At the end of 1507 in the Marine Era, the Marines, led by Acting Fleet Admiral Bane Ortolan, launched a strong attack on Mary Geoise.
After a fierce battle, the Holy Knights were wiped out, the Holy Land Guard was completely routed, and the banner of the World Government, which had stood on Mary Geoise for over eight hundred years, fell before the eyes of all.
On the 1st day after the war, the Five Elders announced their unconditional surrender and dissolved the World Government.
Three days after the war, the Marines announced the convening of a worldwide public trial of the Celestial Dragons.
That live broadcast drew the attention of the entire ocean. In the past, public trials and executions were usually targeted at members of pirates, rebels, and gangs.
When did the hell become the day when Celestial Dragons, these Celestial Dragons?
This is worth hundreds of yuan, which is not as exciting as a single event. How can we not hurry up and join in?
When the live stream started, to everyone's surprise, the judge in charge of the public trial of the Celestial Dragons was Marine Headquarters Vice Admiral, codenamed Doflamingo Donquixote Doflamingo.
The deputy judge is Spandam, a highly respected and righteous man on the high seas.
While it was surprising that Doflamingo was chosen as the judge, the reasons given by the Marines were quite reasonable.
The Marines claims that Vice Admiral Doflamingo was originally from the Celestial Dragons race in the Holy Land of Mary Geoise. From a young age, she left Mary Geoise because she found the various evil deeds of the Celestial Dragons unacceptable to her family members. She is one of the few people in the Marines who knows a great deal about the evil deeds and secrets of the Celestial Dragons.
Vice Admiral Doflamingo was an upright man who hated evil. He volunteered to become a judge, so after discussion among the Marines high command, it was decided to approve his application.
That makes perfect sense!
As for Spandam, the champion of justice, it goes without saying that he is a high-ranking official of the CP Agency, possessing a great deal of secrets about Mary Geoise and a great deal of evidence of the Celestial Dragons' crimes. Moreover, from the outside perspective, the great war between the Marines and the World Government was basically caused by Spandam's strong sense of justice, his inability to tolerate the filth and evil of the World Government, his defection, his application for asylum from the Marines, and his public broadcast exposing the darkness of the World Government.
Such an upright and courageous person, the embodiment of justice, is perfectly suited to become the Celestial Dragons judges the evil Celestial Dragons. He is simply irreplaceable!
Then, during the live broadcast, Doflamingo didn't waste a single moment, reading out the names on his list one by one. As soon as he finished speaking, the Marines would drag the Celestial Dragons who had been named out of the prison like dead dogs and put them in Execution Platform.
The two executioners each carried a large axe; one was responsible for beheading, and the other for cutting someone in half at the waist!
Indeed, the execution of the Celestial Dragons was extremely cruel and brutal. After discussions among various parties, many believed that the Celestial Dragons' crimes were too numerous to count, and killing them with a single blow was too lenient for them.
Therefore, the execution was directly divided into two stages. The first stage was being cut in half at the waist. As we all know, after being cut in half at the waist, a person does not die immediately. Instead, they will suffer great pain, and in fear and despair, they will gradually feel death approaching.
After being cut in half at the waist, these Celestial Dragons were made to experience excruciating pain before being beheaded!
In other words, one person kills twice.
Even so, many people believe that the punishments are completely inadequate to compare with the evil Celestial Dragons, and that they should be made more extreme and exciting, with various methods of execution such as skinning alive, being slowly sliced to death, branding, and having one's heart and lungs ripped out.
And believe it or not, there really is a large group of people who support it.
Ultimately, considering that such an event would be very damaging to the image of the Marines, and since it wasn't a private execution where any method of execution was acceptable, the methods used in this public execution had to be carefully considered. If the execution was too brutal, it would definitely affect the image of the navy.
In the future, when people think of the Marines, they'll think of that group that likes to cut people into a thousand pieces, boil them in oil, and rip out their hearts and lungs.
What has this become?
