Chapter 427: Exorbitant Bounty on the Blackbeard Pirates
Every great figure and power on the seas was now doing everything possible to strengthen itself.
Of course, in this chaotic age of heroes vying for supremacy, strange things were bound to emerge.
After all, this was a diverse world, and nature was remarkably tolerant of certain bizarre things.
Recently, something strange had appeared throughout the underground world of the New World—or rather, the Four Seas.
Someone claiming to be a die-hard fan of the Blackbeard Pirates had posted a bounty worth more than one billion Beli in gold on the underground black market.
According to the bounty notice, anyone who could obtain bodily material or intimate clothing from a core member of the Blackbeard Pirates would receive a corresponding reward based on how private the item was.
The moment this bounty was revealed, it stirred up enormous waves in the underground world.
It was physical gold worth over one billion Beli, and the reward kept increasing.
While rich and extravagant people were not unheard of in the underground world, such an absurdly perverse bounty had not appeared in many years.
At first, many people believed it was a tactic by some force hostile to the Blackbeard Pirates, intended to disgust them.
But then an unnamed prostitute successfully exchanged Blackbeard's bodily fluids, left behind during one of the Blackbeard Pirates' group revelries, for the reward.
For a time, everyone realized that this was not merely some disgusting scheme.
There truly was a fanatical fan of the Blackbeard Pirates seeking the private belongings of their core members.
No one considered any other possibility.
Anyone with even a little knowledge knew that, given the strength of those monsters in the Blackbeard Pirates, the chances of someone using their personal belongings to target them with