Mary Geoise

"That is the Red Line."

"Captain, how are we getting across? Are we taking the route through Fish-Man Island?" Charlotte Pudding asked as she looked at the Red Line.

"No, we’ll fly straight over." Yota shook his head. "We can visit Fish-Man Island later. I’d rather see what Mary Geoise looks like."

"Fly over?" Charlotte Pudding looked slightly surprised. "Then what about our ship?"

Ulti snorted. "You idiot three-eyes, the Azure Dragon Fruit can carry even entire islands through the sky. This little ship is nothing."

After hearing Ulti’s mockery, Charlotte Pudding’s three eyes abruptly turned red as she glared at her. Caught off guard, Ulti was immediately struck by an illusion. She let out a miserable cry and collapsed facedown on the deck.

Yota’s mouth twitched. Ignoring the two women who were simply incompatible, he threw back his head and let out a long roar. His entire body transformed into a giant dragon. With a sweep of his tail, Flame Clouds wrapped around the ship and carried it into the air.

Holy Land Mary Geoise.

Today was another very "peaceful" day—if one ignored the miserable slaves there.

A group of Celestial Dragons were still idly whipping slaves in Mary Geoise, amusing themselves in every possible way, until they noticed the shadow cast from the sky.

"What is that?" A snot-nosed Celestial Dragon stared upward, his mouth hanging open and his eyes shining.

"A dragon! It’s a dragon! A flying dragon!"

In an instant, all of Mary Geoise erupted into commotion.

Meanwhile, in the sky.

"So that’s Mary Geoise down there? It really is beautiful." Pudding looked below, speaking excitedly.

"What are those guys doing?" Ulti frowned. "Do they think they can shoot us down with pistols?"

The Celestial Dragons and their guards in Mary Geoise were all raising their guns and firing wildly into the sky. Naturally, they hit absolutely nothing.

Leaving aside the fact that ordinary firearms lost most of their power at an altitude of over a thousand meters, those Celestial Dragons were far too incompetent to hit anything in the first place.

As for the Celestial Dragons’ guards, personal bodyguards naturally trained in close-combat techniques like Iron Body. They were not snipers, and their gun skills were nothing special.

Besides, the Celestial Dragons might have no brains, but that did not mean their guards were equally foolish. That giant dragon and ship flying through the sky were obviously not easy opponents. If they provoked it and made it land, it might not attack the Celestial Dragons, but the guards would definitely be the ones to suffer. So they merely put on a show.

"Captain Yota!" Violet, her body trembling slightly, walked to the bow and shouted at the giant dragon pulling the ship ahead.

"What is it?" Yota turned his head and asked. In his dragon form, his voice boomed like thunder.

"Can you save those slaves?" Violet’s face was pale, and barely suppressed fury gleamed in her eyes.

Yota paused for a moment, then remembered Violet’s Glint-Glint Fruit. She had clearly seen something through her Devil Fruit abilities, which was why she had suddenly become so compassionate.

But Yota did not care much about saving slaves. If he had seen what Violet had seen, he might have gotten angry, but if he had not seen it, he did not want to trouble himself with it.

After all, while years of compulsory education and the social system of his previous life had given him some moral boundaries, the atmosphere of that society had also made him rather indifferent and selfish. He did not want to concern himself with matters unrelated to him.

But since Violet had already asked, Yota decided he could make a small move.

At once, with Yota’s breathing, the entire sky gradually changed color. Gale-force winds rose, lightning flashed, and thunder roared as dark clouds covered the skies above all of Mary Geoise.

"What’s happening? How could there be such a storm above Mary Geoise?" The Celestial Dragons below were still acting foolishly, but many of the guards had already sensed that something was wrong.

Mary Geoise stood upon the Red Line. Though it was located in a lower region of the Red Line, it was still several thousand meters above sea level.

At such an elevation, even when it rained, it was usually only a light drizzle. Mary Geoise had almost never experienced such a terrifying storm.

Otherwise, how could this place be called the Holy Land? In the Pirate World, meteorological disasters were among the most terrifying threats. A major reason Mary Geoise could become the Holy Land was that its weather was always either bright and sunny or gently drizzling.

"That dragon did this, didn’t it? It can actually affect the weather?"

The ways Devil Fruits were developed often depended on their users’ imagination. Zoan-types were considered among the most monotonous to develop, but with enough imagination, even a Mythical Zoan-type could be developed in countless ways.

Yota’s method of development was subtly different from Kaido’s. After all, having been born in the land of flowers, whenever he thought of dragons, he imagined creatures that summoned wind and rain, commanded thunder and lightning. Thus, the Azure Dragon Fruit Yota developed possessed a certain ability to influence the weather.

As Yota activated his abilities, the clouds grew thicker and thicker until the entire sky turned black. Then, a terrifying storm poured down from above.

Some Celestial Dragons who still refused to give up and had been chasing after Yota’s dragon form were drenched by the torrential rain. Only then did they come to their senses, cursing as they prepared to return indoors. Yet under the cover of the terrible weather, Yota had already descended silently from the sky.

Black mist flowed slowly through the area. Because of the weather, many people had yet to react. Only when they discovered that the slaves were vanishing one after another into the black mist did they raise their guard in alarm.

"Careful! All the slaves are gone!"

"There’s something wrong with this black mist! We’re under attack!"

The guards immediately shouted and tightly protected the Celestial Dragons, who were yelling recklessly without any understanding of the danger.

It did not matter whether the slaves died, lived, or were rescued. At most, the guards would receive a scolding. But if anything happened to the Celestial Dragons, their entire families would be executed.

As everyone watched more closely, they finally made out a faint figure within the black mist. All they could see was a dark silhouette and a pair of pale purple eyes. Whether guards or Celestial Dragons, the moment they saw those eyes, they froze.

"Go. Bring all the slaves here," Yota said coldly.

After hearing Yota’s words, both the guards and the Celestial Dragons obediently left at once to search for the slaves.

The Celestial Dragons Yota had encountered were not all of them. Some were still in their homes. Yota casually found a guard to serve as a guide, then began delivering a Rinnegan illusion package household by household.