Chapter 346: Sisters Reunited (1/2)
Chapter 345: Sisters Reunited
Digging grand canals was a traditional rabbit skill that Leo certainly had not forgotten.
The Old East had begun building canals as early as 506 BC—the Xu River.
How could Leo possibly forget or abandon such a skill?
In feudal times, digging a canal was an enormous mobilization of manpower, resources, and money that took immense time and effort, and could even bring about a king's downfall.
Naturally, corrupt officials would inevitably meddle at every level, lining their own pockets with enormous profits.
For a feudal dynasty with insufficiently clean governance, the cost of digging such a canal often exceeded the budget severalfold, or even dozens or hundreds of times over.
The reason was that poor governance could easily cause financial pressure to surge, resulting in inadequate military funding.
Yet in a world of magic and fantasy, superhuman powerhouses capable of overturning rivers and seas alone could build canals with ease.
The problem was that after gaining power, pirates had never considered benefiting the pirate newcomers who came after them. Even major pirate groups like the Four Emperors, which constantly absorbed later pirates, were the same. In their eyes, only those who made it through were qualified to serve in their Pirate crew; those who failed to make it through simply died and had no right to join.
All the hardships and tribulations along the Grand Line were like trials designed to temper these young pirates.
Those who failed the trials naturally lost any chance of inheriting the throne of the Pirate King.
Only the young pirates who passed the trials were qualified to continue challenging the Shichibukai and the Four Emperors ahead.
It was like a level-clearing RPG, with boss after boss waiting ahead—minor bosses, minor officers, major bosses, major