An island in the New World.
Hidden by dense jungle, a not-too-tall wooden building stood quietly.
Almost no one knew that this was the headquarters of the world-famous World Economic News Agency.
And now, on the top floor of this building, a burst of manic laughter penetrated the wooden door and spread outward.
The many editors outside the door immediately quieted down, simply watching the door.
Although they couldn't hear the specifics of what was being said inside, they knew a major news story was coming.
Inside the door, in the President's office.
Big News Morgans' smile grew increasingly twisted. He held the Den Den Mushi phone, his face filled with excitement.
"Hahahaha! Understood, Boss! You are truly you—you've only just returned and are already preparing to shock the entire world again! I will immediately spread this news across the world!"
"It's time to make this world tremble with natural disaster again!!"
"I'll leave it to you then."
The line on the other end hung up.
Then, Morgans suddenly took a deep breath, his chest constantly heaving.
"Hahahaha!"
Accompanied by maniacal laughter, he kicked open the office door and rushed out.
"Get to work! You brats! Hahahaha! It's time to let this world relive the horror and astonishment of twenty years ago!!"
"Yes!!"
The numerous editors immediately responded in high-pitched voices, as if they had been injected with adrenaline.
The editors promoted by Morgans to the headquarters were undoubtedly ruthless individuals, just like him, willing to do anything for a big scoop.
Thus, a few hours later, the News Birds began flying again across the entire world.
Newspapers, page after page, were scattered over the sea as if they were worthless.
And when people picked up the newspapers out of curiosity, what greeted their eyes was the front-page headline, printed in gigantic font.
"The Calamity is Coming!"
At first glance, it might even make people feel bewildered.
They might even mistake it for a weather forecast.
But when people saw the enormous photograph beneath the headline, almost everyone froze. They understood the meaning of the title in that instant.
Is this what they mean by "Calamity"?
It was a group photo.
The handsome young man in the center even flashed a peace sign at the camera, his face full of cheerful smiles.
This young man's name had just recently been brought up again.
Now, everyone in the world knew his name was Roa, the most wicked man in history who had dominated the world more than twenty years ago!
Flanking him were two figures whose reputations were even louder in this era: Kaido! Golden Lion!
Outside of the three were two monsters from the Charlotte Family: Charlotte Linlin and Charlotte Katakuri.
On the very edge was the second-in-command of the Flying Pirates, Redfield.
In the back row, behind Roa, was a heavily built, tall, muscular man, and a white-haired man with a pair of black wings on his back—the world did not recognize them.
Outside of these two strangers were the infamous Cerberus Teach and the similarly world-renowned Warlord of the Sea Moria!!
And in the very back was a behemoth sitting cross-legged on the ground, also sporting a brilliant smile: the cursed Giant Prince Loki!
The entire world was instantly in an uproar.
"They really have united! The Flying Pirates, the Charlotte Family, the Beast Pirates, and the Calamity Company led by that Roa! They have formed an alliance!!"
"You must be joking! So many monsters have united! Golden Lion, Kaido, Katakuri! There are three genuine Pirate Emperors! Add Redfield, Charlotte Linlin, and Roa—who in the world can stop them!"
"It's more than that! Did Teach and Loki rejoin the Calamity Company? Those two are also super-monsters with the strength to challenge the Emperor rank!"
"Why is Moria there too! Isn't he a Warlord of the Sea! Did he betray us too?"
Just one photograph was enough to leave people all over the world profoundly shaken.
And the article below was even more startling.
"The newspaper says they want to reclaim the New World!"
"They actually said they want all forces under the World Government to get out of the New World! Are they really trying to declare war on the Government!"
"So the previous newspaper reports about them once taking over the entire New World were true, right?"
"With these monsters united, what is the New World to them? The only two remaining Pirate Emperors, Whitebeard and Straw Hat Shanks, are completely insignificant before them!"
"Hey, they also said they will next march toward the West Blue and the North Blue!! What exactly do they want to do!"
The entire world was in a frenzy.
At the same moment, Marijoa.
Chamber of Authority.
"These scumbags have indeed fully united! Reclaiming the New World is not enough; they even want to march towards the West Blue and the North Blue!"
"Damn it, that idiot Moria has betrayed us after all!"
"Teach and Loki have also returned to the Calamity Company! Bullet and King have appeared too! Their power is probably even more formidable!"
"The force that bastard Roa has gathered this time is far stronger than the one twenty years ago! This is likely to be an incredibly difficult war!"
"But our strength has also grown stronger! As long as Lord Imu is here, we can never lose!"
"Search! They will definitely try to maneuver around us with mobility like they did back then! We must find them in a short time! The secret agents planted across the New World over the years can now be activated!"
Also in Marijoa.
"Gwahahaha! Has it begun?"
Crocodile flipped through the newspaper, his smile unrestrained. "That's quite an exaggerated lineup."
"Roa the Calamity, after all these years, does he still possess such influence?"
