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However, they did not expect that while they held back, one of the guys next to them would act so recklessly that he attacked the Celestial Dragons without thinking!

"It seems I arrived too late; I didn't get to see the show I had imagined."

However, I'd like to give you a friendly reminder: if you continue to blame each other here, you'll soon be surrounded by the Navy.

Before I came here, I saw that quite a few navy personnel had already gathered outside.

The one who spoke was none other than Wood, who had just arrived at Sabaody Archipelago with Robin and his new follower Perona, ready to watch the show.

Unfortunately, Wood arrived a little late. Charles Saint was lying to the side with his face swollen like a pig's head, clearly having already been beaten up.

Because the attack on the Celestial Dragons was extremely serious, the Marines stationed there knew that if anything happened to the Celestial Dragons, they would not only lose their jobs, so they had already gathered their forces and blocked the entrance.

"Wood (the naval traitor Wood), what are you doing here!"

Everyone was surprised to see Wood appear. The Straw Hat crew, Kid, and Law were all astonished. As for Rayleigh, he was from the previous era and had long since retired from the scene.

But the naval traitor Wood is different. He is currently a top-tier powerhouse on the high seas. Kidd and Law really don't understand why such a big shot would suddenly appear in this place.

"Would you believe me if I said I just happened to be passing by?"

Luffy beats up a Celestial Dragon, and Admiral Kizaru, the ultimate slacker, utterly crushes a "Supernova." With such a great show unfolding, Wood, who's bored out of his mind, naturally doesn't mind coming here to watch the live broadcast.

Unfortunately, he arrived too late. When he got there, Saint Charles was already lying dead to the side.

Meanwhile, Wood was also quite puzzled. Hachi and Camie were both on his island, so why were the Straw Hat crew fighting with the Celestial Dragons again?

“Excellent, Mr. Wood. I didn’t expect you to be here. Please take care of these lowly people who defied the Roswald family. We will reward you handsomely afterwards.”

Surprisingly, when Wood appeared at the auction, it wasn't just the pirates present who recognized him; even the Celestial Dragons recognized him.

And a woman with brown hair, wearing a bubble cap, sunglasses, and a scarf covering her face, looked at Wood with a happy expression and said this.

The other person's name is Ruria, the eldest daughter of Saint Roswald, the younger sister of Saint Charlos, and also a member of the Celestial Dragons, a world noble.

The reason why the other party would recognize Wood is quite simple: because of their cooperation with the Golden Emperor Tesoro, many so-called "world nobles" are actually supported by them.

Even among the Celestial Dragons, the world's nobles, there are family divisions and their own classes of contempt, although they all act arrogantly in front of ordinary people.

However, when facing their fellow members of the world's nobility, there are still differences in their status and position.

We are all "descendants of the Creator," and in terms of identity alone, we are all quite similar.

Since their statuses are similar, and they are ranked differently, they need to compete in other ways, such as the wealth or influence of their families.

Most Celestial Dragons are lazy bums who live off others, and their income usually comes from "heavenly gold" offered by various countries.

Since his family, being fellow Celestial Dragons, can receive a share of the Celestial Gold, other families can too, wouldn't that make everyone equal?

For this reason, in order to enhance their family's influence in the Holy Land of Mary Geoise, many Celestial Dragon families have chosen to "rely on outsiders".

The so-called "external aid" is to provide them with funds to squander and show off, and to give them a certain influence on the sea. In exchange, the Celestial Dragons will use their status as "world nobles" to open doors of convenience for them.

In other words, this is also a kind of cooperative relationship. Just like how Doflamingo, although he was kicked out of the Celestial Dragons, was still able to get along well in the World Government because he also had his own partners in the Holy Land Mary Geoise.

Without a doubt, Tezzolo is the richest man in the world, even known as the Golden Emperor, while Wood controls all the world's arms trade.

The two were in cahoots and had money, connections, and power, so they naturally attracted the attention of many Celestial Dragons.

The Roswald family, members of the Celestial Dragons, are among Wood's partners with Tesoro. In order to gain more support from Wood and his allies and to achieve a more powerful position among the Celestial Dragons, the Roswald family even promised to make Wood a Celestial Dragon.

