With the outbreak of the Great Pirate Era and the World Government suppressing news, the bloody war had drawn little attention beyond its early stages.
There was simply too little information about it.
Meanwhile, across the world, as pirate numbers swelled,
one village was massacred by pirates today.
Another town was invaded by pirates tomorrow.
News like this was everywhere, each report different from the last.
The bloody war ended quietly.
Both the Pirate Allied Forces and the World Government's army withdrew from Blood War Island, leaving the ruined island deserted.
After that,
Blood War Island fell from the sky and landed on the sea.
After such devastating losses, the many great pirates could no longer spare any attention for the bloody war.
The bloody war that had lasted for years officially came to an end.
The cores of the dozen or so islands had long since been shattered. Only the Float-Float Fruit's power had forcibly held their countless fragments together.
Now that the bloody war was over, Shiki would no longer waste his strength on it.
Perhaps someday, the bloody war would begin again.
The banquet lasted two days. Once it ended, the pirates scattered and returned to their own territories.
Others found islands where they could rest and settle the restless urge for battle stirring within them.
Redfield vanished without a trace.
He had secretly transformed into a vampire and left.
Blazer, the "King of Hell," headed north into the bitterly cold region and returned to his Undead Kingdom.
Amid a boundless expanse of white, hundreds of thousands of troops from the Undead Legion stood in the deep snow beneath a raging blizzard.
The newest contingent of over two hundred thousand undead joined them.
An Undead Legion nearly eight hundred thousand strong—this terrifying force was his Absolute Domain.