How can I become the Pirate King if you don’t work hard?.

Chapter 452 God of the Mortal Realm, Crimson Dragon's Shocking Change!
The former allowed Gao Wenben to reach the legendary limit, even suppressing the combat power of seven equally strong opponents, completely breaking free from constraints and stepping into the realm of mythology.

This also caused a complete transformation in the essence of Gawain's life, the most astonishing transformation in history.

Gao Wen even doubted whether he could still have children with a woman.

This is because the changes are so drastic, altering everything from flesh and organs to bones and skin, and even the very essence of the soul.

Although he couldn't determine his own lifespan, at this moment Gawain could sense that he might no longer age with the passage of time.

Both the lifespan of the body and the limits of the soul have been elevated to an unfathomable level!

If we had to find a precise term to describe it, perhaps we should call it a leap in the level of life, or an elevation in status.

To truly evolve into a being called God!

"This is...mythology?!"

"Is this really a realm that humans can enter with their own abilities?!"

"No way!"

Gawain was absolutely certain of this.

A person's limit should be the level they reached before they broke through it.

Neither Joy Boy nor Im broke through that level's boundaries. Even at their peak, they were at most on par with Gawain in his prime.

But Gawain is now far superior to that.

This inhuman realm can only be reached with the assistance of the captain system.

During this process, the Red Dragon Fruit also underwent astonishing changes.

Its original length of just over 300 meters has skyrocketed to nearly 10,000 meters.

Even just hovering high in the sky, the shadow it casts is enough to envelop the entire Camelot, and the air currents generated by flapping its wings are enough to uproot the trees on the ground.

With just this size, Gawain is enough to roam the seas, and the change in size is only the smallest part of the Red Dragon's ability!

Gawain raised his dragon claw, and wisps of pale blue earth vein energy gathered in his palm.

In just a few breaths, a sphere of light with a diameter of more than ten meters was formed. The earth vein energy contained in this sphere was enough to wipe an island with a diameter of tens of kilometers off the map in an instant!

"The power of this strike is comparable to that of an ancient weapon!"

"and……"

Gawain closed his eyes, and his senses began to expand outwards along with his consciousness.

Centered on Camelot, the energy of the entire Britannias ley lines is within his perception, but this is far from the limit!

The earth's veins are still expanding, extending beneath the sea!

"This is……"

Gao Wen suddenly opened his eyes, his surprise almost uncontrollable.

This is because he can now control even the ley line energy hidden beneath the sea surface.

This means that the amount of ley line energy he can control has reached a near-infinite level!
"Although the ocean only covers the surface of this planet, and the land beneath it is connected, but..."

"This shouldn't be happening!!"

"This transcends the limitations of Devil Fruits; normal Devil Fruits could never affect something submerged by the sea."

"Whether it's the Float-Float Fruit manipulating seawater or the Ice-Ice Fruit freezing the ocean, both involve extending their abilities into the seawater through a medium..."

"Is the earth itself a medium?"

"wrong!"

Gawain realized that his method of manipulating the ley line energy beneath the sea was fundamentally different from these two!
It's not that he extends his abilities through a medium, but rather that his abilities are inherently able to ignore the curse of the sea and directly control the energy of the earth's veins beneath the sea surface.

To verify his conjecture, Gawain flapped his wings and sped toward the inland sea of ​​Britannias, then plunged into the ocean.

Although Gawain is able to ignore the effects of seawater thanks to the badge, he still cannot use his Devil Fruit powers underwater and will directly transform into human form.

Even though he was completely submerged in the sea, Gawain showed no discomfort and remained in his red dragon form.

Beneath the sea, on the seabed that nurtures countless corals and algae, strands of terrestrial energy converge toward Gawain!

"This is……"

"What changes have occurred in me after I stepped into mythology?!"

"They even said that the impact on me has completely disappeared!"

"and many more!"

Gao Wen opened the system interface and was shocked to find that the section for badges with bounties exceeding 100 million had quietly changed:
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Bounty over 100 million - The Blessing of the Sea (Pending)
】

……

"This is……"

Gao Wen's pupils suddenly contracted!

He will not forget.

