Teach had no way of knowing what Jot was thinking. All he saw was Ulysses standing on their side, and elation surged through him.
"Bwahahaha! I see! Then we've got this!"
Teach knew just how terrifying Ulysses's blood-red shadow had been inside the Crown of the King.
He reckoned that if he faced Red now, the odds would be six to four—not comfortably in his favor. But with Ulysses stepping in, it was a different story.
Unlike the jubilant Teach, Red frowned on Kaido's side.
That guy really isn't alive!
And the power of blood inside him was so overwhelming that even Red, a vampire, felt suffocated!
"Ulysses, the 'Blood Earl' of old—now the 'Blood Lord'?"
As a veteran, Red naturally knew of this powerhouse who had appeared and vanished throughout history. The smell of blood did not frighten him. It fired him up!
Red looked at Ulysses and said in earnest,
"I'll prove that I'm the only one who can draw out this Fruit's full power!"
"Oh? I look forward to it."
Ulysses sounded unconcerned, answering offhandedly.
Under the watch of Loa's Dragon Ship Fleet, the two sides slowly separated into formation. Then the Ice Wolf beneath Loa padded forward.
A hundred nautical miles away lay an uninhabited archipelago.
Even its smallest island was comparable in size to a small island elsewhere, yet no one wanted to settle here. The place was simply too barren!
As far as the eye could see, not a blade of grass grew. There was no life, no mineral veins, no rare beasts—nothing. Even schools of fish came near only once every few years. This was a place the world had truly forgotten!
Apart from insects living in the soil and a few small beasts that ate them, there was no sign of life.