Pirate Lord of Darkness

After returning to the Navy Headquarters, Sengoku and the others immediately visited Sora who was lying in the intensive care unit.

Sora's life was extremely weak. Although he had strong recovery power, due to his body's instinct, most of his life force was used to fill the hole in his chest.

Coupled with the help of the navy's superb medical technology, Kong's life was hanging on.

With such an injury, no matter how advanced the medical technology is, it is of no use, and more of it depends on one's own recovery ability.

In the conference room of the Navy Headquarters, all high-level officials gathered here. This was the first such large meeting since the Golden Battle began.

Some high-ranking navy officials who have important tasks and cannot come cannot miss it. Most of them guard one side and participate in the video through video phone bugs.

The G7 naval branch is much better than those in the four seas. The situation is not that bad, but it is not much better. The scope of inspections has been reduced by almost half.

In order to maintain the survival of the naval branch, in addition to daily fishing, Lieutenant General Prodi, the base commander of the G7 branch, became more diligent when going to sea, and even actively looked for pirate attacks.

Prodi is so powerful that most pirates are no match for him.

This sea area has become notorious as the "robber navy", which is spread among pirates. It is the G7 branch led by Lieutenant General Prodi.

In order to survive the branch, Lieutenant General Prodi targeted those pirates.

After defeating these pirates, Lieutenant General Prodi would not arrest the pirates. The navy could not afford to eat, so how could it come so far to Impel Down City?Besides, it would cost a lot of food to feed the pirates, which was even more impossible.

Prodi is not a hawk, so he will not kill these pirates unless they are really serious pirates.

And the fate of these pirates was not much better. All the treasures were taken away by Lieutenant General Prodi to replenish the inventory of the G7 branch. All the valuable things on the ship were also taken away. In the past, the navy would not take a fancy to these things. .

For example, the pirate ships that were supposed to be destroyed are still preserved, and the pirate ships can be sold for a lot of money.

Although these pirates survived in the end and were released by the navy, they had nothing to lose and their long-term efforts were robbed, which made them feel very bitter and humiliating.

The navy of the G7 branch under the leadership of Lieutenant General Prodi can be said to be plucked out of its feathers. Many pirate groups have been brutally murdered. The spread of bad reputation has caused many pirate groups to avoid the pirates of the G7 branch.

In their eyes, the navy of the G7 branch is very scary. One thing that is very famous is that there is a group of pirates who are very unlucky and were caught by Lieutenant General Prodi four times.

The captain has good abilities. He is well-known and powerful in this sea area, so the money will naturally come in quickly. After all, he was robbed.

Each time they were captured and released, they would regroup and go back to sea.

After being caught four times, they finally collapsed and were harvested again and again like leeks. It was from their mouths that Prodi's name "Devil" came out.

They fled the sea directly and vowed never to come back.

At first, the navy of the G7 branch was a little embarrassed and couldn't help but with a shameless and trustworthy lieutenant general like Prodi, they were gradually infected by Prodi, and the atmosphere spread throughout the G7 branch in a short period of time.

As a navy, they experienced the feeling of being a bandit, and the target was a pirate. They didn't have any psychological burden, but felt a little happy.

It is precisely because of this that while the living space of other navies is constantly suppressed and becomes increasingly miserable, G7 is actually living a relatively comfortable life.

However, the only people in the G7 branch who have the ability to lead a team to the sea to plunder pirates alone are Jia Ji and Lieutenant General Prodi.

"It's Brigadier General Jiaji and Lieutenant Colonel Novoa who are back!" Someone from the G7 branch shouted excitedly, looking at the sea in the distance.

"There will definitely be a lot of gains!"

It was clear that behind the warship, there were two pirate ships. There was no one on the pirate ship, but some traces of the battle could still be seen.

As for those pirates, the cruel ones will definitely be killed directly, and the ones with minor culpability will be let go.

Jiaji stepped off the warship, followed by Novoa.

Novoa walked side by side with him, showing no sign of being lower in rank than him.

Novoa put his hands in his pockets with a gentle smile on his face. In just a few months, he has integrated into the G7 branch and became a popular figure in the G7 branch with his amazing performance.

The progress of strength leads to the further development of abilities.

