Enraged, Sengoku attacked Bucky the Clown when suddenly—
boom!!!
A powerful slash cut across the path leading to the execution platform.
This was a shocking blow to the battlefield, drawing everyone's attention.
An elderly man with glasses, slippers, and gray hair calmly stepped into the battlefield, sword in hand.
Rayleigh, the "Pluto"!
The vice-captain of the Roger Pirates! The right hand of the Pirate King!
Sengoku's face immediately darkened. With Rayleigh's appearance, the pirates had gained a powerful ally, which would bring countless variables to the battlefield.
Buggy the Clown is already a variable, and then there's Straw Hat Luffy... Damn it, it's just an execution of "Fire Fist" Ace... Forget about the Whitebeard Pirates, where did all these other guys come from?
The more Zhan Guo thought about it, the more his liver ached, and he felt like his lungs were about to explode with anger.
With no other option, they had to abandon capturing Bucky the Clown and instead deal with the newly appeared Rayleigh.
Garp is guarding the execution platform; he's the only one in the Navy who can stop Rayleigh now.
He glanced at Kizaru, who was still locked in a fierce battle with Marco the Phoenix, a truly spectacular fight, but Sengoku's face was as black as charcoal.
“Ray…First Mate Rayleigh?!” Bucky’s eyes nearly popped out of their sockets, his body shattered into pieces before snapping back together.
He was very surprised. Back when the pirate crew disbanded, he and Shanks were still young and continued to roam the seas. But the first mate and the other old guys had agreed to retire, hadn't they?
Ah, right, Ace is the captain's son...
Rayleigh also saw Bucky and smiled slightly:
"Oh, it's Bucky. It's been so many years."
Boom!
Before he could catch up with Buggy, Sengoku slammed down with a powerful palm strike, imbued with Armament Haki.
Rayleigh dodged, swung his sword backhand, and said calmly:
"Warring States period, we're old acquaintances, yet they won't even give me time to catch up. How heartless!"
Sengoku used the power of his Devil Fruit, which was the Human-Human Fruit, Mythical Zoan type, Buddha form, resembling a giant Buddha, shining with golden light.
He responded coldly:
"You shouldn't have come out after retiring. Pirates... only lead to death!"
Rayleigh extended his left index finger, adjusted his glasses, and chuckled:
"If I didn't know, that's fine, but now that I do know, how can I just stand by and do nothing?"
He was old, his blood and energy were declining, and his physical strength was not what it used to be, but he was not young either, and his fighting strength could not last.
For a short period of time, both of them were able to maintain top-level combat power.
Whitebeard glanced at Ace out of the corner of his eye and breathed a slight sigh of relief. Ace was a member of the Whitebeard Pirates; he wouldn't ask the Roger Pirates for help.
Therefore, Rayleigh and the other members of the Pirate King's crew had no idea of Ace's true identity.
However, Rayleigh appeared in a personal capacity to rescue Ace, and regardless of his reasons, the Whitebeard Pirates owe him a debt of gratitude.
Even if this was not Rayleigh's original intention.
With Rayleigh holding off Sengoku, the top-tier combatants were roughly evenly matched, while the average combatants were affected. In addition, the Straw Hat Luffy, Buggy the Clown, Ivankov and his group suddenly joined the fray, and the battlefield was temporarily locked in an extremely stalemate.
The escaped prisoners looked at Bucky with immense admiration.
Good heavens, Rayleigh, the "Dark King," actually knows Captain Buggy... It's all true, Captain Buggy really is a member of the Pirate King's crew...
Even the most skeptical people couldn't help but think that Bucky the Joker was truly a hidden mastermind.
Bucky, hands on his hips, saw his former first mate and seemed quite confident, laughing heartily as he said:
"Men, follow me and charge! Rescue the Pirate King's son!"
A group of prisoners roared, their blood boiling. On the battlefield of so many legendary figures, anyone would be filled with passion and high morale.
Following Captain Bucky, along the path Rayleigh had carved out, a group of prisoners launched their attack.
After being injected with "excitement hormones" by Ivankov, Luffy jumped up energetically and joined the charge, leading the escaped prisoners alongside Buggy.
Luffy gave Buggy a bright smile:
"Thank you, Bucky, for coming to save Ace."
Bucky snorted arrogantly:
“That’s the captain’s son… Straw Hat Boy, don’t hold him back.”
Luffy laughed:
"Don't worry, I have inexhaustible strength right now, I'm going to do something big."
This group was incredibly powerful, with Revolutionary Army cadres like Ivankov and crew members of the Whitebeard Pirates assisting them. The Navy launched a frenzied attack, but they were unable to stop them, and the group rushed to the foot of the execution platform.
It seems that the operation to save Ace is truly about to succeed.
******
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On the other side.
Red Earth, Mary Geoise.
Rumble~~~~~
Cao Ya unleashed a powerful strike, unleashing a torrent of golden light that pierced through the heavens and the earth.
He actually destroyed a corner of the Red Earth Continent. At this moment, in the eyes of the slaves and pursuers, it was as if the sky had collapsed and the earth was shaking.
Countless pairs of horrified eyes stared at the revolutionary army in the sky.
The slaves were energized and rushed down the cliff.
The thousands of pursuers from the World Government and Mary Geoise trembled slightly and turned pale.
Under the protection of the revolutionary army, they went to hunt down the escaped slaves.
Damn it! Are those lazy, good-for-nothing beasts in Mary Geoise trying to send them to their deaths?
Cao Ya looked down and single-handedly intimidated tens of thousands of soldiers.
Cao Ya's unparalleled power created an opportunity for the slaves to escape.
On the sea, the large ship controlled by Sabo, Kerla, and others rocked violently, a corner of the Red Line collapsed, and mud and rocks fell into the sea, causing a great commotion.
They happened to witness Cao Ya's destruction of a corner of the Red Earth Continent.
Everyone was immediately dumbfounded and completely stunned.
"horrible!"
"Mr. Cao Ya, shouldn't you be on the same level as Long?"
"How magnificent!"
The crew of several large ships all became agitated. They were all revolutionaries stationed in the Sabaody Archipelago, gathering intelligence.
Given the strategic importance of the Sabaody Archipelago, the revolutionary army couldn't possibly leave it unmanaged.
They weren't originally planned to use them, but since war was about to break out, and the liberation of Mary Geoise's slaves was something that Sabo and Kera alone couldn't manage to procure enough ships, they had no choice but to utilize these hidden personnel.
Cao Ya was like the sun, shining brightly with golden light and blazing flames, covering half of the sky.
At that moment, he was the "sun" in the eyes of the slaves.
In Mary Geoise, the Five Elders could no longer sit still. They reprimanded Sengoku, ordering him to quickly deal with the Whitebeard Pirates and return to Mary Geoise to provide assistance. They then moved to the Flower Room, the deepest part of Pangaea Castle in Mary Geoise, and entered a spacious and majestic hall.
Then, the five elders all knelt down.
"Lord Im!"
Above the long rows of steps stands a towering void throne, which should have been empty, but now a figure occupies it.
It fit perfectly, as if the throne had been tailor-made for that person.
The mastermind behind the world government, the most powerful being in the world—Im!
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