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At the same time. Arashi had already changed into a set of loose robes. He sat at a long table, his eyes slightly narrowed.
"Destroy Wano Country?" murmured the words that came from his mouth, laced with a hint of coldness and frost.
The World Government's audacious move had undoubtedly angered him. If he also possessed the same weapon, he would not hesitate to fire a shot at Mary Geoise.
The disaster caused by this unknown weapon also made him realise the power of scientific research in this world. "What is the progress on Vegapunk's side?" Arashi's eyes flickered.
For a new regime to be born, it must possess sufficient strength to maintain its authority.
Truth is only within the range of the cannons, and dignity is only on the edge of the sword. This saying was true regardless of the world to which it was applied.
The World Government had thrown a small trump card at him, and he naturally would not let the matter rest.
After a moment, an officer entered the office. "Fleet Admiral, the news of the Onigashima campaign has been spread to the entire world."
"The Totto Land kingdom, occupied by Big Mom, a total of 34 islands, has also been completely taken over by the five Admirals."
"As for Hachinosu, the Admiral Candidates Rosinante, Kuina, and Buggy are about to arrive." Speaking of this, a smile appeared on the officer's face.
"If we take over these territories and islands, our Marines will have firmly established a foothold in the New World."
"Under the leadership of the Fleet Admiral, the Marines will surely become even more glorious." Hearing this, Arashi smiled faintly.
"I'm rather curious to see what kind of commotion will arise around the world when they hear this earth-shattering news."
The officer immediately responded, "Their eyes will surely pop out of their heads! I'm afraid they won't be able to believe it at all!"
In the Holy Land, Mary Geoise. "What?! How dare the Marines be so bold!"
"To take the initiative to announce the Battle of Onigashima to the whole world!"
"This is not surprising. Saint Saturn's actions represent a complete severance of relations between us and the Marines."
The Marines won a great victory in the Battle of Onigashima. Spreading the news is beneficial to them and does them no harm."
"What we should be thinking about now is the impact the World Government will face in the time to come!"
"It can be foreseen that those wavering powers and nations will probably be eager to make a move."
Deep, grave voices echoed in the empty grand hall, and the aura that emanated from them was incredibly majestic.
"Perhaps we should make some preparations for the coming global turmoil! This will be the most severe crisis we have encountered in eight hundred years!"
"We must be on high alert, everyone. Otherwise, a moment of carelessness might lead to the ruin of everything we have built over the past eight hundred years!" The voices grew heavier.
The remaining four elders felt immense pressure regarding the upcoming global situation.
"So, how should we respond to the chaos that will follow the destruction of Wano Country?" someone asked.
This made the other three elders fall silent. After a long while, someone finally answered. "We still need some time to get a clear picture of the situation in Wano."
"Arashi's strength, in one confrontation after another, has only forced us to raise our estimation of him."
"Whether that newly tested weapon was effective is now even unclear."
Speaking of this, Saint Ethanbaron V. Nusjuro raised his right hand, pinched his chin, his expression grave and serious.
"This situation is not good news for us!" The Marines taking the initiative to publicise the Battle of Onigashima would undoubtedly cause chaos in the world.
It could even trigger a new era. This turmoil would be no less than the Great Pirate Era sparked by Roger's death twenty years ago.
What was certain was that this battle would raise the prestige of the Marines to an unimaginable level. The situation was extremely unfavourable for the World Government.
Faced with such a situation, the four elders all fell silent for a moment. "Perhaps it's time we also clarified the attitude of this world!"
After a long time, Saint Marcus Mars said in a low voice. The other three turned their eyes to him, showing their confusion.
"Let's convene an emergency World Conference. The world will decide in this conference which way the scales of the future will tip," Saint Ethanbaron V. Nusjuro said coldly.
As his voice fell, he abruptly drew the longsword in his hand and then sheathed it again.
A cold light shot from his eyes. Clearly, in this so-called World Conference, the attitudes of the various countries would be discerned.
"Arashi cannot fight the world!" Saint Topman Warcury said in a low voice. The other three did not speak again; they agreed with this view.
