As expected.
Once news of the fall of Mary Geoise and Marineford spread, the entire sea sank into even greater despair.
By the time the World Government and the Navy realized what had happened and tried to set the record straight, it was already too late.
The whole strategy hinged on information asymmetry.
There were only a few photographs; everything else was fabricated.
The World Government's and the Navy's circumstances, the state of the fighting—everything was portrayed as disastrously as possible.
It could not actually inflict much damage on the World Government or the Navy.
In reality, the two sides were evenly matched in the war.
But the news had certainly gotten under their skin.
Had Marineford not been reduced to ruins?
Had the "Holy Land," Mary Geoise, not been invaded?
Mary Geoise was vast, and most of its districts remained intact, but the photographs had deliberately focused on the areas with the worst destruction.
They made the world believe that all of Mary Geoise had been reduced to ruins and had fallen completely.
For a time, morale throughout the Four Seas Navy wavered violently.
If the Navy was destroyed, what were they supposed to do?
That went double for the people living across the seas.
Sometimes, once people lost hope, they kept lowering their moral standards to survive until they became beasts.
When their hearts sank into darkness, how were they any different from wild animals?
Clearly, more and more people were becoming beasts, and more and more were sinking into darkness.
When order collapsed completely, what purpose did the World Government serve?
When the World Government became a burden, would the Celestial Dragon families behind it still stand by it?
This was both pressure and a test.
That pressure would gradually make the Celestial Dragon families behind the