However, with the Kronos Kingdom and the Great Xia Kingdom stepping forward, the Eternal Kingdom naturally refused to be outdone.
"We can contact the Barbarossa Kingdom. Getting them to join us won't be a problem, though we're not sure whether they'll want a seat as a superpower."
The Eternal Kingdom's declaration was equally shocking.
The Barbarossa Kingdom was, of course, the Beasts Pirates.
No one had expected the Eternal Kingdom to have secretly established ties with the Beasts Pirates. Their relationship seemed fairly close, and they had probably collaborated in ways no one knew about.
Most kingdoms knew very little about the Eternal Kingdom.
The Serpent's Tail Group it controlled operated in the shadows and had never revealed that connection. Few knew that this global group belonged to the Eternal Kingdom.
The fact that the Underworld King known as the "King of Loan Sharks" was one of the Eternal Kingdom's people was enough to explain everything.
Most kingdoms in the Four Seas had no idea that the world-famous technological innovation, the "Mechanical Arm," came from the Eternal Kingdom.
Being able to remain powerful while staying unknown was actually a frightening thing.
After arriving at Mary Geoise, many of the kingdoms gathered there discovered that the names of numerous other kingdoms were entirely unfamiliar to them.
Very few countries could truly keep watch over the entire world.
Still, they trusted the World Government's choices. If it had selected these kingdoms, that meant each of them possessed considerable strength.
Of course, some countries of little real strength had also been mixed in.
Those were naturally the kingdoms controlled by Celestial Dragon families that had already fallen into decline.
Some kingdoms had actually developed quite well, such as the Canobaron Kingdom controlled by the Ethanbaron V Family.
With the Ethanbaron Family, which counted