Arceus in One Piece - Chapter 25
“Answer the phone, and you better know what to say and what not to say.”
Queen picked up the phone bug and placed it in front of Prior with the same dangerous grin. Only when the voice came from the other side of the bug, it didn’t occur to anyone that Prior had quite a lot on his mind for a man with a lot on his mind.
“Prielt, this is Spandain… Zephyr’s fleet will be arriving at Branch 277 in two days, so get out of there as soon as you can, got it?”
“Yes, I understand.”
“Huh? Why are you talking so strangely, and what’s going on there, and why hasn’t anyone else gotten any information back?”
“The pirates got into a brawl, and maybe one of your men got hurt.”
“Prithee, you better be honest with me. The treasure of Locus is not for the likes of you to get your hands on. Zephyr will be here soon; don’t fall into his hands.”
As the words fell, Spandain cut off the phone bug and a more dangerous smile appeared on Queen’s face.
“Oh, looks like you’re not exactly telling the truth there.”
“No, no, wait! I still need to finish! You guys haven’t asked about this kind of thing yet.”
“So now you can tell me the truth about why you’re associated with Spandauin, a CP9 person.”
Spandain, the father of Spandam, is the chief officer of CP9 nowadays. Although the world government only has CP1 to CP8 to the outside world, CP9 and CP0 are not a secret to those who are powerful.
Someone like Queen, who has a long history of experience in illegal research groups, certainly knows enough about it, and it was Spandauin who led the team when Vega Punk was forcibly recruited by the government.
A pirate, a new pirate, even a supernova, but he’s connected to the World Government and a big pirate at the same time. That’s just not right.
In the shadow of horror cast by Asuka, Priort finally told him everything.
He had been arrested once before, long before he arrived in the Shambles, and was supposed to be sent to the undersea prison of Imperatorium, but he met Spandauin.
After the destruction of the Locus pirate group, the sea did not return to peace. With the current policy of the World Government, pirates cannot be eradicated, and the sea is a situation that is the result of their indulgence.
Locus was originally a giant chain that forced the monsters of the sea together, and the defeat of Locus meant that the sire bond was completely gone.
Nowadays, half of the monsters in the New World were once members of Locus’ crew: Whitebeard Edward Newgate, Golden Lion Skye, Big Mom Charlotte Lingling, Captain John, Wang Zhi, and Silver Axe, and they occupy almost half of the sky of the New World.
They are not afraid of pirates, nor are they scared that pirates are too strong, but what they are worried about is that these pirates will suddenly have a brain fart and do something unfathomable, just like Locus, whose ambitions are well known but no one thought that he would actually go directly against the Celestial Dragons.
In order to prevent a madman like Rocks from coming back, the World Government’s CPs are trying to insert undercover agents into the pirates to provide timely feedback on the situation.
This was Prior’s original mission, to enter the New World under the banner of one of the pirates and send back information at regular intervals, and part of his bounty was deliberately pushed by Spandain.
Spandauin’s abilities could have been more impressive, but he had strong connections within the World Government. After all, he was able to push Spandauin, the son of a loser, into the position of Chief of CP9.
Later, Priority met John in the Chambord Islands and was crushed again. In the first half of the Great Voyage, as long as you rely on the ability of the Devil’s Fruit, you can basically dominate a party, and the natural system has a supreme position.
In the eyes of those who have just sailed, the natural system means invincibility, but in the new world where competition is fiercer, with the popularization of dominance, those who rely solely on the ability of fruits will easily suffer.
The Juggling Fruit allowed Prior to simulate his powers with a mask, despite his lack of physical prowess, and to gain access to an army of golems, which, along with Spandauin’s arrangements, made the first half of the Great Voyage smooth sailing for him.
However, John gives him a head-on blow and makes him realize the cruelty of the pirate world, and at this moment, he already regrets going to the sea.
However, he was recruited by John because of his mask’s ability.
At this point, he was already afraid, so he told Spandauin that he didn’t want to enter the New World and also told him about John, but he didn’t realize that Spandauin offered him a new condition.
As long as he can go undercover with the John Pirates and find clues to the treasure, then the world government can cancel his reward and let him become a legal citizen again.
There are a lot of people who are interested in the Locus treasure, including the world government. It is the treasure of the entire Locus pirate group, and what can make Locus look at it can’t be different gold and silver coins, at worst, it must be a treasure worth a lot of money.
However, the Battle of the Valley of the Gods did not yield anything other than the rescue of the Celestial Dragons, the defeat of Locus, and the elimination of many of Locus’s crew members. Locus’s treasures disappeared, and the world government was unable to figure out where those treasures were.
However, according to the surviving pirates’ statements, the wealth was probably related to John.
But even so, they didn’t go looking for him. For one thing, John is hard to track, and his abilities are so hard to pinpoint that it would be a waste of human resources to search for him.
He is the only pirate in the New World who doesn’t have a permanent base and spends his days searching for treasure or robbing it.
Moreover, many of Lox’s treasures were stolen from the treasury of the kingdom. If it became known that he had found his treasures, the treasures belonging to the kingdom would have to be returned.
However, if the treasure is found secretly, not only will it be returned to the World Government, but Spandauin himself will also get a lot of benefits, which is why he made this request to Prior.
In order to become an ordinary person again, Prior accepted John’s invitation.
John then attacked the naval branch in the South Seas himself and then had Prior take his form and put out a message inviting John’s large ship group.
John also knew that there were a lot of eyes on him, that the Locus fortune was a fortune enough to drive anyone crazy, and that fortune was only the most common thing in it.
The goal was to attract everyone’s attention, and he was to take advantage of the gap to find those things.
Rocks was a pirate, not a mobile bank, and he didn’t sail with all his treasure with him any more than Peppers of the Land of Flowers hid all his treasure in a continent of permafrost ice.
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