Mary Geoise

The battle here had already gone on for quite a while. Richard had no desire to keep endlessly grinding things out with the Marines.

With the Marines' piecemeal reinforcement tactic, before this side was even finished, they would send more people over from the other side.

He had no interest in testing the stamina limits of these freaks with monstrous physiques.

As for comprehending the Mystery of Round Softness, it was never something that could be solved through haste. Sometimes, the more deliberate and eager one became, the more unattainable it was.

If he could not grasp the basics now, then the time simply had not come.

Once Richard got a little serious, he easily captured these people. After sealing them, he tossed them into his Small World.

Considering that he would still need these Marines to maintain stability across the seas after wiping out the Celestial Dragons, he could not kill them all.

Richard did not care, but he could not leave Kuina with a complete mess to clean up, could he?

He then picked up the Den Den Mushi and called Sengoku, telling him to stop fussing around. In a few days, these Marine higher-ups would return.

Of course, there was nothing to be done about the ones who were dead.

Like Akainu. That guy's mouth had been too foul, so Xia Mi had beaten him to death.

Even the Magma-Magma Fruit had dropped. Having watched Richard collect Devil Fruits before, Xia Mi said it was easy—anyone with hands could do it.

For example...

Well, Akainu was the only one who had died. None of the other Marine higher-ups were dead.

May Akainu, up in heaven, never have a foul mouth again. Amen!

Then, without caring about Sengoku's reaction on the other end, he hung up.

Not to mention Sengoku's shock and the uproar throughout Marineford.

The fellow hanging from the tree had taken photos of every Marine higher-up being suppressed on the spot, then left in satisfaction.

"By the way, are you really not interested in these Devil Fruits? Somehow, we've collected this many already."

As Xia Mi took out the Magma-Magma Fruit, Richard looked again at the four Devil Fruits placed together and spoke.

By now, they had conveniently gathered the Magma-Magma Fruit, the Mera Mera no Mi, the Sand-Sand Fruit, and the Lightning Fruit.

If properly cultivated, four powerful Logia Devil Fruits would be enough to create four Admiral-Yonko Level experts.

If word got out, it would be enough to make the Four Emperors and the World Government join forces to seize them.

Unfortunately, among these group members, they could only gather dust. They had all become collectibles.

"How many times do we have to say it? We don't need things with such obvious flaws. Unless you can remove their weakness to water." Xia Mi looked utterly disdainful.

"I can't do that." Richard waved his hand. Though he could be considered a god, he was not omnipotent. What he could not do, he could not do.

In the end, they decided to let Kuina store them all away for now, to be used if needed later.

The group left under the gazes of Marine soldiers scattered across the ground, wounded and crippled.

Their destination was the elevator connecting the Sabaody Archipelago to the Red Line.

Their intentions were self-evident.

To the Celestial Dragons who controlled the World Government, Richard's group, who had killed Saint Makazu, had to die. Otherwise, they would not be able to deter the vicious criminals roaming the seas.

If people came to believe that the Celestial Dragons were nothing special, then the Celestial Dragons' safety during future outings would no longer be guaranteed.

They could not even rule out villains coming to cause trouble at the Holy Land Mary Geoise, just like Fisher Tiger had done back then.

Coincidentally, Richard and the others had the same idea. To keep those Celestial Dragons from interfering with the rest of their journey, they might as well wipe them out directly. They disliked the Celestial Dragons anyway.

So this was a mutual rush toward each other.

"Wait for me first. I'm going to retrieve something." After saying that, Richard did not wait for the others to respond before creating a Shadow Clone and having it fly upward.

The Shadow Clone soon passed through the stratosphere and troposphere, then flew beyond low Earth orbit.

Many small meteorites floated in low Earth orbit. Richard guessed that whenever Issho pulled meteorites down from the sky, he drew them from here.

He just did not know how these meteorites had formed. They did not seem naturally formed.

Not long after, it reached high Earth orbit.

From here, the structure of the entire Pirate World looked strange no matter how he viewed it.

The Red Line was a long, narrow continent that circled the entire planet and intersected the Grand Line almost perpendicularly.

Together, they divided the entire world into the Four Blues of east, south, west, and north. The Calm Belt also separated the Grand Line from the Four Blues.

As a result, ships unable to cross the Calm Belt could only travel through the Grand Line to enter the New World.

The Red Line was also the only complete continent in the entire world. Everything else could only be considered islands on the sea.

This terrain looked even less like something naturally formed. This was a modified planet, and its current geography had been deliberately created.

Either this world had once possessed an extremely advanced civilization, or an extraterrestrial interstellar civilization had visited it. In any case, the current World Government was absolutely incapable of modifying an entire planet.

Of course, Richard had not sent the Shadow Clone up here to admire the beautiful scenery of the One Piece planet.

His gaze swept around, and he soon found the target he was looking for.

It was a fairly large spaceship. It looked aged overall, clearly lacking maintenance.

The vessel was nearly a kilometer long and shaped like a melon seed. It was damaged, with a hole dozens of meters wide near the right side of its tail.

This should be what this world called Uranus.

The king behind the Celestial Dragons, Imu, likely possessed partial control authority over this thing, allowing him to launch light-based attacks capable of destroying an entire country.

Richard did not want to get hit, so he had sent his Shadow Clone ahead of time to take this thing away.

He did not know much about technology. As someone who had studied the humanities in his previous life, he had no idea how to obtain this spaceship's control system.

But that was fine. He could try using artifact-refining methods to turn it into a vehicle. However, he would need to repair it first.

It looked like he would need to find Vegapunk, the greatest scientist in this world.

For now, he could take it away first. He only needed to take the entire thing. The Shadow Clone then approached the spaceship and, with a thought, stored it in a large Space Ring he had prepared in advance.

As for why Richard knew about this thing, it was simple.

When he arrived in the One Piece world, he had used his spiritual power to scan the entire planet.

This planet was not that large, not even as big as Blue Star from his previous life. With his current spiritual power, he could easily cover the entire planet, including part of outer space.

So from the very beginning, he had known there was a broken spaceship in high Earth orbit.

He simply had not been in a hurry to retrieve it then. Now that he was about to face Imu, he might as well take it first.

That way, he would not have to catch a light cannon with his face later.

After finishing the task, the Shadow Clone directly teleported the Space Ring back into the original body's hand, and Richard dismissed the Shadow Clone.

"What did you go do?" Xia Mi asked as she looked at the Space Ring that had suddenly appeared in his hand.

"Did you go find Uranus?" Lin Feng asked.

"Yes, I found Uranus. It's a damaged spaceship." Richard smiled, clearly in a good mood.

"That makes sense. The original plot said that Uranus was in the sky and could launch attacks from the sky to destroy an entire country. In that case, it makes perfect sense for it to be a spaceship." Lin Feng said.

"Really? Hurry up and take it out so I can see what a spaceship looks like!" Xia Mi shouted.

"It's a little big, so it's inconvenient to take it out here. We'll wait until later. When we have time, I'll show it to you. For now, we can go deal with the Celestial Dragons." Seeing that they were all interested, Richard replied.

The Celestial Dragons monopolized the entire Red Line and built the Holy Land Mary Geoise here.

The World Government's institutions were located beneath it.

It could be said to be the center of power for the entire world.

After hypnotizing the elevator guards, Richard and the others easily took the elevator up to Mary Geoise.