One Piece: A Guide for Ordinary Players

Knowing full well that Robert's visits were never for anything good, why did she keep believing him time and time again?

This mission sounds simple: all you have to do is agree to lend Robert some vague luck, then bring your men to the entrance of the Navy Headquarters and fight a tacitly agreed-upon battle.

But Robert didn't say that after lending him his luck, he would become so unlucky!

Ever since that woman Robert brought touched him, Bucky has had the worst luck of the day. People often describe bad luck as "even drinking cold water can cause problems," but Bucky is even worse off; he's having bloody stools from drinking cold water!

Bucky was simply unlucky, but what he didn't expect was that Robert didn't come to the Crusades just to see him.

He claimed that he was only assigned the job of blocking the Navy Headquarters and shouting insults, but behind the scenes, he had pulled away all the other experts from the Cross Society and disappeared.

Bucky's initial willingness to challenge Aokiji after only a brief moment of consideration wasn't simply based on Robert's claim that he was Aokiji's junior brother, but rather on the belief that his royal fathers could easily save their lives from Aokiji's clutches if they intervened.

Before they set off, everyone agreed that they would help, knowing that the battle was organized by Robert and that he would lead the charge.

Based on their previous good cooperation, the Crusaders left only the bare minimum of personnel to guard the area, while the rest boarded warships and headed for the naval headquarters.

But as Bucky sat motionless on the deck, afraid that he might slip and fall if he took even a few steps, he was horrified to find Hawkeye and the other three standing on the shore waving goodbye to him.

The entire pirate crew of the Cross Guild is watching, so Buggy can't just say, "If you guys don't go, I won't go either." He can only frantically hint that they should get on board too.

But the four people were completely unmoved, and even cheered him on loudly, putting him in a very difficult position.

Bucky was on the verge of tears; he was utterly exhausted. When misfortune strikes, even the most motionless person can be doomed.

Bucky watched as a newsbird flew overhead, dropping a newspaper that arced towards him.

Bucky simply closed his eyes, thinking to himself, "So what if you kill me? It doesn't matter."

With a soft thud, the newspaper landed on the deck next to his head. Bucky paused for a moment, then turned to look in surprise.

The newspaper didn't hit me, does that mean my bad luck is over?

Bucky tried to stand up and take a couple of steps without falling.

I did a few stretching exercises with a relatively large range of motion, and I didn't strain my back.

Bucky was on the verge of tears. It seemed that Robert's suggestion of borrowing his luck had an expiration date!

Bucky, now back to his lucky streak, laughed heartily as he picked up the newspaper and glanced at the headline:

"Shocking! A massive shift in the world order! The collapse of the Red Earth!"

"The Thunder Department's secret weapon bombarded Mary Geoise, and not a single Celestial Dragon survived!"

"Naval rescue forces are blocked by the Crusaders, and the world government faces the biggest crisis in 800 years!"

Bucky chuckled and said to his trusted aide, "This is interesting. Morgans can talk nonsense too. When did we ever stop the navy from going to the rescue?"

"And this, what do you mean by the collapse of the Red Line? No matter how powerful Robert's weapons are, they can't possibly blow up the Red Line. That's the barrier of the world!"

The beast tamer, Mochi, cried out in a trembling voice, "Boss!"

Bucky laughed and joked, "Look how scared you are. Didn't I tell you? The main force of the Navy won't come out."

Mochi pointed to the sky behind the Naval Headquarters: "Don't you notice anything wrong?"

Bucky glanced at it casually and said, "Blue sky and white clouds, what's wrong with that?"

Mochi looked miserable: "Boss! The Navy's new headquarters is located not far from the Red Line! From our position, we should be able to see the Red Line as soon as we look up!"

"Raibe... Raibe really blew up the Red Line!"

Bucky shuddered and stiffly turned his head away.

At the limit of visual perception, the cross-section of the Red Line can still be vaguely seen, but within tens of kilometers of the Navy Headquarters, the Red Line has truly disappeared!

Bucky remained silent, while Mochi continued, "And boss...we're blocking the entrance to Marine Headquarters right now...doesn't that count as hindering their rescue forces...?"

Bucky burst into tears. Mochi thought his boss had been tricked into participating in this deadly deal, and now that he knew the truth, he was terrified and cried.

