500 million.
That was Maud's current bounty.
As the Moria incident continued to gain momentum, and with his current bounty taken into account, Maud once again entered the sights of countless pirates.
Not to mention Paradise, the first half of the Grand Line—even in the New World, the second half of the Grand Line, quite a few pirates had turned their attention to Maud.
The Red-Haired Pirates went without saying; they had always been keeping an eye on Maud.
As for the other Four Emperors, aside from Big Mom, Kaido and Whitebeard also paid attention to newcomers who had yet to enter the New World but had already made a name for themselves.
In fact, whether it was the Red-Haired Pirates, the Whitebeard Pirates, or even Kaido's Beasts Pirates, all of them had a tradition of recruiting rookie pirates into their crews.
So, to some extent, they all kept an eye on the rookie pirates running wild through the first half of the Grand Line.
Once those rookie pirates entered the New World, they would inevitably face the unbreakable wall known as the Four Emperors.
Before this towering wall, those rookie crews either stopped in their tracks or submitted to fate and became fresh blood under the Four Emperors.
When it came to recruiting rookies, the Red-Haired Pirates and the Whitebeard Pirates were fairly casual.
By comparison, Kaido's Beasts Pirates adhered to the principle that strength came first.
Whenever a rookie pirate caught his eye, Kaido would simply swing his club at them, beating them into submission before anything else.
Through this method, Kaido, who ruled over a portion of the New World, had subdued many pirates of considerable strength.
When Maud's bounty rose to 500 million and word spread of his defeat of Shichibukai Moria, Kaido remembered Maud's name.