Within two hours.
Flavor Island, Cream Island, Liquor Island.
Three islands in total had been conquered by the Maud Pirates.
Or rather—
Destroyed!
Completely destroyed, uprooted from the very foundations of the islands!
For Whole Cake Island, this was not merely an unprecedented disgrace. It could even be called the greatest loss it had suffered since the nation's founding.
And losses of this magnitude showed signs of expanding even further.
"This is simply a disaster..."
The Big Mom Pirates' officers stationed throughout the waters all felt the same thing involuntarily after receiving, one after another, the news that the third island had fallen.
Whole Cake Island—the place of Mama's dreams.
It regarded the thirty-four islands under its jurisdiction as its foundation.
Within these waters, the thirty-four islands were scattered like stars, yet none were very far apart.
Therefore, they did not even need the magnetic pull of a compass to navigate between the islands; they could simply rely on a measured map.
A geographical position that could perfectly fulfill Mama's dream could not be found anywhere else in the entire New World.
So, if they allowed Maud to continue destroying the islands within the kingdom's territory, it meant...
The originally flawless geographical position would develop crack after crack, each one capable of shattering Mama's dream.
Just imagining the consequences of such a thing was enough to make the many officers of the Big Mom Pirates feel as though they had fallen into an ice cellar, their entire bodies turning cold.
The situation... was even more serious than expected.
"Damn it, the density of our underwater warning network is so high that if you casually threw a stone into the sea, it would hit one of the Sea Slugs scattered across the seabed!!! And yet they actually have the ability to