One stone stirred up a thousand waves.
Everyone had originally been little kings of the hill, but once someone declared they wanted to go legit, it naturally caused an uproar.
I Want to Be the King of the West Blue
This news, published in the World Economic Journal, laid Buggy's ambitions bare for all to see.
After all, Buggy was not merely talking big through the World Economic Journal.
In the newspaper, Buggy laid out in detail his plan to unify the entire West Blue, gather all of its able-bodied forces, and build an unprecedented highland kingdom to prepare for the end of the world.
Buggy painted a grand vision for the people of the world in the newspaper.
And as the newspapers spread across the world, Buggy also began a broadcast, displaying his so-called blueprint for a highland kingdom.
Many major powers dismissed it with disdain.
But to the common people at the bottom of West Blue society, Buggy's highland kingdom plan received fervent support.
Even if the end of the world came, those major powers would still have the means to seize the highlands or fight with all their strength for a corner of the vast Red Line Continent.
But for the civilians of the Pirate World, weak as they were, all they could face in the apocalypse was despair.
They lacked the power to secure land where they could survive, and they did not have enough money to command the strong to serve them.
So, according to the truth currently circulating throughout the Pirate World,
once the apocalypse arrived, most ordinary people in the Pirate World would perish in the sea.
Therefore, no one could have known just how irresistible it was to the people at the bottom when a powerful man stepped forward and said he