The battle was over!
Although Lin Ye had shot down the few News Coos that approached, more of them had already sent 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 the newspapers.
However, everyone who saw the news was curious about who had won this battle.
But Morgans had not gotten an answer, so naturally, he did not publish one.
Across the seas, whether Madman Lin Ye, the newly risen powerhouse, or Kaido of the Beasts Pirates had won became a subject of dispute among pirates.
Then, a Marine bounty poster spread across the entire sea.
Madman Lin Ye: bounty, 2.1 billion.
A single bounty poster made the entire sea lively once again.
No one paid any attention to the previous 87 million anymore.
In this world, there were only a handful of people with bounties exceeding one billion.
Those whose bounties exceeded two billion were even rarer.
Madman Lin Ye's bounty had soared from 87 million to over two billion, making him one of the truly rare great pirates of the 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 sailed pirates.
Every one of them dreamed that they, too, could become a great figure renowned across the seas.
Yet the idol of these pirates now stood on a not-so-large deserted island, looking around.
"Hey, where the hell did this bring me?"
Lin Ye looked around, speechless.
Sure enough, when sailing these seas, either you had to know navigation yourself, or there had to be a navigator on the ship.
Sailing aimlessly across the sea alone made it far too easy to lose one's way.
Even with his strength, after protecting the ship beneath his feet through attacks by terrible weather and sailing for several months, the vessel had still fallen apart.
If there had not been an island nearby, it really would have been troublesome.
He probably would have had to swim through the sea in search of somewhere to set foot.
This should be the Calm Belt.
Lin Ye had vaguely sensed it earlier.
After leaving Wano Country, he encountered several bouts of extreme weather at sea and was carried along by the currents. At some point, the sea became 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 with the upper body of a snake and the lower body of a fish, more than a hundred meters long, lay on the shore.
Its head was caved in, with blood seeping out.
When it attacked him, he had killed it with a single punch.
He lit a fire, used Enma to carve up the enormous Sea King, then picked out 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, making a round of the small island.
There were no traces of human habitation.
It should be a deserted island somewhere within 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 later, after the Marines gained self-propulsion and embedded Seastone into the bottoms of their ships, warships could sail through the Calm Belt.
From then on, the only ones who could generally sail through the Calm Belt were the Marines and a small number of extremely powerful pirate crews.
"Looks like I'll have to get out on my own!"
Lin Ye did not feel much else; he simply 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?
Thinking this, Lin Ye returned to the fire, devoured all the half-cooked Sea King meat, then kicked the remaining half of the creature away.
The enormous Sea King carcass shot straight into the sky, flying an extremely great distance before finally falling into the sea.
Strength bred confidence.
Although he was stranded on a deserted island, he would not lack food. The sea was full of it.
Lin Ye lay down beside the fire and stared blankly at the sky, though he was actually 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] [Calmness: Level 6] [Mighty Arms: Level 7] [Cat-Cat Leap: Level 7] [Time Travel: Level 1] [Revival: Level 1] [Lunarian Flame: Level 1] [Survival of the Fittest: Level 9] [Blank Trait: 481]
He had still failed to reap all the benefits from Kaido and Moria's battle.
However, after arriving later and clashing with Kaido, he had also gained quite a bit from the surrounding pirates.
It was roughly what he had expected.
Had he arrived when the battle first began, he estimated he could have gained over a thousand. Now, that amount 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 gotten the Strong Physique trait from an ordinary pirate with a robust body.
Its upper limit was limited.
Yet during the battle with Kaido, it had still given him tremendous help.
Unless he found a suitable or better physique trait, he would not replace it.
There were quite a few people in these seas whose physiques were like those of Monsters. He would definitely obtain one later.
For example, Charlotte Linlin and Kaido, or even Whitebeard.
Of course, Moria had been able to withstand Kaido's attacks with his body. Although Conqueror's Haki had helped, his physique was certainly formidable 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, there was a high chance they would drop.
At that thought, Lin Ye raised a hand to stroke his chin, his eyes fixed on the stars overhead.
"What major events come 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 issued a Buster Call. Sakazuki and Aokiji of the Marines carried it out. Only Robin escaped; everyone else died.
Of course, ordinary people had an extremely low chance of yielding traits.
Most of Ohara's people were scholars, so their drop rate likely would not be high either. At most, they might drop traits related to deciphering history.
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 this 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 be substantial.
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