God Valley

After several years, Sora was now relaxing with the members of the Rocks Pirate crew.

"Gurararara, it's rare for the vice-captain not to join in this battle."

"Mamamama, yes, it's true the vice-captain never joins when we raid islands, but this time our target is the Tenryubito, why are you not participating vice-captain?."

Sora, who was enjoying a drink, suddenly stopped when asked by a young Whitebeard, who still had blonde hair, and a young and beautiful Charlotte Linlin.

"I'm just bored. What's so interesting about slaughtering those gold-robed pigs? Hunting Sea Kings is much more fun."

"Pffttt... Jihahahaha, gold-robed pigs, today I learned a new term again, well done, vice-captain... How about you, Kaido? Join me in hunting these gold-robed pigs?"

"Don't order me around, Shiki, but what the vice-captain said is quite interesting, gold-robed pigs... Wororororo, I can't imagine the faces of Kong, Garp, and Sengoku if we called the Tenryubito that."

The commotion on the ship continued until the captain, Rocks D. Xebec, the man known as the overlord across the seas, appeared on deck.

"Kahahahaha... The reason Sora didn't join is that I asked him to escort the other crew members who can't fight or are too weak to join. Besides, you all know his Devil Fruit power... Kahahahaha!"

With just a sentence from Xebec, the entire crew finally understood why Sora, their vice-captain, decided not to join.

On the other hand, the crew who couldn't fight or were too weak felt grateful because they also knew how dangerous it was to attack and kill the Tenryubito.

Although they had done it before, no one knew about it except their own members.

But this time, they would openly attack and kill the Tenryubito in front of the whole world. It was no surprise that powerful fighters from Mariejois would come to hunt them down.

"Alright, everyone get ready, we're heading to God Valley to party!!!!"

"Wooooo!!!!"

With Xebec's order, the entire crew shouted enthusiastically.

Meanwhile, Xebec approached Sora and patted him on the shoulder.

"I'll leave the rest to you, partner!"

Sora responded with just a smile.

After years of adventuring together, Sora knew that Xebec wasn't as evil as portrayed in the stories.

Xebec was just a sickly young man living life to the fullest.

Sora watched Xebec, who was ready to face his end. The reason he let the crew follow him wasn't that he didn't care, but because Xebec never imposed any rules on his crew.

That's why the Rocks Pirate crew looked like a bunch of thugs always causing a ruckus.

Xebec even boldly allowed anyone to challenge him if they wanted to take his place as captain, though the challengers always ended up defeated.

Sora then transformed into his dragon form and took the crew members who weren't participating in the battle away. However, in the end, Sora regrets teaching one useless thing to Xebec.

On the Rocks Pirate ship.

Rocks D. Xebec, the captain, looked at the entire crew joining this war.

"As usual, our crew values strength above all else. As long as you're strong, you have the authority. The strong have everything, and the weak lose everything. And if you die, that means you're weak. So if you don't want to be considered weak, stay alive! Kill as many as you can and win!"

"Live like Larry!!!!!"

Xebec said their slogan which is being taught by Sora proudly.

"Live like Larry!!!!!!!!!"

Xebec then turned and looked towards an island called God Valley. He also saw the World Government ships, the nobles, and the marines.

He slammed his hand on the ship's deck and muttered.

"Blackout!"

In an instant, a large shadow emerged and spread from Xebec's hand, enveloping the ship, then the sea, quickly moving towards the island until it covered the entire island in a black dome where no one could enter or leave until Xebec died or stopped the technique.

With Xebec's opening move, the crew began to move and spread out towards their respective targets.

Fortunately, with Shiki's help, none of the crew had to swim as Shiki made them all fly towards the island.

Meanwhile, on God Valley, the Tenryubito and nobles enjoying the gladiator show suddenly panicked as the sky turned black.

Kong, who served as fleet admiral, immediately ordered his subordinates to spread out and locate the enemy.

"Sengoku... take squads one to three, Zephyr take squads four to five, you two face the incoming enemies... Garp and Tsuru, lead the others to evacuate the Tenryubito and the nobles... I'll head towards that strong aura."

With the fleet admiral's order, all the marine forces immediately headed to their positions and prepared to face the enemy.

On one side of the island, a medium-sized pirate ship landed, and its captain, a man with a thick mustache and a perpetual smile, wearing a magenta outfit, a red cloak, and a red hat with a skull symbol, spoke.

"Hahahahaha, the party is getting more interesting, I told you, Rayleigh, this would be exciting."

He laughed while looking at his best partner, Silver Rayleigh.

"With this much commotion, we will surely be found out, Roger."

"Hahahahaha isn't that better...."

Rayleigh sighed, he knew it would end up this way, and the rest of the crew knew it too because their captain was a very free spirit who always got into trouble.

With Roger's order, they began to move to join the chaos in God Valley, which would force the World Government to hide the true events.