Chapter 120

Grandline, New World

While Azul and Robin were stuck inside the mist for weeks on end the outside world, namely the second half of the grandline began to heat up while the different factions began to gather their troops in preparation.

On one hand there was Whitebeard that had left Dress Rosa behind and had taken up residence on Fishman island where he fortified his position so far that it became nearly impossible to attack him and his family for anyone that regarded him as their enemy due to the unique location of Fishman island.

Red-haired Shanks on the other hand had decided to make himself sparse and left behind his usual partying spots as he and his crew sat sail towards the open seas of the new world.

The last two emperors though, after their battle, had promptly joined forces, creating a mighty force of their own which nearly reached the manpower of the marines alone, which spoke of their many arms at their beg and call. For what purpose the two had formed said alliance remained a rather big mystery to many. Though it was assumed by some that the two simply reignited their status as former crewmembers as being an emperor of the seas could become rather boring as you had nobody besides other emperors to contend with.

Besides the pirates and marines the revolutionaries had begun to build up their defences on the islands they had taken over from the world government and on those pulled up many factories in order to mass produce weaponry with which they hoped to equip many new soldiers that wished to pick one side in the coming war that would engulf the whole world, before they would be swept away in it without being able to change or protect anything. Their leaders all the while had fortified their defences on their hidden island and begun to forge plans on how to deal with the threats that would soon appear at their doorsteps.

The last faction, the marines and the world government had undergone the biggest reform though. Under the administrations of the genius doctor Vegapunk the Pacifistas had finally been finished and without warning been set loose on the unsuspecting world, beginning with the Shichibukai, which surprised everbody.

Speculation was that the world government didn't want to leave possible holes in their image and defence. Thus they tried to get a hold of the Shichibukai, who were pirates and thus a possible loophole. With Boa Hanc.o.c.k being the only Shichibukai that wasn't invisible or too strong to take down, like Mihawk for example, they attacked the island Amazon Lily. Under many casualties the pirate empress Boa Hanc.o.c.k with many of her people had to flee their home but in the act luckily managed to escape the Marines.

Last but not least, besides the Pacifistas, the marines had begun and finished some upgrades to their normal marine sh.i.p.s which would soon turn those normal sh.i.p.s into semi battle sh.i.p.s that had a lot of similarities with the ones used for the Bustercall.

The weeks after that small clashes between battalions of marines began to appear more regularly until it was no longer deniable. The great war of this era was about to break out and pull many people down with it with nobody knowing what the result would be or how the world would look like once it was over…