"Truth..."
"To tell you the truth, I was actually a slave of the Celestial Dragons before, and I have some understanding of the plans for Mary Geoise!"
"Brother Fisher Tiger! You..."
After a moment of silence, Fisher Tiger finally decided to reveal the secret he had kept buried in his heart. However, he noticed that his voice was different from before when he opened his mouth. He paused for a moment before speaking again. He spoke calmly, but his voice trembled slightly. The experience he had gone through was still painful to recall.
Vic remained calm as Fisher Tiger spoke, as he already knew about it. However, Jinbe was unaware of this, leaving Jinbe utterly shocked and speechless.
"Later I escaped from Mary Geoise. I was a slave to the Celestial Dragons, so I know what kind of hell those slaves lived in. It wasn't a holy place; it was more like hell!"
I escaped, but so many people are still suffering in hell. My empathy for them makes me unable to let go of those who are also slaves, so I want to rescue them. After informing Mr. and Mrs. Neptune in the Ryugu Palace, I set off."
"On a dark and stormy night, I took action, climbing from the Red Line onto Mary Geoise. To buy time, I secretly set fires in many places before releasing the slaves from their cells."
I did encounter some people who tried to stop me, but none of them were a match for me. As for the protective power you mentioned!
They were indeed there, and it was an entire squad; the powerful aura emanating from each of them was breathtaking.
But they simply stood motionless outside a building filled with plants, ignoring the chaos outside and doing nothing to stop the slaves from escaping.
There seemed to be something very important inside that building that needed to be carefully protected. If they had attacked, most of us wouldn't have been able to escape. It was really lucky that so many people were rescued!
Fisher Tiger briefly recounted what happened in Mary Geoise. When he spoke of that group of powerful individuals, his tone changed drastically, indicating that he was still shaken and felt a lingering fear when he thought about it.
Vic knew that Fisher Tiger was really lucky that time. He must have accidentally set fire to the vicinity of the Flower Room, which was where Imu lived. The importance of the King of the World was definitely not comparable to that of other Celestial Dragons and slaves.
Buildings can be rebuilt after they burn down, Celestial Dragons can be reborn after they die, and slaves can be captured again if they are gone. Their importance cannot compare to the value of the Flower Room. Therefore, the strongest guards are all sent to protect the King of the World of the Flower Room. Whether the King of the World needs protection or not is not important.
"I see! Let's become stronger, only by becoming stronger can we do more for this world!"
Vic now knows some of the specifics about Mary Geoise. There's a powerful guard there whose main task is to protect Imu. He'll definitely have to inform Dragon about this later.
The Revolutionary Army is dedicated to overthrowing the Celestial Dragons, so Imu is an unavoidable obstacle, and the guard team must be eliminated. Vic's visit to Fisher Tiger this time was quite fruitful, so it wasn't a wasted trip.
With these gains, Vic didn't linger. He had done all he could; now it was up to the two of them to develop their own path in the New World.
He was a Marine, so he couldn't bring along a former pirate. Therefore, he used coral to create bubbles so that Jinbe could take him back to the warship.
When he returned to the warship, the Fish-Man who had tried to attack him earlier had woken up. Vic didn't use much force to punish them. When they saw Jinbe, they were a little aggrieved, saying, "Why didn't you say you couldn't fight us earlier? We all slept through this, it's so embarrassing!"
At this point, Jinbe and Vic still needed to maintain their hostile relationship, so Jinbe simply snorted and led all the Fish-Man away.
Afterwards, Vic ordered the warships to continue sailing, bypassing Fish-Man Island and heading straight for the New World at full speed. Neptune and his party, who were waiting to receive them on Fish-Man Island, were disappointed and did not receive the guests they wanted to thank.
Fish-Man Island is actually located directly beneath the Red Line of Mary Geoise. There is a huge trench there, and where the trench intersects the Red Line perpendicularly, there is a hole. Fish-Man Island is located inside that hole.
Fish-Man Island uses sunlight transmitted through the giant roots of the Sunlight Tree Eve to achieve the alternation of day and night, so as long as you go around Fish-Man Island and continue sailing in the trench, you can reach the waters of the New World.
In less than a day, Vic's warships surfaced on the surface of the New World's waters. However, the waters near the Red Line were filled with chaotic currents, whirlpools, and turbulent currents.
Therefore, Vic allowed the warship to sail at sea for a longer period of time before surfacing. Otherwise, it would have taken less than a day to surface. Anyway, he had Vegapunk's Vivre Card, so even underwater, it wouldn't affect his direction.
Punk Hazard is an island not recorded by the Log Pose, which is why it serves as the research institute for the Vegapunk. It is rarely disturbed here, and it is not far from the Red Line, so any problems can be resolved more quickly by the World Government and the Navy.
In the original story, when the Straw Hat Pirates first arrived in the New World, the island Luffy chose was Raijin Island where the Log Pose wobbled the most—the island where lightning seemed to rain down all year round.
However, he was later lured to Punk Hazard by Caesar Clown's distress call, so Punk Hazard is not far from Raijin Island, in the sea between Raijin Island and Red Adventure Island.
Vic was also very interested in Raijin Island, after all, he was Devil Fruit User the Rumble-Rumble Fruit- Rumble Fruit and had long been curious about that island.
" Rebecca! You're the navigator on this warship, and the weather in the New World is even more unpredictable, so you'll need to be careful on the upcoming voyage. Don't let everyone suffer because of you. Here, take this."
Vic handed Vegapunk's Vivre Card to Rebecca, saying that although Rebecca was once called a navigator, her navigation skills were only slightly better than terrible, probably not even as good as Nami's at the age of three.
If Vic and his crew hadn't used their own force to conquer nature during their previous voyages, the warship would have sunk eight or ten times over.
But things are different now in the New World. Individual bravery alone cannot completely resolve the first half of those celestial phenomena in the sea. Vic has to take it seriously. Even the Golden Lion's Grand Fleet was wrecked by the storm, so what more could they possibly do?
"I've been studying hard, but it's too difficult. I feel like I'm just hovering outside the door, unable to get in, and I can't grasp its secrets. But if all else fails, I'll just make the warship fly!"
Rebecca has some talent in combat, but she's really bad at navigation, only at an average level. She's definitely not good enough to sail the Grand Line.
Just like she said, she hasn't even started yet. She doesn't know how the weather on the Grand Line is formed, or what kind of signs and phenomena precede it. It's really hard to get started if you don't understand the essence of what happens!
However, having the Float-Float Fruit ability is indeed invincible in navigation, it's like a complete game-changer. It's estimated that Golden Lion's escape that time was also thanks to the Float-Float Fruit. With the Float-Float Fruit as a backup, one could at least roam freely in the New World.
Rebecca's words had a Versailles feel to them, implying that if her business failed, she would just go home and inherit the family fortune.