After the meal began, no one chatted.
Including Shanks, who loved to party, he was only tasting the delicacies of the Golden Nation.
After all, although these five people were existences of the same level.
But in fact, except for Karl and Shanks, the other three were ambitious people eyeing the cake of the New World, and even the Pirate King and the entire world.
If it weren't for giving face to Karl, the World's Strongest Man, they wouldn't have appeared here at all.
Like Charlotte Linlin and Kaido, two former companions, they hadn't seen each other for decades.
They all regarded each other as enemies.
It was better not to chat. If they did, it would definitely be full of hostility, and they might even fight on the spot.
"...Kid, you didn't call us here just to treat us to a meal, did you?!"
After the meal, Kaido, who had the least patience, looked at Karl and asked in a deep voice.
As Kaido took the initiative to break the atmosphere, Shanks and the others, who were picking their teeth, also turned their gazes to Karl.
"Of course not..."
Taking the handkerchief handed by Shiroori, Karl wiped his mouth and smiled meaningfully, "I invited you seniors here this time to share something with you."
"Something?"
Hearing Karl's words, a trace of vigilance flashed in the eyes of Kaido and Charlotte Linlin.
As the two pirate emperors who understood Karl the best, Kaido and Charlotte Linlin knew very well that this brat before them never did anything that didn't benefit him.
Five words could describe Karl—an egoist!
But not an ordinary egoist.
Other egoists, as long as they could gain benefits and advantages, didn't care about having a bad reputation.
This brat before them, however, wanted not only benefits but also a good reputation.
Not being a pirate?!
Killing others and snatching the fruits of their years of effort, how was this behavior different from a pirate?
But Karl actually did it.
Using public opinion to pour all the dirty water on the Celestial Dragons of Mary Geoise and Marine Headquarters, he forcibly turned this pirate-like behavior into legitimate self-defense and whitewashed himself.
After occupying Gildo Tesoro's Gran Tesoro, he even formed an alliance with Doflamingo, a legal pirate, and became the richest man in the world in just five years. His territory was also the world's number one money-maker, a recognized resort destination.
Would such an extreme egoist be willing to share good things with them?!
Kaido and Charlotte Linlin would only believe Karl's nonsense if they beat each other silly.
"Oh? Sharing something?"
However, Shanks and Blackbeard, who didn't know Karl particularly well, looked at him with interest.
Snap—Whoosh!
Karl didn't speak, just snapped his fingers with the corners of his mouth slightly raised.
Then, a seven-colored light shot out from Karl's hand.
The seven-colored light was not an attack. Before it flew half a meter, it disappeared.
Or rather, it entered a space that ordinary people couldn't touch.
The next second...
The space above the round golden dining table suddenly distorted.
A spatial gate similar to the air door of the Paramecia Door-Door Fruit, but twisted and circular like a black hole, appeared in the eyes of the four pirate emperors and their first mates.
"..."
Looking at the spatial gate in front of them, Shanks and the other three couldn't help but widen their eyes to the fullest.
On the other side of the spatial gate was a desolate desert with wind and sand flying.
"The thing I want to share with you is... another world!"
Karl snapped his fingers again.
The spatial gate floating above the round golden dining table instantly expanded and covered Karl and the other ten people in an instant.
Like spatial teleportation, Karl and the other ten people disappeared from the luxurious restaurant out of thin air.
Along with them, the golden table and chairs also disappeared.
Whoosh—
It wasn't until more than an hour later that the seven-colored light shone again, distorting the space.
Karl and the other ten people, along with the golden table and chairs, reappeared in the spacious restaurant.
Everything just now seemed like an illusion.
But the excitement on the faces of the three pirate emperors, Blackbeard, Kaido, and Charlotte Linlin, and Shanks's serious expression, no longer laughing and joking, showed that the scene just now was not an illusion.
"Senior Kaido, Senior Linlin, Senior Shanks, Senior Teach..."
The moment they returned, Karl issued an invitation to the Four Emperors in front of him: "Let's form an alliance!"
"Zehahaha... Senior Karl, your invitation honors me greatly!"
"I agree."
"Me too. From now on, we are allies!"
Facing Karl's invitation, Blackbeard, Kaido, and Charlotte Linlin didn't hesitate at all, instead nodding eagerly in agreement.
Seeing the three of them nod, Karl couldn't help but look at the hesitant Shanks.
And so, the gazes of Blackbeard and the other two also turned to Shanks.
Kaido said impatiently, "`Red Hair, what's with that expression? Is it so hard to say whether you're joining or not?"
However, Shanks ignored Kaido completely, staring at Karl and asking, "Karl, what is that thing called?"
"The Twin-Travel Gate, also known as the Space-Time Gate."
Karl said slowly, "As the name suggests, it's a gate that allows free travel between two worlds."
That's right, the Twin-Travel Gate!
The item Karl drew from the Egg Smasher System in his fourth draw.
Like the Spear of Mystery and the Blue-Eyes White Dragon, the Twin-Travel Gate was the third item soul-bound to Karl.
That door of nothingness without a physical form, as long as it was summoned, could tear open space, no... more accurately, tear open the world.
On the other side of the Space-Time Gate was another world.
With this door, Karl gained a passage to another world.
What was even more terrifying was that because this door was a door of nothingness, it had no size, no height, could not be destroyed, and could not be touched...
The condition for use was just a trivial amount of stamina!
As the master of the Twin-Travel Gate, Karl only needed to consume a little stamina to open the Space-Time Gate, and by consuming a little more stamina, he could freely control the size of the passage.
The reason Karl and Shiroori disappeared for a few hours in the early morning of January 1st.
Was because they went to explore that other world.
After initially grasping the intelligence of that world and determining its difficulty, Karl decided to invite the other Four Emperors, issue an alliance invitation to them, and share that other world.
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