International Charity Alliance’s temple — Putekoloni!
The evening sea breeze carrying a salty and humid scent swept past the vermilion palace walls.
The originally peaceful and solemn Buddhist hall and treasury were currently being thrown into complete disarray by the executives of the Rocks Pirates.
“Transport all of it away!” Ochoku looked greedily at the mountains of treasure piled up on the ground.
“This is truly an incredible amount!”
“Thank you for your hard work!
We’ll take all of it!”
A bald elderly monk tremblingly stood in front of them, bitterly pleading with this group of demons in front of him to put down the treasure belonging to the temple.
“You can’t do this!
This is charity money…”
“Tch!
Who are you trying to fool!
Looking at each of your fat-eared appearances just makes people feel disgusted!”
“You never even thought about distributing these treasures to the poor and orphans!”
Charlotte Linlin kicked away the elderly monk blocking her path, and ran towards the main entrance carrying a full bag of treasure.
Spartan and Ochoku similarly hoisted bundles filled with treasure, laughing as they followed behind Linlin and left.
“Hey!
Ochoku, put down the ladder!”
The Den Den Mushi in Ochoku’s hand suddenly rang, transmitting Newgate’s voice.
Deep within the underground treasury, Whitebeard looked up at the high entrance above his head.
“Shiki!” Ochoku shouted towards Shiki on the side.
Shiki put on an expression of sudden realization, patting his own forehead.
“Oh no!
I forgot Newgate and the others in the treasury!”
Shiki’s words carried apology, but the cannonball in his hand was already lit, and he casually tossed it toward the treasury entrance.
“Oops!
My hand slipped!”
What Whitebeard saw when he looked up was not the lowered ladder, but a cannonball whose fuse was about to burn to the end.
“Bang!!!”
The cannonball instantly blew apart the entrance of the treasury, and also enraged Whitebeard.
Whitebeard activated the Tremor-Tremor Fruit, and visible white ripples emerged in the air, causing the entire temple to shake violently.
The seawater around the island churned endlessly, whipping up giant waves, and the entire island began to crack and collapse from its foundation.
Inside the treasury, everything turned upside down, and everyone constantly stumbled and rolled along with the shaking ground.
Until all the buildings on the island collapsed into a pile of ruins, the tremors slowly stopped.
Dust filling the sky covered the entire island, and two robust figures slowly walked out from the smoke and dust.
“Such powerful destructive force!”
“I want one too!”
Kaido, carrying a spiked club, looked at Newgate with some envy.
Rector’s Rumble-Rumble Fruit and Newgate’s Tremor-Tremor Fruit both carried this world-destroying power.
He tightly clenched the spiked club in his hand, making up his mind in his heart that he must find a legendary-grade Devil Fruit.
“Devil Fruits have to be searched for slowly!
A person can only eat one Devil Fruit in their lifetime!”
“After all, once you eat a Devil Fruit, you are forsaken by the sea for the rest of your life.”
Silver Axe, whose head was smashed bloody by stones, crawled out from the rubble heap and roared at Ochoku.
“Which bastard threw the cannonball just now?!”
Ochoku raised his hand and pointed at Shiki floating in the sky.
Shiki floated in mid-air, putting on a very surprised look.
“Oh!
Tyrant, you’re still alive!
I was so worried about you!”
The enraged Silver Axe didn’t care what Shiki said, and rushed up holding his axe, intending to chop Shiki to death.
“Do less boring things, hurry up, are the treasures all okay?”
Rocks stood on the highest rock of the ruins, confirming that all the treasures were intact.
As for Shiki and Silver Axe, who were entangled in mid-air, he didn’t even spare them an extra glance.
In his eyes, someone who could be killed by a single bomb was not worthy of being his crew member.
“Gahahahaha!
I said there was a massive amount of treasure here, everyone has made a fortune!”
Shiki, who had a small skirmish with Silver Axe, smugly flew back, his clothes still stained with gravel chips.
“Shiki!
If you ever dare to do this again next time, I’ll sink you into the sea!”
Whitebeard angrily issued a warning to Shiki.
“Just joking, I won’t dare to joke with you guys ever again!”
Shiki’s attitude toward Whitebeard was clearly different from his attitude toward Silver Axe.
Seeing that Whitebeard was truly angry, he still gave the respect that was due.
“Buru Buru…”
The ringing of the Den Den Mushi suddenly sounded, and Charlotte Linlin pulled a Den Den Mushi out from her chest.
“Mama!
Where are you guys?
Why is there not a single person on Hachinosu?”
Rector’s voice came from the other end of the Den Den Mushi.
