Robbery Syndicate!

After traveling for most of the day, they finally passed through the ten-thousand-meter deep sea. The massive overturned ship surfaced, frightening off the sea beasts lurking nearby. Yet before Li and the others could react, countless intense beams of light suddenly shone upon them, surrounding them in a circle. It was already night, but beneath those blinding lights...

"Captain, it looks like we've run into trouble!" Benn Beckman said, raising a hand slightly to shield his eyes as he looked at Li.

"This is the New World's largest robbery group, a massive organization led by a crew called the Fierce Shark Pirates. We ran into them back when we sailed under Captain Roger. Their captain is named Rolin Beli, a Logia-type Swamp-Swamp Fruit user!" Shanks explained from the side, a trace of astonishment in his eyes. The Fierce Shark Pirates had once been defeated by Roger and nearly crippled. He had not expected them to reappear after five years—and judging by their current numbers, they had at least five thousand men and fifty pirate ships. Their growth had been far too rapid.

"A robbery group?" Li narrowed his eyes slightly. It seemed the route they had taken was completely different from the one Luffy and the others had traveled in the original story. The New World was full of strange things, and even the original work could not possibly cover everything. This robbery group before them had never appeared before.

"Yeah. This sea region is one of the unavoidable routes after leaving Fish-Man Island. Since the Great Pirate Era began, countless people have gone to sea and become pirates. Naturally, large numbers of fish-men and merfolk from Fish-Man Island have been captured. In the human world, both merfolk and fish-men can sell for astronomical prices. To pirates, Fish-Man Island is