Prelude to Chaos

The war had been unimaginably brutal.

In terms of scale, it had also been unprecedented.

The fact that these pirates from the Whitebeard Pirates had been able to stand until the very end of such a cruel war meant that they were far from weak.

However, before the Maud Pirates, whose members had received the shadow enhancement buff, no matter how resilient the surviving members of the Whitebeard Pirates were, they could never make waves.

Their defeat at the hands of the Maud Pirates under the gaze of the entire world was only to be expected.

By contrast, the Maud Pirates had also accomplished a world-shaking feat under the gaze of the entire world.

In this epic war known as the Water Seven Island Festival, the Maud Pirates had won the final victory without losing a single soldier.

If the facts had not been right before their eyes, who could have believed it...

This war had involved multiple enormous forces, with nearly a hundred thousand participants, yet it had ultimately been won by a pirate crew with only a dozen or so fighters, and without suffering a single casualty.

On the plain littered with corpses and devastated beyond recognition.

Unconscious, Ace had been frozen into an ice sculpture by Aokiji's icy blast.

Whether fire melted ice or ice froze fire.

In the end, it still depended on the strength of the ability user.

The Whitebeard Pirates, reduced to a beaten and battered remnant, had paid the price for attempting to challenge the Maud Pirates.

Apart from Ace, who had been frozen, not a single person had survived.

It was worth mentioning that.

These pirates who had held out until now had fought with astonishing resolve until the very last moment.

They had never stopped swinging their weapons until they breathed