The Marines could never have kept a troop movement of this scale hidden.
The moment warship after warship left the G-1 Branch and entered the Calm Belt carrying countless Marines, word spread across the sea.
Soon after, news broke that the Sky Pirate Crew—fresh from defeating the Silver Axe Pirates and becoming one of the rulers of the New World—had entered the Calm Belt too. Everyone realized what it meant.
The war was finally about to begin.
The New World.
On a small Sky Island held aloft by Island Clouds stood a domed building. Huge radar-like shells covered its roof and surroundings, facing in every direction.
Amid excited shouts, Morgans, president of the World Economy News Paper, appeared there.
Before him were countless screens and staff members hurrying back and forth.
Anyone standing there could have seen that the images on those screens covered every corner of Golden Crow Island from every angle.
And on the enormous screen at the center was the very image being shown on every Television Dial.
Morgans had received one of those devices two months earlier, before anyone else.
It had come with a message from Fire Dragon Ye Mu.
"Morgans, soon I'm going to do something that will change the world. Will you become my ally and witness that change...?"
A few words from Ye Mu would never have swayed Morgans. But then Fire Dragon Ye Mu personally explained just how remarkable the device he had invented—the Television Dial—really was.
Morgans agreed on the spot!
That was why he had been so willing to hand over part of his control of the World Economy News Paper to the World Government behind Stussy.
The arrival of Television Dials meant his outdated newspapers would soon be swept into the dustbin of history.
At the time,