Chapter 332 - War 26.

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Third Person POV

Marineford, First Half of Grandline.

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In the middle of the sea, a ship was sailing as a pirate group approached Marineford. Shanks looked up at the sky darkening in the distance as the shadow of a huge serpent circled above.

"Shanks! What can we do, that's Kaido!" exclaimed one of the crew members on the ship.

Shanks watched with a furrowed brow. "What's going on there? Why are so many of them heading to Marineford too?" he said with a grim look.

"Yes, it seems this war is bigger than expected... he's already the third one. First that old man, then that guy, now Kaido himself. I thought we had dealt with him with that madness in the New World, but it wasn't enough," Beckman said in a very serious tone.

"We should hurry," Shanks murmured, contemplating the possibility of heading alone to Marineford, but it would be too risky for him to get involved by himself, and it was better to go with his crew. "Full speed ahead!" Then, he just asked to speed up the ship and so they quickly headed towards the eye of the storm forming at that moment.

Meanwhile, in Marineford, the smoke from the explosion made everyone running to the frozen bay freeze in place, wondering what was happening, as the smoke began to settle.

"Who is this? What's happening here?" Lucy exclaimed a bit lost as Ace beside her, Robin, and the others all stopped in the midst of all that smoke, sensing the danger there.

"Who is this?!" asked Jozu with a furrowed brow, while the other commanders and pirates from Whitebeard's fleet looked confused, even the marines were a bit in that state, except for the Haki users who were practically frightened as a shadow emerged from the midst of that destruction, the others didn't quite understand what it was.

"It's really disappointing to see how the navy has come to this state while all its greatest forces are being hindered by rookies who have just entered the sea, but I can't blame them," the voice echoed across the battlefield as someone emerged with a cane from a small hole he had created. "Even our holy knights and Kong are defeated."

"An old man... Who is this old man?" Lucy asked a bit confused, while almost no one there knew the identity of that man in that place.

"I don't know... I've never seen him..." said a marine, facing such an unlikely scene in the middle of that place, as he tapped the ground with his cane.

"It's just an old man... let's just kill him!" said a pirate.

"Don't make any moves!!" shouted Fossa as he put his hand in front of that pirate.

"Why not, let's finish him off!" the pirate insisted.

"You don't understand! My instincts tell me to get out of here as quickly as possible!" exclaimed Fossa again.

In Sabaody, people also looked a bit confused, not understanding what was happening there.

"Who is this old man?" Kid, with the same confusion about that new character on the screen, asked among the pirates.

"Does anyone know him?" a reporter looked at his colleagues as he shook his head negatively, not recognizing him either.

"I don't know, I've never heard of this man. Even the navy doesn't recognize him..." another reporter said.

"Maybe he's a pirate too?" people began to wonder as they talked to one another, some saying he was a lost member of Whitebeard's crew, others saying he was the navy's secret weapon.

"He... that damn man!" Bonney exclaimed with so much anger that she regretted not having gone with Luffy to Marineford, after all, he was one of the most, if not the man she wanted to kill the most in this life.

Those who did not know him could only make speculations or wait for someone to tell them, however, for those who knew the identity of that person, it was quite surprising to find him here.

"Who is the old man...?" Lami asked.

"He came here in person...?" Akainu murmured, escaping being cut by Lami while Usopp also helped her against the admiral.

"Does anyone know him...?" Teach, although not in a good mood right now, was curious to know who was the person who practically stopped the war. He even looked at Whitebeard and saw that the old man also had a confused look.

"He's here..." Shiryu murmured a bit frightened, as a former director of Impeldown, he had to deliver some reports in person to Mary Geoise, and had to speak with those five people a few times. Seeing one of them was quite frightening, as he knew those five elders could be very dangerous when they wanted to and could even make him paralyzed. "Listen, if we want to survive, it's better we get out of here..." He spoke to Teach with a tone more urgent than usual.

"Hm? What's the matter, Shiryu, are you afraid of an old man?" Catarina mocked at that moment.

"Listen here... this..." He began to speak.

But before he could speak, Luffy was still on the battlefield against Garp and Sengoku when his brow furrowed a bit, he never imagined seeing one of them here in the middle of the war. Although it was a fair action, what he could do was at least warn his comrades, so his voice echoed across Marineford.

"Listen everyone, stay away from this old man, his name is Saint Jaygarcia Saturn, he is one of the five elders who command the world, his power level is that of a Yonko!" Luffy immediately exclaimed.

"What?!" The scream was collective as everyone turned their gaze to that man.

"You have information you shouldn't have..." Jaygarcia Saturn murmured.

'That's true... how does this brat have this information...' A mental voice inside Jaygarcia Saturn was heard. It was another elder speaking mentally, after all, they can maintain contact with each other through telepathy.

'Anyway, let's destroy him here.' Jaygarcia Saturn gave his response.

'Alright, finish them all.' Another Gorosei spoke through telepathy.

"He's one of the five elders?!" Robin had wide eyes, after all, it was they who had ordered the professor's elimination.

