Familiar Two Years Later

Time rushed by.

Two years had already passed.

After the battle of Elbaf, the world entered an era of two opposing poles.

The two major powers, the World Government and the New World Alliance, entered a strange period of peace due to Imu and Houka's mutual wariness.

The middle and latter regions of the New World, along with part of its earlier waters, had been completely brought under the rule of the New World Alliance.

All Marine branches and fortresses had been replaced and occupied by the New World Alliance.

The New World Alliance had also established its own Alliance New Navy, with Tsuru serving as Fleet Admiral.

Even the World Government-affiliated nations of the North Blue and West Blue beyond the Calm Belt, near the middle and latter regions of the New World, had been planted with the New World Alliance's flag.

Because of this, fierce localized wars broke out between the World Government and the New World Alliance in the West Blue and North Blue.

However, King of the World Imu's restraint kept those local wars from escalating into an all-out conflict.

The core officers of the Rocks Pirates did not make a move, and neither did the World Government's immortal contractors.

Whether it was Imu or Houka, both seemed to tacitly accept this period of peaceful development, letting their subordinates fight and plunder.

Both sides frantically searched their own territories for reborn Devil Fruits and other powerful Devil Fruits.

Meanwhile, the Holy Knights forcibly conscripted and captured wandering and retired powerhouses across the affiliated nations.

Imu desperately wanted to rebuild the Twenty Kings Allied Army and restore its might from eight hundred years ago!

However, the World Government's tyranny and unreasonable conduct instead forced many powerhouses out to sea, fleeing to the New World or the nations