Chapter 420: High-Level War
At some point, the entire world fell silent.
Most people, including the Five Elders, fell quiet as they watched the godlike battle unfolding in the broadcast and sat obediently still.
If the Four Emperors' silence and observation stemmed from their appreciation of the high-level battle between the Marine and Revolutionary Army commanders, then ordinary people were silent because they had realized that this world's top combat power had completely surpassed their imagination. They would not even dare dream such a terrifying nightmare.
It was like how Leo could not possibly imagine the joy of the wealthy in his own world.
Likewise, in this world, people could not imagine what a battle between the supreme powers was truly like.
That was the divide, and that was the problem.
When the Logia Devil Fruit users on both sides displayed methods like those of immortals, fighting until mountains collapsed and the heavens changed color, it was simply unbelievable that they belonged to the same species.
In the One Piece World, people's physiques could not be judged by the same standard. Powerful people, like Ace and his brothers, possessed the strength of a Shichibukai in their teens. They slew gods when they met gods and Buddhas when they met Buddhas. Though they faced hard battles, they were never battles to the death.
But ordinary people could not even defeat a pirate worth several million Beli. To them, this kind of war on the level of a natural disaster was as fantastical as trying to understand why a missile fired from the Blue Sea could accurately hit a moving ship in the South Blue.
Had this world advanced to such a degree?
Everyone remained silent.
If they relied solely on themselves, they truly had no way to resist either the Revolutionary