When Ace put down the phone, he finally sighed helplessly and called the other two Vice Admirals.
"What happened?" They had already entered the second half of the Grand Line, the New World. The New World was far larger and more vast than they had imagined. If they had not prepared Eternal Poses in advance, and if their warships had not been sturdier and larger than those wooden sailing ships, they would likely have been sunk by the Grand Line's insane weather long ago.
Yet the more vicious the weather became, the more it proved that Leo had been right. This was likely the route taken by the ancestors of the ancient Celestial Dragons during their invasion, and this terrible weather was probably a massive obstacle set by the gods to stop them.
These obstacles must indeed have been difficult to overcome for people more than eight hundred years ago. After all, ships back then were all made of wood.
Though not necessarily. What if their technology had been highly advanced, advanced enough to withstand this terrible weather, but the descendants of the Celestial Dragons had gradually abolished those technologies and monopolized them for themselves, causing secular technology to break off?
The treasure ships of the Ming Dynasty were a typical example.
It could only be said that if technology was not widely promoted and put to practical use, even the most advanced technology could very well vanish into the river of history.
"The Whitebeard Pirates and the Big Mom Pirates have already gone to war," Ace said helplessly to Issho and Kyros.
His words did not surprise either of them. Clearly, they had already been prepared for it. More importantly, even if the Whitebeard Pirates were important allies, they were still pirates.
If it had been Sabo or Enel,