Due to the highly confidential nature of the matter, no outsiders knew about this secret meeting.
After staying and gathering on Wenmikudan Island for two days, everyone who had attended the meeting went their separate ways.
The people here were no longer alone as they had been when they first set out to sea twenty years ago. Behind each of them stood countless people from various races and factions who relied on them as their center.
There was no such thing as true freedom in this world!
Every race was a social species. Without a leader to guide them, they would only slowly head toward extinction.
And three weeks after this meeting ended, another piece of earth-shaking news arrived, sending the entire sea into turmoil once again.
Alabasta
It was a superpower located on the Grand Line and one of the Twenty Kingdoms that had once established the World Government. It possessed a standing army of nearly six hundred thousand soldiers.
Yet even such a great nation had now fallen into chaos. The rebels opposing the rule of the current king, Cobra, were only increasing in number, enough to prove just how powerful this country truly was.
Blackbeard had arrived in Alabasta three weeks ago with his five crew members: helmsman Jesus Burgess, ship doctor Doc Q, sniper Van Augur, and navigator Lafitte.
But clearly, they had underestimated Crocodile, the man who could become a Shichibukai.
They had searched Alabasta for three weeks, yet could not find Crocodile anywhere.
That man was clearly far more cunning than the idiots of the Blackbeard Pirates.
Even after they found Baroque Works, which Crocodile had established, and captured some of its members, the organization's tight structure still left the Blackbeard Pirates helpless.
Just as Blackbeard laughed his characteristic "Zehahaha" laugh, admitted defeat,