A magic merchant infiltrating Fairy Tail

"Because their ancestors defeated ambitious individuals consumed by desire, attempting to develop technology and even wreaking havoc on the world, that's why they have such great power now? And that's why the Five Elders, despite being elites, always indulge those idiots—because they are the last 'normal' people?!"

"Those ambitious people are from the Great Kingdom, which is why the World Government prevents future generations from studying related history and texts, and wants to erase their existence, precisely to prevent future generations from repeating their mistakes and making the world even worse?"

Upon hearing this, Vegapunk broke out in a cold sweat, and his expression showed obvious panic. Kira's guess undoubtedly brought a revolutionary shock to the elderly man's understanding.

"This...this...no way...??"

"Could it be... that we are the bad guys? Has everything we've done so far been wrong?"

Kira patted the apple on Vegapunk's head and said wistfully, "This is why I haven't taken action against the World Government even though I could easily overpower them."

"Technology can change the world and the future, but it is in human hands, and human desires are uncontrollable. So whether the future will change for the better or for the worse, no one can say for sure."

Chapter 990 The ultimate secret of military strategy is the tactic of exchanging bases.

Killer left behind a bewildered Vegapunk and departed alone. He was going to say goodbye to a few acquaintances and then end this great pirate era.

The first person he approached was Robin.

Robin is currently one of the mayors of the Fairy Kingdom and is also a key protected individual. Several powerful figures regard her as one of the most important people in the world, so even if Kira and the others leave, there is no need to worry too much about her safety.

The city under Robin's management was frequented by intellectuals and people who loved knowledge, as if Ohara had once been a thriving metropolis.

Her daily life now consists of reading, translating, and teaching, striving to preserve ancient writing systems while comparing and filling in gaps in her knowledge of various written texts with the content in her "Punk Brain".

Levy also lives in this city, but she doesn't have Robin's demanding job. Instead, she lives a leisurely and comfortable life, since she is now six months pregnant with twins.

Upon learning of Kira's arrival, Robin made a point of hosting him and sincerely thanked him. After a very gentlemanly farewell, Kira left.

After that, Kira approached Zephyr, Aokiji, Issho, Marco, Rayleigh, and others, entrusting the future of the 'Fairy Kingdom' to them. Whether they cherished it or not was none of his business.

It's worth mentioning that Kira discovered the Straw Hat crew undergoing special training at Rayleigh's place. After asking them, he learned that they were frightened by the scene at Marineford and decided to train for a longer period before setting sail.

I wonder if they'll make it in time for the final battle for the great treasure?

After leaving the Fairy Kingdom, Kira made another trip to the Sand Kingdom.

The Land of Sand has been transformed by Crocodile and the Evil King, a user of the Island-Island Fruit who recently joined Kaido's forces. These two skilled builders have made the Land of Sand unrecognizable even to the locals. Even Killer can only describe its appearance as 'novel'.

The original high walls, Wano Country, and the ruins of the old Wano Country have all disappeared. They have built a long spiral staircase around Mount Fuji using rocks and sand, and a city is built every few hundred meters.

From a distance, it looks similar to the structure formed by half of Gaya Island and the clouds on the sky island.

Aside from the architecture, there's not a trace of Wano Country in terms of clothing, culture, or beliefs. Walking down the street, you'll no longer see those repulsive hairstyles and samurai outfits, and no one will discuss words like 'Kozuki,' 'Daimyo,' 'Oden,' 'Shogun,' 'Samurai,' or 'Ninja.'

It seems that under the influence of a good life, the residents here have gradually transformed from mentally challenged to normal people, beginning to accept new culture and knowledge, and discarding their old dregs along with that high wall.

This is a good thing.

Kira vaguely heard that Crocodile originally wanted to make Tama, who had been kind to him, the princess of the Sand Country, but Tama went to sea with Ace instead, which is why he still deeply resents the remnants of Whitebeard's crew.

Later, Kira confirmed the truth of this with Crocodile at the dinner table and almost burst out laughing.

Seeing the other party's livid face, Kira quickly changed the subject and inquired about the whereabouts of the Kozuki Remnants, to which Crocodile's reply was concise.

"Go ask the sand!"

Kira thought this guy was indeed ruthless and capable of great things!

Is he a bit of a princess fanatic?

After dinner, Crocodile took Kira to see the newly unearthed 'Pluto'.

The interior is unclear, but from the outside, it appears to be a massive warship made from Adam's branches using ancient technology. If there are no surprises, it was likely built by the ancient giants, but because it lacks energy, it cannot be operated.

After that, Killer went to visit Kaido.

This guy recruited a lot of pirates during the Marineford War, including the 'Nine-Tailed Fox Devil Fruit user' who was originally going to join the Blackbeard Pirates. Now that woman is one of the Flying Six.

