The Pirate World — the Great Age of Navigation pioneered by the Pirate King Roger!
Freedom, slaughter, wealth, justice…
This was a magnificent era. As long as you possessed formidable strength, you could obtain anything you desired!
This was a brutal era. If you lacked strength, simply surviving was a struggle.
This was an era belonging to the Marines and the Pirates!
This was an era belonging to adventurers!
This was an era belonging to the strong!
In this era, there were a few names that rang out across every corner of the world.
They were those who reigned at the very apex of this world — among the strongest of the age. They embodied the most formidable fighting force of their time.
And Edward Newgate was the world's acknowledged strongest man!
But right now, Whitebeard stood before a scene that plunged him into deep silence.
It wasn't just Whitebeard. Ace, Marco, Jozu, and everyone around him had fallen silent too — or rather, they were frozen in stunned disbelief. In fact, every single person across the entire Pirate World had locked into the same state of paralytic shock.
All because they were witnessing a "war" unlike anything seen before!
Across the entire sky, countless strange numerals-like glyphs were clashing against a golden beam of light imbued with inexpressible, overwhelming majesty!
At the very center of the sky, a colossal, ice-cold eye with not a trace of emotion gazed down upon the world below. Endless purple thunderbolts rampaged across the heavens, and the entire world was plunged into an apocalyptic gloom.
"What in the world is that?"
Ace stared at the spectacle in the sky, speaking in a daze.
He couldn't sense what caliber of power the two sides fighting in the sky possessed — but he understood, with crushing clarity, his own insignificance.
Whitebeard gazed into the sky for a long moment, his heart sinking into profound shock.
Those glyphs resembling numerals… were they data streams?
That colossal eye… was it the Heaven's Way the Group Leader had described in the past?
Whitebeard drew a slow breath and focused his mind, entering the chat group.
Whitebeard: "@Everyone, it seems a transmigrator has appeared in my world!"
...…..
Ordinary Group Leader: "???"
Ordinary Group Leader: "What is this?? Those are data streams, right? Absolutely data streams, right?!"
Ordinary Group Leader: "And that colossal ice-cold eye with no emotion whatsoever — that's definitely Heaven's Way!"
Ordinary Group Leader: "No wonder Whitebeard was so certain his world had a transmigrator, and so certain that transmigrator was carrying a system — the answer's right there on display!"
Ordinary Group Leader: "The System and Heaven's Way are fighting each other?"
Su Yunqing finished watching the memory replica Whitebeard posted, and her entire being sank into bewilderment and shock.
She had never encountered a scene like this in her life!
The System and Heaven's Way were duking it out?
What kind of move was that?!
What did Heaven's Way ever do to it?!
Ordinary Group Leader: "I imagined that a transmigrator would appear in Whitebeard's world, then they would replace Teach and capture Ace for the Marines, filling in the Paramount War arc."
Ordinary Group Leader: "Then we'd descend like divine soldiers and save Ace."
Ordinary Group Leader: "I've imagined other transmigrator scenarios too — whether Marines, Pirates, even the Revolutionary Army — but this… this is completely outside anything I know!"
Even a transmigrator who plundered the world's fate would typically destroy some of the plot first, wait until their plundered fate exceeded fifty percent, and only then fight Heaven's Way.
This transmigrator — regardless of whether their Rule-level item was a system or not — had the kind of guts to directly trade blows with Heaven's Way. Their capability couldn't be small by any measure.
Richest Man: "The System and Heaven's Way throwing down…"
Was something like that even possible?
No — it apparently already was happening.
So what was the situation now?
Such a powerful System — why wasn't the chat group issuing them a mission?
Could it be that it thought they couldn't handle the transmigrator?
Ordinary Group Leader: "Chat group, what's going on? Such an obvious transmigrator and you still haven't posted the mission."
Ordinary Group Leader: "Don't tell me you think we can't handle it?"
Ordinary Group Leader: "Sure, the System's strong — that's the System's problem. We handle the transmigrator. You're not going to tell me you can't beat that System, right?"
No matter how powerful or how unrestrained this System was, all Su Yunqing felt beyond her astonishment was excitement.
After all — the stronger the System, the bigger their harvest.
They only needed to deal with the transmigrator. The Rule-level item was the chat group's problem to resolve.
"Ding — Because this group member's world and the Rule-level item are in a stalemate and did not request aid from the chat group, no mission was posted."
The moment Su Yunqing finished speaking, they heard the chat group's voice.
The information the chat group revealed was quite interesting: Heaven's World Consciousness and the transmigrator's System were fighting each other, and since neither had called the chat group for help, no mission had been issued.
So the chat group's missions and their worlds operated on a cooperative relationship?
If their world chose not to deal with the transmigrator, the chat group wouldn't post a corresponding mission?
Richest Man: "I get what the chat group means. If a transmigrator who appeared was actually beneficial to the world, then there's genuinely no need for us to eliminate them — like Utaha's world."
Richest Man: "Of course, even if the transmigrator in Utaha's world wasn't beneficial, there still wouldn't necessarily be a mission. After all, they're not worth anything."
Richest Man: "That's more or less the gist — but Whitebeard's world clearly isn't that situation."
They were literally fighting. Nothing about that looked like peaceful coexistence.
Richest Man: "Probably got too caught up in the fight and forgot."
Ordinary Group Leader: "The way you said 'too caught up in the fight' is too damn apt — can't evensnark!"
Ordinary Group Leader: "But it actually might be true."
After all, why would Heaven's World Consciousness ever anticipate that one day a transmigrator's System would suddenly come and throw down with it?
The worst part was the proper procedure probably hadn't even been followed!
Ordinary Group Leader: "Whatever, whatever — just wait. The mission will probably post any second now."
"Ding — Transmigrator detected in Group Member Whitebeard's world. Mission now posted."
The instant Su Yunqing finished speaking, the chat group's voice rang in everyone's ears at the most suspiciously convenient timing. Their gaze collectively shifted toward Su Yunqing with pointed curiosity.
Richest Man: "I'm increasingly suspicious about whether the only Group Leader privilege you claim to have is actually true."
Umrutu: "It's not the first time this has happened."
Utaha: "Group Leader, you know — playing pig to eat the tiger is frowned upon…"
Ordinary Group Leader: "The thing is, I genuinely don't have any!"
Ordinary Group Leader: "Am I the type of person who could keep something like that hidden?"
(End of Chapter)