Over the years, the various Celestial Dragon families had suffered considerable losses.
Ever since the war against the Rocks Pirates began, Holy Knight Candidates had continued to die in battle.
They were all part of the Celestial Dragons' reserve strength.
Their deaths had left the Celestial Dragons with scarcely any new powerhouses emerging over the years.
The God Valley War, the repeated campaigns against the Roger Pirates, the two bloody wars, and the succession of wars that followed.
The Holy Knights who had fallen were almost enough to form another order of Holy Knights.
The Holy Knight Candidates had suffered even heavier losses. Nearly all the promising talents with the potential to become top combatants had been wiped out.
During the second bloody war, all four Holy Knight Candidates who possessed top-level combat strength had died.
Otherwise, how could the Holy Knights have been unable to replenish even their own ranks?
Even Saint Mars of the Five Elders had died in battle. That alone showed how brutal the wars of recent years had been.
The various Celestial Dragon families could be said to have committed all their accumulated reserves.
Even the Fiorella Family had not escaped, sending one top combatant into battle while another remained stationed in Mary Geoise.
Over the years, the Fiorella Family had kept a very low profile. Even if they had other fighting forces, those forces were not in Mary Geoise.
As for the other Celestial Dragon families, even if they had left themselves a fallback, they needed to go all out at this point.
Only truly powerful Celestial Dragon families could afford to keep a top combatant hidden.
Logically, they should have gone all out at this point and deployed every force they had.
Unfortunately, a family was still a family. Unlike the World Government,