I am the Bandit King of the East Sea.

At this moment, Barrett let out a sneer.

"Do the so-called true gods and kings of gods, being helpless against the Heavenly Kings and Celestial Dragons, place their hopes on others?"

Barrett glanced sideways at the God-King, making no attempt to hide the mockery in his tone.

He is a lone wolf who only believes in his own strength and never tries to rely on the strength of others.

He encountered Roger, who could defeat him, so he boarded Roger's ship and relentlessly pursued him, continuing to train and grow stronger, repeatedly challenging Roger in order to one day truly defeat him.

What happened later with Sieg was similar; even after losing, he continued to train and try new challenges, and eventually, he succeeded.

The God-King's attitude did indeed make him somewhat disgusted.

"An ability user is an ability user. Although they are indeed stronger than ordinary people, the gap between them and so-called gods is still too great."

Are there any gods in this world who are afraid of the sea?

Barrett sneered.

Although he was also a power user and confident in his strength, he had not yet reached the point of calling himself a god. The group of people in front of him seemed to be much more arrogant than him, which made him feel a vague sense of unease.

Barrett's words were completely undisguised in their mockery, and the gods' expressions changed, their brows furrowing deeply.

"That's not entirely accurate; we shouldn't underestimate the power of the ocean."

The first to speak out in rebuttal was not one of the gods, but Dr. Vegapunk, who stood on Sig's side.

“No matter how powerful an ability user is, they cannot escape the so-called curse of the sea; this is an ironclad rule.” Vegapunk glanced at Sig beside him.

Higuma once "discovered" the Angel Fruit and marked it in his treasure, but in the end, the Angel Fruit's ability is to suppress the curse of Devil Fruits: that is, to get rid of the side effect of only being able to eat one fruit, but it cannot make one immune to the weakening effect of seawater on the Devil Fruit user.

The old woman fell into the sea and immediately collapsed. Even the mighty Golden Lion was helpless against the sea stone shackles. If there were any other way to break free from the sea stone, no one would be willing to cut off their own legs to escape.

"However... what can restrain ability users is not actually the ocean itself, but a type of keratinous particle in the seawater named PYROBROIN."

Vegapunk continued to explain:

"These microscopic particles are widely found in oceans around the world, as well as in seastone and even in floating islands..."

"For ability users, this kind of particle is an unavoidable toxin, but it exists widely all over the world, as if it was specially created to counter ability users."

At this point, Vegapunk looked at God-King with a profound gaze.

Since learning from the God Gatekeeper a few days ago that Devil Fruits originated from the Gods, Vegapunk seems to have opened up a new world, with all sorts of new ideas coming to him.

"It seems there are quite a few smart people among the Blue Ocean people."

The God-King nodded calmly, showing no qualms about history. He waved his hand, signaling the gatekeeper to respond.

"PYROBROIN particles can actually be described as a poison weapon used against Protoss ability users."

"What if I told you that eight hundred years ago, before Seastone was discovered, the true gods of the Divine Race... or rather, the ability users, could swim in the sea and were not restrained by it?"

Everyone was taken aback.

Even Barrett, who had been preparing to stir up trouble, was stunned on the spot.

"Do you know why this sea area is called the New World, and what legends there are about the endpoint in the New World Sea?" the gatekeeper suddenly asked.

Sieg nodded.

The so-called endpoint refers to the plot of the Zephyr movie.

There are three volcanoes in the New World. It is said that if they are all detonated, they will cause a terrible chain reaction, and the lava will engulf the entire New World sea area.

In the movie, Zephyr has lost control. He attempts to detonate the three volcanoes, causing all civilians, marines, pirates, and himself in the New World to perish together, achieving a world nuclear peace.

Once the New World is destroyed, all four Emperors will die, and the One Piece route will be cut off. This would end the Great Pirate Era in one fell swoop. This is Zephyr's idea in the movie.

"It's said that if all the endpoints were detonated, they could destroy the entire New World sea area... So the question is, how does the Navy know that destroying those three volcanoes would really destroy the New World?" The gatekeeper's question lingered in Sieg's mind.

Before Sieg could ponder this further, the goalkeeper uttered a chilling answer.

"Because the endpoint was indeed triggered in the distant past, and the new world has already been destroyed once."

Everyone was shocked.

"That was Ragnarok eight hundred years ago," the gatekeeper said in a low voice.

"It was a massive war that affected the world. Its truth has been lost to history, and even we cannot know it all. We can only speculate on fragments of it."

"Your Majesty, is it necessary for the guardian deity to say so much?" A burly, powerful god frowned.

"It's alright. This intelligence is a token of our sincerity in cooperating," the God-King said.

“Guardian, please continue.”

The gatekeeper continued:

"More than 800 years ago, the ancestors of the Celestial Dragons discovered the mineral Seastone and the PYROBROIN particles contained within it, and raised the banner of resistance, which triggered a huge war that affected the world."

"In order to fight against the ability users of the gods, they made a crazy decision."

"That is, poisoning the ocean and polluting the entire ocean."

"Dumping garbage into the ocean? How wicked..." Sig raised an eyebrow.

“For those with special abilities, Pyrobrook is poison,” he continued.

"The ancestors of the Celestial Dragons created the three doomsday volcanoes by pouring minerals containing Pyrobron into them in the New World, and detonating the three doomsday volcanoes."

"The eruption of the three doomsday volcanoes marked Ragnarok, the end of all things. The entire New World was engulfed in flames, with three columns of lava piercing the sky. The thick smoke from the volcanic ash plunged the New World into darkness, directly altering the climate of the entire New World's oceans. Even today, eight hundred years later, the New World remains the most dangerous and climatically unpredictable ocean."

