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The next morning.
From early morning, the giant snails pulling Germa's warships slowly approached Kahat.
From all directions, from the sea and the land, these giant snails, modified with special genes, moved over mountains and hills, appearing slow but advancing rapidly toward Kahat.
Finally, dozens of huge snail warships surrounded Kahat city.
The warships did not approach within thirty kilometers of Kahat, but as far as the eye could see, there were only these huge snails resembling colossal sea kings.
No.6 stood on the city wall and watched for ten hours.
Although he mostly 'switched out' to control other Praying Hands-such as No. 5's commercial negotiations and factory construction-Germa's military strength was firmly imprinted in his mind.
His assessment last night was correct; Germa's strength was indeed a complete dimension above this backward feudal country.
Military mobilization capability, military potential, population size, and soldier quality were all a level of dimensional crushing.
The only thing limiting Judge from conquering Antonhal was the cost.
After all, even if clones were cheap, they were not cheaper than a hundred-Berry pointed bullet.
The soldiers, who had been partying all night, hastily grabbed their weapons, waiting in the trenches, waiting on the city walls, waiting for the enemy's attack.
However, Germa seemed to have no intention of attacking.
They waited from day until night before finally launching their assault.
From those gigantic snail warships emerged the cloned army, moving in perfect unison like an army of marching ants.
They wore full gear, equipped with gas masks and mass-produced battlesuits, holding firearms clearly superior to those of the Marine.
And their numbers were ten times greater than yesterday.
The uniform footsteps and silent advance of the cloned army felt like a giant boulder pressing on the hearts of everyone in Kahat city.
"They look like Stormtroopers from Star Wars," No. 6 took out a cigar and slowly toasted it over the flame, but still commented with interest.
"Judge, you are a smart man. I assume you know what to do."
He chuckled softly, opening the projection Den Den Mushi.
Then, as if he thought of something, he opened the system interface.
Sure enough, as the war was about to begin, the 'livestream' on the other side had also started.
He would selectively stream some 'exciting' scenes.
The battle with Kaido and Golden Lion was exciting, and Germa's war scenes were also exciting.
As for the exchange with Dr. Vegapunk, scenes that could change many things but also bring huge risks, they would not be streamed for now.
"It's live!!! It's live!!!"
"The mod was absolutely ruthless yesterday. Hundreds of people who wanted to blow up the stream were banned. I heard that those hackers had their computers hacked back."
"No way? This streamer's mod is that powerful?"
"Hackers? What happened yesterday?" Shin asked the system curiously.
"When I opened the stream for you yesterday, your broadcast was censored many times," the system laughed.
"Massacres, gas bombs, Claymore mines-your stream content wasn't just walking the line, you were dancing on the line. Yesterday, there were tens of thousands of complaints against you."
"But you know, it couldn't be censored, it couldn't be shut down, so some people decided to flood your stream with automatic bullet comment bots. I smashed all of them and hacked their computers, releasing all their personal information."
"Oh..." Shin nodded understandingly.
This was expected.
His livestream and videos were completely illegal from start to finish.
It was normal for something like this to happen to a stream that severely crossed the line.
If the system hadn't processed those images, Shin himself wouldn't be willing to stream such 'stimulating' content.
What about today's livestream? It wouldn't be as extreme as yesterday, but it definitely wouldn't be censored either.
Shin controlled No. 6, refocusing his attention on the front.
He tapped the projection Den Den Mushi with his fingers, squinting.
"Don't disappoint me, Vinsmoke Judge..."
Several teams of cloned soldiers suddenly emerged from the ranks.
They dragged thick iron chains, which were attached to cages.
Various fierce beasts were confined within the cages.
They restlessly slammed against the cages, their eyes glowing an unnatural blood-red.
A strange and unsettling, heavy atmosphere permeated the battlefield.
"What, what are those things?"
The Foreign Minister stood beside No. 6, watching the beasts constantly crashing against the cages, his voice trembling as he asked No.6.
"Are they Germa's secret weapons?"
"No..." No. 6 glanced at the anxious Foreign Minister and said flatly.
"They are not Germa's secret weapons, they are our Anaheim's secret weapons. They are using a product that has not yet been finalized for sale."
