As Lind received one intelligence report after another from the East Blue on Oran Island, even he could not help feeling somewhat shocked.
He had expected the East Blue to be chaotic, but not this chaotic. Those forces really had some nerve, actually daring to conquer affiliated nations in the East Blue outright.
Did they not understand that the first bird to stick its head out got shot? Were they really not afraid of retaliation from the Marines and the World Government?
The World Government and the Marines might not be able to deal with the Revolutionary Army and the Beasts Pirates, but could they not deal with small fry like them?
They had kept such a low profile over the past few years. Why had they all changed so much the moment they reached the East Blue?
Even the Beasts Pirates and the Revolutionary Army had not dared to act so brazenly at first, merely occupying islands that were not affiliated nations as their territory.
Only after Lind entered the picture, and the Revolutionary Army's strength grew rapidly, had it accelerated its expansion.
And it had taken two large-scale wars to obtain its current territory.
But now these pirates truly treated the World Government and the Marines as though they did not exist. Lind could already imagine how Dragon and the Marine leadership felt right now.
Within a year, the Marines would deal with these pirates one by one. The lucky ones would escape, while the unlucky ones would meet their end at sea.
Yet compared with what Lind had learned from his intelligence, the East Blue was actually even more chaotic.
As all manner of unsavory characters appeared one after another, the East Blue truly descended into unprecedented chaos.
This chaos even rivaled the New World before the