As the screen turned black, announcing the end of the final battle.
The entire great sea completely exploded!
The people of the world, who had been dumbfounded since the start of the final battle, as if to vent the shock that had accumulated for an hour.
The entire world was suddenly plunged into an uproar.
Countless discussions began to revolve around Karl.
Whether weak or strong, their worldviews had been shattered by this final battle.
Especially Karl, who, after two years, had once again refreshed their understanding of an overlord of the seas.
Although in this battle, there was no sky-cracking from a clash of Conqueror's Haki Infusion, nor was the rare super-large island destroyed, the visual impact did not seem to be as great as the Battle for the Era two years ago.
But, the shock that the world received was far greater than two years ago.
Because...
The reason the final battle ended so quickly, the reason there weren't so many visually impactful scenes, was all because of Karl.
Karl was too strong, simply too strong!
Compared to the Karl of two years ago, the Karl of this year didn't even need to launch an island-destroying ultimate move; with a single punch and a single kick, he could beat the fellow overlords of the seas, Charlotte Linlin and Kaido, until they howled.
And Blackbeard, the unprecedented user of two Devil Fruits on the great sea, couldn't even withstand a single punch and directly lost consciousness, falling into a coma.
This kind of ordinary attack actually had a visual impact no less than an island-destroying super shockwave.
One must know that the enemies in front of Karl were not fodder.
Like him, they were the four highest peaks standing at the pinnacle of the New World.
And these four highest peaks were overthrown by Karl in just one short hour, with three being overthrown and the other actively forfeiting.
This kind of shock could not be described with words.
After the end of this final battle, the chain effect brought by Karl, the final winner, had only just begun.
In the early morning of the next day.
Countless news coos, carrying a large number of freshly printed newspapers, adopted a free distribution method and dropped a rain of white paper on the islands all over the world.
A front-page headline, "The Namer of the New Era, the Karl Era!", entered the eyes of the world.
Before they could carefully read the news content, they found that the headlines of the second and third pages were also related to Karl.
"The World's Number One Peak, the Unquestionable World's Strongest Man of the New Era!"
"The King of the Grand Line, Not a Pirate, but a Man Who Surpasses the Pirate King!"
Today's World Economic Journal was full of praise for Karl.
It wasn't that Morgans was praising Karl so much, but his record was simply too astonishing.
In the Rocks Era, there were only two overlords of the seas.
One was the Rocks Pirates, representing the pirates, and the other was Marine Headquarters, representing justice.
No matter what happened in between, the outcome was that Rocks was defeated.
After Rocks, in the Golden Age, the second half of the Grand Line belonged to the era of the three legends.
However, among the three legends, except for Golden Lion who was rather unlucky and had a ship's rudder stuck in his head, the strength of the three legends was on the same level, and there was never a record of who defeated whom.
The Four Emperors Era was also the same.
Except for Kaido who challenged alone and lost several times, the other overlords of the seas had no record of defeating each other.
When Karl appeared and turned the Four Emperors into the Five Emperors.
Not to mention the deceased Whitebeard, Karl had defeated three pirate emperors and made another choose to forfeit.
Equivalent to defeating four pirate emperors, Karl, whether he was a pirate or not, had become a king who stood above all pirates, including the emperors.
If Roger had completed the feat of reaching the final island, which no one had been able to do in eight hundred years, and had become the Pirate King through adventure.
Then Karl had defeated all super-powerhouses of the same level and, with his absolutely powerful strength, had sat on the vacant throne, becoming another kind of Pirate King.
If it weren't for the fact that he wasn't a pirate, Morgans would have praised Karl as the new Pirate King in the front-page headline.
Using the method of distributing newspapers for free to celebrate Karl's ascent to the top.
Morgans's fawning over this friend he had cooperated with for a long time was also to make up for the previous embarrassing gift-giving.
Under Morgans's money-burning publicity, Karl's influence instantly spread to every corner except the Calm Belt.
The influence brought by the final battle also completely erupted.
The Marines even issued a new wanted poster for Karl that same day, which was perhaps also the last bounty—
[Dragon Knight Karl, Bounty: 5,511,000,000 Berries, Dead or Alive.]
On the same level as the Pirate King, Gol D. Roger, with a bounty only a little over fifty million Berries less than Roger's.
This was the importance Mary Geoise and Marine Headquarters attached to Karl.
Without reaching the final island, without discovering the secret that was a threat to Mary Geoise, for his bounty to reach Roger's level, it was clear that Mary Geoise and Marine Headquarters were also quite scared by the invincible strength that Karl had displayed.
The new bounty from the Marines clearly showed that they and Mary Geoise also recognized Karl's new title of "King of the Seas."
But these, to Karl, were just the icing on the cake.
If before obtaining the "double-pass," Karl had realized his dream of becoming the World's Strongest Man, he might have felt a little bit of satisfaction and pride about the new bounty.
But now, Karl felt nothing.
Because his mind was all on another world.
Without the "double-pass," after realizing his last dream, Karl would most likely have retired from the world, been an ordinary World's Strongest Man and the world's richest man, and then spent the rest of his several hundred years cultivating an Op-Op Fruit user to perform the Perennial Youth Operation for him, and live with Carina forever.
After obtaining the "double-pass," jumping out of the well of the pirate world, and seeing a wider, bigger world, Karl had a new dream.
That was to plunder the resources of other worlds and make all of them gods who could live forever without relying on external objects.
At the same time, he would also turn those other worlds into amusement parks.
To do this, Karl's current strength was far from enough.
So, he needed some chess pieces to help him achieve his goal.
Those chess pieces were—the Four Emperors' pirate crews.
Therefore...
After half a month had passed, and Kaido, Charlotte Linlin, and Blackbeard had recovered from their injuries, the four pirate emperors and their cadres, with the help of Marguerite's Door-Door Fruit, quietly arrived at the top floor of the Golden Hotel in the Golden Nation.
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