When the Three Kingdoms' legendary warlord Cao Mengde and his civil and military retainers accidentally tumble into the world of pirates, this sea of Devil Fruits and Haki is destined to be rocked by a storm unlike any other.
Making the Flower Country his base, he recruits Guan Yu and brings Guo Jia into his service, weaving the stratagems of the Three Kingdoms into the struggles of the pirate world. He uses “Longlife Rice” to counterbalance the Four Emperors' Big Mom, leverages “Golden Silk” to tap into the Celestial Dragons' wealth, arms Guan Yu with “All Things Can Be Cut,” and uses the Silk-Silk and Gold-Gold Fruits to spin an inescapable web of commerce and battle formations.
From Totto Land's sweet traps to the pirate clashes at Edd War, from Wano's Seastone mines to Fish-Man Island's Poneglyphs, Cao Mengde advances one careful step at a time. He must contend with top pirates like Roger and the Golden Lion, while also facing the World Government's schemes. His strategists are as numerous as the rain: Guo Jia's ingenious plans, Jia Xu's poisonous schemes, and Cheng Yu's iron hand. His fierce generals are just as plentiful: Guan Yu's Green Dragon Crescent Blade cleaves through Devil Fruit powers, Xu Chu's twin hammers smash Marine defenses, and even the Charlotte sisters join the fray with butter and blades.
The four Road Poneglyphs are the keys to the final island, and a vortex that will set the world spinning. When the Three Kingdoms' grand ambition collides with the pirates' defiance of heaven, and a warlord who would “rather betray the world than let the world betray him” meets pirates who believe “freedom is justice,” who will claim ultimate dominion over these seas?
This is a quest for supremacy across time and space. With the spirit of the Han, Cao Mengde will write his own “Strategy for Surveying the Sea” in this strange and wondrous world.
