"Hahahahaha!"
"Wang Zhi! In such a hurry, aren't you afraid your prize will slip through your fingers?"
"You knew all along I'd make a move, didn't you? The New World is merely a region enclosed by the currents of the Calm Belt and the Red Line. If not for its peculiar climate, this world would have swallowed it long ago!"
"You fool, inviting a wolf into your home! Aren't you afraid that lion will swallow you too?"
Before the Pirate Expo, Shane had encountered a Flying Pirate ship floating in the air.
That proved that the main force of the Golden Lion Pirates had been in the nearby waters all along.
He was looking for right-hand men, striving to make his elite crew members comparable in fighting strength to the Roger Pirates.
Ambitious men always thought alike.
Shane wanted to claim a territory by combining elite crew members with a grand fleet.
Golden Lion could think of the same approach. Besides, he already commanded quite a few pirate crews. What he lacked instead were capable lieutenants.
At present, Whitebeard's forces were actually weaker, as his crew members had yet to fully mature.
The Roger Pirates had almost no forces under their command, but every crew member aboard the Oro Jackson was an elite.
Whoever seized the opportunity would naturally own the next era!
Golden Lion had previously tried to recruit Shane and Kaido.
He had also been determined to bring the siblings Kurozumi Semimaru and Kurozumi Higurashi under his command.
Unfortunately, those two thought only of the Kurozumi Clan in that isolated corner of the world.
Otherwise, the Barrier-Barrier Fruit and Clone-Clone Fruit would have been extremely useful too.
For Shane, the Clone-Clone Fruit's abilities were already included in the Copy-Copy Fruit.
A barrier's ability to block attacks was decent,