Marshall D. Teach had one of the greatest physical potentials on the seas.
Even without eating a Devil Fruit, he could become one of the strongest men on the seas through Body Techniques and by developing that potential.
Unfortunately, he had hidden his strength while waiting for the Dark-Dark Fruit aboard the Whitebeard Pirates, wasting more than twenty years.
To Hades, it had not been worth it at all.
Yet staking a lifetime of hopes on a single Devil Fruit took resolve, and that resolve spoke to the strength of Teach's will.
To pose a direct threat to the World Government and the Navy, a crew needed an unprecedented force like the Rocks Pirates had commanded.
The Flying Pirates had that potential, and Golden Lion Shiki had the ambition.
As for everyone else, they fell short.
In the future, at the time of the Paramount War, the Whitebeard Pirates would field an army of fifty thousand pirates, including their Affiliated Pirate Crews.
And that was not even their full strength. Weaker pirates had not been required to come; it had been entirely voluntary.
Besides, the Whitebeard Pirates needed forces to defend their vast territory.
But in Hades's eyes, without two or three hundred thousand pirates, no one could truly wage Total War against the Navy and the World Government.
He based that standard on the Rocks Pirates.
The war with the World Government had made that clear.
Even setting aside the Navy's hundreds of thousands of troops, the Army alone could deploy over a million Cannon Fodder at any time.
The seas had not yet descended into that level of chaos. The Flying Pirates were the largest force, and they had not even reached their peak.
After the Great Pirate Era began, the number of pirates across the seas would