Simultaneous traversal: All Abyss difficulty.

Chapter 769 The Biscuit Army Charges! Sabaody Archipelago!
A secret hospital.

The smell of disinfectant, mixed with the stench of blood and medicine, hung heavy in the cramped room.

The heavy lead door shut out the outside world, and it also shut out hope.

This place shelters the last backbone of the navy, yet it is permeated with the despondency and oppression following defeat.

Sakazuki slammed his fist on the metal tabletop, making the IV bottle clang. Hot magma seeped uncontrollably from between his bandaged fingers, scorching the specially made tabletop and making a sizzling sound.

"Enough! When will this 'cowardly retreat' treatment end?!"

He roared, veins bulging on his forehead, and the deep, charred scar left by "divine punishment" beneath the bandages on his chest throbbed with pain. Every breath seemed to burn his pride.

"We must take the initiative! Gather all the troops we can still breathe, find that bastard, and annihilate him completely before he can completely destroy everything! Now!"

His bandaged fist trembled slightly from the force he exerted, and his eyes burned with an indomitable flame, but this determination seemed somewhat powerless in the face of cold reality.

"Take the initiative?"

Leaning against the cold wall, Aokiji Kuzan, his body wrapped in bandages and exuding a chilling aura, raised his head, his single eye beneath the eyepatch weary yet sharp.

He slowly raised his hand, not pointing at Akainu's face, but precisely pointing at the hideous scar on his chest from a distance, his voice low and hoarse: "Sakazuki, look at yourself, look at that scar. And look at us."

His gaze swept across the silent Garp, the half-lying Kizaru, and the many more seriously injured people lying on hospital beds.

"That's a mark left by the Fifth Emperor with a casual strike. Taking the initiative? With what? With us, these crippled soldiers who can barely get out of bed?"

Aokiji's voice carried an undisguised sense of defeat, "Unless we can gather all the pirates, the navy, and even the World Government's remaining forces, an endless force like a tidal wave, to continuously wear him down, we simply cannot defeat him. Even encountering him is a pipe dream."

Akainu's breath hitched. He stared intently at Aokiji, his chest heaving violently, like a trapped beast whose vital organs had been struck.

The courage ignited by anger cooled instantly, as if doused with a bucket of ice water.

He opened his mouth, wanting to retort, but found his throat so dry that he couldn't utter a single powerful sound.

Aokiji's words were cruel, yet they exposed the bloody reality—their absolute power, which they were so proud of, was utterly laughable in the face of that man.

In the end, all his anger turned into a heavy defeat. His tall body slumped back into the chair with a thud. The muscles under the bandages were taut, but there was no longer a trace of fighting spirit.

In the corner, Kizaru Borsalino slowly adjusted the IV drip, breaking the heavy silence. His tone was as lazy as ever, yet tinged with a hint of relief mixed with lingering fear: "Kuzan was right~ Well, the silver lining is that the dangerous Fifth Emperor doesn't seem interested in allying with Shanks, nor has he tried to win over that old monster Whitebeard, otherwise..."

He drew out his words, the rest of the meaning self-evident—if such a combination were to appear, even a hundred times more troops would likely be nothing more than pointless sacrifices, and the World Government would collapse instantly.

"Hmph!" Sitting in the shadows in the corner, Garp, unusually, didn't eat any rice crackers. He just crossed his arms and let out a muffled groan that was hard to decipher.

His gaze was somber, fixed on the void, as if he were lost in thought.

The room fell silent again, with only the monotonous ticking of the instruments and the suppressed groans of the wounded.

at this time!

"Zi la——!"

The giant Den Den Mushi, an emergency communication device with video capabilities, in the corner of the ward suddenly lit up with a blinding light, its screen flickered violently, and then forcibly switched to an unauthorized, globally-covered live broadcast signal!

Everyone's attention was instantly drawn to it. The first thing they saw on the screen was a suffocatingly dark expanse!
It wasn't dark clouds, it was a ship!
A dense, endless array of ships!
They tore through the sea fog, advancing forward like a torrent of steel.

The sails were all different, but the flag at the very front, the most conspicuous one, was a black dragon flag that fluttered in the wind!

