The cold wind raged as meteors crashed down.
Magma erupted, and flashes of light flickered.
Sword light shot into the heavens, while Black Flames ran rampant.
Green tides flooded forth, and storms swept across the land.
The clashes between the Pirate World's strongest fighters, those standing at the peak of the pyramid, plunged Paradise in the first half of the Grand Line into an unprecedented crisis.
In most people's eyes, this was the prelude to the final war.
And within this prelude,
there were currently at least ten Admiral-level powerhouses in the first half of the Grand Line who had made clear appearances in battle.
The World Alliance Army, led by Aokiji, Fujitora, Zephyr, Dragon, and Sabo, was relentlessly advancing toward the "holy land," Mary Geoise.
Meanwhile, Akainu, Ryokugyu, Chaton, the Five Elders, and the Seraphim sought to stop the World Alliance Army from advancing further.
They began continuously organizing defensive lines to intercept the World Alliance Army.
As the saying went, when the strong fought, the weak suffered.
Amid these unparalleled preludes to war,
while quite a few true powerhouses on both sides had been injured, not a single one had fallen so far.
This indirectly proved just how difficult it was to kill the strong. At the same time, according to World Economic Journal statistics, the sites of their battles had already brought devastating destruction to at least a dozen islands and seas.
In this war that could be said to have swept across the entire world, countless ordinary people died, and countless races were driven to extinction.
Suffering often bred a yearning for peace.
Such a brutal war made people across the world wish to swiftly end these troubled times, welcome so-called peace, and then face the coming world-ending disaster together.
They wanted the war to subside