Chapter Summaries

Arlong and Hody Jones’s Fish-Man pirates celebrated an undersea upheaval, believing it would help the Fish-Men rule the world, but a boiling current and Knock Up Stream destroyed them. Disasters then began appearing across the world as the Reverie approached on Jaya Island.

• Arlong and Hody Jones planned to abduct the Mermaid Princess and use her to command the Sea Kings, bringing about a great flood and Fish-Man rule.
• Seabed fissures widened, magma and hot currents erupted, and the bubbles formed a powerful Knock Up Stream.
• Arlong and Hody Jones’s crew were swept into the boiling current; Hody was dismembered, and the other Fish-Men were scalded and trapped.
• The current hurled Arlong into the sky, and he died when he fell into the sea; a giant tsunami also devastated the surrounding area.
• Disasters began appearing around the world, while the Reverie was set to begin on Jaya Island.

At the Reverie, new kings armed with advanced technology plotted to overthrow Shane and establish themselves as new Celestial Dragons, while his supporters feared the impending conflict. After Heavenly Yaksha urged the conspirators to attack, Shane appeared on the Empty Throne and invited them to begin.

• Kings from hundreds of kingdoms gathered at the Reverie, where new rulers mocked Shane and planned to divide the world among themselves.
• Cobra warned King Riku that JOCKER, formerly known as Heavenly Yaksha, sought to reclaim Dressrosa and was likely backing the new kings.
• The kings and their guards waited around the Empty Throne, with Shane’s enemies hoping its Seastone would weaken his Devil Fruit ability.
• Shane appeared on the throne in his Super Giants Form as the new kings debated whether to attack him.
• Heavenly Yaksha urged the conspirators to act through their Den Den Mushi, and Shane called them foolish humans and told them to begin their performance.

The new kings launched a rebellion against Shane with fleets and Mechanical Cyborgs, but Shane’s forces crushed them and revealed that all technological creations ultimately obeyed his orders. The new kings were executed, and Shane’s plan to clear out obsolete machines was exposed.

• The new kings attacked Shane at the Reverie with over a thousand Mechanical Cyborgs and a fleet, declaring their intention to replace him as Gods.
• Cobra judged the new kings’ forces technologically inferior, while King Riku’s confidence in Shane’s return dispelled his fear of Doflamingo.
• Seraphim and Fifth-Generation Pacifistas appeared beside Shane, defeated the Mechanical Cyborgs, and destroyed the new kings’ fleet within minutes.
• The captured new kings claimed Shane had won only because he controlled superior forces, and one realized their technology had originated from Hachinosu’s discarded designs.
• Shane revealed that every technological creation was bound to follow his orders and that he had planned to melt down outdated machines.
• The surviving Mechanical Cyborgs turned their weapons on the new kings and killed them with lasers.

After Shane crushed the rebellion at the Reverie and ordered it to continue, Doflamingo revealed that he had orchestrated the uprising to make Shane use his power again. Doflamingo begged Shane to kill him, leaving the new kings and other witnesses stunned by his fanaticism.

• Shane ordered the Reverie to continue, while the surviving new kings feared his power and the Mechanical Cyborgs around them.
• Doflamingo arrived with members of the Donquixote Family and told Shane he had spent decades longing to see him act again.
• Doflamingo revealed that he had studied Poneglyphs and used his knowledge to spark the rebellion, hoping to bring Shane back into action.
• Shane said the Fish-Man plot and the new kings' rebellion had both been part of Doflamingo's plan.
• King Riku and Cobra reacted with disbelief as Doflamingo admitted that he had arranged everything to die at Shane's hands.
• Doflamingo attacked Shane with his strings and begged him to grant his wish, explaining that the rebellion's victims had been part of the Donquixote Family's staged scheme.

Doflamingo begged Shane to kill him, revealing that he had spent years tracing Shane’s power to create Devil Fruits and had made the request his life’s purpose. As Shane sat upon the Golden Throne and prepared to return to the seas, the moon began to fall.

• Doflamingo knelt before Shane and asked him to erase him from the world, explaining his discovery that Shane could create Devil Fruits and his lifelong desire to witness Shane’s power again.
• King Riku realized Doflamingo’s desperation could bring about the end of the world, while the King of War advised moving subjects to the sky and Cobra agreed that survival mattered more than confronting Doflamingo.
• Vivi asked Cobra whether Shane could destroy an island effortlessly, and Cobra explained the former age’s Haki, Devil Fruit awakenings, and the power behind the world’s weapons.
• Cobra recalled discovering ancient technology in Alabasta thirty-seven years earlier and said that following Shane had kept his royal family alive.
• Shane sat upon the Golden Throne and declared that he would return to the seas, and the moon began to fall.

