—even stone was no exception.

As Akainu continued to amplify the power of his lava.

Winding cracks filled with lava gradually appeared across that island, spreading from the bottom until they covered the entire island.

In the end, under a single palm strike from Sengoku—who had transformed into a golden great Buddha—in the airspace above, it shattered completely!

"Gravity Domain."

Fujitora said in a low voice.

Instantly, a purple circle formed beneath his feet and expanded outward in an instant.

The fragments of the island plummeting from the sky immediately came to a halt above Mary Geoise, floating in a state of zero gravity.

Before a group of elite Marines could even catch their breath.

Fierce firelight and dazzling golden light flared simultaneously in the sky.

Two youthful voices rang out from above.

"Dai Enkai · Entei!"

"Flash, Dragon's Breath!"

Under the gazes of countless onlookers whose hearts trembled.

A fireball like a miniature sun came crashing down from the sky, wrapped in killing intent, straight toward Admiral Akainu!

And that dragon-shaped flash, coiled in Armament Haki, shot in a perfectly straight line from above toward Fleet Admiral Sengoku!

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244, Entering the Battle One After Another!

Akainu and Sengoku's expressions changed, and they immediately struck back.

"Ryuudoken!"

A massive dog-head-shaped lava fist rose to meet that enormous sun-like fireball.

The powerful shockwave from Sengoku's golden giant palm transformed into a sphere and violently collided with that dragon-shaped flash.

With a thunderous boom, the air exploded apart!

A fierce gale blew outward in all directions.

"Red Dog, today is the day you die!"

Accompanied by a furious roar.

A figure wreathed entirely in flames came plummeting down from the sky.

"Fire Fist Ace!"