“Mama is outside plundering treasure!”
“Treasure?
You guys are at Putekoloni?”
“That’s right!”
“Mama, extract the lifespans of all the monks inside the temple!
I have a use for them!”
“Hurry back!
Compared to the treasure I have here, what you guys looted is far too little!”
“Click!”
Rector directly hung up the phone, and the gazes of the Rocks Pirates executives all fell uniformly onto Linlin.
“Such a big mouth!
What place could possibly have more treasure than here?!”
Streusen spoke up at an inopportune time, and this sentence happened to hit right on the thoughts in the executives’ hearts.
“Mamamama!
Everything Rector said is true!”
Charlotte Linlin placed her hands on her hips, as if she hadn’t heard Streusen’s questioning.
Her right hand flashed with pure white energy, and she grabbed into thin air towards all the surviving monks in the arena.
Clusters of milky-white energy floated out from the bodies of the monks; these were the lifespans extracted by the ability of the Soul-Soul Fruit.
And the monks whose lifespans were extracted aged and withered at a speed visible to the naked eye, finally turning into corpses and collapsing onto the cold gravel ground.
“Why are you all looking at me?” Charlotte Linlin directly stuffed the collected lifespans into Napoleon’s body for storage.
Turning her head, she saw Whitebeard and the others all looking over, yet felt that their gazes didn’t seem to be landing on her, so she turned her head back.
On the distant sea level, dozens of Marine warships were sailing in formation, and the seagull symbol on the sails was particularly conspicuous in the sea breeze.
Rocks stood on the reef by the seaside, looking toward the approaching fleet, his right hand resting on the hilt of the sword at his waist.
“It seems this was premeditated.” Shiki looked at the fleet, whose scale was comparable to a Buster Call, a crazy smile appearing on his face.
“Gahahahaha!
If you want to arrest me, send Kong and Garp; you guys aren’t qualified enough!”
Rocks drew the eclipse from his waist, the long blade gleaming coldly in the setting sun.
“Sink them for me, plunder them!”
Rocks took the lead, swinging out a heavy slash like a cannonball, heavily smashing toward the warship closest to him.
The violent impact directly blasted the warship in half at the waist, and the hull instantly broke into two sections and sank into the sea.
Facing the most vicious pirate group in the world, these Marine soldiers couldn’t even withstand a single move from Rocks.
Two years after the establishment of the Rocks Pirates, the number of launching attack incidents had already reached sixteen.
Including destroying a country, destroying five towns, burning fourteen ports, and sinking seventy-six ships.
There were three incidents violating Article 18 of the World Laws, and twenty-five criminal records that had already been erased…
Rocks used his own strength to brand this era with the mark belonging to Rocks.
At the same time, the island of “Enisi” in the New World.
The seawater in the port rippled with dark blue waves, and the ships docked at the shore were gently rocked by the sea breeze.
Harald came into conflict with the agents of the World Government.
The agents on the ship held firearms, their muzzles aimed uniformly at the man on the shore whose physique was like a small mountain.
His figure was far taller and more robust than ordinary Giant Race members.
He sported a thick mustache whose two ends were sharp and curled upwards.
His eyebrows were uneven, as if polished by wind and snow, and the beard on both sides of the corners of his mouth was similarly slender and sharp.
Inscribed on his left temple was a double-line tattoo, and on his forehead, a pair of backward-curving giant horns gleamed with a cold, hard metallic luster under the illumination of the lights.
That was the symbol of the Ancient Giant bloodline.
The King of Elbaf — Harald.
“Step aside!
Harald, non-affiliated countries are lawless zones for us.”
“The people here have no human rights to speak of!”
The agent stood on the deck and shouted coldly toward Harald.
“The world doesn’t have such a rule!”
“This country once helped us unconditionally when Elbaf was suffering from famine.”
“Now is the time to repay the favor, and I will absolutely not back down here.”
Harald stood on the pier opposite the ship’s rail, roaring at the agents on board, his eyes fixed dead on the people bound by ropes on the deck.
“Hey!
Harald, Elbaf cannot be considered an affiliated country right now!”
The agent aimed his pistol at the bound person behind him, his finger resting on the trigger.
“Right now you are merely the king of a kingdom hoping to join the World Government!”
“Do you know what you’re doing?”
“I won’t say it a second time!
Step aside!”
The agent casually pulled the trigger, shooting dead a bound woman with a single shot, her body rolling along the deck toward the edge of the ship.
This action completely enraged Harald.
“You guy!
You’re not human at all!”
An enraged Harald drew the greatsword from his waist and fiercely chopped down toward the ship where the agents were.