Ye Chen used Silent Voice Transmission to quickly decide who would enter the meeting room. The four who went in were Ye Chen, Luo, Nami, and Robin.
They followed Lace into the meeting room. It was enormous and packed with people, its circular layout making it look like a training ground.
The tables and chairs formed rings around the room. The Ten Great Royal Families, the Five Elders, their trusted aides and butlers, and the key figures from Dragon Mansion were all there—no fewer than four or five hundred people. Everyone attending held an exalted position, and many were formidable fighters.
Any one of the Five Elders was frighteningly powerful. Dragon Mansion's ten ace Assassins were renowned, and the guards of the Ten Great Royal Families hid plenty of extraordinary talent. It was no exaggeration to say that many people in the room possessed strength on par with a Shichibukai.
The Underworld's kingpins had also formed an elite Assassins' squad under Little Zhuge's direct command. The moment Ye Chen entered, he felt as though the air had frozen. With his increasingly sharp Observation Haki, he could clearly sense the imposing presence of the powerful figures around him.
Little Zhuge glanced at Saint Jalmack and nodded with a smile. Then he rose abruptly and swept his gaze around the room. Everyone fell silent.
The meeting room became so quiet that a falling needle could have been heard. Even the slightest quickening of someone's heartbeat would have been noticed.
Little Zhuge gave a cold snort. "Last night, something unthinkable happened. The Worm-Worm Fruit user we valued so highly was killed, and we still have no leads. My guess is that the mysterious killer was sent by the Revolutionary Army—or that he was the Death God, Ye Chen. I have no evidence, but