What happened in Dressrosa quickly spread throughout the world. The famed Germa Army had been intimidated into inaction, while a trusted lieutenant of one of the Four Emperors had led a fleet that sent the Marines fleeing in panic—only to suffer an unexpected defeat. The upset that erupted from this small country finally made people begin to reassess that newcomer.
Many people began recalling that when Uchiha Hiko had first emerged in the New World, most news about him had focused on how much the Marine Hero Garp valued the young man. No one had ever truly taken him seriously.
It was only after a string of major events—rescuing Weird Monk Urki from Senju Cracker, wiping out tens of thousands of troops, capturing one hundred thousand Pirates alive on Fishman Island, overturning Doflamingo in Dressrosa, and capturing Jack the Drought—that Uchiha Hiko's name finally stepped openly onto the world stage.
No one dared treat him as a newcomer anymore, because no newcomer had ever, in the span of merely two months, repeatedly defeated the Four Emperors' right-hand men and even damaged the foundations of the Four Emperors to a certain extent.
After two months of effort, Dressrosa had more or less begun to take shape. However, Hiko estimated that it would take at least another year for its food supply and commerce to recover.
The Devil Fruit auctions had already been held several times. Attendance had finally soared from the sparse hundred or so people at the beginning to several hundred, even over a thousand. Notable figures from all over the world were continually heading toward Dressrosa. They were not merely coming to participate in the auction event; they also brought a certain economic and material foundation with them, helping Dressrosa restore its economic vitality.
After more than two months,