New World, New Marineford.
Inside the Fleet Admiral's office.
Whoosh!
Sakazuki and Carlo reappeared.
After returning to his seat, Sakazuki finally dropped his expressionless look and frowned slightly.
"The government's trump card..."
Even he was shocked by the video they had just seen. That level of destructive power could erase an island in an instant, and not just one, but several scattered across the Four Blues.
To everyone in the world, this was a dimensional strike.
Strong fighters might be able to resist it, but what about everything they possessed?
If such an attack were dropped on Wano, Kaido could withstand it. The Three Calamities might survive as well. But what about the rest?
A headquarters built over decades would vanish in an instant. Anyone would go mad.
The same applied if it were used on the Marines.
"A weapon that stands above the world itself… No wonder they have ruled for eight hundred years."
The history of the entire world was unusually vague. Even if one traced the inherited history of an island, they could only reach a few decades into the past.
But that was merely the island's own history, dependent on the memories of the older generation. No one had the time to write proper history books, nor the strength to travel the entire world to record everything.
So aside from the World Government and the destroyed Ohara, no one could observe and document the world's development over eight hundred years.
On this sea where information was tightly sealed, the result was simple.
Erase an island, or even several islands. After a few decades, when that generation died, no one would remember they had ever existed.
Even now, most people in the East Blue did not know Ohara had been destroyed. Some did not even know where it was.
Likewise, people in the South Blue did not know that the White City of the North Blue had long been wiped out.
In a world where information was sealed off like this, as long as the World Government still controlled everything and held such a weapon, they could erase anything at will. Wait twenty or thirty years, and it would be as if nothing had ever happened.
Because it was true erasure. The entire island would disappear.
Even if someone took a decades old map and an Eternal Pose to search for it, they would doubt themselves upon arrival.
All they would see was endless ocean.
No trace of people. No trace of land.
Sakazuki suddenly let out a soft laugh as his brows relaxed. "Interesting. Now this is a real challenge…"
It would be boring if they were destroyed too easily.
From the side, Carlo asked, "Do we need to adjust the plan?"
He shook his head. "No. Everything stays the same. We only need to rebuild the main cannon of Pluton. If they can do it, we can do it too. They can fire many times. We can only fire once.
"But... what if we enlarge the main cannon ten times? Or a hundred times? And detonate the magma within the planet's core?
"As long as those people in Mariejois live on the same planet beneath our feet, there is nothing that cannot be killed."
After thinking for a moment, he spoke to Carlo again.
"Send orders to all Marine branches in the Four Blues. Prepare enough supplies to maintain base operations for at least six months. All units will shift from combat readiness to defensive status.
"Unless absolutely necessary, no one is to leave their branch base. Without a mission order issued by headquarters, no one is allowed to set sail."
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Holy Land of Mariejois.
Inside the spotless white palace hall.
Peter flipped through the intelligence report in his hand.
"So it failed. The leader of the Revolutionary Army, Dragon, survived."
The Den Den Mushi monitored by CP had been ringing nonstop through the night, as if they were about to explode. There had not been a single moment of silence.
Mars spoke. "But the earlier report was correct. Their headquarters has indeed been destroyed. Based on the information gathered from intercepted calls, the Sorbet Kingdom was their main base. Other than Dragon escaping, many of their senior officers died."
Saturn's grip on his cane tightened. "The ones who died do not matter. Dragon's ideology is the real danger. Could he be that person..."
When the Revolutionary Army first appeared, the time mentioned in the prophecy was still far away, so no one thought it was him.
But no one expected the Revolutionary Army to grow this fast. In just a few years, they had become a massive force capable of standing against the World Government.
And now, the time was drawing close.
The member nations in the Four Blues had no strength to resist them.
The four seas were about to fall.
Nusjuro said in a deep voice, "Collect this year's Heavenly Tribute from the Four Blues in advance. Otherwise it will all be taken by the Revolutionary Army. Let those people be eliminated. That will save us some trouble."
That Empty Throne should have had a master long ago.
The so-called Reverie was nothing more than a group of foolish pigs putting on a foolish show.
"Once the Revolutionary Army swallows and destroys all the member nations… at that point, as long as Dragon is eliminated, the Revolutionary Army will fall apart on its own.
"The world will belong to us again. And there will be no place for those foolish pigs. Only Imu-sama will sit upon that supreme throne.
"This incident has already alarmed him. So we will go with the flow and quietly wait for the right opportunity."
* * *
South Blue, Seelune Island.
After a night of treatment and adjustment, Dragon was no longer in critical condition. His body was wrapped in bandages, and his face was heavy with grief.
Last night's losses had been calculated.
Including the Sorbet Kingdom, seven major Revolutionary Army bases were completely erased, and along with the innocent civilians on those islands, more than a hundred thousand people had died.
Such cruel and inhuman methods sent a chill down the spine.
The Revolutionary Army's senior leadership had also suffered heavy losses. Lindbergh, the South Blue commander and chief of industrial technology who had been stationed in the Sorbet Kingdom, was killed. Hack, the chief instructor of Fish-Man Karate, was also dead, as was Koala, the acting master of Fish-Man Karate, along with many young and promising recruits on the island.
All of them had disappeared in last night's disaster.
This tragedy, which could shock the world, was suppressed by the World Government to reduce its impact.
Dragon also chose to suppress it.
Seven islands were erased in a single night. If this were made public, the morale of the Revolutionary Army would collapse.
The World Government and the Celestial Dragons would once again be raised to the level of gods.
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