"The eruption of the three doomsday volcanoes caused PYROBROIN to spread rapidly into the sky and the sea."

"In the beginning, even the air contained a large amount of PYROBROIN particles, which was equivalent to sea stone powder floating in the air... During that period, ability users could not even go swimming in the sea, let alone fight normally."

"The gods of the old world temporarily lost their power due to the large amount of keratin particles permeating the air, becoming worthless, even less than mortals, like insects exposed to pesticides... From that time on, there has been no place for those with superpowers in the human world." The gatekeeper's tone grew increasingly heavy as he spoke.

"And that war was, of course, a defeat for the gods of the old world; they perished along with the old world."

"This sea area later naturally became the new world in the eyes of the people of Lan Hai."

"As time passed, a large number of keratin particles that were diffused in the air settled into the sea, giving the sea the power to restrain ability users... This is the truth behind the so-called Curse of the Sea."

The God-King's expression was a half-smile:

"Can the ocean curse users of the God-type Devil Fruit?"

"The truth is that this ocean was already contaminated by the poisons targeting the gods during the war, otherwise we could still swim freely in the ocean."

The God-King has no qualms about history; to him, these are the dark histories that the Celestial Dragons have been trying to cover up and erase.

For an ordinary person, he would naturally not be willing to tell this bloody history, but Sig is a potential ally he values, and he would love for this history to flow from Sig's mouth, giving the Celestial Dragons a headache.

"However, there's always a way out," the gatekeeper continued.

"At the same time as the three volcanoes on land erupted, some of these keratinous particles were also ejected into the sky. When they condensed with water vapor, they formed two types of sky clouds with different densities. The sparser ones are called sea clouds, and the denser ones are called island clouds."

“Naturally existing clouds cannot support islands and buildings. The existence of sky islands is the result of the interaction between island clouds and sea clouds under the influence of PYROBROIN particles.”

"The eruption of the three doomsday volcanoes during Ragnarok formed the original eight Sky Islands. With the addition of this Sky Island located at the top of the World Tree, there are now nine Sky Islands."

"Although these keratinous particles destroyed the gods, they also provided us with our last refuge when we were on the verge of destruction—the sky islands ten thousand meters above the ground."

After these words were spoken, the bandits fell into a long silence.

Is this the truth?

Contrary to what many people imagined, the words spoken by the God-King almost overturned their worldview, and even Vegapunk from five hundred years in the future was quite shocked.

Devil Fruits are not naturally occurring, the ocean is not inherently effective against Devil Fruit users but has been polluted, and the Red Line is suspected to be a man-made wall...

The common understanding that people take for granted was completely shattered by the words of the God-King, and a corner of a vast and magnificent old world gradually emerged—an old world where those with abilities were no longer unable to swim, and where there was no more Seastone.

"Therefore, never underestimate the Celestial Dragons and the World Government," the God King solemnly reminded them.

"Top-tier ability users are like human-shaped natural disasters. If they go all out, they can change the landscape of an island, but that's pretty much the limit."

"But the great war eight hundred years ago was enough to drag the whole world into the abyss of destruction. The oceans of the whole world were polluted, and the climate of the entire New World seas changed drastically as a result."

"That was a colossal war that would determine the fate of the world," the God-King solemnly declared.

"Although I don't know if the Celestial Dragons have become weaker due to complacency after eight hundred years... if we want to be enemies with the World Government, we must be prepared to wage a war on the scale of Ragnarok."

The God-King seems quite sincere about the cooperation, having spent these past few days accompanying me on excursions and proactively revealing important historical details.

But the other gods didn't look at the bandits with such kindness, especially Barrett, who had repeatedly provoked them.

“Your Majesty, it is true that the Celestial Dragons are our great enemies, but cooperating with mortals…” A four-meter-tall, powerfully built, bronze-skinned Hercules stepped out from the ranks of the gods and raised an objection.

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When Hercules was speaking, he also glanced at Barrett sideways, clearly harboring a great deal of prejudice against her.

The floating islands are tens of thousands of meters above the ground, making them essentially two isolated worlds from the blue ocean.

Pirates or bandits from the Blue Sea are all unknown strangers here.

The only god among the gods who had ever witnessed the bandit group in battle was the Winter God, who had briefly descended to the mortal realm in Elbaf.

Some of the information about Sig came from her conversation with the Giant King.

Barrett was absent from that battle, so she did not leave an impression on the Winter God.

of course.

After the bandits landed on the sky island, Barrett's arrogance left a very deep impression on the gods.

"Huh?" Provoked by Hercules, Barrett was pleased rather than angry.

He's been deliberately stirring things up these past few days, trying to provoke these gods in the clouds, but now it seems... he's finally succeeded?

After fishing for several days, he finally caught one.

“Your Majesty, the God of Power does indeed have a point,” another God of Atmosphere chimed in.

"To be able to withstand the attack of Uranus, the King of the Gods, is indeed an extraordinary feat."

"But we are about to face a massive war that will affect the whole world, and individual bravery alone will not be enough."

"If they are truly allies who can stand on equal footing with us, we can meet them in the Arena of the Gods, and then we will naturally see the outcome."

Amidst the pronouncements of the gods, the King of Gods seemed to be moved as well, and mumbled something more.

"Is this a test of our strength? If the divine kingdom truly intends to cooperate, it is indeed necessary to probe its capabilities."