Kira also saw Yamato, whom he hadn't seen before. She was being hung up by Kaido and exposed to the scorching sun, and it was unclear how many days she hadn't eaten.

However, this was Kaido's family matter, and Killer didn't interfere. He simply told Kaido to hurry up and find the One Piece before leaving.

Kira also visited the old lady, but she was too enthusiastic and wanted to introduce him to her daughter, so Kira left after staying at her place for less than five minutes.

Before leaving, Katakuri gave Kira a donut to give to Laxus.

"Friendship between men is truly perplexing..."

The third stop after leaving the 'Fairy Kingdom' is the naval base.

Kira went secretly because he didn't have a good relationship with the World Government, and it wouldn't be fair to the new Fleet Admiral Sakazuki if he went openly.

The two secretly discussed their plan to strike at the 'pirate forces', and then Killer quietly left without even alerting Kizaru.

……

Two days later, Kaido and Big Mom joined forces again to attack the Red-Haired Pirates, forcing Shanks to fight back.

The three pirate crews engaged in a final battle for the treasure in Elbaf. In the end, Shanks defeated Big Mom first, and then Kaido defeated Shanks, thus gaining the final victory.

After the battle, Kaido obtained the last piece of the Road Poneglyph from Shanks and excitedly ran to the Fairy Kingdom to have Robin translate it.

But he was unaware that the Navy and a group of high-ranking CP0 agents had been lurking nearby, ready to strike once the outcome of the three-way battle was decided, and reap the benefits.

The new Fleet Admiral Sakazuki personally led his team, including powerful figures such as Kizaru, Green Bull, Momousagi, Chaton, Garp, and Sengoku, as well as tens of thousands of marines, to wipe out three pirate crews that had long been incapacitated.

The Big Mom Pirates were completely wiped out, and the Kaido Pirates fared much better. Anyone with a reputation couldn't escape the Navy's capture. The Red-Haired Pirates were much luckier. Because of Shanks, the user of the Face Fruit, the Navy had to give them face and let them leave.

Of course, the real reason was that the Five Elders personally ordered Shanks to be released, and Hawkeye, Buggy, and others came to the rescue. At the same time, the Navy overestimated its own combat strength, and they really didn't have enough manpower to deal with three Yonko crews at the same time.

While the Navy was reveling in the end of the pirate era, the World Government's stronghold, Mary Geoise, had already been raided by the Revolutionary Army.

All members of the Revolutionary Army, along with numerous rebel armies from member and non-member nations, and even the clone army of Germa 66, with the help of a certain space-age expert, smuggled themselves across the Red Line and headed straight for Marlenejoia.

When the Five Elders realized something was wrong and tried to contact Akainu using a Den Den Mushi to order them to return and provide assistance, they discovered that the Holy Land was shrouded in birds created by Doflamingo, who had somehow appeared there, and they couldn't send out their distress calls.

Even without the birdcage, if the Five Elders had contacted Akainu, he wouldn't have come back, because it was an agreement between Killer and him.

Even if Green Bull and Lucci, lackeys of the Celestial Dragons, wanted to come back, they couldn't because the journey was too far.

After watching the two major shows, the pirate battle and the navy catching the thief, Kira immediately watched the third show of the day – the kingdom uprising.

The revolutionary army fought this battle very systematically. First, they sent in surprise troops to infiltrate the area, then they liberated the slaves, followed by killing and burning, and finally their armed forces swept through the enemy. The whole process was steady and methodical, with few unexpected events.

The only interesting part is the counterattack by the 'Knights of God' and the Five Elders.

The former are not as powerful as fans boast. They are only at the level of high-ranking officers of the Four Emperors' crews, and some are not even at the level of a Yonko's vice-captain. As for the Five Elders, it is unclear whether they are Ancient Zoan or Mythical Zoan-type Devil Fruit users. Anyway, they look strange, but their strength is not strong either.

After the Revolutionary Army completed their final assault, Kira followed them and found Im sitting on the throne.

Contrary to what many One Piece fans might expect, Im is not a beautiful three-eyed Lunarian girl, but rather an ugly, old, and sleazy man who looks like an oddity.

The mountain-like head in the cartoon silhouette isn't a crown, it's just his head!!!

It is a bit strange, but if Vegapunk can have such a big head, then it doesn't seem so strange that Im has such a 'mountain' shaped head.

The claim that the "Operation Fruit" could grant immortality was confirmed at this moment—it could only grant eternal life, not immortality!

This is actually quite normal. In Oda's works, 'age' and 'mindset' have a huge impact on appearance. How good-looking can someone who has been consumed by the desire for power and has lived for hundreds of years in an abnormal way be?

Chapter 991 The Truth of History

From Marienjoia, Kira and the Revolutionary Army found documents that contained what appeared to be true history; the gist of which was:

Beneath the craters of the moon lives a technologically advanced race. The most distinctive feature of this race is the wings on their backs. Their capital city is called 'Bika', and almost all the work in the city is done by robots.

