Because the sea area was so remote, no one knew Douglas Bullet had died.
In his rush to push the Senju Hashirama template to 100%, Link didn't bother seizing the Paramecia Clank-Clank Fruit.
By the time someone passes through that sea and sees the Wood Human and Douglas Bullet's corpse, the news will spread—but who knows when that will be.
Loading the second template and slowly molting to a higher life tier, Link returned to Amazon Lily in an extremely good mood.
In that span, Hancock and the others also finished their task, turning the central New World waters into the territory of the Impalement Duke Pirates.
Seizing the New World's center made Link the "Central Divine" among the Five Emperors.
Whoever entered any island within that sea had to obey the rules of the Impalement Duke Pirates, or face divine judgment from the world's strongest pirate crew.
That judgment was unquestionably blessed.
If you slipped the judgment, you'd be hunted by the crew's affiliates, or a cadre or top cadre would come personally.
So whether pirates, marines, slavers, bounty hunters, or even World Government members, none dared make trouble in those waters.
Even far away, on Fish-Man Island ten thousand meters below, no one dared stir trouble on its shores.
The banner of the Impalement Duke Pirates had reached peak prestige, no less than the Whitebeard Pirates once had.
If nothing unexpected happens, the new era will, as before, be ruled by an uncrowned king—Link.
The other four Emperors will tacitly maintain the balance of the seas.
But Link knew that before long, another, a child of destiny who had finished training, would enter the strongest of seas and, with unbelievable cheat-like speed, rise to the summit, detonating a new era and shaking the World Government's eight-hundred-year rule.
Without Link, this world would likely play out the tale of a dragonslayer decapitating the evil dragon.
But with Link here, and with his transcendence, everything has become unpredictable.
Time flew; in the blink of an eye, half a year passed.
In January of Sea Circle Calendar 1522,
one day Link woke, as usual, on a ten-meter bed, fair figures sprawled all around.
Besides the original four—Karina, Nami, Hancock, and Robin—plus Nojiko and Margaret, there were several new faces.
On either side were Robin and Perona, and also Reiju and Pudding.
Like Teach, who, after reaching the top and failing to find Laugh Tale, began to indulge in pleasure and even tried to trade Koby to have Hachinosu recognized as a legal nation by the World Government, the world's strongest man—who only has to finish his transcendence to turn the world into a playground—Link also began to enjoy himself.
After finishing off Douglas Bullet and returning to Amazon Lily, Link didn't leave for half a year, living the kind of life tabloids slander for hype, night after night.
Not only nightly revelry, but the play got wilder and wilder.
Even Robin, who could tolerate anything like a big sister, finally couldn't stand it and scolded the whole group.
The result: instead of reflecting, Karina and Nami dragged Robin in, and an out-of-body Perona who was hiding to peep.
In the end, even Reiju and Pudding were pulled under.
Only the large-framed Shirahoshi and Aphlandra, and the young Serpent, escaped that fate.
When he wasn't reveling, Link's strength was steadily rising.
Every morning after waking, Link would call up the virtual panel only he could see to check the unlock numbers.
Today, with Hancock in one arm and Robin in the other, Link did the same.
Playing idly with the two queens' proud "consciences," he summoned the virtual panel and, seeing the numbers by unlock progress, showed a satisfied smile.
[Host: Link]
[First Inheritance: Senju Hashirama (unlocked 100%)]
[Second Inheritance: Uchiha Sasuke]
[Unlock Progress: 36%(+)]
[EXP: 0.7%]
With the extreme Yang power feeding back, the second template's auto-level speed was fast, increasing by 0.20% every day.
In half a year of Link doing nothing, the unlock progress still surged to[36%].
Know that back in East Blue, half a year of grinding—who knows how many pirates and kingdom soldiers he killed—only brought[20%]EXP.
Now, without doing anything, he got[36%]in half a year.
Though it didn't add to the EXP pool—because the progress came from correlated benefits—the pace was terrifying enough.
Link found that the second template's auto-leveling didn't spike in difficulty by stages.
Whether 10%, 20%, or even 30%, it rose a steady 0.20% per day.
If it keeps on like this,
then by the end of Sea Circle Calendar 1522, Link can push the Uchiha Sasuke template to 100%.
If Link harvests a bit of EXP, it will be even faster.
He already had a method for that, but wasn't in a hurry.
S.C.C. 1522 will enter the annals—a year of grand surges.
Everything Link arranged and fought for in the last two years was to prepare for this year.
Originally, if Impel Down's haul wasn't big, he'd spend a year reaping those leeks to push the Senju Hashirama template to 100%.
In the end, the plan went smoother than expected.
No need to reap those leeks at all—the Hashirama template hit 100% and the second template loaded.
Those leeks are still useful to Link.
Only now, Link has a new plan.
After six crazy months with Hancock and the others, having sampled every play, Link finally decided to let his kidneys rest, get busy with proper business, and lay the groundwork for the grand show in the second half of the year.
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