The meeting did not last long.
Among pirates, there was little to scheme over. Every crew was already prepared.
The meeting was merely Shiki informing the others. Now everyone knew what to do.
In the blink of an eye, the sky changed. Under the pressure of powerful wills, dark clouds gathered and formed enormous whirlpools overhead.
Thunder exploded in their ears, followed by flash after flash of purple lightning.
The Pirate Allied Forces sprang into action. Every pirate had received orders. Wearing excited, cruel smiles, they grabbed their weapons and charged toward the battlefield.
Not one of them showed fear.
Pirates who had come to this battlefield would not be afraid. They had already steeled themselves.
Anyone afraid of war had no business being a pirate.
Many had not joined this feast, instead invading the Four Seas aboard Island Battleships.
They might fear a great battle, but the weak Four Seas filled them with excitement.
Preying on the weak was second nature to many pirates.
And the promise of vast treasure meant they could plunder to their hearts' content.
It was this very mindset that could wreak such devastation across the seas.
Killing, plunder, exploitation, greed.
The Navy and the World Government detected the pirates' movements immediately.
It was as though the pirates had sent a signal: the war had begun.
At the same time, the World Government's forces marched toward the battlefield under the command of numerous powerful fighters.
It had to be said that the Army had trained a group of elite troops over the years.
Its struggles against the Revolutionary Army had turned the World Government's training into a brutal contest of survival.
With finances strained and the Army's average quality poor, repeated defeats against the Revolutionary Army had led the World Government to decide on cuts.