"Who is this?"
Before the enormous round table, only twenty seats had been prepared, yet to their surprise, twenty-one people had arrived.
"Queen Lily of Alabasta, please introduce him to everyone."
At the round table, a blond man spoke. He stared at Austin's face, clearly wary and unfriendly.
As the head of the Donquixote Family, which had risen by exploiting the Tontatta Tribe, there were hardly any members of their royal family who were not villains. They were deeply wary of a powerful man like Austin who had suddenly appeared out of nowhere.
"Everyone, this is Lord Austin. He has voluntarily come to form an alliance with the twenty kings..."
Looking at the twenty leaders of this era seated around the table, Austin was not intimidated. He merely smiled and nodded.
He had nothing much to say. After all, the kings of these several World's Strongest nations all possessed their own pride, even if they did not show it.
So he had a more direct approach.
"Bzzzz—!!!"
Standing in the luxurious conference hall, Austin wore a faint smile, but in the next instant—
His black formal suit fluttered without wind, and the long hair of the man carrying blades and firearms drifted through the air.
A terrifying storm of Conqueror's Haki erupted from his body in an instant, cracking apart the entire venue. Everyone present was immediately shocked.
Especially the previously hostile head of the Donquixote Family. His face was now filled with horror, and veins bulged across his forehead.
"This Conqueror's Haki..."
The entire building seemed on the verge of collapse, the earth split apart. This was Conqueror's Haki belonging solely to kings—or perhaps even surpassing kings. The heavens and earth trembled.
Among the twenty seated figures, a tall, thin figure wearing a crown stared fixedly at Austin, several