This had always been a surprise attack.
This was a war fought solely to damage the World Government's prestige and coordinate with the Freedom Revolutionary Alliance's actions in the North Blue.
Roy had never expected a single war to destroy all of Mary Geoise.
Nor had Roy ever intended to wipe out all the important figures among the World Government's upper ranks.
People needed to know their limits.
Although most of the World Government's and Navy's forces were now in the North Blue, Roy knew that these old bastards before him, as well as the person who had launched the sneak attack from within Pangaea Castle, possessed far more hidden strength than they had shown.
Therefore, causing as much damage to Mary Geoise as possible by any means necessary, then withdrawing once they had gained enough—that was how Roy defined this battle.
There was no helping it. With the current strength of Roy, Whitebeard, and Kaido, they simply had no way to eliminate them completely.
Not to mention Fleet Admiral Akainu, who should have been stationed at Marine Headquarters, had actually climbed Mary Geoise with his bare hands.
The moment Roy and Whitebeard took out their Compressed Explosive Rock Bombs and prepared to detonate them, they naturally drew everyone's attention.
As every gaze stabbed toward Whitebeard and Roy like poisonous needles,
the Five Elders' powerful Conqueror's Haki swept through the battlefield.
At the same time, inside Pangaea Castle in Mary Geoise,
an unparalleled burst of Conqueror's Haki, crackling with black lightning, shot from Pangaea Castle straight into the sky.
The pressure was suffocating.
The shock brought by this Conqueror's Haki was far greater than that of the Five Elders, like the breathing of some prehistoric beast.
All of Mary Geoise was shrouded beneath this Haki.
Everyone below vice admiral level