I am the Bandit King of the East Sea.

"Audiences are fickle. Even if my performance is as good as before, they will gradually get tired of it. When my performance no longer brings them joy, they will leave."

"Today I ran into that regular customer who said I was a source of joy again. He was excitedly recommending the magician who had just arrived at the circus to his friend on the street, without mentioning me at all... so nobody remembers the clown."

"The new magician stole my business, I'm so jealous."

"Being a clown is so tiring... By day, the prince of gods wears a debonair mask, but by night, Happy Nix puts on a clown mask. It's supposed to be a job that brings joy to others, so why has it gradually become a burden?"

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The prince's diary is filled with a lot of work-related content, and he is gradually becoming more and more involved in it.

Something good happened to me today.

"On the road, we encountered a boy who had been beaten black and blue by the children of the gods. He walked along the road expressionlessly, like a rag doll huddled in its armor."

"Seeing that boy was like seeing my younger self... I couldn't help but call out to him and tell him that he might have a talent for being a clown."

"Then he beat me up. His fists are really hard."

"He probably couldn't beat those children of the gods, he just couldn't fight back. The gap between gods and humans on the sky island is very deep. The children of the gods are just ordinary people of the gods, but to the angels in the outer city, they are noble children who are hard to resist."

"However, a few hours later, he still came to the Blue Sky Circus... He needed money."

"Perhaps, I will have a clown partner on stage."

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“His acting was terrible; he just couldn’t act well no matter what he did. But after working together for three months, our collaboration was getting better and better, but then something suddenly went wrong.”

As the diary progressed, the once neat handwriting became somewhat messy, as if the person writing the diary had experienced a significant emotional change, with the force of the pen pen penetrating the back of the paper, noticeably different from before.

"Something's happened. My partner discovered my identity... After a lot of trouble, I finally managed to persuade him. He's willing to keep my secret like a guardian angel. I'm too tired today, I'll write more about it later."

"My popularity is declining, but whatever, I feel like I've found my old clown days again, and everything is getting better."

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"Something else has happened."

"My father seemed to have found some clues. He searched my room while I was out, and the clown costume was found."

“I have become the laughingstock of the entire god race. To make matters worse, my father issued a ban and even banished all the circuses in the country.”

"I don't quite understand, is elegance really that important?"

"Fortunately, my diary wasn't discovered. But I need to find a safer place to store it."

"Never mind... I'll just carry it with me when I go out from now on."

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"A year has passed since the ban. The circus is gone, but a few street performers are still managing to survive."

“I got in touch with my former partner, and he seems to share my interest in comedy and is willing to continue performing with me.”

"The magician who used to steal our business is also performing on the street now. She doesn't seem so annoying anymore. A few of us remaining circus performers have teamed up together."

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"Not only will the clown be barred from the halls of fame, but he will also be relegated to the streets. This kind of life will probably continue until the ban gradually cools down."

"I hope I can live to see that day..."

"I know that for the audience, the clown profession is certainly not a necessity, at most it is a kind of entertainment."

“But it makes sense to me, so I can try to continue performing even under the ban.”

"Although I can't stand on the stage and bask in the applause, I can still see smiles on other people's faces on the street, and that's enough."

The diary entries end abruptly here.

As Sieg flipped further down the page, the later entries of the diary showed signs of charring and burning, making the handwriting difficult to decipher.

"What about the corrupted and evil parts? The God Prince carried the diary with him, so was it just burned by the flames, or was it deliberately destroyed by him?" Sig stroked his chin, pondering.

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10,000 meters above the ground.

A rainbow bridge spans the clouds, and two clowns walk on it.

Bucky the Joker was grabbed by another Joker, his expression one of utter despair. He hadn't expected that Happy would take him along before leaving...

Honestly, given Bucky's connection to Seag and the Roger Pirates, he probably would have fared better if he had fallen into Seag's hands.

"Happy, stop now."

A flash of seven-colored light, and the figure of the golden-armored gatekeeper appeared on the rainbow bridge.

He looked at the two clowns in front of him with a worried expression.

"This generation of God-King is different from the past. His power far surpasses that of all other gods in the entire God Kingdom. Let alone winning, it will be difficult for him to even survive."

"Us? Don't include me..." Bucky gritted his teeth; everyone in the divine realm was talking to themselves.

“Survive? My life ended ten years ago with that fire.” Happy reached up and touched his back, his face still expressionless.

Shiki the Golden Lion ran away and never reappeared.

These days, Happy has been able to evade the King of Gods and cause trouble throughout his divine kingdom mainly because of the Golden Lion's extraordinary strength and almost unparalleled aerial mobility... But so what?

Golden Lion is ultimately an outsider; this matter is ultimately his own responsibility.

"We'll reach the Isle of Gods before dusk, and then it'll all be over." Happy closed his eyes.

Chapter 1207 Fighting the World 7000

10,000 meters in the air.