In the room next door,
Hawkeye was also flipping through the newspaper. His sharp, falcon-like eyes were fixed on the brightly smiling youth in the photo.
"Is he really a man from the previous era? How can he be so young? But—"
His gaze shifted down, focusing on the sword hanging at Roa's waist.
"One of the 12 Supreme Grade Swords, the Cursed Sword Sea of Blood. He was actually able to forge this sword into a Black Blade? I'm looking forward to it!"
New Marine Headquarters.
"They are finally going to act! Apart from the soldiers stationed in the member nations, have the rest of the soldiers who haven't evacuated from the New World yet hurry up and pull out!"
"Assemble the entire force, ready to depart at any moment!"
New World, Sphinx.
Whitebeard closed the newspaper.
In front of him, Marco's expression was grim. "No wonder that Straw Hat guy chose to leave. The force Roa and his group have gathered is just too exaggerated."
Even the Marine Headquarters would be far from enough to resist them, right?
The World Government itself would have to go all out to fight them!
"Let's go, we should go too."
Whitebeard raised his head and looked toward the coast.
Huge pirate ships were anchored there. The residents of the country were lining up to board the ships, dragging their families with them.
It would be impossible for them to defeat Roa.
And given Roa's vindictive nature, he would never abandon this country, even though the country itself meant nothing to him.
So, evacuation was the only option.
Whitebeard summoned all his pirate crews. They would take away all the Sphinx people who were willing to follow them and leave the country.
At the same moment.
West Blue.
"It's a good thing we ran fast."
On the Red Force, Ben Beckman closed the newspaper and said with a smile, "Otherwise, we'd be instantly crushed by them."
"No! The West Blue isn't safe either! They said they're expanding into this sea area too!"
The man with the red nose quickly said, "Let's go to the Paradise! Let's stay far away from those lunatics!"
"If Roa and his group win this war, there will be no safe place to hide anywhere in the ocean."
Straw Hat Shanks, who was leisurely sitting on the ship's rail and drinking sake, spoke with a smile, "If they lose, then there's no need to run anymore."
"Let's just wait for the wind to come."
In Fish-Man Island.
In the Sabaody Archipelago.
In the Kuja Kingdom.
People were quietly waiting.
And in the North Blue.
A secret base.
Two men, both holding a newspaper, bumped into each other at the door of Dragon's office.
"Ro, you saw the newspaper too?"
"Of course, Sabo, you too?"
"Yes, let's hurry and tell Mr. Dragon! The North Blue has also become a target for those monsters!"
In the skies of the New World.
A massive steel ship was rapidly breaking through the air.
This large ship was surrounded by clouds, providing it with basic buoyancy.
And the turbo propellers at the stern spewed scorching flames, propelling the large ship forward at high speed.
"That Judge guy!!"
Caesar Clown looked around the large ship, his face full of jealousy.
Could a ship like this actually be built?
Furthermore,
He looked up again, watching the several elderly Demon Giants sitting cross-legged and chatting on the deck in front of him.
How did he do it? How was he able to directly turn these monsters controlled by the Government to his side?
And it wasn't over. There was also a group of laughing and playing Minks on the deck. Judge had provided all of them with Redfield Suits!
From this point of view, they looked more like the Beast Pirates!
But the most crucial thing, of course, was!
Caesar looked back, staring at the two figures standing quietly by the ship's rail on the deck.
The Calamity Knights!
Warriors whose strength was even greater than Who's-Who and the others!
They were built by that damn Judge!
They were even all Devil Fruit users!
That bastard Judge had even completed research on Artificial Devil Fruits!
Caesar still vividly remembered the look on Boss Kaido's face when he learned these two pieces of news.
It made him, who had only developed a bunch of viruses and weapons over the past twenty years, look utterly foolish!
That hateful Judge!!
Indeed, the most naked hatred exists only between peers.
"We've arrived."
Just then, one of the two Calamity Knights turned around and said calmly, "Begin the operation."
"Yes!"
The clone soldiers on the deck roared in response.
The steel ship stopped moving forward and slowly began to descend.
On the sea surface below was a large Marine base.
This was Marine Headquarters G-6 Base.
The original G-6 Base had been completely destroyed many years ago when the Pirate Alliance took over the New World.
This Marine base, located in Silver Axe's territory, was rebuilt over the past twenty years and was re-assigned the designation G-6.
And now, at the base's port, Marine soldiers were quickly boarding the warships.
They could no longer remain stationed at a base like this, or the pirates' attack could descend from the sky at any moment.
No one wanted to repeat the tragedy of the New World Marine bases twenty years ago.
But, just at that moment.
"What is that!!"
A Marine on one of the warships suddenly screamed, "There's a ship in the sky!!"
The Marines, startled like birds, looked up upon hearing the noise.
"Damn it, were we too slow to evacuate?! It's an enemy attack!!"
The Marine Vice Admiral standing on the shore, directing the soldiers' evacuation, immediately roared, "Prepare for battle! Prepare for battle!"
