One Piece: Surrounded at Marineford? Just kidding!

Chapter 571: You've changed your substitute again, Im!

The residual force of Whitebeard's punch had not yet dissipated.

The battlefield paused briefly.

Neither the giant warriors who had been corrupted nor the nightmare monsters dared to make any rash moves. The powerful aura emanating from the three—Whitebeard, Rocks, and Shanks—made them fearful as well.

Even the members of the Knights of God were too frightened by the three to make any rash moves.

The pressure on the giant warriors dropped sharply.

The giant warriors were given a brief respite. Several giant warriors rushed into the still-smoking ruins.

His companion was forcefully pulled out of the rubble.

But the crisis has not subsided.

Higher up, the woman in white stood silently, overlooking the entire battlefield.

She lowered her head.

A direction was precisely locked in.

That was the retreat route for the giant children and women.

Several giant warriors were protecting a group of terrified and crying children as they moved deeper into the World Tree.

The woman in white had cold eyes.

"Somaz".

The woman in white's voice wasn't loud, but it reached Somaz Saint's ears precisely.

Somaz, who was on the right side of the battlefield, suddenly braked.

"Disengage from the main battle line."

"Go after the giant's child."

"We must capture them all."

The order was passed down.

Without any hesitation, since they couldn't break these soldiers' tough bones by striking them head-on, they decided to directly target their weaknesses.

Capturing a giant child and making them submit is not a problem.

Somaz grinned, his jagged teeth grinding together.

He whirled around, his legs shattering the rock face as he kicked, his figure becoming a blur of thorns. He completely abandoned the direct confrontation, like a wild dog that had caught the scent of blood, relentlessly biting at its most vulnerable prey.

The woman in white moved her gaze again, this time fixing it on the three figures standing in the center of the ruins.

Whitebeard.

Rocks.

Shanks.

Those three damn guys are here again!

"Everyone, listen to my command!"

The woman in white's voice suddenly rose, carrying an irresistible, chilling aura of death.

She then gave the remaining Knights of God a death order.

"Abandon the pursuit and kill."

"Deal with these three men who suddenly barged in."

"They must die here."

The fierce offensive originally aimed at the giant warriors changed its target in an instant.

The members of the Knights of God turned around in unison, and the mindless fire-dead monsters twisted their massive bodies to prepare to surround and kill the three.

The formation of three people is tightened rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye.

In the center of the battlefield.

Lox remained completely calm, ignoring the surging tide of God's Knights members and the nightmare monsters.

He suddenly looked up, his gaze fixed on the high place above.

Rocks stared intently at the woman in white on the platform.

Then, he unleashed his full Observation Haki.

Im's aura clung to the woman, impossible to hide no matter how she tried to conceal it.

Lox was instantly excited, a wildly excited and cruel smile spreading across his face.

He knew instantly.

The woman standing on the platform was not a member of the Knights of God at all. This body was just an empty shell, and there were two consciousnesses inside it.

This is Im, the one who sits high on the Void Throne, and his newly appointed stand-in.

Hahahaha!

Suddenly, Lockes threw his head back and laughed wildly, the sound waves turning into a tangible shockwave that caused the surrounding collapsed stone walls to crack again.

He laughed until tears welled up in his eyes, then suddenly raised his right hand and pointed his index finger straight at the woman in white on the platform.

"I thought it was some stray dog ​​barking up there!"

Rocks launched into a tirade, his voice so loud that everyone present could hear it.

He launched into a tirade of abuse in front of everyone present.

"You rat hiding in the sewer!"

Lox roared his mockery, each word dripping with blood.

"You think you can fool me just because you've changed your appearance!"

The atmosphere on the battlefield instantly became tense.

Rocks stomped his foot forward, and a burst of black and red Conqueror's Haki erupted from beneath his feet, instantly crushing the surrounding rocks into powder.

"No matter how many stand-ins you use!"

"You can never hide that disgusting stench you emanate, Im!"

This provocation was like a thunderclap.

The members of the Knights of God turned pale; they couldn't believe it!

Lox dared to reveal Im's identity in public.

On the high platform.

Upon realizing that he had been exposed, Im's Stand looked extremely ugly.

He was once again publicly insulted by her, whom she considered an ant, as a rat in a sewer.

This is a humiliating disgrace, an absolutely unforgivable blasphemy.

"Shut up!"

The woman in white let out a roar.

Im was enraged once again.

"Everyone, charge!"

"Tear him to pieces!"

Im pointed at Lox, his fingertips trembling violently with extreme anger.

"Tear his mouth apart! Bite his flesh off piece by piece! Deal with this scum first, then go kill the other two!"

When the death order was given, Im completely lost his composure.

All she wanted to do now was to crush Rocks' arrogant face into a pulp.

on the ground.

Faced with the enraged god and the ferocious enemies rushing at him from all sides, Whitebeard didn't even blink.

He slammed the massive Murakumo-giri down onto his broad right shoulder.

"Gulalalalalala".

The white-bearded man let out a deafening, hearty laugh.

He glanced at the rapidly approaching Qilin Gom Saint and his group, his eyes filled with undisguised contempt.

"The bastards from God Valley have always been a shoo-in for me."

The white-bearded man's voice was strong and clear, drowning out the howling wind and snow.

"So many years have passed, and it's still not good enough!"

His right arm muscles bulged suddenly, a dangerous glint flashed on the blade of the Murakumogiri sword, and his fighting spirit was rising steadily.

And beside the two of them.

Shanks kept his lips tightly closed; he neither smiled nor made any sarcastic remarks.

He even looked away from Im's double on the platform; the aura of fury couldn't attract his attention at all.

Because at that moment, Shanks' attention was entirely focused on the other end.

There, an extremely powerful sword pressure was rapidly approaching.

This sword pressure was so familiar to him, so familiar that even from this distance, he still felt it very well.

Shanks's dough slowly tightened, and his pupils contracted sharply.

That's the look a wild beast gives when it's staring down its prey.

"It's finally here."

He silently recited it in his heart.

The battlefield directly ahead.

Qilin Gom Saint and the others had all turned around. The killing intent of dozens of top experts, mixed with violent domineering aura, crashed down on the three of them like a tangible Mount Tai.

The meat grinder is about to turn.

At that very moment, the snow curtain in the distance suddenly tore apart.

An extremely piercing sound suddenly exploded, and a terrifying sword pressure, visible to the naked eye, like a sharp blade cutting through white paper, ripped a huge, long gash in the swirling snow.

The blizzard split in two, swirling wildly to both sides.

All those still alive, whether giant warriors or elite knights of the gods, felt a chill run down their spines.