Jaeger

More than twenty years ago, Jaeger had gone to sea under a false identity.

After gaining overwhelming strength, he returned to the Kronos Kingdom.

During his absence, the Kronos Kingdom had gathered extensive intelligence on the rebel forces.

Jaeger struck with overwhelming force.

On Kronos Kingdom soil, the Army General had no hope of escape. Jaeger killed him in a head-on clash.

The strong always decided the course of war.

With the Army General dead, the World Government's investment went up in smoke, and the Chronos Kingdom collapsed completely.

The army, which had grown to half a million over the past decade, was captured by the kingdom after nearly half its soldiers were slaughtered.

The rebel forces were swiftly executed, and the lost territory returned to the Kronos Kingdom.

Jaeger's identity was inevitably exposed, making him a thorn in the World Government's side.

But he did not return to the Kronos Kingdom to inherit the throne.

Before his identity came to light, years of growth had already made Jaeger a famous pirate.

His greatest moment was still to come. During his adventures, Jaeger met Rocks D. Zebek and later became one of the founding members of the Rocks Pirates.

"Death God" Jaeger was no saint. The World Government suffered heavy losses, as did the Marines sent on its orders to support the army.

The name "Death God" became a nightmare for countless Marines. Two Marine fortresses in the New World were destroyed, with not a single survivor.

In its early days, the Rocks Pirates had yet to earn their fearsome reputation.

The World Government controlled public opinion across the world and could restrict the spread of news.

Hades was born in the first year after the Rocks Pirates were founded. Jaeger was nearly forty at the time, while his mother was not yet twenty.

Like Roger in the future, Jaeger was an old bull grazing on tender grass.

It was now the year 1469 of the Sea Era.

Eight years ago, when Hades was four,

Jaeger fell into a trap laid by the World Government and the Marines during an operation to destroy a nation.

He was besieged by two Marine Admirals, twelve Vice Admirals, ten thousand elite Marines, and eighteen CP0 agents.

The earth-shaking battle lasted two full days and nights. The entire island was destroyed and vanished from the map.

By the time Rocks heard the news and arrived, it was too late. Fleet Admiral Black and another Admiral, Kong, had blocked him on the way.

Rocks was powerful, but there was nothing he could do when the Marines were bent on delaying him. The news had come too suddenly for him to rally the Rocks Pirates.

Jaeger died in battle, but the World Government and the Marines suffered devastating losses.

One Marine Admiral died and another was wounded. Eight Vice Admirals died, only five CP0 agents survived, and all ten thousand elite Marines were wiped out.

The Marine soldiers had been cannon fodder from the start, expendable bodies meant to wear Jaeger down.

Jaeger had pushed the Death-Death Fruit's destructive power to its limit, to say nothing of his fearsome physique.

He had mastered the Three Types of Haki to their peak. He was a world-class powerhouse with no weaknesses.

After taking such a blow, the Marines had spent the following years recovering their strength, while the World Government had also lain low.

That had allowed the Rocks Pirates to develop unhindered. Compared with the past, the New World had been relatively peaceful these last few years.

As Jaeger's son, Hades was bound to be a thorn in the World Government's side. Uprooting the threat was the surest way to prevent future trouble.

They would never want Hades to become another Jaeger.

The Kronos Kingdom had finally regained its peace, but in the past two years, the World Government had returned and stirred up rebellion within it.

There were many reasons for it, and he was one of them.

In his previous life, he had been born into one of Magic City's most powerful families, with a fortune worth a trillion.

His older siblings managed the family's expansion, while he was tasked with increasing its numbers.

He had even boldly declared that he would father a hundred children.

Born at the top of the pyramid, he had never needed to work hard. Only his kidneys had suffered.

Unfortunately, he had achieved only a quarter of his goal. After sharing a bed one night with twelve homeless young women, he found himself back in the womb, bound for this world that was both familiar and strange.

Wonder how many of them got pregnant?

With a family and background like that, Hades had thought he would never need to work hard, just as in his previous life. He had planned to finish what he had started in this other world, only for this upheaval to catch him off guard.

He could have worked hard before, but there had been no need. Being forced to do so was another matter entirely.

None of this would have happened without the World Government. He had long since resolved to take revenge one day.

"Very well. I won't stop you. Remember, you are the heir to the Kronos Kingdom and the future of the Tartarus Family. Nothing matters more than you."

Bane had expected this. He knew Hades would not change his mind so easily. He patted Hades on the shoulder and spoke earnestly.

"Titan will go with you. Zoro will be better trained here in the kingdom."

As a superpower, the kingdom needed an Admiral-level fighter to guard it against the World Government's designs.

Only then could it carve out a haven in the chaotic New World and fend off its ferocious pirates.

Fertile land could not be held without sufficient strength. Did no one covet the Kronos Kingdom? Of course they did. They simply could not take it.

Zoro and Titan were the finest of the Kronos Kingdom's generation: one a peerless genius, the other a peerless monster. Both were future pillars of the kingdom.

Titan had been born with monstrous strength and a monstrous physique, along with an enormous appetite. Every meal, he ate enough food for a hundred people.

He was only fourteen, two years older than Hades, yet already stood nearly five meters tall. Growing to eight meters would be no trouble for him.

At six, he had accidentally eaten the Mythical Zoan Gluttonous Beast Fruit, a top-tier Devil Fruit that suited his gifts perfectly.

Now he was eating almost constantly.

His potential was plain to see. He could have been the leading candidate to become Hell's commander-in-chief and, once fully grown, take over as its leader.

But Titan's personality made him ill-suited to working in the shadows. Besides, Hell's current leader was in his prime and already had a successor with plenty of promise. The idea was abandoned.

To foster Titan's loyalty, they assigned him directly to Hades.

Zoro, meanwhile, was a swordsmanship prodigy. Three years older than Hades, he had awakened Observation Haki before turning ten and possessed astonishing talent.

The kingdom's current pillar was Zoffy, its commander-in-chief and Zoro's father.

Beyond honing his strength, Zoro needed to study troop command and warfare. Barring any surprises, he would follow in his father's footsteps. He could already command a thousand-man unit.

The kingdom had once had two such pillars, but the other had died alongside Jaeger under the World Government and the Marines' assault.

In that respect, he had been much like Titan. He too had accompanied Hades's father, Jaeger, to sea and grown stronger at his side.