A month later, the Paramount War had finally drawn to a close.
The shock waves it unleashed swept across the world like a tsunami. Every freshly printed newspaper was like a boulder hurled into a still lake.
It sent towering waves surging outward, carrying the final, brutal yet glorious scenes at Marineford to every corner of the Four Blues!
This had been an all-out war watched by the entire world, with the course of an era at stake!
Three Emperors of the Sea had either fought directly in the war or intervened!
Yet the outcome left the world speechless.
Justice had not fallen!
In this clash at the summit that decided their fate,
Kaido of the Beasts, one of the Four Emperors, had been forced to withdraw without ever setting foot on the main battlefield.
Red Hair Shanks, one of the Four Emperors, had ultimately led his men in retreat before the eyes of the entire world.
Edward Newgate, Whitebeard, the World's Strongest Man and one of the Four Emperors, had died in battle, his towering frame falling alongside the banner of the old era!
The legendary pirate Golden Lion Shiki, the "Flying Pirate," had also burned through the last of his life here, dying in battle and bringing the legends of the old era to a close!
"Fire Fist" Portgas D. Ace, blood of the Pirate King, had been confirmed executed!
Countless other elite pirates had been killed or wounded!
And above these ruins forged by the fall of legends, one figure stood unbowed, like a pillar holding up the heavens!
"'Heavenquake' Gern Reginald Sigma!"
With indisputable, overwhelming power and an iron fist, he had defeated Whitebeard and Golden Lion in succession.
He had controlled the battlefield and brought the war to a decisive end, declaring to every pirate: