Aside from the dangerous option of flattening the world by force, Sebastian could also choose to raise his arms and rally the masses.
He could lead the people of the Pirate World in a grand revolution, overthrow the corrupt and degenerate Celestial Dragons… and then have his subordinates gather supplies for him afterward.
But revolutions aren't something you achieve through ideals or action plans alone. Success depends primarily on the personal charisma of the leader—the kind of charisma that can twist scattered forces together into a single, unbreakable rope.
Sebastian didn't believe he had that sort of charm. He didn't even know how many people would join him if he tried to start a revolution.
And honestly?
Just persuading a bunch of uncivilized natives from another world to revolt requires terrifying persistence and patience.
Even for Wapol Xiao—who only wanted everyone in the Drum Kingdom to study medicine—he had been forced to "prune" batch after batch of unruly citizens before that mandatory medical-education policy finally took root.
And that was in the Drum Kingdom—a major medical nation. Even they needed tremendous effort to change their living habits.
Leading a bunch of blockheads into a revolution? Absolutely not.
They don't want revolution. They just want full stomachs and simple peace.
Tell them you want to improve their lives—teach them more scientific ways of fishing, farming, animal husbandry?
"Sorry, we don't have to, we don't know how, and we don't want to learn."
They just want to do their own work. If you're really good to them?
Just lower their taxes. Their families will happily pray for you to God.
That is the reality of the majority of people at the bottom of the Pirate World:
Ignorant. Unaware. Stuck in the past.
Sad, but not pitiful.
Lamentable, but helpless.
A revolution in the Pirate World would only bring trouble to oneself.
They need a tyrant, not freedom and democracy.
Freedom is for pirates; democracy is a disaster for them.
Therefore, Sebastian chose the safest path:
Just wait for the plot to start, and leech off Luffy's adventures.
Not only is it safe, but nothing terrifying will suddenly appear to kill you.
And every single conspiracy, ancient secret, and long-buried mystery in this world can simply be answered by following Luffy around.
The downside?
It's boring—two and a half years of waiting for Luffy to grow up.
But Sebastian liked that boredom. It meant safety.
His future was in the infinite multiverse. His future was infinitely bright.
There was no need to gamble everything here for small gains.
Looking at the current Pirate World timeline: August 21, 1519 of the Sea Calendar.
Only half a year left until Luffy sets sail.
Sebastian completely abandoned the idea of messing around in this world.
If he accidentally missed Blackbeard knocking on his door, that would be terrible.
Currently, Blackbeard is the only man in the Pirate World who can eat multiple Devil Fruits.
Even if Sebastian didn't need him, he didn't want to miss such a precious experiment.
Devil Fruits represent laws of life.
So what kind of physique can suppress multiple laws at once without conflict?
That alone made Blackbeard more valuable than protagonist Luffy.
Luffy simply has good luck and good fate.
As for talent and perseverance?
That's just what comes packaged with the Devil Fruit—it has nothing to do with Luffy.
Luffy's will isn't even his own. What value does he have?
The real protagonist of One Piece isn't Luffy—
it's the Nika Fruit.
Other Devil Fruits have faint personality instincts.
But the Nika Fruit contains a devil that genuinely thinks.
Once Luffy awakens, he loses control of his body completely.
The thing inside the fruit doesn't even pretend to hide—
it just takes over.
Eat the Nika Fruit, and you become the protagonist.
Otherwise, even if you're the Supreme King ruling the world, or the Pirate King, your ending is still failure.
Compared to that, Luffy's value is negligible beside Blackbeard.
…
…
All plans for the One Piece world could simply wait quietly.
What truly concerned Sebastian more was Cyberpunk 2077.
Not the world's potential—
but Cyberpunk Xiao's golden finger.
It wasn't a polymorphic MOD like his own ability to travel.
His golden finger was akin to awakening the Eighth Sense—Alaya Consciousness.
(T/N: The Alaya consciousness thing seems to come from the anime Saint Seiya, I'm not really sure because I haven't relly read the original story apart from fanfiction.)
When he meditated deeply, he could connect to a colossal technological cluster somewhere—a treasure trove of all human knowledge. He believed he could learn vast technological systems from it.
As long as Cyberpunk Xiao had enough materials and computing power, he could also fabricate any prosthetic body he desired.
The Tyrant System on Wapol Xiao was the most powerful operating system Cyberpunk Xiao ever created—built from three major OS architectures.
Once activated, it granted complete dominance over the real world and cyberspace—a true tyrant's reign.
But before it could shine, the Da Luo Arena intervened…
and he ran into Wapol Xiao, a monster with overwhelming control over technology.
In a single clash, Cyberpunk Xiao's consciousness was wiped clean.
In the next instant, all his prosthetics were gnawed into scrap by the Swallow-Swallow Fruit and absorbed by Wapol.
Steel and silicon meant nothing before the Munch-Munch Fruit.
Even the legendary mantis blades—crafted with all of Cyberpunk Sebastian's effort—were shattered like brittle cookies.
Meanwhile, the Munch-MunchFruit couldn't even chew through a living creature.
Even if you felt like you'd crushed someone into pulp and spat them out, the opponent would still run away full of energy. The attack was conceptual, not physical.
(T/N: So he only lost because he was chrome'd up. That's sad.)
Munch-Munch Fruit's bottom line:
it cannot eat intelligent life.
No loopholes, no tricks—only steel.
After losing his prosthetics, Cyberpunk Xiao's remaining flesh wasn't even enough for a small stir-fry. He endured for a few more minutes before collapsing and dying of exhaustion—even without Wapol Xiao adding finishing blows.
However, Cyberpunk Xiao's golden finger remained.
After acquiring it, Wapol Xiao developed many impressive creations, made a fortune, and even opened a small company in Night City.
But the fundamental problem never changed—lack of resources.
The Drum Kingdom was too small.
And in Cyberpunk's world, corporations controlled everything—resources were impossible to access.
The most important foundation for a nation to become strong is vast territories.
Only with enough land can you have enough resources to develop.
But Drum Island was so tiny you could bike around it in a day.
How could it possibly support real development?
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