Early January, Sea Circle Calendar 1521.
In the new year, the world was as exciting as ever.
Except for the East Blue, known as the weakest sea and the symbol of peace, countless new pirates had emerged in the other four seas and the first half of the Grand Line.
Because of the alliance between Kaido and Charlotte Linlin, Marine Headquarters, which had transferred a large number of Marines to the New World last year, had to transfer its forces back from the New World to the first half of the Grand Line.
As for the member nations in the New World, they were temporarily protected by the Mary Geoise Army and part of the Marines.
The arrival of the chaotic new era had kept Marine Headquarters and Mary Geoise extremely busy.
More importantly...
Because he had given up on pursuing the remaining forces of the Whitebeard Pirates and agreed to Red-Haired Shanks's request for a ceasefire, Sengoku took all the responsibility on himself, resigned from the position of Fleet Admiral, and recommended the youngest of the three Admirals, Aokiji, to be the new Fleet Admiral.
However, the Five Elders believed that in this runaway new era, the Marines needed a radical hawk Fleet Admiral.
So, they recommended one of the Marine Admirals, Akainu Sakazuki.
Before deciding who would be the new Fleet Admiral, the Marines, the true overlords of this great sea, would be leaderless, only able to suppress the Four Seas and the first half of the Grand Line, leaving the New World to become increasingly chaotic.
But no matter how chaotic the New World was, it was still the strongest sea ruled by the pirate emperors.
The reason it seemed so chaotic was that, except for "Straw Hat" Monkey D. Luffy, the other nine members of the "Worst Generation" had all entered the New World and begun to make a name for themselves.
First and foremost was Blackbeard, who had become the unprecedented user of two Devil Fruits.
Leading the Blackbeard Pirates, composed of a group of heinous villains, he defeated those pirates who had snatched the cake accumulated by the Whitebeard Pirates for decades before he and the Whitebeard Pirates returned.
Then he engaged in a protracted war over the inheritance with the severely weakened Whitebeard Pirates.
From initially fleeing in embarrassment, he gradually held his own...
The current Blackbeard Pirates were the absolute protagonists of the New World, and even the entire world.
While the true child of destiny had suffered a huge blow and was training hard to improve his strength, the world's luck for the next two years was all concentrated on Blackbeard alone.
Favored by the world, no matter what danger he encountered, he would turn bad luck into good fortune, and no matter what he did, it would go smoothly.
To quickly expand his crew and become an Emperor of the Sea on equal footing with the other four overlords.
Blackbeard revealed the secret that he could take others' Devil Fruits and began to hunt ability users. Those who submitted became members of the Blackbeard Pirates, and those who didn't had their fruit abilities stripped to cultivate his non-ability user subordinates, quickly expanding his crew.
At this rate of expansion, it wouldn't be long before the high-end combat power of the Blackbeard Pirates was not inferior to that of the Whitebeard Pirates.
At that time, with his individual strength steadily suppressing Marco, and the Dark-Dark Fruit that could seal fruit abilities, Blackbeard would surely win the final battle.
Regarding the struggle for inheritance between Blackbeard and Marco, neither Karl nor the other pirate emperors intervened.
Including the Red Hair Pirates, who had helped the Whitebeard Pirates, it was the same.
The chaotic new era had arrived, and even he couldn't stop this runaway era.
"Blackbeard" Marshall D. Teach, the man who had left three scars on his eye, was no longer a small character who could be driven out of the New World just by taking sides.
With the world-destroying Tremor-Tremor Fruit, the other party was using it more and more proficiently.
Even he would need to go all out against this guy.
The defeat of the Whitebeard Pirates was a foregone conclusion!
Except for Blackbeard, the biggest name of the "Worst Generation," who had just entered the New World and ascended to the highest stage, the fate of the other Supernovas was obviously not as good as Blackbeard's.
After all, compared to the two "Children of the Era" favored by the world, they could all be said to be supporting characters to highlight Luffy and Blackbeard.
Regarding the great changes in the New World that would last for two years, Karl did not intervene.
On the contrary, he was looking forward to Blackbeard reaching the top.
Two years was enough for Blackbeard to completely master the Tremor-Tremor Fruit ability and become one of the emperors of the New World.
At that time, although his use of the Tremor-Tremor Fruit would still be far inferior to Whitebeard in his prime.
But with the enhancement of the Dark-Dark Fruit and his special physique, his strength would definitely not be inferior to other super-powerhouses, and he was fully qualified to be one of the highest peaks in the world for Karl to truly ascend to the throne of the World's Strongest.
And so...
While Blackbeard was constantly climbing, striving to become one of the highest peaks in the world.
Karl was also preparing to take this opportunity to realize his last dream.
Karl had a total of four great dreams, which were:
The first dream: to taste the delicacies of the world.
The progress of this dream could basically never be completed.
But in the year he accompanied Yamato on her travels, Karl had indeed tasted the delicacies of most of the islands in the New World, leaving only a few routes in the Four Seas and the first half of the Grand Line.
The second dream: to own a movable island...
This dream was the earliest and only one that Karl had realized.
The third dream: to become the World's Strongest Man.
In fact, Karl had already realized this dream, he just disdained to admit it.
The fourth dream: to find the legendary Pure Gold that could buy the whole world, prolong human life, and keep one unchanged for hundreds of years.
Except for the last dream, Karl's other three great dreams were either realized or half-completed.
Now, Karl was preparing to use two years to realize his last dream.
If Karl couldn't find the legendary anglerfish in two years, he could only wait for Luffy to enter the New World and let the world's luck, which was even more unreasonable than Baccarat's luck, help him find the anglerfish hidden in the deep sea.
And so...
After moving the Golden Island back to the New World, Karl rested for a while, then took Marguerite and Aphelandra to Doflamingo's Dressrosa Kingdom.
Karl's long-awaited visit immediately filled Doflamingo with pleasant surprise.
This time, he even personally waited at the port for Karl's group of three.
The current Doflamingo was absolutely a winner in life that all the kings of the underworld envied, were jealous of, and hated.
This JOKER, when everyone else only sent important people around them to give gifts to Karl, was actually willing to put aside his status as a king of the underworld, a Warlord of the Sea, and a king of a member nation, and personally go to Gran Tesoro to give gifts, gaining Dragon Knight Karl's favor and alliance.
After the alliance, Karl didn't even need him to do anything, he just needed to lie at home and collect money and gifts.
This kind of "sucker" behavior had initially earned Doflamingo the ridicule of many of his peers.
But now, everyone wished they could go back to Sea Circle Calendar 1517 and beat their arrogant selves to death.
What was mere face compared to an ally who was a future Emperor of the Sea and the World's Strongest Man?!
Now, the underworld and the pirate world of the New World knew that Dragon Knight Karl had only one ally, and that was Donquixote Doflamingo.
If they didn't know what a "simp" was.
They would definitely say sourly:
JOKER, this simp, really has everything by simping.
What was even more sour was that this JOKER simped for more than one person; he also simped for another emperor.
With two of the world's highest peaks as backers, in the underworld, he simply got whatever wind or rain he wanted.
In both the light and dark worlds, who dared not give Doffy face?!
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