"I've been ready for a long time. If I don't move around a bit, my legs will start to rust," Rayleigh lazily stretched and walked to the edge of the island, looking down below them.
They were currently hidden in the high-altitude clouds, but they could still vaguely see the Holy Land below.
Not to mention, everyone present was a master of Observation Haki. Just a few thousand meters, Observation Haki could easily perceive the scene below.
"So come follow me, Rayleigh! Gaban!"
Shiki, using the power of the Float-Float Fruit, floated to Rayleigh's side and stood, "That useless Roger actually chose to surrender in the end. He died without ever seeing the scenery of the Holy Land. Leave destiny to the next generation? What a joke!"
"Tsksk, Roger was still our captain. Watch what you say a little," Rayleigh sighed.
Although sometimes, he felt that what Shiki said wasn't wrong.
But perhaps, that was Roger's charm.
Back then, if Roger had been as ambitious as Shiki, he wouldn't have set sail with him at all.
"I agree with that. That guy was always hesitant in everything. Didn't even dare to break into the Holy Land. What kind of Pirate King is that?"
Bullet straightened his body and also stood beside the others.
His eyes were filled with bloodlust and frenzy, as if he wanted to devour everything.
Just thinking about going on a killing spree in the World Government's Holy Land made him excited.
"Roger's idea might've been right. The World Government's foundation is still very deep. If Whitebeard hadn't withstood the pressure this time, just us coming to the Holy Land would've been no different from suicide," Dragon's grave voice came from the edge of the island, where his figure also stood.
Even though he had joined in, he still wasn't optimistic about this operation.
Given the number of powerful beings the World Government had, even if they killed every strong one stationed at the Holy Land, it wouldn't shake the foundation of the World Government.
"Enough already. And to think you're the son of that old bastard Garp, acting like a coward. Have you figured out who the leader of the Revolutionary Army is now? The founder?", Shiki didn't hide his mockery at all.
There were quite a few participants in this war. A few of the old friends from the Rocks Pirates were here, and many other big pirates had brought people too.
But someone like Dragon, who clearly had good strength but was cowardly to the core, Shiki really hadn't seen before.
Among everyone, the one he looked down on the most was Dragon.
The Revolutionary Army he had founded was being hunted by the World Government, and he acted like it had nothing to do with him. In the end, he even lost his own base.
They were also constantly being chased by the Navy, but none of them were as cowardly as Dragon.
The key thing was, Dragon didn't even know who was leading the Revolutionary Army now.
The others had already made contact with Whitebeard and the rest. The whole Revolutionary Army was united like an iron wall, but Dragon didn't even know who the leader was.
Even his most trusted subordinates only shared intel, swearing its authenticity, but refused to say who that person was.
Just this nonsense Dragon pulled, while still using the name of Garp's son, had long become a laughingstock.
If he wasn't at least strong, Shiki wouldn't have wanted to bring him at all.
"It doesn't matter who leads the Revolutionary Army. As long as everyone's goal is the same. In this battle, I hope everyone can kill more Celestial Dragons. Only if more Celestial Dragons die will the World Government become more chaotic," Dragon said seriously, even bowing to the others in the end.
This idea had been suggested by Ivankov, and the idea came from the current leader of the Revolutionary Army.
He didn't dig into the person's identity.
He was the one who had abandoned the Revolutionary Army first, so there was no need to destroy their unity now.
But he thought the idea was quite good.
Just killing the strong ones, within ten years the World Government would recover, and it would be like they had done nothing.
Only by killing all the Celestial Dragons would they shake the World Government's foundation.
"Got it. Don't think I brought such a huge island just to provide a viewing platform," Shiki grinned and pointed at the island beneath their feet.
Floating this island into the sky had cost him a lot of effort.
Just the size of the island, it was several dozen kilometers wide and long.
If this smashed into the Holy Land, it would absolutely deal a devastating blow.
Those ordinary Celestial Dragons, none of them would survive.
Even Whitebeard dared to kill Celestial Dragons, so of course Golden Lion couldn't fall behind.
He didn't just want to kill the Holy Knights. He also wanted to kill a bunch of regular Celestial Dragons.
"As long as you understand. Let's begin anytime," Dragon nodded seriously, already poised and ready.
"HAHAHAHAHAHAHA, since that's the case, then let's begin!"
Golden Lion Shiki's wild laughter exploded like rolling thunder ten thousand meters above ground, shaking the thin air, as if it would rip the entire sky apart.
That was an arrogance and recklessness built up over countless years. A supreme challenge to the World Government's authority.
He stood at the edge of the massive floating island, golden lion's mane dancing wildly in the fierce wind, his eyes looking down in disdain.
"Brothers, head for the Holy Land, let's play a big game!"
Among everyone, he had the highest seniority. So this time, the title of Supreme Commander was naturally his without question.
Before his words even finished, his figure had already turned into a golden streak of light, leaping without hesitation from the sky at tens of thousands of meters high, like a meteor burning with ambition, he was the first to fall toward the earth.
"CHARGW!"
A deafening, overwhelming cheer echoed from all over the island. It was excitement for challenging the World Government, desire for the chaos and destruction to come, and a roar for freedom long restrained.
Immediately after, hundreds and thousands of figures of various shapes and powerful auras, like receiving a silent command, leapt one after another from the edge of the floating island.
They weren't jumping, they were plunging into this vertical charge, dedicating themselves to this earth-shaking assault.
Under a sky so blue it was nearly pure, those hundreds of figures left behind one straight trajectory after another in the sky.
At first, they were just tiny black dots, almost invisible. But as they fell at high speed, they grew larger and gathered into an unstoppable black torrent.
The wind howled in their ears. The earth and Holy Land below drew closer in their vision. It didn't feel like falling, but like a judgment descending from the heavens, carrying the will of destruction.
———
"ENEMY ATTACK!"
And at this moment, down below in the Holy Land of Mary Geoise, the silent, solemn place that seemed forever inviolable, the CP0 agents in charge of guarding it were the first to notice something abnormal in the sky.
They looked up, and the composure and alertness on their faces were instantly replaced by extreme shock and horror.
It wasn't just a few figures, it was densely packed, overwhelming, like a swarm of locusts, the "black rain".
And it was plunging toward the Holy Land at a suffocating speed.
'Someone actually dared to attack the Holy Land Mary Geoise?'
"ENEMY ATTACK!"
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