"Tell me exactly what happened!"
The old man hurriedly replied, "Just now, I discovered that every soldier sent to the Luvneel Kingdom had died. Their deaths occurred less than five seconds apart!"
"That means someone powerful intervened. Nothing else could explain it," Judge said gravely, his expression tightening.
Every soldier sent out by the Germa Kingdom had a sensor implanted in his body. It could track his location and would disappear when he died. The sensors were implanted when the soldiers were modified or created.
Those soldiers weren't particularly strong and had fallen short of Judge's expectations, but killing hundreds of Clone Human soldiers in such a short time was still extremely difficult.
Has someone powerful emerged in the Freedom Alliance? Or has someone else stepped in? Judge wondered.
Nothing like this had ever happened in their previous clashes with the Freedom Alliance. That was why the old man had rushed over to report it.
The thought of the Freedom Alliance gave Judge a headache. The Donquixote Family's presence had already shattered his dream of unifying the North Blue. He was no match for Doflamingo the Flamingo, nor could he compete with the man's methods.
When Doflamingo left the North Blue and the Donquixote Family gradually shifted its focus toward the New World, Judge had seen hope again.
But then the Freedom Alliance had risen rapidly. It expanded at an astonishing pace, becoming one of the North Blue's four major powers in no time. Its aims were fundamentally at odds with his own.
That troubled Judge. The alliance was growing far too quickly; within a few years, its membership had climbed to nearly a hundred thousand.
More importantly, the Freedom Alliance had plenty of capable fighters. Many of the people Ryan had rescued from Mary Geoise had already proven themselves