The Navy was merely the first force to arrive at Mary Geoise. Before long, the Revolutionary Army and Pirate Crews from all sides arrived as well. Even some World Government agents had rushed over.
Under normal circumstances, so many forces packed together would have erupted into a massive battle. But at this critical moment, even the Navy and pirates who despised each other most only exchanged a few hostile glares.
Whatever grudges they had could wait until after this great crisis had been resolved.
Yet when faced with the Golden Shield, they were all at their wits' end.
Whether it was the Mirror-Mirror Fruit with its spatial abilities, the Push-Push Fruit that planned to tunnel in from underground, or the Float-Float Fruit that could simply lift Mary Geoise itself, none of them had any effect on the golden barrier.
The only Devil Fruit ability that had some effect was probably Issho's Press-Press Fruit. Although his gravity was completely neutralized by the shield, he could at least pull meteors down from the sky. The damage caused by that pure kinetic force could still weaken the barrier.
The only problem was that the meteors weakened the barrier more slowly than it replenished itself, so their effect was minimal.
As time gradually passed, the changes in the Pirate World became increasingly drastic. More and more islands began to move, and they were accelerating.
Even the entire Red Line had begun to slowly curl into a circle. The Calm Belt was starting to collapse, while the bizarre weather of the New World was gradually returning to normal.
In just over a week, the Red Line had become a gigantic plateau, while the islands scattered across the world continued to converge, causing this landmass to expand without end.
"It feels like this place will eventually