Hades had more or less grasped the World Government's true strength.
Counting the Navy, God's Knights, and the Army, along with the Five Elders and CP0, it had well over twenty top combatants.
Under normal circumstances, however, neither the Five Elders nor God's Knights would act unless the World Government faced a genuine threat.
A scientist like Vegapunk, whose abilities could undermine the World Government's position and draw even the Five Elders' attention, was an exception.
But Vegapunk was now dead, eliminated before he could become a threat.
The future technological advances of the World Government and the Navy—even the so-called Pacifistas and Seraphim—would never appear.
And that was only the strength Hades knew about on the surface.
It did not include the powerful fighters within the various Celestial Dragon families, the monsters they secretly cultivated, or the forces they commanded.
Even if each family had only one, that would add another nineteen top combatants.
And there was no way they had so few.
The actual number could only be higher than imagined.
Besides, Mary Geoise housed quite a few forces with deep reserves of strength, much like the Sterling Family.
Top combatants were rare, but those forces were not entirely without them.
They did not, however, count as part of the World Government's strength.
Neither did the forces commanded by the Celestial Dragon families.
After all, a family was a family, and the government was the government.
The World Government's influence seemed to have declined steadily over the years.
Yet its overall strength remained dominant across the seas.
It was just that much of that strength could not be deployed under ordinary circumstances. The Five Elders and God's Knights, for example.
The Celestial Dragon families were even less likely to deploy their hidden reserves.
Nor would the various forces