A proclamation shakes the world, Heavenly Punishment breaches the defenses! The assault on Mary Geoise begins!

Thick clouds black as ink hung over the Red Line. Mary Geoise's gilded palaces still shone with a false holy light, but beneath that light lay the stench of blood that had lingered for eight hundred years, and the wails of countless slaves.

Atop the Imperial Palace on Justice Island, Chen Yu stood on the Coiling Dragon Jade Steps with his hands behind his back. His imperial Haki bore down heavily, making the entire island tremble faintly beneath his might. He held a scroll patterned with crimson-gold lines, the "Proclamation Against the Celestial Dragons." It carried immense weight, as well as the last hopes of all the suffering people in the world.

He tapped a finger, and more than a dozen pitch-black Visual Den Den Mushi opened their eyes in response. Their scarlet compound eyes lit up, and Chen Yu's image and voice instantly reached every corner of the Four Blues-in a tavern in Foosha Village in the East Blue, drinkers lowered their cups and stopped in place; on the decks of merchant ships in the West Blue, sailors put down their ropes; beside bonfires on remote islands in the South Blue, islanders held their breath and listened; in military camps in the North Blue, soldiers tightened their grips on their sword hilts. Even every gilded screen in Pangaea Castle in Mary Geoise was forcibly overwritten with Chen Yu's image. There was no avoiding it.

"All living beings of this world, hear my words!"

Chen Yu's voice was not particularly loud, but it carried a distinctive pressure of Conqueror's Haki that swept across the Four Blues with the sound waves. The timid shook all over, the oppressed felt their blood surge, and evildoers grew uneasy. He raised his hand and unfurled the scroll. Its crimson-gold words gleamed, every phrase like