Pirates: Your Emperor is Back!

Deserts are dangerous, and the uninhabited deserts of Alabasta are even more so.

During the day, what awaits pedestrians is not only the scorching sun and high temperature, but also those beasts hiding under the gravel!

Even if the King's Army wants to advance in the desert, it must be full of energy.

If you are not careful, you will pay a heavy price!

In order to stabilize the siege of the oasis station Santana as soon as possible, King Cobra chose to lead the king's army across the desert.

This was supposed to be a dangerous journey, but it changed because of an unexpected person.

...

In the endless desert.

An army is advancing mightily.

The composition of this army is very special.

On the periphery, there is a defensive array composed of 10,000 gravel soldiers.

In the inner circle, there are more than a thousand king's troops who should have been waiting in full force.

Due to the existence of gravel soldiers, the king's army rarely relaxed.

Those gravel soldiers exuded an inexplicable aura, which made the surrounding beasts calm down a lot and did not dare to act rashly.

This is why Rowan summoned the gravel soldiers in advance.

Among the king's army, Bell and Jaca walked ahead to open the way, and Rowan, Cobra, Weiwei, and Crocodile followed behind.

Like the king's army, they all marched on foot.

Cobra and Vivi are willing to share joys and sorrows with the king's army.

As for Rowan and Crocodile, they are more comfortable walking in the desert as users of the rustling fruit ability.

As for why Crocodile can walk beside the royal family.

Cobra didn't care much about the red tape, and Crocodile is the hero of this country, so he naturally acquiesced.

Feeling the breath of the gravel soldiers, Crocodile frowned.

It is domineering and domineering.

Massive, special, and heinously detailed domineering domineering!

While deterring the surrounding beasts, it will not cause large-scale damage.

The ferocious beasts lowered their heads one after another, not so much fear, but submission!

After the army passed by, the beasts could immediately recover and continue their lives.

...

"There is such a monster hidden in Alabasta..."

Crocodile murmured, his eyes moved slightly.

Rowan noticed Crocodile's gaze, but didn't care.

Right now, he's talking to Cobra about what happened after his death.

Ryan Rowan died in battle in 719 A.D., and the World Government was jointly established by twenty kings in A.D. 720.

In other words, he fell on the eve of the establishment of the world government.

After his death, because he had no descendants, according to the arrangement of Rowan himself, his close friend Neferutali took over the Alabasta Empire.

However, without Rowan, the strength of the Alabasta Empire can only be regarded as the top of the country, not the top.

In the same year, because of the pressure exerted by the remaining nineteen countries, Neferutali was forced to change the empire into a kingdom and participate in the establishment of the world government.

But he rejected the opportunity to enter the holy land of Mariejoa and become a Celestial Dragon, and chose to stay in Alabasta.

After that, Neferutali took her own name as her surname and established the Neferutali family that has been passed down to this day.

Neferutali Cobra, the twelfth king of Alabasta!

...

After listening to Cobra's narration, Rowan's performance was unexpected.

Cobra originally thought that the emperor of the empire eight hundred years ago would be furious, thinking that it was Neferutari who had ruined his foundation, but Rowan obviously didn't think so.

He couldn't help clapping his hands and laughed loudly.

"Sure enough, it's Neferutari's style!"

Cobra was taken aback, "Master Ancestor, are you not angry?"

"Angry? Why are you angry?"

Rowan held out his hand.

The gravel rose from the ground, flowing slowly through his fingertips as if alive.

"It's a difference of philosophy, not about right or wrong."

"My ideas created the former Alabasta Empire; and Neferutali's ideas have allowed the Alabasta Kingdom to continue to this day."

Rowan held a grain of sand with his fingertips and looked into the distance.

"I can feel that although there are many difficulties, this is indeed a very good country and you have done a good job."

Cobra nodded with a smile, his expression very pleased.

On the other hand, Weiwei on the side seemed a little unconvinced.

"Of course, my lord father is a very powerful king!"

Hearing this, Luo Wen smiled, picked Weiwei up, supported her with one hand, and let her sit on his shoulders.

Luo Wen is slightly taller than Crocodile, about 2.8 meters, so Weiwei can see a pretty good view.

She looked across the dunes, pointing ahead.

"Master Ancestor, I can see Santana now!"

Everyone came to the hill and looked down at the oasis station occupied by the rebel army.

The centurion of the king's army who was in charge of the defense came to report.

Cobra waved his hand and ordered: "The whole army is ready for war!"

But Luo Wen reached out to stop him, "No, let the king's army release the defense, and leave the rest to me."

The centurion who just came over didn't know this strangely dressed man, so he couldn't help feeling a little funny.

"This gentleman, there are thousands of people in the rebel army, even Mr. Sand Crocodile can't guarantee that he won't let a fish slip through the net, right?"

Once a small group of disorderly troops escapes and enters other cities, it will inevitably cause civilian casualties, which is one of the reasons why the king's army did not choose to attack by force.

But Rowan shook his head.

