The Potentially Valuable

A long time ago.

Wano Country was a powerful nation blessed with incredibly abundant mineral resources.

Back then, gold could be found everywhere in Wano Country, earning it the name "the Land of Gold."

But that was already several hundred years ago.

Nowadays, Wano Country no longer had much gold left.

However, the other mineral resources hidden beneath the land were astonishingly abundant.

Ever since Kaido had established his territory in Wano Country, he had never stopped mining its mineral resources.

Yet after more than a decade of mining—

Wano Country's mineral resources were still plentiful, as if they could never be exhausted.

Besides the ore known as Roku Tetsu Ore, which was used to manufacture weapons, the world-famous Seastone, which could counter Devil Fruit users, was also mined in Wano Country.

This extremely rare ore could only be found in Wano Country.

That was one of the reasons Kaido had seized control of Wano Country.

So even without Lafitte's reminder, Maud would never overlook these precious nonrenewable resources.

Besides—

There were still roughly twenty thousand sets of weapons and equipment on the battlefield outside.

Their value was enough to arm a mid-sized nation to the teeth.

It was just that there were fewer than a hundred people in Maud's crew, so they had no use for so many weapons.

If they didn't use them, they could sell them in the Underworld for an incalculable amount of money.

However, from the moment Tesoro joined his command—

Money... Maud truly wasn't lacking in it.

Thinking about it that way, whether it was the tens of thousands of sets of weapons and equipment that had yet to be collected from the Onigashima battlefield, or the abundant mineral resources hidden in Wano Country—

None of them suited Maud's current needs.

However...

Even if