The Prodence Kingdom.
The port had collapsed into the sea.
Their king, Elizabello, had already lost consciousness and was all but dead.
King Riku had saved him, and everyone hid behind Riku as though he were their last hope.
Like Dressrosa, their kingdom was merely one stop on the first half of the journey through the New World.
The pirates they had encountered before had all been rookies.
Even the occasional great pirate who passed through had only stopped to replenish supplies.
There was no shortage of pirates like the World Destroyer, Byrnndi World, who plundered with abandon.
But the Prodence Kingdom, which had always favored waging war far and wide, was not without the strength to resist.
It was just that today's enemy was too powerful, beyond anything they could withstand.
"King Riku! Your royal family and His Majesty's family have been friends for generations. You must convince those pirates that this was all a misunderstanding!"
The minister bowed his head, with the kingdom's millions of commoners behind him.
On the vast sea.
Those who could set sail had always been a tiny minority. Most people would spend their entire lives on a single island.
Especially with the peculiar magnetic fields and climates of the Grand Line and the New World.
Every island and every stretch of sea was completely different.
One moment, they could be basking in midsummer sunshine; the next, they might be buried in a blizzard.
Besides, setting sail as a traveler or merchant required permission from the Celestial Dragons, and they had to spend vast amounts of Beli to obtain status through an affiliated nation that participated in the Reverie.
It could be said that they could only remain in one small corner of the world for their entire lives.
Commoners in the New World