Whiskey Peak Conference
The Revolutionary Army arrived later than expected—an entire month later.
That was a little too long, though perhaps the Revolutionary Army forces from the Four Seas needed time to prepare.
Leo had not been idle during that month. Construction and training throughout Whiskey Peak never stopped. Even if Whiskey Peak had nothing, as long as they had money, they could easily buy whatever they needed from merchants—gunpowder, materials, steel.
They had always been a miserable bunch because they did not actually have much money. They had to hand over part of the bounties from the pirates they killed to Baroque Works—otherwise, why would Crocodile keep them around?
In truth, they were a bunch of paupers. Most of the pirates they dealt with were small fry. Pirates with bounties of several million were already their limit. Unless they resorted to tricks, they still could not defeat pirates with bounties exceeding ten million; those required high-ranking agents to handle.
So they could only rely on Baroque Works' senior agents as backing when they fought. Otherwise, if they provoked someone they could not afford to offend—someone like Luffy and his crew—they could be wiped out with ease.
The question was only whether Luffy and his crew wanted to do it, not whether they could.
Luffy and his crew might not have wanted to, but that did not mean the other Supernovas would not. They had only been able to establish themselves by relying on Baroque Works' senior agents, who in turn relied on the even more formidable Crocodile.
But now, their backing had become Leo, a Shichibukai. Before, they had needed to labor and produce; now, they could almost train full-time.
Ordinary people would find it difficult to grasp what Arlong's eight hundred million Beli meant. Put simply, if that