The vast sea suddenly boiled over.
More than a hundred pirate crews under the Four Emperors launched into a battle for the prize, a spectacle no less intense than a clash involving a thousand pirate ships.
Watching the three pirate captains rush out first, ready to seize the spoils, Red-Haired Shanks's expression turned a little grim.
Just as Whitebeard had said moments ago.
When the hundreds of Devil Fruits first appeared, Red-Haired Shanks's first thought had been to ask everyone present to give him some face.
Not only would that turn a major matter into a minor one and a minor one into nothing at all.
It would also allow the power he had been secretly accumulating to grow even stronger.
However, Red-Haired Shanks had never expected that the approach that had always worked for him would fail at such a critical moment.
Only then did he realize that he had overestimated the weight of his reputation in the face of ugly human nature.
"Haha, you're all thinking too much. Those Devil Fruits belong to me."
Blackbeard's laughter rang out without warning.
Soon, huge numbers of bubbles rose from the sea closest to the hundreds of Devil Fruits.
Before anyone could react, an enormous coated pirate ship burst from beneath the waves.
Through the coating, the first thing they saw was Blackbeard standing on the bow deck, his face twisted into a vicious grin.
Van Augur and the rest of his men stood behind him.
"Blackbeard, you bastard! You actually betrayed me!" Charlotte Linlin roared first.
Whitebeard's face immediately darkened at those words.
It seemed that from the very beginning, when the Totto Land forces led by Charlotte Linlin entered these waters, Blackbeard had already been hiding nearby.
However, because Red-Haired Shanks had stepped in to mediate, Whitebeard had neglected