Chapter 99: Cadre Course
That very day, a road was opened in a straight line.
Enel and Ace had originally planned to use fire and lightning, but Noland the Great Serpent simply rolled from one end to the other, then crushed its way back from the other end to the first, opening up a road in one go.
Everyone on Sky Island, including women and children, was mobilized. The women and children began picking gold from the rubble Noland had spat out, while the men went to Shandia's ruins to carry out the gold.
There was simply too much gold in Shandia.
There was so much that Enel and Ace had to go all out, melting the gold into block after block, cooling them, and then having the Shandians carry them back to the village.
The Shandians did not actually object.
As long as the Golden Bell, something akin to their faith, remained intact, they had long ceased to regard the rest of the gold as their own.
By this point, the Shandians had become very calm after repeated failures—while those who could not remain calm, like Wyper and the others, had become extremely radical.
If it had been the old Wyper, he definitely would not have acknowledged that the gold belonged to Leo and the others. He would have fallen out with them and fought.
But after witnessing Enel and Ace's immense power, no one could even entertain such thoughts.
Not to mention that Leo and the others had the even stronger Empress.
"If Shandia were on the Blue Sea, this would be much easier to handle." Leo explained to them apologetically. "A city of gold would be an excellent guarantee of a regime's credit. Anyone who saw the Golden City would no longer question our credibility or ability