"What a pity. If you were a pirate, this would truly count as getting rich overnight," Sora teased with a smile.
"That's not necessarily true. To me, when gold reaches a certain amount, it also becomes a scarce resource," Rosse said with a smile.
If gold were exchanged for Berries, its value indeed wouldn't be very high.
You couldn't buy anything with 10 billion, and even 100 billion might not buy anything, and the more you sold, the more the gold would depreciate.
In this crude world environment, money couldn't buy everything.
The truly valuable things were those resources that could cultivate strong people.
"You already have an idea?", Sora asked with a sweet smile. She liked Rosse's confident look every time. It also meant that someone was going to have bad luck.
"Have people use this gold to build a golden palace, place it in the most conspicuous place of our family in the Holy Land. What do you think of this idea?", Rosse chuckled frivolously.
"Can't the other Celestial Dragons gather this much gold?", Sora was a little surprised.
She could generally understand what Rosse meant. He simply wanted to use the Celestial Dragons' competitiveness to lure them into exchanging gold with them, in turn trading for a large amount of useful things.
Whether it was Gold or Berries, neither held actual value for them.
On the contrary, if they could exchange it for dozens of useful Devil Fruits, it would be a completely profitable deal.
Among those Celestial Dragon families, there were definitely that many Devil Fruit stockpiles.
In fact, the World Government had never stopped acquiring Devil Fruits, and Rosse had also been purchasing from outside all along.
But even so, the number of Fruits that could be purchased wasn't much.
On the surface, the price of a Devil Fruit was 100 million Berries, and the Ope Ope no Mi was only 5 billion Berries.
But in reality, Devil Fruits were a seller's market.
Even if the price increased tenfold, the quantity of Fruits received wouldn't change much.
For ordinary people, there was no difference between 100 million and 1 billion; for the powerful and influential, it was the same.
Each Fruit scattered in the sea was that few. The first thing most people did when they obtained one was eat it or keep it; only a small number would enter the market.
And because of transportation and information transfer, most Devil Fruit destinations were unknown. Even the World Government could only get one-third of the total market volume.
Among these, there were also a lot of trash Fruits.
Using gold to exchange for high-priced Devil Fruits, there might really be no one willing to trade.
And aside from Devil Fruits, if Rosse really wanted to buy other things, he wouldn't need to spend much. More often, it was access through identity, with others half-selling and half-giving.
"As for the gold matters, leave it to Zannie and the others to handle. Transporting this gold to the Holy Land would probably take a long time," Rosse gently shook his head. Just based on the weight of this gold, wanting to transport it down from ten thousand meters in the sky, then finally to Skypiea, that was hard labor.
A single golden pillar weighed tens of thousands of tons. Currently, there was no ship capable of bearing that weight. It could only be melted and transported in batches.
He didn't have the Float-Float Fruit like Golden Lion, and he wasn't interested in this kind of physical labor.
Even with his current ability, moving this gold to the Holy Land through the sea couldn't be done in one or two trips. It would tire him out completely several times.
To him, it truly wasn't necessary.
Anyway, the Devil Fruits in the Celestial Dragons' warehouse wouldn't run away, earlier or later made no difference.
Saying this, Rosse wrapped his arm around Sora and continued deeper into the Golden City.
Passing through one dazzling, empty golden building after another, the two finally arrived at the central area of this golden city.
Beneath a towering golden giant bell, like a mountain, they stopped their steps.
"So magnificent!", Sora slowly raised her head, gazing at the enormous golden bell nearly a hundred meters tall, gleaming with golden light, and couldn't help but let out a heartfelt sigh.
Just such a big bell alone was enough to inspire awe.
Not to mention, the giant bell in front of them was made of gold.
"But what's more important to you is this thing, right?", Sora quickly withdrew her gaze and looked toward the bottom of the golden giant bell, where a historical Poneglyph engraved with many ancient texts lay.
Looking at the Poneglyph, she understood why Rosse had come.
All historical texts were taboo to the World Government.
"I suppose so. Some things always need someone to do them. I just don't want too many people to know," Rosse nodded lightly.
When he was in Arabasta, he hadn't touched the stone there.
That stone had been in Arabasta for too long. Before the true identity of the top Celestial Dragon was revealed, he didn't plan to make a move to avoid getting implicated.
But the Skypiea one counted as an ownerless Poneglyph, this one could be used for a trial.
On the other side, Sora browsed the Poneglyph briefly and frowned slightly, "This historical text is about the three Ancient Weapons again? It's actually the Sea King?"
"Hmm?"
"Sea King Poseidon is actually a mermaid princess? I always thought the three Ancient Weapons were inanimate objects."
After Rosse translated the Poneglyph before, she used her Brain-Brain Fruit ability to fully record the information in the ancient language.
The Brain-Brain Fruit might be average in analysis and creation, but in memory, it absolutely possessed natural advantages.
And no matter what language, its essence couldn't leave memory.
"No one ever said the three Ancient Weapons were inanimate," Rosse smiled, "Every 800 years, a mermaid princess appears. This princess has the ability to communicate with sea kings, and is respectfully known as Sea King Poseidon."
Strictly speaking, this wasn't a secret.
At least within the World Government, many people knew this information.
If he went directly to ask Saint Saturn, the other party would also tell him.
It's just that since he knew these clearly, there was no need to ask anyone.
"Just communicating with sea kings. I feel like that's still not as good as your ability," Sora glanced at Rosse with a half-smile, but her heart was filled with warmth.
Coming here this time, even Gion didn't come along.
With Rosse's ability, he could have come alone.
To bring her here, to let her know these secrets, was already the greatest trust he could show her.
Faced with this trust, she would repay it with real action.
"My ability is called the Sea God, able to directly control the ocean," Rosse shrugged, "No matter how powerful the mermaid princess is, she only controls the sea kings."
Although there were some extremely powerful beings among the sea kings, if he truly developed his Devil Fruit to the extreme, those sea kings could be easily handled by him.
"Speaking of which, 800 years should be almost up, right?", Sora thought for a moment and looked to Rosse for confirmation.
The World Government had existed until now, almost 800 years.
A simple inference: currently, there was no mermaid family among the Celestial Dragons, meaning the mermaid princess wasn't on the same side as the World Government.
Rosse once told her that Joy Boy was the previous Child of Fate and the greatest enemy before the founding of the World Government.
The previous mermaid princess probably died together with Joy Boy.
Assuming one appears every 800 years, the next mermaid princess should appear in just a few years.
Considering the last Sea King may have died even earlier, maybe the new generation Sea King was already born.
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