Impact

Rocks D. Zebek paid no attention to the tide sweeping through the Rocks Pirates.

To him, the battles fought by Hades and the others were little more than skirmishes.

After spending half a year expanding his forces, Hades devoted the next month to bringing them together.

Such rapid growth took time to absorb, and the pirates under his command needed to get to know one another.

After all, his group had grown from fewer than ten people into an army of eighteen hundred almost overnight.

There were Jaeger's former men, Kosa's former men, and the many followers of the officers who had joined Hades.

And those were in addition to the pirates Hades had recruited personally. Among them, plenty had bounties over a hundred million.

During this time, Shiki began making moves of his own. A man of action, he had made up his mind and set about expanding his forces as well.

The results were good. Quite a few pirates with bounties over a hundred million joined him without hesitation.

Several were formidable fighters, too.

Compared with Hades, Shiki had deeper roots in the Rocks Pirates and knew far more pirates.

Hades and Shiki had thrust themselves into the spotlight, becoming the two most dazzling figures in the Rocks Pirates and eclipsing the other core officers.

How could the others back down in the face of that?

They could already feel the pressure.

Hades had a large number of powerful, capable fighters, and the pirates under his command numbered two thousand.

Shiki commanded four thousand pirates, including not only members of the Rocks Pirates but also numerous outsiders and affiliated crews.

The Golden King, Donovan, still commanded the largest force in the Rocks Pirates: twenty thousand pirates.

That included quite a few affiliated crews and pirates who did not