At Kaido's command, the Beasts Pirates mobilized in full force.
The Beasts Pirates possessed formidable strength. For this voyage to fight Garen to the death, the officers and grunts dispatched by their own crew alone numbered as many as fifty thousand.
Adding the Wano Country samurai led by Kurozumi Orochi and the dozens of pirate crews that had submitted to Kaido, the expeditionary force under Kaido's command numbered a full eighty thousand.
And among those eighty thousand were no rookie weaklings brought in just to pad the numbers. They were all battle-hardened pirate elites, in no way inferior to the soldiers meticulously trained by Marine Headquarters.
The colossal fleet, laden with these elite warriors, sailed grandly out of Wano Country. Its endless sails seemed enough to bleach the sea white, its fluttering pirate flags enough to blot out the sky. The ships cut through the waves and surged across the ocean like a tsunami in another form.
Three days later.
The fleet had already left Kaido's territory and still had quite some distance to go before reaching its destination.
However, what neither Kaido nor his men had expected was this:
Dozens of miles beyond their sight, Garen and the Revolutionary Army's joint fleet had long been waiting in ambush.
However, they were not aboard seagoing ships, but an airship fleet.
This airship fleet was not particularly large, numbering only a little over thirty vessels. It carried only Garen's mid-ranking and high-ranking officers, along with key combat personnel from the Revolutionary Army.
And at this moment, the airship fleet was not floating high in the safe clouds as usual, but hovering silently above the sea.
In particular, the flagship carrying Nami, Dragon, and the others hovered almost flush with the rolling water. They could reach down and touch the sea beneath