Pirates: Your emperor has returned!

After thinking for a moment, Wipa said, "By the way, their attire looks a lot like that of pirates from your Qinghai!"

Pirates?

Pirates attacking them from the land within the kingdom's borders?

Crocodile chuckled a few times, finding things increasingly interesting.

Rowan nodded, explained the internal and external arrangements to everyone, and then set off ahead to the front line of the camp.

He needs to confirm some things.

As for Crocodile, he was still waiting for the "bright sunshine five minutes from now" that Hab had mentioned.

Sure enough, the torrential rain stopped five minutes later.

But Crocodile still chuckled maliciously as usual, "Hey, you meteorologist, you're actually wrong."

"What? That shouldn't be the case?"

Upon hearing this, Hab immediately pulled out his notebook and began calculating. "Impossible, there's no mistake in this calculation!"

No, there are.

Crocodile flicked his cigarette ash and went to the door.

"After the torrential rain comes the sandstorm!"

Yellow sand swept across the land.

Crocodile, to the battlefield!

Purple Pen Literature

[Chapter 96 The Chosen Battlefield]

Ask a question.

In the Four Seas Alliance, apart from the main cadres, which team has the strongest individual combat capability?

It was neither the King's Army of Alabasta nor the guards of Drum Island.

They were all ordinary soldiers, and even the elite among them were no more than ordinary naval soldiers.

So, are they the warriors of the merfolk?

Indeed, fishmen are naturally more than ten times stronger than humans, and powerful fishmen like Hoka and Vol have more than thirty times stronger than humans.

In terms of underwater combat capabilities alone, they are arguably the strongest in the Four Seas Alliance!

—But that's just a natural advantage of being a fish-man.

Hoka and his men were not combatants trained from childhood.

Despite their exceptional talents, the nightmarish years they spent in Mary Geoise inevitably "delayed" their progress in many ways.

When it comes to the strongest combined amphibious warfare capabilities, the answer is undoubtedly the warriors from the sky islands—

The Shandian people!

Their ancestors were originally from Qinghai, but were forced to remain on the Sky Island because the surging ocean currents swept Apayado into the sky.

After experiencing the pain of losing their homeland, the Shandian people and the Sky Islanders waged a long war that lasted for hundreds of years!

During the Qinghai period, the Shandia people were a people who regarded fighting as the highest honor, and their individual strength was not weak.

Later, during the war, they adapted to the extreme climate of the sky islands and armed themselves with shellfish used in sky island special operations, developing all sorts of weapons.

Bipedal Wiba, Burning Cannon, Barrage Shell... and so on.

Years of combat experience have endowed the Shandian people, regardless of age or gender, with considerable fighting capabilities.

Some of the young and middle-aged men formed guerrilla groups and engaged in a long tug-of-war with the Sky Islanders.

Wipa, nicknamed "War Ghost," was also one of the best guerrillas.

His roaring and howling in battle resembled that of a demon, earning him this nickname.

Now, the "War Demon" has encountered the "Crystal Demon," and a great battle is naturally about to break out!

……

"Incendiary Cannon!"

With a roar, blue flames shot out from the cannon holes on his shoulders.

Flaming projectiles ripped through the night sky, hurtling along the mountain road and hurtling directly at the approaching crystal demons.

boom!

The next instant was filled with a violent explosion, the deafening roar echoing all around.

With the help of his two feet, Wipa was the first to reach the front line to meet the enemy.

His style of doing things is quite decisive. Once he has identified an enemy, he will eliminate them from the furthest distance possible!

But... Wipa suddenly had a strange feeling.

The terrain here is straight and straightforward, making it ideal for incendiary cannons.

If the terrain is complex, the incendiary cannon could easily injure the user if not handled carefully.

Was it just good luck?

No, no, because it was Rowan's arrangement.

Rowan utilized the characteristics of the incendiary cannon to maximize the power of Wipa's weapon!

Was it because of the "characteristics of the incendiary cannon" that "Weipa was sent to confront the enemy on this side"?

That doesn't seem right either.

Wipa had always been curious about one thing.

Why did the Four Seas Alliance—or rather, why did Ryan Rowan choose the docks of the Kingdom of Aden as a temporary camp?

The number of islands in Qinghai is far greater than that in the White Sea.

There are also many uninhabited islands around the Kingdom of Aden.

According to Wipa's idea, the Four Seas Alliance could simply choose an uninhabited island as its camp.

No one could be sure of their whereabouts, nor would they make direct contact with the Kingdom of Aden, which was afflicted by the Crystal Ghost Virus plague!

In fact, the Qinghai man named Rosinandi also offered many other options.

In the end, Rowan decided to locate the camp at the docks of the Kingdom of Aden.

At first, Wipa thought it was to facilitate the supply of such a large group of people.

It seems that this is certainly one of Rowan's goals, but there appear to be other reasons behind it.

Wipa, being the captain of the Shandian guerrillas, possessed a certain level of strategic expertise and thus grasped the general idea.

One of the essential factors to consider when choosing a campsite is its suitability for responding to enemy attacks.

From this perspective, the docks of the Kingdom of Aden do seem to be much better than those of the surrounding uninhabited islands.

One side is the ocean, the other is land.

Not only does it connect to the Kingdom of Aden, but it also has vital transportation routes on both sides that can be defended to the death!

Thinking of this, Wipa narrowed his eyes.

Did Ryan Rowan already choose the most suitable "battlefield" for them when he determined the location of the camp?

……

Not only Weipa, but Dalton also had a similar feeling.

As a Zoan-type Devil Fruit user, Dalton excels in close-quarters combat, thus his options are extremely limited when facing the Crystal Demon.

He wasn't a Logia-type Devil Fruit user after all, and he could easily be infected by that deadly crystal if he wasn't careful.

However, the place where he was to meet the attack was a mountain path leading down from the top, surrounded by huge, broken rocks.

Dalton first had the Drum Island guards throw a few torches down the mountain to pinpoint the location of the crystal demons by the light, and then ordered his men to push stones down the mountain.

Dalton himself went so far as to transform into a half-beast, lift up a huge rock, and smash more than ten crystal demons down with it!

"call……"

Dalton lifted the boulder again, pondering what to do.

There's Wipha on the path at the foot of the mountain, and I'm here. So what about the most troublesome main road area?

Oh.

Thinking of this, Dalton suddenly felt relieved.

Main roads – sandstorms are possible.

……

At this moment, several hundred Crystal Ghosts infected with the Crystal Ghost virus are rushing along the main road from the interior of the Kingdom of Aden towards the dock camp of the Four Seas Alliance.

Just then, the originally clear weather was suddenly shrouded in a gray hue.

Those crystal ghosts were not completely infected, so they retained a certain degree of self-awareness.

They all looked up, and suddenly someone coughed violently, feeling as if they had swallowed a mouthful of sand.

A sandstorm hit...

In a flash, the sand-gravel scimitar pierced through the bodies of dozens of crystal ghosts.

They were not completely infected and still retained a small portion of human skin, thus providing ample room for incision.

The blade pierced through, activating the drying ability and instantly turning them into dried corpses.

Without the support of moisture, those crystal ghosts were nothing more than a mixture of dried meat and stones, and thus they all collapsed and could not get up.

In just a few dozen seconds, most of the crystal demons on the road were killed, and the remaining ones dared not advance any further and could only linger outside the sandstorm.

They don't want to move forward, yet they seem afraid to retreat.

……

Rowan, standing amidst the sandstorm, squinted at the scene, lost in thought.