"So you finally came out?"
Eerie blue flames spread across the battlefield.
The corpses strewn across the ground, Marines and pirates alike, turned into skeletons one after another and rose under the influence of the eerie flames.
Barehanded or wielding weapons, they charged at the World Government's Marines and Army soldiers.
In the blink of an eye, the Pirate Allied Forces gained tens of thousands of reinforcements.
And they were an Undead Legion that was exceptionally difficult to deal with.
The earth trembled behind the Pirate Allied Forces.
A bitter chill spread through the air.
An Undead Legion several thousand strong steadily approached.
At its head was the "King of Hell," Blazer, a former Overlord of the Sea who was still very much alive.
And the Undead Legion behind him was nothing like the "new recruits" on the battlefield.
Most were elite warriors from two eras ago, who had fallen in battle toward the end of Rocks's era. There were even Great Pirates among them.
"What a familiar feeling. I thought you'd be sleeping underground forever."
Blazer surveyed the battlefield, unable to help feeling a little nostalgic.
He had thought the Undead Legion behind him would remain buried until he died.
After the God Valley War ended, he had gone into seclusion on an island in the northern New World, in the Buffer Zone between the Big Mom Pirates and the Pluton Pirates.
The Undead Legion he had assembled during the war had slumbered on the island along with him.
Although his strength remained at its peak, he knew there was no longer a place for him on the seas.
Those young monsters would never allow an old man like him to compete with them.
Besides, his heart had grown old too. He no longer had the passion to fight