"Master, there's one more thing," Stella bowed slightly, then continued, "Lady Sora's side is ready to begin research on bloodline factors."
"We need Kaido as the subject, right? It's been about two years, time for him to do some real work," Rosse smiled; she knew Sora's requirements.
They had many corpses of top fighters, but not many live subjects available for casual study.
Although Kaido was now doing work for him, in essence he was still a prisoner.
If Kaido had wanted to surrender wholeheartedly, he would have accepted his fate long ago. He wouldn't still be out there playing hide-and-seek with Dragon.
They'd called in a lot of people; from Dragon's Wife's pregnancy to now, after the child was born, they still hadn't caught Dragon.
The facts were obvious, Kaido just didn't want to admit it.
At this point, even with destiny suppressed by Rosse and Imu, it was still difficult for Kaido and the others to catch him.
If so, better to shine in the laboratory.
"Then contact Kaido and tell him to come back on his own. If he refuses, I'll personally bring him back," Rosse didn't care much about this matter. If Kaido truly refused, he thought it would be very interesting.
After all, he not only had Kaido's vivre card, Vanessa had also planted a coordinate inside Kaido's body.
That meant finding Kaido would take him about a day.
He was curious to see how Kaido would refuse him, if he refused at all.
In the end, however, Rosse didn't get his spectacle.
Kaido, though unwilling, chose to return as experimental material.
But to be safe, during Kaido's period as a test subject Rosse would have Gion keep watch.
Over two years of continuous training, Gion had become proficient with Conqueror's Haki binding.
While her physique might not be fully S-class, coupled with Conqueror's Haki binding and a devil fruit's infinite regeneration, her overall strength could already reach S-class.
In terms of rank, she was now not far off from Kaido.
If the two really fought, Gion might not necessarily beat Kaido, but she could certainly hold him long enough for reinforcements to arrive.
And Rosse only ever gave one chance.
If Kaido didn't cherish it, he shouldn't blame Rosse for being ruthless.
"Anything else?", Playing with little Shirahoshi in his arms, Rosse looked at Stella.
He'd been a figurehead for some time; affairs of the World Government were mostly handled by Saturn, Sora, and Otohime, he was mostly idle.
"There's one final thing. Fleet Admiral Sakazuki called, Impel Down has been arranged. Master, you can go and purge it directly."
When Stella mentioned this, her face showed no change.
Over the past two years, at Rosse's request, everyone arrested by the Marine or World Government had all been thrown into Impel Down.
Sakazuki had initially been reluctant, but Rosse promised to personally give them the most miserable deaths, and that was enough to make Sakazuki agree reluctantly.
She didn't know why Rosse wanted to execute those criminals personally, but no matter how many of those people were killed, she felt no emotional fluctuation.
If Rosse killed them, there must be a reason.
"It's all ready, then, I'll go the day after tomorrow. If I remember correctly, Sakazuki is at Sabaody now, right? Let him go to Impel Down first," Hearing that, Rosse finally showed a little interest.
He hadn't killed many people these past two years, only casually wiping out two non-aligned regions while the World Government expanded.
So his experience gain over two years wasn't much.
[Power: 91.54 million / 100 million (SS- rank)]
After two hard years, he was still 8 million experience short of SS rank.
If converted to reaching SS, he'd need to kill two more big targets.
But if converted into lower-ranked strongmen, quantity would be enough.
Over the past two years, as the World Government kept expanding, 30 new member countries joined; all rebel forces in the remaining regions were wiped out, and the people were all thrown into Impel Down.
To prevent their deaths, Rosse had even removed Impel Down's special terrains, leaving only the most basic detention functions.
"I remember correctly, Impel Down has six levels in total. After several expansions, it's holding over a million, right?", Rosse mused.
"Yes. Currently there are 1.31 million prisoners," Stella bowed slightly as she reported; someone had told her this number before, so she remembered it clearly.
Those 1.31 million people hardly included any F-rank or below; those who could be reabsorbed were at least E-rank.
And the minimum experience kill value for an E-rank was 100, after handling them, Rosse might even level up to SS+.
"Master, should we bring others this time?", Stella asked.
"No need. It's not like we're doing charity. Vanessa and I will go," Rosse shook his head, he had no intention of bringing anyone else.
Even Gion didn't like such occasions; only Vanessa, being an outright cruel Celestial Dragon, could accept that scene.
He also very much needed Vanessa's ability so they could go straight into Impel Down.
In fact, Imu had a similar teleportation ability.
But to this day, the two remained monarchs who didn't meet each other.
If they were really to meet, it would probably be after he returned from this purge.
By then, perhaps they'd settle whose was stronger.
———
Two days passed quickly.
With Vanessa's devil fruit ability assisting, Rosse and Vanessa appeared at the gates of Impel Down.
"Salute!"
To Sakazuki's hoarse, majestic voice, Impel Down's guards and Sakazuki's subordinates all saluted Rosse in unison, eyes filled with fanaticism and reverence.
Under World Government rules, Rosse permitted military members not to kneel before Celestial Dragons, this was a special favor for the military.
Even in a world where individual power reigned supreme, running the world still needed military support.
Especially now, the military had many admiral-level strongmen.
"Saint Rosse!"
After the salute, Sakazuki, dressed in a white suit, walked up to Rosse and nodded slightly.
Even Sakazuki could find no fault with Rosse the Celestial Dragon.
What Sakazuki wanted was to bury all pirates, and Rosse had given him almost full support in that regard.
Under his control, the Marine's combat strength and numbers expanded every day.
By now, a single Marine with a million troops was not an exaggeration.
For such a commander, Sakazuki was a hundred percent satisfied.
As for rumors about regicide or womanizing, Sakazuki only treated them as jokes.
In his view, regicide was a good thing.
And womanizing wasn't a weakness, if your superior liked women, Sakazuki was willing to personally capture them for Rosse.
Otherwise, he would feel he'd wasted the Marine's enormous annual budget.
═❀═❀═❀═❀═❀═❀═
[email protected]/AmbitiousTranslator
🥳Joining P@treon keeps me motivated and eager to work diligently, so please consider joining.🥰 You can access upto 20 advance chapter through P@treon.