For the Marines to capture Ryan, the force they had deployed was already exceptionally lavish: the Hero of the Marines, the Fleet Admiral, two Admirals, and several Vice Admirals of considerable strength.
This force would have been more than enough to deal with even the Whitebeard Pirates at their former peak, provided no one held back and everyone gave it their all. Especially Garp—if he got serious, he was capable of taking on Whitebeard alone.
Yet even such a force was still not enough in the current situation. There were simply too many powerful people.
It could be said that the backbone gathered by the Great Age of Pirates was all here. Every one of them was a favored child of this era.
And what they now faced was the combined attack of nearly all the prodigies since the Great Age of Pirates began.
For the first time, the Marines, the true rulers of the seas, felt threatened!
In the past, whether it was Rocks, Roger, Golden Lion, Whitebeard, or the others, they might have been powerful, but they had never been impossible to deal with.
Because they had almost all fought alone. There had never truly been a king of the seas. Even Roger, after becoming the Pirate King, had not made everyone submit to him. More people had simply admired him. Take Golden Lion's complicated feelings toward Roger, for example.
But now!
The era had changed. Ryan's appearance made Sengoku seem to see the possibility of unifying these chaotic seas.
It was not as if no one had ever tried to unify the seas. Rocks, Golden Lion, and others had all attempted it, but without exception, they had all failed.
Either they had fallen to their own arrogance, or they had been defeated by someone else.
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