If the alliance of Kaido and Charlotte Linlin broke the balance of Marine Headquarters, the Five Emperors, and the Seven Warlords of the Sea in the Grand Line, starting a new era...
Then Whitebeard's death completely ignited the Great Pirate Era, which had been balanced by the three great powers for twenty years.
The chaotic new era had arrived.
Although Marine Headquarters was the superficial victor of this war, having truly killed Whitebeard and Ace, and annihilated a large number of Whitebeard Pirates members.
But as Whitebeard's last words fell, the Great Pirate Era was not struck a blow, but instead, more people became pirates, burning, killing, looting, and robbing all over the world under the banner of "The One Piece is real, I want to find the One Piece and become the Pirate King."
As the price for igniting this chaotic era, the first to suffer were the islands that had flown the flag of the Whitebeard Pirates and had not been dared to be offended for decades.
After the end of the Rocks Era, as one of the three great pirate crews, and after Roger's death and Shiki's arrest, the Whitebeard Pirates became recognized as the world's strongest pirate crew.
In these decades, they had actually attracted a lot of hatred in the New World.
Because the Whitebeard Pirates were not lacking in scum of the sea.
Whitebeard's principle for accepting sons was that regardless of whether they were scum of the sea or not, as long as they called him Pops, then they were the sons of the World's Strongest Man.
Those scum of the sea who joined the Whitebeard Pirates would certainly be full of respect for Whitebeard, but to the outside world, they were still scum.
The strong bullying or exploiting the weak was a common occurrence.
So many pirate forces were suppressed by the Whitebeard Pirates.
But they couldn't resist, because on this great sea, everyone knew that they couldn't attack members of the Whitebeard Pirates, otherwise they would face the wrath of the world's strongest pirate crew.
Over time, countless villains dared not offend the Whitebeard Pirates, but they held a grudge against them.
Now that the pillar of the Whitebeard Pirates, the World's Strongest Man, had fallen, and the world's strongest pirate crew had suffered heavy losses in the Summit War, the biggest cake in the New World, this strongest of seas, suddenly became ownerless.
Those pirate alliances and great pirate crews who had once been suppressed by the Whitebeard Pirates, or who had ambitions but couldn't find an opportunity to challenge the Emperor, went crazy, burning, killing, looting, and robbing the territories protected by the Whitebeard Pirates, and even occupying islands.
This situation was the same as when Charlotte Linlin's life and death were unknown, and countless pirates besieged the Totto Land Kingdom.
But unlike the Totto Land Kingdom, which had the entire Charlotte Family to resist.
Now, all the forces of the Whitebeard Pirates had not only suffered heavy losses but were also in the first half of the Grand Line.
Occupying and snatching territory was completely pressure-free.
Basically, whoever snatched it, owned it.
As long as they could withstand the retaliation of the remaining forces of the Whitebeard Pirates afterwards, then the occupied territory would truly belong to them.
In response, the other two overlords of the New World, Charlotte Linlin and Kaido, sneered.
A group of greedy people with narrow vision, simply seeking their own death.
A starving camel is still bigger than a horse. Although Whitebeard had fallen, the division commanders of the Whitebeard Pirates had only lost the Second Division Commander, and the Fourth Division Commander who had been killed by Blackbeard.
Not to mention that besides these commanders, there were also a large number of subordinate pirate captains.
The combined combat power of these people was still above all great pirate crews, second only to the Four Emperors' pirate crews.
Even they had to take such a pirate crew seriously.
Besides this, that guy who had taken Whitebeard's Tremor-Tremor Fruit and become the unprecedented user of two Devil Fruits, after entering the New World, would definitely not be willing to be subservient to others and would definitely snatch those scattered pieces of cake to become an existence on equal footing with them.
Five Emperors became Four Emperors?
No... the Five Emperors were still there, only one seat was temporarily vacant.
Although this was true, now was indeed the best time to snatch territory.
Except for the Red Hair Pirates, who were helping the Whitebeard Pirates hold funerals for Whitebeard and Ace, Charlotte Linlin and Kaido both had territories they fancied, so they also sent pirate crews to occupy them.
Facing the allied Big Mom Pirates and Beasts Pirates, no one in the New World dared to resist.
Now that Whitebeard was dead, the Whitebeard Pirates had fallen from the throne of the world's strongest pirate crew.
The strongest force in the New World now was the Big Mom Pirates and Beasts Pirates, allied by the two emperors.
Charlotte Linlin liked sweets, so she had her eye on Fish-Man Island, where it was always difficult to buy sweets, and where she couldn't even eat them a few times a year.
Before, Fish-Man Island had Whitebeard as a backer, so she had never dared to make a move.
But after Whitebeard fell, she immediately sent her subordinates to threaten Neptune.
However, on the third day after the end of the Summit War, an article in the World Economic Journal made Charlotte Linlin grit her teeth and recall the subordinates she had sent out.
Because someone had beaten her to it and occupied Fish-Man Island in advance.
That person was the bastard brat who had made her recuperate for over a month this year and almost killed her!
"Dragon Knight Karl: Fish-Man Island is my territory. Anyone or any force that offends Fish-Man Island or auctions Fish-Men and mermaids on the black market, whether they enter the New World or flee back to the Grand Line and the Four Seas, will be wanted and hunted down by the Golden Nation."
Using a headline to publish a single sentence.
This was Karl's current status.
If, after the Whitebeard Pirates fell from the throne of the world's strongest pirate crew, the two great pirate crews allied by Kaido and Charlotte Linlin were the strongest force in the New World.
Then after Whitebeard's death, the newly crowned World's Strongest Man in the eyes of the world was—Dragon Knight Karl.
As one of the four Emperors of the Sea remaining from the Five Emperors, Karl, who had established the Golden Nation, was fully worthy of the title of Emperor of the Sea in terms of power.
In terms of individual strength, he was an overlord with a record of defeating two Emperors of the Sea.
Except for Whitebeard, the legend of the old era, who could steadily suppress Karl.
Whether it was Red-Haired Shanks, Kaido, or Charlotte Linlin, none of them had a record of defeating other emperors.
Therefore...
Just as Kaido constantly challenged strong enemies, constantly lost, but the enemies could not kill him, and was thus crowned with the title of "World's Strongest Creature" by the world.
After Whitebeard's death, countless people believed that the current World's Strongest Man was Dragon Knight Karl.
If it weren't for the fact that he hadn't defeated Shanks, he would be the unquestionable World's Strongest in this new era.
But Karl did not covet this kind of "World's Strongest" title picked up from others.
He wanted to be the namer of the new era, the unquestionable World's Strongest Man of the new era.
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