Kong had already requested aid from the World Government and received its full support.
Massive funding poured in, and the Army, CP0, monsters within the government, and even the God's Knights Candidates emerged, along with some of the forces controlled by the various Celestial Dragon families.
This was not merely a clash between pirates and the Navy.
It was a war between pirates and the World Government.
The Navy alone could not stop the combined pirate forces of the New World. In terms of the number of powerful fighters alone, it was completely outmatched.
The entire world was watching. Faced with a war launched by pirates, the World Government had to respond.
The loss of one God's Knights Candidate after another over the years had left the arrogant Celestial Dragons seething with anger to this day.
They were descendants of gods, yet they had fallen in battle time and again.
Even if they never became God's Knights Members, every God's Knights Candidate was precious to their Celestial Dragon family, an important fighting force for its future.
Even the Fiorella Family, which had close ties to the Tartarus Family, would not deliberately resist this internal tide at a time like this.
Because someone had already begun challenging the Celestial Dragons' position as rulers.
Even if they had prepared contingencies.
Their current allegiance was clear.
Although the various Celestial Dragon families ordinarily refrained from deploying their own forces.
They would still act when the World Government faced a crisis.
The World Government itself was bound up with their interests.
In the previous era, the various Celestial Dragon families had contributed considerable strength to preserve the World Government's rule and counter the rampaging Rocks Pirates.
They had committed vast numbers of personnel and enormous wealth, suffering considerable losses.
Especially during the God Valley