The Roger Pirates fled toward Reverse Mountain, planning to head to the North Blue or the West Blue.
Then they would cross the Calm Belt to reach the New World directly.
With Kozuki Oden joining them, the Roger Pirates had not only gained another top combatant and someone who could decipher Poneglyphs, but also learned the whereabouts of two Road Poneglyphs.
They had gained three benefits in one stroke.
Road Poneglyphs were special, and Kozuki Oden's arrival proved that Roger's theory was correct.
A Road Poneglyph recorded the coordinates of an island.
At first, Roger had thought those coordinates pointed to Laugh Tale, but that turned out not to be the case, because Kozuki Oden knew of two more Road Poneglyphs.
After some deliberation, the Roger Pirates quietly passed through Reverse Mountain and headed to the West Blue.
The West Blue was said to have an island called Ohara, home to the world's largest collection of books.
While sailing the seas, Roger had encountered archaeologists from Ohara who were searching far and wide for traces of Poneglyphs.
Back then, however, the Roger Pirates had paid little attention to the Poneglyphs.
They believed they would certainly find something useful on Ohara.
Once they entered the much vaster West Blue, the Navy would have a harder time finding the Roger Pirates.
After the devastation wrought by the World Pirates, coupled with the situation in the West Blue, the Navy's forces there were the weakest in the Four Seas, and their reach was the smallest.
But the chaos had also driven many people to join the Navy for protection, whether to survive or simply to seek revenge.
After a few years of development, the West Blue Navy would be able to rebuild its strength.
And nearly two months after the bloody war began,