There was no comparison to begin with.
The two were on entirely different scales.
How many people did the Marines have in total? Just over half a million.
And the Kronos Kingdom? The Royal Military Academy alone took in more than a million students each year, giving it an enormous influx of new talent.
As time passed, the Royal Military Academy continued to expand.
A vast Royal Military Academy stood in each of the Kronos Kingdom's five regions: east, south, west, north, and central.
As the Kronos Kingdom's economy developed and its population grew,
the original Royal Military Academy could no longer meet the kingdom's needs.
The Kronos Kingdom now had a population approaching three hundred million. Counting its sphere of influence in the southern North Blue, the number would be even higher.
But that territory did not officially belong to the Kronos Kingdom.
Hades had a dedicated plan to raise the capabilities of the entire population.
Through the Royal Military Academy, he raised the average strength of ordinary people in the Kronos Kingdom.
That way, their average potential was bound to improve over time.
The descendants of strong people had a greater chance of becoming strong themselves.
After training, a person's genes were stronger than they had been before.
After several generations, the blood of strong fighters would run through the veins of the Kronos Kingdom's people.
This approach was much like the way the Tartarus Family trained its own members.
It had simply been extended to the Royal Military Academy.
Some resources, however, remained exclusive to Tartarus Family members.
That was another part of the strategy.
Besides, the Kronos Kingdom was located in the New World.
Its average level was already higher than that of the Four Seas and the first half of the Grand Line.
Every year,