War Was About to Break Out

The Celestial Dragons were dissatisfied with the situation. They were dissatisfied with the Five Elders, the Navy, and the Army.

The influence of the Affiliated Nations should never be underestimated. Many of them had ties to Celestial Dragon families.

Through those nations, they could keep track of the World Government's actions and the state of affairs.

The proud Celestial Dragons found such a disastrous situation unacceptable.

They were furious, especially after giving the World Government so much support.

They had provided money and people, only to get this result. How could they be satisfied?

Celestial Dragon families voiced their displeasure, while the Celestial Dragon Council kept pressing the Five Elders.

Some of the more radical members even wanted to remove the Five Elders and replace them, believing they were incompetent.

But that was impossible.

The Five Elders wanted to act too, but they had to wait for an opportunity.

The Navy and the World Government's intelligence networks had suffered a devastating blow two years earlier. Rebuilding them took time.

They needed to concentrate more intelligence assets in New World Central, around the edges of the Rocks Pirates' territory.

They could not allow that incident to happen again.

The Navy and the Army also needed time to learn to work together.

As expected, friction between them was constant. They were at each other's throats.

The Army scorned the Navy's incompetence, while the Navy saw the Army as "recruits" who had never been tested.

Faced with the Army, the Navy's fiercely competing factions instead joined forces against a common rival.

That briefly strengthened the Navy's overall unity. More importantly, the deaths of two Four Seas Governors had greatly weakened the Four Seas Faction's influence.

The hostility ran all the way up through the leadership, including the Admirals and Vice Admirals.

Admiral "Brown