The moon’s approach caused the sky islands to collapse and unleashed storms, tsunamis, and chaotic magnetic fields across the Blue Planet. Shane said the catastrophe would transform the planet in two years, while the Navy and other forces faced the consequences of humanity’s lost chance to escape.

• Shane remained calm on his throne as the falling moon destroyed the White Seas and warned that the end times were two years away.
• Royals and nobles sent warnings through Den Den Mushi as forces across the world reacted to the returning sea and the destruction of the sky islands.
• Doflamingo praised Shane and pledged the Donquixote Family’s service as Jaya Island returned to Mock Town and reassembled into a skull.
• The Sky Island Army reorganized into the Navy, and Sengoku the Buddha blamed himself for humanity’s wasted opportunity to leave the Blue Planet.
• Tsuru returned to Enies Lobby and told the others that Shane had warned them of the worst outcome; Akainu greeted her at the port as he shattered a tsunami with magma.

Shane recruited Doflamingo into the Dragon Emperor Grand Fleet, transformed his bloodline, and sent him to claim the seas in God's name. As the fallen Sky Islands plunged the world into chaos and battles over territory and Devil Fruits began, Bellamy was cornered by the Shandia on Jaya Island.

• Doflamingo sought death, but Shane invited him to join the Dragon Emperor Grand Fleet and urged him to conquer the New World in God's name.
• Shane transformed Doflamingo, awakening his String-String Fruit and giving him a mutant physique that could accommodate more Devil Fruits.
• Shane scattered new Devil Fruit powers across the world and told Doflamingo to find another String-String Fruit to increase his strength.
• Doflamingo ordered the Donquixote Family to search for the duplicate fruit while the collapse of Sky Island and disrupted weather sparked battles across the seas.
• Bellamy and his crew reached Mock Town, where Bellamy dismissed the survivors' fears and focused on repairing their spaceship and seizing territory.
• The Shandia overwhelmed Bellamy on Jaya Island, and Blackbeard arrived, laughing as he ordered his men to dig up every Devil Fruit.

Blackbeard Teach examined the traces Shane had left on Sky Island and learned that the Munch-Munch Fruit had appeared in the Drum Kingdom. He concluded that Shane’s divinity and humanity had split into separate versions of him, then watched new islands appear across the seas as a woman in Alabasta awakened a Devil Fruit Tree.

• Teach found the Shandia and Hyena Pirate Crew defeated near the Golden Throne and recognized Shane’s magnetic footprints.
• Teach told his crew to hunt Devil Fruits and decided to search the Drum Kingdom for the Munch-Munch Fruit user.
• Teach theorized that Shane’s divinity and humanity had separated into two versions of him, and that the human half would soon appear.
• Islands affected by the City of Heaven’s magnetic field emerged across the seas, stretching from Reverse Mountain toward the New World.
• In Alabasta, a black-haired woman pressed a character on an inscription and caused a Devil Fruit Tree to rise from the desert.

Robin saw Shane restore his earlier human self, but learned that his future self still had humanity and was simply bored and burdened by the world’s troubles. Shane told Robin to go to the City of Heaven, where he had left everything, while he prepared to end the Blue Planet’s cycle.

• Robin watched the Devil Fruit Tree transform Alabasta’s desert and produce a giant fruit that became a gate through time and space.
• Shane’s earlier self stepped through the gate, and the tree withered into plants that permanently changed Alabasta’s environment.
• Shane explained that he could perceive time, space, and the wills of all things, and revealed that the Blue Planet intended to seize and devour the moon.
• Shane told Robin that his future self had not lost his humanity but was bored, and that he planned to finish the troubles and end the Blue Planet’s cycle.
• Shane brought Robin to the shore, told her to go to the City of Heaven, and said he had left everything there.

Robin received Shane’s recorded explanation of Haki body tempering and the King of Fruits, along with news that a 108-hour broadcast would teach the systems to the world. The broadcast left Robin and pirates across the seas confronting how far they remained from Shane’s power.

• Shane gave Robin a recorded video and told her to spread Haki as well as the Devil Fruit system, then disappeared through a gate of light to return to the past.
• At Alabasta’s coast, Robin’s Den Den Mushi began broadcasting Shane’s account of Haki body tempering, Devil Fruit advancement, and the path to immortality.
• Robin realized that even with advanced Haki and an awakened Flower-Flower Fruit, Shane’s framework placed her only at an initial stage.
• Shane’s broadcast announced that detailed lessons on Haki body tempering and the King of Fruits would run for 108 hours and invited listeners to the City of Heaven.
• Golden Lion heard the broadcast and grew furious that Whitebeard and Kaido had apparently advanced far along the Devil Fruit path while others had kept him uninformed.
• In Mock Town, Bellamy watched the broadcast from a tavern after crawling out of a mountain of corpses and shuddered at the scale of power it described.

