After Dawn and the others discussed returning to the town, the rested Marines had already finished breakfast and were preparing to set sail.
By the time Dawn and the others boarded the ship, Sola and the others were still eagerly hoping that the powerful man would resolve the matter.
During his nighttime conversation with Dragon, Dawn learned that, in order to avoid implicating them, Dragon would wait until Dawn and the others had sailed for more than half a day before launching the rescue.
It was already afternoon now. Hunter Island must have fallen into tremendous chaos by this point.
During the voyage that followed, they had no source of information out at sea and could only keep worrying about it. It was not until they returned to Marine Headquarters that they finally received the news.
The Hunter Island king's "Hunter" incident soon shook the seas. After those who escaped exposed the king's cruel deeds, the entire island could hardly believe that their king, once regarded as a wise ruler, had committed such atrocities. In an instant, he became a target of universal condemnation.
Moreover, some of the escapees were natives of the island. Some had been taken away by pirates, while others had vanished after joining the king's merchant caravans. There was no way people could refuse to believe them.
Thus, the resistance was formed around those who had been rescued. With Dragon's secret assistance, the war between the two sides naturally became completely one-sided.
Before the World Government could react, the king was sent to the gallows. At that point, even the Marines could only accept that the matter had become a reality.
Those who had been enslaved naturally accepted the Revolutionary Army's ideals and joined it. A new king was elected, and everything seemed to return to