This epic war, the Paramount War, under Leon's lead, was declared completely over.
The Navy and Pirate factions first did their best to rescue the wounded, preventing further casualties.
After the wounded were basically rescued, both the Navy and Pirate factions, with silent expressions, collected the corpses of their respective fallen.
In this great melee, the casualties on both sides were extremely (can lie).
Even with Leon's intervention, Marineford was no different from being completely destroyed.
Before Leon's final (Kong Zhen, Air Quake) and the destructive power of the earthquake, the island foundation of Marineford was almost destroyed.
This place could no longer be used as the headquarters of the Navy.
The Red Hair Pirates' whereabouts were also learned by the Navy.
After learning that the Red Hair Pirates had arrived in this sea area and left after the war, Sengoku sighed.
Red Hair, as expected, came.
If both sides continued to fight, Red Hair's intervention in the war would be stopped.
Before the war, Sengoku and the staff's worst-case scenario was that their Navy headquarters would face Whitebeard, Heavenly King Leon, and Red Hair, three emperors in total.
Now it has all come true, even with Dark King Rayleigh.
But this was still within their control.
The only thing that caught the Navy off guard was that Heavenly King Leon's combat power in this war increased too exaggeratedly.
This man didn't need Red Hair's intervention at all to lead the end of this war.
And Leon's Observation Haki, amplified by the Rumble-Rumble Fruit ability, naturally sensed Red Hair's aura.
This man, like in the original, didn't even come to see Luffy, even though the war was ended by himself and Luffy was conscious.
After all, this would be inconsistent with the agreement between the two sides.
Although the man's true purpose was unknown, with Leon's current strength, there was no need to overly care about Red Hair's movements.
Strategy is just an extension of violence.
When the difference in violence between the two sides is not significant, strategy can sometimes play a decisive role.
But when violence is enough to crush, any strategy seems (wu bi de cang bai wu li, extremely pale and weak).
Just like in Blue Star history, the way royal power strangled some important officials, there was no strategy at all, just kill them directly.
When violence reaches a certain level, actions appear (wu bi de jian dan, extremely simple).
After Leon's combat power broke through to a new level, although the Red Hair Pirates wouldn't be completely ignored by Leon,
what Leon truly valued at the moment was Imu.
That king of the world's subsequent performance was incredibly amazing.
Haki, absolutely not below the current self.
And the abilities displayed were also very strange, like a devil in the world, even able to turn Brogy and Dorry into demons to control.
Regarding Imu's abilities, as the world's strongest Devil Fruit ability user, Leon had some guesses.
Mythical Zoan!
And a Mythical Zoan related to demons.
Imu's abilities were not only extremely (gui yi, bizarre),
but the Haki released in Elbaf was also released by possessing a member of the God's Knights, Gunz.
That Haki was not below the current self.
It was unknown whether Imu's main body Haki would be even stronger, all of this was unknown.
But combined with Imu's performance in the original, that in the Holy Land Mary Geoise, allowing Sabo and Vivi to escape,
and only taking action after Nika officially appeared, first letting the Five Elders move,
and then after failing, possessing Gunz in Elbaf, with his own body officially intervening in the war.
Combined with the fact that during the Paramount War, even though the war became completely uncontrollable due to his intervention, Imu and the Five Elders didn't make any moves,
Leon could basically conclude that Imu was currently unable to leave the Holy Land Mary Geoise, and even unable to use his power.
What caused all of this was likely the war with Joy Boy eight hundred years ago.
From the known information, plus the Elbaf mural information,
in this war between Joy Boy and Imu, Joy Boy failed.
Imu became the king of the world, and mastered the power of immortality, and could also sign contracts with others,
giving this power of immortality to the Five Elders and the members of the God's Knights.
Although in the battle in Elbaf, Jabba, the left hand of the Pirate King, used Haki to temporarily prevent the regeneration of God's Knight member Somas' immortality,
it was still completed after the battle ended.
And this was just the immortality of a member of the God's Knights.
Imu himself would only be more troublesome.
Moreover, Imu's own Haki was completely no less than his own, and could completely use Haki to offset each other.
Fighting Imu, besides needing stronger Haki, clearly, other powers were also needed.
Human-Human Fruit-Mythical Zoan-Nika's power.
This was absolutely necessary.
From Imu's fear of Joy Boy, and the fact that he immediately began to intervene in the war after Luffy awakened Nika,
Nika's power likely had a situation that restrained Imu's abilities.
Although in the Egghead Island battle, Luffy, who had awakened the Nika form, didn't break the Five Elders' immortality.