In just a few months, Novoa accepted the teachings of Lieutenant General Prodi, and with a good foundation, Novoa learned the Sixth Form of the Navy and integrated the various power and explosive skills of the Sixth Form into his own. In physical skills.

And focusing on iron blocks and paper drawings, these two styles focus more on the control of the body and the control of the return of life. Novoa has a clear understanding of himself.

In fact, the simple six postures are not suitable for him. As a user with the ability of steam fruit, the combination of devil fruit ability and physical skills is the most perfect. He only needs what he needs.

After seeing Novoa's learning ability and potential, Lieutenant General Prodi also taught him wholeheartedly. In addition to his own training, he also had Jiji, a strong man, as a sparring partner. These days, Novoa's life can be said to be very good. Enrichment.

"Why did you call us back so early? Did something important happen?" Novoa looked at Jiaji and asked.

Just after the war in the New World ended, Lieutenant General Prodi issued a summons order for them to quickly return to the G7 branch. You can guess that it must be related to the Navy Headquarters.

"Well, high-level navy officials will be here for the headquarters meeting." There was nothing to hide, and he had already guessed it by seeing Novoa's look. Jiaji nodded.

He can clearly feel Novoa's progress, which is amazing.

"Then it probably has nothing to do with me." Novoa chuckled.

"I don't know about that." Jiaji shook his head. When Lieutenant General Prodi called at that time, he specifically asked him to go back with Novoa. He should also be related to Novoa.

Soon, the two came to the office of Lieutenant General Prodi of the G7 branch. In addition to Lieutenant General Prodi, there were also two general-level navy officials who were considered Prodi's deputies.

In the Navy Headquarters, the general level is already considered a high-level naval officer, so the commodore is also qualified to participate in the meeting.

Of course, this is a large-scale meeting, and generally only naval officers of Lieutenant General and above can participate in important meetings, such as the Shichibukai Conference.

Such large-scale meetings are extremely rare, and they basically announce something to them, the cornerstone of the navy.

Basically, it was mobilization. More than 20 years ago, there was such a mobilization against the Rocks Pirates. Naturally, the real secrets were only known to senior naval officials at the lieutenant-admiral level.

So what will be mobilized this time?They couldn't help but become a little nervous.

"Novoa, you should know the matter." Prodi saw them coming in and smiled at Novoa.

"Yeah." Novoa nodded, with some doubts in his eyes.

"Then stay here, stand behind me, and just listen." Prodi waved to Novoa.

This can be regarded as some unspoken rules in the navy. Jiaji had a clear look in his eyes. When Kuzan was young and before he became a lieutenant general, he was able to attend meetings, of course, following Garp.

The same is true for others, especially those who graduate from the naval academy and will be assigned to hone their skills under various naval experts.

Jiaqi was also assigned to work under Porusalino after graduation. He began to participate in naval meetings with Polusalino early on, but he had little say and was not enough to participate in the discussion.

But just this kind of right is already much higher than that of other colleagues.

Novoa did not expect that his progress would be so smooth, and that he would be able to contact the Navy's high-level meetings so early. He thought it would take several years of hard work.

"Then it's better to be respectful than to obey." Novoa smiled and nodded gently. He took out two bottles of wine from somewhere, placed them on the table, opened one bottle, and poured a large glass for Lieutenant General Prodi, "Old man , this is a treasure that I finally found, and now I bring it to honor you."

The aroma of the wine overflows, and you can tell it is a rare wine as soon as you smell it.

"Novoya, are you bribing my commander?" Lieutenant General Prodi suddenly became serious.

"How could it be? As you get older, you should learn to enjoy it. This is just my intention. Please accept it." Novoa's expression did not change. He had almost figured out Lieutenant General Prodi's temper.

"Haha, yes, I'm almost at the age of retirement, but I can still work for another 20 years." Prodi raised his glass and tasted it carefully.

Novoa's approach left Jiaji speechless. He found a seat to sit down and poured himself a full glass.

"Hey, kid, this is Novoa's way of honoring an old man like me." Jiaji's behavior made Prodi's beard stand up and he couldn't help but curse.

However, Jiaji ignored him, and in the blink of an eye, half of the wine in the glass was gone.

"Hey, the brats these days are so disrespectful to the elderly." Prodi sighed. If he hadn't understood his out-of-touch temperament, he would have thought he was angry.