Unexpectedly, after holding back for a while, Bucky shouted excitedly, "Men! We're about to make history!"

"The history books of a thousand years from now will surely record our great deeds today! It was the great Chairman Bucky and his insignificant allies who overthrew the World Government!"

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At this very moment, Pakistan's insignificant allies are engaged in a fierce battle with Im on Fishman Island, ten thousand meters below the sea level.

However, the battle scene looked somewhat comical. Robert was completely shrouded in the demonic black mist, and his sight and hearing were completely blocked by the black mist. Even his electromagnetic induction and Observation Haki could not extend beyond a meter.

In this situation, Robert should have been completely controlled and at the mercy of others.

But the situation was quite the opposite; whenever he released lightning in any direction, Im's screams could be heard from within the black mist.

It wasn't that Robert was incredibly lucky and always managed to spot Im's hiding place; rather, Im's luck had turned extremely bad, and no matter where he hid, he would run into Robert's attacks!

Even if Robert doesn't attack, Im will trip and fall after taking just a couple of steps.

Robert wore a smug smile: "Having lived all these years, you must have guessed what I did, right?"

"To deal with you, I borrowed the luck of the luckiest guy in the world before we started fighting, but I didn't borrow his luck to defeat you in one fell swoop."

"I used up all my luck on this little thing—being able to touch your body!"

"Now, he has used up all the luck he lent us, but fortunately, I have gotten the result I wanted."

"Now your luck is ours!"

Imam gritted his teeth in the black mist. He had guessed Robert's scheme the first time he accidentally bit his tongue due to the excruciating pain in his soul. It was the power of the Paramecia-type Lucky Fruit.

As one of the people in the world who knows Devil Fruits best, Im immediately released Conqueror's Haki in an attempt to dispel the effects of the fruit on his body.

Unfortunately, the Luck Fruit doesn't work on the person whose luck was borrowed, but rather on the user of the fruit's power!

As long as Im fails to use Conqueror's Haki to affect the person who stole his luck, it will be impossible for him to get rid of his bad luck using Haki!

But Im really couldn't understand how Robert had managed to hide the person on his person. Im's Observation Haki clearly showed that the hands didn't appear beside him using any Door-Door Fruit or similar abilities.

Those hands pierced through space in a way he couldn't understand at all, grabbing his arms directly from another dimension, thus escaping the detection of his Observation Haki!

Robert looked distressed: "Im, to deal with you, I gave up another option that was practically invincible!"

Chapter 70 My People Are All Here

When Robert became one of the Four Emperors, his reputation reached the pinnacle of the pirate system, and his item slots, when expanded to their maximum size, offered two options.

One is the “banditry” of being able to directly steal one item from someone every day and store it in the item space, which Robert calls “take it.”

The other is the "Life Chamber," which allows you to store a living person in the prop space every day with someone's consent. Robert calls it the Temple Hideout.

If it weren't for the fact that he had to fight Im, Robert would have preferred to take things directly from people.

However, in order to win this final battle, Robert decisively chose the life pod option and then put Baccarat, the owner of the Lucky Fruit, inside.

Since the Golden City changed hands, Bakara had been imprisoned by Robert in Dressrosa's prison, and was later transferred to Punk Hazard.

These employees of the Golden City who weren't released back then are all Tesoro's staunch confidants. They are all responsible for the many families ruined and destroyed by gambling fraud in the Golden City.

Although they were just swindling bastards who were already addicted to gambling and couldn't extricate themselves, these people didn't seem to deserve any sympathy.

But how innocent are the families of gamblers who are implicated and ultimately sold into the City of Gold because of one person's gambling?

Therefore, in the laws of many modern countries, those who participate in gambling are generally sentenced to less than three years and fined, but those who organize gambling games or operate casinos are sentenced to less than five years, and those with serious circumstances may be sentenced to five to ten years.

As a user of the Luck-Luck Fruit, Baccarat can transfer the luck of anyone she touches to herself, making her Tesoro's number one accomplice.

Tesoro can only manipulate gold to do technical things like changing dice rolls and predicting card combinations, but those who have been touched by Bakara are guaranteed to lose even if their opponents don't cheat.

When she was first imprisoned by Robert, Baccarat harbored great resentment and constantly thought about escaping to take revenge on Robert.