The reason the World Government had been able to stand in this world for eight hundred years was precisely because of the vast number of countries and powers it encompassed, enough to make people tremble with fear.
...
When the world decided to deal with someone, the only certain thing was their opponent's fate. In the West Blue, on the floating Ohara.
A gentle breeze blew, and white clouds enveloped the island, making it look beautiful and dreamlike.
Suddenly, the sound of running footsteps was heard. "Dr. Clover!" A cry of alarm rang out.
A man of about twenty, dressed in an archaeologist's uniform, holding a newspaper in his hand, dashed to an old man.
"What happened? What has you so flustered?" Clover, that is, Dr. Clover, asked. The current Clover was already over a hundred years old.
The green, clover-shaped hairstyle and beard he once had have now turned white. He was quietly sitting in the sun, replenishing the calcium in his body.
Due to his advanced age, he had even resigned from his position as dean of the North Blue Marine Academy and entered retirement.
But his identity and status in the West Blue were incredibly noble. As the dean who had nurtured countless West Blue Marine officers, he was naturally respected by many.
The island of Ohara, after serving as a source of talent for many years, had become a sacred place in the West Blue.
"It's news about Fleet, Fleet Admiral Arashi!"
"No, to be precise, it should be news about the Marines!" the young archaeologist shouted excitedly.
"Arashi? I remember he just took office as the Fleet Admiral, didn't he? For that, Ohara even held a lively banquet!" Dr. Clover said with a chuckle.
"It's about the Fleet Admiral leading the main force of the Marines to the New World!" the young man roared.
"Oh? He went to the New World right after succeeding as Fleet Admiral?" "That's not a rational decision," Dr. Clover said, taken aback, in a low voice.
He did not understand the current state of the world. As people grew older, time seemed to solidify for them, always becoming long and slow.
"No, no, no!!" The young archaeologist shook his head. He stuffed the newspaper into the old gentleman's hands.
"You have to see this! The entire Ohara is in an uproar right now! No, I should say, the entire world is in an uproar!"
"This! This is a first in eight hundred years, an earth-shattering event!" The excited words left Dr. Clover stunned.
Then, he put on his reading glasses and looked down at the newspaper. Due to his age, his eyesight was naturally impaired, but his hearing was quite good, so most of the time.
He would have a young person read to him. However, he often forgot things. "Wow! Is it real? The Marines won such a victory!"
"The world is going to be in chaos! No, not chaos! Fleet Admiral Arashi will personally open the future we've been waiting for!"
"The World Government is probably trembling!" At this time, excited and joyous voices came from the distance, making Dr. Clover look up.
On the streets of Ohara, countless people were engaged in heated discussions, spitting with excitement, caught in a fanatical atmosphere.
Dr. Clover narrowed his eyes, then looked down seriously at the newspaper.
"War of the Strongest!"
"The Marines VS The World!"
The crimson headline made the old doctor chuckle a little, lamenting how a modern newspaper could be so exaggerated and disrespectful of the facts.
But soon, when he saw the specific information about the forces below, his old eyes widened.
"In the War of the Best on Onigashima, the enemies of the Marines included Kaido of the Beasts, the Four Emperors Big Mom and Red-Haired Shanks, and Commodore Marshall D. Teach."
"In addition, one of the Five Elders who stand at the pinnacle of the world, the Warrior God of Science and Defence, Saturn, Saint Jaygarcia Saturn, also arrived on Onigashima, leading the God's Knights into battle."
"The leader of the God's Knights was none other than Saint Garling Figarland, who was known as a genius boy many years ago!"
"He once participated in the God Valley incident, fighting against the former Rocks Pirates."
The long and detailed introduction made Dr. Clover tremble all over, shocked to the extreme. It turned out that the newspaper was not bluffing or exaggerating the facts.
The information described in it was detailed to an unprecedented degree. Even information about the Celestial Dragons and the World Government was all there.
"This is news that the Marines proactively released!"
"The world is about to descend into chaos!" After reading to the end, Dr. Clover trembled all over and cried out in alarm.
The over-one-hundred-year-old Dr. Clover was plunged into a state of immense shock. No, it was far beyond shock; it was a profound sense of awe!
