Chapter 1307: Only Bombing Those Fated

The scorching red flames burned on the coastline, illuminating the coastal area of Dressrosa in a fiery red, and the area near the explosion was even more like broad daylight.

The terrified civilians were awakened by the sound of the explosion. They stood in front of the windows with bewildered faces, looking at the scene on the coastline.

In the coastal area, several large ships were quickly moving away from the Dressrosa sea area. Katakuri stood at the stern of a ship, his expression very gloomy.

Before Apollo was thrown to the shore, Katakuri had predicted this scene. He immediately ordered people to retreat, but it was too late. He could only watch as a large number of ships and subordinates were vaporized by the high temperature.

"Ka... Katakuri-sama, should we... continue to attack this place?"

A pirate head leader stood behind Katakuri. His exposed skin had large areas of burns. The moment before Apollo exploded, he was about 300 meters away from the center of the explosion. Even so, the temperature spread from the edge area nearly burned him to death.

"We... must take this place."

Katakuri's fists clenched, making cracking sounds. The war had reached this point, and it was no longer a simple matter of interests, but a matter of face.

For a top-tier pirate group like the Big Mom Pirates, they could be slashed by an enemy, but they absolutely couldn't be slapped in the face by an enemy.

The Big Mom Pirates controlled nearly one-fifth of the islands in the New World. With so many territories, it was impossible for the Big Mom Pirates to station pirates on every island. At most, they left the Big Mom Pirates' flag on the island, letting the enemy know this was Charlotte Linlin's territory.

Once face was damaged, the deterrent power of these flags would be greatly reduced, and it might even lead to burning, killing, and looting by some reckless pirates.

Charlotte Perospero died in the naval battle. Charlotte Cracker died in Dressrosa, and the number of ordinary pirates who died in this war was countless. The famous Katakuri was also beaten back.

The war had reached this extent, and it was by no means a matter that could be resolved by unilateral surrender. The Donquixote Family couldn't retreat; retreating meant destruction. The Big Mom Pirates couldn't retreat either; retreating meant losing face, and even their affiliated territories would be threatened.

Actually, neither side wanted to continue the war, but neither side could stop. The war couldn't be stopped anymore.

Either the Donquixote Family was destroyed, or the Big Mom Pirates suffered heavy losses and temporarily shrank back into Totto Land.

Charlotte Linlin was a Four Emperor after all. Wanting to destroy her, the Donquixote Family's strength absolutely couldn't do it.

Being able to fight to this extent was mainly because Charlotte Linlin couldn't land on Dressrosa. Kaido and Shanks were both holding her back. The former was for interests, and the latter was for stability.

Do not think Shanks was a heartless pirate. Being able to sit on the position of a Four Emperor, he must have his own merits. Shanks' Haki, even Whitebeard wouldn't dare to underestimate.

Of course, besides fighting to the death, both sides could also reach a reconciliation through negotiation, provided that one side took out a large amount of compensation. Judging from the current situation, neither side would choose reconciliation.

The fleet led by Katakuri retreated far away. Before investigating the intelligence of Apollo clearly, they would absolutely not attack in large numbers again. At most, they would send small groups of troops to harass.

Just after the Big Mom Pirates retreated, a small submarine surfaced from the sea. This thing wasn't a submarine in the true sense; saying it was a small boat that could dive underwater was more appropriate.

Two figures climbed out of the small submarine. They observed the situation by the coast through binoculars and took out a camera Den Den Mushi to record. Den Den Mushi was a very peculiar creature in the Pirate world. Their physiological structure could both complete remote communication and achieve effects like projection and recording images.

These two figures recorded the scene by the coast and quickly entered the small submarine. The hatch closed, and the small submarine sank into the sea, as if it had never appeared.

A full half-hour passed, and flames were still burning by the coast. Large areas of sand were scorched to glass by the high temperature, looking beautiful under the moonlight.

Pulling the sun to the ground was the initial concept of Apollo's developer. This concept was very absurd. Not to mention whether this concept could be realized, if the sun were really pulled close to a planet, it wouldn't be just one or two planets being incinerated.

The second-generation developer didn't inherit the thoughts of the first generation. He clearly knew that pulling the sun down was too absurd, but this crazy guy intended to manufacture an artificial sun.

After this concept appeared, the second-generation developer died half a month later, dying in a big explosion.

Several generations of developers after that either died in explosions or from radioactive materials. After more than thirty generations of development, a certain developer thought of a way: why be obsessed with an artificial sun? Why not use the fragments of the sun to imitate a sun?

Clearly, this was the most successful concept in the process of creating Apollo. Compared to the dozens of developers of the previous generation, that developer died the most gloriously. He was blown to death by a semi-finished Apollo. At that time, Apollo was too unstable.

His successor tried his best to stabilize Apollo, reducing Apollo's original explosion diameter of fifty kilometers to half a kilometer, and extending the activation time. Only then did Apollo truly become a problem.

To create Apollo, a total of 267 alchemists sacrificed themselves, three cities were razed to the ground, and the total number of dead and injured reached over 200,000. In the later stages, researching Apollo had become a taboo.

Under heavy setbacks, Apollo was finally created, but the Apollo Su Xiao manufactured now wasn't the kind of power from the initial concept.

Su Xiao certainly knew this point, but expanding Apollo's explosion range was very difficult, especially while ensuring Apollo was stable enough.

Su Xiao could at most manufacture an Apollo with an explosion range of about five kilometers, but with his current alchemy level, he would absolutely not try this kind of Apollo. Not to mention manufacturing a finished product, even during the manufacturing process, Apollo could explode.

Su Xiao needed Apollo to be stable enough. Expanding the explosion range on the premise of ensuring its structure was stable was as difficult as ascending to heaven.

The warm night breeze blew into the window. Su Xiao closed the window. He didn't expect Doflamingo to use Apollo so quickly. This situation could only explain one thing: the Donquixote Family's casualties were too tragic, tragic to the point of not wanting to launch a large-scale war with the Big Mom Pirates again.

While Su Xiao was pondering, the door was knocked. The knocking sound was extremely loud. Amu stood up to open the door. It was Jack who came to the door.

Jack walked into the room without ceremony, his expression very displeased.

"This is the special type of bomb?"

Jack seemed to have just woken up, with a huge eye booger in the corner of his eye. Seeing this eye booger, Bubu Wang subconsciously retreated a few steps.

"That's right, this is a weapon I developed recently. This time it counts as a test explosion."

"..."

Jack's eyes glared. He tore off the black bear skin cape behind his back, revealing his muscular back, which was full of scars left by burns, shocking to the eye.

"The Navy once threw one of these things on the island I was guarding. The color of this flame... absolutely can't be wrong."

The situation was once very awkward. Jack had actually been blown up by Apollo, and looking at his appearance, he had left a lifelong unforgettable memory.

Brother Jack was also unlucky. He had 'tasted' both types of bombs Su Xiao manufactured. One made him lie on the seabed for more than half a month, and the other burned him until he was charred on the outside and tender on the inside

PS: (The following five chapters will be released very soon.)