I am the Bandit King of the East Sea.

“Then please call them all over. I have a feeling that there might be outsiders among you,” Sig said, expressing his suspicion.

Without hesitation, the Tiger King immediately summoned the only six panda fur tribesmen on Zou Island.

The six people had slight differences in height and build, but none of them matched the figure that He Ge had seen before.

"Could it really be a panda man? Pandeman?"

During the Sun Bear era, Siegfried had seen a Pandaren wearing a naval captain's uniform in the Navy and had a brief conversation with him. The man referred to himself as "Panderman".

That was a very distant memory, and Sieg couldn't quite remember it, only that the figure vaguely resembled the one he had glimpsed earlier.

"If there really is an immortal Pandaren in this world, then could it be that he discovered that we've been playing the role of a zero-cost Pandaren throughout this history... which is why he secretly followed me?" Sig's expression suddenly turned a little awkward.

What if the real Panda People just stand by and watch them do these zero-yuan purchases, ruining the Panda People's reputation?

"But since the panda people are on this island, they can't escape."

Next, Sieg spent several days thoroughly investigating the entire Zou Island, practically digging three feet into the ground.

But in the end, he still couldn't find any trace of the Pandaren; it was as if it had vanished into thin air and never appeared again.

Now that things have come to this, a person who can appear and disappear mysteriously without being detected by Sig and the others is truly terrifying.

Left with no other choice, Sieg had to give up again and put the matter on hold for the time being.

“Next, I want to go to Elbaf where there are still survivors,” Sig said to Tiger King and the others.

The great flood swept through the New World, and now there are probably only a few places left in the New World's waters where Sieg could buy and rebuild the laboratory for free.

“Elbaf?” The Tiger King pondered for a moment, then nodded.

Elbaf is a city built around the World Tree, and while the origin of Devil Fruits is in the Star Labs, it also seems to be related to that giant tree.

More importantly... Elbaf is the capital of the ancient kingdom, the place where Tiger King, Heart, and the others were previously experimental subjects, and the origin of all the stories.

"Kozuki, let's go too," Tiger King said.

The ancestor of the Light Moon attempted to communicate with Zunesha, persuading the enormous creature to change course and head towards Elbaf.

During this time, Sieg kept an eye on the situation on Zou Island, but no matter how hard he tried, he was unable to find any trace of the suspected Pandaren.

..................

More than a month passed after Elephant God left.

In the sea ahead, the enormous shadow of the World Tree finally appeared, and Zunesha was getting closer to Elbaf.

A huge whirlwind was swirling around the entire city of Elbaf.

This city is probably the last intact city of the ancient kingdoms in the New World. Protected by the gale, the dust in the atmosphere is swirled up, and the eye of the storm is relatively stable, making it the last pure land in the ruins of the New World.

At the shore, the massive fleet of the G20 nations had already docked, amidst a cacophony of shouts and gunfire.

This is the final war on the wasteland of the new world, where the remnants of the ancient kingdom's capital will face off against a coalition of twenty nations.

The enormous body of Zulu Zou was shrouded in mist and did not get too close to the battlefield.

It hesitated.

Elephant once followed its heart and joined the battle, but after experiencing the great flood, it no longer wanted to get involved in the war.

"Their war has been going on for more than a day or two... We shouldn't get any closer, lest we get dragged into the war," the Tiger King said.

Like Elephant, he once fought against the ancient kingdom, just as Heart had.

However, they were also among the few who knew the inside story of the Great Flood that would destroy the world, which changed their understanding of the war. Now they had no intention of getting involved in the war.

Like everyone else, Sieg gazed at the distant battlefield. He hesitated for a moment, then decided not to join the fight.

Anyway, he wasn't part of this history, and his participation in the war wouldn't change the outcome, so it was meaningless.

Behind the mist where Zunesha Zou hides, he quietly awaits the end of the battle.

And at the moment when the war was reaching its climax.

A huge, bright white beam of light descended from the sky, piercing through the clouds.

The thick volcanic ash cloud was blown away by the intense beam of light, revealing the blue sky and faint sunlight behind it.

"It's Uranus, the Heavenly King!"

On the battlefield, the hundred-meter-tall Storm Titan raised its head and roared angrily and unwillingly.

The Heavenly King was once the ultimate weapon of the ancient kingdoms, but it is no longer so.

As the beam of light descended from the sky, something unexpected happened to Sig and the other onlookers.

Elbaf, a vast city built upon the World Tree, seemed to come alive the instant the pillar of light descended from the sky.

The ground trembled, and the rows of steel skyscrapers stretched and arched like living things. Countless cannons protruded from the defensive towers on the city's edge, all locking onto the sky.

It's true that Uranus, the Heavenly King, is the ultimate weapon controlled by the ancient kingdoms, but Elbaf, as the kingdom's capital, is not entirely without power to resist... it's just that the beam of light came too suddenly.

Endless light and heat enveloped the earth, and amidst a deafening roar, a gigantic mushroom cloud slowly rose.

