The war had ended, but the seas were far from calm.
Hundreds of thousands of pirates returned to the New World.
Despite suffering heavy losses in the war, most pirate crews had made considerable gains, plundering vast amounts of wealth from the Four Seas.
That wealth was enough to let them live it up for years.
As for the crew members they had lost, they could recruit replacements whenever they wanted.
Of course, the deaths of "Bone Demon" Boone and the Great Pirate Ochoku dealt devastating blows to the Bone Demon Pirates and the Five Peaks Pirates.
The Bone Demon Pirates fell apart, and their vast territory immediately became a prize coveted by many.
The Moonlight Pirates, led by "Moonlight" Moria, officially rose to prominence, seizing nearly half the Bone Demon Pirates' territory in one fell swoop.
The Moonlight Pirates had the strength to stake that claim.
With Captain John and Silver Axe brought back to life, the Moonlight Pirates had gained two powerful fighters.
Beyond that, Moria had collected the corpses of quite a few powerful fighters during the Bloody War.
Interestingly, the four powerful fighters Linlin had turned into homies lost that status after the war ended and became corpses again.
With everyone watching, Moria did not dare touch the bodies of "Bone Demon" Boone and Ochoku.
No one wanted their corpse desecrated.
But Moria had no such scruples about the other two corpses—or, more precisely, the four Top Combatants the World Government had lost—and took them away without hesitation.
However, those four had been enemies. He could not revive them with their original consciousness intact as he had with Captain John and Silver Axe.
Some changes would be necessary.
Otherwise, even after being resurrected, they might not obey his orders. They might even stab him in the