Chapter 21: Iron Balloon

Sky Island, God's Island.

The God's Palace, where the former Sky Island God Gan Forr resided, now bears a new plaque—Lei Shen Palace.

Having just finished a day of training, Saint Saint Saiwen suddenly heard a constant ding-ding-ding-ding in his ears.

"Ding, your consigned item: Flash Shell, has been purchased by a Warhammer user. You have earned 900 points. Current point balance: 16,866."

"Ding, your consigned item: Image Shell, has been purchased by a Warhammer user. You have earned 450 points. Current point balance: 20,016."

Saint Saint Saiwen immediately let out a long sigh: The platform's richest man, Brother Warhammer, has finally placed an order.

True to the platform's richest man, he bought even Image Shells, which are no different from cameras.

"Is this the world of Brother Warhammer?"

He treats points as nothing, unlike Saint Saint Saiwen, who sold everything he owned and waited bitterly for a rich brother to place an order just to buy an Iron Balloon.

With the points credited, Saint Saint Saiwen's sleepiness vanished completely.

"Purchase Iron Balloon."

"Ding, purchase successful. The Iron Balloon will transform your physique within 90 days. Increasing training intensity, sufficient eating, and rest will shorten the transformation cycle."

"Current point balance: 16."

Gazing at his destitute point balance, Saint Saint Saiwen immediately flipped out of bed and ran three more laps around the Sky Island.

The trinity of Big Eater, Innate Super Strength, and Iron Balloon allowed Saint Saint Saiwen to completely shed the title of physical trash and ascend to the top tier of talent in the Grand Line.

Big Eater is responsible for digestion, rapidly replenishing and storing stamina, and accelerating body repair; even if he suffers heavy injuries, sufficient food can quickly restore his stamina and heal his wounds.

Truly the ultimate endurance.

As a conceptual passive, Innate Super Strength means that even against the Giant Race, Saint Saint Saiwen's strength is still quite immense.

The Iron Balloon, meanwhile, possesses astonishing defense.

Take Charlotte Linling as an example; a giant's blade struck the five-year-old Linling but was shattered by the rebound, and even a hail of bullets could not inflict a single scratch upon her.

Such power made Saint Saint Saiwen wish he could immediately jump into the sea and swim a few laps.

After a full twelve hours of extra training.

Dragging his exhausted body, Saint Saint Saiwen ate thirty people's worth of breakfast in one go, and he couldn't help but ponder: If this continues, will the Sky Island face a food crisis because of him?

Before coming to the Sky Island, his daily consumption was roughly equivalent to twenty people.

After settling on the Sky Island and beginning cultivation, his daily consumption increased by half.

One person equals thirty Sky Islanders.

For the Sky Island, which lacks land resources, this would cause some degree of impact.

"I'll take a trip to the Sabaody Archipelago when I have time to exchange the gold in the system space for Devil Fruits."

The trading platform has no second Brother Warhammer; opportunities to earn large amounts of points quickly by relying on shells happen only once.

Saint Saint Saiwen had already seen many posts on the trading platform requesting shells at low prices.

【Request: 200 points for a Laser Shell. Brothers in the Pirate World, do not quote random prices.】

【Request: 300 points for an Octopus Balloon. Big brothers in the Pirate World, please give my Dream Mengxiang Yixin back to me. The price is negotiable.】

"I bought Dream Mengxiang Yixin by my own merit."

"Why should I return it?"

Saint Saint Saiwen spoke with righteous indignation; to purchase Dream Mengxiang Yixin, he had rushed all the way from Loguetown to the Sky Island just to snatch up this bargain.

Return it? What kind of joke is that?

If you have the ability, let Raiden Ei come to the Pirate World and catch me.

Saint Saint Saiwen not only refused to return it but immediately took out an Octopus Balloon, accepted the commission, and submitted the item in one smooth motion.

【Ding, congratulations on completing the commission. You have earned 300 points. Monthly platform commissions completed: 9/10. Current point balance: 316.】

"If only there were more of these stubborn fools."

Normally, the price tag of 88,888 tons of gold for Dream Mengxiang Yixin is actually quite a lot.

Taking Earth from his past life as an example, the top five countries by gold reserves were 8,133 tons, 3,350 tons, 2,452 tons, 2,437 tons, and 2,333 tons respectively.

Added together, they amount to less than 20,000 tons.

However, the giant pillar in Gold Town was an accident; it just so happened that Saint Saint Saiwen had accompanied Captain Luo Jie to Gold Town, which gave him the chance to snatch the bargain.

One can only say Saint Saint Saiwen was lucky.

The Teyvat stubborn fool had bad luck.

Days passed like this; during the integration of the Sky Island people and the Shandora people, conflicts occasionally erupted, but they were all forcefully suppressed by the Lei Yun Guard.

Saint Saint Saiwen rarely showed his face.

However, he unswervingly maintained training the Lei Yun Guard once a week, each time sweeping away hundreds of Lei Yun Guards in a crushing manner.

Precisely because of this, Lei Shen's rule became even more stable.

Marine Headquarters, Marineford.

After a full three months of vacation, Marine Hero Garp returned to Marineford aboard his beloved dog-headed warship and went straight to Sengoku's office.

Clang!

The office door was kicked open; Garp picked his nose while shouting, "Why the rush to call me back? What is it exactly?"

Already exhausted from taking care of a pregnant woman at home, and then summoned by Sengoku as if his life depended on it, Garp vented his anger on Sengoku's small snacks.

Sengoku gritted his teeth, suppressing his anger, and threw a command order at Garp.

"After Luo Jie's death, Douglas Barrett, a former member of the Luo Jie Pirates and a descendant of demons, has successively attacked more than ten Marine bases and destroyed countless merchant ships of member nations."

"The World Government demands the Navy launch a Buster Call to arrest Barrett and imprison him in Impel Down."

Garp muttered, "Is it because Luo Jie died that he can only wander aimlessly, destroying things everywhere to vent his anger?"

So it wasn't just him who felt lost due to Luo Jie's death.

"By the way," Garp seemed to remember something.

"What about the rest of the Luo Jie Pirates? Is only Barrett causing trouble everywhere?"

Sengoku pulled out several more files from the drawer.

"The King's Wings, Silvers Rayleigh, makes a living plating ships in the Sabaody Archipelago; the Pirate King's left arm, Jabber, is missing; the rest of the members are actually quite well-behaved..."

"Barzab Saint Saint Saiwen attacked CP9 some time ago and Raided World Government prisoners."

"When Aokiji arrived, only fragments and wreckage of the pirate ship remained; Barzab Saint Saint Saiwen has been missing ever since."

"Nani?!" Garp's eyes widened.

"Fragments and wreckage? Is he dead?"

Judging by the white-haired brat's recent chaotic antics, such a fellow was destined to become a calamity and could not possibly perish easily.

"Most likely he is dead," Sengoku said.

"You and I will sign this Marineford Order; once the intelligence department finds Barrett, we will set out."

"Very well," Garp agreed.

For a period after Luo Jie's execution, Garp did indeed feel lost.

However, after staying for a month in the old mansion of the Whirlwind Village, Garp finally found a new pastime: locking Barzab Saint Saint Saiwen up in Impel Down.

That boy was truly too wicked; he acted entirely according to his own whims and had no moral standards whatsoever.

For the entire sea, such a person is either a great disaster or a savior.

Yet, Garp could never have imagined.

Barzab Saint Saint Saiwen has been silent ever since, as if he had truly perished.