This was their dream for four hundred years. Now, someone had lit the lights of Shandora, and for them, it was an inspiration!
Their innermost feelings reached their peak with the ringing of this bell. Their blood was boiling!
At the same time, this was their chance. The people of the Sky Islands acted as if they were completely unaware of the Golden Bell, never having rung it for so long.
This sudden appearance of the bell's toll might signal that some change had occurred on the Sky Islands, giving them an opportunity to exploit. The warriors immediately sprang into action.
However, before they could get very far from Cloud-Hidden Village, they saw a green island higher up riding on the clouds and flying off into the distance. "Great Warrior, that is..." These people were dumbfounded, their originally excited feelings extinguished like a doused flame.
One by one, they stared at the large island sailing away in the sky like a ship, falling into a daze. It was as if what they were seeing was an illusion.
"It flew away..." "It must be those Sky Island people who did something!" a warrior said angrily.
However, the Great Warrior did not believe that the gods of the current Sky Islands possessed such power. But no matter what, the Sky Island people must have been aware that Apaya-do had flown away.
After all, that land had originally been under their jurisdiction, and he had to go get to the bottom of it. Those Sky Island people had lost their Apaya-do, and they would have to pay the price for it!
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"I wonder if the people on Jaya can hear this sound," Molly wondered. Ren was currently carrying such a heavy island, so he couldn't take her to see how the people on Jaya reacted to hearing the sound, which made Molly feel a bit regretful.
However, she really hoped that Norland could clear his name of being a great liar. After all, the Golden Land truly existed; she had seen it with her own eyes.
Norland hadn't lied, and he shouldn't have been mocked for so many years after his death. Ren smiled.
Perhaps when Luffy set out to sea, and when they arrived at Jaya, those frogs in the well who didn't believe in the existence of the Sky Islands would become devout believers in the story that it was real, especially those who heard the sound of the Golden Bell today. Moreover, with Apaya-do gone, the position of the pointer might not shift.
The town of Magellan, which had prospered because of pirates, might also fall into decline because of this. Ren didn't care about these changes in history.
Since he appeared in this world, history had long since been heading in a different direction. Perhaps that boy with the straw hat would still become the Pirate King in the end, but the world's structure from then on would inevitably become different.
What Ren wanted was the power to stand against the world when the time came. Although he had never thought of overturning the world, having such power made it difficult to remain unscathed amidst the swirling vortex of world change.
For now, it was fine, but in the future, he and Wano would surely become the focus of the world. To this end, he had to develop his own strength before the vortex that stirs the world came crashing down.
It wasn't just him who needed to grow stronger, but also his subordinates. Ren flew with Apaya-do in the high sky.
He was lucky and didn't encounter any enemies on the way back. Wano was now in sight, but another problem arose, causing him distress.
That was how to place Apaya-do. It was obviously unrealistic for him to keep holding this island in the air with Susanoo all the time, but he couldn't just place it in Wano's inland sea either.
The inland sea of Wano was very deep; if he were to place Apaya-do there, it would probably sink straight to the bottom. "Forget it, I'll just attach it to a stretch of coastline in Kuri for now," Ren thought.
The seabed near the coast wasn't that deep, and there was space to accommodate a small island. Once Apaya-do was贴合 to the nearshore seabed, the area of Kuri would expand.
After comprehensive consideration, Ren maneuvered the island towards the western coast. The western coast was shielded by mountains and not as easily spotted.
The southern coast was also a good option, but pirates occasionally passed through the waterfall to come up. The pirates who could charge up Wano's waterfall were no ordinary folk.
Whitebeard's strength naturally went without saying, and the other two were Ace and Luffy. After slowly lowering the island, Ren breathed a sigh of relief.
He had expended a lot of energy and immediately severed his connection with the Eight-Serpent Soul as soon as he landed. In reality, maintaining Susanoo alone didn't consume this much energy, but Apaya-do was just too heavy, causing enormous damage to Susanoo itself.
He needed to continuously generate new clouds and mist to replenish it. He had basically had no rest during this time.
In the end, it was probably because the Susanoo created by Yamata no Orochi was less effective than the Flame Cloud created by Seiryu. Coupled with the fact that Ren's Haki training wasn't on Kaido's level, it was extremely strenuous.
Yuriko hurried over to support him. "I'm not so weak as to require that," Ren said with a smile, then led them out of the jungle.
Yukiko and Kurama-Basari were already waiting by the coast. She and Kurama-Basari had been back in Kuri for a while.
Not long ago, they received a message from Ren's snail and came to wait here in advance. In fact, Ren had only asked Kurama-Basari to bring some people over; this gold still needed to be circulated through her hands in the underworld.
However, Yukiko couldn't contain her desire to see Ren and dumped her work on Keiko, following Kurama-Basari over. Seeing Ren walk out of the forest with a tired hand on his forehead, Yukiko's expression immediately filled with distress as she went to meet him.
She really wanted to question Yuriko and Molly about why they had made Ren-sama work so hard, but after seeing an island fall from the sky just now, she already knew what had happened. Ren-sama was truly Ren-sama; directly moving an island was something only a god could possibly do!
"Ren-sama!" "Yukiko, you came too." Seeing Yukiko again after more than two months, Ren was in a good mood and smoothly drew the sword Yuki-Shirame from his waist.
"This is a fine sword I found in the East Blue. Its name is Yuki-Shirame, and it suits your name, so I bought it for you." Yukiko blushed as she accepted Yuki-Shirame.
A fine sword was quite a treasure in Wano, at least not some common trinket, but what Yukiko cared about even more was the thought behind it. "Thank you, Ren-sama," she whispered softly, her face flushed, her whole being like the scenery of early spring after the ice and snow had melted.
Molly was incredibly envious. In truth, she had wanted that Yuki-Shirame for herself as well.
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