Pirates: Usurping a Kingdom Is Surprisingly Easy

Kael walked out of his bedroom, but the chill emanating from him instantly dispelled the relaxed atmosphere among the Goa Empire's people.

"Were you warned by the World Government again?"

Reiju stepped forward, put her arm around Kael's shoulder, and gently stroked his back, helping him calm down.

"It's nothing. Lock Crocodile up for me, and release news to the outside world that I've eliminated Crocodile, leaving no trace!"

Kael spoke calmly. He would not hand Crocodile over to the Marines to be imprisoned in Impel Down. This was his spoils of war! Kael was contemplating the Gorosei's change in attitude. Did they truly consider him a candidate for the Holy Knights? Perhaps the Gorosei never expected that he, a Conqueror's Haki user, would utter words about becoming a Celestial Dragon.

Next, the Gorosei and the World Government would likely thoroughly investigate the information Kael possessed, as well as the true strength of everyone under his command. They wanted to see if the Goa Empire truly had the power of a Four Emperors. If they found out Kael was bluffing, it was estimated that the Gorosei would act again, trying to kill Kael. A guy without real strength, who dared to threaten the world's highest authority—if Kael didn't die, who would?

"Everyone, attack! Suppress this rebellion as quickly as possible."

Kael waved his hand, ordering all his subordinates to join the battle. He was too lazy to worry anymore. After all, he always had a fallback plan of becoming a pirate. If the path of usurping the world failed, then he would find a way to violently seize the world. Anyway, he was already on the rise, with many strong individuals under his command.

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As Kael and his group joined the battlefield, this large-scale war quickly came to a complete end. Koza, the leader of the Rebel Army, and many high-ranking Rebel Army members were captured by Aramaki. King Cobra gave a tearful speech and explanation to all the Rebel Army members. He also presented evidence that Crocodile had used Dance Powder. This evidence was provided by Nico Robin.

Although it didn't rain coincidentally like in the original storyline, most of the citizens among these Rebel Army members had already believed their king. Once it rained in other cities, all the truth would become clear.

Cobra was very grateful for the Goa Empire's help. When he learned that Princess Vivi had voluntarily offered to marry Kael, he was actually a bit reluctant. However, under Princess Vivi's persuasion and the pressure from the Goa Empire's strong individuals, King Cobra could only agree to Vivi and Kael's engagement.

That evening, Cobra held a grand banquet to celebrate the victory. The next day, the big news of Kael eliminating the Warlord of the Sea Crocodile and suppressing Alabasta's million-strong Rebel Army spread throughout the world. The world knew that this Exiled Emperor, who had defeated the North Blue Overlord and the West Blue Twin Heroes, was strong, but they didn't expect him to start eliminating Warlords of the Sea so quickly.

Would his next step be to go to the New World and take on the Four Emperors? Moreover, a terrifying war involving 1 to 2 million participants was truly rare in the world. It shocked countless small islands and nations. Was this the formidable military power of a Grand Line superpower? This made the Goa Empire's strength appear even greater.

The Goa Empire's "One Emperor, Two Marquises" were actually so strong that they could even suppress a million-level war. Heavenfall Marquis Issho's act of summoning a meteor to stop the war repeatedly shocked the world. Although Kael didn't instantly kill countless Wano Country samurai on Onigashima Island this time, he actually used Conqueror's Haki to knock out 200,000 to 300,000 people, which was simply like a god. How could there be such powerful people in this world?

Piercing Marquis Aramaki didn't create thousands of mummies this time, but with Cobra's permission, he used the bodies that should have been laid to rest to create a forest on the battlefield. He used the remains of countless soldiers to create a green forest for Alabasta, a desert kingdom. Every tree represented a warrior. Both the Rebel Army and the Royal Army shed tears, calling this forest the Forest of War, to ensure that future generations would remember this costly 'foolish civil war'. Among them, Aramaki extracted a lot of nutrients from these tens of thousands of corpses, but he didn't tell anyone except Kael.

On the third day, other cities in the Alabasta Kingdom began to experience rain successively. Countless Rebel Army members wept, returning to their hometowns with endless guilt and hope, completely ending this 'war' that had surrounded the capital of Alubarna.

Kael, through Nico Robin, the vice president of Baroque Works, brought these chief commanders under his control. They were just a bunch of workers; they had no objections to changing bosses. After all, they had only known their former boss, Crocodile, for one day. There was no special affection. Including Mr. 1. He hadn't yet shared the experience of being imprisoned with Crocodile, or being inseparable, so he had no loyalty to Crocodile.

Of course, if they had objections, they could either become Kael's pirate slaves or Tashigi's military achievements. Their future task was to integrate the Bounty Hunter organizations of the Grand Line. Only these chief cadres would know that Kael was their true boss. These guys knew that Kael's power was stronger than Crocodile's, and none of them dared to betray him. They could only continue their previous bounty hunting lives.

As for Mr. 4, who was killed by Van Augur, he could only become Tashigi's military achievement. It was his bad luck that his enemy was Van Augur, that ruthless sniper. It was his bad luck that he had a Devil Fruit weapon. If he didn't die, Van Augur couldn't easily snatch it.

Also, Mr. 11, one of the executive commanders, also died in the aftershock of Issho's meteor. When collecting the spoils of war, the fine sword, Hanashu, in his hand was obtained by the Goa Empire's Royal Guard and clone army. Originally, this sword was first spotted by Tashigi, who was 'collecting' military achievements everywhere. But this was a spoil of war for the Goa Empire, so she could only reluctantly give it up, watching helplessly as this fine sword was passed into the hands of Zoro, the three-sword style swordsman.

Zoro was very satisfied with this fine sword, which had a flame-like blade pattern and was called "All-Burning." He decisively replaced his fast sword, Echizen, with this fine sword. However, seeing Tashigi's pitiful gaze, he directly gave the fast sword, Echizen, to Tashigi.

"It's better than nothing!"

Tashigi very seriously accepted the fast sword, Echizen, and added it to her collection. Now she had collected three swords: the fine sword, Yamaoroshi, the fine sword, Kashu, and the fast sword, Echizen. And she, a two-sword style swordsman, carried her beloved sword, Shigure. The fine sword, Yamaoroshi, was seized by Tashigi in Loguetown after defeating the 3,000,000 Berry bounty shark killer, Yes. A Marine Captain who was forcibly promoted actually possessed four famous swords, which was already quite remarkable. However, Tashigi still coveted Saga's Shusui, Zoro's three famous swords, Issho's Kitetsu, and Kael's Seven Star Dragon Sword. This was the pain of a famous sword collector.

On the fifth day, the situation in Alabasta was completely stabilized. Kael and Princess Vivi held a rather grand engagement ceremony, formally setting their marriage, and the two countries also formed an alliance.

Meanwhile, in the middle of the Grand Line, a tattered fleet was energetically rushing towards Alabasta.

"I must become a Marquis of the Goa Empire!"

A rugged-faced man spoke with determination. He wanted to become the third Marquis among the "One Emperor, Three Marquises"! Looking at the newspaper in his hand, and at the photos of the renowned Heavenfall Marquis Issho and Piercing Marquis Aramaki, Sparton's eyes were filled with longing and fighting spirit!