Chapter 7: The Title of the Emperor of the Sea
The New World at this time is in a period of chaos.
Along the way, Moria saw many pirate groups fighting in chaos, and there were wars everywhere.
Now, the title of the Sea Emperor has been proposed. At the beginning, facing the reputation of the Sea Emperor, many powerful pirates came one after another, hoping to become the great pirates who reigned in the new century and became famous in the sea. Since then, the sea has been caught in constant war.
It is now the 1510th year of the Sea Circle Calendar. After continuous battles, the New World has eliminated a large number of pirate groups after fierce battles, survival of the fittest, and the law of the jungle.
And the powerful pirate groups, after continuous battles, annexed other pirate groups and gathered many powerful subordinates, which can be said to be strong and powerful. At the same time, in order to meet the needs of the expanding pirate groups, they also began to expand actively. For a time, the New World was full of wars.
Now, in the New World, the recognized great pirates are Whitebeard, followed by Kaido, Big Mom and other pirate groups.
At the beginning, it was Kaido's Beasts Pirates who started the war. After Kaido occupied Wano Country, after digestion, the internal situation began to stabilize, and the Beasts Pirates took the lead in expanding. Later, Whitebeard and Big Mom, who were also big pirates, were also unwilling to lag behind and launched wars one after another.
The expansion of the pirate group greatly squeezed the living space of other pirate groups. Many pirates who thought they were powerful directly challenged the title of Sea Emperor, or formed an alliance to fight against the Sea Emperor.
There were also many pirate groups who thought they could not fight against the big pirate groups, and chose to flee before the arrival of powerful pirate groups such as Whitebeard, Kaido, and Big Mom. But they were unwilling to leave the New World, so they attacked and occupied the chassis of other pirate groups, or directly attacked the member countries of the World Government or other non-member countries in the New World, which led to more chaos in the New World.
Of course, it was not only the pirates who were squeezed, but also the navy. This time, the real intention of the pirates was to seal off the territory and really drive the navy out of the New World. Before, although the pirates in the New World were strong, the Navy was still the overlord of the New World, and its strength could not be challenged by any pirates.
Now, after this large-scale pirate war, it seems that it is just to expand the territory, but in fact, the pirates are constantly impacting the position of the Navy in the entire New World through their own strength. The Navy has been defeated in this war led by the big pirates and united by the New World pirates.
Facing this unprecedented naval battle, the Navy has completely lost control of the New World. The Navy's base in the entire New World is only the G1 base. The Navy has been defeated all the way, and its morale is low.
Although Sengoku led the Navy to try to stop the pirates' attack, as long as the Navy dares to go out, Whitebeard and other big pirates will unite to deal with the Navy. Once the Navy dares to go deep into the New World, it will face the joint stranglehold of all the pirate groups in the New World.
The pirates wanted to drive the navy out of the New World completely, but Sengoku and Garp, plus the three admirals, were on high alert at the G1 Naval Base and would never give up the navy's last position in the New World. The two sides fought a war in the New World, and Sengoku and others united to severely damage the pirates' alliance and sent many famous pirates on the sea to Impel Down.
This war brought great encouragement to the navy and showed the world the strength of the navy, but at the same time, the navy itself was also severely damaged and could not launch a large-scale war again. In the end, the navy and the pirates confronted each other in the waters near the G1 Naval Base, and neither could do anything to the other.
On the surface, the two sides ended in a draw, but in fact, the pirates won this war. The pirates completely occupied the New World, while the navy only retained the last position in the New World.
In fact, the navy's loss of power in the New World began in the Great Pirate Era. Batch after batch of pirates continued to flock to the Grand Line, and the navy in various places was busy suppressing pirates in various places.
In order to solve the problem of pirates, the newly appointed Sengoku adopted the strategy of: first suppressing the pirates in the first half of the Grand Line and the four seas, driving them to the New World, letting them kill each other in the New World, the Navy will clear all the pirates in the four seas and the first half of the Grand Line, the New World will lose the newly injected pirates and its strength will decline, and then the Navy will gather its forces to eliminate the pirates in the New World in one fell swoop to end the Great Pirate Era.
From now on, Sengoku has indeed completed the original established purpose. The number and quality of pirates in the four seas and the first half of the Grand Line have been greatly reduced, but the situation in the New World seems to be out of control. The pirates in the New World are getting stronger and stronger, and many large pirate groups have emerged. Their strength makes the Navy unable to act rashly, making the Navy feel uncomfortable. It is also unknown whether this war is a victory or a defeat for the Navy.
Similarly, the World Government has also lost control of the New World member states, although over the years, the World Government has continuously increased its control over the member states in the first half of the Grand Line and the four seas. But in this huge pirate war, the kingdoms of the New World had to accept the pirates' conditions in order to survive, and the World Government lost the actual rule of the New World member states.
As for those New World kings who came to participate in the World Conference, they were just microphones for the pirate groups behind them to express their own interests.
Many materials in the New World are irreplaceable. As a last resort, the World Government can only reach an agreement with those big pirate groups to purchase the materials it needs, such as the seastone weapons of Wano Country.
It is really ironic that the navy and the pirates are fighting fiercely, while the World Government is secretly making deals with the pirates.