"A product?" The Foreign Minister was stunned, then immediately understood what No. 6 meant, looking at him with disbelief.
"Release the beasts, prepare to inject the serum!!!"
Judge sat on his throne, toying with a CIQ serum in his left hand.
His golden eyes focused on the battlefield projected on the screen.
The messenger delivered the orders.
The codename for this operation: Beast.
"Let's see how much damage this absurd Lineage Factor control drug can cause."
"Aooo!!!!!"
The dark green serum was injected into a lion.
It roared, a pain that felt like tearing its entire body apart spreading through it.
Along with the pain came an uncontrollable rampage.
"Roar!!!!"
The lion's voice became rough and brutal.
Its skin continuously ripped open, turning a terrifying blood-red.
Its bones thickened, and its muscles grew rapidly.
In the blink of an eye, it broke through the cage and roared toward the sky!
The ordinary lion had instantly transformed into a massive monster, about four meters tall and more than ten meters long!
Thick muscles, claws sharp as blades, and scarlet eyes radiating a rampant aura.
Between its mane, faint red biological electrical currents pulsed!
The rampaging lion beast charged toward Kahat city like a madman.
Its eyes only saw the tall, obstructive city walls, and the lives behind the walls that it needed to tear apart to vent its anger and pain!!!!
"A-a monster!!!!"
An unknown number of soldiers in the trenches screamed and lost their will to fight.
The blood lion stepped over the positions, activating mines.
The booming explosions and the flying steel balls from the Claymore mines seemed unable to stop its advance.
The blast shattered its muscles and bones, and the steel balls embedded themselves in its joints.
Injuries that would completely incapacitate a normal creature meant nothing to this rampaging beast.
And there was far more than just one rampaging beast charging.
More than twenty raging beasts, injected with the CIQ serum, roared as they charged toward the city wall.
The overwhelming momentum of the beast army, crushing everything in its path, pressed toward the soldiers in front of Kahat city.
They stepped on countless mines and triggered countless explosions, but neither the high-explosive gunpowder, the flying steel balls, nor the nerve-affecting Sarin gas could entirely put them down.
Even with only their hind legs remaining, they howled and charged toward the city wall like zombies encountering fresh meat, perfectly demonstrating the terror of a bioweapon.
"Monsters, monsters! I don't want to fight monsters!!!!"
Many soldiers who had completely lost their will to fight threw down their weapons and screamed, running toward Kahat city.
Morale vanished like a receding tide, faster than it arrived.
"CIQ Biological Extreme Enhancement Serum."
No. 6 timely began introducing the product.
His indifferent expression and casual words, coupled with the screams of countless soldiers and the roars of the beasts below, made him seem chillingly eerie.
"This is currently a trial version. Its only effect is to enhance a beast into a rampaging monster. It is extremely difficult to control manually. Most of the time, this weapon can only be used to create these uncontrollable 'beasts.'"
On the other end of the projection Den Den Mushi, various leaders of the underground world gave this weapon high marks.
Even Judge, Germa's king, looked at the serum in his hand and couldn't help but say,
"Hmph, crude scientific technology, but the concept is certainly bold..."
As the second most prominent figure in the field of Lineage Factor, although Judge's talent was like a firefly compared to Vegapunk's moon, he was still a leading figure in scientific research who surpassed most people in the world.
The CIQ serum itself stimulated the Lineage Factor within a creature through some contained substance, causing a rampage and achieving a targeted enhancement of its Zoan factor.
"Hmph, just a bunch of mindless beasts," Ichiji looked down at the rampaging monsters and scoffed.
While they might be extremely troublesome for ordinary people, for them, defeating these beasts was easy.
As creations enhanced by Lineage Factor, the difference between them and these targeted enhancement beasts was like the difference between a finely crafted sword and a crude iron stick.
"Ichiji, Niji, Yonji, get ready. Take a thousand men and prepare to attack. Also, if the situation worsens, be prepared to execute Plan B."
"Aren't these beasts already close to smashing Kahat?" Yonji asked, confused.
"We just need to follow them in and kill everyone inside, right?"
"Those weapons were given to us by Poltorto," Judge sneered.