So in the end, the Marines leadership overruled the objections and decided that one person should be killed twice, rather than making the live broadcast so bloody and detrimental to justice.
"Rosward Charlos!" Doflamingo called out another name.
Immediately, a man was seen defecating and urinating, crying bitterly, and limp as a rag doll. He was forcibly dragged out by Marines soldiers and pinned to the Execution Platform.
"You have committed the crime of genocide against intelligent races. In your short thirteen years of life, you personally bullied and killed one hundred and four people, and indirectly murdered one thousand and ten people..." Doflamingo recited his crimes, his eyes gleaming with excitement.
In fact, these Celestial Dragons, who were treated like pigs in captivity, committed roughly the same crimes. As for the exact number of deaths found in the investigation, it wasn't very precise; it was likely more or less. After a lengthy account of their crimes, Doflamingo waved his hand and said, "Public trial, you are sentenced to death twice."
After reviewing the information, Spandam said, "Two death sentences, to be carried out immediately!"
Ignoring Charlos's cries, the executioner first cleaved him in half at the waist with an axe. Charlos howled in pain, his half-body twisting and struggling on the Execution Platform, even trying to crawl away.
Without warning, after a period of time, when he experienced extreme pain and was almost out of breath, another executioner brought down an axe, severing his dog's head!
"Next!" Doflamingo announced impatiently, "Shepherd Chalmarco!"
Another Celestial Dragons was dragged out. Seeing Charlos's corpse, which had been cleaved into three pieces by a giant axe, Charmaco fainted from fright.
However, the execution wouldn't stop just because he fainted. On the contrary, a Marines would come up and pour a bucket of ice water on him to wake him up, so that he could clear his mind and experience death.
This public trial and public execution will last for about a week. After all, reading out the crimes one by one and cutting them in half at the waist and then beheading them is very time-consuming. There are also a lot of Celestial Dragons. It would take at least ten days to cut them all down.
Doflamingo is presiding over his righteous revenge here, and the events on Mary Geoise are clearly not limited to this one.
Tesoro was adorned with gold and silver, all ten of his fingers hung with gemstone rings, he wore sunglasses, had his hair slicked back, and was draped in Justice Cloak as he hurried through the Divine Abode.
Around him, a large number of Marines were coming and going, extremely busy. A rough estimate suggests that at least tens of thousands of Marines were gathered in the shrine and working there.
Ortolan only brought 50,000 elite troops to attack Mary Geoise, but after the capture, the support from the Marines arrived instantly. As a result, the number of Marines Mary Geoise is now extremely large, and they are still gathering continuously.
Arriving at the gates of a massive manor, Tesoro stopped and asked impatiently, "Haven't you finished looting this one yet?"
"Lieutenant Vice Admiral Tesoro, we're doing our best. The original site has been packed up, but just before we left, the reconnaissance team discovered another cellar. When they opened it, it was full of all sorts of treasured items, and we're sorting them out now..." a Logistics Department colonel said, sweating profusely.
As the two of them were enjoying the breeze, they looked at the gate of the manor next to them, which read 'Figarland' in large characters.
It is obvious that the Marines is now raiding the entire Mary Geoise, not just the Celestial Dragons in the Kamiya. All the nobles in Mary Geoise can be said to be loyal to the World Government. Every single one of them will be raided!
The wealth that has been amassed, even in just three days, is already terrifying.
The ancient Golden Country of Shandora alone contributed terrifying wealth to Ortolan. Now, the Holy Land of Mary Geoise, which has gathered the essence of the entire world for more than eight centuries, is filled with unimaginable wealth!
It can be said that every plant and tree in this divine abode is of noble quality. Any item in Celestial Dragons's house, even the doormat at the entrance, is a very valuable luxury item!
The nineteen Celestial Dragons families on Mary Geoise, starting with the Figarland family, have been ransacking their homes for three days and are still not finished. Even so, according to Tesoro's current information, this is enough to support at least one-tenth of the expenses of the entire Marines!
