Wealth stirred people's hearts!
Do not think three hundred million Beli sounded like a small sum.
As though any random pirate could have a bounty of three hundred million Beli.
A bounty of three hundred million Beli was enough for someone to be called a great pirate renowned throughout a region!
Of course, more importantly, Doflamingo himself had issued this bounty, not the Marines or the World Government.
That meant,
even pirates and assassins who had bounties on their own heads
could claim this reward.
And so, for a time!
Every faction in the North Blue prepared to set out and take Arthur's head.
Whether it was the Vinsmoke Family of the Germa Kingdom, the other factions lurking in the shadows, or those rookie pirates who had only just begun to make names for themselves.
Almost everyone
began heading toward Arthur's location.
They all looked determined to take Arthur's head!
Meanwhile.
The uproar in the North Blue's Underworld
naturally drew the attention of the Marines and the World Government as well.
They also decided to dispatch forces to participate in this massive hunt.
Of course, they were not coming to kill Arthur
and collect the bounty from Doflamingo, but to take advantage of this gathering of various factions to arrest their targets.
Likewise,
even the deeply concealed Revolutionary Army had heard the news.
They dispatched a small team to investigate the situation.
Of course, at that moment.
Arthur, who was sorting through his gains in the island base, had no idea.
After hanging up the phone,
Doflamingo had personally issued a bounty on him.
And once the bounty went out, everyone in the North Blue prepared to head his way, take his head, and exchange it for the three-hundred-million-Beli reward.
The wind rose before the storm.
A murderous air instantly filled the entire North Blue!
Everyone wanted Arthur dead!
Whether they were kings ruling over entire nations, wicked pirates with thousands of lives on their hands, or underground assassins who killed without a trace...
Everyone had their eyes on Arthur.
But at that moment, at a warehouse inside the base.
Arthur and Alfred slowly opened the warehouse doors.
Once they pushed the doors open and looked inside,
they saw that the warehouse was packed full of goods.
"Oh, what have they got in here..." Arthur looked around, unable to help wondering just what the Donquixote Family kept in their warehouse.
Alfred soon opened a wooden crate.
Inside lay neatly arranged, newly manufactured firearms.
"These are the latest weapons," Alfred said, his eyes lighting up. Then he opened another new wooden crate, and his face brightened again at its contents.
"This crate contains explosives."
As he spoke, he estimated the combined power of the explosives.
"This crate of explosives would be enough to blow a Marine warship to pieces!"
Next, Alfred opened crate after crate.
Every crate held brand-new weapons and large quantities of ammunition to go with them.
Alfred made a rough estimate.
The arms in this entire warehouse were enough to support a nation through a war!
"They really are loaded."
Hearing Alfred's conclusion,
Arthur could not help smiling as he spoke.
Then Arthur and Alfred continued on to the next warehouse!
That was right!
After checking the place, the two of them had learned
that there was more than one warehouse at this island base!
There were three in all!
Soon, Arthur and Alfred opened the second warehouse and inspected it, then went on to open and inspect the third and final warehouse.
The first warehouse held arms.
The second warehouse held medicine.
The third warehouse held food.
According to Alfred's rough calculations based on market prices, the goods in these three warehouses should have been worth over a billion Beli at the very least!
"A billion Beli!?"
Arthur could not help exclaiming in surprise at the figure.
"We've gotten rich just like that..." he could not help murmuring. He had never imagined that capturing the Donquixote Family's North Blue base
would bring such an unexpected windfall.
What Arthur did not realize, however,
was that the goods left in the island base's warehouses
were merely what remained after the Donquixote Family had fulfilled most of its business orders.
If he had captured this base a little earlier, before Diamante had completed most of the orders, the goods there at that time would truly have shocked him.
On the other hand, though,
if Arthur really had captured the base at that point,
the massive losses he would have caused the Donquixote Family's business
would surely have brought Doflamingo himself over to handle the matter.
Rather than leaving Doflamingo too occupied with other matters to come to the North Blue in person, as he was now.
Now that they had suddenly gained such plentiful supplies, Alfred once again thought of helping Arthur restore his kingdom.
"Your Highness, these supplies can serve as the foundation for restoring our kingdom."
Arthur nodded at his words.
"Yes, Alfred. These supplies will be a great help to us."
As Arthur spoke, he thought how fortunate it was that he had obtained a Spatial Ring earlier, which he could use to safely store these goods worth over a billion Beli in total.
Then, as Alfred watched, dumbfounded,
Arthur waved a hand at each warehouse.
The crates piled as high as small hills inside instantly vanished.
"Your Highness!!!"
Alfred was shocked once again!
But Arthur did not offer much explanation.
Nor did he need to explain anything to Alfred.
Soon,
Arthur had put the contents of all three warehouses into the Spatial Ring, filling it almost completely and leaving only a few cubic meters of space.
But after finishing all of that.
Something suddenly occurred to Arthur.
No, there should be something else at this island base, he muttered inwardly. After all, this was a Donquixote Family base.
Besides these ordinary goods that could be found on the market,
a faction like the Donquixote Family
should also have collected things known as "rare treasures."
Things like Devil Fruits, fine blades, and the like.
At that thought, Arthur felt tempted.
Then it immediately occurred to him.
Naturally, those things would not be stored in warehouses alongside ordinary goods.
Instead, they should be inside the castle!
Arthur immediately took Alfred back to the castle.
They began searching its various rooms for valuables.
After spending two hours turning the entire castle upside down, Arthur and Alfred found all the hidden valuables.
As for those valuables,
Arthur felt that finding them in just two hours had been worth the effort.
At that moment.
Sitting on the table before Arthur and Alfred
were a strange-looking fruit and a finely crafted blade.
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