The times were changing rapidly. Once someone failed to keep pace with them, they would become someone abandoned by the times.
The Summit War was known as the prelude to a new era.
In less than two years, far too many earth-shaking events had taken place upon the seas.
It could be said that the major events of these past two years rivaled the total of all major events that had occurred on these seas over nearly two hundred years.
Whether it was Marine Headquarters being captured by pirates, or Marine Admirals taking the lead in splitting the Marines and preparing to overthrow the World Government.
One major event after another had made the entire world seem increasingly surreal.
Everyone had become a victim of the chaos on the seas.
Only those truly intelligent people on the seas knew that this was merely the eve of all the contradictions accumulated over eight hundred years erupting at once.
The World Government and the Marines would not allow such a thing to happen, so they were doing everything in their power to suppress the unstable elements on the seas.
Zephyr, Aokiji, and the Revolutionary Army were the World Government's primary targets for suppression.
When the allied forces of the World Government, the Marines, and the various World Government member nations began drawing upon the foundations accumulated over eight hundred years.
They launched an overwhelming siege against those rebels.
The Freedom Revolutionary Alliance, which had originally possessed tremendous momentum, suddenly gave up all its territories on the Grand Line and turned its spearhead toward the four seas, with North Blue as its target.
The Freedom Revolutionary Alliance's sudden decision left the World Government's allied forces and the Marines utterly baffled.
Just as they were scratching their heads over the Freedom Revolutionary Alliance's decision.