Two months passed in the blink of an eye for busy people.
June 1st, Marine Calendar 1504.
Aside from Cactus Island, the headquarters of the Sea Star Adventurers Guild, where the "preliminaries" had long since begun.
The other "preliminary regions" all opened on this day.
These included the East Blue Region, South Blue Region, West Blue Region, North Blue Region, and the region covering the latter half of the Grand Line in the Sea Star Homeworld.
As for the region covering the first half of the Grand Line, although Cactus Island was there.
Doflamingo, Shanks, Morgan, William, Vergo, Diamante, and Benn Beckman, who had just agreed to become president of the North Blue branch and had taken second place in the previous Top 100 Tournament, held a meeting to discuss the matter.
Considering that Cactus Island was already packed to capacity.
They decided to establish another "preliminary region" in Alabasta to ease the pressure.
It would also give more Sea Star People a chance to get acquainted with the elves there, so they would not act shocked whenever they encountered one.
However, this posed no small challenge for the local police.
After all, with so many powerful people eager to compete, there were bound to be some ill-intentioned bastards among them.
At Beckman's reminder, Doflamingo specifically contacted Dragon and told him to prepare.
Dragon understood the importance of the matter.
He immediately ordered Gasparde to lead a large number of Public Security Division officers into Alabasta temporarily.
During the "preliminaries," they were to protect the Elf Race and the Zero Magic Dragon Folk living along the Sandora River.
After Katakuri taught Gasparde a lesson, he seemed to have recognized his own strength and talent.
He had become much more honest lately and handled matters properly.
Dragon was very satisfied with