The pirates sat and forgot, and they really believed the nine truths and one lie.

The dull, deafening roar of the meteorite striking the red earth echoed like a distant death knell over the ravaged Marineford.

This sound not only caused a physical shock, but also stirred up a storm in the hearts of every navy officer and pirate.

"He...he really threw the meteorite into the Red Line?!"

"Admiral Akainu... what wouldn't he dare to do!"

Countless faces were filled with disbelief and shock. Whether they were from the Navy or the Pirates, they all clearly realized that Sakazuki had transformed into the Lava Demon God.

Their code of conduct and the boundaries of their power have completely exceeded what they can comprehend. This is an arrogance that is almost blasphemous towards the contemporary gods, and a power that is capable of overturning the world.

Shiki the Golden Lion hovered in the air, his face terribly gloomy. He watched as his ultimate technique, which he was so proud of, was casually neutralized by his opponent like trash, and the pride of being a legendary pirate in his heart was shattered.

He understood that as long as the constantly erupting volcanoes on the seabed continued to provide Akainu with almost endless energy, he could bring in ten or a hundred more meteorites from outer space.

It's unlikely that we can truly crush this monster connected to the power of the earth; a war of attrition offers no chance of victory.

But who is Shiki?

He was the Golden Lion who once rivaled Roger and Whitebeard, a madman who, even when imprisoned in the Great Prison Hell, would cut off his own legs to escape.

Escape? That was never in his vocabulary. Even if it cost him his life, Shiki would fight to the very end.

"Hehehehe..."

Sakazuki suddenly burst into hysterical laughter, filled with a desperate, all-or-nothing resolve. "Sakazuki, taste the sea! I don't believe you're not afraid of the ocean."

He pushed the power of the Float-Float Fruit within him to its limit, even at the cost of overdrawing his life potential, and unleashed the "Lion's Might - Imperial Palace Scroll"!

With his roar, the vast sea surrounding Marineford seemed to be stirred by an invisible giant hand.

A massive amount of seawater was forcibly drawn and condensed by the Floating Power, forming an enormous lion's head made entirely of seawater directly in front of the Lava Demon God.

The sea lion, so lifelike, opened its massive jaws and let out a silent roar, carrying the natural pressure of the ocean and terrifying kinetic energy capable of engulfing everything, as it pounced on the Lava Demon.

Seawater is the natural enemy of all Devil Fruit users. Shiki firmly believes that even someone as strong as Akainu at his current level could never completely ignore the restraint of seawater.

The enormous sea lion's head had not yet truly touched the body of the Lava Demon God; it had only come within a certain distance when it was affected by the extreme high temperature emanating from the demon god, a temperature powerful enough to vaporize steel.

The sea lion's front end and surface began to boil violently, and a large amount of seawater was instantly vaporized, forming a white steam that blotted out the sky, and its volume rapidly shrank.

When the sea lion's head, now nearly half its original size, finally crashed into the chest of the Lava Demon, the expected scene of the power user becoming weak and powerless upon contact with seawater did not occur.

Sizzle! Like a red-hot iron being plunged into water, it emitted a loud and persistent vaporizing sound.

What would be a deadly tsunami impact for ordinary people or even those with average abilities is, for the Lava Demon God at this moment, nothing more than a slightly refreshing shower.

The seawater splashed onto his massive lava body, and the dark red surface of the magma dimmed for only a brief moment before billowing white smoke rose.

But just moments later, the terrifying heat quickly evaporated all the seawater clinging to the skin.

The lava became hot and bright again, and even generated more explosive sparks due to the cooling effect of the tsunami, making it even more powerful.

What left Shiki speechless was that he clearly sensed that Akainu's immense aura had not weakened in the slightest, and his core ability to manipulate magma and ignite volcanoes was completely unaffected by the seawater.

The Lava Demon's enormous head, formed from flowing magma, lowered slightly, its crimson-gold eyes looking down at the golden lion Shiki, which was the size of a fly in the air.

The lava flowed slowly, seemingly forming an extremely human-like expression of doubt and disappointment. That's it?!

More damaging than any mockery, it completely negated Shiki's all-out attack, trampling his dignity and pride as a legendary pirate to nothing.

Shiki the Golden Lion stood frozen in the air, his face turning from red to white, then from white to green. This junior Akainu was really going too far!

Pride was trampled, a full-force attack was ignored, and even the ocean's restraint was rendered ineffective.

This all-encompassing, despairing sense of defeat burned away the last shred of composure this legendary pirate, replacing it with utterly out-of-control madness!

"Impossible! I am Shiki the Golden Lion, how could I lose to a mere Marine brat like you!"

Shiki's eyes were bloodshot, and he looked like a madman. His long golden hair stood on end like a raging lion. He wildly brandished the famous sword Mikazuki Munechika, shouting "Lion's Thousand-Piercing Valley!"

He no longer pursued precision, no longer considered the consequences; he had only one thought in his mind—destruction, destruction of the monster before him!

Hundreds of enormous, golden flying slashes, wreathed in dark red Conqueror's Haki.

The raindrops filled the entire sky, leaving countless golden trails that tore through the air, bombarding the enormous body of the Lava Demon God relentlessly.

Just as Shiki had hoped, the target was so huge that his slashes hardly needed to be aimed, striking the Lava Demon's torso, arms, and even head.

boom! boom! boom! boom!

The deafening explosions continued incessantly, and each strike was enough to easily slice through warships and split mountains.

Under such intense bombardment, countless crisscrossing, deep, gaping wounds instantly appeared on the Lava Demon's massive body.

Scalding magma, like blood, gushed from the wound, making the demon god's figure appear somewhat broken and battered for a moment.

In less than a minute, the seemingly terrifying wounds were ripped open, and the lava around the edges began to writhe and heal as if it were alive.

The flowing lava was not lost; instead, it seemed to be attracted by the wound and flowed back to merge.

Those deep, gaping cuts rapidly became shallower and closed up at a speed visible to the naked eye, eventually disappearing completely as if they had never existed. The entire healing process was astonishingly fast.

In the blink of an eye, the Lava Demon God's body had returned to normal, and because it had absorbed some of the energy from the slash, the magma flowing around it became even hotter and more active.

Even if Shiki were to fight with all his might and manage to cut the Lava Demon in half, the two severed parts would be reconnected and repaired by the continuous flow of magma in the next moment.

The Lava Demon's enormous lava head slowly turned towards the panting, pale-faced Golden Lion Shiki in the air, a hint of boredom flashing in its eyes.

Akainu's deep voice, like a final judgment, said: "Shiki, your era has ended. I'm sending you to meet Roger..."