"How disappointing."
Far away in the Kronos Kingdom, Hades had been watching the battle through a Live Broadcast Den Den Mushi.
The few numbers scrawled on the blank sheet before him represented Hades's comparison of the combat strength of the pirates and the World Government.
Although he only had glimpses of the battle, he could make a rough assessment by combining them with the intelligence he already had.
Despite his words, Hades wore a smile.
The World Government had lost a member of God's Knights, and Saint Mars, who had not appeared for some time, was probably already dead.
He had likely been caught in the Magnetic Storm Bomb explosion, then killed by someone who seized the opportunity.
Two top combatants. That was a gratifying result.
Especially Saint Mars, one of the Five Elders, who stood at the pinnacle of power over the seas.
In the eight hundred years since the position of the Five Elders had been established, not one of them had ever been killed.
Even during the Rocks era, when the Rocks Pirates launched their massive invasion of the Four Seas and the Five Elders intervened repeatedly, none of them had fallen in battle.
Yet this war, which could be considered little more than a sideshow, had accomplished it.
As for the outcome of the war, the pirates were certain to lose.
That had been clear from the start.
Who could have expected all the Five Elders and God's Knights to mobilize for this war?
Had they arrived a little later...
Garp, Zephyr, the Three Army Generals, CP0, and the many other high-end combatants would all have died.
Perhaps a single strike from Typhon, the King of Monsters, would have been enough to wipe them out.
What truly dissatisfied Hades was this.
Once they saw the Five