# Chapter 502: Parting Gift
Sengoku arrived quickly, and with him came Vice Admiral Tsuru and Vice Admiral Garp.
The reason Sengoku brought Tsuru and Garp was because he considered that Kizaru was not at Marine Headquarters, and he wanted to use absolute force to intercept Ian.
When the three veterans arrived at the port, what they saw was the entire Crescent Moon Port densely packed with Marines surrounding Ian's ship.
Countless mortars and firearms were all aimed at Ian's ship, and some Marines had even boarded warships, turning their cannons to point in this direction as well.
Seeing this situation, Sengoku breathed a sigh of relief. With such an inescapable net, Ian absolutely couldn't escape!
Wearing his Marine coat, Sengoku approached and picked up a megaphone, shouting at Ian on the Ark Maxim: "Ian! What do you think you're doing!? Get off your ship right now, and I can pretend nothing happened!"
"Oh, Fleet Admiral Sengoku, you've come?" Ian jumped onto the bow, standing at the top and waving at them, saying: "And Vice Admiral Tsuru and Vice Admiral Garp, are you here to see me off too? I really don't deserve this!"
Vice Admiral Tsuru looked at Ian expressionlessly, while Garp laughed heartily and said: "You little brat! Come down obediently. You can see for yourself, with this kind of formation, you can't escape!"
"Is that so?" Ian smiled slightly. He didn't think so.
Sengoku looked at Ian, who showed no sign of worry, and found it strange. At this moment, he also noticed something unusual about Ian's ship.
The Ark Maxim was still resting on the sea surface, parked and not moving, but around the bottom of the ship, large splashes of water were rippling outward, spreading to both sides.
This was only because the Jet Wind Shells hadn't been outputting at high power yet. Once activated, the Ark Maxim could rise instantly.
But Sengoku didn't know this. Strange as it was, he absolutely couldn't imagine that Ian planned to escape through the air. He still thought Ian intended to sail the ship out of port, so he raised the megaphone again and shouted at Ian: "Ian! Look around you! Marine Headquarters now has a fleet of over fifty ships. Even if you can leave port, how far do you think you can run!?"
"Fleet Admiral Sengoku!" Ian shouted back at him: "You know very well why I'm leaving. Since you're not willing to give me the Pacifista, I'll go get them myself. Actually, we could have left already, but leaving without saying goodbye isn't very polite, so I specifically waited for you to come, just to tell you one thing: if you want to take back my position as a Warlord of the Sea, then go ahead and take it!"
After saying this, Ian didn't waste any more words. He waved his hand and said: "Set off!"
Hearing Ian's shout, Sengoku's heart jolted. He hadn't expected Ian to actually force things this way!
But the Marines' plan was already like an arrow that had to be shot. Sengoku absolutely couldn't allow any loophole on Ian's end. So the next second, Sengoku also shouted loudly: "Open fire! Sink his ship!"
The Marines gathered in Crescent Moon Port had long been on edge. The moment they heard Sengoku's order, they instinctively pulled their triggers!
In an instant, the entire Marine Crescent Moon Port erupted with a tremendous roar — the combined sound of hundreds of Marines and over a dozen warships firing simultaneously. Such power was truly unimaginable.
Kuina was also among the crowd. She had rushed over when she heard the commotion in the base earlier, and with her were Smoker, Tashigi, and the others.
When she had been gathering information for Ian earlier, Kuina hadn't known what Ian wanted to do. But now, seeing Ian trying to force his way out of port, she realized that she might have messed things up. Perhaps it was precisely because of her intelligence that Ian had made up his mind to leave Marine Headquarters.
When the Marines opened fire together, Kuina's heartbeat suddenly slowed by half a beat, and she almost cried out!
Not just her — Smoker and Tashigi also thought Ian was finished in that instant!
No one could survive such overwhelming firepower! Even if he was a Warlord of the Sea!
However, what no one expected was that at the very moment the Marines' guns and cannons roared, Ian also moved.
