Mary Geoise

The battle here had already gone on for a long time, and Richard had no desire to keep grinding away at the Marines endlessly.

With the Marines' drip-feed tactics, before this side was even finished, they would send more people over from the other side.

He had no interest in testing the limits of those physical freaks' stamina.

As for comprehending the Mystery of Round Softness, it was never something that could be solved through impatience. Sometimes, the more deliberate and desperate one became, the less attainable it was.

If he could not get started now, then the time simply had not come.

Once Richard got a little serious, he easily captured those 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 either way, 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. In a few days, those Marine higher-ups would be back.

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

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

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

And then there was...

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

May Akainu, in heaven, no longer have such a foul mouth. Amen!

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

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

The brother hanging from the tree snapped photos of every Marine higher-up being suppressed, then left in satisfaction.

"Say, are you really not interested in these Devil Fruits? We've gathered quite a few without even realizing it."

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

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

With proper cultivation, four powerful Logia Devil Fruits were enough to create four Admiral-Yonko Level experts.

If word got out, the Four Emperors and the World Government would be enough to form groups and fight over 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 the weakness to water." Xia Mi spoke with disdain.

"I can't do that." Richard waved his hand. He might count as a god, but he was not omnipotent. What he could not do, he could not do.

In the end, they decided to let Kuina put them all away for now and discuss it again if needed.

The group left beneath the gazes of Marine soldiers sprawled across the ground, wounded and broken.

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

Their purpose was self-evident.

For the Celestial Dragons who controlled the World Government, Richard's group, who had killed Saint Makazu, had to die. Otherwise, it would not be enough to deter the vicious criminals of the seas.

Once people began to think the Celestial Dragons were nothing special, the Celestial Dragons' safety during future outings would no longer be guaranteed.

There was even the possibility that criminals would come cause trouble in the Holy Land Mary Geoise, just as Fisher Tiger had once done.

Coincidentally, Richard and the others thought the same way. To keep those Celestial Dragons from disrupting 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." Without waiting for the others to reply, Richard created a Shadow Clone and had it fly upward.

Very quickly, the Shadow Clone passed through the stratosphere, the troposphere, and then low Earth orbit.

Many small meteors floated in low Earth orbit. When Issho pulled meteors down from the sky, he had probably pulled them down from here.

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

Not long after, it arrived in 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 narrow, elongated continent encircling the entire planet, intersecting almost perpendicularly with the Grand Line.

Together, the two divided the entire world into the East, South, West, and North Blues. The Calm Belt also separated the Grand Line from the Four Blues.

This forced ships unable to cross the Calm Belt to travel along 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 felt even less like something naturally formed. This was a modified planet, and its current topography 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 a planet.

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

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

It was a fairly large spaceship. Its overall appearance was aged, and it was clear that it had not been properly maintained.

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

This should be the so-called Uranus of this world.

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

Richard did not want to get hit, so he had sent the Shadow Clone to take this thing away in advance.

He did not know much about technology. Having studied the humanities in his previous life, he had no idea how to gain control of the spaceship's systems.

But that was fine. He could try using artifact-refining methods to refine this thing into a vehicle. Though before that, he would first need to repair it.

It seemed he would need to seek out Vegapunk, the world's foremost scientist.

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

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

When he came to the One Piece world, he had scanned the entire planet with his spiritual power.

This planet was not especially large, not even as large 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 such a battered 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, it was better to take it away in advance.

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

After finishing its task, the Shadow Clone directly teleported the Space Ring back into the original body's hand, and Richard dispelled 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 said with a smile, clearly in a good mood.

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

"Really? Take it out and let me see what a spaceship looks like!" Xia Mi shouted.

"It's a little too big. It wouldn't be convenient to take it out here, so later. When we have time, I'll show it to you. Now, we can deal with the Celestial Dragons." Seeing that they were all interested, Richard said.

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

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.