After the two left, Richard saw that there was nothing else requiring his attention and returned to his Small World.
Upon entering, Richard saw a colossal tree that blotted out the sky, as though it had pierced the heavens. It turned out he had also stored the God Tree inside the Small World.
Looking at it this way, the Small World was still a little too small. After fitting in such a massive tree, it actually felt somewhat cramped.
Unfortunately, while he now had sufficient resources, his strength was still lacking.
This Small World existed by relying on his eye technique. Its current scale was already the limit of what he could control. Until his strength underwent a qualitative leap, this world could not expand.
The Six Paths Puppet stood beneath the God Tree. Richard had already erased the final traces of will from the two Five Elders who had been replaced earlier.
At the same time, he had obtained two Devil Fruits.
Saint Nusjuro, the one always carrying a sword, was also a Devil Fruit user.
Neither of these two Devil Fruits was recorded in the Devil Fruit Encyclopedia.
Still, they were probably both Mythical Zoans. As the World Government's highest rulers in public, there was no way they would have eaten ordinary Devil Fruits.
But it did not really matter whether he knew or not. He was not planning to eat them himself anyway.
Richard wanted to see whether the God Tree would eat such things.
He tossed one of them to the God Tree, but the tree seemed rather resistant to it and would not eat it.
Richard put away the Devil Fruit.
It would not eat it? In his view, the God Tree was quite easy to raise. As long as it had energy, it was