However, Luffy's mastery of the Nika form only showed Nika's exclusive imagination,
that so-called power of liberation drums, frequently mentioned by various important figures, had not yet appeared.
Imu showed multiple abilities, immortality, contracts, transforming into demons, etc.,
as the enemy of Imu, the special power of the Human-Human Fruit-Mythical Zoan-Nika form, should also be more than one.
That so-called drum of liberation, frequently mentioned by various important figures, was likely a hidden power that Luffy had not yet mastered.
And in the process of Leon helping Luffy awaken the Nika form, the desire for liberation did take the dominant position,
rather than the so-called Nika imagination desire.
Liberation Warrior was the (quan shi, interpretation) of Nika's power.
Although Devil Fruits generally reach their peak after awakening,
it was normal for special Devil Fruits like the Nika form to have some hidden abilities.
As for Nika's true power, after Luffy completely awakened Nika, he would have plenty of time to study the power of the Nika form.
But in any case, before Luffy completely awakened the Nika form, before he loaded the Human-Human Fruit-Mythical Zoan-Nika form, it was not the time to fight Imu.
His combat power still had a lot of room for improvement.
Eight hundred years ago, even that Joy Boy was defeated, showing the (jing ren, amazing) power in Imu's hands.
To conduct the final battle, besides the improvement of his own combat power,
the combat power improvement of Luffy, Zoro, Sanji and others was also of utmost importance.
From this war, it could be seen that although his combat power reached a new level,
under the joint effort of Sengoku, Akainu, and Garp, he could still contend with him.
And this was still under the (gui qi, demon spirit) blessing, in the Three Heads Six Arms-Law, Heaven and Earth state.
And from some of the revealed information, during the great war, Joy Boy fought with many of the twenty kings who formed the World Government eight hundred years ago.
Even with the combat power of Joy Boy's level, and Leon's current strength,
Admiral-level and above combat power wasn't completely useless, at least when joining forces, it could play a containment role.
So before the final battle arrived, the more Admiral-level and above combat power, the better.
Luffy need not be said, as the protagonist in the original, in terms of potential, he could at least reach Joy Boy's combat power level.
Zoro, and Sanji, who obtained Conqueror's Haki under his power, also had the potential to become a Yonko-level combat power.
Also, Vivi.
Although the Sand-Sand Fruit was only a T 2-level Devil Fruit, Vivi now also had Conqueror's Haki.
As long as she could completely master Conqueror's Coating, even if her combat power couldn't compare to the peak Yonko, like Kaido,
becoming a strong person among the Admiral-level was still very easy.
The combat power of the others also had a lot of room for improvement.
After the great war ended, before entering the New World, Leon also needed some time to completely digest the gains from the Paramount War.
During this period, he could use the Paw-Paw Fruit to send everyone to places suitable for them to conduct cultivation and improvement.
After that, it was to completely annihilate those two Yonko, Kaido and Big Mom.
Kaido's Fish-Fish Fruit-Mythical Zoan-Azure Dragon form, the power to control elements and the Azure Dragon body were all what Leon needed and could continue to improve his combat power.
Kaido's two strongest elements, lightning and fire, corresponding to the Rumble-Rumble Fruit and the Flare-Flare Fruit, had been obtained by Leon and completed awakening.
Rumble-Rumble Fruit, Flare-Flare Fruit, (die jia, superimposed) with the power of the Azure Dragon body, would definitely allow Leon to obtain power beyond the limit of the Fish-Fish Fruit-Mythical Zoan-Azure Dragon form.
And Big Mom's Soul-Soul Fruit was even more urgently needed by Leon.
Only by obtaining the Soul-Soul Fruit could he form a soul legion!
The battles with the God's Knights and the Five Elders would also require the power of the soul legion.
Moreover, the soul library that Leon mastered had been updated.
Whitebeard's soul, and Aokiji's soul, had been locked by Leon's Underworld Fruit ability.
The soul legion had two more strong candidate.
So Leon's goal remained unchanged, to (tao fa, subjugate) Kaido and Big Mom.
And the Yonko luck, physique energy, and Haki on their bodies could also allow Leon to be strengthened.
These two were not the old, dying, and completely exhausted Whitebeard.
Kaido's powerful physique, and Big Mom's natural monster steel balloon, could greatly (bu zu, make up for) Leon's current shortcoming of insufficient physique energy,
and the Conqueror's Haki of the two was also regarded as his own by Leon.
Leon deliberately didn't show the ability of the Underworld Fruit in this war,
and didn't reveal why he received a huge strengthening from Whitebeard.
Although even if it was revealed, the World Government would basically have no way to deal with it, it wouldn't send troops to protect Kaido and Big Mom.