Making Wood a world nobleman is also very simple: just have Wood marry into the family. As long as he marries his eldest daughter, Lyria Palace, he can be given the Roswald surname.

Of course, Wood ultimately refused. It wasn't that 17-year-old Lyria was unattractive, but Wood didn't want to be a fool wandering around in bulky protective suits every day.

Furthermore, it's obvious to anyone with eyes that the Celestial Dragons are definitely the villains of this world, and it's only a matter of time before they are swept aside by the protagonist and the Revolutionary Army. If he were to rush to join them and act as their sycophant now, wouldn't that be pure idiocy?

Chapter 392 The General Who Slacks Off Makes His Debut

The Celestial Dragons look down on all species other than the Celestial Dragons, but it must be said that they are still somewhat special to Wood and his group, these special "sugar daddies".

In order to have more money to squander, Wood and Tesoro even had quite a few Celestial Dragons' sycophants.

Tesoro was once a slave of the Celestial Dragons, so he now revels in the thrill of controlling them with money. He even recently started thinking about marrying into a Celestial Dragon family, then undermining them from within, and even annexing them.

Wood had tried to persuade them several times, saying that villains were just experience packs for the protagonists, and that if they were to casually intercept such old-fashioned characters, things could go wrong.

However, Tesoro, driven by his thirst for revenge, completely ignored Wood's advice and was determined to avenge his ex-girlfriend.

Helpless against Tezzolo's stubbornness, Wood had no choice but to have "Wood Arms Company" suspend cooperation with some of Tezzolo's industries.

Anyway, now that he's here, Wood has enough financial resources and connections to establish himself on the high seas, even without the economic tycoon Tezzolo.

It's understandable that Luria Palace would seek help from Wood, because in her view, they are still in a cooperative relationship, and if the Roswald family were to die here, Wood's business would also be affected.

At first, Luria Palace didn't quite believe that anyone in the world would dare to lay a hand on them, but when she saw her father, Saint Roswald, and her brother, Saint Charlos, still lying on the ground foaming at the mouth, Luria Palace instantly lost her composure.

These lowly people are simply insane. Luria Palace doesn't want to end up like her father and brother, beaten black and blue on the ground, and she certainly doesn't want to be killed here.

Even if a naval admiral arrives and avenges her, what good is it if she dies?

How can the lives of a few lowly commoners be compared to the Palace of Luria?

Rulya Palace had heard of Wood's reputation on the high seas. Besides being the world's largest arms dealer, Rulya Palace also knew that he was a very powerful figure.

The slaves and guards around her are no longer reliable, as they have all been defeated by Luffy and his crew. So now, Lyria can only hope that Wood can help her.

Upon hearing what Lyria Palace said, both Kidd and Law looked at Wood with wary expressions.

There's no way around it; a person's name carries the weight of their reputation. Wood is a figure on par with the "Four Emperors" on the high seas, and even if Kid, the No. 1 Supernova, is arrogant, he still feels that he can challenge him at this stage.

If Kidd was like this, then Law was even more so. To him, Wood was one of his benefactors, which is why he initially addressed Wood as "Mr. Wood".

Robbie Kidd had a deeper understanding of Wood's strength, even though he was young at the time, he had indeed witnessed Wood in battle.

He had always wanted to defeat Doflamingo and feared him. More than ten years ago, he had been humiliated by Wood. Even now, Wood had become someone that Doflamingo was afraid to offend.

"I'm sorry, Miss Lydia, although I am a pirate with some strength, the guys in front of you are not ordinary pirates."

They are the supernovas of the pirate world, with bounties of 200 million, 300 million, and 315 million Berries respectively. That's almost as many as the heads of people with my 1 billion Berry bounty.

"If I'm alone, I might not be a match for the three of them, so taking them down is impossible. At most, I can only guarantee you won't get beaten up."

The Lyria Palace clearly lacked common sense and had no concept of the so-called strong people on the high seas.

She had heard before that pirates on the high seas were judged by the size of their bounties. If the combined bounties of these three people were really close to one billion Berries, it seemed not impossible that Wood, with his one billion Berries net worth, couldn't defeat them.

Unfortunately, Lydia Palace overlooked one thing: even if Luffy and his two crew members' bounties were added together, they wouldn't reach 1 billion Berries.

