I guarded Impel Down for a hundred years in the pirate world.

Chapter 280 The New Era

The Celestial Dragons have been defeated! The Celestial Dragons, who have ruled the starry sky for 3200 years, have suffered a crushing defeat in their battle against the King of the Blue Sea and the Kings of the Starry Sky!

When the five Celestial Dragons were besieging the King of Qinghai, the legendary powerhouse Lenus was killed by the King of Qinghai through a star-piercing attack. The King of Qinghai then powerfully ascended to the top of the starry sky, unmatched in history!

The Queen of Will is actually a half-demon, a woman, who ignites five lamps and possesses unparalleled beauty!

Donal, the initiator of the Demon Clan Liberation Plan, was personally escorted by the King of Qinghai and banished to the Land of Light and Fire, never to return!

The Celestial Dragons withdrew all their agents from space, returned to Celestial Dragon Star, sent all the demons they had bred and raised off the planet, sealed off the ninth star ring, and closed the star gate!

Races such as the Yeti and Shadow have joined the Starry Sky Alliance to build a better starry sky together!

From now on, anyone who privately cultivates demons will be met with thunderous retaliation from the Starry Sky Gazette and the King of the Azure Sea. Any Devil Fruits created before this will not be subject to prosecution!

The demon race is about to migrate through space, relocating to the edge of the eastern cosmic sea to survive!

In the blink of an eye, nearly a month has passed since the fierce battle that took place on the desolate planet. News that shook the starry sky continues to emerge, profoundly affecting every planet connected to the stars, leaving people overwhelmed.

Everyone knows that after 3200 years of rule by the Celestial Dragons, a new era has begun.

Whether this era is good or bad is still unclear, but that doesn't stop everyone from celebrating the Celestial Dragons' defeat!

Those smaller clans that had been oppressed by the Celestial Dragons felt that things were not so bad now.

The Tianlong Star Factory on Ful Star was gone, and the pollution was gradually cleared. The king was rewarded for supporting the Starry Sky Newspaper at the first opportunity and was praised as wise by his ministers.

The bewildered demon hunters were personally received by Figo. After a long conversation in which no one knew the specifics, they praised Figo to everyone they met. Gradually, a trend began to emerge, with countless people making pilgrimages to the planetary passage that Figo had broken through.

The small group of demons, hiding in fear, searched for their organization. After confirming that they no longer needed to fear for survival, they were moved to tears.

Celebrations were held one after another.

Figo's name is celebrated by people.

Everything is moving in a positive direction.

……

"King of the Stars! King of the Stars!"

After confirming the environments of three habitable wastelands with Helam and settling the millions of ignorant demon children brought from Tianlong Star, Figo returned to Qinghai.

Countless excited roars from the navy headquarters echoed, celebrating Figo's return.

After talking with everyone for a long time, Figo finally led Sengoku and the others into the marshal's office.

"Grandpa Figo," Garp asked first, "I heard that brat Long appeared on that desolate planet, why didn't you bring him back!"

"Garp!" Sengoku interrupted angrily, "Lord Figo doesn't have time for that. He should take care of his own son! I'm sorry, Lord Figo, we've dragged you down again this time."

Figo was taken aback: "What?"

Sengoku said, "If it weren't for the concern that the Celestial Dragons might attack us at any cost, you would at least have banished all the Celestial Dragon Immortals to the Land of Light, or even killed them, wouldn't you?"

"Oh, this..." Figo shook his head and smiled, "Even without you, there's still the planet of the Starry Sky Kings. It's just that my strength isn't strong enough to make those immortals unable to escape. No rush, anyway, we've already achieved our goal. Tianlong Star won't be able to cause any more trouble. Let's take it slow."

"How's the preparation and acquisition of the airships I asked you to do going? Next, we'll help the demon race complete their great migration."

"Everything is ready!"

Sengoku immediately produced the data and reported the detailed figures and manpower distribution to Figo.

Figo nodded in satisfaction: "You're better at this than I am. Keep a close eye on things and make sure nothing goes wrong."

"Yes!" Sengoku replied, then hesitated for a moment before adding, "By the way, Lord Figo, there's one more thing... In recent years, our navy has had a record of encountering disasters in space during missions."

We initially thought that the casualties were simply over, but after learning about the place where the lights were being used, we realized that some of the sailors might still be alive. Some of their parents and family members even came to me...

"Do you have a way... to save them?"

Sengoku found the request unreasonable and was quite surprised. Figo raised an eyebrow and took the list from Sengoku.

There were quite a few Navy personnel lost in the starry sky. Figo glanced around and even recognized a familiar name: "Doflamingo..."

He had completely forgotten to pay attention to Doflamingo, who had become a Marine; he had no idea when that guy had gotten lost in space.

