They found a room with a photo of Vivi, and found five hundred thousand Belly there...
For a normal person, that amount of money is certainly not small.
But for Sage, who owns five hundred million and a vast amount of gold and silver treasure, and also invested five hundred million in Crocodile, he completely dismisses this amount of money!
Going to such great lengths, running all night to Albana, just to get five hundred thousand Belly?
What can you do with that?
Buy ten lousy swords?
He can easily rob a passerby in the Rain Land and get that much!
"Put the money back, search more carefully, I want treasure! Gold! Gemstones!"
Sage cast a sideways glance at the convulsing Pearl on the ground, gritted his teeth, and walked out of the corridor.
Outside the corridor was a massive hall, with a sizable throne at the head, but...
"It's made of stone!"
Sage plopped down on the throne, took out a cigar from inside his cloak, lit it, and took a deep drag, letting the smoke swirl inside his mouth before exhaling it.
Unlike smoke, this thing doesn't really go into the lungs.
"I heard the royal palace of Alabasta has about four thousand years of history, perhaps this throne..." Lily hesitated to finish.
"You find an island and grab a stone, it's easily ten thousand years old."
Sage rolled his eyes, "Who cares about history, I'm not interested in any history or story, I only focus on the present."
He's illiterate, can't even read a single character!
Why would he want history!
Even if collecting, can't just collect some useless stone!
Carved into a throne, it's still stone!
"Damn Cobra, at least embed some gemstones in the stone, where's the royalty in this. Nadia Kingdom is better, that old glass at least has a good throne."
"It's Nadia!" Lily corrected, "We've left the East Sea, Sage, don't think about it anymore."
"Captain Sage."
At this moment, Gin and his men came out of another passage and stood below the throne.
"We didn't find any treasure..."
"Then hurry up and rob!"
Sage gritted his teeth, "Go outside the royal palace, look at those rich people's houses, find them all, quick!"
"Yes, Captain!"
Gin immediately led his men out of the royal palace.
"Lily, you guys go too, more people more loot." Sage told them.
"Understood, Sage."
Lily nodded, and along with the other two, left the royal palace.
"What the heck! Is it really so poor!" Sage clicked his tongue, suddenly sensing something, he turned to the side, "Here he comes, Crocodile..."
On the platform inside the western gate of the royal palace, Vivi at this moment was commanding some soldiers, telling them to hold a long fuse.
"Ignite it!"
Vivi resolutely said, "Only by igniting the royal palace and attracting the attention of the rebel army can I talk to them properly, tell them the truth of the civil war, reveal Crocodile's true face. Only then can the war be quelled as quickly as possible!"
The soldiers in front were dripping with cold sweat, holding torches, about to ignite the fuse. But then, a violent gust of sand suddenly whipped up, extinguishing the torches and blowing at the soldiers, knocking them down together.
The sand swiftly gathered on the building's top, taking the shape of Crocodile.
"Crocodile! Father!" Vivi shouted in shock.
Crocodile's arm was still holding Cobra.
"You sure know how to do some dangerous things, Miss Wednesday..."
He looked down at Vivi, corners of his mouth rising in a grin, "Ha, ha, ha, ha! Better not to destroy randomly, this is going to be my home after all."
"Then your home is really dead poor!"
His words just finished, a voice sounded inside the royal palace.
Bang!
The door inside the royal palace exploded with a sound, Sage walked out from it, came to the platform, glanced up at the man in Crocodile's hand, "Hey, are you Cobra? As a king, you're really so poor it's laughable!"
"Oh? Poor harvest, huh? Sage..." Crocodile said with a grin.
"Don't look down on me while talking, Crocodile, I'm not in a good mood." Sage said coldly.
Crocodile chuckled lowly, once again turned into sand, gathering on the platform, effortlessly throwing Cobra against the wall.
"That matter doesn't bother me anymore, Sage, our cooperation is still effective, wealth isn't an issue, there will be plenty in the future..."
He looked at Cobra, his voice deepening, "As long as I take this country, my plan will proceed smoothly."
Cobra staggered up, glaring at him, "The World Government won't allow it, Crocodile!"
"That's why I need that thing! With sufficient military strength, even the World Government can't do anything against me!"
Crocodile extended his hand, gripping firmly, "Tell me, where is Pluton?!"
Cobra's expression froze, he said in shock, "How do you know..."
"Pluton?"
Sage was taken aback, pondering, "Is it called that, is it here? Seems it isn't in Alabasta..."
Beside, Nico Robin was also in a daze, instinctively looking towards Sage.
This man...
"Crocodile!"
Suddenly, a powerful voice sounded below, two hands gripped the palace walls, swiftly contracting, a familiar figure jumped out.
"I'm going to defeat you!!"
He swung his fist, extending forward, charging straight at Crocodile.