Everything that happened ten thousand meters beneath the sea did nothing to disrupt the world above.
Ten thousand meters overhead, the turbulent sea remained as violent as ever, while the war atop the cloud-piercing Red Line continued to rage.
At the ruins of Fish-Man Island.
Massive pillars of magma reached up from deep within the earth, resembling a forest of fire from afar as they connected to the base of the Red Line.
Magma poured ceaselessly through these pillars, spreading out in a fan.
The magma Sakazuki had drawn here by realigning the earth veins gathered in this place.
Enough magma to destroy the entire New World in one stroke now surged into the Red Line, reaching upward...
Just as it had at God Valley...
The Holy Land, Mary Geoise.
This place, home to the world's most powerful nobles and segregated from those they called lowborn, had lost its former splendor.
Ruined walls and shattered buildings filled the view. Hundreds of enormous ships had smashed through the rooftops of Mary Geoise. Gunfire thundered, and flames burned everywhere.
The Revolutionary Army's soldiers were locked in combat with Mary Geoise's garrison.
The Celestial Dragons, who styled themselves "gods," could only hide in their emergency shelter and rage, their voices overlapping:
"Damn it!!!"
"How dare these lowborn scum!!!"
"What the hell are the Five Elders doing?! They actually let these lowborn scum attack this place!"
"Do they want to lose their positions?!"
"Mere lowborn scum dare claim they can pass judgment on gods!"
"Tell the Five Elders to take them alive! I'll torture them to death!!!"
"They dared destroy my estate! Unforgivable!!!"
"Capture them all and make them slaves!!!"
The CP Agents around them carefully soothed the Celestial Dragons, terrified of accidentally offending them and being dragged outside to be killed.
But