Chapter 862: The War on the Top
Ace is dead......
It's been rescued, and everyone thinks that this rescue plan is about to be completed, but he died to protect Luffy.
Countless people went forward one after another, and in order to rescue Ace, Luffy overdrew and burned his life several times, but Ace was killed in front of him and under his own witness.
Luffy's body was already overdrawn, just like bamboo, and it didn't look like much on the outside, but it was already empty inside. It was the will to save Ace that had always supported him, but the death of Ace in front of him became the last straw that broke the camel's back, and Luffy completely collapsed.
Seeing that scene, the reader's heart is also blank.
Ace died like this.
I was able to leave, but I died at the door of this way of life.
The top war chapter is the most ambitious, intense, and character-rich chapter of "One-Piece" so far, and from the perspective of the whole story, it is estimated that the only thing that can be compared to it is the final ending.
For the world pattern, the war on top was a turning point between the old and the new. After this war, with the death of Whitebeard, the last sea thief of Roger's era, the old power structure was broken, and the new forces represented by the "worst generation" were rapidly rising, whether it was pirates or navy, they were facing a completely different shape from before the top war. More hidden masters are born one by one, and those who have already made a name for themselves have gone to the next level.
Although the war only lasted for a short time in the story, in reality it lasted for a long time, and its aftermath in the hearts of the audience lasted even longer.
This war that burns the sky. Really let "one-piece" reach the top in the bloody comics.
"One-Piece" looks like a simple world on the surface. But it started with the war on top. It completely shows this magnificent world.
"For the Straw Hats, the impact of the war on them must be seen in conjunction with the Draconians incident in the Chambord Islands. Before this incident, the Straw Hats were purely a one-line adventure, and if Luffy had what he thought at the beginning, he just had to go down one island by one by one, reach the end, and find the one-piece. You can become the king of the pirates. But things are obviously not so simple, we can see that as the adventure deepens, as the bounty of a group of people increases, their willingness to take the initiative is weakening, and many times other forces come to the door, and they are forced to get involved. Because the current world is no longer as simple as islands, but a group of forces fighting each other. β
"I have to say that the Great Demon King's strength positioning of the Straw Hats is still relatively accurate, which can be seen from the enemies they face. When they were on Justice Island, they could still fight on their own, but by Moonlight Moria. All the staff faced the giant zombies, and it took a lot of effort to defeat them. And all of them are hung up. When they arrived in the Chambord Islands, Luffy flew the Draconians and recruited the yellow ape, and the Straw Hats' luck came to an end. In the face of the shining fruit of the elemental system, this time there was no less clever fighting in the water when facing the rustling fruit, nor the natural bonus of the insulator when facing the thunder fruit, the yellow ape showed them the vastness of the world for the first time. If there was no Rayleigh to suddenly disrupt the situation, the Straw Hats would have been properly wiped out. β
"Luffy openly declared war on the World Government on Justice Island, which was certainly very cool, but Luffy didn't realize how huge the so-called World Government was, so there was a crushing defeat in the Chambord Islands. β
After this fiasco, Luffy actually had signs of active reflection, but before he could seriously think about it, the news that Ace was going to be publicly executed came, and he couldn't sit still. In fact, Luffy's idea has always been very simple, if a friend is in trouble, save a friend, and if his brother is in trouble, save his brother. All other purposes were superfluous to him. But sometimes, a simple idea means that you have to have strong strength to support you in order to ignore other forces and reach your goal. β
"First of all, from the beginning of the plot of Advance City, Luffy has become a clue to promote the development of the plot instead of the protagonist, and it is precisely the group of 'extras' who really sing the leading role. Luffy has never been through the prison, on the contrary, from this period on, Luffy has used second gear far more often than before, indicating that he is facing enemies that can no longer be dealt with in an ordinary state. But it was so hard to fight these shrimp soldiers and crabs, and he didn't even see the face of a single person in the navy's top brass. β
"So we saw that Luffy walked around the prison, and due to his lack of strength, the speed of breaking through was very slow, and the guide and the fleet that escorted Ace missed in the end, and he was poisoned by Magellan to the point that he was not human. The only "result" was the release of a group of heinous criminals. To tell the truth, if it weren't for these "extras" to open the way for him in the mountains, fill the bridge in the water, and be the pioneer and queen of the palace, Luffy's life would have been confessed in prison a long time ago. β
"The overhead war that followed was not only to save Ace, but also a head-on conflict between the pirates and the navy. The Great Demon King has made an interim summary here, bringing together most of the clues mentioned in the first half to this point, and at the same time triggering a new plot. β
"Ace died in front of Luffy in the end, it should be said that it is a very reasonable arrangement: from the perspective of the Great Demon King, Luffy is destined to become the King of the Pirates, and the identity of his brother will make the relationship between Ace and Luffy very embarrassing, even if Ace said that his purpose is to make Whitebeard king, but under the premise that Whitebeard must die, Ace has no goal to strive for. β
"From Luffy's point of view, the reflection that began in the Chambord Islands, experienced the deepening of a series of events, and reached the peak of Ace's death, when he was slapped by a bear before, although Luffy realized that the enemy was not easy to deal with, he still insisted on returning to the Chambord Islands and gathering with his partners, and only when the truly precious person died in front of him, he would truly understand the gap between himself and the world, and this reflection would have meaning and strength. β
From Ace's point of view, many people say that it was stupid for him to run back and put Akainu on the right side, wasting the kindness of the rescuer, but Akainu's words directly insulted the dignity of Whitebeard, according to Ace's character, it is impossible to pretend not to hear the clip tail and escape, moreover, in order to save Ace, it can be said that there are countless deaths and injuries, even Dad himself has been put in, even if other people don't care, Ace can't be at ease, he has to live in the guilt of killing his father and many friends for the rest of his life, it is better to be happy when he dies, at least before he dies, he knows that there are so many people who love him, and he has no regretsγ β
The war had a far-reaching impact, not only changing the pattern of power, but also officially ending the era of solo fighting that prevailed in the first half of the pirates. The Spring and Autumn Period, in which a hundred flowers bloomed and the good and the bad were mixed, had come to an end, and the Warring States Period, with its powerful forces and alliances of interests, had just begun.
This will be the stage where the strong will fight and close. (To be continued......)