Time flies like an arrow.
Before we knew it, it was March of 1515.
Nearly a year has passed since the Kingdom of Dawn defeated the World Government.
During this year, the Kingdom of Dawn did not launch a large-scale war. Instead, it focused on reorganizing its internal affairs, including its national system, administrative divisions, and military buildup.
This also initiated a major geographical transformation, a large-scale population migration, and a major climate reorganization.
The two largest projects were the renovation of the Reverse Mountain Canal and the renovation of the Red Line.
The renovation of the Reverse Mountain Canal involved Yamato and deepening all five original waterways that sloped upwards and downwards, making them level with the surrounding sea.
At the same time, a Mediterranean Sea with a radius of 200 kilometers was excavated at the mountaintop where the five waterways converge, along with a canal waterway with a width of about 30 kilometers. This made the previously very fast-flowing ocean current suddenly become calm and tranquil.
The rocks excavated by the excavators were all used to fill the Calm Belt in the East Blue and the South Blue, creating two new landmasses near the Twin Capes.
Similarly, the Red Line, which was divided in two, was transformed into four new continents.
The North Red Line is naturally bounded by the Arctic ice sheet. On the side of the Red Line near the Reverse Mountain, 8,000 meters of its height was removed, leaving only an elevation of 2,000 meters. The excavated rock layers were all used to fill the area around Dawn Island in the East Blue, forming a new continent with an area of 3.64 million square kilometers.
The landmass on the side of the North Red Line closest to Mount Dawn (formerly Mary Geoise ) was also leveled to an elevation of 2,000 meters. The excavated rock layers were used to fill the southern waters of the North Blue, forming a new continent of 2.66 million square kilometers.
The same process was used to create two new continents in the South Red Line South Blue and the West Blue, respectively.
The Kingdom of Dawn renamed the new continent.
The new continent in the East Blue was named: Dawn Continent.
The new continent in the North Blue was named: High Sun Continent.
The new continent in the West Blue was named: Western Heaven Continent.
The new continent in the South Blue was named: Mist Continent.
The North Red Line was named: North Land Continent.
The South Red Line was named: South Land Continent.
Because of the Kingdom of Dawn's frantic efforts to level mountains and fill seas, the world's sea levels have risen rapidly, increasing by approximately 577 meters in just one year.
However, this sea level rise was actually expected by the Kingdom of Dawn.
Because those newly created landmasses previously had an average elevation of 1,000 to 2,000 meters.
As sea levels rise, the average elevation of these landmasses has become 500-1500 meters, making them more suitable for human habitation.
Many of the islands that were brought under the rule of the Kingdom of Dawn, with an average elevation of less than 800 meters, were relocated to various new continents.
Only islands similar to Lodestar Island in the Alabasta Kingdom, Begonia Island in the Flower Country, and Dawn Island in the Goa Kingdom remain, and these islands are relatively large.
Therefore, instead of relocating the islands, the terrain was reshaped by cutting down low-lying land and raising the highlands.
Through these transformations, the Kingdom of Dawn greatly expanded humanity's living space, and the emergence of vast landmasses also successfully mitigated some of the harsh climate conditions.
As for the Calm Belt, the disappearance of the Red Line, including the Reverse Mountain and Mary Geoise, has completely connected the four seas. In addition, the emergence of those new landmasses has made it impossible for the Calm Belt to maintain its calm and still climate.
Meanwhile, the Sea Kings that inhabited the Calm Belt lost their restraints and began to frequently appear in other sea areas.
In response, Noah studied the Sea King's power within Shirahoshi and successfully used the power of the Clone-Clone Fruit to imitate the power of Poseidon.
Since the end of last year, Sea Kings in the Calm Belt the East Blue and the South Blue have been collectively driven into the Storm Sea of the southern South Blue and the Antarctic Ice Sea.
These two sea areas, along with the vast trenches and seabed basins excavated by the Kingdom of Dawn, are much larger than the Calm Belt of the East Blue and the South Blue. Furthermore, due to rising sea levels, this area can accommodate all the Sea Kings of the two Calm Belt.