A huge mass of purple flame appeared in his hand, and he slammed it down onto the deck!
The next second, a massive pillar of purple flame burst forth, enveloping the entire Ark Maxim.
The towering pillar of fire didn't harm the Ark Maxim in the slightest. Instead, the cannonballs fired at them from all directions, upon entering the range of the purple flames, strangely came to a halt!
"Wh-What's going on!?"
A large number of Marines stared at this scene in terror. Normally, bullets or cannonballs fired at such speed were hard to see with the naked eye, but at this moment, within the gel-like purple flames, they could clearly see the bullets and cannonballs they had fired — these spheres of various sizes were frozen motionless in the flames, showing no sign of movement at all!
Not just the Marines — even Enel on the Ark Maxim looked at the flames surrounding him in astonishment. These flames looked fierce, but strangely, they didn't cause any harm to them at all.
As for Fleet Admiral Sengoku, when he saw this, his eyes almost popped out!
He was certainly familiar with this color of flame, because when Holy Land Mary Geoise had been burned before, it was this very color!
That's right — this was a large-scale Eight Wine Cups that Ian had fired!
Instead of throwing it away, he had burst it out with the Ark Maxim as the center. Equipped with the exclusive treasure of the Yasakani Magatama, the Eight Wine Cups had a very special "stagnation" effect. Moreover, for Ian, who had been constantly familiarizing himself with his various abilities, he could fully control these flames, ensuring they wouldn't harm his companions!
This was the reason he could face so many Marines without changing his expression. No matter how fierce the Marines' firepower was, as long as he could know their attack targets, Ian could completely intercept them.
Slowly standing up, Ian's right hand suddenly clenched. The temperature of the Eight Wine Cups flames sharply increased. The cannonballs that had been frozen instantly turned into pools of molten iron. As the flames disappeared, this molten iron also fell from mid-air, splashing into the seawater and turning back into iron lumps.
This move was almost inhuman! The blow to the Marines was also significant. No one had expected that such a powerful firepower assault could be handled by Ian with a single hand, turning the clouds and rain, and resolving it in an instant!
They stared blankly at this scene like a miracle, not knowing how to react.
Before Sengoku and the others could come to their senses, they suddenly heard a loud rumbling sound. The next second, Ian's huge Ark Maxim rose from the sea surface, ascending to a height of over ten meters in the blink of an eye.
"Damn it! It's a flying ship!?"
Sengoku's shock at this moment was beyond words. He had never imagined that Ian's ship, like Golden Lion Shiki's, was a vessel capable of flight!
As the Ark Maxim rose, the warships' cannons could no longer reach them — the elevation angle was limited, and the warships of this world had no such thing as anti-aircraft guns.
"Garp!" Sengoku quickly called out.
Vice Admiral Garp was somewhat reluctant, but he still took a mortar being carried by a nearby Marine, removed one of the shells, weighed the lead-ball-sized projectile in his hand, and then suddenly hurled it toward the sky!
The shell let out a piercing whistle, flying toward the Ark Maxim with even greater speed and power than a mortar!
Fist Bone Meteor!
However, at that moment, Ian, standing at the bow, also suddenly opened his palm, aiming in the direction of Vice Admiral Garp's incoming shell. A pitch-black disk pushed out from his hand.
The shell, in an instant, collided with the Black Particle Ian had fired. With a boom, it exploded. At the same time, the Black Particle Ian had fired also burst apart, making a sound like shattering glass.
Garp's attack was ineffective, so Sengoku prepared to step in himself. But at that moment, he noticed that beneath Ian's ship, a huge crackling ball of lightning had appeared at some point!
"Hahahaha!" Enel stood at the ship's railing, holding his golden staff and spreading his arms, shouting down at the Marines below: "This is a parting gift!"
"Thunder Descends!!"
As his voice fell, that huge ball of lightning erupted with intense electric light, and dozens of lightning bolts shot out toward the port below!