Like the Army, the Marines had many vacant posts.
The position of Fleet Admiral would be held concurrently by the King of the Kronos Kingdom—that is, Hades, once he took the throne.
When Army Fleet Admiral Zoffy retired, Hades would take over his position as well.
Strictly speaking, there would be no separate Fleet Admiral posts. The heads of the Army and Marines would be combined into a single commander-in-chief of all forces.
And the King of the Kronos Kingdom would hold absolute command of the military.
The Marine Admiral posts were vacant too.
The kingdom had trained many talented people over the years, but most were mid- and high-ranking officers. Aside from Hades and Titan, no Top Combatants capable of serving as Admirals had emerged.
Top Combatants were always rare. Even the monsters with that kind of potential mostly stood outside this system.
The only ones whose strength came close were members of the Tartarus Family.
One of Hades's cousins, Tartarus Kebli, was a Paramecia Steel-Steel Fruit user.
He was thirty-four, exactly six years older than Hades.
If he kept growing stronger, he was certain to become a Top Combatant.
Both the Army and the Marines needed time to develop, step by step.
The Kronos Kingdom was far stronger than before. With the power it had now, it had no reason to fear invasion.
The World Government had troubles of its own. It could scarcely make up for its enormous losses, let alone interfere with the Kronos Kingdom.
However the seas changed, the Kronos Kingdom stood firm and focused on its own development.
Where one stood shaped how one thought.
While Hades was with the Rocks Pirates, he had considered matters from the standpoint of the Kronos Kingdom's interests.
Now that he had returned to the kingdom, that standpoint