Since this wasn't his first time on the Boin Archipelago.
Karl simply released his electric field, teleporting past the island's man-eating plants and appearing on the other side, in the Gourmet Paradise.
Looking at the familiar ramen waterfall, the eggs and yolks several meters large, the fruits as big as rocks, and the various kinds of food emitting waves of fragrance.
Karl's mouth couldn't help but water.
Although he had eaten continuously for a month last time, to the point of getting sick of it.
But after more than a year, Karl had long been nostalgic for the Boin Archipelago.
And so...
Just like the first time he found the Gourmet Paradise, Karl jumped directly into the ramen waterfall and began to feast.
And this feast... lasted for half a year!
Late June, Sea Circle Calendar 1519.
In the past half a year, nothing major had happened in the Four Seas or the first half of the Grand Line.
Only in the New World, this strongest of seas, two world-shaking events occurred in just six short months.
The first was that "Fire Fist" Portgas D. Ace, who, along with the overlord of the seas Dragon Knight Karl, was known as one of the Twin Stars of the East Blue, challenged the Whitebeard Pirates' First Division Commander, "Marco the Phoenix," in December of Sea Circle Calendar 1518. The outcome was inconclusive.
Then, for some unknown reason, Portgas D. Ace suddenly and mysteriously disappeared for half a year.
In May of Sea Circle Calendar 1519, Fire Fist Ace, who had been missing for half a year, suddenly disbanded the Spade Pirates and reappeared before the world's eyes as a member of the Whitebeard Pirates.
Then, in just one short month, he went from being an ordinary crew member to quickly becoming the commander of the Whitebeard Pirates' Second Division.
The inconclusive challenge and the sudden mysterious disappearance led the world to speculate whether he had lost to Marco.
Or perhaps the person he challenged wasn't Marco at all, but the World's Strongest Man, and after being defeated, his entire crew was absorbed.
Whatever the reason...
Ace, just like in the original story, ultimately became the commander of the Whitebeard Pirates' Second Division.
His status in the New World rose rapidly, and his reputation, far from falling, actually increased.
Previously, although Ace had proven himself in the New World, becoming a great pirate with a bounty of 711 million Berries.
But in the entire Spade Pirates, apart from the captain whose bounty was in the hundreds of millions, the other crew members were only worth tens of millions; there wasn't even a single member whose bounty barely broke 100 million.
Excluding Fire Fist Ace, the Spade Pirates were a fodder-level pirate crew in the New World, this strongest of seas, and simply couldn't compare to those great pirate crews.
In contrast, there was Karl's Gran Tesoro.
Excluding the captain, Dragon Knight Karl, there was the Blue-Eyes White Dragon capable of holding off a Marine Admiral, the strategic Float-Float Fruit, the absolute defense of the Barrier-Barrier Fruit, the absolute control of the Hollow-Hollow Fruit, and so on...
The overall strength of the Spade Pirates meant that in the eyes of the major powers, Ace's threat level was very average.
But now...
Ace had disbanded the Spade Pirates and joined the Whitebeard Pirates with his companions, not just becoming one of their subordinate crews.
Without the weakness of the Spade Pirates, Ace's threat level instantly rose to the same level as the Big Mom Pirates' Four Sweet Commanders or the Beasts Pirates' Three Calamities.
Throughout the New World, he was now unquestionably a major figure.
These were the benefits of becoming Whitebeard's son.
Sixteen division commanders, forty-three subordinate pirate crews—the strength and foundation of the strongest pirate crew in the New World.
In terms of power, among the Four Emperors, only Charlotte Linlin's Big Mom Pirates could contend with the Whitebeard Pirates.
Having obtained the fatherly love he had always longed for, Ace also declared that his ambitions would stop here.
The aura of the "Child of the Era" gradually began to fade from him.
The mysterious and profound luck began to shift to other rookies.
Not long after Portgas D. Ace became one of the major figures of the New World as the commander of the Whitebeard Pirates' Second Division.
A pirate rookie with titles such as the "Pirate Prince," "Kamaitachi of Rommel," and "White Horse" Cavendish, with his idol-like handsome appearance and extremely powerful strength, was quickly given a bounty of 280 million Berries. He appeared on the front pages and real-time rankings of the World Economic Journal and various gossip magazines, was crowned with the name "Gorgeous Supernova," and instantly caused a sensation around the world.
During the year or so that Karl had kept a low profile, the vortex of the era had begun to spin.
Next year, after the true child of destiny set sail, this Great Pirate Era would be completely ignited.
But these things, for the time being, had nothing to do with Karl.
On an island in the Boin Archipelago.
The Gourmet Paradise, which had been eaten clean, then grew back, then was eaten clean again, and continued to grow back, was now like a wasteland.
"Buru buru... buru buru..."
From a dried-up drink pit, the sound of a Den Den Mushi's call suddenly came.
"Moshi moshi... Karl, are you finished over there?"
"Yeah... you can come back."
"Wait for me, I'll come back to get you right away!"
From the bottom of the dimly lit pit, a girl's pleasantly surprised voice sounded.
But the voice that responded to the other end of the Den Den Mushi was slightly hoarse.
The girl, noticing the change in his voice, didn't chat long and hung up directly.
A few minutes later, a figure 1.95 meters tall struggled to climb out from the bottom of the pit.
His sturdy upper body was bare, his skin was crimson, and he was emitting white steam.
The pants on his lower half had turned multicolored, stained with juice in many places.
If he hadn't washed and dried them with electric heat every day, they would probably have long been emitting a pungent stench.
After climbing out of the drink pit, Karl lay directly on the ground. Seeing the blue sky and realizing it was daytime, he closed his green eyes.
The next second, he sank into a deep sleep.
The color of his skin grew even more crimson, and the white steam became thicker, as if his body were on fire.
Similar to Luffy's Second Gear, which used his rubber body to accelerate blood flow.
The blood in Karl's body was indeed accelerating, and his trillions of cells were bursting with astonishing vitality.
Both his physical and spiritual energy were skyrocketing at an incredible rate in this state called "evolution."
Because of the evolution, Karl, who clearly rested on time every day and didn't feel mentally fatigued at all, had fallen asleep in an instant.
And this sleep lasted for another three days.
The duration of this evolution was clearly longer than the first and second times.
Of course...
If one thought that the sleeping Karl was at his weakest moment, that would be a grave mistake.
Karl, who possessed top-tier perception and Life Return, would automatically attack any enemy who showed malicious intent, even in his sleep.
Karl, in his evolutionary state, would deliver every strike with 200% critical power.
If someone were to try to attack him at this moment, it would only mean that they were seeking their own death.
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