"How dare they! How dare they!!" The Big Mom Pirates were, after all, an intelligence organization on the level of the Four Emperors. Naturally, their sources were broader than Blackbeard's, and they received information about the Revolutionary Army earlier.
Aboard the Big Mom Pirates' flagship, the Queen Mama Chanter, Big Mom Charlotte Linlin naturally flew into a rage.
To her, the Revolutionary Army truly was an enemy.
But weren't enemies supposed to wait for her arrival outside the Grand Line? Why was the Revolutionary Army unlike the Navy, daring to enter the New World of the Grand Line directly?
The reason was obvious: the Revolutionary Army was stronger than the Navy!
The Revolutionary Army had already far surpassed the Navy in terms of warships. Did pirates and the Navy rely on powerful individuals like Big Mom when fighting at sea?
No.
War between the Revolutionary Army and the Navy was not the norm on these seas. The truest form of warfare here was pirates running while the Navy pursued. If pirates ran fast enough, they gained freedom and life. But if they could not outrun the Navy's cannonballs, they could only sink to the bottom of the sea.
That was the brutally realistic truth of pirates in this world.
That was right. Totto Land was already a nation, and Big Mom possessed countless warships. But those ships meant nothing before the Navy and the Revolutionary Army, because they could only serve as troop transports. They could not rival the Revolutionary Army's or Navy's warships on the open sea.
The Navy's warships possessed overwhelming technological and displacement advantages. In other words, even if both sides deployed in formation and engaged in naval artillery combat, Totto Land's warships could not threaten the Navy at all—unless the Navy attacked Totto Land itself.
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