Furthermore, the reason why Wood's bounty is only one billion Berries is because many years ago, the Navy dropped the manhunt for him because of the Celestial Dragons, so his bounty has remained at one billion Berries.

If Wood is still wanted, based on his recent battles with Big Mom and Kaido, his bounty is conservatively estimated to be at least 3 billion Berries.

Luffy has no interest in hitting women, and Kid isn't a madman like Luffy; he doesn't want to get into trouble by fighting Celestial Dragons.

As for Law, he was even more rational than Kidd. Besides, since Wood had said that, he had to give him that much face.

"Eustas Kid, Straw Hat Luffy, Trafalgar Law, you are surrounded by the Marines..."

Luffy originally wanted to catch up with Wood, and even challenge him to a duel to prove his recent gains and get revenge for being humiliated in Alabasta. However, at this moment, a standard Navy extra's speech rang out outside the auction hall.

The navy outside the auction venue was the main navy stationed in the Sabaody Archipelago, and the person who had just spoken was a naval captain.

There are many naval outposts at sea. Although the Sabaody Archipelago is quite close to the naval headquarters, it is only one of the outposts.

Furthermore, compared to naval branches in other places, the branch in the Sabaody Archipelago can be described as the most thankless and arduous naval deployment.

Others are far from the emperor's reach, so they just skim some profits whenever they have free time, and every now and then they take their naval warships out for a couple of laps at sea, and that's considered their mission accomplished.

Because the Sabaody Archipelago is so far from headquarters, there are almost no loopholes to exploit. Furthermore, due to the large number of pirates and criminals, this branch is so busy every day that it's exhausting.

However, in terms of workload alone, although the naval branch in the Sabaody Archipelago has many branches, it is not entirely without advantages compared to other branches. That is, because it is close to the Naval Headquarters, it is absolutely safe.

Unlike other branches, they won't occasionally encounter some tough pirate characters and get wiped out in one fell swoop.

Today, the naval captain stationed in the Sabaody Archipelago was just about to make himself a cup of coffee to get on with his busy work when a messenger rushed in and reported an urgent matter.

"A Celestial Dragon, a world noble, was beaten up by a Supernova pirate on the island!"

Good heavens, when the naval captain heard the news, his head was buzzing, because he knew very well what kind of people the World Nobles were, and what consequences their naval forces stationed there would face if something went wrong.

Taking the bounty poster handed to him by the sergeant, the Marine Captain's face darkened even more as he looked at Luffy, Kid, and Law's faces.

The culprits who attacked the Celestial Dragons were three guys with bounties of over 100 million, and the colonel carefully reviewed their files and found that none of them were simple.

Especially that guy with the straw hat who smiles like a goofball, who actually once defeated one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea!

Despite feeling a growing headache, the admiral quickly gathered enough men to surround the entire slave auction.

There was no other way. Although he knew that the "supernova" on the island was not someone he could mess with, far beyond what a mere naval captain like himself could handle, the matter involved world nobles, so even if he didn't want to go, he had no choice but to bite the bullet and go.

"Colonel, we have surrounded the entire slave auction, but no one has come out, and we haven't seen the Roswald family either."

The sergeant, who had set up the defenses and brought out all the weapons in stock, saluted the colonel and reported.

"Have you reached the Marine Headquarters yet? They are supernovas with an average bounty of 300 million Berries. With our combat power, we simply cannot stop them. We need more support."

Even before heading here, the colonel had ordered the sergeant to contact headquarters, stating that they had already engaged in fierce fighting with the pirates who attacked the Celestial Dragons, but their fighting strength was far inferior to the enemy, resulting in heavy losses...

Regardless of whether a fight broke out or not, the important thing is to portray their valiant resistance first. That way, even if they are held accountable later, they can at least have something to say about it.

"Headquarters has responded, asking us to hold on a little longer. Lord Sentomaru of the Research Department has dispatched the latest 'Pacifista' research to provide support here."

Regarding combat strength, since the Celestial Dragons are involved, the Marine Headquarters has decided to dispatch Admiral Kizaru, one of its top combatants, to suppress the pirates.

Upon hearing that headquarters had dispatched a naval admiral, the naval captain in the Sabaody Archipelago immediately felt reassured.