Chapter 276

"The taste of this noodles isn't as delicious as the ones that person treated me to back then…"

Inside the underground prison of Mariejois.

Garp sat cross-legged in front of the iron cage holding Lucci, his brows tightly furrowed, his expression unspeakably conflicted.

…………

The Revolutionary Army and the Nine Snake Pirates arrived at Sabaody Archipelago on the same day.

Everyone gathered.

Luffy saw his old man face to face for the first time.

Luffy tilted his head and looked at Dragon: "Are you my old man?"

"You've grown up."

Dragon only said this one sentence to him, then said no more.

"Th-this is Luffy's old man, the most dangerous man in the world, the leader of the Revolutionary Army, Dragon!"

Usopp stared at the imposing, domineering Dragon, cold sweat streaming down his face.

Kid, Killer, and the others were also seeing Dragon in person for the first time, and were even more shocked by the power displayed by the Revolutionary Army's assembled ranks.

"Looks like everyone's here."

Lei Li, wearing a grey-white coat, walked up in front of the crowd and smiled at them.

At this moment, the sea beyond Sabaody Archipelago was a dark mass of ships belonging to the Revolutionary Army and the various pirate crews.

Grove No. 13.

On the open ground in front of Xia Qi's bar.

Standing there in full force were numerous renowned powerhouses from across the entire sea.

Revolutionary Army: Dragon, Sabo, Ivankov, Bartholomew Bear, the four Army Commanders of the Revolutionary Army.

Straw Hat Alliance: Luffy, Zoro, Sanji, Jinbe, Law, Kid, Killer, Hawkins, Bege…

Nine Snake Pirates: Pirate Empress Hancock.

With combat power like this gathered together, even taking down a country like Alabasta would probably only take a few days.

Bege, a cigar clamped between his teeth, asked Lei Li: "What do we do next?"

The East Army Commander of the Revolutionary Army, the Glare-Glare Fruit user wearing sunglasses, Belo Betty asked in confusion: "If we're to rendezvous in the New World, we definitely have to pass through Fishman Island, right? There's only a few days until the agreed date — can all these ships be coated in that time?"

"There's no need to go through Fishman Island."

Lei Li's words were startling.

Instantly, everyone's gaze fell on him.

"To enter the New World you can only go through Fishman Island and Mariejois, right? Not going through Fishman Island… is there a third route?"

Jinbe was somewhat stunned.

Facing the crowd's puzzlement and incomprehension.

Lei Li smiled mysteriously: "You'll find out when the time comes."

Everyone exchanged glances.

By evening of that day.

After receiving a message via Den Den Mushi, Lei Li immediately had everyone board the ships.

Then he also walked aboard the Straw Hat crew's ship.

"What exactly are we doing?"

Kid was baffled.

"Waaah! The ship, it's, it's floating!"

Accompanied by a pirate's startled shout.

"This is…?"

Kid stared as a large ship ahead slowly floated up.

Before he could even react to what was happening.

The ship he was riding also floated up, breaking free of gravity's shackles, drifting from the sea surface up into the sky.

Then came the third ship, the fourth, the fifth…

"This is… that person's power!"

Law now fully understood how to get so many people into the New World together.

But at the same time he was even more shaken.

"Is that person going to use his power to lift all these ships into the sky?!"

"Something like this… can it really be done?"

Under the gaze of countless awestruck onlookers.

The ships carrying the Revolutionary Army and the pirates rose one by one from the sea surface, ascending into the heavens in succession.

After the Straw Hat crew's ship also rose into the air.

"It's, it's flying!!"

Usopp and Chopper's eyes were nearly popping out of their sockets.

Sanji gazed at the increasingly distant sea surface, a flash of realization in his eyes: "So that's it, this is the third route?"

"Luo En's power, huh…"

Zoro, three swords hanging at his waist, looked up at the sky, trying to spot that person.

"Waaah!!"

Luffy sat at the bow, held onto his hat, faced the wind head-on, and grinned broadly, showing his gums: "Hahaha, all the ships are flying, that's amazing!!"

GLOSSARY:

Ron, Rayleigh, Shakky, Mariejois, Garp, Lucci, Revolutionary Army, Kuja Pirates, Sabaody Archipelago, Luffy, Dragon, Usopp, Kid, Killer, Straw Hat Alliance, Zoro, Sanji, Jinbe, Law, Hawkins, Bege, Empress Hancock, Alabasta, East Army Commander of the Revolutionary Army, Encouragement Fruit, Belo Betty, Fish-Man Island, New World, Straw Hat Pirates, Chopper, Sabo, Ivankov, Tyrant Bartholomew Kuma, Fourth Army Commander of the Revolutionary Army, Area No. 13

The empress Hancok, clad in a magnificent blue qipao, stood at the front of the rising Nine-Snake Pirates' vessel, her expression cold and exquisite, her long straight black hair flowing in the wind, beautiful beyond mortal ken.

She gazed straight ahead at the sky, her deep blue, icy eyes filled with reverence and anticipation.

"This time, I will surely fight beside you!"

At the front of the Revolutionary Army's flagship.

"Such power… is it not already divine?"

Ivankov hugged his large head, his face filled with shock.

Klar was also too stunned to speak.

Sabo adjusted his hat, gazing ahead, and sighed with genuine awe.

"No wonder it's Luo En."

Dragon, gazing at the faint figure in the sky ahead, showed a faint smile on his fierce and domineering face.

If it were him, perhaps he truly could shatter the order established by the Celestial Dragons over this sea, break the chains that had locked the ocean's freedom for eight hundred years…

Over a hundred large ships and dozens of small vessels rose together into the sky, forming a vast aerial fleet that, under Luo En's guidance, carried more than two hundred thousand people, blotting out the sun and sky, marching relentlessly from ten thousand meters above, crossing the Red Soil Continent into the New World.

240, Start the battle

After news spread of the massive fleet flying over the Red Soil Continent from ten thousand meters above, the entire sea was shaken.

The World Government was also alarmed, plunging into chaos from top to bottom.

Rob Lucci and Sengoku began deploying forces according to plan.

Waiting for the coming war.

……

The New World.

After the remnants of Whitebeard's crew, the Revolutionary Army, and the Straw Hat Alliance all arrived at Punk Hazard.

All major factions participating in this world war had now assembled!

That day.

The weather was clear and cloudless, the sea a deep blue.

Large ships lay scattered across the waters of Punk Hazard, dense as a forest.

The Straw Hat crew walked along the shore of Punk Hazard.

"That's the leader of the Eight Treasures Navy, Green Pepper."

"That's Cavendish of the Handsome Pirates."

"The Giant Pirates came too?"

Hody Jones, walking beside Luffy and the others, stared in surprise at the pirates whose bounties all exceeded one hundred million.