The war between the Rocks Pirates and the World Government was raging.
Things on Hades's side, however, were remarkably easy.
The pirate fleet arrived at the port of an affiliated nation.
The entire port looked like a mess, almost like a garbage dump, with its shops either collapsed on the ground or split in half.
It seemed they had tried to make it look as though the place had been destroyed and plundered, but the staging was so obvious that even the pirates felt a little awkward looking at it.
The entire port was deserted.
Still, they could sense faint presences hiding inside the houses.
Dazzling treasures gleamed in the sunlight, piled into a small mountain in the most conspicuous spot in the port.
There were also crates upon crates of Beli. No matter how they looked at it, everything had clearly been prepared in advance.
"Take everything aboard. We're going to the next destination."
Hades spoke with a smile.
Things had turned out differently from what they had imagined, but it was all incredibly easy.
There was no need to kill anyone. They only had to take the treasure.
Treasure worth two billion Beli was a huge sum even for these affiliated nations, but it was not beyond what they could afford.
The Rocks Pirates were ravaging the world, and no one truly wanted their members invading their territory.
The thirteen divisions chose their own targets without any prior plan. If they were confident in their strength, they could even attack the World Government or Marine Headquarters. Of course, they would have to bear the consequences themselves.
To ensure that the Rocks Pirates would not invade their kingdoms, they secretly contacted the Kronos Kingdom and had Hades select them as his targets.
That would keep the other divisions of