But being able to let the World Government guess, and involve some of their energy, was worthwhile for Leon.
And after both sides rescued their wounded, properly (an zhi, settled) all the wounded, and (hui shou, recovered) all the fallen corpses,
the Pirate faction, under Leon's leadership, left the Navy Headquarters, Marineford.
Marking the complete end of the Paramount War.
"Huff!"
Sengoku also had some bandages on his body at this time,
engaging in a hard (peng ying, head-on collision) of energy with Heavenly King Leon, whose combat power had (biao sheng, soared) to this level,
even when joining forces with Akainu, Sengoku suffered no light injuries.
Especially the last strike was even more thrilling, if Garp hadn't taken action, he and Akainu would have been seriously injured.
But even so, Sengoku, who was now 77 years old, felt like his old bones were about to fall apart.
Looking at the pirate fleet leaving Marineford at this time, Sengoku's expression was complicated.
This public execution of Fire Fist Ace, initiated by their Navy Headquarters, had completely failed.
"Don't think about it, Sengoku, the fault is not yours.
No one expected that the Heavenly King's combat power would have such an incredible leap."
Tsuru came to Sengoku's side and said (dan ran, calmly).
Victory and defeat are common in military affairs.
Accepting failure was also a necessary quality for a qualified Marine.
All the strong people on this sea, except for monsters like Heavenly King Leon, had experienced failure.
Those who were defeated by failure would completely lose their Haki like Moria before, and become complete failures.
And those who could become stronger with each setback could become true strong people.
"I know, but someone must take responsibility, I will resign from the position of Navy Headquarters Marshal."
Sengoku let out a breath.
He was already 77 years old.
In this war, he also felt (li bu cong xin, that his strength was not equal to his ambition).
Especially the final (si sha, fight) with Heavenly King Leon, made him feel the ruthlessness of time.
Physical strength, Haki, were rapidly declining as the battle progressed.
This era ultimately didn't belong to them.
As for the choice of Marshal.
Sengoku sighed.
He originally had high hopes for Aokiji, but now Aokiji was dead.
The only one who could become Marshal was Akainu.
Kizaru's personality was not suitable, and Akainu, after all, killed Whitebeard.
"The Navy also needs fresh blood."
Tsuru sighed.
The Navy's losses in this war were too (can zhong, heavy). 753
Aokiji was killed in battle, and a large number of elite Marines were injured and killed.
After Sengoku retired and Akainu became Marshal, two positions of Navy Headquarters Admiral were also vacant.
Chaton and Momousagi were Admiral candidates, but their combat power was not enough to become Admirals.
External conscription also became the only choice.
"And the Shichibukai."
Tsuru sighed.
The losses of the Shichibukai were even more (can zhong, heavy).
Doflamingo was killed by Heavenly King Leon, and Kuma, who became a human weapon, was also taken away by Heavenly King Leon.
And Blackbeard's whereabouts were also unknown, according to the World Government's order, his Shichibukai title needed to be (bo duo, deprived).
In this way, only Hawkeye and Pirate Empress were left among the Shichibukai.
The seven great pirates who originally (zhen she, deterred) the sea, had five vacancies due to the massacre of Heavenly King Leon.
"Report! Marshal!"
Just then, a messenger Marine reported with sweat dripping from his forehead.
"What's wrong?"
Sengoku frowned.
The war was over, why was he still so panicked.
If the World Government was holding him accountable, they should directly contact him.
"Shichibukai, Blackbeard, Marshall D. Teach! Relying on his Shichibukai status, entered Impel Down! And launched an attack!
Under the attack of the Blackbeard Pirates, Impel Down has a riot!
The prisoners organized themselves and (xing, carried out) a jailbreak!
Blackbeard also opened the sixth level, Infinite Hell! Many serious offenders were taken away by Blackbeard!"
This Marine had countless cold sweats on his forehead.
"What did you say?!"
Sengoku's pupils shrank.
Impel Down was actually breached?!
The sixth level, Infinite Hell!
What was imprisoned there were pirates who would bring (wu bi de, extremely) terrible disasters to the sea!
"Magellan is there! The World Government should also have arrangements, how could it be breached like this?"
Tsuru was also shocked at this time.
Magellan, relying on the Venom-Venom Fruit, also had Admiral-level combat power.
Although he couldn't compare to the Three Admirals, he was still a powerful combat force.
And in order to prevent Heavenly King Leon from attacking there to plunder power, the World Government also had some arrangements.
"Bastard! There's something strange about that Blackbeard guy!"
Sengoku gritted his teeth.