The war was extraordinarily brutal.
No one paid any attention to the losses among the lower- and middle-tier fighters.
The balance in the battles between the top combatants remained unbroken.
Yet by this point in the war, both sides had suffered devastating losses among their mid- and high-end combatants.
Navy officers and army generals fell one after another.
Many famous pirates had also become corpses, and every pirate crew had suffered considerable losses.
Pirate crews were wiped out one after another in the war.
Things would have been manageable if the balance of power had held.
But the actions of the various superpowers had upset that balance on individual battlefields.
Their aim was to target the World Government, hunting down Celestial Dragons and the forces of their families.
The pirates naturally held the advantage in the areas where they operated, while the World Government held the advantage in others.
An advantage meant heavier casualties for the enemy.
And this was a decision that would leave both sides battered.
In other words, they did not care about the pirates' losses.
Everything they did was meant to weaken the World Government. The pirates might have suffered considerable losses, but the World Government suffered even more.
In a sense, this situation actually favored the pirates.
As for the pirate crews that had lost important members, who cared about them?
Even the crews of the many Sea Emperors had suffered substantial losses.
Among their high-end combatants, however, core members could watch out for one another, so their losses were relatively light.
The crews in the second and third tiers were the ones that suffered the most.
They lacked such deep reserves, and in many crews, only the captain could be considered truly strong.
Blades showed no mercy in war. Hardly anyone could help them