Chapter 210 - Hidden enemies!

Law was a smart man, so he had already taken into account who should fight who, in order for them to win the war effortlessly.

He looked from his place at the top of the skull dome… where Ian was having fun fighting two extremely powerful pirates that would bring terror to anyone sane enough…

'Well, we'll only win assuming that Ian would win in his fight' Law thought to himself.

But everyone had so much faith in him, so he decided to take that gamble.

On his side, if he was to take their forces into account and take the strongest among them, he would be left with the following:

The nine red scabbards. Who are capable of actually fighting the all-stars under Kaido.

Himself, who can act as a support to them.

Luffy, and Zoro.

Kid. Who can be considered on their side…? Well somewhat.

And then their strongest card, Ian's crewmates.

These were the leaders and the strongest among them. So he made sure to give everyone their roles to do… not to say that the others were weak, no everyone was skilled, he was just talking about the strongest ones among them. After all, you can't expect Nami or Nojiko to fight against Queen or King.

Since the enemy side was supposed to only have three all-stars, he decided to leave those for some of the nine red scabbards… The newest All-star was one called Who's who. And he replaced jack after his death.

Meanwhile, Luffy and Zoro can deal with the Tobiroppo, who are just below the all-stars in strength. Afterward, they can join somewhere where they were needed…

Kid was a wild card so he left him be.

This left the minks, samurais, and yakuza which made the largest number of them, against Kaido's side of the Shinushi, who are the elite Gifters, and who are responsible for leading the Waiters, Pleasures, and lower Gifters who make up the rest of the army. And then some samurais and ninjas who were under Orochi beforehand and joined Kaido.

There are also the 'Numbers', but he was not that worried about them, since in terms of strong people they won in skill over quantity… since some of the red scabbards would be available they, along with Ian's crew would be able to take care of the large number of their enemies.

However, with the addition of another powerful enemy bringing along close to three thousand allies with him, brought him to a stop.

The said mentioned people, apart from Luffy, and Kid who already started to attack decided to wait for him since he was their strategist.

Thankfully Ian proved more adequate in detaining the two monsters up there in the sky. And by the look of things they were not in any condition to focus on them…

Ian was dodging all Of Kaido's attacks, either wind, fire, or anything thrown at him would never hit. While with Shiki, his attacks were futile since Ian's lightning was superior to his earth-related attacks.

Law looked at Ian's crewmates…

As if they understood his intentions, they nodded. Since they already knew what to do beforehand, and this time it just became more important.

But Elene shook her head.

Law looked at her.

"What's the matter?" He asked her.

"We can't follow your plans unless we deal with some new enemies that have shown up," Elene told her reason.

"Shiki's allies?" He questioned as the rest also paid close attention to this.

But Elene shook her head.

"There are a few strong enemies 'hiding' and they are quite strong. I don't know who they are but they don't feel like humans. I'll need to take Kuzan with me and deal with them!" She said with a serious look on her face.

And since word of her defeating big mom spread around, her words this time carried a huge weight with them.

As such everyone understood that the enemies she spoke about are quite strong. This is further proven since she wanted to take Aokiji with her.

They also didn't need to hear her reason for why. As otherwise, these enemies would be able to join Shiki and Kaido in taking down Ian. It was obvious so they kept silent about it.

And if this new enemy left just either the Dragon or the flying pirate some free time for him to attack the army, they were done for…

Law gave her a nod. Although she was going off their plan, he knew that it was necessary. Plus he was sure she won't follow any orders he gives anyway if she didn't want to. That applied to all of Ian's crew.

He knew that even without her ad the formal marine admiral, the rest of Ian's crew could still possibly win this war on their own if you take Kaido and Shiki off the equation, so he was not worried…

This was true even after he saw that Shiki had brought with him huge mutated animals to this fight…

Law shook his head from those thoughts and started to give orders.

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Ian's crew spread around, after sharing one look between them.

Apart from Elene and Aokiji who started to penetrate through the army of people and headed to the castle.

Even if you take out the strongest people on Kaido's side, you would still be left with around 35 thousand enemies.

And even for Ian's crew, this would be quite tiring. They would not lose, but it would be taxing on them, and they would get injured.

But since they had some allies in this, they felt a bit more relaxed and focused on making sure their side doesn't suffer many losses.

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And so with Bert, Stella, Akemi, Don, Reiju, having everyone from the alliance side's backs, the rest of the fighters like the nine scabbards and co could relax and do their part.

Kin'emon and some of his fellow scabbards headed out towards the all-stars who were commanding their allies from the back.

They cut through the crowd of enemies like butter, there was no mercy on their part as whenever their swords swung around, people died.

They were not her to play, this was a death sentence being delivered by them to their enemies.

Until they reached their targets…

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Luffy and Zoro, who followed after him to help him take down the Tobiroppo, finally reached their destination.

Though this time they were just five of them since a newer replacement for their former strongest one who became an All-star has not been selected yet.

The five seeing Luffy and Zoro heading out towards them with the intention to attack smiled in contempt.

"Do you think you could take all of us down?" One of them laughed as he began to transform…

But his transformation was stopped short with a punch to the face courtesy of Luffy.

"You're damn right we will!" Luffy yelled as his arm retracted back and he grabbed it with his left hand on the shoulder.

Zoro from his side grinned as he had his hands on his swords.

This was going to be a good fight.

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This left Law who started to see where a side needed some support and then went there. He would teleport an ally from harm's direction, and put a beast pirate in the path of the attack… and like this, his allies would be safe.

And from then on he kept moving to any side he felt was getting overwhelmed.

However, he did issue an order to those that were assigned, leaders.

This order was to head up the castle and join Ian to help him fight.

Even with Elene and Aokiji going to take care of these hidden presences, Law somewhat still had a bad hunch…

He just couldn't get past the point that this war would not be an easy one. And based on what he saw so far, it felt it was easy. So he was left to only think that there were still some strong people not shown yet, or someone strong was going to join later and tilt the winning side in the favor of the Beast pirates…

'We'll just have to wait and see…' he thought to himself.