"Was I seeing things? That ship actually flew..."
In the social plaza, Ham Burger of the Ballywood Kingdom rubbed his eyes in disbelief. As if in a dream, he stared at the pirate ship soaring through the sky, blue energy streaming from it.
The royals from the other kingdoms stood equally dumbstruck.
They had seen ships sail the seas and submarines dive beneath them. But a ship that could fly through the sky?
"Could you even call that a ship?"
The Marines looked up at the enormous pirate ship cutting through the flame-red clouds, their faces grim.
From their intelligence on the Sky Pirate Crew, the Marines knew it possessed technology far beyond this era. Even Vegapunk of their own Scientific Unit still could not reproduce the technology that allowed the crew's ship, the Twin Goddess, to fly.
It would have been one thing if only a small pirate ship like the Twin Goddess could fly. But now a vessel as large as a Marine warship could take to the skies. In any future war, the fleets of the Marines and the World Government would be at a severe disadvantage.
"So this is what gave you the confidence to start a war?"
Tsuru murmured. Zephyr and Garp looked grim as well.
Even fighters of their caliber would be at a disadvantage against a pirate ship that could fly, let alone ordinary Marines.
For the first time, the royals of the Fifty Kingdoms seriously considered that Ye Mu might not be the one to lose the coming war. The technology to make ships fly was enough to make them wonder.
Just then, Ye Mu spoke slowly.
"And that isn't the only surprise. Well, we'll need to stay in touch with you anyway... Here, take this."
Ye Mu pulled an unusual object