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Chapter 326 - Chapter 326: Crocodile Tests the Cannon

In the underground ruins, now thoroughly illuminated by the brilliant golden light of the golden battleship, Robin sat on the ground, oblivious to the dirt and dust clinging to her. She looked up, utterly distraught, at Crocodile, who stood at the bow of the golden battleship, laughing incessantly, seemingly lost in boundless madness.

Robin felt that the scene before her was utterly unreal.

Was this golden ship, less than twenty meters long, truly one of the legendary three ancient weapons, the Pluton battleship, capable of destroying an island with a single shot?

Robin couldn't believe it, nor did she want to.

She couldn't imagine what terrifying disaster would befall the world if the ambitious Crocodile gained control of such a world-destroying weapon.

Originally, Robin had planned that even if the historical Poneglyph in these underground ruins recorded the location of the Pluton battleship, she would find an excuse to mislead Crocodile, telling him there were no clues, or misdirecting him elsewhere, never giving him the real information.

However, the strategy she had devised through internal struggle and contemplation during their journey suddenly became useless.

Because the suspected real Pluton battleship had appeared directly in these dust-covered underground ruins.

Such a bizarre, outrageous, dreamlike scene made it understandable that even the usually composed Crocodile had fallen into a prolonged state of frenzy.

It was like a pirate searching for the One Piece, who, upon casually landing on an island and intending to find a Poneglyph with even a tiny connection to the One Piece, instead directly discovered the One Piece itself.

Unbelievable!

On the golden battleship, Crocodile, who had been laughing for a full few minutes, finally gradually calmed the surging, intense emotions in his heart and began to carefully examine the golden slab in his hand and the golden cannon barrel in front of him.

He couldn't understand the golden slab.

However, the rising patterns on the golden cannon barrel, converging towards a hemispherical protrusion on its base, captivated Crocodile's attention.

"What is this? A button?"

He instinctively reached out and pressed down lightly on the hemispherical button.

The button sank less than a millimeter.

Zzzzzzt!

Beams of dazzling electric light emerged from within the golden cannon barrel, flowing and flickering across its surface.

A terrifying energy fluctuation instantly surged through this underground ruin space, causing heart-stopping apprehension.

Crocodile's throat moved. As if electrocuted, he quickly let go.

By now, his hair stood on end, stimulated by the electric light flowing across the cannon's surface.

When his hand moved away from the hemispherical button, the dazzling electric light on the cannon's surface rapidly dissipated.

The intense energy fluctuation also subsided.

Crocodile's body trembled, and he began to cackle nervously once more.

It was so simple.

He hadn't expected controlling the great cannon on the Pluton battleship to be so simple!

Just pressing the button on the cannon's base could unleash the terrifying energy it contained, firing the legendary island-destroying attack.

No wonder it was called a forbidden ancient weapon.

Such a thing, no matter who controlled it, would pose a huge threat to the world.

However, just to be sure, he still needed to confirm whether this golden battleship was truly the Pluton.

Immediately, Crocodile completely disregarded Robin, who was on the ground, deeply shocked by that hint of terrifying aura. He leaped from the battleship and pressed his large hand onto the ground of the ruins.

"Desert! Spada!" (Desert La Gorda!)

The great cloak draped behind him fluttered, and strands of yellow sand rapidly surged from his palm, transforming into venomous snakes that spread swiftly across the surrounding ground.

Then, a terrifying scene unfolded.

As the snake-like yellow sand spread outwards from Crocodile's palm, the ground within the ruins began to rapidly turn into sand.

The speed of the desertification was astonishing, and it rapidly spread throughout the entire vast ruin space.

In just a few tens of seconds, the massive stone pillars supporting the ceiling in the ruins, as well as the four towering walls, and even the ceiling above, began to shed large amounts of sand with a crumbling sound.

The stone pillars corroded, turning into yellow sand and collapsing downwards.

Large, jagged holes appeared in the walls.

The ceiling overhead, losing the support of the stone pillars, began to crack extensively, shatter, and then violently burst.