"That guy is a cunning war hyena. These beasts are a gift he gave us to appease us, and they are also targets he is using to showcase his new batch of weapons."
"Don't underestimate that city. They might have even more powerful weapons."
The Foreign Minister, his face pale, watched the deteriorating battlefield outside the city.
He grabbed No. 6 with red eyes and roared.
"What a joke!!! Why did you give such dangerous weapons to Germa? Why did you do this!"
"Because we are arms dealers," No. 6 looked at the agitated Foreign Minister and tilted his head.
"We, Anaheim Company, are an arms company. We only sell arms. Who we sell to and how much we sell is our business."
"Actually, when the war started, I asked you to sign a clause prohibiting the sale of weapons to competitors, but unfortunately, you didn't sign it. Since that's the case, what does it matter to you how much I sell?"
"What a joke!!! Your clause would have practically drained all of Antonhal! How could we possibly sign it!" The Foreign Minister's face turned red, and he roared until his voice became hoarse.
"You war hyenas, by doing this, you are trampling on the lives of so many innocent civilians in Antonhal! Don't you have any pity?"
"So you intended to join the World Government after the war and kick us out of our earned land and minerals because of your pity?"
No. 6 sneered and slapped the Foreign Minister's hand away, saying coldly.
"Don't think you concealed your intentions very well. You planned to join the World Government to have the Gorosei prevent our company from getting the land and minerals we earned? A good thought, but unfortunately, you won't have that chance."
The Foreign Minister's face turned ashen, and he stumbled back, saying in a hoarse voice, "You are willing to see Antonhal destroyed and its people exterminated just for those minerals and land?"
"No, to be precise, this country will not be destroyed."
No. 6 picked up a sniper rifle from the ground, aimed at a fleeing soldier, and smiled.
"Don't you still have so many weapons I sold you that you haven't used? Since they're just sitting there, bought and paid for, why don't you use them?"
He placed his finger on the trigger, blinked, and gently pulled it.
Bang!
The military governor of Kahat put down his still smoking pistol with a fierce expression.
After blowing a hole in the head of a fleeing soldier, he roared at the scattered soldiers around him.
"Charge! No retreating!!! Behind you is Kahat, your families! Anyone who retreats will be killed!"
The governor's warning effectively boosted morale, or rather, it managed to temporarily gather the scattered troops.
"Follow the training the master gave us! Mortar team, fire-"
Accompanied by the governor's roar, the sound of artillery fire immediately erupted across the entire battlefield.
The crisscrossing artillery fire exploded in the crowd of charging beasts, leaving countless deadly scars on them.
These high explosives, far exceeding the power of naval cannons, left one terrifying and fatal wound after another on the beasts.
"Load napalm bombs, white phosphorus bombs-throw anything lethal you have at them!!!"
The artillerymen frantically loaded large-scale destructive shells into the mortars.
The artillery units on the city walls, densely packed, fired countless blazing lines of fire into the sky.
A napalm bomb landed on a beast's back and exploded.
An infinite number of splashing napalm immediately expanded.
The high-temperature flames spread along the sticky napalm, instantly filling the entire battlefield with the smell of scorched meat.
White phosphorus bombs had the same effect.
Under the scattered and penetrating white phosphorus, one beast after another was pierced and burned.
The area in front of Kahat city had become a fiery hell mixed with explosions and corpses.
But this dense fire line indeed held back and continuously annihilated the beasts.
"Die, monsters!!!"
The palace guard, accompanied by his brother, set up an MG42 in the trench, aimed at the terrifying monsters, and pulled the trigger fiercely.
A sound like a chainsaw echoed across the battlefield, accompanied by a blazing line of fire.
Thousands of bullets violently struck and pierced the dense muscle tissues of the beasts, leaving wounds like beehives on their bodies.
It was as if a prelude had been struck.
The tearing sound of bullets leaving gun barrels echoed like a storm on the battlefield.
Countless bullets tore apart the monsters and the enemy.
The Germa clones advancing under the cover of the beasts faced a complete saturation of artillery fire.
There was no strategy, no tactics.
There was only a crazy outpouring of firepower to reduce everything in front to rubble!
There were no strong figures here, not even a Supernova, but these ordinary people, usually ignored and despised, unleashed a terrifying amount of firepower comparable to the Four Emperors.
