The New World's Four Emperors were settled, and the Four Blues strengthened the nation's foundations!

The New World, Hachinosu.

With the battle on Punk Hazard over, the Marines had split internally and suffered a severe loss of strength. The balance of power throughout the New World had also reached its final shape.

Blackbeard, Marshall D. Teach, led his pirate crew in a frenzy of expansion. In just one month, he swallowed up most of the territory Whitebeard had held during his lifetime and brought countless remnants of Whitebeard's forces under his command.

Not only that, he also used the Dark-Dark Fruit's powers to hunt down countless powerful Devil Fruit Users, seize their Devil Fruit Powers, and distribute them to his crewmates, bringing about a qualitative leap in the Blackbeard Pirates' strength.

The Blackbeard Pirates had now become a force in the New World that could not be underestimated, powerful enough to stand on equal footing with Big Mom and Red Hair.

Inside the Main Hall on Hachinosu, a grand banquet was underway.

Blackbeard sat on the throne at the highest point, tearing into steaks and drinking strong liquor. As he watched his crewmates revel below, he burst into deafening, crazed laughter.

"Zehahahaha!! Everyone!! Cheers!!"

Blackbeard raised his enormous cup and shouted to the crowd below, "From today onward, I, Marshall D. Teach, am one of the Four Emperors of the New World!! We're the ones who call the shots on this sea now!!"

"Long live the captain!! Long live Captain Teach!!"

Shiryu of the Rain, Lafitte, Vasco Shot, and the other officers all raised their cups and cheered at the top of their lungs. The pirates inside the hall joined in with wild shouts, their voices making all of Hachinosu tremble slightly.

They had finally done it.

From an obscure crewmate among the Whitebeard Pirates to one of the New World's Four Emperors, Blackbeard had