"You did it."
Kaido's eyes were filled with fervor. He could not imagine how Shane had defeated Imu and the Heaven-Reaching Tree.
But with only Shane here now, that meant the victor was this captain, the King of the World.
"It's the Empty Throne!"
Someone had found that throne!
Everyone turned to look at Shane.
The throne was actually high in the mountains now. The original site of Mary Geoise had been blasted apart, but a giant tree had grown from the seabed.
It looked somewhat similar to the former Heaven-Reaching Tree.
Yet it was gradually leaving the ground, floating into the sky.
The former Mary Geoise was on this tree, along with the former forbidden grounds of the Celestial Dragons and the Empty Throne.
A straw hat drifted down from the sky. It had belonged to Joy Boy eight hundred years ago.
People suddenly saw a door open before Shane.
It led to Laugh Tale.
Shane made no attempt to conceal anything. He simply reached out with one hand and uprooted it.
The Devil Fruit Tree!
Though incomplete, it symbolized humanity's imagination and still possessed the ability to gather positive power, just like the Heaven-Reaching Tree.
If Imu had done this, people would only have thought it was an attempt to dominate the world and carry out another erasure like the Void Century.
But no one would stop whatever Shane wanted to do. For one thing, they were no match for him; for another, no one would question Shane.
Possessing both strength and prestige, Shane had gained everything Imu could never obtain.
Becoming the ruler of the world openly.
Shane used the Mini-Mini Fruit's ability to compress the Devil Fruit Tree into a single fruit, then swallowed it before the eyes of the world.
The fruit was refined in