The Rampaging World, War Is About to Begin!

"It had to be Orik! He left something behind in Kolkra, waiting for us to find the Pure Gold and make it public, drawing the attention of ambitious schemers!"

Bald Zero roared furiously, "Notify everyone! Put down whatever they're doing and investigate this matter thoroughly!"

After being harshly rebuked by the Five Elders, Zero's fury was hard to quell. Rob Lucci and the others could barely hold themselves upright beneath that earth-shaking Conqueror's Haki pressure, cold sweat dripping from their foreheads.

"Yes, sir!"

Watching Lucci and the others leave, Ron took a slow drag from his cigar and asked calmly, "Now isn't the time for you and me to be at each other's throats, Chief Zero... Did you find any useful clues while investigating Orik's whereabouts?"

"Yes! But... sigh!"

After taking a deep breath, Zero hesitated for a moment, then returned to his desk and took out a stack of A4 papers from a drawer.

"Forget it. See for yourself."

"Hm?"

Zero's actions left Ron baffled. He stepped forward, took the documents, and silently looked them over.

Soon, he put the papers down and slowly exhaled a ring of smoke.

"So that was it! Unless he had some kind of cloning ability, otherwise..."

Under the Five Elders' grand orders, CP0 had followed the trail from that piece of broken wood. Their painstaking efforts finally allowed them to uncover Orik's complete route to Kolkra.

They could even keep tracing it back to find the source.

But upon reaching a certain island, Orik's trail had changed from "one" to "two"!

They investigated further, only to find that both were real. Both had eyewitness reports, and both were genuine Oriks!

Then, when this intelligence leak occurred, the latest reports showed that the number of real bodies had actually risen to four. All of