No one in the rear could stop the powerful Homies Linlin had created.
Naturally, the World Government could not stand idly by.
Powerful fighters withdrew from the front lines one after another, holding off the enemy fighters and swiftly restoring order in the rear.
This multiplied the pressure on the World Government at the front, especially among the High-End Combatants. Some High-End Combatants even found themselves free to enter the battles between Top Combatants, joining forces to suppress the World Government's fighters.
Those caught in a war rarely noticed shifts in the overall situation. They simply buried themselves in the fighting.
Most did not even know which Top Combatants had died. That was the norm.
Many Top Combatants focused entirely on their own opponents, paying no attention to the other battlefields.
Even if they wanted to help, they could not.
"Tyrant" Gurado and Sakazuki were one such example.
In terms of physique, Gurado undoubtedly held the advantage.
In combat, however, the slightly shorter Sakazuki was more agile.
Although the Magma-Magma Fruit and the Volcano-Volcano Fruit belonged to the same category of devil fruit, and both ranked among the very best,
the apparent gap between them was small, but the Magma-Magma Fruit actually stood a little higher in the hierarchy.
Logia fruits inherently symbolized dominion over natural disasters.
Gurado, meanwhile, represented volcanoes.
To a certain extent, the power of volcanoes fell within the Magma-Magma Fruit's domain.
The magma field their battle had created was entirely Sakazuki's home turf.
For Gurado, it offered little enhancement.
This was Sakazuki's advantage, and it was why the two had remained evenly matched throughout the battle.
At the same time, both continued to improve, each developing his devil fruit in different ways.
With such similar fruit abilities, their battle was also a process of exchanging insights.