The seas of Sea Era 1495 were unusually peaceful for Hades.
After he brought Shyarly, the mermaid fortune-teller, back to the Kronos Kingdom, nothing happened that particularly demanded his attention.
Even news of Wano Country reached Hades only in passing through the ore trade.
After all, the Overlord Dragon Pirates had sealed off all of Wano Country, and very little news got out.
Hades knew Kurozumi Mucicic fairly well, but he was not about to ask him about it just for the sake of curiosity.
Wano Country had become a land without hope.
The war took a full three days to end.
Several thousand samurai, led by a handful of daimyo, attacked Black Snake Island.
Their strength carried them through its defenses.
But the price was terrible.
Before they even landed, cannon fire destroyed most of their ships. Countless samurai fell into the sea or died in the explosions.
Once ashore, they were met by a relentless barrage.
All kinds of traps lay hidden as well.
The strongest samurai were largely unharmed, but the others suffered devastating casualties.
In the clash between firearms and blades, Black Snake Island held an overwhelming advantage at first.
As the battle wore on, powerful samurai fought their way onto the island and destroyed its heavy cannons and munitions.
The tide of battle began to turn in Wano Country's favor.
But the tens of thousands of soldiers still held an overwhelming advantage in numbers.
After relentless fighting, the tens of thousands of cannon fodder the Kurozumi Clan had prepared were wiped out.
Even slaughtering chickens would have been exhausting in such numbers.
And beneath Black Snake Island lay ten thousand tons of explosives.
Since Black Snake Island had already been abandoned, there was no need to preserve it. The Kurozumi Clan did not even want