Invading Impel Down!
This was the plan Karl had come up with fifteen days ago, or even earlier, after realizing that the thing called "luck" was even more absurd than the rule-based ability of the same name.
It wasn't until after Ace was captured and the Marines announced that he would be publicly executed at Marineford.
Karl's original plan had been revised several times in the past fifteen days.
Karl's original plan was to take advantage of the great war between Marine Headquarters and the Whitebeard Pirates, to get into the Infinite Hell before the Blackbeard Pirates, and take the Devil Fruit abilities of all the ability users to cultivate the Golden Blade.
As for the non-ability users, they would all be killed.
But a few days later, Karl's plan was revised again, becoming to take the Devil Fruits of all the ability users, leave the non-ability users, and use them to fund Blackbeard, allowing him to expand his crew and enter the stage of the soon-to-be chaotic era.
It wasn't until yesterday, after learning of the strongest and most terrifying ability of the Munch-Munch Fruit, that Karl once again revised his plan.
The final version of the plan was—to have Aphelandra eat the Op-Op Fruit user, then take the Devil Fruits of a few individual ability users, and control the lives of the other ability and non-ability users.
Those who could be imprisoned in the Infinite Hell, no matter how weak, were at least powerhouses in the first half of the Grand Line, the overlords of the Four Seas.
If these people could not be controlled, then Karl would not save them, only kill them.
If it weren't for the fact that Blackbeard was favored by the world, Karl wouldn't even have had the thought of funding him.
After all, Karl would not save those who were on the verge of death. If these guys had a hope of seeing the light of day again, they might disgust him.
Now, Karl had a way to use them.
He didn't know how many Devil Fruit users there were among these major criminals, and he was too lazy to ask.
If there really were powerful and rare Devil Fruit abilities, then after regaining their freedom, they would definitely not die easily.
When Karl needed to use them, he would use their hearts to ask them to do one thing.
After the matter was completed, Karl would naturally know if the other party was an ability user.
After confirming that the other party was an ability user, when it was time to return their heart, that guy would have lost his value and would become nourishment to strengthen the Golden Blade.
Rather than letting the Golden Blade slowly develop these Devil Fruit abilities.
It was better to use these guys, who had already developed their abilities to a certain extent, to do things for him. After they had lost their value, he would then take their fruit abilities or kill them.
This was Karl's final plan.
After having Jinbe and Crocodile protect Nami, Karl took Marguerite and searched for his real target in the Infinite Hell.
Of course...
During this period, Karl's Observation Haki and the Rumble-Rumble Fruit's electric field had been covering the entire level of hell, watching Crocodile, who was by Nami's and Aphelandra's side, as well as the every move and emotional change of the surrounding major criminals.
If they dared to resist or make a move, Karl would teleport in front of them and let them experience the feeling of being instantly killed.
But the people who could be imprisoned in the Infinite Hell, except for those who had gone mad, no one dared to attack Nami and Aphelandra in front of two Warlords.
It wasn't that their bodies were now rusty, but their abilities had also been sealed by the Seastone shackles.
Being imprisoned in the Infinite Hell, their fate was originally only death.
Rather than dying now, or dying of old age in prison, or being executed... they would rather exchange their hearts for freedom and bet on Karl's credit.
It was just an equivalent exchange, and they could accept it.
While Aphelandra was beginning to take hearts.
Karl and Marguerite found their first target.
Byrnndi World, who had been frozen for thirty years, was several years older than Whitebeard, had the title "World Destroyer," and had eaten the Paramecia More-More Fruit.
The More-More Fruit, like the Munch-Munch Fruit and the Float-Float Fruit, was also one of the top-tier Devil Fruits among the Paramecia types.
Its ability was very simple and crude. It could amplify the speed, strength, size, weight, and so on of any object it touched, by up to 100 times.
For example, it could increase the speed and size of an already extremely fast and astonishingly lethal sniper bullet by more than 100 times.
Even with just a normal sniper rifle, the bullets it fired would be like the scythe of the Grim Reaper.
In addition, this ability could also double its user's speed.
If a weak person were to eat it, it would be equivalent to mastering Karl's and Garp's superhuman modes, indirectly breaking some of the limits of the human body.
But this self-doubling ability was not of much use to a powerhouse.
Because for a super-powerhouse like Karl, whose strength had reached the ceiling of this world.
The More-More Fruit was not an enhancement, but a burden.
But that ability to multiply objects was enough to make this ability no less than Nami's Float-Float Fruit.
With the More-More Fruit, just a normal sniper rifle could surpass countless high-tech super weapons.
And so, Karl used his monstrous strength to tear the iron door of the cell like a thin piece of paper.
After walking in front of the frozen Byrnndi World, Marguerite opened a huge air door.
After moving Byrnndi World inside, Karl's and Marguerite's presences disappeared from the perception of the major criminals.
For a time, countless malicious intentions subconsciously fell on Nami and Aphelandra.
"Ara ara... it seems you need a little lesson."
Without needing Jinbe and Crocodile to warn those guys.
Nami, whose strength had undergone a transformation this year, and who had successfully awakened and mastered Observation Haki after obtaining the incomparably complete Haki manual of the Kuja tribe, had a playful smile on her beautiful face.
Immediately after, Nami gently raised her small hand and then clenched her fist, "Earth Roll!"
Rumble rumble...
In an instant, the cells where some of the major criminals with the strongest malicious intent were, suddenly began to shake violently.
The cells, as if they had come to life, suddenly liquefied and formed a mass, twisting into a huge, upright pillar of stone and iron.
The major criminals inside were instantly crushed and suffocated to death.
Seeing this, the pupils of countless major criminals instantly contracted.
A few knowledgeable ones even trembled and said, "Float... Float-Float Fruit!"
"Gulp... that's right. It's definitely that guy Golden Lion's ability."
"Hahaha... is that bastard dead?!"
"Good riddance, really good riddance... My dream was destroyed by that bastard Golden Lion. I didn't expect him to die sooner than me after he broke out of prison, hahaha..."
After the shock, many people let out excited and schadenfreude-filled laughs.
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