The slaves gently set Bob down, their faces brimming with barely contained excitement.
Similarly, Shiki and the female slave, who had also been tossed into the air, were now lowered to the ground.
As his feet touched the ground, Bob straightened his slightly thinning hair and glanced around at the assembled slaves.
Back in the cell, he hadn't been able to gauge the exact number of slaves, but now that they had all emerged, he realized just how many there were.
Before him stretched a sea of people.
Clearing his throat, Bob spoke.
"Allow me to formally introduce myself. My name is Bob!"
Clearly, Bob wasn't the type to do good deeds anonymously. At a moment like this, it was only natural to announce his name.
Seeing this, Shiki quickly chimed in, "Golden Lion Shiki!"
"M-my name is Talia!" the female slave stammered timidly.
Upon hearing the three names, the slaves fell silent for a moment before erupting into deafening cheers, shouting their names in unison.
Seeing this, Bob raised his hand, and the crowd immediately quieted down.
"You now have two choices!"
"You can choose to wreak havoc on this place, avenging the torment you've endured here!"
"Or, of course, you can simply leave and head east—that's where your chances of escape are the highest!"
After saying this, Bob didn't linger. He and Shiki soared into the sky, vanishing into the night in the blink of an eye.
After Bob and Shiki departed, the slaves naturally split into two groups.
One group surged into Mary Geoise, while the other chose to flee this hellish place.
The slave named Talia was now revered as the leader of the second group.
She gazed at the night sky where Bob had disappeared and whispered softly,
"Until we meet again!"
Then she merged into the crowd, heading east.
.....
In no time at all, the group that had entered Mary Geoise began to wreak havoc.
Countless buildings were destroyed, and thick black smoke enveloped the skies above Mary Geoise.
Bob and the Shiki stood on a floating stone slab, suspended in mid-air.
"Gihahaha!"
"These slaves truly harbor an intense hatred for the Celestial Dragons. It hasn't even been long, and the area below is already in ruins!"
Shiki laughed heartily, thoroughly enjoying the sight of Mary Geoise being torn apart. If it weren't for pressing matters at hand, he would have loved to join in and cause chaos for three days and three nights.
"Look! Someone from the World Government has come to stop them!" Shiki exclaimed as he noticed a group of people arriving on the scene.
In front of the slaves, several hundred armed individuals now stood, issuing warnings to them.
But in the next moment, the two groups clashed violently.
"Hmm~ Why are there so few of them?" Bob frowned as he observed the forces in Mary Geoise below.
"Ah, who cares! The slaves have succeeded in drawing their attention!" Shiki didn't dwell on it. "Now it's time for us to find the Eternal Pose!"
With that, he used the power of his Float-Float Fruit to propel the stone slab beneath their feet toward the bustling district of Mary Geoise.
Bob could only shake his head and say nothing more. The mission was what mattered now.
"Where should we start looking?" Shiki asked.
"Probe the more prosperous areas!" Bob replied.
And so, they set off.
Shiki and Bob stepped on a green brick, quietly beginning their operation.
"Hmm~ What's that over there?"
Before long, Shiki made a discovery, pointing to a spot with his finger.
Under his Observation Haki, beneath the castle he pointed to, there was a tightly shut door, inside which lay a pile of treasures.
Hearing this, Bob used his Observation Haki to scan the area he indicated.
Two guards, one door.
"Let's go check it out!" Bob said.
Soon, the two arrived at the castle.
The entire castle looked no different from other places, decorated very lavishly, with various gemstones embedded in the walls.
On the walls hung paintings that looked incredibly valuable, along with casually placed antiques and the like.
However, this vast castle was strangely devoid of people, which was quite peculiar.
In a corner, Bob and Shiki discovered a staircase leading downward.
Following the stairs, they saw the tightly shut door and the two guards.
When Bob and Shiki saw them, the guards also noticed Bob.
They gripped their weapons tightly and charged forward.
"Snap!"
After a sound, along with their severed weapons, the two guards' bodies were split apart.
Shiki and Bob exchanged a glance.
"Let's go in!"
Kicking open the door, what greeted them was a huge open space.
No less impressive than a football field, with scattered treasures lying on the ground.
On the ground, there was also a golden box adorned with gemstones.
Bob walked over, picked up the box, and opened it to take a look.
Inside was a sea chart and an Eternal Pose.
"We found it just like that?" Shiki, who had come closer, looked at the contents of the box, somewhat incredulous.
"It is indeed the Eternal Pose!" Bob frowned and said, "But this is too strange!"
"What's strange? The Pose?" Golden Lion asked.
"No!"
"From the moment we set foot on Mary Geoise, to hunting that Celestial Dragon, to freeing the slaves, and finally obtaining the Eternal Pose!"
"The whole journey has been marked by one words!"
"Smooth!"
"It's been too damn smooth! So smooth it's like it was handed to us on a silver platter!"
Bob slowly said, he and Shiki had been wandering around Mary Geoise for half a day, encountering almost no resistance.
If there was any, it was just some small fry.
Thinking of the soldiers who had tried to stop the slaves earlier, and the missing Celestial Dragon, Bob became even more convinced of his thoughts.
"The World Government must have known we were coming! And they knew we were coming for the Eternal Pose!"
This reasoning wasn't difficult, in fact, it was quite simple. So many strange things combined, the result was very obvious.
"It seems so! I thought we were being stealthy, but it looks like someone was giving us a pass!"
Shiki also realized at this point that the journey had been too smooth, without any of the expected dangers.
If Mary Geoise had only this much strength, it would have been destroyed long ago.
"Whatever, our mission is accomplished, let's leave the rest to Rocks to decide!"
Bob put the map and the Eternal Pose back into the box and said softly.
Immediately, the two of them darted toward the direction of the Rocks Pirates' ship.
In the blink of an eye, they vanished into the night.
....
At the same time.
In a corner of Mary Geoise, several figures appeared under the moonlight. After witnessing Bob and Shiki depart, they exchanged glances and breathed a sigh of relief.
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