Conflict was everywhere.
Everyone wanted to survive.
At present, aside from the East Blue, every force in the entire Pirate World with even a little scale was desperately expanding its armies and fighting to seize higher ground.
In the North Blue, following the incident in the East Blue, the Freedom Revolutionary Alliance had taken advantage of the Navy's and World Government's depleted forces to seize control of most of the North Blue.
Far away in the New World of the Grand Line, Blackbeard's pirate forces had also begun conquering territory in Paradise, the first half of the Grand Line.
Buggy, the pirate magnate who had risen alongside Blackbeard since the Summit War, had done something else that shocked the world. He had abandoned most of his territory in the Grand Line and had now built up a considerable enterprise in the West Blue and South Blue.
Yet these were merely the more conspicuous forces upon the sea.
Across this vast ocean, forces such as the alliance of former World Government member nations, North Blue underworld groups, West Blue bandit bands, the South Blue rare species alliance, and the Third World resistance army had all become powers not to be underestimated.
It could be said that the entire sea was now engulfed in war.
Although the Navy and World Government still appeared to possess the strongest top-tier combat power, they no longer held an advantage when it came to territory and elite subordinates.
A struggle among heroes for supremacy was a scene everyone could see in the future.
Some ancient kingdoms could even foresee that what was about to happen throughout the world would likely be far more violent than the Void Century.
The strong actively expanded their muscles in hopes of surviving the cruel world to come, while the weak,