Finally, unable to bear the immense weight, it began to collapse.

Massive stone slabs detached from the ceiling, and the ceiling opened up, revealing the sky outside.

Bright sunlight shone down, making the golden battleship atop the monument appear even more dazzling and brilliant.

Large numbers of stone slabs fell.

However, before these slabs could hit the ground, they transformed into vast amounts of yellow sand, twisting in the air to form colossal yellow sand dragons. Guided by Crocodile, they converged beneath the golden battleship, supporting the hundreds of tons of golden ship, and ascended towards the opening in the ceiling.

"Desert Spada!" (Desert Girasol!)

Crocodile yelled, leaping onto the golden battleship's deck. Stepping on the golden ship, which was continuously supported by massive amounts of constantly gathering yellow sand, he burst out of the underground ruins and ascended within the royal capital.

The thick pillar of yellow sand, like a fountain, did not stop, pushing the golden battleship and Crocodile standing upon it higher into the sky.

When the yellow sand pillar reached a height of a hundred meters, Crocodile also saw the subsided battlefield in front of the royal capital.

However, at the moment, he had no interest in what was happening there.

He only wanted to press that button on the golden base beside him.

Time to fire the damn thing!

On the deck, in front of the thick golden cannon barrel, Crocodile swallowed, his right hand once again hovering over the hemispherical golden button on the base, sweat beading in his palm.

This next shot determined whether he could return to the New World and get his revenge on that man.

Whether he could leave this wretched place called Paradise and once again rule the seas, dominating that ocean of strong individuals.

Success or failure hinged on this!

Crocodile took a deep breath, gritted his teeth, and slammed his hand down.

Click!

With a crisp sound, the hemispherical golden button was fully pressed.

Robin, who was looking up at the sky from the broken underground ruins, watched in horror as brilliant, dazzling electric light appeared on the thick golden cannon barrel beside Crocodile, on the golden battleship towering atop the giant sand pillar.

Thick beams of lightning crackled and burst forth from within the golden cannon barrel, converging into a glowing ball of lightning in Crocodile's widened pupils.

Crack! The constantly flashing ball of lightning shot out from the cannon's muzzle, instantly flying out of the high ground of Alubarna Royal Capital, tearing through the desert sky, and falling towards the endless desert in the distance.

Before the shining ball of lightning even landed, merely the thick beams of lightning escaping from it had already carved a dozens of meters wide chasm in the royal capital's streets, pulverizing all the buildings in that area.

And when the shining ball of lightning fell into the desert on the side of the royal capital, the entire Alubarna seemed to fall into a brief silence.

The next instant.

BOOM!!

A sun-like dazzling light rose from the endless desert, illuminating the entire Alubarna with a blinding brilliance.

The dazzling light even forced the hundreds of thousands of rebel soldiers gathered in front of the royal capital to close their eyes.

Amidst an earth-shattering explosion, the surrounding dozens of miles of land shook and roared as if a great earthquake had occurred.

Towering sand dunes split and collapsed from within.

The violent impact stirred up the endless yellow sand, transforming it into a terrifying sandstorm that swept across the heavens and earth.

In Crocodile's violently trembling eyes, reflected in the distant desert land, a massive depression, hundreds of meters in diameter and of unknown depth, appeared.

There, centered around that huge depression, the surrounding yellow sand rippled outwards like waves, forming concentric crests and troughs.

It was as if a meteorite had struck.

Crocodile was utterly stunned, then overcome with ecstasy.

He spread his arms wide, now completely convinced that the golden battleship beneath his feet was indeed the ancient weapon Pluton.

Because only the legendary Pluton battleship could unleash such a terrifying attack with a single shot.

"Hahahaha! Hahahaha! I succeeded! I really found the Pluton battleship! Whitebeard! You wait for me! Soon, I will return to the New World and take your head! This world will be dominated by me! What about the Four Emperors, the Marines, the Revolutionary Army, the World Government—all of you step aside!"

"With the Pluton battleship, I am the strongest man in the world!"

(End of Chapter)

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