Starting with One Piece, a Multiverse Simulation

Similarly, Russ's Dragon-Dragon Fruit—Ancient Zoan—Mosasaurus is also like this. As the ruler of the ocean in the Middle Ages, Russ can breathe in the ocean and maintain a certain level of mobility. However, because Devil Fruit users are all restrained by the sea, Russ's strength in the seawater will be suppressed to some extent.

On land, Russ in his Mosasaurus form can reach a length of over twenty meters, but in the sea, his size can only be maintained at around ten meters.

Even so, it's still incredibly impressive, considering that only a very small number of Devil Fruit users can avoid the curse of becoming unable to swim.

Mosasaurus is a creature that can unleash its strongest fighting power in the ocean, but now it is not as effective as it is on land. However, there are always trade-offs. At least Ruth is one of the few ability users who are not afraid of water, and the thick skin of the Ancient Species has also increased Ruth's fighting power.

In terms of combat strength, Wood felt that when Ruth got serious, Robin was slightly stronger.

However, while Ruth has increased his strength over the years, his intelligence hasn't improved much at all. So if Wood had to choose someone as his second-in-command, he would definitely choose Robin.

After all, Robin knows how to analyze situations, while Ruth only has muscles. Besides, having a beautiful secretary by your side is much better than having a grown man by your side, isn't it?

The Four Emperors have dominated the seas for many years and each has their own territory. The Totto Land waters in the New World belong to the Big Mom Pirates.

Big Mom occupied this sea area and established the Kingdom of Totto Land, also known as the Kingdom of Totto Land.

Big Mom's wish was to transform Totland into a place where multiple races could live together, and to make it a utopia that would unite all the races of the world.

The Kingdom of Totto Land is centered around Whole Cake Island, with 34 islands scattered around it, each governed by one of 34 "ministers". Big Mom is the true queen of this kingdom.

Tottoland's goal was to become a home where almost all races and tribes of the world could live in harmony. After many years of effort, only three races remain outside Tottoland.

They are the Giants, the Lunaria, to which the "Fire King" belongs, and an unknown race.

One Piece fans should be quite familiar with the feud between the giants and Big Mom. As for the other two races, they are either few in number or simply impossible to find.

Because of her childhood experiences, Big Mom has the best feelings for the giants, but unfortunately, the giants regard Big Mom, who destroyed Elbaf, as their enemy.

Since she couldn't gain the approval of the giants and fulfill her wish, she had to find another way. So Big Mom turned to the Joker of the underworld and Caesar, who had been abandoned by the naval research team, to create the giant race herself.

Whole Cake Island, the largest island in the Kingdom and the center of the entire Kingdom, is naturally the location where Big Mom will hold her tea party.

Although there was still some time before the tea party began, some underworld emperors who had received invitations, as well as big shots from all levels of the New World, had already arrived in the Kingdom of Ten Thousand Kingdoms.

After all, the person in question is Big Mom, one of the Four Emperors, and she attaches great importance to this tea party every year. Even the emperors of the underworld have no right to put on airs in front of Big Mom.

The people participating in this tea party were all big shots in the maritime world, the most influential of whom were the six kings of the underworld:

King of loan sharks, Ludwig Ludwig, a dark financial lending tycoon in the underworld.

Stussy, the queen of the red-light districts, controls all the red-light districts of the underworld.

The Otsukumiya can be understood as the battlefield cleaners in the One Piece world or the people who handle the aftermath of pirates' deaths.

Morgans, the king of the newspapers, monopolized the maritime news industry, and those news birds that flew all over the world carrying newspapers were all his employees.

Gibbons, the king of the warehouse industry and the hoarder, is, as the name suggests, equivalent to a bank in modern society.

The Shipping King, deep within the Umit Ocean Current, controls numerous escort services on the high seas and is also the underground tycoon who collaborates most extensively with the Wood Arms Company.

