Brannew friends only decided to stand up against Arlong out of their belief in justice, but they never expected Arlong to be so powerful.
Now he was lying on the ground, and if it weren't for the serrated longsword Kiribachi in his hand and his serrated nose, the marines wouldn't have recognized him. Arlong had been beaten so badly that it was a complete disaster.
The navy personnel present began to utilize their excellent cleanup skills, binding up a large number of surviving Fish-Man and escorting them to the warship for safekeeping. As for the Fish-Man who had already died, they were also dealt with. It can be said that this group of navy personnel had achieved a great harvest.
Just then, everyone present suddenly heard a commotion coming from afar. Immediately afterwards, the gate of Arlong Park was pushed open, and many villagers carrying farm tools such as hoes and sickles rushed in.
It turned out that the villagers of Cocoyasi Village insisted on coming to help after learning about Luffy and his crew's actions. No matter how much Hinata Hyuga tried to stop them, it was to no avail. After all, there were too many of them, and Hinata Hyuga couldn't just knock out all the villagers who came to help.
The villagers, who had also prepared to die, were shocked to see the Fish-Man corpses lying all over the ground when they entered Arlong Park. They could hardly believe their eyes, especially after seeing Arlong lying on the ground.
Clang.
"Waaaaah..."
Some villagers threw down their hoes and burst into tears, hugging the people around them.
This was just the beginning. Some villagers cried while others laughed. Some cried for the suffering they had endured in the past, while others laughed at the evil's fate today.
Immediately afterwards, a group of villagers rushed over and surrounded the navy personnel present. It turned out that they thought these navy personnel were also Arlong's lackeys, just like the Captain Nezumi.
It wasn't until a villager recognized the difference. "No, no, no, they're from the 77th Naval Squadron. I heard from the survivors in Gosa Town that someone contacted the 77th Naval Squadron and asked for their help. They're here to wipe out Arlong."
The leading commodore stepped forward. "That's right, I am Commodore Brimbrin of the 77th Naval Squadron. I came here to rescue everyone after receiving a request for help from Gosa Town."
"Oh, great!" The villagers were overjoyed to hear these words, for they knew their days of suffering were about to end.
--
In the Ninja World, a group of high-ranking officials gathered together to analyze the intelligence sent back by the advance team.
"According to the intelligence sent back by the advance team, the overall structure of that world is as follows:"
At the very top are a group of so-called Celestial Dragons, Celestial Dragons, in order to make it easier for them to manage the world, established the current World Government.
Below the World Government are their Navy and Cipher POL. According to the intelligence obtained so far, the Navy as a whole is acting in accordance with their own sense of justice. Although there may be some bad apples among them, they are generally inclined to protect order.
However, in the eyes of the Ninja World's higher-ups, these marines, along with the pirates they had always opposed, had become tools for the World Government to oppress those so-called Affiliated Nation.
First, they allowed the pirates to plunder and loot at will, then sent the navy to clean up the area, forcing other countries to join the Affiliated Nation and pay exorbitant protection fees to the World Government, also known as " Heavenly Tribute."
Because everyone in the Navy acts according to the principles of justice, the World Government officials, who know exactly what their own people have done, created the so-called Seven Warlords of the Sea to restrain the Navy's power in order to prevent them from ever slipping out of their control.
In that world, there are five major forces known to the higher-ups of the Ninja World. The most powerful of these is the Navy, followed by pirates, then the Seven Warlords of the Sea who are considered to be semi-subordinate to the World Government, and finally, CP0-CP8, which are directly controlled by the World Government.
Four have been mentioned above. As for the third one, it is a Revolutionary Army. The reason why the Revolutionary Army is not included in the ranking is that the intelligence they have obtained is limited, and the description of this Revolutionary Army is limited, so it is not possible to rank them at the moment.
Among the strongest navies, the headquarters located in the New World is the most powerful, followed by the branches in the four seas (east, west, south, and north). The weakest of these is the East Blue, where our teleportation array lands.
The situation is similar for pirates. In the New World, there are four powerful pirates known as the Four Emperors Four Emperors. Each of them wields considerable strength, with Kaido and Big Mom each directly controlling powerful nations.
Below the Four Emperors are all sorts of pirate crews, large and small. Their strength varies, but their numbers are vast, and they can be said to be present on every ocean in the world. Their strength is distributed most strongly in the New World, followed by the other four seas.
This New World can be said to be the center of power and status in the entire world. Anyone who feels that they still have room for advancement and wants to develop further wants to go to this New World to seek opportunities, or rather, to step onto this stage that is the focus of everyone's attention and show their own brilliance.
This situation has led to the continuous loss of the most powerful forces in the other four seas. Therefore, my personal suggestion is that we can use the East Blue as a base to develop and support corresponding forces within it, and then gradually expand to the other three seas. Ultimately, with the enormous power accumulated in the four seas, we can overthrow the so-called World Government in the New World in one fell swoop.
As for the navy, we can still send people to try to make contact, but we don't need to put all our eggs in one basket for now. After all, based on the intelligence we have, although the navy upholds the so-called justice, they have always followed the orders of the Celestial Dragons and have not actually taken any action to resist. In this respect, they are not very trustworthy.
I think what truly deserves our attention is that mysterious Revolutionary Army force. I believe it is necessary to send people to make contact with them to assess their ideologies and ideas. If they prove to be of great use, we can offer them support within certain limits.
If the other side can truly establish a new order on this planet through their own efforts, then we can formally establish diplomatic relations with them. After all, our original intention was not to colonize this planet. If their own people can solve their own problems, that would be ideal."
