End of December, Sea Circle Calendar 1520.
More than a month had unknowingly passed since the end of the Summit War.
In this month or so, the whole world had undergone earth-shaking changes.
This year was also destined to go down in history.
Counting them up, how many major events had happened this year?
First, at the beginning of the year, one of the Five Emperors, Dragon Knight Karl, created the world broadcast of the Battle for the Era. In front of the people of the world, he defeated the fellow overlord of the seas, Charlotte Linlin, leaving her life or death unknown, and triggering countless pirates to besiege the Totto Land Kingdom.
The war, which lasted for more than a month, only ended after the intervention of the Beasts Pirates.
Subsequently, the two pirate emperors announced their alliance, breaking the balance of the three great powers and starting a new era.
After the two emperors joined forces, Dragon Knight Karl ended the world broadcast of the Battle for the Era and temporarily moved Gran Tesoro from the New World to the first half of the Grand Line.
In May, Blackbeard killed Thatch, the commander of the Whitebeard Pirates' Fourth Division, and while recruiting crew members, fled to the first half of the Grand Line.
In September of the second half of the year, Gran Tesoro completed its expansion, fused with the legendary Amazon Lily, became the Golden Island pulled by three island turtles, and established the Golden Nation, one of the world's top powers.
The Pirate Empress Boa Hancock was stripped of her status as a Warlord, and her bounty soared from 80 million Berries to 800 million Berries.
In early October, for the first time since the beginning of the Great Pirate Era, a double-digit number of Supernovas appeared in the first half of the Grand Line, known to the world as the "Worst Generation."
In mid-October, the commander of the Whitebeard Pirates' Second Division, Fire Fist Portgas D. Ace, who was once as famous as Dragon Knight Karl as one of the Twin Stars of the East Blue, was captured. Blackbeard filled one of the two vacant seats of the Seven Warlords.
In early November, the Summit War, which affected the whole world, broke out. Whitebeard and Ace died one after another. Blackbeard broke into the great undersea prison, Impel Down, recruited a group of heinous villains, took Whitebeard's Paramecia Tremor-Tremor Fruit, and became the unprecedented user of two Devil Fruits.
Afterwards, because Mary Geoise wanted to suppress the news that the great undersea prison had been breached, except for a few individuals, not many people knew that Karl was also involved.
However, not long after the end of the Summit War, when countless people believed that Karl was the newly crowned World's Strongest Man, the Marines issued a new wanted poster for Karl.
Karl's bounty soared again.
This time, it didn't soar by 500 million, but by a full 1.5 billion Berries.
[Dragon Knight Karl, Bounty: 5,011,000,000 Berries, Dead or Alive.]
Although Karl disdained to pick up the title of World's Strongest dropped by others.
But this did not prevent the vast majority of the people of the world, including the Marines, from considering him the World's Strongest Man of the new era.
If before the establishment of the Golden Nation, Karl's threat level was only enough for the Marines to give him a bounty of 3,511,000,000 Berries because he had defeated two overlords of the seas in a row.
Then Karl, who controlled the legendary Amazon Lily, turned the Kuja fighting race into his force, expanded Gran Tesoro, and established the Golden Nation, was no less threatening than the other four emperors.
If the Marines had issued a new wanted poster at that time and raised Karl's bounty to 4,011,000,000 Berries, the world would have felt it was low.
Because... in what way was Karl inferior to Red-Haired Shanks?
In terms of individual strength and power, Karl was not weaker than Shanks, and his record was countless times more powerful and legendary than the other party's.
As one of the few who knew that an Op-Op Fruit user had appeared by Karl's side and had taken the hearts of all the major criminals in the Infinite Hell, Marine Headquarters knew exactly how much Karl's threat level had soared.
It was no exaggeration to say...
The other party controlled the lives of all the major criminals in the Infinite Hell, and he might be able to use their hearts to force those monsters to work for him.
The number of major criminals in the Infinite Hell was so large that even Sengoku couldn't count them clearly.
Besides this, among these monsters, there was no shortage of super monsters who had lived from the Rocks Era or the previous era to the present.
If they all worked for Karl, then no country in the Four Seas or both halves of the Grand Line, no pirate crew, including the Four Emperors' pirate crews, would be Karl's opponent.
So, not only had Karl's individual strength reached the level recognized by the world as the strongest.
His threat level, in the eyes of Marine Headquarters and Mary Geoise, had also surpassed the three overlords of the seas, Kaido, Charlotte Linlin, and Shanks, and was second only to the Revolutionary Army, whose goal was to overthrow Mary Geoise.
Therefore, Karl's bounty officially surpassed Kaido, Charlotte Linlin, and Shanks, reaching an astonishing 5,011,000,000 Berries.
The only ones with higher bounties than him were the deceased Pirate King, Roger, and Whitebeard.
Even Monkey D. Dragon, known as the most heinous criminal in history, did not have a higher bounty than Karl.
This was the status of the World's Strongest Man.
With the Marines issuing the new wanted poster, Karl's bounty surpassed the other overlords of the seas.
In the eyes of the world, both the Marines and Mary Geoise had recognized Karl's status as the newly crowned World's Strongest Man.
Little did they know, the reason Karl had such a terrifying bounty was because his threat level surpassed all the overlords of the seas.
But I digress...
In mid-November, "Straw Hat" Monkey D. Luffy, who had been sent flying by Bartholomew Kuma, suddenly appeared in the rebuilding Marineford and rang the Ox Bell 16 times to mourn his brother.
This news spread all over the world.
In late November, the remaining forces of the Whitebeard Pirates returned to the New World.
In early December, the Whitebeard Pirates and the Blackbeard Pirates, while reclaiming the territories protected by their Pops, fought over the cake left by their Pops.
Because he wasn't completely familiar with the Tremor-Tremor Fruit ability, and there were many strong fighters on Marco's side, the Blackbeard Pirates fled in embarrassment many times at first.
But as time went on, the Blackbeard Pirates' crew began to grow gradually.
Blackbeard also became more and more proficient in using the world-destroying Tremor-Tremor Fruit ability.
Unknowingly, the human wave tactic on Marco's side no longer held the advantage.
And so...
The Whitebeard Pirates and the Blackbeard Pirates began a long, drawn-out war.
When the final battle of the original story appeared, it would be the time when the Blackbeard Pirates officially reached the top, and the Whitebeard Pirates withdrew from the highest stage of the New World.
By the way, Blackbeard, just like in the original story, also became a member of the "Worst Generation."
The above is the summary of Sea Circle Calendar 1520.
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