The arrival of the Fish-Men.
This greatly accelerated the construction of Wings of Freedom.
Because Fish-Men possessed ten times the arm strength of ordinary humans, whether it was mining minerals from the seabed or handling physical transport during daily construction—
They were far more useful than ordinary human slaves.
Moreover, Wings of Freedom was the place Roy had promised the Fish-Men they could call home.
Thus, the hundreds of thousands of Fish-Men who had migrated from the Grand Line displayed unprecedented enthusiasm as they built Wings of Freedom.
After all, Fish-Men had longed to live on land since ancient times.
The ocean ten thousand meters below the surface—
Was not nearly as safe or prosperous as people imagined.
Aside from Fish-Man Island, the omnipresent darkness and harsh undersea living conditions had always been major reasons why the Fish-Men could not develop.
Thus, since ancient times, the Fish-Men had yearned to possess a territory of their own above the sea.
So now, faced with an island beneath the sunlight and rich in resources, the negative emotions caused by the massive Fish-Man casualties during the migration—
Vanished in an instant because of Roy's promise.
In this world, most people had no grand ambitions. What they pursued throughout their lives might simply be living peacefully with their families.
Though the deaths of loved ones were deeply painful, allowing those still alive to live better was what mattered most.
And there was an even crueler reality: the weak in the Pirate World had no right to hate.
Wings of Freedom was being rapidly constructed according to Roy's plan.
During this period, every factory in Sky City was operating at full capacity.
At the same time, under the burden of massive physical labor, neither the Fish-Men nor the ordinary human slaves on Wings of Freedom—