The war had begun as a fight between Kaido and Hamza, but Garp and the Roger Pirates had stolen the spotlight when they arrived.
Kaido and Hamza's battle continued.
The brief respite gave Hamza time to summon more wild beasts under his control.
One after another, the beasts charged Kaido. He kept swinging his Spiked Club, knocking them down as they came.
Nearly all the residents had left the Royal Capital. From towns across the Kingdom or the wilderness outside the city, they still watched the battle that would decide their fate.
Or rather, they waited for its outcome.
As a powerful ruler in the New World, King Hamza had kept the Mozartel Kingdom stable largely through his own strength and abilities.
From the way things looked, the Beasts Pirates had the upper hand. They would be the Kingdom's next protectors.
The people did not object. Things could hardly be worse than they had been under Hamza. Besides, once freed from the shackles of the Pet-Pet Fruit's power, they could leave the Kingdom for somewhere safer.
But none of that changed the danger Hamza was in.
The number of beasts kept dwindling.
Hamza could see that his Wild Beast Corps would not hold out much longer, while Queen had already crushed the Black Armor Guards.
Even if Hamza controlled them with his power, they could no longer come to his aid.
The Zoan Ability User Unit, absent from sight for some time, had also fallen at the hands of Hebide the "Brontosaurus."
Without Hamza directly controlling them, the Zoan Ability Users still attacked Hebide, but they could hold back to a degree.
They only had to fulfill the underlying command to attack the enemy.
Now Hamza wanted the unit to abandon its enemy and come straight to him.
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