Frenzied "Uranus"

Heavy breathing echoed through the dim underground laboratory as the bare-chested man struggled to feel his way through the darkness.

Though he had gained the regeneration brought by the Dragon-Dragon Fruit, the remaining portion of the fruit was clearly not enough to restore him fully to his peak strength. Every step was extraordinarily difficult.

"Whew... This place is really huge."

He felt as though he had been walking for over ten minutes, yet he still had not found where his companions were being held. Monkey D. Dragon frowned. Every second was precious to him now.

"Rumble!"

As Monkey D. Dragon silently pondered, a massive tremor suddenly came from above the underground laboratory. At the same time, an oppressive pressure enveloped him, and that terrifying aura made it difficult for him to breathe.

"This is...!"

The leader of the Revolutionary Army looked up in shock, seemingly realizing something. That aura was cold and violent, yet it carried an inexplicably familiar feeling.

That was right. There was only one possibility that shared the same origin as the power within his body.

The dragon, the legendary former ruler of the world!

"I need to hurry."

He knew full well that the appearance of the dragon's aura was definitely related to the half Devil Fruit extracted from his body.

But Monkey D. Dragon could not understand why those Celestial Dragons were so desperate to awaken the power of the ultimate weapon.

Had the Navy reached Mary Geoise?

Clearly, the leader, who had been imprisoned for several months, knew nothing of the changes in the outside world.

In his mind, only something on the scale of a Navy assault could make those Celestial Dragon nobles panic so badly.

"So it was all for nothing..."

Watching the "King" fly farther and farther away, Klaus Anglaus revealed