Kong also continued to boost the Navy's morale.
Aside from expanding its strength, Kong had also begun purging the Four Seas Faction, whose existence seriously undermined the Navy's cohesion.
In particular, the Four Seas Faction's current practice of accepting deployments while ignoring central directives, along with its collusion with affiliated nations and various powers across the Four Seas, filled Kong with disgust.
Since only those officers needed to be purged, Kong used overwhelming force to cut through the problem swiftly, gaining control of the Four Seas Navy and beginning to establish a new order across the Four Seas.
Throughout this process, the Navy still needed to keep rebuilding its strength and recruiting more troops. This was essential to stabilizing the world and maintaining the World Government's rule.
The necessary funds still had to be provided, which meant the Army and the various departments would have to tighten their belts.
Especially since the Celestial Dragons' annual "living expenses" had barely decreased and accounted for a large portion of the World Government's finances.
The ones with a real headache were the World Government and the Five Elders. They immediately dispatched agents to form search teams with the Navy and investigate Impel Down, hoping to learn exactly what had happened inside.
Impel Down was also part of the World Government's public image, a symbol of its deterrent power, and had to be rebuilt.
For the time being, however, they could only rebuild part of it. The World Government could not afford that much money now, so the work would have to be spread over at least several years.
"Should we use that weapon and wipe out all these pirates in one strike?"
Saint Warcury, the Warrior God of Justice, clenched his fists tightly and spoke through gritted teeth, seething with rage.
As one