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Within the Four Seas Alliance, besides the main leaders, which group has the strongest individual combat ability?
It's not the Alabasta Royal Guard, nor the Drum Island Defense Force.
They are just regular soldiers, and even their best fighters are only about as strong as regular Marine soldiers.
So, is it the Fish-Men warriors?
It's true that Fish-Men are naturally ten times stronger than humans, and powerful Fish-Men like Hocka and Wall are more than thirty times stronger.
If we're only talking about fighting underwater, they could be said to be the strongest in the Four Seas Alliance!
But that's just their natural advantage as Fish-Men.
Hocka and the others weren't trained as fighters from a young age.
Even with their natural talent, the nightmarish years they spent in the Holy Land Mary Geoise inevitably delayed their training a lot.
And if we're talking about the strongest overall combat ability in the sea, land, and air, the answer is undoubtedly the warriors from the sky island –
The Shandian people!
Their ancestors were originally from the Blue Sea, but they were forced to stay on the sky island because a Knock Up Stream carried Upper Yard into the sky.
After suffering the painful experience of losing their homeland, the Shandian people and the sky islanders started a long war lasting hundreds of years!
In the Blue Sea, the Shandian people were a group that held battle as the highest honor, and their individual strength was already good.
Later, during the war, they adapted to the extreme climate of the sky island, and at the same time, they armed themselves with the sky island's special shells, developing all kinds of weapons.
Two-legged Wavers, Burn Bazookas, Impact Dials... things like that.
Years of combat experience had built up, making the Shandian people, both men and women, young and old, very strong fighters.
Some of the young and strong formed a guerrilla force, and waged a long war with the sky islanders.
The one nicknamed "War Demon," Wiper, is one of the best in the guerrilla force.
The way he yells and roars during battle makes him look like a demon, earning him that nickname.
Now, the "War Demon" has met the "Crystal Demons," and a big battle is about to start!
...
"Burn Bazooka!"
Wiper shouted, and blue flames shot out of the cannon hole on his shoulder.
The flame cannonball cut through the night sky, and went straight for the crystal demons coming from the distance along the mountain road.
Boom!
The next moment, there was a huge explosion, and the deafening sound echoed all around.
With the help of his two-legged Waver, Wiper was the first to reach the front line to meet the enemy.
His way of doing things is very decisive. Once he's sure they're the enemy, he wants to destroy them from as far away as possible!
But... Wiper suddenly had a strange feeling.
The land here is straight and flat, so it's perfect for the Burn Bazooka.
If the land was rough, the Burn Bazooka could easily hurt the person using it.
Is it just good luck?
No, it's not, because this is Rowan's plan.
Rowan used the Burn Bazooka's special features, so Wiper's weapon could have its greatest effect!
Is it "Because of the Burn Bazooka's special features" that "Wiper was sent to fight the enemies on this side"?
It seems... not quite right.
There's something Wiper's been wondering about for a while.
Why did the Four Seas Alliance – or rather, Ryan Rowan – choose the Aden Kingdom's docks as their temporary camp?
There are way more islands in the Blue Sea than in the White Sea.
There are also a lot of empty islands around the Aden Kingdom.
Wiper thinks that the Four Seas Alliance could have chosen an empty island to be their camp.
Then no one can know where they are, and they won't be directly meeting the Aden Kingdom, where the crystal demon virus is spreading!
In fact, that Blue Sea guy named Rosinante gave a lot of other choices.
But in the end, Rowan put the camp on the Aden Kingdom's docks.
At first, Wiper thought it was to make supplies easier for such a big group of people.
Now it seems that this is one of Rowan's goals, but there seems to be another reason.
Wiper is the captain of the Shandian guerrilla force, and he's pretty good at strategy, so he has a rough idea.
One of the things you have to think about when choosing a camp is how easy it is to deal with enemy attacks.
From this point of view, the Aden Kingdom's docks do seem better than the empty islands around.
There's an ocean on one side and land on the other.
Not only is it connected to the Aden Kingdom, but there are also roadways on both sides that can be defended!
Wiper narrowed his eyes as he thought about this.
Did that Ryan Rowan already choose the best "battlefield" for them when he was picking the camp?
...
It's not just Wiper, Dalton has a similar feeling.
As an animal type devil fruit user, Dalton is good at close combat, so he can't do much when he's fighting crystal demons.
He's not a nature type devil fruit user, and if he's not careful he can be infected by the deadly crystal.
But the place where he is fighting is a mountain road going down, and there are broken rocks all around.
Dalton first had the Drum Island Defense Force throw some torches down the mountain, and used the light to find where the crystal demons were. Then he had people push the rocks down on them.
Dalton himself changed into his half-animal form, lifted a huge rock, and smashed it down on more than ten crystal demons at once!
"Hah..."
Dalton lifted another rock, thinking.
Wiper is at the small road at the bottom of the mountain, and I'm here. So, what about the most annoying main road?
Oh.
Dalton suddenly felt relieved when he thought of this.
The main road – has a sandstorm.
...
At this moment, about hundreds of crystal demons infected with the crystal demon virus are running along the main road, heading for the Four Seas Alliance's dock camp from inside the Aden Kingdom.
Just then, the clear weather suddenly became gray.
The crystal demons haven't been fully infected, so they still have some sense of self.
They all looked up, and suddenly someone coughed hard, feeling like they had a mouthful of sand.
A sandstorm is starting...
A figure flashed, and a sand blade went through the bodies of dozens of crystal demons.
They haven't been fully infected, so they still have some human skin, so it's easy to cut them.
The blade went in, and the dry ability activated, instantly turning them into dried corpses.
Without water, the crystal demons are just dried meat and stones, so they all fell to the ground.
In just a few seconds, most of the crystal demons on the main road were killed, and the rest didn't dare to go forward anymore, but were stuck outside the sandstorm.
They don't want to go forward, and they seem scared to go back.
...
Rowan was in the sandstorm, looking at this scene with narrowed eyes, deep in thought.
On the other side, Crocodile finished his killing, and threw a crystal demon he was holding next to Rowan.
Then, his right hand turned into a sand blade, and suddenly cut down on the crystal demon's chest!
Slash!
The crystal on the crystal demon's chest was cut off, and a skull tattoo could be seen on the skin left over.
That's proof that he was a pirate.
"This is the Water Bear Pirates' symbol."
Crocodile said.
But Rowan didn't respond to that. "Water Bear Pirates? Doesn't seem like a famous group."
"Heh heh heh, so there are things you don't know, too. Well, they're just worthless trash anyway."
Crocodile took a puff of his cigar.
"Then let me put it another way –"
He pointed at the person on the ground, explaining:
"This guy is a small pirate group under the Donquixote Family."
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