With her Devil Fruit powers, she'll succeed at whatever she does.

However, as time went on, the guards began to relax, and even after arriving in Punk Hazard, Robert simply cut off their escape route without sending any guards.

So these prisoners began to have access to some outside information through newspapers, and they also saw some world economic news reports about the City of Gold.

When it comes to public opinion, whoever controls it will naturally say things that benefit them.

But the people in the pirate world don't know this. Most of them have never been to school, and even the richest people are hopelessly illiterate. They simply believe that what is written in the newspapers is true.

Morgans was Robert's staunch ally, so he naturally spoke up for Robert in every way. The Golden City coverage continued for many issues. Although the official narrative was that pirates had robbed a casino kingdom affiliated with the World Government, Robert was secretly portrayed as a chivalrous thief.

The World Economic News interviewed many people who were released from the Golden City. These people, in addition to gamblers, were mostly employees who were enslaved in the Golden City as beasts of burden because they owed huge debts to Tezzolo.

They wouldn't claim they deserved their fate because of their gambling addiction; instead, they would say how innocent they were, how Tezzolo ruined their lives with his insidious and despicable methods, and how he even implicated their families.

While reading these news reports, Bakala's mindset also changed, and she spent many nights reflecting on whether she had really made a mistake.

So when Robert rescued Dr. Vegapunk and settled him in Punk Hazard, and decided to move these prisoners elsewhere again, Baccarat sincerely offered Robert a way to atone for her sins.

Robert hadn't figured out how to use her at the time, so he just said he'd go back and think about it. He never expected that in less than a month, the opportunity to atone for his sins would come.

Robert had only one request: that Baccarat hibernate in his prop space, and when he released her, she only needed to do one thing: desperately absorb the luck of anyone she could touch.

Robert made many attempts to find out if the consciousness seal could be lifted without releasing the person entirely from the prop space.

The result of the attempt was unexpected. The combination of Bakala and the prop space precisely triggered the bug, achieving an effect where 1+1 equals 31,600.

The principle behind the Lucky Fruit is that it absorbs other people's luck and transfers it to Bakura for her to squander. As long as Bakura doesn't consume this luck, the person whose luck has been absorbed will continue to be unlucky.

In situations like this, the law of conservation of matter doesn't apply, nor does it mean that the damage caused by the Devil Fruit's power will be offset once the bad luck reaches a certain level. Instead, the only way to break the Devil Fruit power is to let Baccarat consume the luck she absorbed, just like Usopp did in the original story.

Bakara, who was placed in the prop space by Robert, was in a completely dormant state. Her mind and physical activity were all dormant, which was equivalent to being stored in another world, completely isolated from this world.

In other words, the luck that Im had been drained has now been taken to other worlds. As long as Robert doesn't release Bakala, this luck will never be consumed, and Im will never be free from his bad luck.

Im was going crazy. His soul was severely damaged and he had lost all his luck. He couldn't see any hope of defeating Robert.

Im gritted his teeth, stopped talking, and, despite his bad luck that made him stumble even while walking, quickly walked away from Robert.

Since there was no way to deal with Robert for the time being, Im planned to use his magical energy, which could shield and mislead the enemy's five senses, to control Robert first, and then turn around and kill his men.

Not long after the two exchanged blows, Im heard the sounds of battle coming from the edge of Fishman Island.

At this point, the only ones fighting on Fish-Man Island are Robert's Thunder Department members and his own World Government allies.

The battle at the docks escalated rapidly from the very beginning. Just as Ace had said, if it were simply a matter of who had more people, then with Da Luo's Door-Door Fruit, the Lightning Department would truly be invincible.

After all the Thunder Masters and the Seraphim supported by Vegapunk arrived at Fishman Island, Da Luo still didn't stop recruiting people everywhere. Another portal opened, and four people walked out. Who were they but Hawkeye and the others who had sent Buggy away on Whole Cake Island half a day ago?

Robert sent Buggy, the newly crowned Yonko, to fight a coordinated battle with Aokiji, while his four fathers were all brought to Fishman Island to deal with Im's minions.

If the two sides were evenly matched before, now with the addition of four former Shichibukai, the scales of victory have inevitably tipped in Robert's favor.

What made the Celestial Dragons even more desperate was that the portal opened again, and this time the portal was as big as a house.