Why did the Dragon People enjoy so many privileges? Why did even the Five Elders have to let them do as they pleased?
There was only one reason: they could not afford to cross them!
As rulers, the Five Elders had a group of powerful troublemakers on their hands who could do whatever they wanted. Their frustration was easy to imagine.
Descendants of the Creator?
Children of gods?
What a joke. Rulers had no such reverence! Given enough strength, they would try to kill even a god and wipe out anything that threatened their rule.
And yet the Dragon People were still alive.
Alive and kicking!
The Five Elders had no choice but to seek a balance: restrain the Dragon People without provoking them into rebellion. If Loa had never appeared, that balance would have lasted a long time.
Well, perhaps not that long.
Straw Hat Luffy was already destined to become the Pirate King. If events followed the original story, the World Government would be thrown into turmoil within a few years.
But Loa had appeared, and he had shown no great enthusiasm for the Poneglyphs or for overthrowing the World Government. Both sides saw an opportunity: a chance to destroy the other once and for all.
Honestly, Osman's proposal appealed to Loa. This world was warped and backward. The four seas were almost cut off from the Grand Line, and countless scattered islands existed in isolation, their people living in ignorance and without fear.
The chaos was not caused by the World Government alone. On the contrary, compared with the world's other blights, the World Government had done more good than harm.
If anything was the source of evil in this world, it was the Dragon People. Wiping them out would benefit Loa, the Five Elders, and the