Robin announced an Expo in Alabasta to draw pirates competing for her Eternal Pose to the City of Heaven, with Shane’s approval. As pirates converged on Alabasta, Luffy accidentally ate a Devil Fruit and survived eating a second one, gaining the Bomb-Bomb Fruit.

• Robin resolved to set her journey to the City of Heaven in motion and revealed that she held a new Eternal Pose unaffected by abnormal magnetic fields.
• Robin asked Morgans to publicize her presence and the Alabasta Expo, and Shane approved the plan when Morgans sought his instructions.
• Morgans spread the news, prompting pirates across the seas, including the Worst Generation, to set course for Alabasta.
• On the Going Merry, Luffy accidentally ate a Devil Fruit while the crew read the newspaper, and Chopper tried to make him spit it out.
• Luffy swallowed the fruit and survived, and Sanji identified it as the Paramecia Bomb-Bomb Fruit.

The Straw Hat Pirates learned that a Pirate Expo in Alabasta offered a Log Pose to the City of Heaven, and Vivi urged them to investigate because civilians could be endangered. In Alabasta, Luo used the Calm-Calm Fruit to defeat Apoo, then Super-Electromagnetic Kid arrived to confront him.

• Nami told the Straw Hat Pirates about the Alabasta Pirate Expo and its prize, a Log Pose pointing to the City of Heaven.
• Vivi urged the crew to stop the Expo, suspecting it could put civilians in danger and might be connected to their missing Log Pose.
• Apoo arrived in Alabasta with his crew and boasted about combining the Sing-Sing Fruit with the Instrument-Instrument Fruit.
• Luo and Bepo encountered Apoo, and Luo's Calm-Calm Fruit nullified Apoo's singing and sound attacks.
• Luo removed Apoo's heart, but Super-Electromagnetic Kid appeared and corrected Apoo when he called him Captain Kid.

Kid and Luo nearly killed Apoo while searching for a way through the shifting forest, but Luffy appeared and stopped the fight. The Straw Hat crew remained scattered in the forest as Robin revealed herself with the Log Pose and control over Alabasta’s plants.

• Kid threatened Apoo with his electromagnetic power, while Apoo worried that unseen forces were driving the world into chaos.
• Luo took Apoo’s heart, and Kid prepared to fire an electromagnetic cannon at him.
• Luffy flew into the battlefield and survived Kid’s blast, interrupting the confrontation.
• Luffy, Kid, and Luo made Apoo lead them through the forest as they searched for a way out and discussed the missing Log Pose.
• Luffy explained that the Straw Hat crew had become separated after entering the shifting forest, while Vivi had gone to find King Cobra.
• Robin appeared in projections across Alabasta beside the Log Pose, revealing her Woods-Woods Fruit power and control over the plants.

Robin announced that the Pirate Expo’s winner would receive a Log Pose leading to the City of Heaven, and Shane confirmed the prize was real. As powerful crews and Marines tore through Alabasta’s forest to reach the finish, Shane watched from the center, confident that none of them could challenge him.

• Robin announced the Log Pose prize and said it could lead its holder to the City of Heaven, where they could fulfill any wish or shape the Blue Planet’s rules.
• Shane confirmed the Log Pose was real, and copies of his image appeared across the world as he promised to award the prize to the winner.
• Akainu and Kizaru set out for Alabasta, believing the City of Heaven might offer a way to save the world from its disasters.
• Teach led the Blackbeard Pirates through the forest, boasting of his Devil Fruits and ordering his crew to overwhelm their rivals.
• Katakuri and Akainu began destroying the forest to force their way forward, while Robin realized the contestants were ignoring the rules.
• Shane watched from the forest’s center and reflected that, unlike in the past, he now controlled the game and none of the contestants could challenge him.

Robin learned that Shane intended to use the game and its chosen god to transform Blue Planet through Lineage Factors, giving the planet life and infinite possibilities. Shane’s clone revealed that Blue Planet itself was the opponent in his next game, whose outcome would reshape the world and eventually the universe.

• Robin asked Shane’s clone to see her father, and he explained that she was a life-form created from Shane’s Lineage Factors to investigate humanity and Haki.
• Shane’s clone described how Shane had found a purpose beyond immortality: to keep the world changing and fill the universe with infinite possibilities.
• Robin realized Shane planned to use Lineage Factors to transform Blue Planet into a living planet, beginning with the game to select a new god.
• Shane’s clone revealed that Blue Planet was Shane’s opponent and that the game’s result would bring an unprecedented upheaval.
• Robin felt relieved that she was the game’s crucial initiator rather than one of the greedy players.