Back when he ate the Red Dragon Fruit at Raven Harbor, the power of this badge had already been used, and the words "used" were marked on the back of it.

But now it's become "pending use"...

"What exactly happened to the Crimson Dragon after I stepped into mythology...?"

Gawain shifted his gaze to the Crimson Dragon, his shock growing even stronger!
【

Crimson Dragon - LV-11: 0/5000000 (Battle Armor, Perfect Fusion)
】

……

"Not awakening?! Perfect fusion?!"

Gao Wen was slightly taken aback. He subconsciously sensed the will hidden within the Crimson Dragon Fruit, only to see his own face.

"really!"

Gao Wen suddenly opened his eyes, already understanding what had happened.

"My will has replaced the hidden will within the Red Dragon Fruit. This is a further development of the fruit's ability than awakening, a perfect fusion with the Devil Fruit."

"From now on, the Red Dragon Fruit has become a part of me. As long as I don't want it, even after I die, another Red Dragon Fruit will not be born."

"That's why the ability of the bounty badges, which are worth over 100 million, was released and returned to its usable state!"

"Does this mean..."

"I can eat a second fruit!"

Gao Wen thought of that floating fruit.

This world is destined to be swallowed by the sea, and at that time, even the Celestial Dragons will only have one fate: to perish in the ocean.

But now Gawain sees a turning point.

Upon entering the realm of mythology, his life level leaped, and his lifespan became nearly infinite.

The Float-Float Fruit grants islands the property of floating; as long as the user survives, the island can remain permanently suspended in the air.

With Gawain's current abilities, even making Britannias beneath his feet float wouldn't be a problem.

Even if he can't do it now, after stepping into the realm of mythology, Gawain can feel that the problem of his potential ceiling, which has troubled him for so long, has completely disappeared.

As long as he has enough strong cultivators under his command, Gao Wen can become even stronger and accomplish even more!

Gao Wen's eyes lit up; he could already see hope for the future.

"The Great Pirate Era may truly be coming to an end, and a new era will begin... Sky City!"

"However, all of this depends on the premise that I can actually eat the second fruit." With that thought, Gawain had no intention of lingering any longer. He leaped out of the sea and flew towards the location of Kro and the others.

……

The World Martial Arts Tournament ended in a way that surprised everyone.

The white light that pierced through heaven and earth instilled fear in the entire world.

"Britannias, what on earth happened?!"

"Was that all-destroying white light really an ancient weapon?"

"Who was the mastermind behind the attack on Britannias? Are those monsters all dead?!"

Countless questions have troubled everyone.

But strangely, no information has been released about what happened in Britannias this time.

Those voices that should have been noisy all chose to remain eerily silent. Whether it was the contestants or Britannias itself, everyone was eerily quiet at this moment.

Even the newspapers and media outlets under the World Government did not release any related information.

Even the World Economic Herald, renowned worldwide for its pursuit of breaking news, did not publish any information.

But the more this is the case, the more curious the world becomes about what happened.

Some people have even boarded ships to go to Britannias to see what Britannias has become after the white light descended upon the world.

New world.

In a certain sea area.

Wow!
The turbulent sea crashed against a pirate ship caught in the storm; the pirate flag that had been hanging on the mast had long since been taken down.

The burly Captain Tsarkin, who was over six meters tall, was bound hand and foot and huddled in a corner of the deck, looking fearfully at the two men sitting cross-legged on the deck in the distance.

"It's almost certain that the World Government was behind it, and that white light must be an ancient weapon."

Crocodile looked at the image recorded by the projected Den Den Mushi.

As a beam of white light pierced the heavens and earth descended, the projected image instantly went black, as if everything had come to a halt.

"Two years ago."

"Britannias was once attacked by an ancient weapon, which evaporated everything within hundreds of kilometers and formed a huge inland sea in the center of Britannias."

"According to the intelligence previously obtained by the Cross Society, the white light mentioned by the survivors that time was undoubtedly the white beam of light that bombarded Camelot this time."

Katakuri instinctively tightened his grip on the trident, his eyes filled with amazement, regret, and an indescribable awe.
"Even that man..."

His feud with Gawain dates back to the battle for Hades in Water Seven two years ago.

He later found out what had happened.

