A large auction house on an island in the North Sea,
A famous auction house, an open-air, circular structure like those of ancient Rome, capable of holding thousands of people,
But now, the venue, which should have been packed every day, was empty,
Or, to be precise, it wasn't empty,
Everyone was lying on the ground.
There were traces of blood on Meru's delicate face, making her fair skin look even paler,
And beneath her lay the densely packed corpses of thousands of people,
The overpowering stench of blood and gore had attracted quite a few predators, but their instincts warned them of danger, so they only circled the perimeter, not daring to enter the auction house's grounds,
In their eyes, this was the territory of some terrifying, higher being,
Only after that being left would they be allowed to pick over the scraps.
A stream of blood and flesh flowed together, its constant trickling making the empty auction house seem especially eerie.
Meru casually surveyed the area, her antennae stretching out,
She used them to bring over two gravely wounded, unconscious humans and a locked box,
The box contained the Devil Fruit that had been auctioned, while the two people were ability users who had participated in the auction,
Besides extracting World Origin Power directly from Devil Fruits, Nara Dan could also extract the Devil Fruit substance from ability users, thereby extracting World Origin Power.
"Whoosh!"
Vinsmoke Gaji flew over from a distance. Thanks to their high-tech Flight Shoes, members of the Vinsmoke Family could fly with ease,
Gaji looked over the extremely bloody scene. Although this wasn't his first time seeing something like it, he still found it hard to stomach,
The Vinsmoke Family also often slaughtered their enemies in war, but those were still wars between humans,