On Sabaody Archipelago, despite it being well past 1 a.m., countless people were still going wild on this island, which was full of sin yet very close to Marine Headquarters.
The most talked-about topic at the mont was the war between the Golden Lion Fleet and Marine Headquarters. The war, as declared by the Golden Lion Shiki, was scheduled for today.
Inside a tavern, as countless people were passionately debating the war that could change the future, the door was suddenly pushed open. A shabbily dressed pirate shouted to the lively crowd inside, "Co and see! The fight between the Golden Lion and Marine Headquarters is being broadcast live in the plaza!"
"What?!"
"It’s starting in the middle of the night?"
"But why is there a broadcast? The Marines never announced anything!"
Although everyone rushed out the door in a hurry, they were all confused. Why would there be a broadcast?
This wasn’t the Summit War between the Whitebeard Pirates and Marine Headquarters that would happen over a decade later. That war was broadcast because they knew which day Whitebeard would attack.
But this battle with Shiki was a completely different concept. With a whole month in between, who knew when he would attack? Did they expect the news to broadcast the situation at Marineford for an entire month? Impossible!
However, when the pirates and citizens of Sabaody arrived at the plaza, they saw that the giant screens set up on the streets were indeed showing the situation at Marineford from different angles.
It wasn’t just a broadcast! It was a live broadcast from multiple directions!
Shocked by the hellish scenes of war on the screens, everyone was confused, wondering how this was possible.
Far away, at the actual battle site of Marineford, in the scientific research lab of the Golden Lion’s flagship, which had landed less than a hundred ters from the ground, Dr. Indigo had just pressed a button. After wiping a non-existent bead of sweat from his forehead, he nodded with satisfaction. "Yosh~ that should do it."
Of course, the broadcast wasn’t set up by the Marines. It was Dr. Indigo and the Golden Lion’s crew. Through bribery, threats, and coercion, they had bought off a news reporter on Sabaody. With the help of visual Den Den Mushi secretly installed on the Golden Lion Fleet’s ships and so of Marineford’s buildings, as well as the pre-arranged news agency on Sabaody, they were able to create a live broadcast.
This was Shiki’s idea. As he put it, "Roger did his great deeds with the world watching, so how can I lose to him?"
At that mont, on a giant tree trunk in Sabaody’s plaza, Rayleigh sat with a telescope, watching the screens. Looking at the countless monsters, killings, and deaths on the battlefield, and at the man who used swords for legs but still looked majestic and powerful, he sighed. "Roger’s influence on you is greater than I thought, Shiki."
Since each screen showed the battle from a different angle, Rayleigh used his telescope to look at the different screens. When he glanced at one of them, his brows furrowed. "This... this doesn’t seem like Marineford..." he muttered.
Not only Rayleigh, but many people also noticed that the content on one of the screens was different from the others.
The scenes of war at Marineford were terrifying, cruel, and bloodthirsty, while the one on this screen was much quieter. It was clear that the place being broadcast wasn’t Marineford.
This one screen attracted the attention of many people. About ten seconds later, a bespectacled reporter who had just arrived exclaid in shock, "T-t-t-this! Isn’t this the Holy Land of Mariejois?!"
Hearing this, the entire crowd was astonished.
"Are you kidding ? Mariejois?!"
Wasn’t that where the world’s highest authority, the Gorosei, and the world’s top nobles, the Celestial Dragons, lived?
Due to the angle, they could only see a corner of the white palace in the distance. The shooting angle was slightly off.
Suddenly, the screen shook violently, a clear sign that the visual Den Den Mushi had likely been knocked over. Then, the scene on the screen began to move as if it were attached to soone. Just as the cara panned again, it finally focused on the subject.
There, at the top of the Red Line, shrouded in clouds, was the white palace, the Holy Land of Mariejois!
And... just like the battlefield at Marineford, there were countless blood-red monsters and... one single figure standing atop the monsters!
Rayleigh suddenly felt the scar over his right eye, which had long been numb, start to throb again. As the cara got closer, Rayleigh lowered his telescope and said in disbelief, "I-is that Alucard?"
The visual Den Den Mushi broadcasting Mariejois was also Dr. Indigo’s doing. It wasn’t too difficult to transplant and fix Image Den Den Mushi to so of the monsters. The reason why the cara was shaky was because the monster was moving, causing the footage from the visual Den Den Mushi to be unstable.
As the monster with the transplanted visual Den Den Mushi got closer to Alucard, everyone could see the face, the crazed face of the man standing in the center of the monsters, in front of Mariejois.
Alucard, one of the Three Monsters! He was at Mariejois!
"Wha-what’s going on?!"
"Is Alucard the Immortal attacking Mariejois?"
"No, that’s impossible! Nobody has ever dared to do sothing like that!"
Everyone was on the verge of a breakdown.
The Golden Lion Fleet attacking Marine Headquarters had already scared them half to death.
But Alucard was playing an even crazier ga, directly attacking the World Governnt.
And based on the footage, aside from the monsters, he was completely alone!
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