Give the pirate world a little heroic spirit shock)

"What are you doing?" Li Yisi asked a casual question to open the topic.

The man was startled and stood up suddenly. He didn't relax until he turned around and saw that it was a petite little loli.

"There was no movement at all, which really scared me... Little girl, why don't you go to the beach? You will definitely be able to get on the boat." The man has a very gentle personality.

"Why don't you get on the boat?" Li Yisi asked with her head tilted.

"Getting on the ship... there are only a limited number of people who can get on the ship. A useless person like me might as well dig my own grave here." As he said this, he showed Liis his right hand, which was a wooden stick prosthesis.

"..." Liis turned her head and looked towards the seaside. Even here, she could still see the bright lights over there.

"I don't want to leave. This is my home." Thanks to her congenital defect, Liis could lie without batting an eyelid.

The man's face turned serious: "Don't make trouble, you are still young, there is no need to die with this country."

To die...

Finally getting to the point, Liis immediately followed up the conversation with a question: "Does the Great God have to kill us all? Why would he do that?"

The lights were all on the seaside, and it was too dark here. The man couldn't see Liis's expression, but the questions she asked made him feel deep empathy.

"How can we possibly know what God is thinking?" the man sighed, looking at the mountain in the middle of the island. "This is our fate."

It was such a strange feeling again, they seemed to have never considered whether God's ideas were reasonable.

"Has His Majesty the King escaped by boat?" asked Liis.

"The royal family has left, but the king stayed in the palace on the mountain. He is a brave Bardo warrior." The man said with some surprise. This was no secret in the town, and no one had ever seen the king's guard of honor come out of the palace.

"Is the great god also on the mountain?" Li Yisi asked, looking up.

"God has always been on the mountain," the man said matter-of-factly, then he could no longer suppress his suspicion. "You're not from our country, are you? This is common sense ingrained in every Bardo person."

"..." Liis didn't answer. She just took a few steps back. "Don't worry, no one will be killed by God."

As she spoke, Liis disappeared out of thin air right in front of the man.

The man was startled by the ghostly scene. He turned his head to look at the mountain that reached into the sky and swallowed his saliva.

Is it... a messenger of God?

After saying goodbye to the man, Liis ran towards the mountains in the middle.

Be it a king, a god, or anyone else, as long as you knock him down, pin him to the ground and force him to surrender, everything will be over.

Now, if the royal family had not deceived the people, then according to the men, the king was in the palace, and perhaps the great god was also there.

Before going into the sea to look for the spiritual vein, Liis asked Jingmi to explore the way to the island. With Hassan's efficiency, he might have already found his way to the palace.

Liis had many things she couldn't figure out and wanted to ask the king, but if she was any later she might be gone too.

……

In the palace on the mountainside, the young king had changed into a heavy ceremonial attire. A white goose down robe covered a red robe inlaid with gems, and the crown on his head shone with gold.

He has been in power for almost ten years, and he only wore this outfit when he first ascended the throne.

The king went to the balcony of the castle and looked up at the starry night sky.

This may be the last time I see stars in my life.

He tilted his head back, looked, and then closed his heavy eyes.

"Thump, thump..." The crisp sound of footsteps sounded behind him, which was particularly harsh in such a quiet environment. The king ignored it at first, but he soon thought that the people in the castle should have been sent away long ago.

He quickly grasped the jeweled sword at his waist and looked back with a frown.

A girl who was much smaller than him slowly walked out from the shadow of the castle.

"Who are you? Didn't I order everyone to evacuate?" the king shouted sternly. "Or did you come down from the mountaintop? Do you regret it?"

The girl didn't answer her, but raised her head and looked over his shoulder: "Don't do anything yet."

"......?" The king turned around in confusion, only to notice a small black hand hovering near his cheek.

NO61. The Wrath of God

The black hand was like a shadow, just a few centimeters away from the king's face.

He was startled and quickly distanced himself.

"Who are you..." He wanted to ask, but was stunned after seeing the figure clearly.

The graceful girl in black was wearing a conspicuous white mask, which was too obvious.

