Meanwhile, Paradise beyond this network quickly formed a new order. Including the Ryugu Kingdom, which had relocated to the surface, only six relatively powerful factions remained in total, making it the most fragmented of the six great seas.
Just as Mousse had said back then, fewer factions made communication and compromise easier. Each also had enough strength to purge pirates, leaving those lawless free pirates with less and less room to operate. Their circumstances were even worse than when Marine Headquarters still existed.
The pirates of the Four Blues in particular were driven into a situation where, once they set sail, they had to rush straight into the Grand Line or wait to be captured. The good old days when they could roam free for more than a decade, so long as they were not famous enough to attract the Marines' attention, were gone for good.
In the first half of the Grand Line, pirates were forced to establish supply points on those extremely dangerous beast islands in the Calm Belt. Objectively, this expanded humanity's living space while also promoting the sail-powered motor vessels that had previously been neglected due to poor cost-effectiveness. The Pirate World had strong winds, so sailing ships were not much slower than mechanically powered vessels, while saving on fuel and maintenance costs. This, too, had been part of Mousse's plan.
However, during their adventures, some talented and lucky pirates were bound to surpass themselves and grow into more threatening Supernovas. Even countries in the first half of the Grand Line might not find it easy to take down such little monsters.
Thus, at the beginning of the following year, Mousse once again met with the world's most powerful factions and proposed sharing intelligence. In fact, Impel Down, the great prison that had not shut down