Paramount War 26

The divine artifact, the Spuit Lance, rose, its tip flickering with an unusual gleam.

Just as Shalltear was about to send Wind Tanuki to his death, the ground beneath them shook violently.

The earth rumbled, filling everyone with unease.

The pirates gathered in one place stopped their charge and looked around.

On the execution platform, Sengoku watched the ice continuously crack and felt slightly relieved.

Strictly speaking, the Encircling Wall had not been designed specifically for the Whitebeard Pirates. Honestly, even though Whitebeard was known as the strongest man in the world, he did not have that kind of stature.

Nearly ten meters thick, dozens of meters high, and almost a thousand kilometers long, with all kinds of weapons and living facilities inside—the financial and material resources required for such a colossal project could never have been spent for one Whitebeard alone.

Or rather, if dealing with the Whitebeard Pirates required such a tremendous price, the World Government would rather surrender the entire New World than undertake this project.

This was the Navy's legacy, or rather, its foundation.

The World Government had existed for eight hundred years, and the Navy had not been established much later.

As a headquarters that had stood for nearly eight centuries, some of the facilities within were not even fully understood by Sengoku, the Fleet Admiral.

It was not that anything needed to be hidden from him, but there were simply too many structures. Some places had gone unused for years, and records had been lost in past wars, causing them to be forgotten.

Strictly speaking, the Defense Wall was one of them.

Although the Navy knew the Defense Wall existed, they did not know when it had been built, how it had been built, or why it had been built, because the records had