He had never seen a newspaper like this one, which detailed a battle and information on the World Government with such precision.
One must know that the Celestial Dragons were already high and mighty, let alone the five old men who stood at the pinnacle of the world.
"Saturn, the Warrior God of Science and Defence, Saint Jaygarcia Saturn! Suspected Zoan-type, Mythical-type, Gyuki Fruit user?"
"The commander of the God's Knights, Saint Garling Figarland! As well as the members of the God's Knights."
"To have investigated the identities, abilities, and information of these great figures so clearly, it is certain that the Marines have already made contact with them, and even fought a war!"
Dr. Clover's cloudy eyes shifted erratically, and he continuously sucked in sharp breaths, unlike the young, hot-blooded.
Marine cadet Ohara was able to glean much more information from this newspaper.
The paper was thicker than usual, and the entire layout was dedicated to introducing and narrating the war on Onigashima in Wano Country, in the New World.
It included the respective opponents of the five Admirals, the process of Arashi being besieged, and the final result.
The words combined into sentences, and in Dr. Clover's eyes, it was as if the war were replaying, reappearing before him.
"Arashi!" Murmuring this name, Dr. Clover's body trembled.
Learning of such monumental news, this old man, over a hundred years old, couldn't help but feel his blood boil; his entire body filled with excitement.
"Are you going to usher in a new era?"
Although as an ordinary human, he could not comprehend the strength possessed by the world's top powerhouses, just from the description, he could tell that Arashi was a remarkable man.
And under the leadership of such a man, the new Marines, in the battle on Onigashima, had already diverged from the World Government, walking a different path.
This, perhaps, no, this would certainly herald the dawn of a new era, the beginning of a new age.
"This is the very meaning of archaeology! To excavate the buried truths of the past, to awaken humanity's former dreams and beliefs, and then to create a new era!"
Dr. Clover looked up at the dazzling sunlight in the sky, tears streaming down his old face. Ohara was in an uproar.
Whether scholars or Marine cadets, they were all engrossed in this newly distributed newspaper, feeling shocked, excited, and invigorated by the news within.
Of course, at this moment, it was not just Ohara who was in a state of shock. The entire world was trembling because of the newspaper distributed this morning.
"An unprecedentedly invincible fighting force! They took on the whole world!"
"Is this a joke? Even one of the five people at the top of the World Government personally went to Wano Country?"
"Saturn, the Warrior God of Science and Defence, this is the first time in hundreds of years I've heard their names and titles!"
"This is too shocking! This is a major event that is enough to shake the world, far surpassing the War at Marineford!"
"Let's see the forces participating on the Marine side."
"Five Admirals, powerful Admiral Candidates, former Seven Warlords who are now Marine Vice Admirals: Kuma, the Empress, Gecko Moria, and Doflamingo!"
"Moria and a man named Vice Admiral Oden took Kaido's head!" "Unbelievable, one of the Four Emperors of the New World is gone just like that?"
"Wait! Does this mean the Marines and the World Government are at war?"
Voices from all over the world are heard. Whether commoners, nobles, or kings, at this moment, they were all plunged into immense shock.
The connections and impact of this battle were too significant and terrifying.
"The strength of the new Marines is unprecedented. I originally thought they would submit to the World Government and suppress this pirate era."
"But I never expected that under the leadership of Fleet Admiral Arashi, they would even fight the World Government itself!"
"How incredibly tough! This man named Arashi, like the liberation warrior of the past, Joy Boy, his name will resound throughout the world for hundreds, even thousands of years."
"The world is about to descend into chaos!" Exclamations of amazement sounded one after another, and countless faces shifted with uncertainty.
The powerful rise of the Marines shocked countless people. This power had even reached a point where it could contend with the World Government. This was truly unbelievable!
One must know that the World Government has stood in this world for eight hundred years.
The descendants of the twenty kings of the past became the high and mighty Celestial Dragons, enslaving the world as a whole.
This system of world nobility has been in place for how many years? The power and foundation of the Celestial Dragons were profound to an unimaginable degree.
This was undoubtedly dumbfounding, and it also made one's whole body feel invigorated. Because change meant chaos, and chaos pointed the way for the changing of eras.
