So, the Third Round-This Is the Current Advancement Mission for the [Scholar] (Continued)

In a single round, he had found the World Government's real treasury!

And it wasn't just some ordinary Celestial Dragon's treasury! (Not that the things in a Celestial Dragon's treasury were worthless...)

At Adrian's command, the shell of Reaper Ice surrounding CP0 headquarters rapidly melted away.

Ibuprofen, temporarily spared, was sealed inside an "ice coffin" with layer upon layer of Reaper Ice, Spiritual Pressure, Reaper Power, and other properties. Adrian then placed him inside Lumi's Impenetrable Fortress for sustainable harvesting later.

Adrian looked up at the battle still raging in the sky.

Half an hour had passed, yet the Bald Five Elder and the Blond Five Elder were still locked in heated combat with Dragon and Thunder Lion. None of them showed any sign of stopping.

Meanwhile, inside what had once been the Five Elders' palace, the three Revolutionary Army commanders who had broken in—the Okama King, Crow, and Morley—had been swiftly defeated by the Blond Five Elder. Unable to resist, they had been taken into custody by the remaining CP0 agents.

Unless someone rescued them, those three commanders were very likely done for...

But Adrian merely glanced their way before vanishing from CP0 headquarters.

"So much time has passed, and Mary Geoise isn't far from Marineford. The senior officers from Marine Headquarters should be arriving soon..."

"I need to pick up the pace! CP0's treasury comes first!"

Adrian's lightning-fast looting went remarkably smoothly.

With Mary Geoise in utter chaos, its strongest fighters tying one another down, and CP0's chief taken out in a single blow, he cleared out CP0's internal treasury, the World Government's main treasury, and the Five Elders' private vaults one after another.

What a haul!

To Emperors of the Sea and archaeologists alike, Ancient Poneglyphs were the best way to reach the pinnacle of their ambitions—