In just three short years, to what extent had Karl grown?
Morgans, who held the "wealth code" of Karl, specially created a column for this, just like the encyclopedia of his past life, recounting Karl's growth experiences and various history-making or legendary achievements.
From an unknown brat bounty hunter in the East Blue, to the Dragon Knight and the world's number one bounty hunter in the first half of the Grand Line, the Twin Star of the East Blue, the God-Slayer, and finally the fifth Emperor of the Sea in the New World, the world's richest man and king of the underworld, and now the Knight King...
In three years, Karl had accumulated so many titles.
His adventures were undoubtedly as legendary as his achievements.
Since the beginning of the Great Pirate Era, he was the first rookie to defeat a Warlord of the Sea, creating history.
In the eight hundred years since the establishment of Mary Geoise, he was the first man to kill a descendant of the creators, creating history for the second time.
In the eight hundred years since the establishment of Marine Headquarters, he was the first wanted criminal to defeat the largest-scale Buster Call, creating history for the third time.
He spent the least amount of time and reached the pinnacle of the world at the fastest speed, becoming one of the highest peaks in the world, an overlord, creating history for the fourth time.
In this Great Pirate Era, he was the first overlord to defeat two pirate emperors, creating history for the fifth time.
Besides this, he was the richest man in the world, and so on...
With these unprecedented and possibly never-to-be-repeated legendary achievements, Karl ascended to the throne of Emperor of the Sea at the age of 15, more than ten years faster than Shanks, who became an emperor at 33.
What was even more terrifying...
Karl, standing at this high position, was only 18 years old this year, still in his growth phase, not even in his prime.
So, after the end of the old era ruled by Whitebeard.
For the sake of hype, Morgans directly announced in the World Economic Journal that the new era had completely arrived.
This new era was named the Karl Era.
Although Karl had not become the unquestionable World's Strongest, countless people also believed that the strongest person in the new era was definitely Karl.
Karl only needed to defeat one more person, Red-Haired Shanks, to be the unquestionable World's Strongest of the new era, the namer of the new era.
It was just that...
Karl was a bit greedier than Morgans and the people of the world thought.
In this period where one seat of the Five Emperors was vacant, he disdained to pick up the title of World's Strongest dropped by others.
He wanted to wait until the vacant seat was filled, then overthrow all the highest peaks of the new era, and carve his name on the new era.
After asking Morgans to help him publish the statement about protecting Fish-Man Island on the front page of the World Economic Journal.
Karl received a call of gratitude from Neptune that same day.
After Whitebeard's death, the saddest person was definitely Neptune.
He not only lost his sworn brother but also lost one of the world's biggest backers.
Without Karl, Fish-Man Island in the original story, after losing Whitebeard's protection, had also fallen into chaos for a period of time.
It wasn't until they found a new backer that they returned to their original state.
But as a price, they had to pay a staggering amount of sweets to Charlotte Linlin every year.
Now, just one sentence from Karl made all the pirates in Fish-Man Island, or those who wanted to enter the New World from Fish-Man Island, afraid to cause trouble in this place.
The underworld also quickly revoked the bounties on Fish-Men and mermaids.
They were all afraid of Karl's retaliation.
One must know that besides being the youngest overlord of the seas and the newly crowned World's Strongest Man, Karl was also one of the kings of the underworld.
The alliance between Gran Tesoro and the Donquixote Family, like the alliance between the Big Mom Pirates and the Beasts Pirates in the underworld, suppressed all dark forces so much that they couldn't breathe, and no one dared to offend them.
Even if they could catch Fish-Men and mermaids, no auction house dared to auction them.
Even if they successfully sold them, they might not live to spend the money.
After all, the underworld also had bounties.
The bounty amounts were even more exaggerated than the wanted posters issued by the Marines.
Dragon Knight Karl was the richest man in the world.
Just as Karl had said.
If you offended him, whether in the Four Seas or both halves of the Grand Line, there would be no place for you.
Even two World Nobles had died, so obviously no one doubted the authenticity of Karl's words.
Therefore...
At this moment, Neptune was extremely glad that he had entrusted his precious daughter, Shirahoshi, to Karl.
The other party was indeed an overlord of the seas who valued loyalty just like Whitebeard.
Karl's protection of Fish-Man Island not only earned him a grateful call from Neptune but also completely captured Shirahoshi's heart.
And so, Shirahoshi, who had stopped being timid and crying for two years, once again used tears the size of heads to give Karl, whom she held in her hands, a fierce bath.
So much so that Karl had to use the giant form of As Big or Small as I Please to play with Shirahoshi for a few days.
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