One Piece: Under the Throne

"Mr. Tom, I'm sorry to have you living here for a while."

"Ahahaha, hahahaha, being overly polite is hypocritical. Leo didn't expect you to control an empty island. It seems like you've been planning to cause trouble for a long time."

"Oh! Excuse me, Mr. Tom. I have never been shy about telling you when I want to do something. You have known it since our first conversation."

Tom looked at the floating island specially prepared for him, where all kinds of advanced shipbuilding equipment were available. Suddenly Tom sighed and said with emotion.

"Are you also interested in Hades? You saved me just for Hades, right?"

Facing Tom's questioning, Leo smiled and said nothing, silently making a gesture towards the distance. Then a small island flew away. The island seemed to have its own consciousness, drawing a beautiful arc in the air and gradually disappeared into the distance.

Tom stared at the island in confusion with his eyes wide open. He didn't understand why a floating island suddenly flew away, and it seemed that there was no intention to stop. However, before he could ask the question in his heart, a dazzling blue lightning shot out from the main island of the sky island group. This lightning was as fast as lightning, and in the blink of an eye it hit the small black dot on the horizon - the floating island that had already flown away.

Immediately afterwards, the space at the location of the island collapsed, and a huge energy burst out a few seconds later. With a loud bang, the entire island instantly exploded into countless fragments. These fragments flew everywhere at an astonishing speed, forming a gorgeous rain of light. At the same time, a strong shock wave also followed, like an invisible force, engulfing everything around it.

Although Tom was still some distance away from the explosion site, he still felt the strong impact and high temperature. He closed his eyes, covered his ears, and lay on the ground, trying to resist this sudden change. Even so, he could still feel his body shaking and roaring in his ears, as if the whole world was collapsing at this moment.

When Tom finally opened his eyes, he was shocked by the sight. The island in the distance had disappeared, and the sky in that area seemed to have been erased with an eraser, with all the white clouds disappearing and only the blue background left.

Leo enjoyed Tom's jaw-dropping look, and suddenly he felt like showing off again.

"What of my actions gave you the illusion that I had not yet mastered a weapon as powerful as Hades'?"

Leo's words made Mr. Tom's pupils shrink, and he stared at Leo without saying a word.

Once a middle school boy starts to show off, he can't stop. Leo turned his head and left his back to Mr. Tom: "No one stands in the sky from the beginning. Even the high and mighty celestial dragons begin to decay slowly. A strong wind is about to blow in this world. This storm will sweep every corner of the world. Where will you and I be by then?"

Tom: "..."

Leo: “…”

There was a sudden silence, and Leo was still waiting for Tom to ask questions.

Huh? Was Tom so frightened that he couldn't speak? You're making it very difficult for me, Leo thought silently without turning his head. Just when Leo felt that he was about to dig out of the three-bedroom apartment with his toes, he couldn't help but speak first.

"Don't you have anything to ask me, Mr. Tom?"

"Ah? What did you say? I can't hear you..."

Leo: “…”

"Hey, call Victoria, come over and treat the old man's ears."

Shit! I miscalculated.

……

Spent a peaceful weekend.

Tom joined the team wholeheartedly after seeing the power of the Sky Island weapons that day. For this era, the technology Leo showed was a remarkable achievement. And for Tom, being able to join such a team was also a rare opportunity.

This is a win-win cooperation. If Leo wants to achieve his goal, it is far from enough to rely on him alone. Only by relying on more talents and resources can the third force plan be successfully implemented. For Tom, being able to improve his skills is enough to make him excited.

If Tom represents the pinnacle of traditional shipbuilding skills, then Leo's is the future technology. In his own words, his technology is 300 years ahead of the world, just a little bit behind Vegapunk. This sentence sounds a bit exaggerated, but it is actually true. After all, the military force displayed by Sky Island is indeed beyond the top level of the sea.

Compared to the tranquility of Sky Island, the sea is still extremely turbulent, and big things still happen every day, especially things related to the Straw Hats.

boom!

Marshal Sengoku slammed his fist on the desk. He didn't know why every time he heard the name of the Straw Hat Pirates, there was always trouble. Not long after the incident on Judicial Island, they received a message for help from the Seven Warlords of the Sea, Gekko Moriah, and the Straw Hat Pirates were the ones who created this trouble.

"Damn Straw Hat Pirates, how could they appear on the Thriller Bark?" Marshal Sengoku roared angrily. His face was full of dissatisfaction and confusion, and his eyes were flashing with anger.

The navy officers on the side lowered their heads, not daring to look directly at Marshal Sengoku. They all knew that the Straw Hat Pirates had brought big trouble to the navy again.

Marshal Sengoku took a deep breath and tried to calm himself, but the anger in his heart was hard to calm down. He stared ahead, and the figures of the Straw Hat Pirates appeared in his mind, especially Luffy's smiling face slowly overlapping with his old friend, which gave him a headache.

Sengoku picked up the intelligence report on the table and read it carefully. It recorded in detail the battle between the Straw Hat Pirates and Gekko Moriah.

Marshal Zhan Guo frowned and thought to himself, "These people are growing too fast. First it was Crocodile, and now they are facing Moria, forcing the latter to ask the World Government for help..."

However, Marshal Sengoku was unwilling to admit this. At first, he thought the Straw Hat Pirates were just a group of lucky pirates. Although they liked to cause trouble everywhere, their individual strength was not enough to pose a threat to the navy. But after the Judicial Island incident, he had to pay attention to this group of pirates.

"Damn it, the people from that family are all such a headache. No matter what, we can't let the Straw Hat Pirates continue to make trouble. We must find a way to eliminate them, otherwise sooner or later they will become a major threat to the navy." Marshal Sengoku said with determination.

But considering his old friend's position, Sengoku decided not to let the navy kill the Straw Hat Pirates personally.

"Contact the Seven Warlords of the Sea, Pirate Queen Boya Hancock, Sky Yasha Donquixote Doflamingo, and Water Angel Brandon Rio, and notify them to go to the Devil's Triangle to encircle and suppress the Straw Hat Pirates."