Time was like the winds and waves of the Grand Line; no one knew when it would slip away.
Vast forces poured into the Grand Line, driving the Reverie's forces back again and again, until they could no longer even hold the Sabaody Archipelago and all fled to Mary Geoise.
Before this happened.
The D. Clan had achieved victories surpassing those of eight hundred years ago, occupying the Four Blues, the Grand Line, the New World, and Reverse Mountain.
Only the Red Line remained.
The place where the Holy Land of Mary Geoise stood was still occupied by the Celestial Dragons.
In terms of elite fighters and troop strength, this was the first reversal in years.
The Celestial Dragons had become what the Dragon Emperor Grand Fleet had been a year ago. They held no advantage whatsoever.
Moreover, nearly everyone from the Five Elders to the Holy Knights had been wiped out, leaving their chances of victory slim.
They had only one bargaining chip.
Or rather, one person who could truly determine the outcome of this battle: Imu!
A god known to have lived for eight hundred years, wielding the world's strongest power and weapons.
Said to be immortal and undying!
No one knew how powerful the deity was. They knew only that even the Five Elders, invincible beneath the heavens, had no presence before Imu.
The power of a god surpassed the world's imagination.
Even with forces from across the world assembled at the Sabaody Archipelago, they did not attack rashly.
Never mind those two; even Imu had yet to appear.
The Sabaody Archipelago.
People were waiting for Shane to return.
Contact through the Den Den Mushi had temporarily been lost, and the Black Pearl was still nowhere to be seen.
The palace that could originally be occupied only