Because the pirates in the North Blue always steered clear of Xie Wen and his crew, they spent far less time visiting Marine Bases to collect bounties. On top of that, their fame after defeating Cracker had even caused business at their seagoing Mobile Restaurant to drop considerably...
They really had taken a huge loss!
Whenever Xie Wen thought about how all he had earned from Cracker was Pretzel, which had not even yielded a fragment, his heart ached terribly.
Still, this also greatly increased their mapping speed, and the map progress in the handbook soon reached seventy-five percent.
Without hesitation, Xie Wen tapped the upload icon. Before long, a sea-blue Summon Ticket Fragments appeared between the pages...
He now had two fragments from the map pool, but he did not know how the Grand Line's map fragments were calculated.
If the first and second halves were counted separately, there would be one fragment left over. In that case, assembling a third sea-blue Summon Ticket would very likely require mapping the Red Line and the Calm Belt.
If the entire Grand Line was counted as one, then the map pool probably only offered these two tickets.
Either way, Xie Wen would not be able to collect them all anytime soon, so he was in no hurry. Instead, he considered how to plan their route after entering the Grand Line.
Following the approach they had used in the Four Seas, the most efficient way to explore would actually be to slowly cover most of the routes in a zigzag pattern, but Xie Wen did not intend to do that this time.
Without finding the Four Red Poneglyphs first, Xie Wen probably would not be able to fully reveal the Grand Line's map even if he visited everywhere else. Although he could