CHAPTER 187: CHAPTER 187: THE ONCE INVINCIBLE WHITEBEARD, THE IMPENDING SUMMIT WAR

A week after the end of the Battle of Banaro Island.

An article, authorized by Mary Geoise and the Marine Headquarters to Morgans, who had also contracted the printing and labor costs of the World Economic Journal, was printed in countless copies. Like the world live broadcast of the War of the Era that Karl had created, it was spread all over the world by a large number of news coos.

This act of distributing a large number of newspapers to not only prosperous and backward islands, but even uninhabited islands, without charging a fee.

Undoubtedly, this news had shaken the entire sea in just half a day.

"Fire Fist Portgas D. Ace Captured, to be Publicly Executed in Fifteen Days! A New Member of the Seven Warlords of the Sea - Blackbeard Marshall D. Teach!"

When the world saw the headline of this news, their eyes widened, and their faces were filled with a deep horror.

The weak were even more terrified.

"Fire Fist... that Fire Fist?!"

"Portgas D. Ace, the second division commander of the Whitebeard Pirates, has actually been captured, and the Navy is going to publicly execute him!"

"The sky is about to fall! Is the Marine Headquarters going to war with the Whitebeard Pirates?!"

"Will the Whitebeard Pirates respond? They will definitely respond, right? After all, on this sea, who doesn’t know that you absolutely cannot touch Whitebeard’s son, or else you will have to bear the wrath of the Whitebeard Pirates?!"

"The world’s strongest pirate crew VS the Marine Headquarters! If it happens, what level of war will it be?!"

"..."

Like a storm brewing.

With the influence of this news spreading throughout the world, the atmosphere of the entire world became extremely oppressive.

Whether it was the pirates in the first or second half of the Grand Line, they all seemed to feel the pressure, and they didn’t even dare to breathe loudly.

Since the beginning of the Great Age of Pirates, one of the overlords of the New World and the true overlord of the sea were finally going to have a full-scale collision.

The Navy was targeting the man who ruled this era, and who, before the birth of the one who would name the new era, was still the world’s strongest man of his era - Whitebeard Edward Newgate.

And his world’s strongest pirate crew - the Whitebeard Pirates.

Fifteen days, a short half a month!

The pirates of the whole world would be able to see and hear about the huge commotion caused by the Whitebeard Pirates and the Marine Headquarters.

First, the pirates of the New World had felt the wrath of the world’s strongest man at the first moment.

With just one blow... the 23 military surveillance ships that were responsible for monitoring the Whitebeard Pirates were instantly destroyed by a huge tsunami.

Having lost their eyes to monitor the Whitebeard Pirates, neither Mary Geoise nor the Marine Headquarters knew what the Whitebeard Pirates were preparing next.

But what they did know was that the affiliated pirate crews of the Whitebeard Pirates, which were scattered all over the New World, were all heading to the sea area where the Moby Dick was.

Obviously, the Whitebeard Pirates had not only destroyed the military surveillance ships to vent their anger, but had also gathered all their family members.

The Marine Headquarters’ commotion was even greater than that of the Whitebeard Pirates.

Whether it was for the face of Mary Geoise and the Marine Headquarters, or for the importance they attached to that world’s strongest man and his world’s strongest pirate crew...

Sengoku had mobilized the elite soldiers and generals of the Marine branches in the Four Seas and the first and second halves of the Grand Line, and had ordered them all to gather at Marineford within half a month.

At the same time, the Marine Headquarters had obtained authorization from Mary Geoise and had issued a mandatory summons to the six members of the Seven Warlords of the Sea.

Dracule Mihawk, Bartholomew Kuma, Gekko Moria, Marshall D. Teach, Doflamingo, and Jinbe, who had received the summons, had all set off for Mary Geoise.

After Mary Geoise, as in the original story, Jinbe, because he had opposed the war between the Marine Headquarters and the Whitebeard Pirates, had been locked up in the great undersea prison, Impel Down.

One hundred thousand elites, the base commanders of the various branches, the vice admirals and rear admirals of the various departments, one of the three great powers, the Seven Warlords of the Sea, the highest combat power, the three admirals, the Marine hero, Garp, and the Fleet Admiral of the Navy, Sengoku the Buddha.

...The Navy’s great lineup to deal with the Whitebeard Pirates.

To be honest... this lineup, let alone the Whitebeard Pirates, even the Charlotte Linlin and Kaido pirate alliance couldn’t beat.

From this, one could see how much the Marine Headquarters thought of Whitebeard as an individual.

There was no other way. Sengoku had not seen Whitebeard make a move for decades.

Decades ago, Whitebeard was at his peak.

And how terrifying was a peak Whitebeard?

He was as strong as the Pirate King, and if it were a life-and-death battle, a healthy and uninjured Whitebeard would definitely have an advantage over the terminally ill Roger.

If another level were to be added above the Emperor level, then the young Whitebeard was undoubtedly a king-level powerhouse.

Flying through the sky, burrowing into the ground, turning over rivers and seas, omnipotent. All these could be used to describe the peak Whitebeard.

At that time, Whitebeard was truly invincible.

There were only a few people who could fight him to a draw.

There was not a single person who could win!

It was just a pity that the 72-year-old Whitebeard’s physical function had deteriorated too much, and his strength had declined to the point that Karl wished he could travel back to that golden age and fight with this world’s strongest man at his peak.

It wasn’t anything else... just by losing the ability to jump higher than a mountain and run so fast that Charlotte Linlin and Kaido were left in the dust, Whitebeard could no longer have an advantage in front of the world’s fastest Rumble-Rumble Fruit and Glint-Glint Fruit.

He could only be beaten and defend.

The hidden injuries accumulated over decades also prevented him from using his fruit ability and the three types of Haki without restraint.

Such a Whitebeard, although his destructive power was still the first in the world, and he could maintain the title of the world’s strongest for a short period of time with a full-out burst.

But his endurance, as well as his clumsy body, had made him fall from the throne of the two kings to a de facto fifth emperor.

Just as Karl felt that there were a small double-digit number of super powerhouses in this world who could fight him to a draw or take a long time to decide the winner.

The fifth emperor was not invincible!

It was precisely because Whitebeard was no longer invincible that the Navy dared to make a move on this king of the old era.

Otherwise, a super monster with infinite stamina, the strongest Paramecia, and the three types of Haki that could be released infinitely, and could fight for ten days and ten nights, Sengoku would be sending a hundred thousand elites to their deaths.

Facing such a super monster, only a super monster of the same level and a one-on-one fight was the best choice.

Because the human wave tactic was meaningless to that monster.

If it were a one-on-one fight, then it would be even more meaningless.

Because in a one-on-one fight, the Navy could not kill Whitebeard, let alone destroy the Whitebeard Pirates.

Now, by using the public execution of Ace, they could lure the Whitebeard Pirates into Marineford and into an ambush.

The Navy had a chance to kill the old Whitebeard and destroy the Whitebeard Pirates.

As long as they won this summit war, the Navy would definitely be able to deal a huge blow to this Great Age of Pirates, which had lasted for twenty years.

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