The Demon King Pirates had spent years preparing for this war.
They had spent untold amounts of Beli on vast quantities of high-quality weapons and ammunition, giving the Demon King Pirates a slight edge in the war at sea.
They had even bought up all the Underworld's ammunition in the surrounding waters, leaving the Five Peaks Pirates unable to replenish their supplies.
That was only one aspect of it.
As the Five Peaks Pirates were the greatest potential enemy standing in the way of their further expansion, the Demon King Pirates' intelligence network had thoroughly infiltrated their ranks.
Most information could not escape the Demon King Pirates' eyes.
The Five Peaks Pirates, meanwhile, had no intelligence network at all.
This allowed the Demon King Pirates to launch targeted attacks, dispatching forces to encircle and destroy their enemies.
The two sides were on entirely different levels when it came to tactics and strategy.
It was as though Ochoku had learned nothing from all those operations during Rocks' era.
As an established pirate crew, the Five Peaks Pirates had deeper foundations, despite having been formed at the same time as the Demon King Pirates.
That gap had already opened up during Rocks' era.
As the former headquarters of the Rocks Pirates, Hachinosu attracted large numbers of pirates every year.
The success of their strategy three years earlier had made the Five Peaks Pirates famous.
They had seized a large swath of the Silver Axe Pirates' territory and gained a share of the proceeds from sales out of the Seastone Mine.
That had allowed the Five Peaks Pirates, who had already reached their limits, to advance even further.
Naturally, plenty of pirates had come to join them on the strength of their reputation.
This had strengthened the Five Peaks Pirates.
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