While Shanks and the others were taking action because of the news that he had become one of the Four Emperors, Ryan and his group had already arrived in North Blue, one of the Four Seas!
Among the Four Seas, East Blue had the weakest pirates, while North Blue had the strongest!
The strength referred to here was not merely individual strength, but overall power. In East Blue, someone with a bounty of over five million could probably be called a great pirate. Figures like Bandit King Higuma could run rampant in East Blue.
But in North Blue, that would only count as a minor character. Without a bounty of over ten million, one would be too embarrassed to claim any fame in North Blue. Only pirates with bounties in the tens of millions could dominate a region and be called great pirates. That was the strength of North Blue.
Even after the Vinsmoke Family's artificial human project succeeded, they still could not truly dominate North Blue. Those Vinsmoke artificial humans would have bounties in the hundreds of millions if placed in the New World, yet they still could not sweep through everything in North Blue.
North Blue's waters ran deep indeed!
As the sky began to pale with dawn, Ryan and the others finally arrived at a small island in North Blue after sailing through the night.
Many people on the island were still lost in their dreams. Ryan planned to rest here first; after all, none of them had properly relaxed after the great battle.
They found an inn, and under the owner's astonished gaze, Ryan and the others checked in.
"Strange, people checking into an inn so early in the morning!" The owner shook his head and stopped thinking about it. After all, money talked.