Pirates: Usurping a Kingdom Is Surprisingly Easy

Today's newspaper not only deterred the ransom teams from Kano Country and Wano Country but also caused a stir in all 4 seas. The World Government never expected that the two powerhouses they had been secretly monitoring would become Kael's subordinates. Marineford was seriously evaluating the strength of the Goa Empire. The underground dark world and various pirate crews completely changed their perception of the Goa Empire.

And Doflamingo, seeing Kael suppress the war between Kano Country and Wano Country, turned ashen with rage. How could he not be angry when Kael interrupted such a large arms deal with Wano Country? However, the Goa Empire's strength made him extremely wary, and he didn't even entertain the thought of making trouble. Fortunately, he had managed to secure the connection with Caesar, opening the path of artificial Devil Fruits. Otherwise, he would have had to contend with Kael.

But the biggest impact was still the Goa Empire's system of military merit-based noble promotions. The Hereditary Title system revealed by Aramaki completely ignited the entire world. Was it really that easy to become an Imperial noble? This simple and crude promotion system was understandable even to uneducated brutes. Even weaklings like Eric and Saga could become Imperial Barons. Many Bounty Hunters who had hunted pirates with bounties over 100 million Berries were already boiling with excitement. If they joined the Goa Empire, wouldn't they become proper Imperial Viscounts?

On Flag Island in Grand Line Paradise, Don Accino, the Heat-Heat Fruit user, bit his cigar and looked at the newspaper, suddenly laughing. As a Bounty Hunter, he had already eliminated several pirates with bounties over 100 million Berries. As long as he went to the East Blue and joined the Goa Empire, he would be an Imperial Viscount. However, as the patriarch of the Flag Hunter family, he was doing so well in the latter half of the Paradise that he temporarily didn't care for an Imperial Viscount position in the East Blue. Even if the Goa Empire was the East Blue Overlord, that was just it. Better to be the head of a chicken than the tail of a phoenix.

On Silver Island in the New World, Bill, the boss of the Armed Group, Silver Pirate Alliance, also chuckled as he looked at the newspaper. "So I could also be an Imperial Count," he thought. Although Bill's group was called the Silver Pirate Alliance, it was a Bounty Hunter group that captured various pirates. Not to mention pirates with bounties over 100 million Berries, they had even eliminated pirates with bounties over 300 million Berries.

As a Melt-Melt Fruit user, Bill could devour and smelt metal ores, unleashing magma-like attacks. Even pirate powerhouses who had learned rudimentary Armed Haki were still killed by him.

"Too bad, the East Blue is too far, the East Blue is too small, and a peaceful life is not what I want!" "My goal is Grand Line pirates, even the Four Emperors!"

Bill's eyes were filled with ambition. He had recently reached some cooperation with Gold Emperor Tesoro, providing him with a large amount of pure silver. He could continue to expand the Silver Pirate Alliance until it became a powerful armed group capable of hunting the Four Emperors.

In a bar on a small island in the West Blue, a pale man wearing a black top hat looked at the newspaper, a wicked smile appearing on his face.

"I wonder if the Goa Empire in the East Blue can accommodate an exiled person like me," Demon Sheriff Laffitte muttered to himself. He had already been expelled from several West Blue kingdoms.

If this continued, he would only be able to become a pirate. Wasn't it just torturing and killing prisoners and pirates? Those kings and nobles couldn't even tolerate him for that. These self-proclaimed benevolent kings and nobles were truly hypocritical. These kingdoms, where even slavery was legal, had countless dirty secrets of male thieves and female prostitutes behind the scenes, yet they pitied some criminals with numerous offenses. This world was truly hypocritical and ridiculous.

"Military merit promotion, Exile Emperor, I hope you don't disappoint me..." Laffitte looked at the "touching stories" of "Kael ransoms Aramaki" and "Kael ransoms Issho." Did this Exile Emperor truly have the ability to discern people? Laffitte left the bar directly, without even paying, but the bar owner and bartender seemed not to see him, their gazes blank, allowing him to leave. Outside the bar, Laffitte's back suddenly sprouted a pair of white wings, and he flew up into the sky.

Laffitte was also an excellent navigator. He actually flew directly toward Onigashima Island to meet this East Blue Overlord who had thoroughly beaten the West Blue Twin Heroes.

On an island in the New World, a man with messy long hair and sharp eyes looked at the newspaper, feeling a slight stir in his heart. This was an opportunity to rise to prominence in one go. If it weren't for the Navy requiring background, seniority, and countless military merits, he would truly want to become a Marine. With his strength, becoming a Marine Vice Admiral would be an easy feat.

But his origin from a non-Allied Nations, chaotic island meant that when he was young, he couldn't even find a 16th Marine Branch to enlist in, as there were only a few Navy Branches in the New World. And his hometown was very far from those Navy Branches; as a young child, it was impossible for him to cross the dangerous seas to enlist on another island.

After growing up on a chaotic island, he already had the label of a dangerous individual, and later when he tried to enlist in a Navy fortress in the New World, he was rejected. The reason was that he might be a pirate or a dark force spy, and his identity was questionable.

This chilled his heart. He could only return to his hometown and protect this chaotic non-Allied Nations island. He grew up step by step through constant fighting, but this barren hometown could never develop into an Allied Nations that could afford celestial tribute. Moreover, the chaotic environment was often plundered by various pirates, and the concept of a "nation" had long been lost within the island. Even if he wanted to unite these chaotic forces, he couldn't. Chaos and fighting were the only reasonable existences. It turned out that "people from non-Allied Nations are not people at all, just a group of mad animals"—this saying was true. He couldn't awaken these muddle-headed islanders. Now he had long lost hope for this hometown and could only protect his small plot of land.

After seeing this newspaper today, he wanted to take his subordinates and join the powerful Goa Empire, to find a peaceful place for his people and subordinates to live. And he could also become an Earl, or even a Marquis, in the Goa Empire, based on his strength. After all, he had defeated pirates with bounties over 300 million Berries, fought against Grand Line pirates with bounties over 500 million Berries, and even battled some Four Emperors cadres. If it weren't for fear of offending these Four Emperors Pirates and causing his hometown to be destroyed, he felt he could have killed the Four Emperors cadres. Even Who's-Who of the Tobi Roppo, and Snack and Cracker of the General Stars, and some of Whitebeard's Squad Commanders were nothing more than that.

His name is Spaden, a guardian of a chaotic island. A disappointed person who wanted to become a righteous Marine but couldn't find the way. Now, after seeing the Goa Empire's "recruitment advertisement" and "noble promotion system," he felt he saw a bright path. He wanted to lead his subordinates and people to leave the chaotic New World and join the Goa Empire, to become a legal citizen of an Allied Nations, to become a legal "person."

Kael never expected that the "recruitment advertisement" Aramaki made for him would attract so many powerful individuals. This Spaden was precisely the powerful Vice Admiral who was later exceptionally recruited into Marineford through the World Draft. A formidable Vice Admiral with a bounty of 1 billion Berries, placed by the Cross Guild! His strength was no less than that of Admiral candidates and the General Stars Three Disasters.