Meanwhile, at Marine Headquarters.
The temporarily constructed conference hall was already packed to the brim.
Naval officers rushed in and out without pause, every face bearing an added measure of weary exhaustion.
Warships docked at the harbor constantly raised their sails and headed out to sea, while quite a few battered vessels hurried back into port.
At this moment, Marine Headquarters felt like the gears of war wound to their absolute limit.
One misstep, and it would all come crashing apart.
"Fleet Admiral Sengoku, this is bad! Blackbeard Teach and Charlotte Linlin have formed an alliance. The ambitions they've revealed include joining forces with the other Seven Warlords of the Sea..."
A Marine rear admiral rushed into the conference hall, his face filled with panic.
The expressions of the Marine officers gathered there changed drastically at once.
Ever since the nautical chart to the final island, Laugh Tale, had been exposed, the entire sea had erupted into turmoil.
Pirates who had once controlled their own territories, stayed within their usual waters, and remained relatively well-behaved had all begun to reveal their ambitions.
To prepare for their voyages, they did not hesitate to destroy their own foundations and tear all pretense with Marine Headquarters apart. They had repeatedly attacked towns and islands, using arson, murder, and plunder to gather resources for their journey to Laugh Tale.
Some pirate crews even went to war with one another over resources, while others with considerable strength and great ambition directly targeted Marine branches.
For a time, countless fires of war blazed across the seas.
Some nations had already been mired in war for years, their national strength long since drained dry.
After this upheaval, the scales of victory tipped immediately.
The Revolutionary Army, which had been lying low for a long time, took the