Chapter 127: Alucard vs. Whitebeard
In the blink of an eye, Alucard had already destroyed four pirate ships affiliated with the Whitebeard Pirates.
He'd discovered that Tom had installed quite a few interesting contraptions on his ship. Though he didn't know the exact type of steel, the ship's bow seemed to be crafted from incredibly sturdy material, allowing it to ram through vessels more than ten times its size without issue.
Whitebeard's eyes narrowed. He suddenly crossed his hands, each reaching for the opposite shoulder, as if grasping something in the air.
"Hmph..." A low growl rumbled from Whitebeard's throat. Two seconds later, he forcefully clutched, as if tearing something apart in the very air itself.
"Everyone, get down!" Marco, his body wrapped in bandages, had returned to the battlefield. Upon seeing Whitebeard's movement, he urgently shouted.
The Whitebeard Pirates didn't actually need his warning; they instinctively grabbed onto the nearby ship railing and mast to stabilize themselves. Marco's shout was primarily to alert those on the pirate ships beyond the Moby Dick.
Boom!
"Hm?" Accompanying a devastating roar, Alucard immediately sensed something was wrong. The sea before him began to tilt, and the pirate ships, which had been preparing to attack, also began to list and sink.
Rising from his throne at the bow, Alucard surveyed the surrounding sea, his eyes narrowing slightly. "The power of the Tremor-Tremor Fruit."
Around Alucard, the entire sea was like a cake on Whitebeard's table, sliced into uneven, tilting pieces. Even Alucard himself, let alone the other pirates who witnessed this, was stunned.
The cuts in the tilted sea were impossibly smooth and straight, rising and falling erratically. This move also created a massive distance between Alucard's ship and the other pirate vessels, temporarily preventing further attacks.
Could he achieve such precise control even before he got old?
Feeling the violent tremors from beneath the ship, the pirates under the Whitebeard Pirates clung tightly to anything they could grab, shouting in disbelief, "This is too much! Pops' quakes!"
"Looks like you won't let me keep playing games." Alucard returned to his seat, turning the iron ship's bow.
Because Whitebeard had tilted and segmented the sea with his Tremor-Tremor Fruit power, the sea beneath the iron ship was pulled dozens of meters into the air. Thus, from Alucard's position, looking towards Whitebeard shifted from an upward gaze to a downward one.
"Then, let's go straight for the jugular." Hidden Shadow once again controlled the ship. With intense acceleration, Alucard's ship shot across the water like a bolt, using the differences in sea elevation to surge towards the Moby Dick, soaring into mid-air.
Whitebeard gripped his naginata again and chuckled, "You snot-nosed brat!"
Tens of nautical miles away, a Marine fleet of ten warships lined up, aiming to observe the battle between Alucard and the Whitebeard Pirates firsthand. However, in an instant, a colossal wave, powerful enough to blot out the sky, surged towards them.
In the astonished gaze of the Marines, it crashed down like an ancient beast.
"W-what is that?!"
"A giant wave!?"
The commanding Marine Vice Admiral quickly drew his sword and swung sword slashes, attempting to cut open the colossal wave. But their slashes could only, at most, weaken the wave's power; they were ultimately swallowed.
In just one move, six of the ten warships were completely sunk!
After a good while, the surviving soldiers fearfully asked, "What just happened, Vice Admiral!"
A man in a suit with a handlebar mustache stared in the direction the massive wave had come from. He gnashed his teeth and said, "So they've finally started fighting, Whitebeard... From the looks of it, the Whitebeard Pirates must have suffered considerable losses to make him so enraged..."
After muttering a few words to himself, the mustachioed man spoke to his subordinates, who hadn't been swept into the sea, "Get me the Den Den Mushi. Inform Fleet Admiral Kong!"
"Yes, sir!"
At the docks of Marine Headquarters, Marineford, Tsuru, leading her female soldiers, was disembarking from a warship. Suddenly, she heard an alarm blaring from the center of the Headquarters building, broadcast to the entire town. She frowned, "What's going on?"
A Marine soldier responsible for intelligence, hearing Tsuru's question, immediately saluted and reported, "Report, Chief of Staff! Whitebeard is causing a ruckus in the Lubloom Sea in the New World!"
"Hm?" A glint of wisdom flashed in Tsuru's eyes. "Who's the opponent?"
"It's... It's Alucard, one of the Beneath the Legends!" the Marine soldier said, his brows furrowed. Clearly, they were all very anxious because of this incident.
Alessia, walking behind Tsuru to her right—no, now to be called Shirokitsune, her eyes narrowed as she heard the name "Alucard," her mind lost in thought.
"Those damn bastards, they can't stay quiet for a moment... Aotori (Blue Bird), take Shirokitsune to the recruit department to report. Everyone else, gather at the training grounds for drills. I'm going to report to Fleet Admiral Kong." Tsuru quickly issued orders as she led her group towards the Headquarters building.
"Aotori" was also a codename for a female Marine, one of Tsuru's capable subordinates.
"Yes, ma'am!" The female soldiers responded in unison, carrying out Tsuru's orders.
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