"What will you do next?"
In the Kronos Kingdom, Hades turned his gaze toward the Holy Land, Mary Geoise.
The longer the war continued, the better it was for him.
After all, it was the World Government and the Marines whose reserves were being depleted.
But if it dragged on and their losses grew too great, it would do the World Government no good. Even collecting more heavenly tribute would hardly make up for it.
No amount of ordinary Marine recruits could replace those core fighters and high-end combatants.
And pirates could replenish their strength far faster than the Marines and the World Government.
The Marine Elite Training Camp only trained a few hundred people each year.
What about the pirates? The entire sea was a crucible, constantly weeding out the weak as the survivors advanced into the New World, alongside the pirates who rose within the New World itself.
With the outbreak of the Great Pirate Era, more and more talented pirates would emerge.
How could the Marines compete with that?
Most of the Marine Elite Training Camp's years of hard work would be destroyed.
After all, nearly half its graduates had already been lost in the previous battle.
Although the Pirate Allied Forces had also suffered considerable losses in the last battle, even more factions had joined this time.
Shiki had further demonstrated his immense influence, calling on pirates throughout the New World to replenish their ranks.
Above all, the evenly matched nature of the war was itself unfavorable to the World Government.
The bloody war was draining the World Government's funds.
The Pirate Allied Forces, meanwhile, had more than half the New World supplying them. Numerous Underground Forces and powers in the Underworld had put up the necessary war funds.
Those factions certainly did not dare refuse