"Keep up the pursuit!"
After everyone returned to the Knight King and rested briefly, Pande Lia soon gave the order to continue the pursuit.
Of course, this did not mean pursuing the Celestial Dragons' fleet, which had already withdrawn to parts unknown. Instead, they would seize the time before the enemy's reinforcements arrived to expand their territory and increase their strategic depth.
At Pande Lia's command, the vast fleet instantly split into countless smaller fleets and sailed in every direction, targeting the Affiliated Nations and Marine Branches across the East Blue.
By the time the Celestial Dragons' fleet rendezvoused with the World Government and Marine reinforcements, finished recuperating, and prepared to confront the resistance again,
more than a quarter of the East Blue had already fallen to the Revolutionary Army and the Beasts Pirates. The occupied area was still growing, as though they intended to seize the opportunity to take the entire East Blue in one push.
Although eliminating the enemy's fighting forces was more important than gaining territory, wasn't the problem that they couldn't eliminate them?
Besides, the Celestial Dragons' reserves far exceeded anything the current Revolutionaries and Beasts Pirates could match. If they truly enraged the Celestial Dragons, there was no telling how much the two forces would lose.
It was better to do as they were doing now: seize the opportunity to gain as much as possible, then settle into a standoff.
As long as they could maintain a stalemate with the World Government in the coming war and hold their current territory, the Revolutionary Army and the Beasts Pirates would be quite satisfied.
Before this, the two forces had possessed only a handful of bases. Their territories had been pitifully small, leaving them no way to break the deadlock.
Kaido had been somewhat better off, with