Pirate: It’s not a phantom beast, it’s a phantom god!

Chapter 234: Changing Orders Before the Battle
Without a second of extra delay, Garp's words were delivered to the Five Elders at the fastest speed through several levels of special liaison personnel of the World Government.

Listening to the report from the senior agent standing upright outside the door, the five old men who apparently had the most power in the World Government had different expressions on their faces.

"I didn't expect it to be someone from Baishou?"

"Why did they suddenly come to harass the Holy Land?"

Saint Maz, who was in charge of this matter, was a little surprised and immediately looked at Saint Satan who was on crutches.

If someone intentionally conducts dangerous activities around the holy land, that would fall within the responsibilities of the God of Scientific Defense.

"Hmm... This matter is indeed a bit strange. Why would Kaido do such a little trick?"

"Humph! After all, Kaido was once influenced by Rocks, so there's no guarantee he won't do something outrageous."

The Five Elders holding swords obviously dislike Kaido and Rocks' remnants.

"And I heard that the Beasts have recently started to get involved in the arms business. According to intelligence, they seem to have formed their own scientific team."

"Um……"

Saint Satan pondered for a moment. If it was just the traditional arms business, he wouldn't care much.

But now Baishou is clearly taking a path of completely independent and systematic military industry from research and development to sales... This has to be guarded against.

With a tap of his cane, Saint Satan, wearing a black hat, made a decision immediately.

"This is a very dangerous sign. We can't let them continue like this. We must take strong measures."

"Go inform Sengoku and ask him to include the Beasts Pirates in this attack target."

"But if that's the case, relying on Zhan Guo alone might not be enough."

The Five Elders with golden hair and slightly dark skin were a little worried that if another target was added, the force sent by the Navy this time might be insufficient.

"It's too late to send people over now. Besides, there are CP people in Wald, so it shouldn't be a big problem."

"Now we just need to seize the opportunity when both of them are suffering losses, and there is a high probability of success."

"Well, with Zhan Guo's intelligence he will seize the opportunity."

Saint Satan nodded, and immediately ordered the senior agent who had been on standby outside the door to convey their new instructions directly to Zhan Guo, who was already ready for action.

……

"Yeah, I see."

After hanging up the Den Den Mushi, Zhan Guo took a deep breath and then gave the order to slow down the action.

"Pass the order down. All warships, hold still for the time being and await my orders!"

"Yes!"

The messenger immediately stood at attention and saluted, and then without delay passed Zhan Guo's order to the other warships in the fleet.

"General Zhan Guo, why did the higher-ups suddenly increase the number of operational targets?"

"And it was an order personally issued by the Five Elders, even bypassing Marshal Kong."

The adjutant beside Zhan Guo was a little confused. Changing the combat objectives in the middle of a battle was a taboo in military strategy, but because the order was issued directly by the Five Elders, he, a small adjutant, did not dare to complain.

"Perhaps they've received some new intelligence we're unaware of... After all, there's no such thing as intelligence sharing between the World Government and the Navy."

"However, since it's an order from the Five Elders themselves, we can only obey... It's a pity that our original plan to capture the target alive is now highly unlikely to be accomplished."

According to the regulations, the navy should first try to capture pirates alive, then conduct a trial, and finally detain them if necessary or behead them if necessary...

Of course, regulations are regulations and reality is reality.

You can't ask the sailors to capture people alive when their lives are threatened. It's not worth risking their lives for a few extra military merits.

The Navy Headquarters turns a blind eye to this... Only when it involves ability users will the Navy Headquarters strictly require that they be captured alive as much as possible, and the military merits awarded are much higher than those given for bringing a head directly to the enemy.

This is actually easy to understand. After all, once the ability user dies, their abilities will revert back to devil fruits and they will reappear somewhere in the ocean.

If it was just an ordinary cat, dog, or ordinary person's fruit ability, it would be fine...

But if a strategically valuable fruit like the Float-Float Fruit, the Tremor-Tremor Fruit, or the Momo Fruit were reborn and obtained by someone with a poor mind, and they were to use an air shock on Mary Geoise or even smash an island, then things would be very serious...

Therefore, for these big pirates with powerful fruit abilities, the navy's first goal is always to capture them alive, and then throw them into a large underwater prison and lock them up until they die of old age.

In order to prevent these people from committing suicide due to depression, they will not be punished and will simply be locked up with seastone.

Feeling the warship under his feet slowing down until it came to a complete stop, Zhan Guo again ordered his adjutant:
"Go contact the CP organization just now and ask them to notify us after confirming that either Wald or Kaido has completely lost their combat capability or has died."

In order to prevent the other party from having any more tricks, Zhan Guo added:
"Just say this is the latest instruction from the Five Elders."

"..."

"Yes!"

……

"Huh? Why did you stop so suddenly?"

Seeing the huge fleet composed of navy and pirates suddenly stop in the telescope, Skygate, who had been watching from a distance, asked curious questions.

The other party had clearly been preparing to take action, but now he stopped without any warning.

Could it be that they discovered the ambush here?
But we only have one ship... The large fleet of dozens of ships on the opposite side can easily send one or two ships over. There is no need for the entire fleet to stop, right?

Scratching his afro, Skygate couldn't figure it out, so he stopped thinking about it and took out his Den Den Mushi and called Burfat.

"Hello, it's me. The car on the other side suddenly stopped. I wonder if something went wrong..."

……

"Oh, I see."

"You continue to monitor and notify us immediately if you find anything unusual."

Click~
After putting away the Den Den Mushi, Burfat turned his attention to the two figures that had reunited to fight.

At this time, the Baishou fleet had withdrawn from the battlefield. The island-based teams and cadres who had completed their missions were taking the time to rest and inspect the ships, while also taking the time to pay attention to the battle situation on the sea.

That's right, at this moment Kaido and Wald were standing on the vast ocean, and beneath their feet were the giant ship wreckage cubes created by Gayram's ability.

"asshole!"

"Kaido, you were the one who sent people to attack my crew!"

"Where is my eldest brother now? Hand him over to me immediately!"

Recalling the similar strange and fatal injuries on the previous crew members, Wald was almost certain that someone had attacked his crew while he was away.

Moreover, his elder brother has not been found yet. Judging from Bin Jack's physical condition, since he is not dead, he is likely to have been captured.

And the biggest suspect is Kaido in front of him.

"Huh? What nonsense are you talking about?"

"What sneak attack? Your men were clearly defeated head-on by my fleet!"

"And who is your eldest brother? Why would I waste my men to catch him?"

Kaido, who had no idea what was going on, looked at the other party with an angry look and felt a little puzzled.

But it doesn’t matter… These messy things have nothing to do with him. Now he just wants to have a good fight with the powerful enemy in front of him.

(End of this chapter)