659 The Night Empire

Marine Headquarters selected the relevant information, Borsalino's account, and their own analysis, compiled them into a report, and quickly sent it to the Holy Land.

Now they had completely abandoned the idea of infiltrating the Night Sea Domain.

The World Government could only swallow its losses.

The Marines couldn't afford such heavy losses either.

The Marines had many powerful fighters, but they also had a vast territory to defend and needed to station troops in many places.

Besides, after suffering enormous losses over the years, the Marines were still short on manpower, especially high-end combatants.

They still hadn't recovered from the damage Whitebeard II had caused a few years ago.

In every war and operation against pirates, Marine Headquarters did its best to minimize losses by taking the safest possible approach.

Even in the future Summit War, the Marines would take the safest approach. Not a single Vice Admiral-level fighter would be lost in the war, and their strength would remain intact.

Just as they had discussed, Marine Headquarters continued as usual, carrying on with its work.

The World Government also acted as if nothing had happened.

However, violent conflicts had broken out within the World Government.

On one side was the World Government represented by the Gorosei, and on the other were the Celestial Dragon families, who represented the interests of the Celestial Dragons.

Although some Celestial Dragons supported the Gorosei, they were few in number. Besides, this would mean bleeding their own people dry.

The forces sent by the Celestial Dragons seemed numerous, so the losses looked insignificant when spread out.

But there was one thing: most of the World Government agents sent over had originally belonged to them.

By that reckoning, they were the ones who had suffered all the losses.

The Celestial Dragon families each commanded