Chapter 384 - The Enemy's Strategies Begin.

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In the sea left behind by the explosion, which had caused a tsunami throughout the region at the beginning of the New World, some nearby islands were affected. Even the giant waves crashed against the Red Line. There were some debris floating in the water.

Among thousands of debris, there was the head of a pacifista floating in the sea, while the sun shone against its broken glasses, its eyes seemed lifeless, but suddenly, they began to glow, as if it was computing everything, blinking and emitting a computational sound, until they finally stopped blinking for a moment, and the pacifista was completely destroyed.

"It seems that interference has stopped... and the data has begun to be retransmitted, or at least what's left of it..." In another place, a voice emerged. This place was a luxurious room, as it always had been, after all, those who were here continued to decide everything about this world, and all these men were seated. Again, these were none other than the elders themselves, all analyzing what was before them, while several den den mushis were connected to each other with cables, while one in particular had the shape of a large antenna, connected to a giant tower next to the Pangaea Castle. All the den den mushi, which numbered over 20, emitted a screen on the wall.

"At this moment, it seems that the last data has been sent." Behind the den den mushi, there was an elderly man, he had a giant head and seemed focused at this moment, reading the data transmission in front of him at high speed. He appeared to be typing on some sort of strange keyboard while continuing to analyze the data.

"It was probably those pacifista data, they were the last ones. So with that, we have nothing more to receive from the tower, and I will just process the data." The man commented as his hands moved at high speed and with pure skill, typing.

"We received this last data due to the effect of that guy who appeared in the middle of the fight... and he once again interrupted the data transmission..." Saint Topman Valkyrie spoke with a dissatisfied tone.

"Yes... he can do that, after all, that Enel can even interfere with the vital static field of a Vivre Card, as happened with the Tenryuubitos who were killed and we couldn't even locate them." Saint Ethanbaron V. Nasujuro also spoke with ill humor.

"In any case, we still managed to get most of the data we wanted, right, Dr. Vegapunk?" Marcus Mars spoke to the old man who was still typing in front of the five Gorosei.

"Yes, most of the fight is all confiscated in data, since that guy with the thunder logia only arrived in the last moments." Dr. Vegapunk said before continuing. "My instant data collection system, passing as a massive Wi-Fi directly to this central computer, like an invisible link, was a success," Dr. Vegapunk said.

He had, at the elders' request, made an alteration to the pacifistas, and now that they were being produced in high intensity, they had new tricks in their system, like sending real-time data. There were so many of them now that the elders sent 400 of them to face this bizarre pirate group, the most wanted pirates in the world at this moment, and even though it involved an enormous amount of money and resources, as it was still very expensive to produce pacifistas, they still sent the 400 to destruction.

"Well, at least all the resources we are using - be it the pacifistas, the ships, and our agents - were not in vain. I hope we get these data as we want." Saint Shepherd Ju Peter said with his hands in his pockets, looking sharply at the data appearing before them.

They knew that the Straw Hat was much stronger than 200 warships and 400 pacifistas, yet they didn't think twice before sacrificing them to the system for Dr. Vegapunk to capture everything from them in this fight. Now, they had all these data, which they were already planning to use in some of their projects.

Vegapunk felt a little strange about this, mainly shocked that the pirate group had destroyed more than 400 pacifistas in such a short time. It was a terrifying power concentrated in just one ship, no wonder the government seemed to go so far for them.

He wondered what the government really wanted with all that data that made him dizzy every time he read it. There were men cutting through the sea, someone manipulating the ocean, and even their captain manipulating time itself, but Dr. Vegapunk could only swallow hard and say nothing about the lines being written in front of him.

After all, they didn't share any information about what they would do with it, other than the orders they were giving. They seemed more suspicious of him lately, starting to withhold a lot of information and giving more orders for him to execute without answering many of his questions. But he couldn't do anything but obey them. Now, he needed to stay with the government since he was so close to making a major discovery and would have to return to Egghead soon to continue his research and finally complete it.

The World Government had also been pressuring Vegapunk over the past year. He had to get several projects ready this past year and hadn't finished many of them yet, having to put his personal research aside to attend to the government's urgencies.

And it didn't seem to end there, because, even with the enormous number of pacifistas, the pirate group the government feared most was getting stronger and stronger. They were starting to initiate projects that Vegapunk thought were madness, but he couldn't deny any orders from those old men behind him. After all, even if he helped, they could simply kill him the moment he was no longer useful, or worse, if he also became a threat to the government.

"We will hunt them down soon with this…," Saint Marcus Mars spoke again, looking at the others.

"Yes… but we'll still have to wait a little longer…," another said. "It's still too early, but with this data, no matter how much stronger they get, from now on, we can use it against them and also to our advantage to strengthen the government…" This same elder spoke in a dark tone, while Vegapunk only tried to focus on the data but couldn't help feeling a shiver hearing that voice.

