To become King of the World, one had to be capable of uniting all pirates.
Although Shiki had ambitions of building the Flying Pirates into another Rocks Pirates, constantly expanding his forces and recruiting young monsters into his ranks.
Shiki knew that no matter how much the Flying Pirates grew, they could never reach the level of the Rocks Pirates.
Hades, Titan, Linlin, Newgate, and the others were monsters rarely seen on the seas even over many years.
At their peak, the Rocks Pirates had brought together the greatest monsters of two eras.
That was something the Flying Pirates could not achieve.
Shiki could not even fully subdue the monsters of his own generation, so he could only set his sights on those of the younger generation.
Yet even among the next generation, Shiki could only bring some of them under his command.
Linlin's son, the "King of Monsters" Typhon, and Hades's children, such as "Bone Demon" Boone, had ignored the Flying Pirates' recruitment offers.
Boone's territory lay in the New World Front. The Flying Pirates could not travel all that way just to deal with him.
Besides, Shiki could not bully someone of the younger generation by personally taking action against him.
If he really did so, it would deal a considerable blow to his reputation.
Moreover, the Flying Pirates could never establish sole dominance.
The times had changed, after all.
The more the Flying Pirates grew, the broader Shiki's view of the world became, and the more he learned.
Much of it had once been beyond his imagination.
The waters of this world ran far deeper than he had imagined.
It inevitably reminded Shiki of everything that had happened at the second Pirate Expo.
Behind those astronomical prices of billions and tens of billions of Beli stood colossal