The city's steel jungle was instantly vaporized by the high temperature, and half of the city was razed to the ground. What shocked Sig and the others even more was that the World Tree in the city center was also completely pierced through. This huge tree, with more than 10,000 meters of its surface portion, collapsed with a loud bang.

"The World Tree has fallen!"

Amidst the city's ruins, the hundred-meter-tall Storm Titan roared in fury.

Despite the resistance of the city of Elbaf, the King's bombardment was not entirely successful. Although it penetrated the defenses, it failed to eliminate the enemy in one fell swoop.

As the raging winds subsided around the city, hundreds of powerful warriors centered around Storm Titan were swept into the sky by the gale, flying straight into the giant hole in the clouds above, created by Uranus, the King of the Sky.

"Follow me and kill!" Storm Titan roared powerfully.

"Uranus, the King of the Gods, has fallen into enemy hands. If we cannot destroy him, we will never be safe!"

Over a hundred warriors with special abilities soared into the sky and disappeared.

A few minutes later, the clouds high above the ground lit up again, clearly indicating that the Heavenly King's second attack had arrived.

After that attack, the legion of ability users led by Storm Titan did not reappear, and the light of the Heavenly King did not shine again; the high sky had become quiet.

"The history of the gods says that after Ragnarok, the previous generation of Titan kings led the last of the gods into the sky to fight against Uranus, the king of the gods."

Vegapunk said in a low voice, "They are all dead, but the Uranus is also incomplete as a result, and is not in perfect condition."

After the last legion of ability users was wiped out, the outcome of the war was no longer in doubt.

Led by Lyca, the Kingdom's army breached the ruins of Elbaf, thwarting all the remaining forces' offensive.

The long war is over.

Beside the collapsed World Tree, Lyca saw the ruins of the Star Labs from her past memories.

"Lady Leica...we found this in the ruins."

A soldier wearing a dustproof combat suit walked over, carrying a transparent box containing a Devil Fruit with strange spiral patterns on its surface.

"A Devil Fruit?" Lyca was taken aback.

In the battle just now, the people of Elbaf were almost driven to the brink of destruction, so any Devil Fruits should be eaten by the warriors and converted into combat power.

So, where did this Devil Fruit come from?

Could it be that a certain ability user died and was recently reborn?

Leica's identity is unknown.

"Take them away first, continue searching the ruins, and leave no survivors," Lyca ordered.

At that moment, she suddenly realized something and turned to look at the sea behind her. In the mist, she vaguely noticed certain eyes watching her.

Zulu Zou remained hidden in the mist, not getting too close, but his size was so enormous that it wasn't impossible for him to be discovered.

"Stand by and do nothing? The soldiers who fought side by side in the past have already given up before the war even ended." Lyca's gaze turned slightly cold.

The memory behind "Leica..." serves as a reminder:

"That was Heart's last refuge plan; he had Zunesha lead the Mink Tribe to safety."

Leica paused for a moment and said nothing.

She ignored the elephant spirit and instead directed the legion to continue cleaning up the battlefield.

Half a day later, the entire city ruins were swept away, leaving only a lifeless wasteland.

Laika led the combined fleet of the twenty nations away.

In this new wasteland, the power of the ancient kingdoms has been wiped out.

The war is over, but not completely over; it has only ended the war in the wasteland of the new world.

Throughout the four seas, a small number of powerful lords from the ancient kingdoms still exist, such as Ren, the lord of Ohara in the West Sea.

The overall situation is settled; the New World has been reduced to a wasteland, but the G20 alliance has also suffered heavy losses and is severely weakened.

Completely eradicating all remnants of the ancient kingdoms will still be a long process.

Next, this combined fleet will withdraw from this wasteland world filled with dust and fog, suppress the four seas, and establish a new world order.

.............

After the allied fleet had completely withdrawn, Zou, the elephant-headed god hidden behind the thick fog, slowly walked out and looked sadly at the ravaged land and the fallen World Tree.

A door opened, and Sieg, Stussy, and the others emerged.

"What kind of fruit did Lyca take away just now?" Sig asked.

Previously, they had watched the battle from another dimension through Stussy's Door-Door Fruit.

Of course, they didn't get too close to avoid any accidents. After all, no matter how powerful the Door-Door Fruit is, it's not invincible; Whitebeard once shattered an air door.

The ancient kingdoms were the developers of Devil Fruits, so perhaps they possessed some kind of ability that could also counter the Door-Door Fruit.

"This might be related to the strange ability to suddenly move like a living thing after being hit by the Heavenly King's cannon. Could that be the ability of a Devil Fruit user?" Vegapunk speculated.

"It's not like the ancient kingdoms would protect the capital with just one Storm Titan, even after a disaster."

"If the Devil Fruit user who controlled the entire city for defense under the Uranus King, but ultimately failed, died, and his Devil Fruit ability quickly regenerated, then that might make sense."

"Manipulating the entire city... Could it be the awakened Fusion Fruit?" Sig thought carefully, then shook his head.

It was familiar with the Fusion Fruit, which could indeed manipulate massive amounts of inorganic matter, but this was completely different from the three-dimensional city that had just appeared to be alive.

"Let's put this matter aside for now. What I'm most worried about is... is there any hope for the World Tree?"