"Do you know what you'll have to face if you do this?" Granny Tsuru's expression and tone became exceptionally stern and serious.
"Perhaps I know even more than you do?" Zhu Mang said with a smile.
Then, he spoke several groups of words that made the three elders' expressions change drastically.
"The Void Century, the Twenty Kings, the Celestial Dragons, the Moon People."
"Imu, the Holy Knights, the Five Elders, Uranus."
"God Valley, the Rocks Pirates, the Murder Competition, Figarland."
"Am I right, Fleet Admiral Sengoku, Vice Admiral Garp, and... the Five Elders?" Zhu Mang turned to look at a Visual Den Den Mushi placed some distance away.
Sengoku's eyes widened.
The expression on Garp's face became extraordinarily vivid.
Zhu Mang's three groups of words respectively represented "the origins of the World Government," "the World Government's greatest military power and rulers," and "the God Valley Incident."
Naturally, these people—and likely most of the world—did not know about the first two.
Even as Fleet Admiral, Sengoku had only learned through certain means that the Celestial Dragons possessed a trump card of their own, one capable of suppressing everything!
He had investigated in secret, and in the end, all clues pointed to the legendary Three Ancient Weapons!
The Three Ancient Weapons each possessed the power to overturn the world.
Yet they had always remained hidden in the shadows, never to be spoken of to outsiders.
Even Sengoku had not known much about them before.
It was only recently, after former Shichibukai "Sir Crocodile" Crocodile was arrested in Alabasta, that news of Pluton emerged.
That was what drew Sengoku's attention.
Afterward, he discovered in Water 7 that the Celestial Dragons had secretly used CP9 in an attempt to obtain the Pluton Blueprints.
But they ultimately fell short.
Sengoku was grateful that the Celestial Dragons had failed to acquire Pluton's blueprints.
However, through his own methods, he had probed out that Uranus was very likely in the hands of the Celestial Dragons—and was still operational!
As for the Holy Knights, they had always been exceedingly mysterious across the seas.
They rarely mobilized, but whenever they did, they would erase their targets and everything nearby, using that to conceal their existence!
However, Garp had encountered them before.
That was during the God Valley Incident.
God Valley was where Garp had made his name. The official account given to the public was: Vice Admiral Garp defeated Rocks, who had wrought countless evils upon the seas, there and thus became the Hero of the Marines.
But those who knew a deeper layer of the "truth" knew that Garp and Roger had defeated Rocks together back then. The World Government simply gave all the credit to Garp in order to prevent "a pirate from becoming a hero."
Yet in truth, even that was only part of the truth.
The true protagonists of the battle at God Valley had been the Holy Knights!
By the time he and Roger arrived, the battle was already nearing its end.
Rocks himself had already reached the end of his rope!
Therefore, his contribution in the battle of God Valley had amounted to no more than taking down several important captains of the Rocks Pirates at the time. It was nowhere near enough to deserve the title of "Hero of the Marines"!
Moreover, the Celestial Dragon trash he had saved while killing those great pirates made him feel utterly sick, like a thorn stuck in his throat!
Especially after seeing the things the Celestial Dragons did with his own eyes!
That was also why he had never wanted to bring up that matter all these years.
Even with old friends like Sengoku and Tsuru, he had only vaguely mentioned some matters concerning the Holy Knights, letting them know that the Celestial Dragons hid such a force.
But now, all these secrets had been exposed in one breath by that mysterious Gebinz!
Holy Land Mary Geoise.
The Room of Authority.
Five elderly men of different appearances, dressed in black suits, sat upon a long sofa.
They were the Five Elders, symbols of the World Government's highest authority.
At this moment, every one of their faces was grim to the extreme!
Unlike Sengoku and Garp.
As the nominal highest rulers of the World Government and the Celestial Dragons' agents in controlling it, they knew far more secrets!
The contents revealed in the second and third groups were already enough to infuriate and alarm them.
But the first group...
That was enough to truly enrage them, even... frighten them!
Moon People!
What a distant term!
The founding of the World Government, the relationship between the Celestial Dragons and the Moon People—everything should have been buried within the history of the Void Century!
These were things that absolutely should not exist in this world!
Once, there had been an island named Ohara. The ungrateful scholars there had tried to study that period of history, and the result was that a Buster Call directly erased every life on the island, along with the entire island itself.
But now...
These things had been broadcast to the entire world by a monkey-tailed man through a Visual Den Den Mushi!
Even if they wanted to stop it now, it was already too late.
How many people had heard these things?
Once even three people knew a secret, it was no longer a secret.
Much less something known simultaneously by three hundred thousand, three million, or thirty million people!
Even if they were merely simple words, putting them together was enough to set people's imaginations running wild.
Especially certain people with ulterior motives!
This was enough to plunge the entire world into turmoil, perhaps even overturn the World Government's rule!
"Damn it, what exactly are the Marines doing? Are they trying to rebel?"
"Now that these things are known to the entire world, we must make a decision."
"Must we purge the entire world again?"
"If it truly comes to that, then this is the only way. Once the purge is complete, gather the remaining lowlifes on the Red Line to breed. Send the children born there to the purged islands, then purge all the remaining survivors as well. In just a few decades, the world can return to how it was."
"We should seek Lady Imu's instructions. If we are to carry out the Purge Plan, it will affect her plans, and we will need her assistance. Our strength alone is far from enough..."
After several moments of silence, they picked up the Recording Den Den Mushi that had captured the footage and walked deeper inside.
As for Zhu Mang's declaration that he would launch a brand-new, true "Summit War" in Holy Land Mary Geoise, they did not take it seriously.
They believed that since he had said it to the Marines, he must intend to accomplish it by borrowing the Marines' strength.
After all, only a clash between two armies or two forces could be called a war.
And they were confident that Sengoku was not such an irrational man.
He would never dare defy them!
Little did they know that once one's strength reached a certain level, a single person could become an army.
War could also be one versus many!
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