On the other side, according to Nox's instructions, Arter forcefully occupied the island of Verut in the first half of the Grand Line, and recruited the original Pirates of Verut Island as his subordinates, quickly restoring his subordinates to a scale of over a thousand people.
After that, after Law Net provided intelligence, he quickly found the location of the Loan King, Giberson.
Then Arter led his men to intercept and capture Giberson and his subordinates, and finally Shakky appeared, using the power of the Mind Mirror to interrogate all of Giberson's secrets.
And Arter naturally took over everything from Giberson, the Loan King, becoming the new generation of Loan King in Dark World.
In just a few months, Dark World saw two consecutive Dark Kings replaced, which made the other Dark Kings feel threatened, so they all acted low-key.
"Did the World Government want to enter Dark World to make money, or did other forces rise up while the World Government was declining?"
The Loan King, Feld, was very confused. He himself had a close relationship with the World Government. This time, when the World Government was in crisis, he even lent a lot of money to the World Government.
The King of Assassins, Drake, didn't seem like a World Government person. On the contrary, the Loan King, Arter, as a Shichibukai, seemed more like someone supported by the World Government.
"Never mind, the situation is unclear now, let's avoid the limelight first!"
Feld shook his head, deciding to live in his old lair, which he had prepared for many years, for a while.
The matters of Dark World might be strange to many people, but for those who are involved in Dark World, it was like a magnitude 12 earthquake.
"Fufufufufufu, Dark World Kings are undergoing a major reshuffle, which is the best time for me to enter the market."
"Now there is no title of Broker King in Dark World, so I, Doflamingo, will become the first generation Broker King!"
Doflamingo also received the news immediately. In his opinion, those Dark Kings needed to invest huge costs to succeed.
But for him, who is a broker, he doesn't need too much capital to get started.
As long as there are enough suppliers and consumers, he can act as an intermediary to sell the suppliers' goods and earn a huge price difference from it.
This kind of thing doesn't require him to pay costs himself, he just needs to control the intermediate steps. As long as the various channels are opened up, it is difficult to lose money.
Cecil Island, North Blue, most of the remaining members of the declining Germa Kingdom live here.
Although Germa has declined, it still retains its former pride, and there are many people protecting the base.
"Germa, I'm back!!"
When Judge returned here with his two hundred fully armed clones, his heart was full of pride. He would lead Germa back to its peak!
"Stop, this is Germa's base, outsiders are prohibited from entering!"
The six-person team guarding outside saw Judge and immediately stopped him vigilantly.
"I am Vinsmoke Judge, tell Huizhi, I am back!"
Judge directly reported his name.
"Vinsmoke? Please wait, I will go report!"
Upon hearing the four words "Vinsmoke", the six-person team immediately became serious. After all, Vinsmoke is the royal surname of the Germa Kingdom, and they had to treat it seriously.
"Judge, it's really you who's back!"
Soon, Vinsmoke Huizhi came out and was very surprised to see Judge.
He had thought that since there had been no contact for so long, he was dead, but he didn't expect him to be alive and well. And seeing the two hundred fully armed people following behind Judge, it seemed that Judge was doing very well now.
"Of course it's me, Huizhi, I said back then that I would go out and find the power to make our Germa rise again. Now I have obtained that power, so I'm back!"
Judge said seriously.
Huizhi is Judge's elder brother and the current helmsman of Germa. If Judge wants to lead Germa to rise, he must obtain Huizhi's current position.
"Judge, come in first, we'll talk about other things later."
Huizhi nodded.
Judge and Huizhi came to the conference room. There were only the two of them here, and they stayed here for a whole day. No one knew what they talked about here.
A day later, Huizhi summoned everyone in Germa and handed over his position as the current King of the Germa Kingdom to Judge.
Although many people were unconvinced, under the joint suppression of Judge and Huizhi, there were no longer any dissenting voices.
From now on, under the leadership of Judge, Germa quickly rose.
With the support of the Limitless Pirates behind them, Germa developed rapidly.
Nox gradually handed over the first batch of clones for Judge to use, because the first batch of clones were the weakest, and each subsequent batch of clones could be said to be constantly improving, so Nox didn't feel any heartache.
With sufficiently powerful clones, Judge led Germa to continuously expand Germa's territory, and the non-Allied Nations surrounding Germa were all violently occupied by Germa.
As Germa rose, it was noticed by the World Government and the Marine, but they didn't have the extra strength to suppress Germa.