On a nameless, deserted island not far from the Sabaody Archipelago. An old man with a full head of white hair and glasses was looking down at the newspaper in his hands.
"Such wide distribution has never happened before! To even deliver a newspaper to a deserted island like this, hehe, that's surprising!" the Dark King Rayleigh said with a chuckle.
He untied the string binding the newspaper and was somewhat surprised; today's paper was unusually large in volume.
It was thick and heavy. When he spread it open, the pupils of this great pirate, who was once the right hand of the Pirate King Roger and whose fame shook the world, suddenly contracted.
"This! How is this possible?" The content of the newspaper shocked him, and as if by instinct, he could already sense the opportunity for the world to change.
"Has the Pirate Era ended?" After a long while, Rayleigh sighed softly, a complex light flashing in his eyes. He sat on a large rock, falling into silence.
At this moment, Rayleigh was somewhat dazed.
The Pirate Era, which had lasted for so many years, had given rise to countless evil people seeking freedom, fame, wealth, power, and status, but it had also produced many ambitious men with dreams.
Yet suddenly, on this day, he had woken up, and the world was in chaos. The Four Emperors of the New World had fallen one after another and were now gone.
That sea, which was initially the domain of pirates, had become the Marines' backyard. "Arashi!"
"Hehe! Arashi!" Rayleigh suddenly began to laugh. In the past, he had never been able to see through this man, only feeling that his ambition was immense.
It was only today that he finally understood his opponent's goal. "You truly are a frighteningly likeable man!"
This was undoubtedly a strange and contradictory statement, but Rayleigh said it with great sincerity.
"Rayleigh! What are you looking at? Our training should begin! I can still keep going!"
Suddenly, a tired yet determined voice came from behind. Rayleigh slowly turned his head, his gaze fixed on the young boy opposite him, who had a straw hat on his head.
His expression was unprecedentedly grave. "Luffy, there's something I have to tell you."
"This might subvert your worldview and your past beliefs, but it is of utmost importance." Luffy showed a bewildered expression, but he quickly smiled and said, "Go ahead, Rayleigh!"
"The Pirate Era is over!" Taking a deep breath.
The Dark King Rayleigh said in a low voice. Luffy was stunned for a moment, an expression of surprise on his face.
"Huh?!"
...
On the white soil island, Baltigo. This was the territory of the Revolutionary Army.
Twenty-two years ago, when the leader Dragon and Ivankov led the Freedom Army to attack the Sorbet Kingdom in the South Blue, this army, which had been a thorn in the side of the World Government, was established.
At this moment, within the headquarters. Dragon looked at the newspaper in his hand with a grave expression.
He said nothing, carefully reading it all. After a long, long time, he finally spoke. "The Marines! Arashi! Is this your final goal? To completely control the Marines and use their worldwide influence to force the World Government's hand?"
"It's quite a perfect plan! But at the same time, it's bold, risky, and tough enough, just like your personality," Dragon said in a low voice, his eyes flashing. Vaguely, he remembered many years ago.
That day in Loguetown, the conversation between the two of them. "Kings! There are too many! One is enough, isn't it?"
Those words, spoken with a light laugh amidst the pouring rain and roaring lightning, had been imprinted in his ears and heart, making them still clearly audible to Dragon even after so many years.
"A world with one king?" His pupils contracted, and Dragon's expression became incredibly grave.
His opponent's past bold statement, with time, had begun to be gradually realised, forming before his eyes a world war map that was enough to make one tremble.
"The New World." Dragon slowly clenched his fist. It was foreseeable that after this battle, the Marines' control over the New World would reach an unprecedented level.
With Arashi's assertiveness, he would surely forge it into a massive kingdom. The West Blue was an example right in front of them. This man, from the time he became active in the world.
He had always displayed a powerful and domineering posture, like a dictatorial king ascending the steps to his throne.
After sitting in his chair in silence for a long time, Dragon suddenly stood up and looked to the side.
On another desk, a blond-haired young man with a top hat and a burn scar on his face was currently shifting his expression as he stared intently at one column of the newspaper.
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