"The Revolutionary Army?!" Aokiji exclaimed in a low voice, his one eye widening instantly.

The camera zooms in abruptly, focusing on the forefront of the fleet.

There, a strangely shaped and exceptionally eye-catching ship cuts through the waves—its bow is a giant, grinning radish, its hull is adorned with eerie blue will-o'-the-wisps, and its sails are adorned with a skull and crossbones flag carrying a carrot!
"Ghost Carrot!"

Kizaru's languid demeanor vanished instantly, his voice taking on an almost frozen solemnity for the first time: "The Fifth Emperor's flagship! They... they actually teamed up with Dragon of the Revolutionary Army?!"

The screen faithfully recorded this unprecedented combined fleet, its target the Red Line!
The sheer scale of the event was breathtaking, even through the screen.

"Hmph, a rabble!" Akainu looked at the overwhelming number of Revolutionary Army ships, suppressing the shock in his heart, trying to regain some confidence. "Even if we include these Revolutionary Army scum, the World Government still has at least a hundred times more troops than them! The advantage is still on our side! Human wave tactics are enough."

Kizaru picked up the conversation, his tone regaining some of its composure, and analyzed, "Sakazuki is right. With the World Government's massive military force, CP0, scientific units, and the combined fleet of the various kingdoms that it can mobilize, the troop strength ratio is probably still 1 to 100 or even higher. The advantage does indeed still lie with the World Government."

However, before his words that "the advantage lies with the World Government" had even faded completely, the live broadcast camera once again gave a close-up of the bow of the Ghost Carrot!
Standing at the bow of the ship, Fang Yu curled his lips into a mocking smile.

He clasped his hands together and quickly formed a hand seal, instantly creating a bunch of shadow clones on the ship!

The shadow clones swiftly reached into their pockets and actually covered the sea in front of the Ghost Carrot and the Sabaody Archipelago with a layer of Minecraft gems!
Manual battlefield control!

Then, Pirate Fang Yu slowly raised his right hand, and his fingertips shone with an incomparably mysterious orange-yellow magical light that was out of place with the style of this world's art!
He glided and traced lines rapidly in the air, his movements fluid and precise, as if he were tracing the trajectory of stars!

In an instant!
Om-!
Om-!
Om-!
Dozens, even hundreds, of enormous circular magic circles, shimmering with blinding orange-yellow light, appeared out of thin air in the sky above the combined fleet!
They were like giant portals, instantly tearing the sky apart!
Then, a scene that chilled everyone watching the live stream, especially the high-ranking naval officers in the secret hospital room, unfolded!

Like a tidal wave! Like a torrential mudslide! Countless, uniform, yellowish-brown figures fell from those enormous magic circles!
boom!
boom!
boom! boom! boom!
They crashed heavily onto the sea, creating towering waves!
They stood up in perfect unison, instantly filling the once empty island!

They are thousands upon thousands of expressionless, clad in heavy, cookie-like armor, wielding hard cookie greatswords or spears—cookie soldiers!
After landing, these soldiers immediately took heavy and orderly steps, like the most loyal legion, closely guarding the combined fleet and forming an indestructible, continuous biscuit wall!

Their sheer number almost turned the entire live stream screen into a monotonous and terrifying yellowish-brown!
"This is..." Aokiji's voice was dry and hoarse, filled with disbelief.

"Biscuit soldiers?" Kizaru's languid expression shattered completely, his face frozen in shock. "How could there be so many?! This...this can't have been made on the spot!"

This was certainly not something that was made on the spot!

The vow to counterattack the World Government was made by pirate Fang Yu when he first contacted Uchiha Yu, when he first had the idea of ​​escaping from prison, and when they first synchronized their abilities!

He had been preparing for this day for far too long.
But suffering is something that can never be forgotten!

Fang Yu looked up at the pirate fleet in front of the Sabaody Archipelago in the distance and firmly declared the purpose of his trip:

"Overthrow the Celestial Dragons' tyranny!"

"The world belongs to the people!"

He took a deep breath, and lightning surged from his palm.
"Follow me."

"kill!!!"

(End of this chapter)