Chapter 138: Sea Calendar 1476
Chapter 138: Sea Calendar 1476
Time arrived at Sea Calendar 1476.
"Sengoku, keep going!"
Hades laughed with a somewhat crazed expression, facing Sengoku who had transformed into his Golden Buddha Form.
His figure changed rapidly, moving too fast to discern.
In an instant, he appeared behind Sengoku.
"Nightmare", wreathed in Death Energy, struck fiercely towards Sengoku like a chisel.
However, the moment Hades appeared, Sengoku accurately grasped Hades' position.
It was a move similar to Hades' full-body Armament Haki burst.
However, what Sengoku unleashed was a terrifying impact.
Under the impact's effect, Hades' figure paused slightly.
In that instant, Sengoku turned around and struck a palm towards Hades.
In mid-air, the two attacks collided fiercely, and Hades' figure was repelled a hundred meters away.
If Hades hadn't used the air for leverage, he might have been sent a thousand meters away.
The battle continued, only stopping from day until dusk.
"How troublesome. Next time, I'll just let Newgate fight you." Hades looked at Sengoku and couldn't help but laugh.
For Hades, an enemy like Sengoku, who excelled at using stillness to counter movement and possessed astonishing strength and defense, was truly difficult to deal with.
"Hmph!"
Sengoku didn't pay much attention to Hades, but his expression was very solemn.
This was just a brief ceasefire; they would return in a day or two.
Moreover, the situation of this war was not favorable for the Allied Forces; they had already begun to fall into decline.
This war had lasted a full Kun Year.
For Core Cadres like Hades, there would be at least one major battle every week.
At most, there had only been one ceasefire period of a month during this time.
Subsequently, the major battle began again.
Two and a half years of nearly non-stop war had brought immense pressure to both sides.
The losses were even more massive.
After expanding recruitment, the Rocks Pirates' sixty thousand strong Army was only left with twenty thousand.
The Affiliated Forces had lost a full eighty percent of their military strength.
Although not precisely calculated, the total sacrifices exceeded one hundred fifty thousand.
As for the Allied Forces, their losses were even more massive, nearly six times that of the Rocks Pirates.
The military strength invested on the New World Battlefield so far reached one million five hundred thousand, with losses exceeding one million.
This war was completely a meat grinder, drawing the World's attention.
Why were the Allied Forces' losses so heavy?
Although the Allied Forces resisted the Rocks Pirates' "Criminal Army" relying on their massive numerical advantage.
The Rocks Pirates, however, still gradually took control of the war's initiative and gained the advantage on the main battlefields.
Admiral Candidate "Purple Lion" Messi died in battle at Newgate's hands!
Admiral Candidate "White Rat" Ronaldo was powerfully slain by Shiki "The Golden Lion".
The deaths of two powerful combatants brought heavy damage to the Allied Forces and caused a chain reaction, leading to the sacrifice of tens of thousands of Marine Soldiers.
The scales began to tip towards the Rocks Pirates, and the Allied Forces' casualties were continuously expanding.
Of course, something even more fatal occurred.
In one war, Marine Admiral "Steel Bone" Kong and Fleet Admiral Black were completely defeated by Rocks.
Even with the assistance of the Slow-Slow Fruit ability, they were still no match for Rocks D.
Xebec.
Black, instead, became the fuse for the defeat.
Completely devastated, Black completely lost the ability to resist Rocks D.
Xebec.
If Kong hadn't desperately resisted, buying time for others to rescue Black, Black would have been killed by Xebec in one go.
With only Kong remaining, how could he be a match for Rocks? He ultimately fled in disarray.
The Allied Forces suffered a massacre.
This great defeat struck a blow to the Allied Forces' confidence.
It also led to the complete collapse of the entire battlefront.
If the recovered Kong and Black hadn't raised the banner and prevented all of this from happening, the Marines would have been defeated a year ago.
Even so, the Allied Forces still desperately held on.
Relying on the "Iron-Blooded Great Wall" built with flesh and blood, they blocked the Rocks Pirates' advance.
Despite the New World's years of chaos, the entire World had become peaceful for the first time in a long while.
It seemed as if the chaos was confined only to the New World.
The World Government's objective was undoubtedly achieved, and they successfully gave the Member Nations an explanation.
But how long could such a situation last?
Although both sides suffered heavy losses, the Allied Forces' losses were definitely greater.
The Marines lost two Admiral Candidates, and the number of Vice Admirals exceeded twenty.
Just at the hands of the Pirate Fleet led by Hades, during a series of actions invading the Allied Forces' rear, the Allied Forces successively sacrificed over a dozen Vice Admirals.
The Army Vice Admirals also suffered losses of nearly ten people.
High-end combatants suffered heavy losses.
All sixteen Army Vice Admirals had been dispatched, and some of the currently surviving Army Vice Admirals were promoted during this period.
As for officer-rank officers, they were countless.
Although the Rocks Pirates also suffered considerable losses, their true high-end combatants were preserved very well.
It can only be said that Newgate and Shiki were too effective, directly killing two important combatants of the Allied Forces.
Farazul.
On the Lonely Throne, the nineteen-year-old Hades possessed a height exceeding three meters.
Having just finished combat, his body still exuded a chilling, terrifying aura.
By now, the slogan he had once declared had been completely recognized by this Great Sea.
"Pluto" Hades was renowned throughout the New World and even the entire World.
During this period, he had fought against numerous strongmen: Marine Admirals, Army Generals, Admiral Candidates, CP0 Agents.
He had even encountered Sengoku, Garp, and even Tsuru.
The only strongman he hadn't fought was "Steel Bone" Kong, who had fought a great battle with Captain Rocks.
With the growth of his body, the accumulation of experience, and continuous combat, Hades' strength once again achieved astonishing growth.
The Ferocious God Aura truly revealed its terrifying potential.
Compared to his previous immature aura, facing Hades now truly felt like a Demon God descending.
Over two years was enough for him to become one of the foremost strongmen in the Rocks Pirates.
In various corners of the deck, the crewmates were resting, recovering, treating injuries, or enjoying food to replenish energy.
Fortunately, none of the main Cadres were sacrificed.
Worthy's sacrifice had clearly served as a wake-up call for them.
The Pluto Pirates, numerous in members and Cadres, preferred to group together in twos and threes for joint actions.
This greatly reduced the chance of casualties.
When encountering strongmen they couldn't handle, or when severely injured, they could still evacuate in time.
This was mainly influenced by the Royal Military Academy graduates on board.
These graduates had outstanding strength, worked together tacitly, performed their respective duties, and were not ostentatious, being very low-key.
In most cases, they could return without a single loss.
Currently, the Pluto Pirates had two thousand four hundred members.
After experiencing the brutal war, the overall number didn't decrease but increased.
Because the Pluto Pirates had been continuously recruiting members to replenish lost personnel.
Only the truly elite and powerful could survive.
Currently, most of these members were elite.
The Kronos Kingdom sent two more batches of graduates during these two years, each batch having over two hundred people.
Although there were some losses, those who survived achieved astonishing growth.
(end of chapter)