Hades had learned the basics of the Elite Training Camp's internal situation from the World Government.
He also realized he might have told Kyle and the others too much.
Some intelligence didn't need to be handed to them. They could discover it themselves.
What concerned him more was the situation in the New World.
After the Pirate Expo hosted by the John Pirates ended,
the tension that had long been building in the New World finally exploded.
The Flying Pirates had developed steadily. They were in no hurry to swallow up territory in the west, instead expanding farther into the south and southwest waters.
But those waters belonged to the Five Peaks Pirates, the John Pirates, and the Silver Axe Pirates.
War broke out. The Flying Pirates, Five Peaks Pirates, Silver Axe Pirates, and John Pirates all went to war with one another, fighting for territory.
The captains of those crews—the most powerful monsters among them—stayed out of it. They sent ordinary pirates and officers into battle instead.
Territory was finite. Once a crew expanded far enough, it reached its limit.
If it wanted to keep growing stronger after that, it had to wage war and seize more territory.
War also forged ordinary pirates into elites. Only through constant fighting could they grow stronger, and only then would the talented ones rise above the rest.
At its core, nothing had changed. This was how things had worked since the days of the Rocks Pirates.
The only way to turn cannon fodder into elites quickly was to throw them into battle.
The major powers plunged into a general melee, as if by mutual agreement.
Every neighboring faction became a target.
They kept the scale of the fighting within bounds. The real powerhouses would not enter the fray so soon.
It made