The Struggle for the Gold Mine

A few weeks later, Dr. Vegapunk finally produced a new serum. No more, no less—exactly one hundred doses.

Kuma brought the serums back to God's Island and personally handed them to Annus.

Annus then entrusted the serums to his most trusted subordinates: the Skypieans who had once belonged to the Angel Legion.

It was not that he did not want to give them to others, but this serum currently only worked on those with Skypiean blood.

Blue Sea people without Skypiean blood would not undergo any changes even if they were injected with it. Instead, they would suffer severe side effects.

This left some Blue Sea people who had hoped to secure a serum injection slot deeply disappointed.

After all, they had followed Annus for all sorts of reasons, but their goal was always to gain more benefits.

Though they were loyal to Annus, those willing to give selflessly were ultimately only a small minority.

Every Heavenly Soldier selected to receive the serum felt immensely honored, and not a single one showed any resistance. After receiving the injection, the hundred chosen Heavenly Soldiers grew real wings, just like Nami.

Annus called these new Skypieans, inheritors of an ancient bloodline, the Featherfolk.

Under Lilith's arrangements, the hundred Feather People soon boarded the Ark Maxim. Accompanied personally by Annus, they returned to the Blue Sea.

Their destination was Hachinosu in the New World, a familiar old haunt for these Winged Heavenly Soldiers.

Though Ochoku had replaced Rocks and become the new king of Hachinosu, many vicious criminals and pirates on this pirate island still refused to accept him.

Rocks was one thing. He was a man who had killed a Marine Admiral and turned the whole world into a stage for himself. Everyone on Hachinosu had gathered because of Rocks' reputation. What