What does this mean? It can only be said that this family has absorbed the wealth of the entire world for more than eight weeks. Not to mention the entire Mary Geoise, Tesoro roughly estimates that just confiscating the God's Abode would be enough to support the current size of the Marines's 15th Division!
"Hello?" Tesoro hadn't finished his work when he received Den Den Mushi from Hina.
"As it stands, it will probably take half a year to take stock of all the wealth in Mary Geoise... Yes, that's how you'll report to the Admiral."
"Of course not. If so many antiques, gold, and other valuables were to flood the market all at once, the entire world's economy would collapse and fall into chaos. Therefore, this wealth cannot be distributed quickly; it must be managed uniformly, with a system in place to process it slowly..."
"Five cubic meters? How could it be five cubic meters? We couldn't even digest fifty cubic meters!"
While Tesoro was busy with his work, Lucci and Smoker, along with a large number of Marines, were constantly searching the entire Mary Geoise residential area. As long as they saw someone, regardless of their identity or whether they had committed any crimes, they were arrested first.
The Marines currently exercises complete military control over Mary Geoise and intends to thoroughly investigate the population of Mary Geoise.
The families of the nobles, wealthy merchants, and other direct descendants of the imperial government who had committed crimes were confiscated and exterminated. Afterward, the general populace was appeased, and finally, the remaining slaves were liberated.
Inside Panger Castle, in the large conference room originally used for world conferences, the high-ranking Marines officers, along with some nobles who had been conscripted by Ortolan earlier, and some members of the Revolutionary Army, were all present.
The conference room was incredibly noisy, with everyone talking at once, discussing various issues.
Upon closer inspection, it was discovered that Sengoku Fleet Admiral and Vice Admiral Garp, who had been missing in Mary Geoise for several days, were also expressing their opinions in the crowd. On the other hand, the Commander-in-Chief did not participate, as he was essentially withdrawing from the subsequent political stage.
After Sengoku was Fleet Admiral, Ortolan immediately and faithfully relinquished his temporary role as 'acting Fleet Admiral's and legally resumed his original rank Marine Admiral.
But after the great battle at Mary Geoise, it's clear to everyone now that Ortolan was yielding.
Once this wave of chaos subsides, Ortolan's promotion to Fleet Admiral will be a foregone conclusion!
"We can't wipe out all the people from the West Blue at once, we need to give them a good beating first!"
"The West Blue is a sea area controlled by the Mafia. If we were to establish a legitimate government, we certainly couldn't allow such rules to exist. Otherwise, how could we talk about justice?"
"The royal families and nobles of the West Blue countries have been oppressed and exploited by the Mafia, who have encroached on their power. This is also an opportunity. We should send troops to help these countries eliminate the Mafia's influence in New World garrison model, and incidentally establish a ruling order that is favorable to us!"
"Don't rush into the West Blue. The East Blue is still in a state of flux. Although the Five Elders have publicly announced the unconditional surrender of the World Government, the resistance in the East Blue is still very stubborn. We need to clean up the entire upper echelons of the East Blue!"
"Yes, more than six weeks ago, the East Blue was completely controlled by the Realm Government from top to bottom. In the past few weeks, the East Blue has been the foundation of the Realm Government. It must be thoroughly cleaned up and all the kingdoms in the East Blue must be replaced by a new ruling and noble class!"
"Don't make it sound so high-sounding. To put it bluntly, we haven't even gotten our hands on the meat yet, have we? So we can only make fun of them!"
Whether it's the East Blue China Sea or the West Blue, it has nothing to do with these victors. The North Blue and the New World are Bane's foundation, so no one dares to touch them. As for the South Blue, there is also a huge network of the Revolutionary Army there. The Revolutionary Army is sitting at this table now, so it's best not to be too unseemly and steal food from other people's plates.
Therefore, these nobles from the North Blue, the New World, and the military merit nobles immediately set their sights on the West Blue and the East Blue.
A thorough cleaning is essential!
All those disloyal nobles and the ruling class must be eliminated and replaced with these loyal nobles, so that they may continue to serve Bane!