Grown-Up Loki

Loki excitedly familiarized himself with his powerful body.

He believed that a stronger body would definitely allow a genius born with Conqueror's Haki like him to master Conqueror's Haki Infusion faster!

On the journey to Elbaf.

Having only just familiarized himself with his body, Loki had already asked Harald, Rocks, Houka, and Newgate about mastering Conqueror's Haki Infusion.

Now, not only did Harald and Jarul support Loki obtaining Elbaf's inherited fruit, Black Dragon Nidhogg.

Even Houka and Rocks wanted to help Loki become Nidhogg's user and unleash the potential of the greatest dragon.

As Loki entered his grown form, Rocks no longer looked down on him so much.

Intelligence on Pluton traveling from Wano Country to the Sacred Ancient Moon Empire, then onward to Elbaf, had already been relayed in real time to the World Government and Marine Headquarters.

It couldn't be helped. The Pluton warship was simply too great a threat.

The World Government and Marine Headquarters had ordered all intelligence agents and spies to keep a close watch on the Pluton warship.

They had to constantly monitor the movements of the Pluton warship and the Rocks Pirates.

Elite Marines from across the world were still gathering in the New World.

Even powerful figures from certain major allied nations—armaments commanders, royal army generals, guard captains...

were being drafted by the World Government to fight at the G-1 Marine Base in the name of "protecting the world."

The stench of war had already swept across the entire world.

The cause of it all was this ancient weapon that had suddenly appeared: Pluton.

The joint operation by the World Government and Marine Headquarters frightened large numbers of great New World pirates into fleeing the New World in panic, heading for the West Blue and North Blue.

They had no desire