"No need." Ares directly refused his request and said, "Upper Yard has been uninhabited all this time. I plan to subjugate the Shandia people and have them develop Upper Yard together with the residents of Angel Island."
Upper Yard was the legendary Golden Land. Even after several hundred years, the island still held vast amounts of gold, either buried deep underground or swallowed into the belly of the Sky Island Lord, Nola.
There was also a huge Golden Bell on the island!
All those treasures...
How could Ares possibly leave them to the Roger Pirates and the Straw Hat Pirates?
Not a chance!!
He would intercept them before they arrived at the Sky Island!!
"Develop Upper Yard?" Gan Fall's expression changed, but then he remembered that he had neither the authority nor the strength to refuse.
Ares continued, "Upper Yard never belonged to the Sky Island in the first place. It's an island from the Blue Sea that was carried into the sky by the Knock Up Stream, turning it into a Sky Island. I'm sure you can also see the difference between yourselves and the Shandia people..."
After briefly explaining the situation, he looked toward Crocus, Olvia, and the others. "Stay here. If they harbor any ill intentions, have Laboon ram this island and destroy it."
Those icy words made Gan Fall's heart tremble. Ares did not need to spell it out; he already knew...
The Laboon Ares was referring to was the enormous, deep-blue whale before them in the sea of clouds.
It was countless times larger than any creature he had ever seen. Humans were as tiny as ants before it.
Even the Sea Kings, large and small, were nothing before Laboon...
They were all just little brothers!
Of course, Laboon had not reached adulthood yet.
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