A World in Upheaval! Reflections in the Calm Belt

The battle was over!

Although Lin Ye had shot down the nearby News Coos, even more of them had already carried news of Wano Country back to the World Economy News Paper headquarters.

After Morgans discovered that the war had ended, he spread the news across the entire 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 he naturally did not publish one.

Across the seas, whether the newly risen powerhouse, Madman Lin Ye, or Kaido of the Beasts had won became the subject of arguments among pirates.

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

Madman Lin Ye, bounty: 2.1 billion.

That single bounty notice made the entire sea lively 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 exceeding 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 notice was issued, it immediately sparked another wave of people setting out to sea.

Countless young people boarded small boats and sailed out, becoming 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 those newly launched pirates.

Every one of them dreamed that they too could become a figure whose name shook the seas.

Yet the idol of these pirates was currently standing on a rather small deserted island, looking around in bewilderment.

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

Lin Ye looked around, utterly speechless.

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

Sailing aimlessly across the ocean alone made it all too easy to lose your way.

Even with his strength, after protecting the ship beneath his feet through the assaults of that dreadful weather and sailing for several months, the vessel had still fallen apart completely.

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

He would probably have had to swim through the sea in search of somewhere to set foot.

This should be the Calm Belt.

Lin Ye had already vaguely sensed it before.

After leaving Wano Country, he had encountered several bouts of extreme weather at sea and been carried along by the currents. At some point, the sea had become utterly calm.

He could not even feel the slightest breeze when he raised his hand.

Other than the Calm Belt, Lin Ye could think of nowhere else.

After all, he had encountered Sea Kings as well.

Lin Ye turned to look toward the beach.

A Sea King, more than a hundred meters long, with the upper body of a snake and the lower body of a fish, lay on the sand.

Its head was caved in, blood seeping from it.

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

He started a fire, used Enma to carve up the enormous Sea King, then selected the plump belly meat and set it over the flames to roast.

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

There were no signs of human habitation.

It should be an uninhabited island somewhere in the Calm Belt.

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

The most famous was naturally Amazon Lily.

Before the Marines developed self-propelled warships, Amazon Lily could be considered utterly secure in the Calm Belt.

But later, after the Marines gained self-propulsion and fitted Seastone into the bottoms of their ships, warships could sail through the Calm Belt.

From then on, those who could navigate the Calm Belt were basically limited to the Marines and a handful of exceptionally powerful pirate crews.

"Looks like I'll have to get out on my own!"

Lin Ye did not feel much else. He merely wondered how long he would have to stay 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 upon the ancient trees that had grown on the island for who knew how many years. Build a ship himself?

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

The massive Sea King carcass shot into the sky, flying an enormous distance through the air before falling into the sea.

Strength was confidence.

Though stranded on a deserted island, he would not lack food. The sea was full of it.

Lin Ye lay beside the fire, staring blankly up at the sky. In truth, he was looking at his panel.

[Lin Ye (Cooldown: 23 years)]

[Eleven years and seven months old]

[Abilities: Trait Pickup, Shatter Traits]

[Conqueror's Haki: Level 10]

[Armament Haki: Level 10]

[Observation Haki: Level 8]

[Strong Physique: Level 9]

[Calm: Level 6]

[Mighty Arms: Level 7]

[Cat-Cat Leap: Level 7]

[Time Travel: Level 1]

[Rebirth: Level 1]

[Lunarian Flame: Level 1]

[Survival of the Fittest: Level 9]

[Blank Trait: 481]

He had not managed to reap all the benefits from Kaido and Moria's battle.

But after arriving later and clashing with Kaido afterward, he had still gained quite a lot from the surrounding pirates.

It was roughly what he had expected.

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

But it was enough.

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

He had acquired the Strong Physique trait from an ordinary pirate with a robust body.

Its upper limit was limited.

Still, it had provided him tremendous help during the battle with Kaido.

If he did not find a suitable or better physique trait, he would not replace it.

There were plenty of people on these seas whose physiques were monstrous. He would definitely obtain one later.

For example, Charlotte Linlin and Kaido, or even Whitebeard.

Of course, Moria could withstand Kaido's attacks with his bare body. Although Conqueror's Haki had helped, his physique was certainly powerful as well.

It was just that physique-type traits had an extremely low drop rate.

Haki and ability-type traits, on the other hand...

As long as the target he killed possessed them, they would most likely drop.

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

"What major events are coming next?"

Lin Ye muttered to himself.

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

Lin Ye suddenly sat upright.

Because Ohara had researched the Poneglyphs, the World Government had issued a Buster Call. It was carried out by Marine officers Sakazuki and Aokiji. Only one Robin escaped; everyone else died.

Of course, ordinary people had an extremely low chance of producing traits.

Most of Ohara's people were scholars, so the drop rate probably would not be high either. At most, they might drop traits related to historical interpretation.

But he was not interested in the history of the One Piece world.

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

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

He thought of the Ohara Buster Call because two Logia Devil Fruit users would appear there.

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