As the king of a country, King Lanny always pays attention to newspaper news. He clearly remembers seeing the bounty on this person not long ago, and the drawn photo left a deep impression on him.

"Hassan Sabbah..." Cold sweat ran down Lanny's cheeks.

How could a pirate with a bounty of 80 million berries, who is enough to dominate even the Grand Line, appear here?

"Originally, I should have spent the night at Gemini Cape by now." Liis opened the system, checked the time and said, "Even though people say war is a protracted quagmire, I still want it to end soon."

"Are you a hired assassin from the Bey Kingdom? Such a big deal..." Lanny was sweating profusely. "But it's useless to kill or capture me. I've handed my people over to my brother. They'll fight to the bitter end for their survival."

"...I have a lot of questions for you." Liis walked out of the room, moonlight shining on her face. "Who is the Great God? Where is he? Why did he kill you?"

After hearing three questions in a row, Liyis was worried that this guy would rather die than tell the truth, so she prepared to torture him. However, after hearing Liyis' questions clearly, the king suddenly laughed.

"Hahaha... So that's all you thought..." The king put away his sword and walked towards Liis. "If you want to know, follow me."

"..." Liis looked at the king who passed by her, then looked back at Jingmi, nodded and followed him.

They walked to the center of the castle, where there was a small square that looked like an altar, with four knight statues guarding the red altar in the center.

The king pulled the sword in the hand of a statue, and with a crisp "click", a birdcage-like shelf slowly descended from the ceiling.

The king turned back to Liis and said, "Let's go up together...Where's your friend?"

The silence is not here, as if it has disappeared out of thin air.

"She's still here." Liis replied briefly.

“…” The king didn’t dare to ask more questions, he got into the birdcage first.

Liis followed him in. Although the room looked narrow, it was more than enough for two people and they could still keep some distance.

The king turned a mechanism inside the cage, and then the birdcage slowly rose like an elevator.

With the creaking sound of the intertwined chains, they rose higher and higher, even passing through the ceiling and rising along the cliff.

The air currents from the high altitude island made the cage creak, and Liis admired the distant scenery through the gaps in the cage.

One treasure ship had already sailed away, and they pulled another ship out to sea.

Liis's magically enhanced eyes could easily see far into the past, but she could see the huge treasure ship and the long dragon-like team even without her enhanced eyes.

"Where are they being sent?" Liis asked.

"Some are nearby uninhabited islands, and some are recently conquered territories," said the king.

"Why don't you turn your army against those who want to destroy you?"

"It is not human that wants to destroy us." The king shook his head.

The birdcage has stopped in front of a cliff, which may be the top of the mountain.

Behind him was a deep abyss, but in front of him was a flat surface. Not far away was a towering fortress built of black stones.

The king opened the cage door and motioned Liis to go out first.

Only after both of them climbed out of the cage did Liis continue to ask, "Is this a metaphor?"

"Do not……"

The king looked at the fortress in the distance with solemnity and fear.

At this time, there were several guards in armor standing on the fortress. Their expressions were solemn, like martyrs.

Seeing the king appear here, everyone showed a surprised expression, but still opened the door silently.

The fortress's gates were heavily drawn open, and the king looked at Liis: "The so-called 'great god' is inside."

"..." Li Yisi glanced at him, then put her hands in her pockets and slowly walked into the door.

Just after passing through the city gate, Liis was stunned. Her pupils shrank slightly, and her calm little face was almost frightened.

There were no people or monsters as imagined, no life at all, just an empty space. Only a few steps ahead was a deep pit.

The pit is not too deep, and things can be touched within a few dozen meters, but I am afraid that not many people in the world would want to jump into this pit.

It was a pool of magma, gurgling with hot bubbles, and the vast area looked like a lake.

"This is……"

"This is the 'Great' God." King Lanny walked behind Liis, "Mount Bado is the mother of our people. We use the resources of the mountain and believe in the gods of the mountain... Similarly, we also have excellent geological research.

