"Owner!"
Inside the room, the four people who had opened their eyes knelt respectfully before Oak.
King's Blood Servant – This is a skill Oak after deeply developing his Vampire abilities. Vampire abilities work by draining the blood of others to steal their lifespan for their own use. In this world, lifespan is linked to the soul.
Therefore, by Blood Sucker, circulating it within his body, and then returning it, while mixing in a drop of his own blood, he can influence that person's soul to some extent.
The weaker a person's willpower, the more easily they are manipulated by this skill.
These four people before us are a case in point; influenced by this, they became Oak's most loyal servants from that moment on.
With this effect, Oak extracted a considerable amount of intelligence from both World Government.
"So Garling was on the island!"
At this moment, he finally realized who the "adult" the two World Government agents were referring to was.
Garling was on the island, and in fact, he lived in the same alley as the Rocks Family. Garin also knew that this wasn't Garling's first time landing at God Valley. The last time Garin returned with Rocks, the other man was there and even saw their backs. It seemed that Garin sensed something, which was why he was monitoring the Rocks family.
In addition, Garling also set his sights on the island's rich mineral resources, sending several agents disguised as merchant ships to explore the island's resources.
"This is a bit tricky!"
After learning everything, Oak felt slightly troubled.
Yesterday, when I logged in, Garling actually saw me. Although Garling didn't confirm my identity, he increased his surveillance on the Rocks family.
Now every household in this alley has an agent of the World Government.
He wasn't troubled by Garling and those agents' strength; Garling's abilities, which had made him Speed Bump in the God Valley Incident, were nothing to him.
The key point is that he didn't come here to fight, but to relocate the Rocks Family. If he were to have a direct confrontation with Garling and the numerous agents on the island, he would have a hard time guaranteeing the safety of the Rocks Family. After all, the Rocks family were just a group of slightly stronger ordinary people; otherwise, they wouldn't have needed to live in seclusion in God Valley.
Moreover, even if he could take the Rocks family off the island, the journey back to the New World wouldn't be easy. Garling would definitely mobilize more forces to hunt him down.
We need to think of a solution!
Quietly pondering, Oak considered a strategy to safely transport the Rocks family to the New World. After a moment, his eyes lit up as he devised a plan. He then addressed the kneeling figures in the room.
"Just pretend nothing happened and continue what you were doing before, understand?"
Looking at the several bloodied figures before him, outwardly, apart from a barely perceptible bloodshot glint in their eyes, they appeared almost identical to normal.
However, that splash of crimson wouldn't attract any attention. Unless someone knew beforehand, no one would know they were under their control. So, Oak instructed them to pretend nothing had happened.
"Understood, Master!"
After they restored everything to its original state, Oak's figure disappeared from the room, and when he reappeared, he was already at the island's port.
At the port, Oak found the ship that the Rocks family had prepared in advance. He then used Observation Haki to scan the surrounding area, focusing his investigation on the World Government armed ships disguised as merchant vessels.
After discovering that none of the ships possessed a strong aura that might detect him, he quietly infiltrated them and, in the same manner, turned all the agents on board into his Blood Servant.
"Done!"
Looking at the port that he now controlled, Oak snapped his fingers.
Now, all he had to do was quietly transport the Rocks family to the port, and he could take them out to sea smoothly. As for how to evade the numerous agents on the island and get the Rocks family out, that was a piece of cake for him.
"Phew~"
Spreading his wings, he vanished in a flash, returning to the Rocks family's courtyard. As night fell, under the cover of darkness, he easily transported everyone from the sky to the port. Then, escorted by numerous port agents, they left the God Valley waters.
"Why hasn't anyone from that family come out after so long?"
Two days later, the surveillance agents noticed the anomaly. After the entire family of his target disappeared, Garling flew into a rage and berated all his men.
"Waste!"
That day, all the agents responsible for monitoring the Rocks family were thrown into the sea to be eaten by the fish.
After leaving God Valley, Oak led his crew rapidly towards the Calm Belt. Given the geographical location of the West Blue, once they could cross the Calm Belt, they would reach the New World of the Grand Line, where their New World crew would be completely safe.
The New World is pirate territory, and neither the Navy nor the World Government dares to act too recklessly in that area.
Before leaving the West Blue, Oak couldn't let his guard down, because he knew his deception wouldn't last long. Soon, the island's agents and Garling would notice something amiss and might catch up. With their capabilities, finding out which ship they had used to sail out to sea would be incredibly easy. Therefore, Oak changed ships twice along the way.
But even so, he was still cornered on the fifth day.
The World Government's control over the Four Blues far surpasses that of the Grand Line, and it possesses an exceptionally vast intelligence network. With all its Marine Branch and World Government-affiliated Countries mobilized, Saint Garling could easily find a group of people.
"This is the Marine Branch 146. The ship ahead, lower your sails immediately for inspection!"
A line of more than a dozen warships blocked the way in front of the Oak Channel, broadcasting messages to him via Amplifying Den Den Mushi).
Looking at the fleet ahead, it seemed far too meager compared to the naval fleets of the Grand Line. The warships were mostly small to medium-sized vessels, and they didn't possess much firepower.
He didn't even consider the fleets of the Grand Line Oak, let alone these second-rate fleets from the West Blue, so he simply uttered a "Get lost!" and then drew his Seven Star Sword.
" Seven Star Slashing Wave ~"
A streak of emerald green sword energy emerged from the Seven Star Sword, instantly transforming into a slash hundreds of meters long.
"Boom!"
The entire fleet was destroyed with a single sword strike.
In the time that followed, Oak was constantly being intercepted. No matter which sea area he passed through, a large group of naval forces, or even troops from World Government Member States, would soon catch up with him and surround him.
Although these pursuers were not strong enough to cause him any real harm, they severely slowed him down.