"Ah, you can still hold on? You're a man with decent willpower."
Lily caressed her face, showing a hint of surprise.
"There are always some people with good willpower."
Sage stepped over the bodies and said to the soldier kneeling on the ground, "But at this point, it's better to just pass out."
With that, the soldier could no longer support himself and collapsed.
A group of people ascended the stairs, Renedia took out a mechanical hammer, which extended and transformed into a long-handled sheep horn hammer powered by machinery, making a breaking sound as it slammed into the gates of the Royal Palace.
Bam!!
The huge doors, under the impact of the powered strike, were forcefully knocked down.
Sage let out a sinister laugh, "Boys, sweep it clean for me!"
"Yes, Captain!"
About fifty people rushed into the Royal Palace.
Meanwhile, outside the West City Gate, at the bottom of the steps.
"They, have, arrived, Oh."
Mr. 4, standing on a rock and observing, put down his binoculars, speaking slowly.
"Is it the princess? Is it the princess? She's really here, how strange, is she not afraid of death?" Miss Christmas spoke quickly and urgently.
Mr. 2 spun around on the spot, looking towards the dust raised ahead, suddenly pausing, "Something's not right! There are too many people!"
"Too many people? Straw Hat Luffy has already been taken care of in Rain Land; at most, there are just a few more, not too many..."
Miss Two Fingers said while picking up binoculars, and upon seeing, her pupils enlarged, exclaiming, "Navy?!"
Inside the dust, there was no sign of Vivi, but rather a group of troops riding camels running fast, wearing standard Navy uniforms.
Leading them was a man with silver hair racing through the sand on a motorcycle.
On that motorcycle sat a woman with long pink hair, wearing a magenta professional outfit, draped with a Navy cloak.
"Is that 'White Ghost' Smoker? And 'Black Threshold' Tina!"
Miss Two Fingers exclaimed, "What's going on, why has the Navy come?!"
Why would the Navy enter Alabasta, their boss's identity hasn't been exposed, as one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea, the Navy has no right to intervene...
"A natural disaster!"
Miss Two Fingers thought of something, her face sinking, "Did they come because of the natural disaster? It's really a big formation, what should we do?"
Mr. 1's eyes narrowed, lowering his crossed arms, he said, "The natural disaster is also cooperating with the boss, we can't let this group of Navy disrupt our mission."
He walked forward, facing the oncoming large number of Navy, his arms burst into a mass of blades, "Even if it's the Navy, we must stop them!"
"Those are the special agents of the Baroque Workshop, really... using dancing powder to plunge the nation into chaos, then taking the opportunity to seize the country, truly remarkable, Crocodile."
Smoker, biting a cigar, looked at a few people in the sand and stone not far below the steps, the smoke exhaled was quickly blown far by the marching wind.
"Watch your words, Smoker."
Tina said, "Without orders from the Government, Seven Warlords of the Sea Crocodile is still an ally, the Baroque Workshop has no direct connection with him, Tina is only here to arrest the natural disaster, he took down three patrolling warships some time ago."
"Say what you will."
Smoker twisted the handle, picking up speed, "Let's deal with those special agents first!"
At the location descending the steps of the southwest city gate, a group of large ducks sprinted quickly.
These are Alabasta's fastest 'Super Spot-Billed Ducks,' carrying Vivi and the Straw Hat Gang, rapidly approaching the giant steps.
Next to this group of Super Spot-Billed Ducks, there was also a man stepping on something like a sand sled, and at the end of the sand sled, flames were jetting out, the speed not at all inferior to the Super Spot-Billed Ducks.
"Is that okay?"
Nami looked over and said, "If delayed here, will it affect your search for someone?"
"Ah... it's okay, after all, you saved me, it's only right to help with this."
Ace stood on the sand sled, looking at the colossal steps approaching, adjusting his hat, "I believe Luffy can handle Crocodile, but Sage... won't be so easy to deal with."
...
"Empty."
"Empty!"
"Empty!!"
Inside the Royal Palace, Sage walked through the vast halls, with each room he barged into, his expression worsened, veins bulging on his temples, and the black lines in his eyes grew more numerous, even speaking with Gin's accent.
"Sage, aren't you trying to say empty?" Renedia tilted her little head.
"Shut up!"
Sage glared at her viciously, face gloomy, then kicked open another room door, revealing a bedroom layout with no treasure at all.
After touring the Royal Palace for an hour, Sage was initially filled with enthusiasm, but the more he searched, the more he felt something was wrong.
It wasn't that they hadn't found the Treasure Room, the key was, the Treasure Room was also entirely empty.
He knew Cobra was a good king, but no matter how good a king...
"Damn, he's still a king!"
Sage punched a hole into the door in frustration, cursing, "How can he be this poor, poorer than me, a pirate! I'm a thief, damn it!"
"Master Sage, it's not that we're broke..."
Pearl offered a stack of Belly with a flattering expression, "We did manage to find five hundred thousand Bellies."
"Lily." Sage said.
Bam!
The next instant, Lily swung a kick, sending Pearl flying, crashing into the opposite wall.
"You're stealing even girls' private money? Have you no decency! Besides, what can this little money do? This is the Royal Palace for crying out loud!" Sage roared in anger.
To say they gained nothing would be untrue, but still...