May, Sea Era 1497.
Three months had passed since the war began.
With hundreds of thousands gathered on a single island, the death rate far exceeded that of wars fought across the Grand Line.
This war was one enormous meat grinder.
Cruel and bloody, it claimed countless lives every moment.
Life meant nothing here.
In just three months, more than two hundred thousand people had died on the battlefield.
The pirates had lost only thirty thousand, while fifty thousand elite Marine soldiers had fallen. The remaining hundred thousand-plus dead were all Army troops.
The staggering disparity in casualties reflected the pirates' superior average strength.
The environment of the New World forged powerful pirates.
The Marines, meanwhile, had suffered repeated setbacks over the years.
Blood War Island brought together powerful pirates from across the New World, although the gap between the two sides' high-end combatants was not great.
But the numerous mid-tier fighters were the true mainstay of this war.
In that respect, the pirates held an overwhelming advantage.
Especially when it came to Devil Fruit users, the pirates certainly had more, which gave them a greater advantage in some respects.
Meanwhile, the powerful Devil Fruit users and fighters on the Marine and World Government side were almost all being targeted.
The earth turned to magma, and the battle between Gurado and Sakazuki had become one of the focal points of all Blood War Island.
Neither could claim complete immunity, but the other's fruit ability truly did little damage to him.
The searing heat of magma had no effect on either of them.
Its destructive power was severely diminished.
Yet the intensity of their battle had not lessened.
Body techniques, Haki, and fruit abilities worked in tandem.
At the cost of an enormous death toll, the World Government held off the