The cleanup of the New World continued.
After Black Bone Island fell, the Marine fleets led by Bullet, Gion, Kaji, and Smoker split up once more, advancing deeper into the New World along four pre-designated routes.
Wherever the warships passed, pirate supply ports were blockaded, slave ships intercepted, and islands that committed evil under imperial flags shelled one after another.
But no matter how fast the Marine fleets advanced, they were ultimately constrained by currents, wind direction, and sea routes.
Some pirate islands were hidden deep within chaotic waters, surrounded by reefs with distorted magnetic fields.
Some supply ports were built in fjords shrouded by storms year-round, and only those familiar with the undercurrents could find their entrances.
Other pirate strongholds would immediately burn their warehouses upon spotting Marine warships, fleeing with their ledgers and slaves toward the territories of the Three Emperors.
By the time the Marines bypassed the storms and reefs, nothing but ruins was usually left behind.
All targets that traditional fleets could not deal with quickly were handed over to the Adventure Group's Mobile Unit.
Above the clouds.
The howling gale was split down the middle by an invisible force, and dozens of ships of varying sizes sailed through the Cloud Sea.
At the very front of the fleet, three large warships modified with Sky Island technology advanced side by side.
Their prows bore roaring White Tigers and the respective emblems of different Adventure Groups.
More than a dozen flags unfurled completely in the high-altitude winds.
Looking up from the sea below, one could only see vast shadows sweeping across the clouds, as though an armed archipelago were migrating through the sky.
Ze Yi stood at the foremost prow, the cape behind him pulled taut by the raging wind.
The power of the Float-Float Fruit spread