Chapter 16 bout a week ago, week ago

 "It would be a pity to refuse the generous offer of the world government, so we accept", Augustus said, causing the man with the white mask to Nod as if he expected Augustus to agree from the start.

Soon after this agreement was fully formalised, The man in the white mask set off back to Mariejois and about 2 months of smooth development followed.

Doctor Strange had left for Alabasta to completely take over and become the shadow ruler right after the man with the mask had left.

Alfred began to participate more and more in the affairs of the kingdom and succeeded in lifting the heavy burden of managing everything from Grayes.

Iruka had begun to create a school that so far could only provide up to Junior level education in the modern world due to the lack of staff and his knowledge.

Godfrey had arrived back to the Kingdom and had taken control of the military, and began his rather harsh military training.

During this period, Godfrey also focused on learning Haki and managed to reach the beginning levels of Armament Haki and Observation Haki. It was also discovered that Godfrey also possessed Conqueror's Haki, But unfortunately, Godfrey and Augustus didn't have the method to train Conqueror's Haki, so it remained at a very basic level.

Augustus had left for Drum island during this period to recruit Dr. Kureha and chopper along with the 20 elite doctors hoarded by Wapol while also gathering the good doctors that had left Drum island due to Wapol tyranny, which took him on a month-long adventure around grand line.

Finally, however, after gathering them all up, the medical department was ready, and Stephen also soon returned after two months along with the king of Alabasta, who wished to propose the few conditions he had directly to Augustus since only Augustus could accept or deny them.

"Your Majesty, this is King Cobra, King of Albasta" Stephen Introduced.

"And this is my king, King Augustus Glofield, king of Glofield Kingdom" Stephen then formally introduced Cobra to Augustus.

"Can you really fix the drought in Alabasta?" Cobra asked, anxiousiousness ingrained in his tone, yet his face trying to express calmness.

"Yes, I can fix it, what do you think of the offer?" Augustus asked, "The life of your citizens will be safe, and Alabasta will not suffer any longer, and your family will still be the technical rulers of Alabasta.

Cobra's fist clenched when he heard this; he knew that if he agreed, he would essentially be giving up rule over Alabasta, but did he have a choice?

It was either this or letting the citizens live in a dire situation, facing a rebellion and losing control over the kingdom anyway.

At least Augustus was already a king who managed to stabilise the situation of his kingdom as soon as he rose to power.

Yes, Augustus's deeds of stabilising the kingdom were reported to the world, but it was bound to happen eventually; the large amounts of food that were being moved to the Goldfield Kingdom were bound to let people understand what was happening especially since the announcement of Glowfield joining the World goverment let the people understand that Glowfield had stabilised.

"Alright," Cobra said quietly through gritted teeth.

"I couldn't hear you, say it a little louder," Augustus asked.

"I agree!" King Cobra said out loud.

"Very well then, you can go back and continue being the king as if nothing has changed, but Know that from now the real ruler of Alabasta is Augustus Glofield", Augustus said as he waved for Cobra to leave the throne room.

Once Cobra left Augustus told Stephen about the location of the dance powder hoarded by Crocodile and ordered Stephen to destroy it.

Dance powder can bring rain but at the cost of drawing the moisture within the surrounding regions causing drought in those regions.

The best method to bring back the natural rain patterns in Alabasta is to stop using dance powder.

In about a month It can be estimated that natural rain will begin again.

Crocodile planned to use dance powder he had stored in the capital and spread rumours through Baroque Works that King Cobra was hoarding up the dance powder and using it for himself to light the final fuse to the rebellion that has been brewing.

Stephen nodded and walked out the door, he was going to drop King Cobra at his Castle and then go ahead and destroy the dance powder Cobra had been keeping.

Augustus, who was inside the throne room, glanced at the system and didn't notice the level change of Kingdoms Land and couldn't help but sigh.

He had asked what the requirement for levelling up the kingdom's land level is and he was told that he had to either own the four seas, paradise or the new world, that was the condition.