"Are you serious? That's the Calm Belt."
"I never joke about things like this. Actually, crossing the Calm Belt isn't as complicated as you think. The ships just need a few minor modifications."
On either side of the Grand Line lay the special waters known as the Calm Belt. As the name implied, no wind ever arose in those seas.
That meant any wind-powered vessel entering those waters would lose its primary power source. That alone would not have been fatal, but beneath the Calm Belt lay the nesting grounds of Sea Kings.
These deep-sea behemoths posed a devastating threat to ships. It was precisely the barriers formed by the Calm Belt and the Red Line Continent that had ultimately divided the Four Seas.
The World Government's official forces could cross the Red Line Continent at designated ports and continue their journeys by changing ships, but pirates and illegal merchants from the underworld were another matter.
For them, the Grand Line was not only difficult to enter, but difficult to leave as well.
Umit was known as the Deep Current solely because he controlled the routes of several secret currents. Yet even he had no answer to the Calm Belt. If he wanted to transport goods from one sea to another, he could only find a way through the ports of the Red Line Continent.
By the end of such a trip, bribing officials and dealing with all their extortion would eat up most of his profits.
"If that's true, then the situation really has turned around. Siderial, how about investing your technology as a share? Hand the technology over to me, and I'll handle everything else. You'll get thirty percent of the profits from this."
Doflamingo had ambitions of his own. Merely using this technology to make Umit take