New World, Wano Country.
Above the skies, dark clouds blotted out the sun as thunder rumbled without end.
Raging whirlpool currents swirled around towering stone pillars, continuously sweeping up anything that approached these waters and smashing it into the rocky columns.
Atop those stone pillars, the Beasts Pirates had taken advantage of the terrain to set up watchtowers, stationing dedicated lookouts to monitor the sea and sky at all times.
Beep! Beep! Beep!...
A shrill alarm suddenly rang out from a watchtower on one of the outer stone pillars.
A Beasts Pirates member held a Den Den Mushi communicator in his left hand and binoculars in his right. Speaking rapidly, he reported to the Flower Capital:
"Enemy attack! A flying fleet has appeared in the sky at twelve o'clock!!!
Preliminary visual estimate puts their numbers at over fifty ships!
Their flag... I can see the pirate flag... It's the Kuja Pirates!!?"
Rumble!
From within the dark clouds, a blue-white pillar of lightning dozens of meters wide crashed down from the sky, blasting the Beasts Pirates member and the entire watchtower into dust.
In the distance, the same scene played out one after another. Pillars of lightning continuously struck down, destroying the Beasts Pirates' surveillance towers.
Within the clouds, Breath of the Gods, shaped like a gigantic red goldfish, was under Marigold's control. With unstoppable force, it swiftly cleared out the Beasts Pirates members around Wano Country's perimeter and headed straight for the Flower Capital.
Since Wano Country was the Beasts Pirates' headquarters and had been managed by Kaido and Doflamingo for many years, aside from the slave factories, most free citizens had deeply entangled connections with the Beasts Pirates.
Therefore, if the Umbrella Corporation wished to bring Wano Country steadily under its control, it needed assistance from local forces within