The soldiers picked up their weapons, but the next moment, they were confused.
How were they supposed to attack a giant battleship flying thousands of meters in the sky?
They couldn't retaliate, so the attack from the sky descended.
In the sky, on the underside of the metal ship, cracks suddenly appeared. These were the opening gun bays.
Giant gun barrels were revealed.
Then.
Boom!
The first heavy cannon roared.
A cannonball, like a meteor, plummeted with a sharp whistling sound.
The cannonball landed directly on the port.
Boom!!
A giant fireball instantly swallowed half the port, blossoming below like a miniature sun.
"Eh!"
Caesar, who was leaning over the rail of the Sky Battleship looking down, immediately felt his eyeballs were about to pop out.
That kind of power?
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
Heavy cannons roared one after another, and cannonballs rained down.
The Marine base below immediately burst into dazzling fireballs. In just two volleys, the entire base was engulfed in explosions.
"Ehhh—"
Sweat broke out on Caesar's forehead.
What were the weapons he had spent twenty years researching?
And Judge had manufactured a total of fifty such battleships, capable of easily suppressing a large Marine base!
No, where did that bastard get all the funding?
"You bastards!! You deserve to die!!"
A figure shot up from the flames of the explosion.
The enraged Marine Vice Admiral flew up, sword in hand, stepping on the air as he rushed upward. "How far will you trample justice!!"
One of the two Calamity Knights silently jumped onto the ship's rail, then leaped off.
Caesar watched with wide eyes as the Knight collided with the Marine Vice Admiral in the next instant.
"Die! Scum!!"
The Marine Vice Admiral roared. His pitch-black long sword, wrapped in Haki, fiercely slashed at the Calamity Knight's neck.
Then.
Clang.
A sharp sound.
"What?"
The Marine Vice Admiral's face changed drastically.
The opponent hadn't even used Armament Haki and had withstood his sword with mere physical strength. Only the neck was slightly deformed!
What in the world is this—
"Mad dog."
The Calamity Knight casually grabbed the Marine Vice Admiral's neck and shoulder, then twisted hard.
Crack.
The Marine's neck was instantly twisted like a pretzel.
"Hiss!"
Caesar gasped again, drawing a cold breath.
They are truly ridiculously strong!
He thought that he could easily deal with one or two of them, but if there were any more, he himself would be beaten like a dog.
Are such powerful beings considered mass-produced?
In the first half of the New World, Dressrosa.
This country, which had been abandoned by the World Government twenty years ago, had rejoined the World Government's member nations over the past twenty years.
After all, the king who ruled the country, King John, had become a Warlord of the Sea.
But now, while the king protecting the country had been summoned to Marijoa, the country was being attacked.
A pitch-black large ship appeared in the sky above the country and unleashed a frenzy of bombing on the Marine base on one side of the island!
The entire Marine base was instantly engulfed in explosions. The entire country trembled continuously because of this.
Since these government member nations in the New World returned to the embrace of the World Government, a Marine base was built within every country.
Beyond protection, the greater reason was to force these countries, which had harbored resentment towards the World Government during the turmoil, to obediently pay the Heavenly Tribute.
But now, that base was utterly obliterated.
"What... is that!"
Riku, a man who was now just an ordinary gladiator but was once known as King Riku, stood on the country's street, surrounded by panicked citizens. He stared blankly at the ship in the distance sky.
Did the attack come so quickly?
But thankfully, the target was only the Marines; ordinary citizens were not affected.
Not far from this country was Prodence.
This country was a government member nation like Dressrosa and was also protected by the Warlord John.
And now, this country was also attacked. The Marine base stationed in this country was similarly instantly blasted into oblivion.
"Damn it!!"
In the royal palace, the muscular king who ruled the country, Elizabello II, roared in fury, ordering his Prime Minister Dagama, "Send out the Royal Army! Hurry and maintain order—UGH!!"
His anger came to an abrupt halt.
A sharp object suddenly pierced through his chest, and blood splattered!
"Your Majesty!!"
Kingdom Prime Minister Dagama screamed at the sudden sight.
But his scream only lasted for an instant.
An invisible, sharp blade suddenly slashed across his neck, and blood spurted.
As he fell to the ground in vain, Dagama saw it: blood splatter clinging to the air!
Something invisible is here!
He watched with wide eyes as the invisible object stained with blood instantly vanished from the spot, followed by a series of screams from nearby.
Is this Roa's retribution?
His vision plunged into darkness.
Newspaper agencies around the world published new papers like mad over the next two days.
Because the Pirate Alliance, gathered once more, had begun to act again.
When the photographs and articles were presented to the world, the entire world exploded.
"They destroyed all the Marine Branches in the New World in one fell swoop!"
"Not only the Branches, but all Marine bases within the member nations were also blasted to smithereens!"
"Even the royalty of all the member nations were massacred! They really want to drive all World Government forces out of the New World!!"
"Lunatics! A bunch of lunatics! They are declaring war on the World Government!"
Fear spread.
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