"He rules the world government!" Buggy immediately exclaimed.

"He is one of the five elders..." A marine murmured.

"One of the legendary five elders!" A reporter exclaimed, sweating.

"Very well... since I've been introduced... I shall begin..." He started walking forward while everyone immediately took a step back. "Today, I will not rest until I kill... Nico Robin, Bepo, Monkey D. Lucy, and Monkey D. Luffy." He announced his four main targets, surprising everyone.

"Why does he want to eliminate just these 4? Not even Ace is among them." A pirate murmured, not understanding.

"Why does he want to eliminate them!?" Ace exclaimed next to Lucy and Robin, as his arm caught flames, he wouldn't mind facing someone like him.

Even though the pirates didn't understand why this being, appearing for the first time to the world, didn't have targets like Ace and Whitebeard, because as much as they were a threat to the navy, Saturn didn't see them as a threat to the government, but these last four were different, they were a threat to be eliminated.

"Tsk." Robin murmured and prepared for the fight, being one of the people closest to there.

"I won't let this old man hurt us!" Lucy murmured, getting into a fighting stance as well.

Saturn just scoffed and unleashed his Haki, and the next moment, a rain of black lightning struck Marineford, everyone there immediately felt the great power of an elder for the first time.

"What is this... I'm trembling...!" Vista murmured with wide eyes.

"Is there someone so strong hidden all this time..." Jozu murmured.

Enel and Yamato fighting with Kizaru furrowed their brows, the same could be said for Reiju and Marco against Kuzan and Lami and Usopp against Akainu.

Luffy was looking seriously at this, he had never felt such powerful Haki... "We have to retreat from here, we're not ready to defeat one of them with so many opponents dividing us..." He had to admit, after all there were the three admirals, Garp, Sengoku, and now one of the elders.

"Yamato, Enel, Lami, Reiju, and Usopp. Finish off the three admirals immediately and go to the front lines to help the others!" Luffy exclaimed loudly.

"He's here... so finally we might win this war after all." Sengoku commented while Garp looked with a furrowed brow, his two grandchildren were on his list of targets to kill.

"They need help..." Whitebeard murmured.

"He is an elder... so powerful..." Teach had to admit that this was a force he did not expect.

"Captain, be careful!!" they murmured, and the next moment, a shock threw them away, as Whitebeard decided to finish Teach quickly so he could help everyone on the other side of the crater.

Besides Robin, Lucy, and Ace, who were ready to fight the man walking in front of the crowd, Jimbei, Ivankov, Crocodile, Jozu, Vista, and many other division commanders like the fleet captains prepared for the fight, while others could barely move with the Haki. Hancock also appeared against the elder, even with a furrowed brow at that being, she still maintained helping her husband.

Nojiko, Baby-5, Alvida, and Vivi quickly went to Robin's side, while the ground cracked with giant steps, being Hachi, Bepo, Shirahoshi, Nami, Chouchou, Chopper also appeared in their giant forms. In the sky, Kuina, still transformed into Shiva, prepared for the fight.

Saturn found himself surrounded by dozens of warriors ready to fight him. "Just insects..." he said with disdain. But then, a shadow appeared above Saturn at that moment, and he looked up calmly before a huge fist of rocks exploded him with the ground beneath him, while the titan had punched him immediately, Hugo wore the same expression as always, but suddenly his eyes shone.

Everyone saw the arm buried in the ground start to tremble as it began to rise, and it wasn't because Hugo moved it. Saturn had simply caught his punch with one arm, he hadn't even been hurt at all, holding Hugo's arm with such ease.

"As I said before, merely inferior beings..." he commented and wasted no more time by throwing Hugo's arm upwards with such force that the giant struggled to balance in the next moment.

His transformation began as he created several legs around him, releasing his mythical zoan with so many unique powers, and Luffy knew the danger that represented not just because Saturn was powerful, but he could simply summon the other Goroseis to the battlefield and if those five were in this place... he and his group were not at all ready to face those beings.

Luffy would have to ask Bepo to destroy all of Mary Geoise if that happened, and he knew that man must be aware of this. After all, a rain of meteors would fall on the holy land soon after.

Zoro saw this and frowned, as he stopped fighting against Mihawk. "You're no longer focused on this fight..." Mihawk commented, and Zoro looked at him a bit frustrated.

"My friends are in danger, I can't just stay here fighting, I'm sorry..." Zoro spoke seriously.

"That's fine... You're still not ready for my title... but you certainly surprised me, it might be one of the best fights I've ever had..." Mihawk acknowledged.

"Don't worry, I'll be ready to surpass you next time we meet, Mihawk..." Zoro commented.

"I hope so, I will train as well, after all, I don't want you to try to surpass me so quickly..." Mihawk spoke, he saw Zoro's growth as a motivation for him to evolve even more, so he was looking forward to their next meeting.

Zoro nodded and disappeared from an area with giant cut marks all over the place, a small result of the fight between the two, as he went to help his friends face that monster.

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