(PS: The protagonist will continue to disappear for the next few days. If you don't like seeing the protagonist show off from the sidelines, don't subscribe. By the way, this section of the plot isn't meaningless filler; it's laying the groundwork for several later plotlines.)
Ever since the "Mary Geoise Great Explosion," although the World Government's rule had not been shaken, its deterrence and influence had steadily weakened, even falling to their lowest point in eight hundred years.
The most obvious change was that revolutionary waves had begun erupting throughout the world's kingdoms. This meant that the Revolutionary Army's ideology was no longer confined to the Four Blues, but was gradually spreading to the center of the world—the Grand Line!
What was most terrifying was that these continuously emerging rebel armies had not been established under the Revolutionary Army's leadership. They were spontaneous revolutions by people who had been baptized in the ideology of freedom.
It was clear that the situation on this sea had deteriorated to a terrifying degree. It had even begun to shake the foundations of the World Government's rule.
Anxious to recover the situation, the World Government had launched several large-scale campaigns against the Revolutionary Army. Unfortunately, the Revolutionary Army had already gone completely underground, so the World Government's campaigns had failed to achieve any meaningful results.
The World Government's actions had not only failed to destroy the Revolutionary Army. Through its repeated failures, it had instead shown the world the organization's tenacious vitality, causing those spontaneously formed rebel armies to trend toward finding an organization to join.
Against the backdrop of this Great Pirate Era, the conflict between pirates and the navy had also grown increasingly fierce. Needless to say, the war between Marine Headquarters and the Five Emperors was raging, while even small- and