The Black Throne of One Piece

In the royal palace, Cassia, the capital of the Drum Kingdom.

After listening to the report by the Chancellor of the Exchequer Herbert, Gresham, with a tired face, frowned, and then looked at the antique wall clock hanging on the wall. The time on it showed that there was still half an hour before the early morning.

"Cough cough cough~"

Suddenly, there was an uncomfortable sensation in his chest, and the old king couldn't help but started coughing again, his face quickly turned pale, and the nearby guards immediately took out a potion and gave it to the old king.

After a while, the old king gradually stopped coughing and his face gradually became ruddy.

Seeing this, Herbert, who was also gray-haired, couldn’t help showing a deep sadness. As one of Gresham’s most trusted people, he knew very well that His Majesty’s body was almost exhausted. It is always supported by precious medicines.

But with more medicinal use, the human body will develop drug resistance. Recently, Gresham needs more and more drugs, which undoubtedly means that the drugs are about to not work.

"Your Majesty, may as well agree to the shameless businessman's request. Although the financial aspect is a bit tight, it can be supported by cutting expenses, but we can't suffer too much. Since that shameless businessman has the ability to collect devil fruits, let that shameless The merchant will help you find a tortoise fruit of the animal line."

Herbert knew Gresham's importance to this country. He took a deep breath and said to the old king, who was in love with this country.

Since the medicine is almost unable to support the old king to live, the only hope in the world that can keep the old king alive may be the magical treasure of the sea like the devil fruit.

"..."

When Gresham heard Herbert's words, a trace of anger suddenly appeared on his face, but he quickly became helpless again, showing deep fatigue on his face.

He knew very well what Herbert meant, and couldn't just hope that he would use the devil fruit to continue living.

According to the doctor’s words, his body’s vitality is almost exhausted. Even if he continues to use drugs for stimulation and external supplementation, it is almost useless. The only way is that a new vitality is naturally born in his body, so that he can continue to suffer from the illness. Fight against it.

If he can eat an animal devil fruit, he may be able to use it to gain more vitality, especially the tortoise fruit, which can increase the lifespan of the user many more animal devil fruits, although the symptoms can not be cured. , But it does make him live longer.

It's just that he is too painful. He has been fighting the disease for seven years. In the past seven years, he has been in pain almost all the time, and the disease has almost tortured him crazy.

The pain of losing his son even gave him the idea of ​​ending his life earlier.

He is tired, he has dedicated his life for this country, and now he just wants to take a good rest.

"Please hold on again, Prince Msulu is already on his way back, and I believe he will be able to return soon."

Of course Herbert knew the pain of this old friend, and he knew very well that the old friend was indeed very tired and tired. He didn't want to live for a long time, and his face couldn't help showing shame, but he still said firmly to the old king.

At least Gresham could not die before Muxuru, the only remaining legal heir of the Drum Kingdom, returned. Once he died, the hearts of the people in the country would be dispersed, and the morale of the king's army would be greatly reduced.

Gilbert, the leader of the rebel army, will certainly not miss this heaven-sent opportunity, and he will definitely launch an all-out attack immediately.

At that time, even if Mxulu returns, the overall situation has long been determined, and all the people and forces on Gresham's side in the country will also be purged, and no one can afford to lose in this war.

"I see, you can withdraw."

Gresham was silent for a long time. Seeing that the time was almost past 0 o'clock, he finally sighed and said helplessly.

For this country, he still needs to continue to bear the burden for a period of time.

Herbert heard the words and bowed back.

"Furfurfur~~"

Soon after Herbert left the room, Doflamingo's arrogant and arrogant magical laughter came from the room.

.......

Bingxue Town, a sea town located only ten kilometers to the east of Snowstorm City. Although there are no special products and important resources here, as an important window for foreign exchanges for the military powerhouse of Snowstorm City, it is also Prosperous because of its unique geographical location.

There is a good port here. It is a very rare deep-water port in the Drum Kingdom. It has a small area, but it can still moor more than a dozen large ships at the same time.

Relying on the merchant ships that go in and out every day, Ice and Snow Town gradually prospered, and quickly developed from a small town with a population of only a few thousand to a large town with a population of tens of thousands.

Unfortunately, with the outbreak of the civil war, in order to prevent the King’s navy from landing and rapid increase in troops, the rebels completely destroyed the wharf in this place, and even looted this relatively wealthy town like pirates, leading to this place. That's the end of its prosperity.

In the next two months, this place was also frequently invaded by rebels, preventing the king’s army from rebuilding the port here. This caused a large number of residents to flee here. The once-prosperous town quickly became a place where there were robbers and bandits from time to time. A run-down town infested by thieves.

The next day, the sun rose as usual, and the remaining residents of the town, who had never left their homeland, woke up from their sleep.

Human beings are very tough creatures, and they are very adaptable to the environment.

The same is true for the residents living on the winter island of Drum Kingdom. The harsh living environment has allowed them to exercise their perseverance since they were young.

Although it was difficult for the residents of the small town to adapt to the sudden deterioration of the environment in the town at first, they began to flee in large numbers, but as time passed, the residents who stayed quickly adapted to the new life. They began to rely on fishing and hunting. The animals in the forest make a living, and some shrewd and bold people even went to the nearby army to start business.

But in any case, the peaceful and good life of the past is gone. They live in fear every day, for fear that the rebels, robbers and pirates will bring disaster to the town again, and take them away. This time they are hard to accumulate. Up food and wealth.

Due to another heavy snowfall last night, the streets and alleys were filled with a lot of snow. In order to facilitate walking, people had to organize some hands to shovel the snow.

In the winter sun, the residents shoveled snow while chatting, enjoying this moment of tranquility.

"Clang clang clang~"

Suddenly, a loud bell rang in the direction of the pier in the town.

Upon hearing the bell, the residents showed panic expressions on their faces. They threw down their work one after another, and then quickly ran back to the house, holding some food in the bag and ran to the woods outside the town.

At the same time, a pirate ship was quickly approaching the direction of the pier.

Due to the severe damage to the pier and the wreckage of ships everywhere, it took a little effort for the pirate ship to make a successful landing. Then, led by a pirate captain wearing a captain's hat, a large number of pirates got off the ship and headed towards the town. Run up.

"What kind of shabby place is this, is this just something? Did you hide it privately!"

An hour later, the captain of the pirate looked at the pitiful pile of wealth and food on the ground, and yelled at the surrounding men with dissatisfaction.

"Absolutely not, Captain, there seems to be no people living in this town, and the people in the town found us in advance and all fled. We only found this thing." An old pirate said with a depressed expression.

When the other pirates heard the words, they also agreed, with a depressed expression on their faces.

This raid was their worst harvest since they came to the Great Route.

"Damn~www.readwn.com~What a broken town, burn it for me."

Although Captain Pirate knew that what he was telling was the truth, he was still very dissatisfied in his heart. Angrily, he made a terrible decision.

However, when the other pirates heard him say this, they all screamed in excitement, obviously wanting to vent their depression by destroying this town.

Soon, many houses in the town were set ablaze as the pirates set fire everywhere.

The residents hiding in the nearby woods saw the smoke from the town, all of them showed desperate expressions. In fact, they had almost nothing, and now they even lost their homes.

"Bang bang bang~"

A burst of intensive gunfire suddenly came from the discovery in the town, causing the residents in the woods to shake, and then a loud charging horn made their eyes burst into hope.

Then, an eight-year-old child yelled with joy: "Your Excellency Masefield is here. This is the charge horn of his army. I would never have heard it wrong."