Besides the six kings of the underworld, there is another old acquaintance of Wood here, Donquixote Doflamingo, who is now one of the "Seven Warlords of the Sea".

Doflamingo is the underworld boss in charge of the slave market business and various intermediaries. His status is even above the six kings of the underworld, and he is symbolized as the "Jack of Spades" in playing cards in the underworld.

However, Doflamingo didn't particularly like the nickname "Clown".

In the past, he would have really enjoyed his identity as the "Master of Scouts" in the underworld.

However, as Wood rose like a comet in the underworld, with money, power, and even greater strength, he directly took away Doflamingo's original sole "Joker" position.

The underworld is now rife with the claim that Doflamingo is merely the "Jackal" in the Joker deck, while Wood, the naval traitor who monopolizes the world's arms trade, is the "King."

You have to understand that the Don Quixote family's system is based on the playing card system. The "King," who is the highest and strongest, is not the head of the family himself, but an outsider. How can anyone tolerate that?

Over the years, Doflamingo has tried to kill Wood more than once, but things are different now. If the Donquixote Family used to have a slight chance of killing Wood because of their connections and relationships, now there is really no hope.

Now that Wood has partnered with the Golden Emperor Tesoro, he not only has Celestial Dragons as his sycophants, but his influence and connections have also spread throughout the entire sea.

The key point is that the Navy traitor Wood himself is incredibly strong. Doflamingo has suffered repeated defeats at his hands for many years, and even now he has a certain psychological trauma from him.

If we were to ask what Doflamingo regrets the most, one would be giving up his Celestial Dragon status with his brain-dead father, and the other would be offending Wood, that scoundrel, more than ten years ago.

Seeing that most of the people who were supposed to arrive had already arrived, and eagerly anticipating the delicious food she had prepared, Big Mom decided to start the tea party ahead of schedule.

Big Mom's children and the invited dignitaries were not surprised by this situation, as it was not the first time.

Big Mom's greatest hobby is eating, and she has an insatiable appetite. It's almost impossible for her to resist delicious food.

Moreover, the tea party was originally convened by Big Mom, so she could start whenever she wanted, and naturally no one else dared to have any objections.

However, this time, someone raised an objection to Big Mom's decision to start the tea party ahead of schedule.

What surprised Doflamingo and the other emperors of the underworld was that this person was none other than Stussy, the queen of the Pleasure District.

Those who have spent years in the underworld know that Stussy is no ordinary woman; she is extremely intelligent and cunning, otherwise she wouldn't have become the only female ruler in the underworld.

Chapter 324 The Big Mom Pirates' Desire for a Marriage Alliance with Wood

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However, it was precisely because Stussy was cautious and clever that Doflamingo and the other kings of the underworld were surprised that Stussy would actually come out at this time to contradict Big Mom.

Even when BIG MOM wasn't experiencing food cravings, she still maintained her rationality. However, she was still unhappy with Stuart, who was preventing her from enjoying the food ahead of time.

Even though Stusi is Big Mom's good friend, let alone a good friend, even her children would only be second to food in front of Big Mom.

"Lingling, I know that interrupting you from enjoying your meal made you very angry."

But the guests haven't all arrived yet, and the tea party hasn't started yet. Isn't it impolite to begin like this, given that we haven't arrived yet?

Upon hearing Stussy's words, Big Mom looked at her eldest son, Charlotte Perospero, with a questioning gaze.

As one of the three generals of desserts and also the Minister of Candy, Perospero looked at the list in his hand and compared it with the list of others present.

After a moment, Perospero looked up at Big Mom and said, "Mom, the rest of the people who didn't arrive are all insignificant little people. Even if we hold the tea party ahead of schedule, they wouldn't dare to have any objections."

Upon hearing Perospero's words, Stussy couldn't help but cover his mouth and laugh, then looked at Perospero and said, "What, so in the eyes of the Minister of Candy, the naval traitor Wood, who monopolized the entire world's arms trade, is now considered a nobody?"

