“Regrettably, I was unable to find any traces from those years. The river of history seems to have buried everything. I feel like a person isolated from the world itself, unable to find any trace connected to my own existence.”
Skipping over the opening pleasantries and greetings, Arceus focused on the main content of Barro’s report. During this period, Barro had already arrived in Dressrosa.
According to Barro’s observations, the chaotic ethical issues within Dressrosa had been effectively alleviated, though they had not been completely eradicated.
Several statues in front of Corrida Colosseum had already been completed, and Dressrosa was gradually returning to normal. Most people no longer spoke of the past. Toy victims existed in nearly every family, and suffering was not something worth glorifying in song.
Other than the current situation, Barro had not discovered any valuable information. The Donquixote Family had long since been completely separated from the country. Even in Dressrosa’s modern historical records, there was almost no mention of the Donquixote name.
As for how Barro learned this…
According to Dressrosa’s reports, a series of haunting incidents had been occurring throughout the country recently, and to this day no one had discovered who that “ghost” actually was.
In the current Dressrosa, Barro has few opponents, and there was hardly anyone capable of even noticing his presence. Under the cover of night, it didn’t take him long to find the information he was looking for.
For Barro, the greatest difficulty of this journey was actually translating modern writing. After all, the language used today differed considerably from the script the Lunarians had used eight hundred years ago.
“Warships are frequently active on the seas. The Marines within the New World appear to be gathering in secret. Their motives are unclear. I hope Onigashima will strengthen its vigilance.”
Barro couldn’t perceive every change occurring within each Marine base, but merely observing the routes of warships was extremely easy.
The reason he concluded that the Marines were secretly concentrating their forces was because he noticed those warships were deliberately avoiding commonly traveled routes. There were even Marines riding small wyverns in the skies conducting reconnaissance.
The Marine aerial forces had been completely wiped out back then, but over the past two years they had rebuilt it. To the World Government, many things were merely numbers, including human lives.
As long as something benefited them, they would spare no expense in sacrificing other people’s lives to obtain their own gains, sometimes even for nothing more than meaningless collectibles or entertainment.
The Amber Lead mines of Flevance, the slave trade that flourished across the seas, and the Celestial Dragons’ hunting games were all examples of this.
Against ordinary pirates, aerial reconnaissance already provided a significant advantage. However, what they were facing now were far more formidable aerial combatants.
In the three-dimensional space of the skies, filled with clouds, it was simply unrealistic for Marine scouts to discover Barro’s presence.
“The current state of the Red Line is revolting. I will soon depart for Alabasta. Please take care.”
“Interesting. It seems these people can’t sit still anymore. Gengar, stop playing around and bring me all recent intelligence concerning the Marines.”
Basic information is also available in the Rotom, but after all that information is compiled, it undergoes a new round of analysis at Onigashima before being fed back into the Rotom system. If something was urgent, Arceus could simply use the electronic version directly.
At the moment, he was merely finding something for Gengar to do. After the infiltration mission in Mariejois had ended, Gengar had been resting in the underworld. This time, it had only been called out because the Gastly were needed.
Ghost-type Pokémon generally had unusual personalities. Just moments ago, Gengar had been frolicking throughout the room’s shadows, and it had even come up with a justification for doing so. It claimed this allowed Shayna to rest properly instead of standing by Arceus at all times waiting for orders.
“Gen~gar?”
Hearing that, Gengar poked half its head out of the shadow and gave Arceus a salute before immediately passing through a wall toward the intelligence room.
After locating the necessary documents, it opened its huge mouth and stuffed all the information inside. This was its standard method for infiltrating places through the shadow world. Only by storing objects within its body could it bring them back out.
Within the world of shadows, Gengar moved freely in a freestyle swimming posture, and before long it jumped out back in front of Arceus.
“Geh-heh~”
“Go play. If you see Kaido, tell him to come here.”
Gengar said nothing further and simply vanished into thin air. However, the thermometer in the room immediately rose by five degrees, which was enough to indicate that Gengar had already left.
“So the Marine deployments are all here, are they moving troops from all over the world? The World Government has started making moves as well. Although it’s a bit early, there’s no problem with that. Still, these people are certainly confident. Do they think they can easily take us down?”
The Marines’ movement patterns could not be called obvious just yet; even without any major operations, Marine movements were a common occurrence. However, the movements of the Revolutionary Army were a different story.
During this period, the Revolutionary Army had achieved considerable success. Several hard-fought battlefronts had ended in victory, and they had even begun sending assistance to other nations where rebel forces were active.
There was no way the Revolutionary Army’s strength had suddenly exploded in such a short period of time. A more likely explanation was that their enemies had grown weaker. The quality of the Marines previously assigned to support affiliated nations seemed to have declined.
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