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Xi Hong Town, street.
A portly, greasy-faced World Government financial officer was forcefully dragging a young, beautiful woman.
“Please… please let me go!”
The young woman struggled to break free.
“Let you go? Hmph, I told you, you’re coming with me to the Holy Land Mariejois!”
“W-why?”
“Why? Don’t you know the rules in your little West Sea country?”
The fat financial officer had a strong sense of superiority: “As a newly joined affiliated country, you need to pay the full amount of ‘Tribute from Heaven’!”
“But… what does it have to do with me?”
“You’re so foolish, a laughable country woman.” The financial officer laughed: “Because you’re part of the Tribute from Heaven, you see.”
Tribute from Heaven refers to the portion of treasure that World Government affiliated countries must annually pay as tribute to the Celestial Dragons, the world nobles.
This treasure is not just gold and other inanimate objects, that’s just the ‘wealth’ part.
Women, are the ‘treasure’!
Whether the Celestial Dragons want these female slaves or not is another matter, but as the people below, they have to bring a batch of them back every time they go to collect the Tribute from Heaven.
After all, female slaves are consumables.
He took a stroll down the street and saw this woman. He took a liking to her.
Only…
The financial officer wasn’t in the mood to talk to the woman, he impatiently turned to the navy soldiers nearby.
“I told you to get her on the ship, why aren’t you moving? Don’t you listen to my orders? Call your base commander!”
The patrolling Marines looked at each other, none of them made a move.
They were new recruits, locals, and they didn’t want to help the fat financial officer bully a woman from their country. One of the young men even recognized this young woman.
But they also didn’t dare to offend the World Government.
Let alone them, these new recruits, even the king wouldn’t dare to offend him, he would have to be respectful when he met him.
Who made the Celestial Dragons their patrons!
“I’m here, tell me what’s going on.”
At this moment, Eric came with his men. His appearance immediately made the new recruits feel relieved.
“You’re the base commander? You’re too slow! How do you manage your Marines?”
He angrily accused.
For affiliated countries, the navy is the force of justice that protects them from pirates.
But for the Celestial Dragons, it’s just their house dog.
And he, as an official serving the Celestial Dragons, is like the dog owner.
How could he not be angry if the dog didn’t listen!
“You’re teaching me how to do my job?” Eric laughed, he was used to the arrogance and overbearing behavior of the World Government officials.
“What attitude is that?”
The fat official’s face turned green, he had never seen someone so arrogant before.
“This is my attitude, this is my turf, this lady is a citizen of Xi Hong Town, it’s my duty to protect her, now get your claws off her.”
“You…!”
The fat official’s face changed slightly, suddenly a little uncertain.
He had never seen a base commander more arrogant than him!
Maybe this guy has some background?
They were all decent people, he couldn’t fight with Eric on the street, he was going to go back and investigate. If he didn’t have any background, he would find a way to deal with him!
“Hmph, I remember this!”
He glared at Eric with a sinister look, the fat financial officer snorted coldly and angrily pulled his hand away from the woman.
Eric couldn’t help but look up to the other man.
He wasn’t a fool, despite his arrogance and overbearing behavior, he knew not to provoke a fight.
“Thank you, thank you, Colonel Eric!”
The young woman, who had escaped from death, thanked him with tears in her eyes.
“It’s my duty.”
Eric finally had a chance to glance at her. The woman was indeed very beautiful, a beauty among beauties. No wonder she was chosen as a tribute for the Tribute from Heaven.
He waved his hand, letting the woman go, and then turned to the patrolmen.
“You did well! You only need to listen to my orders, you don’t need to listen to anyone else’s orders. If the sky falls, I’ll hold it up!”
“Yes, Colonel!”
The new recruits were very excited, they had a sense of awe for the Colonel.
He had managed to scare away a World Government official with just a few words.
“You go to the port and patrol, keep an eye on the Tribute from Heaven transport ship, when this ship leaves the port, notify me immediately.”
Eric’s eyes flashed with determination.
Since he had already offended them, he had to eliminate the threat.
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The fat financial officer returned to the ship, furious, and ordered.
“Set sail, return to the Holy Land!”
He gritted his teeth, that damn base commander, he better have a great background, otherwise he would definitely get revenge.
He just wanted to take a woman back, what was the big deal?
Even the king didn’t dare to interfere when he saw it, and a small-time colonel dared to defy him?
Didn’t he know what that woman was being used for?
If you anger the Celestial Dragons, no one will have good fruit to eat!
What a damn shame!
What a damn countryside!
The fat financial officer’s anger didn’t subside until the transport ship left the port.
At this time, another official came out of the cabin, yawning and sleepily.
“Ah? We’re going back? We haven’t found enough female slaves yet this time.”
He took a nap and woke up to find himself not at the port, this official was a little confused.
He wasn’t a financial officer, he was the security captain responsible for protecting the ship.
Of course, there were very few people in the whole world who dared to attack the Tribute from Heaven transport ship, so the security team was just putting up a facade.
The last one who dared to do it was Donquixote Doflamingo, now one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea.
Except for him, there haven’t been any in the past 10 years.
“Bad luck, ran into a crazy person.” The fat financial officer spat, telling him what had happened earlier.
“Who’s the colonel of this new branch? Does he have someone on the inside?”
Just like the fat financial officer, he also thought Eric had a strong background.
“I don’t know, we’ll go back and investigate! He probably has some background. We’ll see if we can get to him…”,
The fat man snorted coldly, if he couldn’t get to him, he would pretend it never happened.
They were all decent people, if you knew someone had a strong background and you still went to provoke them, then you must be crazy.
But if his background isn’t strong enough… then don’t blame him!
“Hahaha, it’s not a big deal if a branch base commander dies. The Navy Headquarters will naturally appoint a new one.”
The security captain joked.
Suddenly.
“Hmm?”
The security captain narrowed his eyes and looked towards the stern.
On the sea, a ship was slowly approaching in the distance.
“It’s strange, seeing the government’s flag, there are still ships that dare to approach us?”
“What ship? Pirates?” The fat financial officer was stunned.
“Let me see…” The security captain took out his binoculars, took a look, and was stunned: “It’s a warship?!”
At the same time.
The deck of the warship.
Calvin was sweating nervously.
Colonel Eric was so daring, he was going to rob the Tribute from Heaven?!
“Colonel… are we really going to do this?”
“The World Government has been embezzling my pension, it’s all their fault.” Eric grinned: “They owe me and they’re not paying, so I’ll just take it myself!”
He didn’t have any great background, if he let them go, it would be asking for trouble.
Besides…
If Doflamingo can do it, why can’t I?
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