At this point, another high-ranking official present raised his opinion. "We've always said we don't engage in colonization, but isn't what we're doing now a form of colonization? After all, aren't we using our own preferences to deny the existence of the other side's legitimate government?"
A high-ranking official sitting opposite him raised an objection. "We have discussed this before. First of all, we are not directly making an enemy of the other planet's World Government. We just disapprove of their behavior and refuse to establish diplomatic relations with them. This cannot be considered an act of colonization."
The actions of those Celestial Dragons were not only heinous in our eyes, but also considered utterly wicked by the native life forms on that planet.
There are people on their home planet who intend to overthrow their existing political rule. While we may provide some assistance to accelerate this process, that doesn't really count as colonization.
After all, all we did was strengthen one of their factions so that they could eliminate the original inhabitants of their planet, whom they considered to be evil.
In this process, we neither conquered them by force, nor did we conduct large-scale immigration to that planet and plunder the wealth and interests of the original people, nor did we directly bring their planet under our rule, nor did we influence or interfere with their various powers in politics, economy, military and diplomacy. Therefore, we are not colonizing them; we are clearly investing in and helping them."
The Ninja World was very satisfied with the intelligence gathered by the advance team, especially the large amount of information that Naruto Uzumaki and Sasuke Uchiha obtained from the Navy through genjutsu. This information was superior to what Luffy and his crew had previously dictated, both in terms of its authenticity and completeness.
After all, it's always more convincing for one's own people to speak ill of another than for outsiders to say so, right? Especially when it comes to the Celestial Dragons, the Marines have far more contact with them than ordinary people, including some of the evil deeds that Luffy are unaware of. After all, if those things were revealed, it would seriously damage the World Government's already poor image in the eyes of the people.
Furthermore, they learned that the navy was divided into many factions, such as: thorough justice, lazy justice, ambiguous justice, strategic justice, ruling justice, pure justice, compromising justice, simple justice, and so on.
These so-called various forms of justice are actually just a way of thinking that arises from the clash between the sense of justice in the minds of naval officers and the current world order. It is precisely because of these different ideas that these high-ranking naval officers have been passively divided into different factions.
Regarding these diverse forms of justice, the higher-ups in the Ninja World cannot say who is right and who is wrong. After all, these are just ideas they promote based on their respective environments and levels of understanding. However, the Ninja World can use these as a basis to choose which high-ranking naval officers align with their own ideas to contact.
The group quickly decided on their next steps regarding the planet and resolved to expedite the movement of the subsequent teams.
In other words, following the first advance team, other advance teams will finally be entering. After all, if they really want to build a formal base in the East Blue, the First Vanguard alone is far from enough.
That's right. The goal of the Ninja World's higher-ups is still to establish a suitable base. Although the Ninja World has gained access to a detailed world map far beyond what ordinary people can understand thanks to the satellite they launched, and Ninja World also possess various means to create obstacles such as the Calm Belt, they are not interested in the so-called truth of the world or the treasure of the One Piece.
Ninja World wants is to establish diplomatic relations with this planet and develop together, nothing more. Of course, if they can find the so-called God Tree sapling, then it will be a different story.
However, based on what they currently know, it's clear that the One Piece's treasure isn't this sapling, but rather some hidden truth about the world—something they don't actually care about.
As time went on, the entire Ninja World gained a more thorough understanding of this planet. As a result, many unique phenomena and knowledge about this world attracted many famous figures in the Ninja World.
Among them are Orochimaru, a famous scientist in the Ninja World; Jiraiya, a famous writer in the Ninja World; Tsunade, a famous doctor in the Ninja World; and Mifune, a top swordsman in the Ninja World.
After all, while the life and knowledge of this world may seem similar to those of the Ninja World at first glance, their analysis and understanding revealed many mysteries within it.
This naturally attracted the attention of top figures from various fields, who submitted applications to come to this world with the advance team for on-site investigation.
Besides those who do research and study, there are also artists like Jiraiya who seek inspiration. After all, in their view, a new world and two different civilizations colliding with each other will inevitably spark their inspiration.
However, after some consideration, the higher-ups in the Ninja World only approved the applications of two artists for the time being: Jiraiya and Kurama Unkai.
One of them is a well-known writer in the Ninja World, and the other is a well-known painter in the Ninja World. The reason why their applications were approved was not because of their fame, but because they were considered to have relatively strong self-defense capabilities.
That Jiraiya is the current contractor of Mount Myoboku. Not only does he possess considerable strength, but he can also summon the Toad Clan as helpers.
Moreover, what the higher-ups valued most about Jiraiya was his exceptional investigative abilities, as evidenced by the books he had written over the years.
For the same reason, there is Kurama Unkai. He is not only a member of the Ninja World Hua Clan, but also possesses the powerful Kekkei Genkai of Five Senses Manipulation.
The number of bloodline limit ninjas in the Kurama Clan was declining year by year. However, after witnessing the Uchiha Clan's practice of actively cultivating their spiritual power, they followed suit. This not only increased the probability of their own Kekkei Genkai appearing but also further enhanced the power of their genjutsu and reduced the possibility of Kekkei Genkai Disease.
After agreeing to travel and seek inspiration, and to gather relevant intelligence for the higher-ups in the Ninja World, the two were granted permission to travel to the One Piece Planet.
This made a well-known rapper in the Ninja World extremely jealous, and he publicly stated that those high-ranking officials did not understand art.