Powerhouses Gather and Make Their Entrance

The Ark had been above the island all along, but who would have imagined a pirate ship floating in the sky?

As the day drew closer, ships finally began arriving one after another.

Those without strength did not dare come. The strongest might not come in person, but their subordinates would.

Rogge spotted several familiar faces. One was Elmy, the red-haired woman who wore jewelry all over one hand, a middle-aged captain under Whitebeard who would later take part in the Marineford War.

Jack the Drought came in person on Kaido's behalf. The Big Mom Pirates also sent two brothers: Charlotte Cracker, one of their Sweet Commanders, and Charlotte Daifuku.

No one came from the Red Hair Pirates. Donquixote Doflamingo was there among the Shichibukai, but none of the others were in sight. Aside from Rogge and Doflamingo, the other Shichibukai apparently were not in the New World.

Almost none of the pirates gathered here were weak. Every one of them was a formidable fighter. Any pirate force that could survive in the New World without serving one of the Four Emperors had strength and ambition to spare. Naturally, they would not miss a chance like this to get rich.

There was nothing false about wealth equaling strength. Every blast of a cannon burned through a fortune. Pirates earned their money through plunder; what pirate produced wealth themselves? Few had the brains to run a business, either.

In Charlotte Linlin's ideal Totto Land, everyone was equal, and every race had a place. But how did she sustain its current thirty-five islands? Through plunder, of course.

She maintained that superficial peace and equality with wealth obtained by harming other lands. Once Big Mom died, all of Totto Land would fall apart. Unless Katakuri stepped up and became one of the Four