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Skypiea, Upper Yard.
The sun was high, and the weather was somewhat scorching.
The interior of the forest appeared somewhat gloomy. Occasionally, one could see sunlight, blocked by dense branches, filtering through the leaves and casting mottled spots of light on the ground.
The ruins of the Shandorian temple had become the training ground for Luo, Cavendish, Gin, and others!
The personnel of God's Guard watched the clashes between these cadres, all feeling somewhat apprehensive.
Having already betrayed the former "God" Gan Fall and submitted to Enel, they had long since been easily subdued and dared not rebel.
"Clang!"
"Rankyaku!"
"Hmph..."
Series of fierce strikes clashed continuously.
Exploding in mid-air, they stirred up powerful shockwaves that blasted out in all directions.
Isabelle and Perona were engaged in battle, neither using their Devil Fruit abilities.
"247" But with the help of the Zoan-type Cat-Cat Fruit, her physique had long been strengthened. Even without transforming using her fruit ability, the strength she could exert was somewhat stronger than before.
Therefore, she clashed continuously with Perona, showing no signs of being defeated.
On the other side, Cavendish was fighting Luo. Luo also wasn't using his Devil Fruit ability. The two exchanged blows back and forth.
If not for constantly striving to improve his swordsmanship and temper his physique since joining Germa, Luo might not necessarily have been Cavendish's match without using his Devil Fruit ability.
The two sisters, Vinsmoke and Dholia, their small faces flushed and dripping with sweat, were training by brandishing their swords nearby.
Judge hadn't asked them to train in anything like the Six Powers, but rather had Cavendish teach them swordsmanship. He didn't demand they become powerhouses, but at the very least, they couldn't lack any means of self-preservation. The strength of these two girls was indeed a bit too weak.
"Clang..."
From a certain direction on the island, a series of clashing sounds could be heard.
Accompanied by a series of urgent gunshots and cannon fire, but it quickly died down.
"Heh... have they arrived already?"
Judge, sitting on a cloud layer and watching the battle between Perona and Isabelle, smiled.
His purpose in ringing the Golden Bell was precisely to make these fellows come out on their own, so he could subdue them sooner.
"Hmph..."
Before long, Germa soldiers escorted back fifty to sixty Shandian warriors dressed in outdated, completely primitive tribal attire.
"Damn it!"
"Bastard, let me go!"
"Truly despicable bastards, actually using tear gas."
"If you have the guts, kill us! We Shandians will never submit!"
A group of Shandians, bound hand and foot and looking extremely wretched, were directly pushed in front of Judge.
Each of them had a somewhat pained expression, and tears flowed uncontrollably, filled with anger, unwillingness, and despair.
"Heh heh, who on earth are you people?"
Wiper, whose mouth was continuously bleeding, had several bloody holes on his body, and his eyes were somewhat fierce – clearly the leader of this batch of Shandian warriors – looked with some suspicion at Judge, who was sitting there quietly, exuding a noble aura and scrutinizing them.
His eyes were bloodshot, filled with tears.
Just now, in order to capture them alive, the Germa soldiers had directly used tear gas and another type of bullet that, like an ice cube, would render a person completely powerless upon being shot into their body.
He had seen "God" Enel before, and had clashed with God's Guard more than once.
The despicable army that had just used strong tear gas and strange bullets to make them lose their combat capability were definitely not members of God's Guard!
"Enel has already been 'subdued' by us. In short, the one currently ruling Angel Island, including this God's Island, is 'Germa'..."
Without any intention of wasting words with Wiper, Judge stood up directly, pointed to a man wearing red sunglasses beside him, and said lightly, "You go back and tell your chief that the Shandian tribe either submits to Germa, or we will mercilessly exterminate your Shandian tribe after finding your hidden village from your beds in three days' time..."
As long as these Shandians had some sense and could see the situation clearly, they wouldn't refuse to join Germa's command.
After all, after hundreds of years of continuous conflict, the actual population of the Shandian tribe had already shrunk dramatically. If young warriors like Wiper all died, then for five years or even longer, the Shandians would be unable to launch any more attacks and wouldn't be able to stir up any trouble.
Not to mention, once their hidden village was found, they would inevitably face the fate of extermination.
It wasn't that Enel couldn't find them before; he simply couldn't be bothered to look, intentionally leaving them to play cat and mouse.
Otherwise, with the power of Mantra, going in this direction today and that direction tomorrow, the cloud village, which was definitely not very far from Upper Yard, would surely not have been able to hide.
After entrusting the matters on Sky Island to Gin and Boris, and leaving behind two hundred Germa soldiers, Judge didn't linger. In the afternoon, he directly led Shiki, Luo, Bode, and others away from Sky Island, heading towards the desert kingdom of Alabasta located on another route.
The War House flew at an altitude of nearly ten thousand meters, and with the cloudy weather, it was impossible to be discovered. There was absolutely no need to worry about being seen.
Marine Headquarters, Marineford.
Within the magnificent Marine Headquarters main building, in Admiral Aokiji's office.
Admiral "Aokiji," who was lazily reclining in his chair listening to his adjutant report on work and almost falling asleep, slightly raised his eyelids in some surprise.
"Germa 66's War House, all mobilized?"
The three Marine Admirals, the highest combat power of the Marines, were not just fighters. Each of them managed a great deal of power, and their workload was naturally very heavy.
It was just that Aokiji had a lazy personality and liked to delegate those trivial matters to the staff team he had personally selected. He would take time each day to listen to work reports and give instructions on important matters that the staff team had no authority to decide on.
"Yes, someone once saw dozens of huge War Houses moving on the sea, but their specific movements are unknown!" Unlike Aokiji's laziness, the adjutant, wearing a Marine justice coat over a white suit, with a stern face, stood ramrod straight in front of the office desk, reporting respectfully.
4.5 "Forget it. Germa usually moves its headquarters every once in a while. This time it's just a bit earlier, no need to make a big fuss. Just keep a close eye on them..." Aokiji shrugged, yawned, and asked lazily, "Aha, is there anything else to report?"
In the end, Germa was not a pirate crew, but one of the member nations of the World Government.
Unlike Fleet Admiral Sengoku, who had already developed some wariness towards Germa, Aokiji, despite having no good feelings towards this evil war organization, wouldn't go out of his way to pay special attention to it.
It was just that some time ago, Germa's first heir, Vinsmoke Judge, had revealed his aptitude for Conqueror's Haki, which had surprised him somewhat.
"On the A2 route of the Grand Line, the Basa Pirate Crew, which had just entered the Grand Line from the West Blue, plundered Felicity Town, causing a large number of civilian casualties..."