The Marine couldn't even suppress the Pirate riots, and the World Government didn't even have enough manpower to protect the Allied Nations who came to attend the World Conference. How could they possibly have extra strength to stop Germa's rise.
What's more, Germa was only harming non-Allied Nations, and the whole World was not the only one taking advantage of the opportunity to start wars and expand national territory. Those ambitious kingdoms also took the opportunity to greatly expand their territories.
Just like the sword road powerhouses in the West Blue, such as the Heptarchy and other kingdoms controlled by the Limitless Pirates, they all took the opportunity to expand the size of their kingdoms, and some other kingdoms also followed suit and expanded.
This era is the best era for ambitious people.
For ordinary people without the protection of powerful forces, it is the worst era!
Wano Country's largest forging factory:
This forging factory has been expanded several times and has become the most advanced weapon forging factory in the world. The number of forging processes here is more and more complete than the forging processes of Wano Country at its peak.
As the chief forger, Neil is putting all his efforts into forging a Supreme Grade Sword, which is also the first Supreme Grade Sword he has ever forged!
Below the forging core, a large amount of molten lava is surging, and above the molten lava are various large machines made of special alloys.
Neil uses these machines to continuously quench the purple long sword flashing with lightning, and Valent next to him is also staring at the sword.
"Valent, why are you here too?"
At this time, Drake walked over and asked in surprise.
"I found a special ore on Thunder Island before and planned to use it to forge a Supreme Grade Sword that belongs to me. No, Neil is helping me forge it now. He said it will be done today, so I came over."
Valent said.
He discovered this special lightning ore when he was thrown to Thunder Island by Nox for training.
After the lightning ore was brought back, after Neil's testing, it was a main material that could be used to forge a Supreme Grade Sword. In addition, he went to Caesar to synthesize a lot of special metal materials, and finally gathered all the materials for forging a Supreme Grade Sword.
Seeing that his four older brothers and sisters all have Supreme Grade Swords, Valent, who is ranked fifth in the family, naturally wants to have a Supreme Grade Sword that belongs to him.
It's just that who made him rank fifth? The four remaining Supreme Grade Swords in Father's hand were all taken, so he could only find materials to forge a new one.
"A newly born Supreme Grade Sword? I also want to see what kind of Supreme Grade Sword it is!"
Drake originally wanted to ask Neil to help Lafitte smelt two swords, but Neil was busy now, and he also wanted to see his fifth brother's Supreme Grade Sword.
"Yo, it's rare that both of you brothers are here!"
At this time, Nox also walked in and was a little surprised to see Drake here.
He remembered that Drake didn't stay with the Limitless Pirates, didn't become the president of the Quicksand Guild that Shakky arranged for him, but ran to Dark World to be a small King of Assassins. Shakky complained to him a lot after she came back.
Later, Shakky said she wanted to find Rhea to be the president of the Quicksand Guild, and she didn't know if Shakky had successfully tricked Rhea yet.
"Father, why are you here too?"
Drake felt a little guilty when he saw Nox coming.
"I heard that Neil is going to forge a Supreme Grade Sword, so I came to take a look. What, Drake, can't I come?"
Nox looked at Drake with a smile.
"No, no, this is Father's territory, of course Father can come."
Drake felt even more guilty being stared at by Nox, and his eyes unconsciously dodged.
"Prince Valent, it's time for the final blood quenching!"
Neil shouted loudly at this time.
"Coming, coming!"
Hearing Neil's shout, Valent immediately turned into a flash of lightning and rushed over, then cut open his wrist and dripped blood onto the formed Supreme Grade Sword.
This Supreme Grade Sword had been quenched with Valent's blood eight times from beginning to end, and this was the ninth time.
Quenching with blood during the forging process can make the connection between the weapon and its owner closer after it is formed. This is a unique forging technique of Wano Country.
"Clang!!!"
When the blood quenching was completed, the unique lightning Sword Intent was finally born in the purple Supreme Grade Sword!!
"Good sword, what a good sword, what is the name of this sword?"
However, the newly quenched Supreme Grade Sword, which Valent himself hadn't even had time to touch, fell into Nox's hands.
He carefully felt the lightning Sword Intent born within this Supreme Grade Sword. The Sword Intent contained within a new Supreme Grade Sword, for the current Nox, after careful understanding, could also make his Sword Intent improve a little.
"General, this Supreme Grade Sword is called First Generation Thunder Cutter. It has the power to absorb the user's stamina and convert it into powerful lightning force, and its conductivity is extremely strong. It is specially tailored for Prince Valent."
Neil excitedly introduced the power of First Generation Thunder Cutter.