The war was over.
The Golden Sea had been destroyed, and all the pirates had left.
At the same time, pirates across the Four Seas received the news.
Pirates from the New World set sail one after another, preparing to return through the Island Battleships.
Of course, some pirates did not want to leave the Four Seas. Life there was far easier than in the New World.
Everyone made their own choice.
No one cared if they chose to stay.
The Golden Sea War had lasted a month.
The pirates from the New World had plundered the Four Seas and the Grand Line for a month and a half.
The World Government had gained nothing.
The New World pirates, on the other hand, had plundered enough to make up for the vast amount of gold lost in the Golden Sea War.
Unlike the World Government, which had come away empty-handed,
the pirates had suffered heavy losses, but the wealth they had seized from the Four Seas made those losses bearable.
At least it left them with fewer grievances.
That had been Shiki's main reason for sending the New World pirates into the Four Seas.
He had known that, after the war, the gold in the Golden Sea could no longer be mined.
It did not matter whether the World Government or the pirates won.
The outcome would be the same.
If they lost the war and gained nothing, it would reflect badly on both the Flying Pirates and Shiki himself.
The other Sea Emperors were no fools. They knew the Golden Sea's gold would be hard to obtain again.
So, under the banner of hunting across the seas, they used the immense profits to be plundered from the Four Seas to draw countless Great Pirates into the war.
Profit was