"Issho can be handed over to you."
O'hara, Royal Palace.
Although the live broadcast didn't last long, Sage still saw everything he needed to see.
And almost at that very moment, the Radio Snail maintaining the connection on the other side quickly gave a response.
"As for letting you enter the first half of the Grand Line to do business, that's something we can't agree to, and you also can't bring ships into Mary Geoise." The one speaking was Peter, one of the Five Elders.
That thing's power is great, but no matter how great, it still hasn't reached the point of blasting through the Red Earth Continent.
The Red Earth Continent is at least twice as wide as the Grand Line, maybe even three times.
Even that lord's weapon only destroyed a slightly larger Kingdom; no matter how large the Kingdom, it's still within the Grand Line.
Sage's demand to connect the New World and Paradise is doomed to fail.
Hearing this, Sage merely smiled: "I never said I wanted to connect them through you. As long as you stay out of it, that's enough. As for the Red Earth Continent, I have my own ideas… just say whether you agree or not."
The Red Earth Continent is so massive, of course it's impossible to blow it away with a single shot; the final image only showed a karst cave blasted open.
But what can be confirmed is that Pluton indeed has the power to annihilate an island in one shot, and that alone is enough.
If one shot can't blast away the Red Earth Continent, you're telling me one shot still can't blow up Mary Geoise?
"What are you trying to do? That kind of weapon must not be used a second time!"
Nusjuro's bellow echoed out: "Do you want to spark a full-scale war, Sage!"
"What? The Heavenly Celestial Dragons are allowed to sin, but I'm not allowed to break the law?"
Sage laughed loudly: "Either I bring my people to the Red Earth Continent to scrape out a living from you, or you obediently make way! Of course I can choose not to use it, but that passage, I am definitely going to blast it open! If you're scared, you can always help me think of a solution!"
"The consequences of the sea level rising would make you the one who loses the most, wouldn't they."
Peter analyzed: "If you do this, in the end the only one who suffers a loss will be you."
"The latter half of the New World is a mess like some barbaric land, and I'm still in a cooperative relationship with Teach. The territory I rule hasn't even spread over the entire first half of the New World. If the sea level rises by dozens of meters, a hundred meters, whatever, in exchange for me opening up the first half of the Grand Line, and if that's still not enough, then I'll just blast a bit more. If the hole's big enough, maybe even the Calm Belt will disappear."
"Enough!"
Sage's words made the Five Elders speak out in unison, and after another brief silence, Mars finally said: "We can agree to your terms. We can even send people to cooperate with you in drilling through the Red Earth Continent; everything will proceed according to your timetable."
"Now that's more like it."
Sage grinned ferociously: "Then let's sign a contract. I'll make a trip to Mary Geoise. On our side, we promise not to be the first to use Ancient Weapons."
"So it really… is Pluton, huh?"
Mars said in a deep voice: "Honestly, of all people, it ended up in your hands, the most troublesome one of all. So this now counts as a show of force?"
"It's an invitation to watch the drill together."
Sage said: "To put it bluntly, you're not actually going to go to war with me, and I just want to quietly do some business, same as before. But the problem now is, I can't do business anymore. The current level of vitality is not enough for me."
"Oh? We think that before you die, the vitality of your territory won't diminish. You're just too greedy, Sage." Nusjuro's voice sounded.
As Martial God of Finance, he had long since received intelligence on Sage's system. While it doesn't fit nobles, it fits Pirates to a tee. At that time Nusjuro could already be sure that if things continued, within at least a hundred years the Disaster Pirates would absolutely not run into trouble.
Even if a hundred years later O'hara's population is still this large, it could keep running.
And he's a Pirate, this is also a Pirate Realm; when it comes to reducing population, that's something he can easily do.
But regardless of whether the final result is good or bad, after a hundred years, their World Government can harvest. Without Sage, O'hara can also become a member Kingdom.
For those who have lived for several centuries like them, they've seen and experienced far too much; no matter what kind of flowers bloom in the early stages, in the end they either wither, or are plucked.
"Whether I'm greedy or not doesn't have much to do with you. My business growing bigger doesn't do you any harm. Once commerce circulates, the taxes you collect from member Kingdoms also increase, right?"
Sage chuckled softly: "Enough, I don't want to waste too many words on you. Are you agreeing or not."
The Radio Snail fell silent again for a moment, then Warcury's voice rang out, "Understood, we'll do as you say. Sage, we sincerely hope you can contribute to the world's balance. At the most critical moment, as long as you stand on our side, everything is negotiable."
With that, the call on the other end of the Radio Snail was the first to be cut off.
"The world's balance?"
Looking at the Radio Snail with its eyes closed, resting, Sage sneered: "The most critical moment? Laugh Tale, is it? The key to controlling the world… Unfortunately, I'm not interested in that sort of thing. Let some people charge on ahead; after all, the final decision rests with me."
Straw Hat Luffy might have gotten two Roadsign Poneglyphs, but that one Roadsign he obtained from Zou, no one ever discovered it.
Everyone in the world believes Sage only obtained two Roadsigns, but in reality, he is only one short.