Robin learned that Shane had created a deadly game to drive the world toward greater power, with the ultimate winner destined to die and open a new world. At the Pirate Expo, Doflamingo prepared to challenge the strongest contenders, hoping to make the winner a sacrifice to Shane.

• Shane's clone explained to Robin that the game would select the strongest through ambition and greed, while the ultimate winner would die to open a new world.
• Robin realized Shane's former crewmates survived because they trusted him, and she understood that her mission was to wait for the first game's winner.
• Shane's clone described plans for Devil Fruits to transform life, planets, and stars, including attempts to create Seastone and seawater fruits.
• Doflamingo arrived at the Pirate Expo seeking the Log Pose to the City of Heaven, while his String-String and Stitch-Stitch Fruits stitched the land and sky together.
• After learning that Katakuri, Akainu, and Blackbeard had arrived in Alabasta, Doflamingo ate a third Devil Fruit and gained the Mythical Zoan Ushi-Oni Form.
• Doflamingo set out to surprise the world and planned to help push the game's strongest contender toward becoming Shane's sacrifice.

Akainu confronted Blackbeard and the Blackbeard Pirates at the Pirate Expo, determined to protect justice and shape the world’s future. When Blackbeard unleashed the Dark-Dark Fruit, Akainu’s overwhelming Haki let him stand untouched and burn through the darkness.

• Jesus Burgess praised Blackbeard as the crew approached the finish line, but Blackbeard and his sniper stopped when they saw Akainu blocking their way alone.
• Blackbeard taunted Akainu and voiced his ambition to claim the Mag-Mag Fruit, while Akainu declared that Blackbeard had no place in the world after the Great Cataclysm.
• Akainu recalled his decades of training and concluded that humanity needed divine strength to secure lasting peace and justice.
• Blackbeard spread darkness with his Dark-Dark Fruit and expected it to weaken Akainu, but Akainu remained standing within it.
• Akainu revealed Haki powerful enough to merge with his magma and slice apart Blackbeard’s darkness, then said he had trained relentlessly for thirty-five years.

Akainu rejected Teach’s offer of an alliance and fought his crew, killing Jesus Burgess and the other attackers before facing Teach’s Tremor-Tremor Fruit within a field of darkness. As Teach boasted of becoming the New God, Akainu recalled his past and emerged from the magma as a Three-Headed Hound, launching another Hell Hound attack.

• Akainu advanced on Blackbeard’s crew after Teach’s darkness failed to affect him.
• Jesus Burgess attacked Akainu in his gigantic gorilla form, but Akainu killed him with Hell Hound strikes.
• Akainu destroyed the other crew members’ attacks and killed their wielders.
• Teach proposed a temporary alliance, but Akainu refused and said he would eliminate him rather than let him gather evil people and hunt Devil Fruits.
• Teach used darkness and the Tremor-Tremor Fruit to conceal himself and attack Akainu while boasting that he would become the final New God.
• Akainu recalled his past and his reasons for holding to justice, then emerged from the magma as a Three-Headed Hound and used Hell Hound.

Akainu vowed to carry on Shane’s unfinished work and fought Blackbeard, who overwhelmed him with the combined power of his Devil Fruits. Kizaru joined Akainu inside Blackbeard’s trap and brought the Mag-Mag Fruit and Glint-Glint Fruit, prompting Blackbeard to rush to stop them from using the fruits.

• Akainu declared that he would create his own era, uphold justice, and finish what Shane had left undone.
• Blackbeard attacked Akainu with the combined powers of the Dark-Dark Fruit and Tremor-Tremor Fruit, breaking apart his magma and trapping him at a disadvantage.
• Kizaru joined Akainu and fought Blackbeard with light clones, swordsmanship, and Haki.
• Kizaru and Akainu detected that Blackbeard had combined Dark-Dark and Munch-Munch powers into a rotating trap that increased its gravitational pull.
• Kizaru gave Akainu the Glint-Glint Fruit while holding the Mag-Mag Fruit, and Blackbeard rushed through the darkness to stop them.

Akainu and Kizaru fought Blackbeard, with Kizaru combining light and magma while Akainu revealed his powerful Haki-forged fists. Akainu killed Teach and, surrounded by arriving pirates, declared that his era had begun.

• Kizaru used magma-infused light attacks to tear through Blackbeard's darkness while Akainu emerged from a magma fireball.
• Akainu created enduring magma clones and revealed fists hardened through decades of training in Armament Haki.
• Blackbeard attacked Akainu with the Tremor-Tremor Fruit, but Akainu broke through the tremors with Haki and magma-enhanced strikes.
• Akainu struck Blackbeard repeatedly with Hell Hound punches and blasted his skull apart.
• Akainu stood over Teach and the Blackbeard Pirates as other pirates crowded the island, then declared that his era had begun.