"They're going to lose this war, Shiki and the others."
The gap in overall fighting strength could not be bridged with a few Magnetic Storm Bombs.
If they had used the time while the Magnetic Storm Bombs were in effect to wipe out the forces the World Government had stationed at G-1 Fortress beforehand...
If they had eliminated a few more top combatants, they would still have had a fighting chance. The tide might even have turned in Shiki's favor.
Unfortunately, they had failed to do so.
Their defeat had begun to take shape at that moment.
Had the World Government hesitated for half a minute as it had in the past, or even a few seconds, the situation would have changed completely.
Who could have imagined that the World Government would act so decisively?
Unfortunately, there were no ifs.
"Still, they did reasonably well."
Although Shiki and the others had lost, they had achieved fairly good results.
They had killed one of the Five Elders and a member of God's Knights, and inflicted considerable losses among the high-end combatants. These gains had all come from the advantage established by the Magnetic Storm Bombs' explosions at the start of the war.
For the World Government, those losses were anything but small.
Moreover, several Marine bases, Marine Headquarters, and Mary Geoise had all been invaded.
The war was only the surface of it. Taken as a whole, the negative impact on the World Government was considerable.
Replacing the lost personnel and rebuilding the damaged bases would take no small amount of time.
It would also cost an enormous sum of money.
The dozens of Navy Warships moored in the harbor at Marine Headquarters alone were worth nearly ten billion Beli, if not more.
As for the Flying Pirates' losses, Hades paid