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"YOU WANT MY TREASURE?? IF YOU WANT IT, GO FIND IT!!! I LEFT EVERYTHING I OWN... IN THAT PLACE!!!"

Roger's final words, the voice that shook an era, were transmitted through the Video Den Den Mushi to every corner of the sea.

The ears of the hundreds of thousands in Loguetown echoed with the phrase that could ignite the infinite desires of the human heart.

Silence.

An absolute, dead silence. Not a single sound could be heard. You could hear a pin drop.

Everyone in the entire world was stunned speechless by Roger's Last Will...

A few seconds later, the two executioners, finally coming to their senses, their eyes filled with a vicious light, plunged their spears down...

"Schlick!"

Like piercing through leather, the spears ran through Roger's body. A legend of an era had ended his incomparably brilliant life in Loguetown.

"ONE PIECE!!"

"DON'T HOLD ME BACK..."

"GET THE HELL OUT OF MY WAY!!"

Everyone went insane, rushing towards the port, their expressions utterly frenzied.

In every corner of the seas, a grand spectacle of people scrambling to set sail was playing out. Some even abandoned their families and all their worldly possessions.

Chaos reigned.

Roger's last will had ignited the most insane era of all.

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"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Arthur watched the crowd below surging towards the port like a tidal wave and suddenly threw his head back and laughed uncontrollably.

So this is the runaway era that Roger bought with his life.

The very air was filled with an intoxicating scent.

Freedom, dreams, ambition?? Wealth, power, fame—all who desired these things had set off with the tide of the new era.

"Vegapunk, to Reverse Mountain... I'm going to clean up some trash!" After his laughter subsided, Arthur's face turned cold.

The trash who had no idea what they were doing, who were only heading out to sea on a whim, were not worthy of the name—pirate.

It didn't matter if they committed evil, if they pillaged and plundered.

Only those with a dream that they carried through to the end, with the resolute steps to execute it, whether their actions were good or evil, even if they did as they pleased... were true pirates!!

"Bararararara, so this is the era Roger started?" Even Byrnndi World's face was flushed with excitement from those words.

"It will certainly add a lot of trash to the sea."

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"DAMN IT!!"

Fleet Admiral Kong was furious, with nowhere to vent his rage.

The veins on his forehead bulged as if they would burst at any moment. His fists were clenched so tight, he even had the thought of dragging Roger's body out for a public flogging.

Behind him, the faces of all the high-ranking Marine officials were grim.

Roger's words had turned their anticipated Great Age of the Marines into a pipe dream. A far more terrifying Great Age of Pirates had truly arrived.

"RE... TURN TO MARINE HEADQUARTERS!"

Kong gritted his teeth, forcing down his anger. "MOBILIZE THE TROOPS TO INTERCEPT THEM AT THE SABAODY ARCHIPELAGO! LET ALL THESE DAMNED PIRATES SPEND THE REST OF THEIR LIVES IN IMPEL DOWN!"

A single miscalculation in their decision-making had sent events spiraling in the exact opposite direction of their original plan.

They were all seething with rage...

The Marines in Loguetown withdrew, one after another, returning to their warships to prepare to cross the Calm Belt and return to Marine Headquarters.

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"RUMBLE~"

Thunder rumbled in the gloomy sky, as if even the world were mourning Roger's passing.

After the thunder, a heavy rain began to pour down.

"WE'RE GOING TREASURE HUNTING!!"

"WE'RE GOING TO FIND THE PIRATE KING'S TREASURE!!"

Loguetown was still boiling. Hundreds of thousands of people scrambled to rush out to sea. Even the downpour couldn't extinguish the fire of their passion.

All over the world, millions, perhaps tens of millions, were cheering Roger's last words, madly advancing towards the sea.

At the edge of the grand plaza.

Shanks was weeping, pressing his straw hat down so no one could see his loss of composure. However, at this moment, no one was paying attention to him. Buggy also had his hands over his face, it was impossible to tell if it was tears or rain flowing through his fingers.

After a long while, Shanks wiped away his tears.

"Buggy, let's go to sea together. I'll be the captain, you be the first mate!"

"ARE YOU KIDDING ME, SHANKS?? I'M THE GREAT CAPTAIN BUGGY—MY AMBITION IS ALL THE TREASURE ON THE SEAS!" Buggy's eyes were red-rimmed. He roared at Shanks and then left directly.

He had a treasure map in his pocket, its location in the East Blue.

The two apprentices of the Roger Pirates thus parted ways.

"Fuffuffuffuffu!" Doflamingo, wearing his pink feather coat and walking with a swagger, returned to his flamingo ship with his subordinates.

The cigar in the mouth of the black-coated Crocodile had gone out. He lowered his head in thought.

The bizarrely-shaped Gecko Moria laughed with crazed fanaticism, revealing a mouthful of sharp teeth.

Mihawk's sharp eyes swept over the execution platform one last time. He turned and left, the Black Sword, Yoru, on his back.

The new era had arrived. The New World was the final gathering place for monsters. That was the place everyone on the sea wanted to go.

The worldwide broadcast ended at this moment, but the tsunami it had stirred up could not be calmed.

In fact, it was only growing more and more intense.

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Sabaody Archipelago, Shakky's Rip-Off Bar.

Rayleigh's golden hair was now completely white. He looked much older. His glasses reflected the light from outside, making it impossible to see his expression.

"Roger..." he said, drinking his wine, recalling Roger's words to him before he turned himself in.

"I'm not going to die..."

Rayleigh wasn't Arthur. He hadn't quite understood the meaning behind those words. Now, he knew... Roger was waiting for someone to inherit his will.

"The people who watched Roger's execution... so many of them received something from him."

"The Great Age of Pirates... To Roger... Cheers!"

He raised the glass in his hand and drained it in one gulp.

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The [Thor] flew towards Reverse Mountain, and Arthur couldn't help but laugh out loud again.

"The Marines are truly... a tragedy, aren't they? Hahahaha!"

"They prepared for the Great Age of the Marines for so long, even broadcasting it to the entire world. I never thought the reversal would come so quickly! It's just too interesting, too fun! Hahahaha!"

He thought about it, and almost laughed until he cried.

With this trump card that Roger had been preparing for so many years finally played, one could only imagine how terrible the Marines' mood was right now.

If Roger were still alive, they would probably each go up and cut him a thousand times to vent the hatred in their hearts.

"The structure of the world was changed by a single sentence from Roger," Naguri said, looking up at the blue sky, in absolute awe of Roger.

"Such a great man, even at the end of his brilliant life, had to change an era."

"The Great Age of Pirates... Barararara, shouldn't we be more worried about the Captain?" Byrnndi World laughed. "The Captain doesn't have a large territory yet. It's only a matter of time before he's targeted by the supernovas of this new era."

"Isn't it better the more people challenge the Captain? However many come... we just kill them all," Shiryu, long since awake, said his first words.

"Let's go to Reverse Mountain and teach the make-believe pirates of the new era a painful lesson. Let them understand that being a pirate isn't just about hot blood and yelling about treasure, meow!" Pizarro's eyes also glinted with a fierce light.

Arthur looked down at the ships passing in the sea below, looking with contempt at this group of clueless people who called themselves pirates, a cold smile on his lips.

The Great Age of Pirates had officially begun.

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