One Piece: General Xuanming, Defeat the New World

Chapter 296 Half a Year, Storm on the Sea

After Dragon's defection, the entire Marine Headquarters fell into a temporary peace.

At the same time, the pirates in the New World did not make any major moves.

The Golden Lion developed his Lion Kingdom, and Charlotte Lingling also gathered in her own country, Totland, enjoying cakes and desserts from all over the world.

Whitebeard continued to hold banquets in his territory and adopted sons. More than a year had passed since the New World War, and Whitebeard had adopted many more sons. The death toll from the war had almost recovered.

Roger wandered around the world, and the World Government could not anchor Roger's position for a long time. After all, the New World was not like Paradise, and it was very difficult for intelligence organizations to infiltrate the New World.

In the blink of an eye, half a year had passed. It was the first half of the year 1496 in the Haiyuan calendar.

In general, the past six months can be described as overly peaceful, with both the navy and pirates licking their wounds and doing their best to recover the strength lost in the last New World naval battle.

For Carsente, the improvement in strength has gradually slowed down. Although there is still improvement, it can only be said that he has not changed much compared to half a year ago.

The improvement of Conqueror's Haki has reached a bottleneck, unless there is a world-shaking war or a top pirate is killed personally, or the position of admiral or marshal is reached. If there is no such motivating event, Conqueror's Haki will not have an explosive improvement in a short time.

The ability of the fruit is about to awaken, which means that the Xuanwu form has officially entered the mature stage of growth, but it is this final step that is likely to waste several years.

Lyrsas, the sniper who was granted the superhuman penetrating fruit by Carcent, has made rapid progress in the "golden period of devil fruit development" in this one year.

With the ability of the fruit, Lyersus can easily snipe pirates with bounties of up to 500 million berries, and even pirates with bounties of around 1 billion berries can be seriously injured by Lyersus.

Of course, there was a twist.

The encounter between the Whitebeard Pirates and the Roger Pirates scared the navy terribly, for they were afraid that the two pirate groups had some secret collusion or connection.

However, by the time the navy warriors were ready to set off for the New World, the two pirate groups had already separated.

After five days of fighting and the conversation between Whitebeard and Roger, the two pirate groups only met for less than a week.

This amount of time is totally insufficient for the Navy Headquarters to properly dispatch and respond. After all, the Navy's reconnaissance ships are completely unable to enter the New World, so it is difficult to gather any intelligence.

In addition, the Navy Headquarters had a low risk assessment for the Whitebeard Pirates and Roger Pirates, so they didn't care much about this matter. If it was the Golden Lion and the Queen of Nations meeting, the situation would be very different.

The only information we got is that after the fight between the two sides, Kozuki Oden chose to leave the Whitebeard Pirates and board Roger's ship to travel together. The specific reason is unknown.

Afterwards, the two pirate groups did not take any unusual actions, so the matter was left unresolved.

In addition to the navy, the world government has achieved further improvements in basic technology in half a year, and has also begun a small-scale pilot project on a secret island. The price is that this island will be isolated from the world for the next twenty years.

Dorag, the renegade admiral of the navy, traveled to most parts of the world in half a year and gained a deeper understanding of the suffering and disasters of the people.

The clever Dragon did not immediately begin to spread the ideas of the revolutionary army. Instead, he used his ability of the Wind-Wind Fruit to help the people go out to sea to fish, pray for rain and farm.

Therefore, within half a year, Dorag had accumulated widespread prestige. After all, such a strong man who could make the sea go smoothly without any storms and good weather would be worthy of being worshipped as a father. Thus, the name of "Masked Wind God" began to resound throughout the world.

On the way, Dragon met the Shemale King, Ivankov, the user of the Hormone Fruit, and reached a preliminary consensus with Bartholomew Bear, the King of the Solbe Kingdom.

……

So, half a year later, in 1496.

"General Sengoku, can the Navy take the initiative to send troops to capture the New World countries that are not members of the World Government?"

In General Sengoku's office, Carsonte pointed to the New World chart in front of him and asked.

Zhan Guo frowned, not quite understanding why Carsente asked such a sensitive question, but after all, Carsente was a member of his faction and would not cheat him, so after thinking about it, he answered

"In principle, it is not possible. Apart from the Ten Thousand Nations, even non-governmental member states will be protected by the navy. But if you really want to do it, it is not impossible."

"So which country do you like?"

Looking at the blurry sea map of the New World, Zhan Guo looked at it over and over again, but couldn't see any place that was worthy of Carsent's special inquiry.

"here……"

Carsent pointed to a large shadow - Wano Country.

Essentially, there is no standard sea chart in the New World. The magnetic field of the New World is unpredictable. In other words, there is no way to determine the geographical relationship between east, west, south and north in the New World.

Therefore, the only way is to record the positions of adjacent islands through pointers, and gradually anchor other islands through this relative position.

Even the best navigators can only rely on their intuition to feel the distance and approximate location between two islands. Being able to draw a sea chart with a certain degree of accuracy is the lifelong dream of every navigator.

Carsente also knew that his question was a bit abrupt, so he spoke first before Zhan Guo asked:

"First, let's review the Roger Pirates' voyage trajectory over the past three years."

Ignoring the look in Sengoku's eyes that said "Wano Country has nothing to do with Roger" and looking at the idiot, Carsent continued his analysis:

"Three years ago, the Roger Pirates reached the Water Star Island, the final island in the legend. However, after arriving there, the Roger Pirates disappeared without a trace."

"It was also from this time that people knew that there was an island after Shuixianxing Island. That was the true 'Final Island' and the end point of the entire Grand Route."

Zhan Guo nodded. The information that Carsent mentioned had already been made public and was nothing strange.

Carson's finger jumped from Shuixianxing Island to the Four Seas area and continued

"Immediately afterwards, the Roger Pirates' whereabouts spread throughout the Four Seas region, and their movements were very strange. They seemed to be playing, but they also seemed to be looking for something."

"Then, Roger's pirate group passed through Ohara, Water Seven City and Alabasta Kingdom. It's not that Roger went to these three places, but Roger's pirate group stayed in these three places for a very long time, even beyond the scope of travel."