The sea remained restless after the war.
The Flying Pirates stopped expanding and sat secure in their position.
Meanwhile, the other top powers began waging war against one another, fighting and plundering territory and resources.
The New World might have had a measure of order, but war and chaos had always been its main themes.
Friction arose between the Overlord Dragon Pirates and the Silver Axe Pirates.
The Five Peaks Pirates took the initiative to attack the Demon King Pirates.
The Whitebeard Pirates and the John Pirates clashed repeatedly.
The Beasts Pirates were also expanding their territory, battling the various Great Pirates in the southern waters of the New World Front.
Across the entire New World, only the central and southern parts of the New World Front contained several top powers.
The Explosion Pirates and the Rampaging Bear Pirates, the gatekeepers to the ranks of the top powers, had the strength to contend with the Beasts Pirates.
This was especially true of "Rampaging Bear" Morant, who had evolved after drinking Monster Blood.
After drinking Monster Blood, he began mutating into an ancient narrow-toothed bear. Not only had his strength improved somewhat, but his zoan Devil Fruit had awakened, allowing him to grow stronger again after reaching a bottleneck.
It was like undergoing a second period of growth, entering a second prime.
In short, the New World South was embroiled in war, while the north remained free of conflict.
After all, the strongest powers—the Flying Pirates, the Pluton Pirates, and the Big Mom Pirates—had not clashed with one another. As for the chaotic fighting in the Buffer Zone, it was hardly worth their attention.
Beyond that, numerous young pirate crews with wild ambitions of challenging the New World's order fought to rise through the gaps between the many Great Pirates, or