Just as Xie Wen and the others had expected, as news of that battle spread, the World Government's rule was essentially finished.
Unlike countries on Earth, every country in the One Piece world consisted of one or several separate islands. Although there were all kinds of miraculous Devil Fruits, transportation was still nowhere near as convenient as on Earth, and the World Government's hold was naturally even weaker.
Not only did those Affiliated Nations stop recognizing the World Government's rule, but large numbers of Marine Branches also chose independence. Some Marines who still wanted to uphold justice merely served as the defense and law enforcement forces of their islands after breaking away, but others failed to restrain their ambitions, bringing all the islands within their branches' jurisdictions under their rule and transforming themselves into warlords.
Dragon had naturally anticipated this situation and had long since prepared countermeasures.
Using intelligence provided by the World Economy News Paper, whenever they discovered Marines behaving this way, they immediately deployed Revolutionary Army troops through mass-produced Paw-Paw Fruit users to suppress them.
This was also one of the main reasons the Revolutionary Army had no time to take over Totto Land.
Meanwhile, after the World Government's rule lost all credibility, the ambitious schemers and pirates who had long been itching to act, as well as countries whose grudges against one another had been forcibly suppressed, all threw off their shackles and began plundering and waging war on one another.
Fortunately, the Revolutionary Army had already contacted many countries before this. Although it could not compare to the World Government's former scale, as those countries still wavering came to terms with reality, this "second government," which could finally emerge from the shadows, had gathered two or three hundred countries in total.
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