Moreover, those qualified to serve in the Holy Land Mary Geoise basically had at least some family connection to the Holy Land.
When they had taken up their posts, their families had thoroughly told them about the horrifying scene from more than ten years ago, when the Thunder Emperor attacked the Holy Land Mary Geoise and smashed straight through the entire Guard Corps and Army.
Because of that, these security personnel stationed in Mary Geoise, who had never experienced the storms and hardships of the outside world, were all so frightened that their legs went weak.
Under the trembling gazes of the security personnel, the dust gradually dispersed, revealing the scene within.
A dragon-headed bow, and hanging from the mast was the unmistakable flag of the Thunder God Pirates.
It was none other than the Thunder God, the ship the Thunder Emperor Roy had taken to sea!
And aboard the Thunder God, silhouettes gradually came into view one after another.
"Yasopp, Burgess, Dracule Mihawk, Jinbe, King, Gin, Daz... Those people standing on the deck are all division commanders of the Thunder God Pirates, along with the elite fighters under their command!"
"Why have the Thunder God Pirates suddenly come to Mary Geoise?!"
"Whitebeard is fighting the Marines right now, so did the Thunder God Pirates take advantage of this opening to attack Mary Geoise?"
The security personnel of Mary Geoise erupted into an uproar.
However, in the very next instant, every one of them shut their mouths.
Aboard the Thunder God, everyone stepped aside.
A figure who was not particularly tall slowly walked forward from among them.
"Gulp...!"
Everyone stared at that figure with terror filling their eyes.
"The Thunder Emperor... Roy!"
Finally, someone's trembling lips managed to utter that name.
When Roy appeared, the entire area had fallen utterly silent.
Therefore, the moment that voice rang out, everyone present could hear it clearly.
"Thud!"
Some of the more cowardly people even collapsed onto their backsides, an unidentified liquid leaking between their legs.
"Control the speed better next time, Yasopp. If I hadn't used the Float-Float Fruit, you might have shaken the Thunder God apart."
Roy glanced at Yasopp, who responded with an embarrassed smile.
Although Yasopp was extremely powerful and his Observation Haki had already reached an extraordinary level, he was still, in the end, a sniper.
Even though Roy had used Dr. Gero's advanced technology to build him an extremely high-tech firearm, a gun was still a gun.
Compared with the true top-tier powerhouses, the speed of ordinary bullets was still insufficient to pose a genuine threat to them.
Therefore, Roy had specifically given Yasopp a Devil Fruit.
The Paramecia-type Speed-Speed Fruit!
If this world possessed a Slow-Slow Fruit capable of reducing speed, then naturally, there could also be a Speed-Speed Fruit capable of increasing it.
With this fruit, Yasopp could freely accelerate the speed of his bullets.
Combined with his Observation Haki, which already allowed him to briefly foresee the future, his destructive power had increased tremendously.
At that very moment, four or five incredibly powerful auras suddenly erupted from Pangaea Castle in the Holy Land Mary Geoise.
In the blink of an eye, they had already arrived at the center of the area.
"Although I already had my suspicions and had mentally prepared myself, I still didn't expect that you, Thunder Emperor, would really come here while the Marines were fighting the Whitebeard Pirates."
Standing at the very front was an exceptionally muscular elderly man with a broad chest, tan skin, and white hair and a beard arranged into sharp spikes.
A stitched scar ran beneath his left eye.
He wore a sleeveless black shirt decorated with medals, exposing his muscular arms, along with dark green armbands and a pale yellow scarf around his neck. A white and dark gray Marine coat was draped over his shoulders.
He was none other than the current Commander-in-Chief of the World Government's armed forces—
"Steel Bone" Kong.
At this moment, he was staring solemnly at the figure standing at the very front of the Thunder God.
"And you even brought all the core fighting strength of the Thunder God Pirates with you! But this works out perfectly. It gives us the chance to wipe out all you tumors infesting the seas in one stroke!"
As Kong spoke, more and more powerful figures appeared behind him, until there were more than a dozen in total.
Most of them were Cipher Pol agents wearing masks and white coats.
"The former and current commanders of Cipher Pol's various units? Looks like they really did send their deputy commanders to the Summit War while keeping the commanders themselves here..."
King swept his gaze across them and immediately understood the situation.
"And the Marines should also have deliberately left behind some reserve forces here as a safeguard against defeat. Their deeply hidden forces should be here as well."
As the Thunder God Pirates assessed Kong and the others, Kong suddenly roared:
"Attack!!!"
Three CP0 agents behind him immediately shot forward.
At the same time, a layer of white bone armor spread across Kong's body.
The Paramecia-type Bone-Bone Fruit!
He charged straight toward Roy, but halfway there, an enormous fist intercepted him.
"Wihahahaha! Boiling Wave Motion Elbow!"
"BANG!"
Their fists collided.
Even the surrounding atmosphere seemed to faintly crack apart.
"Wihahahaha! I heard from the Captain that you're already over a hundred years old, old man! Aren't you afraid you'll suddenly drop dead of old age right here on the battlefield?"
Burgess clenched his fist and laughed arrogantly.
Before Roy transmigrated, the official information he had seen put Kong's age at over a hundred years old!
As time passed, Kong inevitably suffered a decline in his physical condition.
On top of that, he had spent his entire life fighting, leaving numerous hidden injuries accumulated inside his body.
After all, not everyone was a monster like Garp, whose strength refused to decline as he grew older.
Burgess might not be able to claim that he could defeat Kong, but relying on the special properties of the Boil-Boil Fruit, holding him back and gradually wearing him down would be more than enough!
Meanwhile, King and the others moved to intercept the three agents who had rushed forward.
The auras of these three were the strongest among all the agents present, with the sole exception of Kong.
"BANG!"
King's sharp claws collided with one agent's fist, and both men were forced backward.
But in the next instant, King's expression suddenly changed.
His body abruptly felt as though it had been restrained.
"I've been restrained? Is it some kind of binding-type Devil Fruit?... No."
King suddenly raised his head after decades of fighting across the seas and stared at the CP agent opposite him.
"It's dust!!"
(End of Chapter)
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