"Are you sure the Golden Emperor is up there?"
"I'm not entirely sure, but the similarity is over eighty percent."
"I saw that guy manipulate golden weapons with my own eyes."
Below the tavern, in many street alleys, several Pirate Crews were staring at the tavern with greedy expressions.
Many pirates held newspapers, repeatedly confirming the photos on them.
It was clear that Kaos's battle with Crocodile had been witnessed.
Even though Kaos had disguised himself, his ability to control gold ultimately exposed his identity.
"If it really is the Golden Emperor, as long as we capture him, we can become the richest people in the world. Then the entire world will be within our grasp."
"We must capture him, and remember, alive."
"Yes!"
"Move out."
Large numbers of fierce pirates and thugs cautiously approached the tavern. Just thinking about the richest, countless gold, and so on, made their hearts beat uncontrollably faster, and their breathing grew heavier.
Greed and desire had already eroded their reason. Let alone the Golden Emperor's bounty of 567 million Berries, they would dare to act even if it were a billion or two billion.
Currently, a saying was circulating on the New World: "Whoever gets the Golden Emperor gets everything, gets the whole world."
And many large Pirate Crews in the New World were returning.
The competition was very fierce.
They hadn't expected the Golden Emperor to still be on the Sabaody Archipelago.
This was simply a feast delivered to their mouths; not to enjoy it would be an insult to heaven and earth.
The longer they waited, the more people would know the Golden Emperor was here, so they had to act quickly.
Little did they know, all of this was within Kaos's sight.
His Observation Haki was active all day long. He had noticed it during his fight with Crocodile, but he hadn't stopped it!
"You're still too weak."
Kaos sat back down on the chair, crossed his legs, picked up the wine glass, and looked at Crocodile, who was bewildered and inexplicably annoyed, growing more disgusted.
This guy's only redeeming quality was his Logia Devil Fruit. Without his Logia, he was truly a piece of trash.
If he didn't know this guy's future achievements, he wouldn't bother to recruit him.
Crocodile was angry but dared not speak, because Kaos's expression was too irritating.
What did that look, as if he were looking at trash, mean?
Was he saying he was trash?
"You go take care of those small fries. As for these few, I'll handle them."
Kaos pointed his index finger at his feet and looked towards the distant rooftop.
More than a dozen figures appeared one after another, flashing or leaping, each exuding a powerful aura, at least ten times stronger than the small fries downstairs.
Crocodile followed Kaos's gaze, his expression subtly changed, then quickly returned to normal. He understood.
"Did you discover them using Observation Haki!"
Crocodile retracted his gaze and looked at Kaos seriously.
"Want to learn? I'll teach you later!"
Kaos took a puff of his cigar, flicked the ash, exuding the aura of a big boss perfectly.
"I'll take care of all of them."
Crocodile exploded into flying sand and quickly disappeared from the rooftop.
Immediately after, various gunshots and screams came from below.
"It really is the Golden Emperor!"
On the surrounding rooftops, more than a dozen figures were already standing. One bald man, smoking a cigarette, held a newspaper and continuously compared it to Kaos.
He found that, except for the hair color and earrings, everything else matched.
How could such a clumsy disguise escape his eyes?
"Sixteen of them, no pressure at all!"
Kaos leaned back in his chair, flicked his small sword earring with his index finger, then rested his cheek, a cigar in his mouth.
He gently waved his left hand downwards, and instantly, a whooshing sound came from a thousand meters high.
The Goddess of the Sky, who had been tightly closing her eyes, suddenly plummeted.
The sunlight was gradually obscured, and shadows enveloped the area.
Half of the Sabaody Archipelago, no matter their identity, all looked up at the sky, first with shock, then horror, and finally, madness.
"Golden Emperor!"
"It's the Golden Emperor, he hasn't left the Sabaody Archipelago."
"Capture the Golden Emperor, and you capture the whole world."
"This direction is Red Tree Area 8."
"Hurry up and catch him, don't let anyone else capture the Golden Emperor."
"Haha, I'm going to be the richest person in the world."
"As long as I capture the Golden Emperor, I can recruit an army and become the King of the World."
From a high vantage point, one would see countless pirates, slave-hunting groups, thugs, ruffians, and even some civilians running towards Red Tree Area 8 from all directions.
Now everyone had only one thought: to capture the Golden Emperor.
They had all gone mad.
"It's definitely the Golden Emperor."
"Attack."
The appearance of the Goddess of the Sky completely confirmed it for the sixteen people.
They were all pirates with bounties over 100 million Berries, or pirate hunters capable of capturing pirates with 100 million Berries bounties.
Some were Sharpshooters, some were swordsmen, some were Devil Fruit users.
At this moment, they all transformed into hungry wolves, charging towards Kaos, this tender lamb.
Facing such a situation, Kaos smiled playfully.
He remained seated in his chair, legs crossed, chin resting on his hand, sipping red wine and smoking a cigar.
The Goddess of the Sky, suspended fifty meters in the air, had a giant golden halo rotating behind her.
It split off, forming sixteen huge bladed weapons—knives, spears, swords, and halberds—ten meters long and half a meter thick.
They shot towards the sixteen suicidal individuals with a whooshing sound.
"Be careful."
Clang, clang!!!
The sixteen individuals were greatly alarmed and were forced to stop and block the incoming weapons.
The immense power made everyone's expression change.
"Snap!"
As Kaos snapped his fingers, the sixteen weapons clanged like a clash of arms, then split into smaller knives, spears, swords, and halberds.
Each person was lucky enough to receive thirty, with every ten forming a circle, three layers deep, all aimed at the very center.
Several people involuntarily swallowed, feeling a great threat.
"Kill!"
With a roar, the bladed weapons clashed with the sixteen individuals.
Clang, clang, bang, bang!
Rumble!!!
Deafening metal clashes and explosions echoed. Buildings within a hundred-meter radius were riddled with holes, and terrified screams pierced the sky.
The golden weapons were like homing missiles, relentlessly pursuing the sixteen people no matter where they fled.
Pfft~
Blood splattered everywhere. One person was impaled by a halberd, firmly pinned to the broken ground, gushing blood, his hands clutching the halberd, his face contorted.
It was only then that despair and fear showed in his eyes.
Immediately after, more and more weapons flew in, eventually pinning him like a hornet's nest.
Meanwhile, downstairs, Crocodile was also slaughtering the cannon fodder.
The entire building, turned to desert, began to collapse.
A golden tributary fell from the sky, quickly transforming into a precious and exquisite Golden Throne, replacing the previous wooden chair and floating in mid-air.
Kaos changed his posture. Through his Observation Haki, he detected dense crowds rapidly approaching.
It seemed that most of the pirates and thugs on the Sabaody Archipelago had been alerted.
"Golden Emperor, surrender to me."
An excited voice was close at hand. It was one of the sixteen pirates, now grabbing at Kaos with his left hand, a long blade in his right, his face full of ferocity.
Kaos glanced sideways, his eyes filled with disdain.
Jingle, jingle~
A Chains of Heaven shot out like a venomous snake, instantly coiling around the pirate's left hand.
Before he could struggle, a second, third, and fourth Chains of Heaven wrapped around his right hand and feet, forcefully pulling him into a spread-eagle position, away from Kaos, suspended in mid-air.
"Damn it."
The pirate struggled continuously, but with his limbs bound, he couldn't break free.
Pfft!!!
A golden long spear pierced through the back of his head. Blood and brain matter splattered, dripping continuously from his twitching body.
One after another, all the knives, spears, swords, and halberds were plunged into the pirate's back, his chest a bloody mess.
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"Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." - Gordon Gekko