The moonlight glittered, and bright ripples spread across the sea.
Before Roy and Garp could receive any definite news from Sengoku and Tsuru, they had no choice but to leave the Sabaody Archipelago.
News that Alabasta, the greatest nation in the first half of the Grand Line, had joined the World Alliance Army had already spread across the world. Faced with the World Alliance Army, now close at hand and greatly strengthened,
the Holy Land, Mary Geoise, had, in a sense, nearly been cornered.
The Celestial Dragons and the Void Kings could not accept the prospect of the World Alliance Army marching up to their doorstep.
Thus, under orders from the highest authority, the World Government and the Navy began transferring vast numbers of troops to Paradise, the first half of the Grand Line.
As the final line of defense for the Holy Land, Mary Geoise,
the Sabaody Archipelago naturally entered an unprecedented state of martial law.
Through the machinations of certain interested parties,
all useful assets on the Sabaody Archipelago began to be confiscated.
The civilians of the Sabaody Archipelago, having lost everything, were also press-ganged. They were either forcibly sent to construction sites to build defensive fortifications, or packed off to the brutal front lines of war.
The Sabaody Archipelago was now developing into a war fortress.
Large quantities of weapons rarely seen in peacetime
began appearing within the various defensive fortifications across the Sabaody Archipelago.
Countless Pacifistas, resembling warships, could now be seen everywhere throughout the dozens of towns on the Sabaody Archipelago.
The bloodthirsty thugs within the World Government system, along with the many recruited pirates, had now become the main force on the Sabaody Archipelago.
Because of them, the civilian population throughout the Sabaody Archipelago began to descend into chaos.
But in the World Government's