Despite the deep concerns of the Baroque Works' Officer Agent, they still had to carry out Crocodile's orders.
To assist MR2, the fake king, in causing the Royal Army and the Rebel Army outside the Alubarna to fight each other.
There were already Baroque Works spies mixed in with the Rebel Army.
Now even within the Royal Army, these commanders have been planted by the fake king.
If the powerful figures of the Goa Empire were to arrive in the Rainbase...
Both the Rebel Army and the Royal Army would Wang Shi.
Crocodile left behind gambling funds and casino executives to buy time for Wang Shi, and now he's preparing to use the Royal Army against Wang Shi.
He wouldn't let Wang Shi interfere with his search for the whereabouts of the Pluton Battleship.
He also wants Mr. 2, disguised as Cobra, to expel the Wang Shi, and he will absolutely not allow the Goa Empire and Alabasta to form an alliance.
He has now been warned by the World Government to leave Alabasta.
If he finds Pluton's whereabouts this time, he will immediately give up his Shichibukai.
But if they can't find any information about Pluton this time, he'll eventually come back to Alabasta.
Therefore, completely destroying the possible alliance between Wang Shi and Cobra was also a contingency plan that Crocodile casually laid out.
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At a time when fierce fighting broke out between the Rebel Army and the Royal Army in Alabasta.
Crocodile, accompanied by Cobra and Nico Robin, searches for the Poneglyph, which have been kept in Alabasta for generations, in the Royal Mausoleum of the Nefertari clan.
Meanwhile, in Rainbase, Wang Shi and his group had already packed up the luxurious Rain Diners.
Whether it was treasures, antique decorations, Seastone, or even luxurious furniture, everything was looted by the Guard Army and Clone Army led by Nami and Laffitte.
Capone Bege's internal castle was truly overflowing with things, and even the Exile Emperor was piled high with them.
"I've taken down another of Doflamingo's partners this time. Will Doflamingo be cursing me?"
Wang Shi looked at the batch of Seastone and the Seastone cage the size of a small house, and a faint smile appeared on his face.
This Seastone cage is a large-scale Seastone trap that can imprison Straw Hat Luffy and his Smoker, as well as Smoker, all at once.
Wang Shi simply couldn't understand why this Seastone could trap Smoker, a Logia Fruit user.
Couldn't he transform into elements and escape through the crack?
Or perhaps the aura of the sea emanating from the Seastone cage has imbued the gaps in the cage with the properties of seawater, preventing elemental transformations from passing through.
Or perhaps Smoker is simply not very good.
Wang Shi asked Aramaki, a Logia user, to try to get through the Seastone Cage.
Aramaki discovered that even without touching the two Seastone, there was still a certain influence between them.
It seems that when the Seastone cage was built, the craftsmen had already taken advantage of the characteristics of Seastone to create appropriately spaced gaps between the Seastone, allowing the aura emitted by the Seastone to interact with each other.
It can suppress ability users without wasting too much Seastone in its creation.
However, after Aramaki uses Armament Haki, he can easily block out these ocean scents.
He could even force himself to elementalize and pass through the gaps in the Seastone.
It seems that Smoker is just too weak, which is why he got trapped in the Seastone.
Seastone exudes the scent of the ocean, which is indeed an objective fact.
The technique of inlaying warships with Seastone utilizes this principle.
Seastone was embedded at certain intervals at the bottom of the warship, so that the aura emitted by the Seastone could deceive the Sea Kings and make them ignore the Seastone Warship crossing the Calm Belt.
This technology seems mindless.
But it still requires some technical skill.
After all, Vegapunk had conducted numerous tests to determine the optimal ratio and distance for Seastone.
You should know that Seastone is very expensive.
Before Doflamingo rose to become the emperor of underground intermediaries, the amount of Seastone that flowed out of Wano Country was relatively small.
The World Government has to be careful with its resources, prioritizing Impel Down and the Navy.
It wasn't until Doflamingo got involved with Beast Kaido that the market for Seastone skyrocketed.
The World Government also obtained a large amount of Seastone through Doflamingo.
With ample Seastone for experimentation, Vegapunk was able to create the Seastone Warship.
This technology, which seems like something even a child could come up with, actually involves some technical skill.
After all, using a lot of Seastone is a huge expense, and mass-producing Seastone Warship would be ridiculously expensive.
If too little Seastone is used, the Sea Kings, attack, and cause both loss of life and wealth.
Of course, the most important factor was Doflamingo, who caused a large outflow of Seastone from Wano Country, which in turn promoted the development of Seastone -related technologies.
Otherwise, whether it's Vegapunk or any other scientist, they would be like a skilled cook without ingredients.
Without a large amount of Seastone as a research foundation, who would bother to study Seastone technology?
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Wang Shi wanted to inlay his Exile Emperor with Seastone, turning it into a Seastone Warship capable of crossing the Calm Belt.
However, he doesn't yet know the proportions for the Seastone inlay technique, but once he gets in touch with Vegapunk, he'll have to get that technique out of him.
Of course, even without embedding parameters, Wang Shi can now use quantity to stack.
Anyway, we got quite a bit of Seastone from Crocodile this time.
It's worth noting that this Sand Crocodile has been cooperating with Doflamingo for many years and has amassed a large quantity of Seastone.
After all, Sand Crocodile is Doflamingo's major client.
Crocodile, who supported the rebellion in Alabasta, purchased a large quantity of weapons from Doflamingo.
Sand Crocodile founded Baroque Works to make money, and established numerous bounty hunter organizations along the seven routes in the first half of the Grand Line to hunt down rookie pirate crews for profit.
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This large Seastone trap cage was then moved onto the stern deck of the Exile Emperor.
Wang Shi ordered everyone to board the ship and leave.
As for the other Seastone artifacts, they were all packed in boxes and piled up in the ship's cabin or inside Capone Bege's castle.
"Your Majesty, this Shichibukai has definitely been scared away by us!"
On the flying Exile Emperor, Aramaki's face was full of confidence.
Because these Shichibukai stopped issuing bounties early on, without bounties as a reference, Aramaki, who had never left the South Blue before, thought that the Shichibukai were very powerful.
However, after observing the elite naval Vice Admiral Momousagi Gion, and the great battle between the Flower Kingdom and the Mulberry Kingdom.
This gave Aramaki a clearer understanding of his own strength.
Even His Majesty the Wang Shi personally confirmed that Aramaki is stronger than Crocodile.
This made Aramaki even more confident and arrogant.
"Marquess Aramaki is right. The Shichibukai are nothing but chickens and dogs in front of us."
Eric immediately flattered them, saying that Marquess Aramaki and Marquess Issho's strength had been recognized by His Majesty and that they were stronger than the Three Disasters Four Sweet Commanders.
Of these Shichibukai, aside from Hawkeye Mihawk, Aramaki and Issho are capable of defeating any one of Shichibukai.
Besides, now that the One Emperor and Two Marquises are working together, a small Sand Crocodile is a piece of cake.