The towering Mount Bado is a volcano that has been dormant for tens of thousands of years.

Just twenty years ago, when I was still a child, the Kingdom's Grand Masters calculated the cycle of Mount Badosan. In fact, it had already reached its critical point."

The king spoke slowly, perhaps because he had been tormented by the shadow of despair for decades, he was able to speak so calmly.

"We don't know when Mount Bador will erupt, but once he can no longer suppress his wrath, the disaster that erupts will be enough to submerge every inch of our country."

He knelt in front of the crater, staring at the air distorted by the intense heat, and gritted his teeth. "He wants to destroy us, but we can't do anything. Isn't this God's punishment? He's punishing us for our blasphemy and our greed!"

Liis looked at the boiling magma, her heart surging.

So that's it... There is no such thing as a demon. The root of everything is the unruly nature.

"Is this the only island in your country?"

"Of course not, but what's the point? According to the royal family's calculations, the magma that erupts will release a large amount of poisonous gas and trigger continuous earthquakes and tsunamis," the king said. "Our country's islands are too close to each other. If the great god unleashes his power, no one will be able to escape."

"So, because your own country is doomed, you choose to seize the land where you can survive?" Liis asked. "Didn't you seek help? Like the World Government or some neighboring countries?"

"On the surface, at least, they left us to our own devices." The king seemed to be speaking out loud because death was imminent. "But they secretly provided us with a considerable number of weapons and ships."

"So, war is not only what you want, but it's also the solution chosen by the World Government for you?"

"He wants us to attack those non-member states, but the non-member states in the South China Sea are too far away, and some are even protected by monsters like the Great Bear." The king turned to look at Liis, "Don't blame us for picking on the weak. This is a matter of life and death."

NO62.According to your ideas

"Life and death?" Liis raised an eyebrow. "With that as your excuse, you're so comfortable wanting to destroy a nation and its people?"

"Even if the Bardo people live under someone else's roof, they won't bend their backs." The king raised his head, like a martyr. "Even if we coexist peacefully, such a war will happen sooner or later. I just brought it to the beginning."

"..."

Perhaps according to the law of the jungle in the world of One Piece, what he said does make some sense.

But this is just sophistry to deceive oneself.

"Fighting for survival is essentially just an excuse." Liis looked at King Lanni. "War without negotiation? What makes you think war is inevitable? What do you think war is?"

"What do you know? This is the law of how the world works. When two different cultures are intertwined, they are bound to fight." The king stood up.

"No matter how much you argue, you can't change the facts. The fact is, the situation wasn't even worthy of war, yet you started one," Lies interrupted the king. "War is the ultimate outbreak of irreconcilable contradictions, not a clever way to avoid them."

Even someone as willful as Big Mom doesn't rely on force to seize everything all the time.

"us……"

"Boom!"

Before the king could finish his words, the ground suddenly began to tremble. He struggled to keep his balance like beans on a winnowing basket, and finally he stood firm.

In contrast, Liis remained as steady as a nail. Compared to her, he looked so embarrassed.

It seemed that the contrast of frustration was too strong and the king's anger was ignited.

"We don't have time to negotiate. Did you see that? The gods are angry!" the king said angrily, pointing at the crater. "According to estimates, this thing will erupt in a few hours!"

"You've already conquered enough territory. There's no need to completely annihilate the enemy nation." As if to retaliate for interrupting them, Liis kicked a stone into the lava. "You just want to rule."

"You think you see through me? Naive brat! I stand here, ready to die with my kingdom!" The king's voice rose. "The truth is, our new home can't support so many people, and the war is wearing them down!"

Liis was speechless. This guy seemed to really think so. She looked at the lava lake and said, "Do you think this is tragic? Then why don't you jump into the lava now?"

The king was silent, as if he were being strangled.

Even facing the crater, he still had no real sense that the volcano was about to erupt.

Perhaps the predictions, verified repeatedly for twenty years, were just wrong? Perhaps the volcano will not erupt after tonight, and will never erupt?

I still hold on to this kind of fluke mentality until now, not to mention before the war.