And there were many more "warlords."
"Silver Wings" Ouroboros, "Heavenly Yaksha" Doflamingo, "Sand Demon" Crocodile, "Hawkeye" Mihawk, and "Spider Emperor" Gallagher Carl.
After the Flying Pirates fell, the World Government revived its long-dormant Seven Warlords Plan.
As the name suggested, the Shichibukai were seven pirates with formidable fighting power.
They did not necessarily have to be pirates.
But everyone the World Government selected possessed formidable strength.
"Silver Wings" Ouroboros was said to hail from the legendary Amazon Lily, a nation of women in the Calm Belt.
He had displayed terrifying combat strength the moment he set sail at eighteen.
He roamed the Grand Line, and many merchant ships fell prey to him.
The Feathered Serpent Pirates he founded had also become renowned across the seas.
Ouroboros was a Zoan Devil Fruit User who wielded the Snake-Snake Fruit, Feathered Serpent Form.
The feathered serpent was no Mythical Zoan. Like the griffin, it was a powerful creature that truly existed in the world.
A serpentine beast with silver wings, it ranked among the strongest Ancient Zoans.
It was also the Devil Fruit Shakky had gone to great lengths to find.
Now twenty-five, he had become a renowned pirate. But rather than settle in the New World, he operated in waters of the Grand Line near the Calm Belt, beyond the navy's reach.
Residents of those waters and passing merchant ships had to pay the Feathered Serpent Pirates protection money and tolls.
The Grand Line was where the navy's power was strongest, which made the Feathered Serpent Pirates' audacity all the more striking.
In truth, the navy could do nothing about him.
Whenever the navy made a move, the Feathered Serpent Pirates caught wind of it immediately and steered clear or fled into the Calm Belt.
Besides, the Feathered Serpent Pirates only collected