A decision by those at the top often meant countless people below had to run themselves ragged for it.
After Roy, Caesar Clown, Bon Clay, Edwards, Albert, and the others had discussed and settled on the initial plan for East Blue to strike outward,
the entire East Blue began moving swiftly according to Roy's will.
The powerful forces across East Blue began selecting their elites. At the same time, powerful individuals and experimental subjects from various hidden secret bases would also join this East Blue expeditionary army.
In Roy's view, since they had the means, they had to use their strongest power to crush all resisters on both the material and psychological fronts.
Though throwing one's weight around and bullying the weak were not considered flattering terms in books, in the real world, conquering the weak was a natural law of survival.
As East Blue drew its elite forces,
the logistics bases throughout East Blue also began preparing the finest technological equipment and armaments currently available for the rapidly assembled expeditionary army, following Roy's orders.
And at this time,
at the Central Research Institute in Sky City, the mad scientists Roy had once pulled out of Impel Down seized this grand expedition as an opportunity to display their specialties.
Punk technology combining flesh and machinery.
Installed onto humans or beasts, it not only granted them defenses as tough as steel, but also firepower comparable to firearms.
Human enhancement drugs that fused viruses with biotechnology.
This was a research project jointly developed by the mad scientists from Impel Down and Trafalgar Law, who currently oversaw the entirety of Roy's medical system.
By altering the frail human body, it could grant ordinary people terrifying strength beyond that of normal humans.
Brain mecha technology.
This differed from the ordinary fusion of flesh and