Slakur was a perfectly ordinary island in the North Blue. It had few resources and no particular specialties, and because it was close to Lighthouse Island, it had little commercial value beyond serving as a temporary stopping point.
But the island was not quite so ordinary, either, because it had now become a gathering place for pirates. Many pirates who did not want to clash with the Marines on Lighthouse Island chose to stop here.
Over time, it had become a place much like Mock Town on Jaya Island, and to match Lighthouse Town, the pirates had named the town here Dark Reef Town.
By now, dozens of pirate crews of all sizes had gathered in Dark Reef Town. There were quite a few "great pirates" with bounties over fifty million among them, along with several Devil Fruit users.
But whether they had all come for the Devil Fruit in Xie Wen's possession was another matter...
No matter how high Joker's offer was, or how tempting the Shichibukai's legal right to plunder might be, some pirates still placed little value on those things.
For these pirates, rather than gaining a few hundred million Beli and becoming a Shichibukai's subordinate, taking control of this pirate force, becoming a second Donquixote Family, and using that as a foundation to follow the Heavenly Yaksha's example and gradually become a new Shichibukai-or even go further and become the Fifth Emperor and contend for the title of Second-Generation Pirate King-was clearly more tempting.
So while Xie Wen, their ostensible target, was still drifting leisurely along on his way, the pirates here had already nearly beaten one another's brains out.
Fortunately, these people still had a tiny bit of sense left and knew to conserve their strength, so they had not caused too many deaths. And