Snag, acting on intelligence provided by an insider within the CP organization, stormed into Water Seven and captured several CP9 members who were highly likely to know about the Hades blueprints. However, on his return journey, he encountered Gawain's group.

To prevent the intelligence from being lost, Snag took the initiative to attack Gawain's group and was killed by Gawain.

Afterwards, Big Mom and Perospero took the opportunity to spread the news that Gawain had obtained the blueprints for Pluton, causing Gawain to become the target of everyone's attacks and besieged by countless pirates.

Afterwards, the Whole Cake Island fleet suffered heavy losses in retaliation from Gawain, and even Big Mom was seriously injured.

Katakuri originally intended to seek revenge after ascending the throne of Whole Cake Island, but everything he saw during the Marineford War made him completely abandon that idea.

Gawain... he's too strong!

Even the Whitebeard who dominated the seas for decades and was invincible after the legendary era was nothing more than a plaything to pass the time in Gawain's hands.

Such a disparity in combat power is enough to drive anyone to despair.

The video footage just showed Gawain defeating eight opponents in a single battle, suppressing the top eight finalists of the World Martial Arts Tournament.

Even after the top eight included monsters like Kaido (one of the Four Emperors), Bullet (the Devil's Heir), Mihawk, and Redfield (the Lone Red), Katakuri was filled with extreme awe!

Such power is beyond human comprehension.

But the situation took a sharp turn for the worse, and Gawain, who should have won, was instead sanctioned by the World Government.

A single strike from an ancient weapon could wipe a country off the map, something no human could match.

Even someone as strong as Gawain had absolutely no chance of surviving.

"Pity."

Katakuri exclaimed in admiration:
"Although I have some old grudges with him, even I have to admit that if that man hadn't died, the future would have been his."

"..."

Crocodile remained silent, taking a deep drag on his cigar before slowly exhaling a smoke ring.

Now, he carries on his own ambitions as well as his own.

And there were also the Baroque Works members sitting together on the deck, bewildered as they learned that Britannias had been attacked again by ancient weapons and that the man was most likely dead.

After the Crusades were destroyed, Britannias became their best option, and Gawain's group also needed Crocodile's forces to fight against the World Government.

This should have been a perfect solution, a situation where both sides could easily resolve their differences.

Crocodile even heard more than once that MR-4 privately said he wanted to open a bar in Britannias, and M-5 wanted to become a firefighter...

But now all of that has come to an end.

What lay before them was a vast, endless sea.

The waves surged and the wind howled.

The sea was calm, yet it gave one the feeling that some unknown monster lurked beneath the surface, ready to leap out and devour everything in its path at any moment.

Calmness is the ocean's most powerful, and also its most helpless, force.

"Gawain... your ambitions haven't been fulfilled yet. Are you really going to die? Or will you die by an ancient weapon?!"

Crocodile still remembered what that man had told him back in Alabasta: the only way to reach the top of this ocean was through the power in his own hands.

It was because of that crushing defeat that Crocodile chose to give up the search for the Ancient Weapons and regain the power of his youth, hoping that one day he could cut off Gawain's head.

But now Gawain has died from an ancient weapon...

Isn't this a kind of irony?
Crocodile should have been laughing, a laugh full of sarcasm and irony, but he couldn't laugh; at that moment, he felt nothing but resentment.

A kind of indescribable, unacceptable resentment.

It felt like something revered had been trampled on, or like a dream had been humiliated...

Gao Wen shouldn't have, and shouldn't have, ended up like this!

He should be sitting on the throne, waiting for me to take his head!

"I do not believe!"

Crocodile nearly ground his teeth to powder.

Katakuri sat silently to one side.

Originally, his alliance with Crocodile was simply based on mutual interests, but when he learned that this man was willing to set aside his dignity and face to find a way to survive for his comrades who followed him, he was deeply moved.

They had already become friends.

But what he knew even more clearly was that the probability of surviving under such catastrophic weapons was basically zero.

"you……"

"and many more!"

Crocodile suddenly raised his head, his eyes flashing with a sharp light:
"Hawkeye is still in Britannias, where's his Vivre Card?"

"Where is his life card?!"

(End of this chapter)