A major power was bound to be full of vitality in its infancy.
As a supplement to the Navy's power vacuum, the Justice League had enjoyed widespread public support from the very beginning.
After all, to the poor, it did not matter who it was or which faction they belonged to. As long as they could safeguard their lives and protect their property, they were just.
And in this regard, the new Navy was unquestionably deserving.
Fujitora and Ryokugyu had been appointed as the new admirals, while the third position remained vacant for the time being. Although Garp had recently been actively setting out to crack down on pirates, he still refused to accept an appointment as an admiral.
However, what a newly established force lacked most was not top-tier admiral-level strength, but the mid-ranking backbone of vice admirals and even rear admirals.
The Navy had once been able to dominate the Grand Line and wield influence surpassing that of any individual one of the Four Emperors because it possessed a large number of vice admirals, rear admirals, officers of every rank, and countless naval soldiers.
No pirate crew could possibly field an army of one hundred thousand Marines.
All these problems now lay before Warring States. Fortunately, he had served as Fleet Admiral for many years, so handling such matters came naturally to him.
Another issue giving Warring States a headache was that, aside from facing the threat of pirates, they also had to withstand pressure from the World Government.
Although the World Government's strength had been severely weakened by its entanglement with the Revolutionary Army, leaving it without the spare capacity to deal with the Justice League backed by so many allied kingdoms—
—to a certain extent, the government that had ruled the world for eight hundred years