A World in Upheaval! Reflections in the Calm Belt

The battle was over!

Although Lin Ye had shot down the News Coos that came close, more of them had already sent news of Wano Country back to World Economy News Paper headquarters.

After discovering that the war had ended, Morgans spread the news across the world through his newspapers.

But everyone who saw the news was curious about who had actually won this battle.

Yet Morgans had not gotten an answer, so naturally, he did not publish one.

Out on the seas, the question of who had won between the newly risen powerhouse Madman Lin Ye and Kaido became a point of dispute among pirates.

Then, a Marine bounty poster spread across the entire sea.

Madman Lin Ye, bounty: 2.1 billion.

That single bounty poster stirred up the entire sea once again.

No one cared about the previous 87 million anymore.

In this world, there were only a handful of people with bounties exceeding one billion.

Those with bounties over two billion were even rarer.

Madman Lin Ye's bounty had leaped from 87 million to over two billion in one go, making him one of the truly few great pirates upon these seas.

What the Marines had not expected was that as soon as the bounty poster was released, it immediately sparked another wave of people setting sail.

Countless young people boarded small boats and headed out to sea to become pirates.

But this order had come from the World Government, and the Marines truly had no way to defy it.

Madman Lin Ye became the idol of these newly embarked pirates.

Every one of them imagined that they too could become a great figure renowned across the seas.

Yet their idol now stood on a not particularly large deserted island, looking around in every direction.

"Hey, where the hell did I end up?"

Lin Ye looked around, his face full of speechlessness.

Sure enough, when sailing these seas, either you had to know navigation yourself, or there had to be a navigator aboard the ship.

Wandering aimlessly across the sea alone made it all too easy to lose your way.

Even with his strength, after protecting the ship beneath his feet from those vicious storms for several months, the vessel had still fallen apart completely.

If there had not been an island nearby, things really would have been troublesome.

He would probably have had to swim through the ocean to find somewhere to set foot.

This should be the Calm Belt.

Lin Ye had already vaguely sensed it before.

After leaving Wano Country, he encountered several bouts of extremely harsh weather at sea and was carried along by the currents. At some point, the ocean became completely calm.

Even when he raised his hand, he could not feel the slightest breeze.

Other than the Calm Belt, Lin Ye could not think of anywhere else.

After all, he had encountered Sea Kings too.

Lin Ye turned to look at the beach by the shore.

A Sea King, its upper body a snake and its lower body a fish, more than a hundred meters long, lay sprawled across the sand.

Its head was caved in, blood seeping out.

When it had attacked him, he had killed it with a single punch.

He lit a fire, used Enma to cut up the massive Sea King, then selected the plump belly meat and roasted it over the flames.

While the meat was roasting, Lin Ye leaped into the air and stepped on the air, circling the small island once.

There were no traces of human habitation.

It should be a deserted island somewhere in the Calm Belt.

There were many islands in the Calm Belt, and quite a few of them were inhabited.

The most famous was naturally Amazon Lily.

Before the Marines developed self-propelled warships, Amazon Lily could rest easy in the Calm Belt.

But after the Marines acquired self-propelled vessels and lined their hulls with Seastone, their warships could sail through the Calm Belt.

From then on, the only ones generally capable of sailing through the Calm Belt were the Marines and a small number of extremely powerful pirate crews.

"Looks like I'll have to get out myself!"

Lin Ye did not feel much else about it. He simply wondered how long he would have to remain in the Calm Belt this time.

If this were Amazon Lily, it would not matter.

But alone on a deserted island, Lin Ye did not want to stay here for too long.

His gaze fell on the trees growing across the island, trees that had stood for who knew how many years. Build a boat himself?

With that thought, Lin Ye returned to the fire, ate all the half-cooked Sea King meat, then kicked the remaining half of the creature away.

The enormous Sea King carcass shot into the sky, flying an incredible distance before finally falling into the sea.

Strength bred confidence.

Though stranded on a deserted island, he lacked no food. The sea was teeming with it.

Lin Ye lay beside the fire, looking up at the sky with unfocused eyes. In truth, he was looking at his status panel.

[Lin Ye (Cooldown: 23 years)]

[Eleven years and seven months old]

[Abilities: Term Pickup, Term Shatter]

[Conqueror's Haki: Level 10]

[Armament Haki: Level 10]

[Observation Haki: Level 8]

[Mighty Physique: Level 9]

[Calm: Level 6]

[Mighty Arms: Level 7]

[Cat-Cat Bounce: Level 7]

[Time Travel: Level 1]

[Resurrection: Level 1]

[Lunarian Flame: Level 1]

[Survival of the Fittest: Level 9]

[Blank Entries: 481]

He had not managed to reap every benefit from Kaido and Moria's battle.

However, after arriving later and clashing with Kaido, he had also gained quite a bit from the pirates around them.

It was roughly what he had expected.

If he had arrived at the start of the battle, he estimated he could have gained a little over a thousand. Now, that amount had been cut by more than half.

Still, it was enough.

The only thing Lin Ye found regrettable was that he had not obtained a good physique-type term this time.

He had gotten the Mighty Physique term from an ordinary pirate with a strong body.

Its upper limit was limited.

Still, it had given him tremendous help during the battle against Kaido.

Unless he found a suitable or better physique-type term, he would not replace it.

There were plenty of people on these seas with physiques like Monsters. He would definitely obtain one later.

For example, Charlotte Linlin and Kaido, even Whitebeard.

Of course, Moria had been able to withstand Kaido's attacks with his bare body. Though Conqueror's Haki had helped, his physique was certainly formidable as well.

It was just that physique-type terms had a very low drop rate.

Haki and ability-type terms were different.

As long as the target he killed possessed them, there was a high chance they would drop.

Thinking of this, Lin Ye raised a hand to stroke his chin, his eyes fixed on the stars in the sky.

"What major events are coming next?"

Lin Ye muttered to himself.

"The Ohara Buster Call, the Mary Geoise incident!"

Lin Ye abruptly sat up.

Because Ohara had researched the Poneglyphs, the World Government had ordered a Buster Call, carried out by the Marines Sakazuki and Aokiji. Only Robin escaped; everyone else died.

Of course, ordinary people had an extremely low chance of yielding terms.

Most of the people of Ohara were scholars, so the drop rate would likely not be high either. At most, they might drop terms related to historical analysis.

But he was not interested in the history of the world of King of the Pirates.

Especially after noticing the cooldown time after his name on the panel.

Although he still did not know what that cooldown time meant, it should be related to his arrival in this world.

The reason he thought of the Ohara Buster Call was because two Logia Devil Fruit Users would appear there.

If he could kill one of them, the gains would certainly not be small.