The enlarged Zeus, carrying Sig, Becky, and the others, flew towards the direction of the God Island.

Zeus's flight speed was already slower than that of the guardian god Rainbow Bridge, and now, under Sieg's command, he deliberately slowed down.

"Boss, Dr. Vegapunk has made some discoveries and wants to inform you," Becky suddenly said from the side.

"Should I go in and listen?" Sig turned to look at Violet beside him.

"I'll go in for a bit. If there's any important discovery, have Becky let me know."

Violet is a user of the Gaze-Gaze ​​Fruit, whose basic abilities are far-sightedness, X-ray vision, and the ability to see into other people's minds.

After saying that, Sieg took a few steps and walked into Becky's chest.

Inside Becky's body is a castle that can hold thousands of people, and as the fruit is further developed, the castle's functions will be further enhanced.

After entering the gate, Becky's clone was already waiting, leading Sig towards the upper level of the castle.

This internal clone is synchronized with Becky's main consciousness and can only exist within Becky's body, unable to leave the outside world.

The upper room had been converted by Vegapunk into a temporary mobile laboratory, while the two gods captured by Barret, namely the god of air and the god of strength, lay unconscious on their sickbeds.

Beside Vegapunk were Chloe and Charlotte Brin.

Charlotte Pudding is a user of the Memory-Memory Fruit, and Lola, who was previously married to the giant prince, is her favorite older sister. So she also arrived in Elbaf with Katakuri and the others to attend her sister's wedding.

Now, it has fallen into the hands of Sieg.

Kuro is ruthless and cruel, responsible for basic interrogations. Pudding, on the other hand, is a user of the Memory-Memory Fruit, allowing her to read other people's memories without interrogation.

At this moment, two rolls of memory film were pulled from the temples of the two unconscious gods and held in Brin's hands.

A person's memories in a lifetime can be described as vast as the ocean. These two gods were both over a hundred years old, so their memory rolls were exceptionally long.

Even for someone with such abilities like her, extracting key information from these memories would require a considerable amount of time and effort.

"Sig, there are two important discoveries," Vegapunk said.

"First of all, neither of these two gods possessed Armament Haki."

Sieg nodded; this wasn't too surprising.

Barrett's previous battles against the two gods were quite easy; she encountered little to no resistance.

The key point here is that Barrett's Armament Haki is top-notch, while these two gods did not use Armament Haki.

Sig stroked his chin: "A high-level god and a mid-level god, they are both high-ranking figures in the Sky Island God Kingdom, but they don't even have Armament Haki?"

Haki... To be precise, Armament Haki is the most effective weapon against Devil Fruit users.

The elemental body of a Logia-type Devil Fruit user is immune to almost all physical attacks.

Sufficiently powerful Armament Haki can not only grasp the physical form of Logia-type Devil Fruit users, but also resist their attacks.

For example, Luffy's Gum-Gum Fruit is immune to blunt force, but it can be damaged if it is coated with Armament Haki.

Law's Op-Op Fruit allows him to control small areas of space, easily cutting and moving objects.

However, Law couldn't cut through Vergo, whose entire body was hardened with Armament Haki. Even powerful beings like Big Mom and Kaido, who possessed strong Haki, couldn't be moved by Law's Op-Op Fruit.

Without mastering Armament Haki, Logia-type Devil Fruit users are almost helpless, and even Paramecia-type users like Law and Luffy would find it difficult to fight against them.

As Brin read the memories on the tape, she explained:

"In the minds of these two gods, Armament Haki allows mortals to fight against gods, which is a blasphemous power that is forbidden to practice in this country, especially for the angel race."

"There is no such restriction for gods with abilities; it's just that some gods are unwilling to cultivate and master them, including the god of atmosphere."

"Most people don't know about the existence of Armament Haki, as if this concept doesn't exist."

"Observation Haki is called 'Mind Web' on Skypiea, while Conqueror's Haki... Conqueror's Haki is an extremely rare ability, one in a million. Even if someone were to awaken it by chance, no one would associate this ability with Mind Web."

“Without Armament Haki, Logia-type Devil Fruit users like Enel would be like true gods when dealing with mortals,” Sigurds thought.

Seastone can counter Devil Fruit users, while Armament Haki can counter them.

However, Seastone originates from the earth's surface, and Sky Island is largely isolated from the outside world, so its quantity is naturally extremely limited. Furthermore, Armament Haki has not spread widely; only a portion of the God race cultivates it.

"The second discovery is that there is a gap in the history of the gods," Vegapunk said.

"The gods on the sky islands are, in the end, not the remnants of the ancient kingdoms, but their descendants."

"Their history was almost completely lost during the New World War 800 years ago. And the history that the God-King spoke of before was only a part pieced together from oral tradition and a few documents."

"If we want to understand the true history, we can only start with the historical texts. Of course... the world government may also have the true history."

"Any other discoveries? For example, the power of the God-King?" Sig asked.