"I'm not alone."

He supported Wei Wei on his shoulder with one hand, and raised the scepter with the other, pointing at Santana.

Under the astonished gaze of the centurion, an army of tens of thousands of gravel soldiers marched forward from behind the sand dunes.

Click! Click! Click...

Gravel collides with gravel, creating "footsteps".

Their movements were coordinated to the extreme, and they approached Santana little by little.

Luo Wen smiled lightly, and asked the little princess on his shoulder:

"Vivi, do you know which direction the capital of Alabasta is in?"

"Know."

Weiwei nodded, stretched her finger forward, and passed Santana, "It's over there!"

The capital of Alabasta, Albana.

There is a palace with a long history, which was built as early as four thousand years ago.

There are countless secrets about this palace.

Rowan also lived there for a long time.

"I miss it, I want to go back and have a look."

Rowan sighed inexplicably, and turned his gaze to Santana.

There, the rebels are panicking over the sudden appearance of an army of gritty soldiers!

The scepter was stuck on the ground, and the marching speed of the gravel soldiers accelerated further.

Until—charge!

"So, you guys..."

Rowan raised his head, swung the scepter horizontally, and the gravel surged.

That undeniable voice echoed in everyone's ears——

"Don't stand in front of the emperor!"

...

The rebels who occupied the oasis station have already begun to panic at this moment.

They didn't know what happened, they only saw the king's army retreat, and then the gravel soldiers suddenly appeared and charged Santana!

After a brief panic, they barely regrouped.

There is a reason why the rebels chose to occupy this place.

As an oasis station, Santana is the main traffic route of Alabasta's domestic trade routes.

Sufficient supplies, and the terrain is easy to defend but difficult to attack.

The king's army did not dare to destroy this post, and this also gave them enough bargaining chips to negotiate.

They wanted King Cobra to support their great "revolutionary" cause, or at the very least, Alabasta to protect them from their neighbors.

They who failed to launch the rebellion can no longer consider the success rate of the plan, and can only be dead horses as living horse doctors.

But now, a strange army suddenly appeared and charged them!

"Shoot, shoot!"

The leader of the rebellious army hastily commanded.

The Musketeers stepped forward, occupied the only traffic artery, and then pulled the trigger.

boom! boom! boom! boom……

The lead bullets shot out and hit the gravel soldiers who were charging ahead, but the bullets directly penetrated their bodies.

"Nature?!"

The leader of the rebellion had some knowledge, so it became even more unbelievable.

He knew that Shichibukai [Sand Crocodile] might be in this country, but he had never heard that [Sand Crocodile] could summon such an army of tens of thousands of gravel!

The gravel spear pierced the shield, and the first line of defense collapsed instantly!

The leader of the rebel army looked at the group of gravel soldiers in despair, knelt down on the ground, opened and closed his mouth.

"What the hell is this!"

...

above the dunes.

Crocodile looked down at the battlefield, squinting his eyes.

In his eyes, the gravel soldiers were being manipulated by Rowan to attack the rebels' lines from different directions.

Ordinary people are of course unable to compete against those with natural devil fruit abilities.

Soon, the gravel soldiers on the front line broke through the formation of the disorderly army.

The gravel spear swung, piercing any enemy who dared to stand in front of them, and the battlefield fell into a one-sided situation!

That is an almost exquisite ability to control the battlefield.

Crocodile suddenly had a feeling that Rowan looked down on the battlefield, much like a chess player.

The battlefield is his chessboard!

And as the observation continued, a cold smile suddenly appeared on Crocodile's face.

He murmured:

"Hehehehe, is that so? It seems that I need to find a chance to confirm..."

...

After about ten minutes, the unsuspecting siege battle ended.

The chaos army was defeated.

Rowan didn't have the idea of ​​fighting an annihilation war, but the rebels still suffered countless casualties.

Cobra ordered the king's army to go and clean up the battlefield.

Afterwards, Bell of Falcon, the bird fruit and falcon-form capable person in charge of the investigation, returned from the sky and changed from an animal state back to a human form.

He brought a bad news.

"Your Majesty, a small group of rebels found a gap and fled southeast."

Cobra just wanted to arrange a chase, but Rowan on the side suddenly laughed and said:

"I'll go after it."

He put Weiwei back on the ground, and the surrounding gravel surged.

After a few breaths, Luo Wenhua made a sandstorm, and his figure disappeared in place.

Weiwei clapped her hands excitedly, "My lord ancestor is amazing!"

But Cobra, who was the king, frowned slightly.

He is very kind to the people, but he is also a ruthless character who can wrestle with other kings at the World Conference, so he naturally heard the meaning behind Luo Wen's words.

Luo Wen wanted to deal with some matters, so he let go of a small group of disorderly troops as an excuse.

So, what is the ancestor going to do?

Cobra turned his head and couldn't help being taken aback.

Because one person also disappeared——

One of the Qiwuhai under the king, [Sand Crocodile] Crocodile.