The King of the Sky flew over the vast sea while Werther lay on his back, enjoying the breeze against his face.
Not far from Werther sat a young woman—the female knight from before, Carmensen Silver Fox.
"If you're lying, you'll regret it. Compared with staying on that Island and living like a savage, the price of deceiving me will be much worse."
Carmensen Silver Fox opened her mouth, ready to argue, but then remembered she was no longer with her Family. No one here would cater to her every whim.
"I can read sea charts. Yours is crude, but it's accurate enough.
"We're near Locke Island now, very close to Kaido's territory. If you want to reach North Yak Island, it'll take about two more days at our current speed."
"Two days? Why so long?" It had taken Werther less than a day to travel from Dressrosa to Blackbeard's territory. As far as he knew, Blackbeard's domain was not that large.
"Yes, two days, and that's at our current speed. The New World is enormous. Haven't you been here before?"
Werther had indeed never visited Blackbeard's territory. Since arriving in the New World, he had stayed around Dressrosa.
He had thought the New World was not all that large. But as Carmensen Silver Fox explained, he began to understand its true scale.
The Four Emperors did not divide the entire New World among themselves. Other powers held territory too. The Four Emperors were simply its four greatest forces. Dressrosa, Punk Hazard, and Zou, for instance, belonged to none of them.
Even among the Four Emperors, the size of their territories varied. Whitebeard had once controlled the largest domain, nearly a third of the New World. As the strongest man in the world, he had deserved it, and the other