Chapter 498: Navy Assembly and Pirate Grand Alliance

Chapter 498: Chapter 498: Navy Assembly and Pirate Grand Alliance

After the Navy’s grand inauguration ceremony, following the principle of a new broom sweeps clean, under the orders of the candidate for Fleet Admiral, Kong, the Navy once again assembled its forces and launched an offensive into the New World!

This prompted Rocks to immediately call Brook to discuss how to repel the Navy’s large-scale assault!

"Let’s launch the New World Alliance! We can’t let those ambitious big-time pirates just sit back and reap the benefits!"

Brook said with a faint smile. With so many pirate crews in the New World, it couldn’t just be their two overlord crews taking on the Navy Headquarters’ attack!

"Will those guys actually listen?"

Rocks hadn’t expected Brook to set his sights on these big pirates. After all, these big shots had been hammered by their two overlord crews before, and deep down, they probably wished for the two overlords to get crippled—or even wiped out!

That way, those big pirates could step over the corpses of the two overlord crews and rise up to become the new overlords!

"The New World is home to all pirates, and every pirate should protect it! In this mission to repel the Navy, any big pirate crew that doesn’t join the fight will be targeted by all of us afterward!!"

"But we’ll promise the crews that do participate that for the next two years, we won’t attack them without cause!"

Brook chuckled. Not only was he roping these pirate crews into the war, but he was also buying more time for his own development while curbing the growth of Rocks’ crew.

Lately, Rocks had been relentlessly hunting down various Devil Fruit users, and Brook could see right through his intentions. So how could Brook not make the game a little harder for him!

"Two years without attacking these participating big pirates?"

Rocks’ heart sank immediately. Had Brook figured out his Devil Fruit user hunting plan?

It was really pissing him off!!

"Otherwise, how do we get these guys to join? Fight off the Navy, then get chased down by us right after? Rocks, they’re not idiots! Or, you can hold the front line against the Navy yourself, and I’ll give you maximum support!"

Brook could only offer Rocks his utmost assistance to keep him from being wiped out by the Navy. After all, Rocks had been acting so arrogantly lately—he had to reap what he sowed!

Originally, the World Government had deliberately suppressed the scandal at God Valley, so the Navy wouldn’t have attacked the New World so quickly. But Rocks had to go and blow it wide open, claiming all those "achievements" for himself to boost his fame: killing Celestial Dragons, killing Navy admirals...

Those dark news reports were basically forcing Navy Headquarters into a fight to the death with Rocks!

They had to encircle and suppress Rocks’ crew as fast as possible, or else the Navy and World Government would really lose face, their reputation in tatters, unable to stand before the people of the world!

"Brook, don’t forget our alliance! And the part about driving the Navy out of the New World!!"

Rocks still wanted to team up with the Hell Pirates against the Navy, and he also wanted to go after those big pirates!

"Yo ho ho! I know, I’ll send people to support you. After all, I have to protect my turf too!"

Brook said lightly. Anyway, the Navy’s main target right now was Hive Island, Hachinosu—that gave the Hell Pirates plenty of strategic depth and some initiative!

"You want me to be the main force against the Navy again? What cheap trick are you trying to pull this time?"

Rocks was feeling extremely frustrated, fuming all over, and the Den Den Mushi was sweating bullets, terrified of being crushed!

"Rocks, if I hadn’t repelled the Celestial Dragons’ ’national treasure,’ who knows how many people your Rocks Pirates would have left! If the Navy hadn’t come, I wouldn’t care if you hunted down those Devil Fruit-using big pirates. But now, I need these big pirates as pawns, so don’t get in my way—or else, don’t blame me if I do something unexpected!!"

Brook said in a sinister tone. With so many big pirates out there, not roping them in and using them would mean fighting desperately himself, and that didn’t fit Brook’s capitalist style!

"Hmph! Then you handle it!"

Rocks snorted coldly. Worst case, he’d hunt those Devil Fruit users in secret. Using Brook’s name to gather these big pirates—whether he stuck to Brook’s promise was another matter. And not every crew would obediently join the fight anyway!

"Rocks, watch yourself!"

Brook said flatly. He knew what Rocks was thinking, but some things couldn’t be said out loud. If you did it without anyone knowing, no one would care!

After hanging up the Den Den Mushi, Brook immediately had Mortomas release the news calling together the New World’s big pirates, and Rocks’ dark news outlets reprinted and spread it too!

[The New World is pirate territory, and we won’t tolerate the Navy running rampant. Led by the Hell Pirates and Rocks Pirates, we’re forming a pirate alliance to drive out the Navy together.

Any pirate crew that comes to ally and fight will not be attacked by the two overlord crews for the next two years without cause. But those who stir up trouble and ignore the New World’s safety will be targeted by all participating crews after the war!]

As soon as this news was released, it dropped like a depth charge in the New World, and countless big pirates cursed the two overlord crews for their shamelessness!

They caused the mess, and now they’re dragging all the New World pirate crews into the water. Truly shameless!

Some big pirates who had awakened Conqueror’s Haki weren’t afraid of the threats in this news call at all and kept doing their own thing—come at me if you dare!

But the pirate crews under the Pirate Guild responded very enthusiastically to the Hell Pirates’ call, because there were also bounty missions from the guild up top, with insanely high rewards for hunting Navy officers!

Plus, this was the first time New World pirates had openly allied, a historic moment. No one wanted to miss this revolutionary pirate alliance, and it was a chance to witness the charisma of the overlord crews!

They could even fight alongside the two overlord crews, sharing in the glory and the risks.

’Even I can team up with the two overlords to drive off the Navy—I’ll definitely leave my legend behind. I’m a big pirate of the New World!’

This phrase started spreading among the pirates of the New World, and some crews were already pumped up, ready to join this once-in-a-century epic battle!

Navy Headquarters hadn’t expected Brook and Rocks to actually rally so many pirates. After all, the reason pirates were pirates was that they were like scattered sand, unable to pose a world-ending threat to the World Government!

But Brook’s appearance seemed to break that rule!

Once the New World pirates united, even the World Government had to prepare seriously—this was gathering most of the vicious criminals from the four seas and the Grand Line!

"Damn it! How could this happen!"

Inside the New World Navy G-1 base, the candidate for Fleet Admiral, Kong, slammed his fist onto the sturdy desk. If the New World pirates united, even with the full might of the Navy, they couldn’t handle them—and the Navy itself might be in danger!

Unless they pulled out all the World Government’s hidden strengths, like the God’s Knights, the Five Elders, CP0, the Celestial Dragons’ ’national treasure’... Only then could they fully suppress the New World’s big pirates!

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