Half a year.
It had passed in the blink of an eye.
Just as the World Government had hoped, the Explosion Pirates, Beasts Pirates, Big Mom Pirates, and Red-Haired Pirates had faced countless challenges and assassination attempts over the past six months.
Countless pirate thugs had tried to make a name for themselves by claiming their heads.
It might be hard to believe.
The four great pirate crews had nearly been wiped out. Whether captains or senior officers, they had all been gravely wounded and brought to the brink of death. Yet in the end, they had held on.
Over those six months, corpses had piled up across the territories of the four great pirate crews. Even the waters near shore had been stained red.
They had survived the most difficult six months.
And what they had gained was a fearsome reputation.
The name of the Four Emperors had been built upon countless corpses, and the sea had gradually accepted it.
But truly cementing the name "Four Emperors" in just half a year was unrealistic. It would take at least several years.
So the challenges that awaited them remained, as ever, countless.
The current situation had only come about because some of the older generation looked down on the Four Emperors and chose not to compete with them.
Otherwise, if those old-timers had joined in, the Explosion Monarch, Kaido, Big Mom, and the Red-Haired Emperor might all have been eliminated—or even all four crews wiped out.
After all, there were plenty of powerful people capable of matching or even overpowering the four great pirate crews.
But the World Government couldn't wait.
So it had put its second plan into action.
With the Cultivation Era booming, the Revolutionary Army and other external pressures—such as the increasingly disloyal member nations and the