"If you want to drink, pour yourself a drink, as long as you don't tell anyone." Jiaji said to the other two brigadiers.

They are also very familiar with each other, and they have been greedy for a long time. As soon as Jiaji finished speaking, they took action.

Although drinking is nothing, if you just let them look at it, it won't make sense. It's better to drink together, which can also increase the relationship.

Regardless of his appearance and his record of failed marriage proposals, Jiaji is very good at dealing with people. He has many friends in the navy. This is also thanks to his close friend, Porusalino, from Polusali. Jiaji learned a lot from Nuo.

Gu looked at the time. It was almost time. The video phone bug opened, revealing the picture inside.

This is a huge conference hall, with senior navy officials sitting in their seats, exuding powerful auras.

And those navy officers at the level of commodore and rear admiral were standing around or kneeling on the ground.

Waiting quietly.

There are many people whose bodies are wrapped in bandages and have not fully recovered from their injuries.

Meetings must be on time. This is the Navy's rule, unless it is a super big name like Garp who is qualified to make everyone wait for him.

It can be seen that it is not full, and many of the seats are empty.

They all know very well what the empty ones represent, that is, they have been sacrificed. Such a number is simply shocking.

There were eleven vice-admirals sent by the navy to the Golden Sea. However, all of them died in the battle with the pirates. None of them survived. There were even more navy below, and they suffered heavy losses.

Including the two who died in the New World War, that is the loss of fourteen vice-admirals.

The number of vice admirals has unprecedentedly reached single digits. Karp, Crane, Prodi, two other branch lieutenants like Prodi, two veteran headquarters lieutenants, and three Lieutenant General Giant.

Among them, Prodi and four other lieutenant generals are relatively old and have reached the age of decline and retirement.

Among the lieutenant generals who died, there were veteran vice admirals, and there were also many vice admirals who were promoted after the promotion ceremony.

Those who could become Vice Admirals were basically able to skillfully use two-color Haki, but now they all died.

At the same time, nearly half of the admiral-level navy below also lost their lives, and the navy's strength had fallen to the bottom when it was at its full strength.

Novos said nothing and stood quietly behind Prodi.

Not many people paid him any attention, except for a few glances from those who knew him.

Sengoku sat at the head of the table. When he saw everyone had arrived, he sighed, and then loudly announced, "The meeting has begun!"

Immediately afterwards, Sengoku turned his gaze to the side and said, "Crane, tell me about the current situation of the navy."

"Yeah." Crane nodded.

"Today, the navy has suffered heavy losses. From the beginning of the Golden Sea Battle to the present, fourteen lieutenant generals have died, . According to statistics, the total number of sacrifices of the navy... people..."

As the shocking numbers came out of He's mouth, the air in the entire conference room condensed. All the navy below stared with wide eyes and couldn't believe it at all.

Although they could guess that the navy's losses would be huge, they never imagined that it would be so heavy in such a short period of time because of a golden naval battle.

The statistics stung their hearts deeply. Some clenched their fists angrily, some couldn't help but shed tears, and some covered their ears, not wanting to hear this.

All sentient beings were in various states of mind, and Warring States and the others felt uncomfortable in their hearts, and even felt powerless for a while.

The navy lost half its strength, or even more.

Even Crane's voice trembled a little when he said these numbers.

When the statistics of these figures were displayed in front of them, they didn't know how angry or sad they felt.

Broken muscles and bones are not enough to describe it. It is completely "cramped and broken bones", which caused the Navy's body to drop by a whole section.

In addition to death, there are various other losses.

"Tell me about the current situation of the navy." Warring States couldn't help but close his eyes, feeling exhausted physically and mentally. He seemed to have aged ten years overnight. He was so tired that he had the urge to step down as marshal.

Even Warring States' strong vitality and physique were somewhat unable to hold him up, and he was holding on solely by his willpower.

"The current situation of the Navy is very bad. Let's talk about the internal situation first. Food and wages have been owed for several months. Arms and equipment are in short supply and are basically exhausted. There are not many warships. Now it can be said that the Navy is unable to launch a war."

"In the Great Line, the navy's power has been reduced to the extreme, and it is barely surviving. Only the G7 branch is in good condition." As he said that, He also glanced at Prodi's image.

The same goes for everyone else. After all, Prodi's actions really left them wondering what to say. They had all heard of the glorious deeds of the G7 branch.

