When faced with a crisis, people would find their own way out.
The World Government was no different.
The situation had forced them to change.
This was something the Marines had always longed to achieve. They had never expected it to happen under outside pressure.
If they did not change now, they would have to later.
If the World Government fell, they would lose everything.
The World Government had many clever people, and Imu, its founder, was certainly one of them.
If she continued fighting the pirates, especially a monster like "Black Emperor" Teach, she might die.
By contrast, if they took the initiative to change, they could still retain considerable power within the reborn World Government.
That way, they could also preserve the World Government, allowing the organization to endure in a new form.
Even if the reborn World Government was no longer under their control, this could still spare their families the tragedy of extinction, as well as an even greater catastrophe.
More than half of the Celestial Dragon families did not even have a top combatant. They did not deserve to be called top-tier powers.
The remaining Celestial Dragon families, which still possessed some fighting strength, had no desire to end up like that.
Their legacy mattered more than anything.
They had already sacrificed enough for the World Government.
Counting from the day Hades joined the Rocks Pirates, and including the two years until the next Reverie, two years from now...
It had been a full forty years.
The World Government had finally been defeated.
It had happened even sooner than expected.
Hades had originally thought it would take at least another ten years, roughly until the original story began.
After all, there were still the Revolutionary Army, the Black Emperor Pirates, and a whole series of