Pirates: It's not a mythical beast, it's a phantom god

Looking at Ossi who was holding his wrists with both hands but hooking an important and precise instrument with his feet, Obe made an unpleasant sound.

We still can't let the other party cause trouble here. It doesn't matter what happens to Ossi, but these instruments are still quite valuable.

……

"Hehe~"

Seeing Ouba stop, Osi also let go of his hands... and feet, revealing an embarrassed smile.

"By the way, how did you do that just now? Why didn't the bracelet react at all on my hand?"

"..."

"It's very simple."

"Hmm~"

"Because that was my special weapon just now."

“So I’m the only one who can use it.”

The two people's special weapons are made of the phantom alloys they produced themselves, so basically only they can use them.

Even if other people who don't have divine power get it, it will just be a piece of extremely hard and almost unprocessable metal, which can basically only be used to hit people.

Because of the same origin of their divine power, Obe and Osi can input divine power into their respective weapons.

But it's basically like the same brand of lock, the key can be inserted but it can't be turned.

After learning that the bracelet that he loved so much was not his, Osi was a little confused.

"..."

"what?"

"What about mine?"

"Here, under the table leg over there."

Ou Bei pointed to the bottom of the table where the box had been placed, indicating that the thing used to support the table legs was Osi's special weapon.

"what?!"

"Why are your weapons kept safe in their boxes, while you're using my special weapon as a table leg?!"

“And this shape…”

"Why is it a brick?"

Osi walked over and took out the red "brick" from under the corner of the table. He looked around in his hand and waved it a few times... It turned out to be quite handy.

"Because I accidentally broke a corner of the table, I used your special weapon to temporarily cushion it."

Reaching out to steady the table that was about to tilt, Ober explained while looking around for a replacement.

"Just make do..."

Osi suddenly felt a sense of suffocation as if he was being ridden by someone else while standing up on the bike that he usually didn't want to ride.

"Don't worry, the special weapon retains the ultra-high hardness of the gold cube that serves as its foundation. No matter how it is made, it won't leave a single scratch."

"And don't you think using bricks as weapons suits you well?"

"Or if you don't like it, you can change it to a bracelet like mine... or a leg ring."

Finally finding a manual of the right size, Ober used his mental power to capture it in his hands and then placed it under the table.

Although he placed his focus on climbing the technological ladder, Oubei never gave up on self-improvement.

Although she was left behind by Osi in many aspects, at least she was ahead of Osi in the use of mental power.

After all, La said at the beginning that to cross the world barrier in the Millennium Bricks, not only a huge amount of divine power is needed, but also strong mental support.

……

Watching Osi leave happily like a monkey getting a golden cudgel, Obe sighed.

After using Den Den Mushi to notify her subordinates to write a material application form for purchasing monitoring Den Den Mushi and submit it to La, she returned to the laboratory bench.

On the experimental table was a broken sword that was much longer than Oubey himself.

This is Jhin's weapon.

Kaido's mace was completely destroyed in the battle with Wald, so La made him another one.

Anyway, for Kaido, the stick just needs to be hard enough, and the one that is pulled and pinched will theoretically be almost undamaged, which really suits him very well.

However, because its golden appearance was so eye-catching, Kaido had someone spray a layer of black paint on its surface... The black sword (stick) was quickly made.

As for the sword in front of her, it was also cut off by a navy swordsman in a battle a month ago, so it was sent to her for repair, with the intention of adding some mechanisms or something.

For a pragmatist like Jhin, a knife is just a weapon. As long as it can hurt the enemy, it doesn't matter if he hangs a Gatling gun on it.

"Hmm... let's add a mechanism to the blade that can lock the enemy's edge when slashing, and temper the blade with some inorganic poison..."

"As for the hilt... could it be transformed into a concealed pistol? Or perhaps one that could shoot arrows with seastone tips?"

"No... Let's just switch to seastone bullets. The initial velocity of the arrow is too slow."

"And there's also the flames of Ember. We need to take that into consideration too. We need to design a special amplitude structure for the flames..."

……

On the other hand, when Osi took her new weapon to show off to the group of fish-men children, and Ober continued to immerse himself in the weapon design, in the meeting hall on Fenrir Island, Kaido and others were discussing a piece of news with great interest.

"So what exactly does this World Government mean? They're openly recruiting pirates?"

"What's with the Seven Warlords of the Sea? Isn't it obvious that they're disgusting and want people to be their dogs?"

"And the conditions offered are something like legal plundering rights... How come they can even get a license for this?"

Burfat was obviously very disdainful of the conditions offered by the World Government. In fact, no pirate with a little bit of arrogance would take this job.

Especially in the New World, where the strong get stronger and the weak perish, once you vote for the World Government, you basically say goodbye to the competition for hegemony.

Dominance is the power of the heart. Once you admit that you are inferior to others and lose your pride, your strength will inevitably plummet.

"Perhaps the losers of the New World will give it a try. For those who can't protect themselves from the navy's encirclement, this can be considered a way out..."