Everyone present was clearly taken aback by what Stusi said.

Is Wood considered a nobody? If this guy is considered a nobody, then everyone else present, except for Big Mom herself, is probably a nobody.

However, although Big Mom invites Wood to her tea parties every year, the underworld's arms king seems to disregard the Four Emperors and has never attended Big Mom's tea parties.

“Lingling, I know you’ve always wanted to win over the naval traitor Wood and his weapons company, so this time I made a special effort to get in touch with him for you.”

And after my persuasion, he has agreed to attend this tea party, and should be on his way now. I think he should arrive in Wan Guo before the tea party officially begins.”

Upon hearing Stussy's words, the expressions of the people present varied, but undoubtedly, most showed surprise.

Doflamingo and the other underworld kings were wondering when Wood got together with Stussy.

As for Big Mom herself, she was quite happy at the moment. Without food cravings, Big Mom's intelligence was still quite on point.

At this moment, she naturally understood that winning over Wood was more important than enjoying the snacks first.

Her previous dissatisfaction with Stussy instantly turned into gratitude, and Big Mom even had someone prepare an extra dessert for Stussy, which was her favorite.

For Big Mom, who loves desserts, this is already a very respectable way to express her gratitude.

Seeing that Big Mom wasn't angry, but rather quite grateful to him, Stuart secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

To be honest, Stusey was quite surprised when she received the notification that the person assisting her in completing this mission was the naval traitor Wood.

However, while surprised, Stussy was also quite delighted, although she didn't know how the Navy had persuaded Wood to cooperate.

It must be said that Wood's strength and influence can significantly increase their chances of success in this mission.

Moreover, his actions just now not only delayed the tea party, buying Wood time, but also earned him Big Mom's favor.

Charlotte Linlin probably now believes that Wood's attendance at the tea party was all thanks to her, Stussy.

The tea party was postponed, but the emperors of the underworld didn't care. What puzzled them was why Wood had chosen to attend Big Mom's tea party this time.

It's important to understand that the reason Wood was able to operate in all three circles (the legitimate, criminal, and political spheres) in the past was because he consistently maintained a neutral stance.

Wood refused invitations from both the Big Mom Pirates and the Beasts Pirates, and that was for this very reason.

This is why Wood has remained unscathed despite not giving face to Big Mom and Kaido, two of the Four Emperors.

To put it simply, it's fine if Wood doesn't accept their offers, but he shouldn't go to the pirate crew of his arch-rival either.

But this time, the Navy traitor Wood actually came to attend Big Mom's tea party as usual. Could it be that between Big Mom and Kaido, the world's biggest arms dealer, Big Mom actually favors Big Mom more?

Or perhaps, as Stussy said, Wood came to the Land of Treasures entirely because of her?

Meanwhile, in Big Mom's castle, Big Mom was stuffing a huge piece of cake into her mouth with one hand while flipping through a photo album in the other.

This album, though called an album, is more like a roster, containing photos and ages of all of Big Mom's children, as well as their ethnicity and information.

There's no way around it; on the entire ocean, the crews with the most sons and daughters were the Big Mom Pirates and the Whitebeard Pirates.

These two Yonko pirate crews are more like large families bound together by kinship than typical pirate crews.

However, compared to Whitebeard, who cared more about each of his adopted sons, Big Mom did not pay much attention to her own children, and sometimes even treated them as mere tools.

The Charlotte family, founded by Big Mom, had a total of 43 husbands and 39 daughters and 46 sons.

With so many sons and daughters, Big Mom couldn't even remember the names of each one.

Big Mom naturally wouldn't forget those sons and daughters who performed exceptionally well in the family, such as the three Sweet Commanders, but she didn't pay much attention to those sons and daughters with ordinary talents.

For Big Mom, her sons and daughters were more often than not just tools to win over other races and powerful individuals.

For example, the reason Big Mom is looking through the roster is to find a suitable "target" to win over the upcoming Wood.