Kahat city, operating at full capacity, used this crazy firepower to flatten everything within sight.
This modern warfare scene deeply shocked everyone watching on the projection Den Den Mushi.
"The world is changing. The form of warfare is undergoing a massive transformation."
No. 6 spread his hands, facing the battlefield filled with smoke, blood, screams, and explosions.
"From swords and spears, from martial arts and boxing, from Haki and the Six Powers, the wars of this world are constantly changing. Only those who adapt to the new era of warfare are qualified to carve out a piece of the future world for themselves!"
"Firearms and cannons, these things that were previously ignored and considered useless formations created by cannon fodder and miscellaneous soldiers. From today onward, they will become a crucial factor determining the future of war!"
"Ladies and gentlemen! The era where a single strong individual determines the outcome of war has passed. The next era belongs to us, to this burning fire of war!!!"
No. 6 clenched his fists and shouted loudly.
"Look, that is the future of war! Billions of turrets, billions of hellfire. Even the mediocre and incompetent can threaten the main figures of the sea. This is war, not a petty treasure hunt! This is war, a war that can determine world hegemony!"
In the Dressrosa palace, Doflamingo, who had witnessed the intense firepower coverage, clenched his fists.
Baby 5, standing beside him, swallowed hard and asked.
"Young Master, our weapons order-"
"Increase it by ten times!" Doflamingo waved his hand proudly.
"However much he sells, we will buy!!!"
The Gorosei were naturally also watching this 'war.' They exchanged glances, realizing the transformation of the war situation.
These new firearms and cannons might not necessarily threaten experts like the Four Emperors and the Warlords, but they could revolutionize warfare for the army.
And if there was enough firepower, couldn't they kill the strong people on the seas?
"Notify Poltorto. We approve his requests for land and factory permits. Also, we will increase our purchase of his weapons by ten times-no, tell Poltorto that his weapons factory should exclusively supply the Marine and the World Government. We want everything he produces!"
The 'Gandhi' of the Gorosei impatiently issued an order that would likely exceed all of Shin's revenue up to this point.
They had decided to execute Fire Fist Ace, and Whitebeard would certainly come to rescue him.
In this situation, they had to equip the Marine with better and newer gear!
"He won't be able to exclusively supply us. His orders are probably booked until next year," the 'Lincoln' of the Gorosei analyzed calmly.
"Those rats in the underground world have set their sights on these weapons and want to target non-World Government affiliated countries. This is fine, but their orders are too numerous. I'm worried Poltorto's Anaheim factory won't keep up with production."
"Warn those guys to withdraw their orders!" 'Gandhi' said indifferently.
In the eyes of the Gorosei, those so-called kings of the underground world were all just rats.
"That depends on Poltorto's attitude. But regardless, we must adjust our attitude toward him," the 'Gorbachev' of the Gorosei concluded.
Shin also witnessed the battlefield's performance, but unlike the shocked customers, he was very unsatisfied with this performance.
According to modern warfare standards, this level of firepower was barely comparable to Middle Eastern militants.
In a true modern war, everything within a ten-kilometer radius would be scorched earth.
In fact, he had prepared a 'big' surprise, a fuel-air explosive, but it seemed there wouldn't be an opportunity to use it.
"Hmph... Foolish tactics."
Vinsmoke Ichiji looked at the distant battlefield, which was completely covered in firepower, and scoffed.
However, his usual disdain and pride were gone this time.
This firepower was indeed terrifying.
Their elite cloned army didn't even have time to demonstrate their strength and combat skills-after all, these qualities were meaningless under a saturation of firepower.
He himself was almost hit by a sniper rifle bullet.
His expensive memory-metal-woven cape had a hole blown through it.
If it had hit his head, he likely would have been dead.
"Abandon these clones. Let whoever can, escape. As for us, we execute Plan B."
Ichiji looked at his two younger brothers and took a black can from his waist.
"Do we have to use this? I hate black," Niji complained, also taking out a similar black can.
"Heh, I think we should hate the person who was supposed to use this..."
Yonji smiled maliciously and opened the can.
Following a flash of light, the three figures disappeared from their original spot.
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