Meanwhile, the Sea Kings of the Calm Belt in the North Blue and West Blue were all driven to the latter half of the New World, the area where the Elbaf Kingdom and the underwater ruins of the former Great Kingdom are located.
Through these two concentrated migrations, the Calm Belt disappeared, and the Sea Kings were confined to the latter half of the New World and the South Blue and the Antarctic Ocean.
The Kingdom of Dawn completely solved the geographical, environmental, and climatic problems that had plagued the planet for thousands of years, making communication channels between different landmasses unimpeded.
However, there were losers in this major environmental transformation.
For example, the Elbaf Kingdom in the latter half of the New World.
This once vast country, with a land area of 2.32 million square kilometers, has had its low-lying coastal areas completely submerged due to rising sea levels, leaving only 860,000 square kilometers today.
Adam City, the capital of the Elbaf Kingdom.
All the top leaders of the Giants, Whitebeard, Charlotte Linlin, and the remaining three giants of the Underworld gathered together.
The Sea King's expression was extremely grave. "Our food reserves are running low, and we can only rely on hunting Sea Kings to supplement them. But this can't go on. The number of Sea Kings in the surrounding waters is increasing, and their density is approaching that of the Calm Belt."
"Damn the Kingdom of Dawn!" Charlotte Linlin exclaimed in fury.
Elder Mountainbeard, King Austin, Prince Loki, and the two captains of the Giant Warrior Pirates all looked extremely grim as they examined the intelligence gathered by the Sea King.
The Giant Tribe already require a great deal of food, and the previous territory of the Elbaf Kingdom could barely sustain the food supply for more than 40,000 giants.
Now that two-thirds of the territory is submerged by seawater, there is a sudden and significant food shortage.
Given their size, each of them would need at least 500 kilograms of meat or 1,500 kilograms of grain or fruit per day.
More than 40,000 giants would need to consume at least 40,000 to 60,000 tons of food every day, and 15 to 21 million tons of food per year.
Previously, the Elbaf Kingdom had a vast territory, and with the ability to hunt in the surrounding seas, food was barely guaranteed.
Now that food on land is dwindling and a large number of Sea Kings have appeared in the surrounding seas, although it is possible to hunt Sea Kings Sea Kings, they are not to be trifled with, and not all Giant Tribe have the ability to hunt Sea Kings.
Including the Whitebeard Pirates, the Big Mom Pirates, and the gang of villains brought by the underground tycoon, the population is over 300,000.
This immediately brought the food crisis in Elbaf to a head.
The Kingdom of Dawn was certainly aware of the merger of old-era forces such as the Elbaf Kingdom, the Whitebeard Pirates, and the Big Mom Pirates, but Noah was not worried.
Currently, Three Ancient Weapons are in the hands of the Kingdom of Dawn, Vegapunk is also being monitored by the Kingdom of Dawn, and there's also the existence of the moon.
The Kingdom of Dawn is already invincible; it doesn't need to launch an attack on Elbaf at all, it can simply wear them down.
Sure enough, another month or so passed.
The food crisis in Elbaf is getting worse.
At that moment, Charlotte Linlin's Hunger Pangs flared up, and she devoured a huge amount of the already scarce food, while also killing several Titans.
This led to a direct breakdown in the already sensitive relationship between the Giant Tribe and the Big Mom Pirates.
A fierce conflict broke out between the two sides.
The Whitebeard Pirates were forced to join the giants' side.
Charlotte Linlin went berserk, and even Whitebeard couldn't stop her destruction.
Both sides suffered heavy losses.
Noah then led a group of experts in a surprise attack on Elbaf.
In one battle, they completely annihilated the remnants of the Whitebeard Pirates, the Big Mom Pirates, and the underground giants, and also took over the entire Giant Kingdom.
From then on, the entire world was left with only the Mokomo Dukedom still wandering.