However, their planet later encountered a shortage of energy and resources, so the Moon People built a spaceship and came to the Pirate Planet.

The first stop for the Moon People when they arrived at the Pirate Planet was the White Sea. They discovered that many cities had been built there, and they even gave the place they first arrived at the same name as the original city, namely 'Birka'—Enel's hometown.

Later, the lunar people discovered that the island clouds were formed by keratin particles in water vapor, and that these keratin particles came from the lower Qinghai Lake. So they came to Qinghai from the "end of the clouds" with various high technologies and formally established diplomatic relations with the people of Qinghai.

Because they had wings, the lunar people were regarded as gods and angels. However, they did not like this class system, so some of them gave up their wings and merged into Qinghai.

At that time, there was a "giant kingdom" in Qinghai. This kingdom also possessed advanced technology, one of which was the ability to "enlarge living beings". After the arrival of the lunar people, the two sides exchanged their technologies and quickly cracked the secret of the "bloodline factor".

While developing rapidly, the rulers of the Great Kingdom also realized that Qinghai might face an energy crisis like the moon. To solve this problem, they created a technological product that could convert life force into energy, and this product was the Logia-type Devil Fruit!

Yes, because the initial purpose of the experiment was to solve the energy crisis, so at that time there were only Logia-type Devil Fruits, not Zoan-type or Paramecia-type.

Logia-type Devil Fruits, especially energy-type fruits such as those with light, electricity, fire, and wind, gave scientists and rulers hope for an inexhaustible energy source. As a result, insatiable humans continued to intensify their efforts and conducted further research on Devil Fruits.

Not long after, scientists unexpectedly discovered that the technology related to lineage factors was very helpful in creating Devil Fruits. After experimentation, they successively created Zoan-type and Paramecia-type Devil Fruits.

This is also why Vegapunk could copy Zoan and Paramecia-type Devil Fruits after cracking the lineage factor, but could not copy Logia-type Devil Fruits, because the formation of Logia-type Devil Fruits has nothing to do with the lineage factor!

The principle behind Devil Fruits is like placing a processing plant inside the human body, allowing the user to process their 'physical strength' and 'mental strength' into 'corresponding abilities'. However, the keratin particles in seawater can disrupt this process, causing those who come into contact with them to passively consume their physical and mental strength without being able to use their abilities.

The 'uniqueness' and 'regeneration mechanism' of Devil Fruits are based on the 'non-replicability of genes' and the 'principle of energy dissipation'. The so-called 'devil' and 'will' were just bedtime stories used to fool children at the time.

Since it was created with the help of the moon people, the adults said that "the gods sealed the demons they had subdued inside the fruit" and that "eating it would bring a curse from the sea," thus warning children not to eat things indiscriminately or play near water, etc.

Soon, the rulers of the Great Kingdom, blinded by greed, began to betray the Moon People.

The Moon People were too naive and kind-hearted, and had no defenses against the people of the Great Kingdom. They were quickly wiped out and could only use the 'Heavenly Balloon' to escape back to the Sky Island in a sorry state.

Meanwhile, the tribes that had not lost their wings and lived in seclusion around the world suffered devastating blows, including the white-haired, brown-skinned Lunaria who lived on the Red Earth, and the ancestors of the Shandians who lived in Shandora.

With his only rival eliminated, the leader of the vast kingdom's ambitions grew ever stronger.

He ordered the construction of the powerful warship Pluto, intending to use it to conquer the world and become the 'King of the World.' In the process, he also discharged industrial wastewater into the sea, causing it to become polluted.

So the leaders of the twenty kingdoms, together with the moon people who had been nearly wiped out, created another weapon, Uranus, and launched an attack on the Great Kingdom.

Besides the recently deceased Im and the Alabasta ancestor Lily, the Kingdom Alliance also has two ally forces with ambiguous stances—Joey Boy and Poseidon.

The reason their stance is described as ambiguous is because they are all citizens of a vast kingdom.

As expected, the allied kingdoms emerged victorious, while the great kingdom vanished from history. Whether there were any unsavory acts, deceptions, betrayals, or other unavoidable misdeeds involved remains unknown.

After that, the royal families of the Allied Kingdoms and the Moon People began to intermarry, and their descendants became the Celestial Dragons. The regime they established became the current 'World Government'.

As time went by, these people, unsurprisingly, followed in the footsteps of the great kingdoms. Corrupted by power and seduced by desire, they became tyrants and villains, ambitious schemers who sought to enslave the world.

After reading this history, both Kira and the members of the Revolutionary Army fell into a long silence.

"The dragon slayer becomes the dragon, the god-killer becomes the god... This is quite similar to magic!"

Kira turned to look at the dragon and asked, "After we leave, will you also let the 'Fairy Kingdom' go down this path again?"