"But it's none of our business."

Jin didn't care that much about this. After all, for pirates, the World Government and other pirates were all enemies, so it didn't matter whether they united or not.

"Hmm... Pull what do you think."

Kaido looked at La who was in a daze. This time, La was not busy with his own affairs. It seemed that he was in the absolute refractory period between two impulses...

Asking her at this time might get her a less perfunctory answer.

Sure enough, after hearing Kaido's greeting, La recovered from his empty state and even made some thinking movements.

After a while...

"Regarding this [Seven Warlords of the Sea], it would be best to arrange for a few of our people to go in."

Chapter 262 Killing Time

"Are we mixing our people in?"

As expected, La's remarks immediately hit upon the blind spots in the thinking of the three people.

Although the three of them are not pure reckless men, and even Kaido and King can be said to have very good brains, they are still accustomed to thinking from the perspective of pirates.

As pirates, they naturally feel aversion to cooperating with the World Government.

Even Kaido, at this stage, with his experience, still habitually confuses the World Government and the Navy and simply classifies them all as enemies, without thinking deeply about the complex relationship between the two.

They don't quite understand what it means that "the world government is just a few organizations and member states, and the food still needs to be shared."

Therefore, in response to the questions raised by several people, La first nodded to indicate that the other party had heard correctly, and then began to explain in detail.

Wow~

Tiny golden dots of light appeared out of thin air.

Under the shocked and curious gazes of the three people, countless golden photons gathered like flowing water, and finally condensed into a small balance in the palm of La's hand.

No matter how many times the three of them saw this ability to create things out of nothingness, they found it novel and incredible.

Gently holding the small scale in his hand, La explained:

"To use an analogy... The World Government is the scale in my hand, and the navy and pirates are the weights on both sides of the scale."

Ding~

Two weights of different sizes appeared out of thin air and then fell into the trays on both sides of the scale, making an overlapping crisp sound.

Then, naturally, the scales began to tilt towards the larger weight.

The three of them looked at this scene and looked at La with some confusion.

She just pointed to the smaller weight and said:

"From the perspective of a single force, the Navy is undoubtedly far more powerful than any other pirate group on the sea."

There is no doubt about this.

If the navy is measured by the standards of a pirate group, then it is an entity that cannot be looked at directly, with its territory spread across the four seas and the Grand Line, hundreds of thousands of members, and the number of warships reaching three or even four digits.

There is a huge gap in scale compared to all other pirate groups.

"But if we look at it as a whole, the pirates' power is greater than, or even far greater than, the navy's."

La pointed to the large weight that was pushing the other end up high.

"But pirates and the navy can't be lumped together~"

Burfat interrupted.

It is a huge mistake to view pirates as a whole like the navy.

Pirates are free, do whatever they want, and are unrestrained.

These words are often associated with disorder and chaos.

At the same time, the limitations of the pirate group's extremely simple power structure also make it impossible for pirates to form a unified organization as large in scale and with as wide a coverage as the navy.

Even if a few ordinary pirate groups wanted to form a simple alliance of interests, it would be extremely difficult, and it would inevitably be accompanied by various life-and-death calculations.

The navy represents order—unified management, unified deployment, unified philosophy…

Pirates represent disorder—a sloppy style, casual plunder, and personal ambition...

If a thousand people are united, they will have the strength of a thousand people; if ten thousand people are divided, they will be useless.

Because of this, although the navy is inferior to the pirates in overall strength, it can always suppress the pirates in various local battlefields, thus forming an overall advantage.

……

La fiddled with the scales a little, causing them to start shaking again, and then spoke again:

"From our perspective, of course, we can't see pirates as a whole, but what if we raise our perspective and look at it from the perspective of the World Government?"

"Too many pirates representing disorder will affect the stability of the rule, so we must use the navy representing order to suppress them."

"But having a powerful navy is a double-edged sword."

"Once the pirates, who are the main enemy, are suppressed, there's no guarantee that those hot-blooded guys who shout 'justice' every day won't turn their spearheads to other places they don't want to see."

In the final analysis, the World Government or the Celestial Dragons' daily inhumane rule is bound to cause instability among the lower-class people. Therefore, in order to prevent them from turning their spearheads against the right people, they must be made to engage in internal friction with each other, which is the so-called "anti-dragon-slaying technique."

"So what you mean by pulling is..."

"The World Government actually doesn't want to see the navy become too powerful?!"

Having said that, not to mention Kaido and King, even Burfat, who was the slowest to react, understood the general idea.

"Yes."

"If the World Government truly trusted the Navy completely, with their influence around the world, a simple conscription would be enough to make up for the Navy's lost combat power."

"But they chose the so-called Seven Warlords of the Sea, using these people who would neither side with the pirates nor the navy as leverage to maintain the balance between the navy and pirates."

As he spoke, a smaller weight appeared on one side of the scale... After several more swings, the scale finally achieved true balance.

And at the moment the balance was achieved, the entire scale turned into tiny points of light and disappeared.