"I thought you would be the first to try to kill them," Saint Ethanbaron V. Nasujuro murmured, looking at the man on the last sofa.

"For me, I wanted to kill him at this moment or any other, but I'm not a fool either. We can't face them yet, with the danger they pose to Mary Geoise, however…" The man spoke, his voice emitting deep hatred. "I will kill that Straw Hat," the elder said, who was none other than Saint Jaygarcia Saturn, appearing on the last seat.

His figure was nothing like it used to be; he was missing a leg, an eye, several fingers from his hand, and half of his face was destroyed, as well as much of his body being charred. A consequence not too surprising after spending months inside a comet traveling through the planet's orbit until he finally managed to escape it.

"I hope to recover soon because I promise I will get my revenge," he said in a tone that made even Vegapunk tremble, wanting to leave, but having no choice, while the man seemed to release a silent Haki of pure hatred, as if Monkey D. Luffy had been marked by the wrath of a real demon.

Meanwhile, somewhere else in the New World, on a calm beach, a newspaper was crumpled in a man's hands at that moment, while Luffy's picture at Sabaody appeared.

"It's been a week since this was issued," Beckman murmured as he smoked a cigar near Shanks.

"Luffy!" Lucky Roux approached with a piece of meat and smiling at Luffy. "This isn't a surprise, after all, we've had a banquet this whole past week on this isolated island, so we ended up not receiving the newspapers, and one of our fleet captains had to bring it…" Lucky Roux explained the obvious.

Shanks nodded at that before breaking into a smile. "Hahahaha!" He laughed heartily in the area. "It's a pity that fake Luffy was replaced by the real one; I laughed every time he appeared in the newspaper… so funny!" Shanks continued exclaiming while slapping his leg. But as soon as he stopped laughing, he just smiled. "Anyway, he's back in the newspaper. And he must already be here, the New World has already started to get quite hectic from now on," Shanks commented.

"Yes," Beckman nodded while still dragging on his cigarette. "First, we see that Marco, Ace, and the others are trying to protect the last territories of Teach's crew. They didn't accept our help unless they joined my fleet, and now Luffy is finally in this sea and has already picked a fight with Kaido and Big Mom at the same time. There are two wars about to happen at this moment in the New World, and the Navy, the Shichibukai, and the government itself won't just stand by and watch the power shifts in the New World passively." Beckman analyzed the situation.

"Are we going to interfere in any of them, Captain?" Yasopp approached, asking with a smile toward Shanks.

"I don't see why we should get involved in the race for the One Piece..." Shanks simply stopped smiling, maintaining a serious expression with a much more intense look in his eyes than the goofy one he used to have. "...while we can just take the finish line at the end." He spoke while all his crewmates looked serious at that moment.

Elsewhere, in Dressrosa, the Donquixote family seemed quite worried at this moment.

"No, you will have to come to Wano," a voice emerged from the den den mushi in front of the whole group. This voice belonged to one of the calamities, Queen.

"But we can't abandon Dressrosa!" Trebol murmured in the palace of the kingdom, his tone filled with fear.

"Unfortunately, we can't do anything. After all, Kaido and that old hag Big Mom plan to wage their war here. So forget about Dressrosa," Queen said in a tone that left no room for discussion.

"But what about the Smile factory?" Diamante tried to argue anyway.

Queen became a little irritated with the persistence. "Forget that now. We can even recover it after we defeat the Straw Hats, but there's no point in fighting in vain just to protect that factory. Just send all the remaining Smiles to Wano, and let's gather our forces here." Queen spoke and simply hung up the moment after, not wanting to give more attention to these subordinates, as they were treated by the Beasts Pirates after Doflamingo died.

The said subordinates were quite desperate at this moment as everyone looked with a tone of defeat. First, after just a week, they lost all their auctions in Sabaody while countless people called them in desperation, fearing they would be killed by the Straw Hats after buying their products at the auctions, and now that cause of all their misfortune should already be in the New World and would soon be docking at their port.

While a grim discussion about what to do began, Viola listened to the entire argument from a distance, but she couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief at the possibility of her niece coming with Monkey D. Luffy soon, coming here and finally being able to free Dressrosa from the tyranny of this group that remained after Doflamingo.

Queen, who had hung up the phone from Dressrosa, walked to the main hall where everyone was gathered: his captain, the other two disasters, the Tobiroppo, except for Page One, who had been captured over a year ago, and there was no news of him or even the official members who stayed in Onigashima or Wano.

"I'm waiting for you," Kaido appeared at this moment, sitting in the middle of the place, holding a den den mushi in his hand.

"You think I'm not already preparing, you bastard? Wait, I'll be coming with all my might," Big Mom spoke with seriousness, as she began to move her forces towards Wano, where she hoped to finally get revenge on the Straw Hat after what he did and how he declared war against her.

The Straw Hats had barely arrived in the New World, and their enemies were already making their preparations to destroy them.

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