He immediately opened the prison file. Doflamingo's information had not changed to "dead," and the arrow was pointing directly downwards.

We went to the place where lights are kept!

“Tell their families to rest assured that the situation at the Land of Light is not so bad that it has been completely taken over by the demons. These marines might even have set up a naval branch there, showing off the might of our navy,” Figo said. “Also, Roger is going there, I’ll tell him to remember to look for it.”

“Roger?” Karp asked in surprise.

Sengoku was even more surprised, "You...you even know about the situation at the place where the lamplight resides?"

"I don't know, but someone does."

After the battle on the desolate planet that day, the peerless half-demon said to Figo: "You are wondering why I, who lit five lamps, did not protect my kin earlier."

They are not actually my kind. My people are all in the Land of the Lights. I am Asmodeus, a half-demon princess, who escaped from the Land of the Lights 120 years ago…

……

Meanwhile, somewhere on Tianlong Star, in a treasure vault.

Two Celestial Dragons carried the mechanical emperor, who was no longer able to move, over.

Their faces showed utter dejection.

A month has passed, and they still cannot accept the Celestial Dragons' fate as defeated.

"I heard that the reason why the Goddess Longhuyue went to the Land of Light was not because that damned King of Qinghai requested it, but because she defected!"

"Don't talk nonsense, how could that be?!"

"It's true, we will be defeated because of betrayal! Didn't you see that General Divishes was also relieved of his duties and sent to guard the Stargate?"

"impossible……"

As the two were talking, they put the repaired relic left by Lenos, the Mechanical Emperor, into the warehouse, but they didn't notice that the mechanical eyes of the mechanical race guarding the warehouse flickered slightly.

"Long Huyue...defected..."

Complex thinking that shouldn't exist appeared in a machine race member.

"Longhuyue...Xiaoyue..."

A scene appeared in its memory.

The tall, blue-haired youth stroked its head and said, "Poor thing, poor thing. Some people think the demon race is pitiful, but no one thinks that the mechanical race, as a created race, is the most pitiful."

From the moment you were born, your destiny was sealed—to guard the treasure vault, drifting aimlessly for a hundred years, ignored by all, until it decays and falls apart.

Me too, someone wanted to decide my fate, but thankfully, I escaped.

"There are some memories I don't want anymore, how about I lend them to you? Maybe one day, they'll change you a little because of them? Hahaha."

He tapped the machine's head, hesitated for a moment, and said, "That girl Xiaoyue... I'm a villain, love and romance are not my thing, so I'll give her to you, hahaha, a machine who understands love and romance? Interesting! Interesting!"

'I am... Blue Fravo?'

'No, I am... B6!'

Complex thoughts flashed through the single-celled machine's mind, and he became somewhat different, turning his head to stare at the warehouse door.

Not long after, in the Divine General Pavilion, five immortals, who looked like replicas of the Five Elders of Qinghai, sat in a daze when they heard a strange message.

"What did you say?"

"The Mechanical Emperor ran away on his own?!"

"Kreinus is not all..."

"...Never mind, let it be."

The mechanical race is completely unimportant.

The key now is to find a way out for Tianlong Star. Judging from Gaston Figo's information, his strength has increased irrationally and seemingly without end. In a few years, what if they no longer have the ability to make Figo and the Starry Sky News hesitate to act?

A place to stay with lights

Chapter 281 The New Generation

1520, Haiyuan calendar, Qinghai.

Naval recruit training colleges.

Luffy sat in a chair with a constipated gorilla-like face, his hands pressed against a report card as if facing a life-or-death enemy.

"Um……"

He made a muffled humming sound from his nose, and slowly moved his hands down to reveal the first row.

Subject: Practical Application (Basic score 100, Bonus score 50), Score: 150 (full marks).

"Hehe (smiley face)~"

Subject: Six skills (basic score 100, bonus score 50), score: 150 (full marks).

Elective subject: Airship operation (basic score 100), score: 80 (good).

suject……

As Luffy read through the lines, his smile grew increasingly exaggerated, until the last two subjects were left, at which point his expression suddenly turned serious.

Subject: History of the Stars, Score: 60.

"Oh!" You passed!

Luffy almost shouted out loud, inwardly thanking Robin-sensei like crazy. So, the last subject, which Robin-sensei also taught, should be able to pass me, right?

Hmm... I guessed a lot, but I should still get around 40 or 50 points. If Teacher Robin is a little lenient with the grading, I can...

Subject: Starry Sky Writing, Score: 7.

"...Ah?"

Luffy was startled and suddenly leaned closer to look.

You read that right, it's not 70, nor is it a few seventeens, but a single digit, 7 points?!

And the last line of text—Recommended rank: Lieutenant Colonel of Qinghai Naval Branch or Major of Headquarters, not recommended to be assigned to Space Naval Branch.

"how so?!"