"As for the four seas, they are completely out of control. Some naval branches are literally dead." As he said that, He sighed.

"The chaos in the world is difficult for the navy to suppress. A large number of sailors have withdrawn from the navy. The number and strength of the navy have been greatly weakened, coupled with the invasion of pirates."

"According to intelligence, during the war, the navy has lost trust all over the world. Every kingdom and alliance country is building its own navy to resist pirates."

"Many members of the navies formed by these kingdoms originally belonged to our naval branches."

This is an open poaching, poaching of the navy, and they have already been poached, and it is not illegal means. They voluntarily left the navy and then joined these kingdoms.

The situation of the navy declined so fast that it was beyond the expectation of the Dark Council of the West Sea. A large number of sailors left the navy in order to survive.

In this case, why bother to come up with a plan to occupy the magpie's nest? Wouldn't it be better to just absorb them all?

However, in order to be less eye-catching, it is better to recruit other joining countries to do it together. The kingdoms are all connected, and they are already building their own navy. It is better to directly absorb the original navy. This will be more convenient.

Such an approach is related to their own interests, and they have no psychological burden. With so many joining countries together, not even the world government is afraid, let alone the navy.

So I agreed without hesitation, and at the same time I took action without any pretense.

They even directly occupied these naval branches without ceremony.

The land on which the navy establishes naval branches basically belongs to the joining countries and is given by the joining countries. Because it is close to the joining countries, it can better protect the interests of the joining countries, and the money for establishing the naval branches is also provided by the joining countries.

In this case, I built the branch and the land is mine. Since the navy has no ability to protect them, then leave and return the branch.

Everyone knows that only what is in one's own hands is real power. Since there is no need to hand over heavenly gold, it is more than enough to use part of it to develop the navy.

"Except for a few naval branches that are still supporting us, the rest have basically been annexed by these alliance countries. They have begun to form their own navies and no longer need us."

"What do you mean?" a navy man asked blankly.

"The era when the participating countries from all over the world relied on the naval headquarters is over. They have their own navies, and these navies have nothing to do with us."

He sighed like this. Times were changing so fast. When she came back after the war, such changes made her feel a little magical.

"More than a dozen kingdoms in the West China Sea even issued a statement to jointly establish the West China Sea Navy, a navy that maintains the order of the West China Sea and belongs only to the West China Sea. The headquarters of the West China Sea Navy was established on Griffith Island near the center of the West China Sea. In order to distinguish it from the navy, the West China Sea Navy The navy is also called the "West Sea Triton", which means the sea guard who guards the West Sea."

"There are also such ideas in other sea areas, but they are still brewing. Compared with establishing a separate navy, joint establishment requires less investment and greater benefits. It can also avoid maritime wars between kingdoms."

"What they did was not wrong. Today's navy is indeed unable to protect them." He said with a self-deprecating smile.

There was silence, and I didn't know what to say.

"Then, what should we do? The World Government is no longer a World Government, right? What about our navy?" said a navy, his eyes unable to conceal his anger towards the World Government, and at the same time a little confused.

There are many people who hate the World Government within the Navy, and there are many people who hate the Celestial Dragons. In addition, a large part of the Navy's losses are due to the World Government.

Nowadays, the prestige of the World Government has declined, and they are not as afraid and respectful of the World Government as before.

Now, the suppressed anger has burst out.

The world government is no longer the world government. Many people present savored these words carefully.

If the world government loses the four seas, it will also lose half of the world, not to mention that the new world is now in the hands of pirates.

Sihai has the vast majority of participating countries. If it cannot represent the world government, it will no longer be a world government. So can the navy still represent the world?

"The navy is the navy, and it will not change." At this moment, Warring States' voice sounded, and he said seriously. His voice also reassured everyone present.

The loss of the Four Seas has the greatest impact on the world government, but has a much smaller impact on the navy. The overall combat power of the Four Seas is already very weak, and cannot be compared with the Great Line and the New World.

The main strength of the navy is in the great sea route. The only thing to worry about is that many navies come from all over the world.

"Don't worry about Sihai for now. The government has not taken action yet, and we don't know what will happen. Now let's focus on the great shipping route. Now, what we want to discuss is, what should the navy do next?" Warring States said seriously.

This is a matter of survival for the Navy, a top priority.