Chapter 1309

Su Xiao and Doflamingo stood in front of the window, watching Jack gradually walk away.

"If I were you, I wouldn't choose to cooperate with the Beasts Pirates long-term at all. How do you ensure your own interests from these guys?"

Su Xiao shook his head, indicating he couldn't understand.

"Forced by circumstances."

These four simple words from Doflamingo expressed countless heartaches.

It seemed like Doflamingo was being squeezed by Kaido, but was that really the case? Of course not. By cooperating with Kaido, Doflamingo actually obtained a large amount of funds and channels.

If one only looked at the transactions regarding artificial Devil Fruits, Doflamingo couldn't even recover his costs. However, through Caesar, underground channels, and other aspects of operation, Doflamingo could actually earn a large amount of funds from Kaido.

More importantly, Doflamingo often used Kaido's reputation to do some shady things. Having received so many benefits from Doflamingo, Kaido could only turn a blind eye to this.

"I've contacted the Sabaody Archipelago auction house. A famous sword will be sent to Dressrosa in the near future."

Doflamingo was cutting his own flesh here; the price of acquiring famous swords in a short time was very high.

"Materials provided by yourself, one Great Grade Sword, five Apollos."

"Deal."

Clearly, Doflamingo was a good partner; he was accustomed to cooperating with various forces—Four Emperors, World Government, and even other Warlords of the Sea.

That night, Jack left Dressrosa. He didn't leave because the deal failed, but because something had happened on Kaido's side. A group of unknown strength attacked Kaido's territory. Of the three calamities, one was severely injured, and the other was searching everywhere for that group of unknown forces.

Just when everyone thought Jack had left, the next morning, this guy's fleet actually returned to Dressrosa.

On the cool morning, the early sun rose slowly.

Jack, with a face as heavy as water, walked on the street, and pedestrians within five meters around him avoided him one after another.

Half an hour later, Jack arrived at the villa area. He went straight to the fourth floor of the villa. This time he didn't knock on the door at all, but kicked open that big iron door.

Boom!

As the loud noise spread, Sugar, who was on the first floor of the villa, woke up in a fright. Wearing only her small underwear, she crawled directly under the bed, possibly thinking that the bomb upstairs had exploded.

Sugar had originally moved to the underground port, but the underground port was too damp. With Sugar's easily-pushed-over small physique, she returned to the villa after not even living there for two days.

In the room on the fourth floor, with a loud clang, the iron door hit the ground. Jack walked into the room with three subordinates.

Su Xiao was making alchemy bombs. Jack suddenly kicked the door and entered, which made him very confused. Judging from the other party's expression, the other party didn't seem to be looking for trouble.

Jack strode to the workbench and, with a bang, slammed a long cloth bag onto the workbench. After that, he stood in place without saying a word.

Su Xiao picked up the cloth bag on the workbench. After opening it, inside was a long sword in its scabbard. This was a Great Grade Sword.

This Great Grade Sword was named 【Pupil Thunder】. It wasn't ranked in the top 21 Great Grade Swords, but it was indeed a Great Grade Sword.

Su Xiao checked the attributes of 【Pupil Thunder】. This was a gold-quality weapon with a high rating, reaching as high as 384 points.

Judging by the quality of 【Pupil Thunder】, if it were one of the top-ranked Great Grade Swords, it could even reach the legendary level.

Famous swords in the Pirate World had a characteristic: the requirements for using these famous swords were very low, but to exert the true power of these famous swords, a certain level of swordsmanship was required.

Just like the 【Pupil Thunder】 in Su Xiao's hand, to exert its power, one's basic sword skill must reach at least Specialty Level 30 or above.

But the equipment requirements for 【Pupil Thunder】 were shockingly low: only 20 points in Strength, 15 points in Agility, 13 points in Stamina, and Sword Skill Level 5 or above.

Jack brought this sword, and the meaning was very clear: he wanted Su Xiao to help him manufacture alchemy bombs. Cooperation between villains was like this—there were no eternal friends, only eternal interests.

Jack bringing the famous sword before Doflamingo was something Su Xiao hadn't expected. Jack, who seemed unreasonable, was sometimes unexpectedly "straightforward."

"Five."

Jack's large hand opened.

"For our first cooperation, I'll help you manufacture six, but... what about the materials?"

"..."

Jack didn't speak. He had tried to find the materials needed for Apollo before, but had no harvest.

Doflamingo could get these materials because of his status as the leader of the underground world. In the New World, Doflamingo's procurement channels even crushed the World Government.

Doflamingo could get substitutes for Sun Remains and Fire Gold, but that didn't mean Jack could. This guy chopped up two underground world bosses last night to feed the dogs and still didn't get even 1 gram of Sun Remains.

"In other words, you didn't find any materials used to manufacture Apollo?"

Su Xiao also saw that Jack had come to trade with him carrying only a famous sword.

"Correct."

Jack didn't threaten him again; he already knew that tactic was useless against Su Xiao.

"Doflamingo... seems to have already obtained many sets of materials for manufacturing Apollo."

Hearing this, Jack stood up directly and took his men out of the room, an exceptionally reckless man.

"This guy, he won't say that I was the one who told him this news, right?"

Ten minutes later, Doflamingo threw six sets of materials for manufacturing Apollo to Jack, the veins on his forehead bulging.

When Jack turned back upstairs, Doflamingo cursed in a low voice. One could vaguely hear words like "Bai Ye" and "sooner or later." Brother Jack... was really straightforward.

In the eyes of outsiders, villains always have a tense face and are full of presence, but is it really like that in daily life? The answer is no.

In Su Xiao's view, Doflamingo was a conspirator or an overlord who was full of smiles on his face but didn't know what he was plotting in his heart, while Jack was a reckless man. As long as it was something he wanted to do, regardless of whether it could succeed, this guy would dare to try it, even if it cost him his life.

If Kaido wanted to take Jack to attack the Navy Headquarters, this guy wouldn't even blink an eye. At most, he would nod and follow Kaido to "solo the Navy Headquarters together," and then be beaten to death by the Navy's powerhouses.

Four hours later, the "fireball" in Su Xiao's hand was compressed to the size of an apple. The fiery red on the surface gradually faded, and the internal structure stabilized.

"Hoo~"

Su Xiao let out a long breath. The sixth Apollo was successfully manufactured.

"Activate 30 seconds before use. Once activated, Apollo will definitely explode after 30 seconds."

Although Su Xiao could terminate the activation process of Apollo, outsiders couldn't. This required a very deep understanding of Apollo's internal structure to do so.

Manufacturing six Apollos in a row, Su Xiao's mana value had only 2000 points left. Paying 3000 mana points to obtain a famous sword—no matter how you look at it, this was a very profitable business.

Jack put away the six Apollos, and his gloomy expression eased a lot.