In recent years, a large number of rebels have emerged on the high seas. The first to appear was Rocks Xebec, a powerful figure who aimed to become the King of the World and was able to escape unscathed even after invading Mary Geoise!
Later, Ohara defied the World Government's ban and dared to research the history of the Void Century!
The Revolutionary Army that followed had the ultimate goal of overthrowing the World Government!
Later, the Thunder God Pirates, the Straw Hat Pirates, Vegapunk, and others all fought against the World Government!
Even now, with the World Government on the verge of collapse, there's no point in revealing the existence of the Holy Knights now!
The Holy Knights have always operated in secrecy, and if discovered, they would choose to kill to silence witnesses. Therefore, very few people know of the Holy Knights's existence, but now they have no choice but to expose themselves!
The Straw Hat Pirates has returned with the truth of the Void Century. If they are not stopped, the people here will most likely unite and attack the World Government once they know the truth!
Therefore, they cannot leave this place. Whether they try to incite or create chaos, they cannot allow so many forces to unite. This is why they dared not teleport away even after the deaths of two of the Five Elders!
Of course, even if they wanted to teleport, they couldn't. That strange transit space had been blocked by Vic, and they couldn't go back!
" Saint Shepherd Sommers! Why are you the only one here? Where are the others?"
Seeing that there was only Saint Shepherd Sommers, the God's Knights, in the teleportation array, Saint Garling was very dissatisfied and complained in his heart about his bad luck!
He wasn't around when the Five Elders were wielding supreme power and enjoying their authority. But after he became one of the Five Elders, he encountered such a thorny situation that even the Five Elders ' lives were in danger, and even his immortality couldn't save him!
I should have known better than to be one of the Five Elders. Those old guys got to enjoy all the good times, but he's here to suffer. He's been beaten up by the Chief of Staff of the Revolutionary Army quite a bit before!
Being the commander of the Holy Knights is obviously safer, at least because the Holy Knights have more members and a greater safety factor, but it's too late to regret it now!
Their plea for help only received one God's Knights, and not even the relatively weak Saint Shepherd Sommers. How could his Pops, the former and current commander of the Holy Knights, not be furious? Out of sight, out of mind, huh? Can't control them anymore?
"Uh! Saint Garling! Shamrock said I should come and check the situation first, to see if it's really a critical moment. After confirming, they'll come!"
Saint Shepherd Sommers is considered a veteran slacker in the Holy Knights. He's quite old, but his strength is still only in the lower middle range. He usually just enjoys himself and lives off his past achievements!
He and Garling were contemporaries. Garling has now risen to the rank of one of the Five Elders, while he is still just an ordinary member of the Holy Knights. Now, he is under the command of Garling's son, Shamrock, and has become a scout, which shows his status!
"Useless! Why don't you go check? We're almost surrounded! Call Shamrock and the others!"
Garling pointed at the army that was about to surround them and scolded, "How can he not be anxious when a huge crowd has already surrounded us?"
Although in his eyes those beings were nothing but rotten fish and shrimp, no matter how many came, they couldn't break their immortality!
But there are people on the scene who can break through, and not just one or two. If a large-scale melee breaks out later, their lives will be in danger. The Revolutionary Army will obviously not miss this opportunity and will definitely not let them go!
Saint Shepherd Sommers wanted to retort, "You grabbed me and started questioning me as soon as I arrived, how could I have had time to look around?" But given his status, he could only keep his words to himself.
Looking around, my heart skipped a beat; why did this scene feel so oppressive?
It's as if their World Government has been betrayed and abandoned by everyone, and they need to join forces to kill them!
It's no wonder Saint Shepherd Sommers thinks this way; it's all due to a combination of favorable timing, location, and people.
The opportune moment, of course, refers to Joy Boy's message. Joy Boy once said that he would definitely return in eight hundred years to carry out the final reckoning against the Celestial Dragons, and now we are in that very moment!
The "advantageous terrain" refers to the topography of Lodestar Island. They are currently located in the center of a valley surrounded by more than a dozen mountains, which gives people a sense of pressure, as if they are surrounded!
As for the human element, they are fighting alone and being targeted by several forces. Now, a massive army is closing in from all directions, creating a sense of oppression, like being ambushed from all sides!
The combination of these three factors naturally put Saint Shepherd Sommers, who had just arrived in this place, under pressure. Even though he considered himself a high and mighty Celestial Dragons God's Knights, he could not resist the pressure in his heart!
Realizing the situation was dire, Saint Shepherd Sommers immediately relayed the news of the approaching army to Shamrock!
What followed was that black flames bloomed behind the Five Elders and Saint Shepherd Sommers, surrounded by crimson Inazuma, which indeed gave people a mysterious and eerie sense of oppression!
The approaching army was stunned by these strange phenomena, forgetting to move forward and almost being knocked down by those charging forward from behind. This eerie scene made them wary!
As the flames dissipated, the figures inside were revealed one by one. Apart from Shamrock, who was in the lead, Vic had seen almost all of them when he went to Mary Geoise!
Although it was Vic's first time meeting Shamrock, he was very familiar with that face that looked exactly like Shanks', and he knew that it couldn't possibly be Shanks!
That incredibly evil aura was something Shanks never possessed, and of course, the three scars Blackbeard left on his left eye were something this person didn't have!
When Vic last treated Shanks' arm, he asked him if he wanted the three scars removed, but Shanks refused, saying they were a symbol of manhood and a constant reminder to give it his all in battle and not to be careless!
Therefore, the two are quite different, and anyone who knows them even slightly can tell them apart!
"Huh? Is that Red-Hair of the Four Emperors? How come he's in the World Government's ranks?"
"Could it be that Red-Hair is World Government spy planted in the New World? And now he's completely dropped the pretense?"
"That's not Red-Hair, is it? I remember Red-Hair only has one arm, but this guy has two. It must be because they look alike!"
"That was so long ago. I saw Red-Hair once a few years ago. His severed arm had already been healed. I don't know how powerful he is now. He can become one of the Four Emperors with only one arm. I can't even imagine Red-Hair with two arms!"
"A severed arm has been healed? Are there really doctors in the world with such miraculous medical skills?"
"Perhaps there really are such miraculous doctors, but I believe more in the power of Devil Fruit!"
"So that means this person really is Red-Haired Shanks, one of the Four Emperors?"
"No way! I saw on the bounty poster that Red-Hair has three scars on his left eye, but this guy doesn't have any scars on his face!"
"You're really simple-minded. If his severed arm could be healed, what are three scars? They should be healed together, right? What a pity, the Red-Hair with those three scars was really Haki, but Red-Hair he has no presence at all!"
"Indeed, the scarred Red-Hair is the Four Emperors Red-Hair; the unscarred Red-Hair is merely a lackey of the World Government!"