Sea Era 1489.
Four years of peace had passed across the seas since the God Valley War.
One event in particular had drawn attention.
The "Overlord Dragon's Journey West"!
No one knew what agreement the two young overlord-class pirates, "Overlord Dragon" Zack and "Demon King" Nash, had reached.
The entire Overlord Dragon Pirates' forces moved west, including their Affiliated Pirate Crews, relocating to the southern waters of the central New World.
Before the move, the Overlord Dragon Pirates carried out a ruthless purge of their affiliates. One crew after another was wiped out for refusing to relocate or harboring disloyal intentions.
It laid bare the Overlord Dragon Pirates' ruthlessness.
This was a major event, one that would shape the future balance of power in the New World.
The Demon King Pirates gained far more room to grow, with no fierce rival left to oppose them.
But the World Pirates were the ones most affected by the Overlord Dragon Pirates' move west.
The World Pirates, however, had little interest in expanding their territory.
If the southern waters of the central New World were viewed as a whole,
the World Pirates' territory lay in the northeast.
Wano Country lay toward the center of the south.
The Overlord Dragon Pirates' territory lay in the southeast, stretching to the waters around Wano Country.
For now, a considerable distance remained between the two crews' territories. The Overlord Dragon Pirates had no plans to expand north or push farther west.
They seemed to have no desire to clash with the World Pirates.
The World Pirates' territorial expansion was slow. They controlled fewer than eighty islands, well behind the other top pirate crews.
Their total numbers had reached eight thousand pirates.
That was a far cry from the Flying Pirates' current Pirate Army of fifty thousand.
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