The successful hosting of the World's Strongest Martial Arts Tournament brought new career opportunities and paths to advancement to this world.
Adventurer Guilds and Hunter Guilds quickly became mainstream across the world.
Under the forceful crackdown by the world's three armed forces, pirates, Sanji, slave-catching crews... all suffered devastating blows.
The World Alliance Government issued countless missions to explore unknown islands, establish safe sea routes, eliminate thugs and ferocious beasts, hunt down pirates and bandits, and kill sea beasts...
These missions gave Adventurer Guilds and Hunter Guilds the foundation they needed to survive.
The continued construction and improvement of the Red Line tunnel route and Calm Belt routes made exchanges throughout the world increasingly frequent.
All kinds of commerce flourished.
Many powerful guilds established commercial routes of their own.
Among them, Buggy the Clown's Buggy's Delivery became the most famous shipping company on these seas in one fell swoop, thanks to the privately operated Buggy Tunnel Route.
In just one year, it had nearly caught up to the Umit Family, the Deep Sea King and a long-established family with a century of history.
Of course, Buggy was clever enough to bring in several powerful partners.
Gild Tesoro, Doflamingo, and Crocodile were all among his shareholders.
Over the past year, the three muscleheads—Beast Kaido, Loki, and Bullet—had been chasing Straw Hat Luffy around, challenging him wherever he went on his adventures.
Now, wherever the Straw Hat Adventure Group appeared, traces of those three muscleheads could usually be found.
To avoid their frequent challenges, Straw Hat Luffy could only keep exploring everywhere. He became the freest adventurer of all, wandering aimlessly through the Four Blues, the Grand Line, and the New World, having the time of his life.
In the current Straw Hat Adventure Group, aside from Usopp, the "great beauty" Alvida