Chapter 283

"If you can't even beat a guy like this, how are you going to catch up to that person?! Luffy, you can still fight, right!"

"Ah."

Luffy wiped blood from the corner of his mouth, walked over to his side, and stared at Weevil with determination:

"Of course!"

Just as both sides were about to clash again.

A figure appeared from behind.

"My, my, you all seem to be struggling pretty hard."

Everyone turned to look.

The newcomer wore a fluffy winter hat covered in leopard spots, obscuring the upper half of his face, and carried a long sword named Ghost Cry as he walked toward Luffy and the others from behind.

Shiryu, wielding the long blade Rainstorm, eyed the man with narrowed eyes: "The former Warlord of the Sea, Trafalgar Law."

"No choice."

Law stepped forward one by one until he stood beside Luffy and the others, gripping the demon sword Ghost Cry, then lifted his gaze toward Weevil and said: "I'll lend a hand too."

Luffy, Zoro, Kid, Killer, Law, Hawkins, and Cavendish joined forces to fight Weevil together!

…………

Below the Red Line, at the Marine Headquarters base at the estuary.

Diamond Jozu led the remnants of the Whitebeard Pirates to storm the encircling wall first, engaging in brutal combat with the elite Marines defending the base.

The Beasts Pirates' ships and the Revolutionary Army's vessels came into contact with the Marine warships, turning the large vessels into battlefields as explosions from cannon fire roared and combat erupted.

The entire sea and this Marine base became a battlefield of raging fire and chaos, brutal and bloody!

Chakkyu faced off against Jozu.

Ryokugyu, far out at sea, fought Jack and Queen alone.

Garp, Onigumo, and other Marine Admirals were battling the Beasts Pirates' Flying Six and other true fighters.

Tina, Smoker, and other Vice Admirals were fending off attacks from the Beasts Pirates' Zoan-type ability users across this battlefield.

Daz Bones and other Marine officers led elite Marines against the Revolutionary Army's Four Great Commanders and their troops.

Momonga stood atop the highest point of the base, controlling the entire battlefield's flow, occasionally slashing to deflect attacks from the ten airborne airships.

……

From top to bottom across the entire Red Line.

War erupted in full force!

245, the gaze across heaven and earth

Mary Geoise.

Fire, hurricanes, magma, lightning, freezing, shockwaves, lasers… powerful forces collided, and magnificent, solemn buildings crumbled like paper, the ground split open, and Mary Geoise itself seemed ready to be shattered from top to bottom.

The Celestial Dragons within the city watched this scene, trembling with unbearable fear.

"Where are the Five Elders? Why haven't the Five Elders appeared yet?"

An elderly Celestial Dragon exclaimed in horror: "Quickly activate that thing, or the Holy Land will be destroyed!"

"That's right! There's still that great treasure!"

"Use it now! We don't want to die here!"

The Five Elders stood at the window atop the World Government castle, gazing at Mary Geoise, which faced annihilation.

"The castle can be rebuilt if it's destroyed, but if we lose this war, we'll have nothing left."

The bald Five Elder held the first-generation Ghost Cut, his expression grim.

"These should be all the forces that guy has gathered, but we still have plenty of strength left."

The golden-haired Five Elder crossed his arms, coldly stating: "If they think they can topple the World Government with just these people, they vastly underestimate the World Government's eight-hundred-year power."

Kong, Garp, the five of us, that great treasure capable of summoning the ancient weapon Sky King, and the one deep within the ancient city…

This is the power held by the World Government, which has ruled the seas for eight hundred years and controlled this world!

No one can shake it!

"Tornado, Bad Wind!"

The massive body of the dragon Kaido shattered the surrounding ice as it spun through the air, unleashing an immensely violent wind pressure that sliced in all directions!

A wind blade cut through Kuzan in half, splitting his frozen body into two pieces, yet no blood spilled forth.

Seeing Kuzan unable to contain Kaido's destructive power.

Kong, standing below the World Government castle, watched this and frowned, then glanced around at the chaotic battlefield and the top floor where the Five Elders stood.

"Garp, you… ah, never mind."

Kong sighed.

He stomped his foot, leapt high into the air toward the dragon Kaido, raised his thick, muscular right fist, hardened it with powerful Armament Haki, and slammed it down with full force onto Kaido's head.

Boom!

The sound echoed.

He directly knocked the massive dragon's body from the sky down to the ground!

"It's the Fleet Admiral!"

"Fleet Admiral Kong has acted!"

"One blow and he's taken down the Four Emperor Kaido… damn, that's incredible!"

"No wonder he's Fleet Admiral Kong!"

The elite Marines and government forces, witnessing this, instantly perked up—their morale, previously crushed, surged upward.

……

Bang.

The underground prison shuddered violently as the great dragon Kaidou slammed heavily into the ground.

Garp looked up and grinned: "That old man finally made his move."

Lucci asked, puzzled: "Old man?"

"I mean old Kong."

"Fleet Admiral Kong?"

"Mm."

A flash of shock passed through Lucci's eyes.

As far as he knew, Fleet Admiral Kong, known as the Steel Bone, had not made a move for quite a long time now.

Probably not since Vice Admiral Garp was hailed as the Hero of the Navy…

Lucci looked at Garp, who was sitting cross-legged outside the cage: "Mr. Garp, you've been staying here the whole time—is it really all right for you not to join the fight?"

Hearing Lucci's words, Garp lowered his head in silence for a moment, then looked up and grinned at him: "It's fine. This old man has already made up his mind to retire and head home."

Lucci stared at him blankly.

Cloaked in his Justice coat, Garp—seated cross-legged before the cage—lowered his head, clenched both fists, and murmured: "This old man is already old. The justice and order on this sea can't always be carried on the shoulders of an old bag of bones like me. As a marine, I've already done everything I should have done. Now let me be willful one last time…"

…………

With the entry of the Phoenix Ma Erke and the Steel Bone Kong into the battle.

The battlefield at Mariejois grew ever more chaotic and immense.

Logia users, Mythical Zoan users, supreme taijutsu masters armed with Haki, Paramecia users, great swordsmen versed in the way of the blade—strongmen whose abilities and techniques poured forth in endless waves—were all tangled together in melee.

The scale was unprecedented.

Or… it could be called the greatest, most astonishing battle since the World Government was founded eight hundred years ago!

Unprecedented and never to be surpassed!

Navy officers who had mastered the Six Powers and two colors of Haki, and elite marines who had mastered two colors of Haki, could no longer be counted as weak—yet now they had absolutely no right to take part in this war!

And as this war has gone on until now.

Neither side has yet revealed its full strength!

Each still has cards left to play.

Just as Luo En once said.

The Summit War that surpassed everyone's imagination is nothing more than the prelude to this war.

Compared with this world war that will decide the future course of the world, it hardly counts as anything at all.

The outcome of this war—even someone whose Observation Haki has reached the very peak—probably cannot foresee.