CHAPTER 166: CHAPTER 166: THE EMPEROR ALLIANCE, TWO YEARS AHEAD OF SCHEDULE; THE NEW ERA IS HERE

Mid-February, Sea Circle Calendar 1520.

Nearly a month had passed since the end of the first battle of the "Battle for the Era."

For a month, the New World had been in a state of war.

To overthrow one of the five highest peaks of the New World and seize the resources Charlotte Linlin had accumulated over decades, the pirates of the New World had gone mad.

Seeing that they couldn’t break through the Totto Land Kingdom’s defense line by being scattered, these pirate alliances and great pirate crews, who had originally wanted to pick up some scraps, began to form powerful alliances.

As if they had made an agreement to first deal with the Big Mom Pirates and then divide the resources based on their strength.

For a time, the offensive surged again.

Facing a pirate alliance that was no longer a scattered mess and had a tacit understanding, the pressure on the Charlotte Family was increasing every day.

Fortunately, the thirty-plus siblings of the Charlotte Family were very united when facing outsiders.

Among them, the Four Sweet Commanders were indeed the highest combat power of the Charlotte Family.

Even the youngest, Charlotte Snack, was a great pirate with a bounty of 600 million Berries.

The three Charlotte siblings of the original Three Sweet Commanders were monsters among monsters.

Charlotte Katakuri, who possessed Observation Haki at the level of future prediction and had developed his special Paramecia Mochi-Mochi Fruit to the point of awakening.

Charlotte Cracker, who could create a large number of biscuit soldiers.

And Charlotte Smoothie, whose bounty was second only to her older brother’s.

These three monsters were all existences that could fight against the Three Calamities of the Beasts Pirates.

Just one of them could deal with one or more pirate captains.

If they didn’t have Devil Fruit abilities, even pirate captains who had mastered two or even three types of Haki were no match for them.

Besides the Four Sweet Commanders, there were also powerful siblings like Charlotte Perospero and Charlotte Daifuku.

Even with the pirate alliances and great pirate crews starting to unite, they were still unable to break through the Totto Land Kingdom’s defense line in a short period of time.

But these pirates were not lacking in anything, especially not in human wave tactics.

Day and night, they took turns attacking the Totto Land Kingdom’s defense line.

At the beginning, the Charlotte Family could barely cope.

But as time went on, the Charlotte Family, who had less rest than the pirate allied forces, quickly felt exhausted.

Even Charlotte Katakuri, who could fight against a strong enemy for ten days and ten nights, and those mixed-race siblings of various races, were having a hard time holding on after nearly a month of attacks from the pirate allied forces.

However...

Just as the pirate allied forces discovered that the Charlotte Family was at the end of its rope and were preparing to break through their defense line in one fell swoop.

A major figure who shouldn’t have been there suddenly broke into the battlefield of the pirate allied forces and the Charlotte Family.

He was one of the few major figures in the New World, this strongest of seas, whose status was second only to the pirate emperors.

A surviving member of the Lunarian race, a race that was super rare even in this great sea world with its many races, he was born with the ability to control a mysterious and powerful flame, and was also the user of the Animal-type Dragon-Dragon Fruit, Ancient Zoan, Model: Pteranodon.

One of the first mates of a Four Emperor’s pirate crew, with a bounty as high as 1,390,000,000 Berries, the All-Star—King the Conflagration.

The appearance of King the Conflagration, who could represent the Beasts Pirates on the outside, immediately made the atmosphere on the chaotic battlefield tense.

Whether it was the pirate allied forces or the Charlotte Family, they were all full of apprehension and vigilance towards this suddenly appearing major figure.

Before either side could speak to break the deadlock, the taciturn, or rather, mysteriously cool King, told the whole world with his actions what he was here to do.

With his rare-in-the-great-sea flying ability, he sank a large galleon of the pirate allied forces with a single blow.

Seeing this, there was no need for more words; everyone knew that King the Conflagration was helping the Charlotte Family.

In an instant, the situation became one-sided.

The pirate allied forces, who had been full of confidence that they could defeat the Totto Land Kingdom’s defense line in one fell swoop, all chose to retreat with terrified expressions, fleeing this sea area without stopping.

Just as a first mate could represent the will of the captain and the entire pirate crew on the outside.

King’s action represented the Beasts Pirates’ intervention in this battlefield.

And the Beasts Pirates’ stance was not to compete for the Totto Land Kingdom’s territory, but to choose to help the Big Mom Pirates deal with them.

Originally, facing a Four Emperor’s pirate crew that had lost its emperor, these pirate allied forces had spent nearly a month to have a hope of breaking through their defense line.

Now that another Four Emperor’s pirate crew had appeared, these pirate allied forces had no confidence in facing the alliance of two Four Emperor’s pirate crews.

Especially the intervening Beasts Pirates, whose captain was known to the world as the "World’s Strongest Creature," Kaido of the Beasts, and was not in a state of "life or death unknown" like Charlotte Linlin.

And so...

King, with his title, had achieved a great feat.

With his own strength alone, he had scared away the entire pirate allied forces.

The news of the Beasts Pirates’ intervention and the retreat of the pirate allied forces quickly caused a huge sensation all over the world.

While the people of the world were marveling at the unity of the emperors, the major powers’ hearts tightened slightly.

Especially Mary Geoise and Marine Headquarters, who knew the identities of Charlotte Linlin and Kaido before they established their pirate crews and became overlords of the seas, they all had an ominous premonition.

As expected...

A week after the retreat of the pirate allied forces.

Charlotte Linlin, who had been missing for a month but had actually been rescued by her children long ago and was secretly recuperating on Whole Cake Island, finally appeared to the outside world.

As soon as she appeared, she invited Kaido to a gathering on Whole Cake Island.

The former companions met again after many years.

After that, a piece of world-shaking news quickly spread throughout the great sea.

The Big Mom Pirates and the Beasts Pirates—had formed an alliance.

"`They’re scared, as expected, those two..."

Hearing this news, the world’s reaction was not yet known.

Karl, who was staying in Gran Tesoro, had the corners of his mouth twitch slightly.

Clearly, the world broadcast that Karl had willfully created had triggered a huge butterfly effect.

The two pirate emperors, who should have chosen to join forces two years later in the face of the beginning of a chaotic era, had joined forces two years ahead of schedule.

The difficulty of Karl’s next challenge to the Four Emperors would be countless times greater than the first battle.

It was possible that the second world broadcast might not even happen.

Because, the new era was about to begin ahead of schedule.

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