Chapter 258: World Famous Painting - All Members Are Villains
Chapter 258: World Famous Painting - All Members Are Villains
This is even better, adding fuel to the already booming card market.
Hades knew just how popular cards were.
In this era, where islands were isolated from each other and the entertainment industry wasn't rich, they were completely a phenomenon.
Even on islands with developed entertainment, the influence could only be limited to local sea areas.
This was caused by various influences.
Of course, the appearance of visual den den mushi would change everything.
This was just the beginning.
Like in the future, That Person, the "World Diva," would use the latest visual den den mushi to let the entire World hear her singing in just over a year, becoming a superstar.
It's still a long way off now! But it has already begun to change the World initially.
Paradise Card Group was originally a company specifically established by Hades to prevent the Rocks Era from being forgotten.
It was originally prepared specifically for children, starting from a young age.
It had a role, but it wasn't actually very big.
The even more terrifying and powerful Rocks Pirates, who swept across the World and were rampant in the Four Seas, were not just limited to the New World.
They brought countless sins and fear, which had long been deeply ingrained in people's hearts.
How could the World Government erase this just because they wanted to?
It would be fine if it were during the World Government's peak period.
But they can't do it at all now.
The World Government, plagued by internal and external troubles, didn't have the energy to focus on this, let alone the amount of manpower and material resources such a World-wide operation would consume.
In this era where the status of Member Nations was rising, the World Government was even less able to interfere in the internal affairs of Member Nations.
They originally had this idea, but after calculating the required expenses, the World Government completely gave up.
Heaven Card Company's main method of profitability was primarily selling card packs.
The cards within the card packs were also divided into normal cards and limited cards.
Limited cards were entirely made of special metal and truly had collection value.
The information and photos of related characters were mostly provided by Media Reporters from all over the World.
Otherwise, Heaven Card Company alone couldn't complete such a massive information processing task.
The Great Sea was too vast, and some characters, in particular, wouldn't be paid attention to at all.
Secondly, there was a card game similar to Marines vs.
Pirates, much like "Kill" type games, where the identities were only World Government, Marines, and Pirates.
It was also a super popular game now, very widespread even among Pirate groups.
In the future, roles like the Revolutionary Army would be added as moles.
According to rumors, Heaven Card Company also plans to launch an operational fighting game, but it is still under development.
There was no such thing as copyright in this World, nor was there such awareness.
Nor would Pirates go looking for trouble with Heaven Card Company.
Besides, they didn't even know where Heaven Card Company was located.
For them, being known to the World was actually an honor.
Confident individuals could also recommend themselves to Heaven Card Company.
If Heaven Card Company determined you were qualified, they would subsequently release related cards.
The huge interests brought by cards were naturally targeted by the World Government, which also released its own cards, but they were completely incomparable to Heaven Card Company.
Moreover, by the time they had this idea, it was already too late.
Heaven Card Company had completely occupied this market and become the hegemon of this industry.
And it had long been deeply ingrained in people's hearts.
Coupled with some World Government Officials messing things up, it initially had some fame, but was gradually abandoned.
The intense Auction saw the value of the seven cards finally settle at an astonishingly high price of 1.
211 billion Beli.
It officially surpassed the bounty of "Whitebeard" Edward Newgate.
When this moment truly arrived, Newgate's expression was still a bit bewildered, and he couldn't help but reach out and touch his neck.
Was his own head not valuable enough?
He felt a rare sense of frustration inside.
The first Auction Item of the second phase of the World Expo Auction was so explosive, leaving people with some expectation about what would be auctioned next.
Next, famous swords, Devil Fruits, treasure maps, and some strange and rare items appeared one after another, each receiving a lot of popularity.
Someone even brought out a slightly damaged large Marine warship for Auction, which was practically slapping the Marines in the face.
Such a Marine warship ultimately sold for a high price of 87 million.
Compared to the monotonous Devil Fruits from before, the items in the second phase were numerous and more interesting.
However, except for the first Whitebeard series cards, the prices of these Auction Items did not exceed 200 million Beli.
The value of the Auction Items in the first two parts was actually not much different, which was within expectation.
However, the total number of Auction Items exceeded 200, and the number of Devil Fruits also exceeded 60.
The Pluto Pirates also made a move to buy two Devil Fruits, both with relatively interesting abilities.
One of the Devil Fruits was called the Presence Devil Fruit, which could change the presence of the Ability User.
Soon, the Auction for the second phase reached its last Auction Item.
As the white curtain was pulled back, three paintings appeared before everyone's eyes.
The moment they saw the paintings, the entire Auction House fell silent.
Even people all over the World watching the live streaming held their breath.
The three paintings were all about the Rocks Pirates.
Centered around Rocks D.
Xebec, they were exquisite paintings that included all the famous Pirates of the Rocks Pirates.
Each painting was slightly different, but they were so lifelike that they made people feel a deep sense of malice from the bottom of their hearts.
This was the body's spontaneous emotion of fear, stimulated and triggered at this moment, making people feel as if they had returned to those nightmarish years.
The period of chaos shrouded in darkness.
The paintings seemed to contain a will, a mysterious strength, as if the members of the Rocks Pirates had truly reappeared.
"The last Auction Item of the second phase, three World Famous Paintings by an unnamed Artist - All Members Are Villains!"
"First, the first one, starting price is one Beli!"
Auctioneer Aaron pointed to the smallest painting.
If one observed closely, they could see that his body, being closest to the painting, was trembling slightly.
The three paintings varied in size.
The smallest was close to two meters long, a slightly larger one was close to three meters long, and the largest was close to four meters long.
Did he paint them?
A relatively blurry figure appeared in Hades' mind.
Hades couldn't remember his specific name or appearance clearly anymore.
However, he had some impression that there was a regular member in the Rocks Pirates who had no bounty, was a Paramecia-type Drawing-Drawing Fruit Ability User, and seemed to have been a Wandering Artist before becoming an Ability User.
These three paintings contained the imprint of some Devil Fruit ability, and each Great Pirate was so clear, as if revealing the personality of every Great Pirate.
If one didn't understand these members of the Rocks Pirates very well, or even had close contact with them, it would be absolutely impossible to paint them.
With the enhancement of the Devil Fruit ability, coupled with his own superb painting skill, these were undoubtedly world-class paintings.
Just as Aaron said, they were World Famous Paintings.
Hades admitted that he was tempted.
In fact, this was his original target.
However, the one he had targeted was the middle one.
All Members Are Villains, isn't that right?
(end of chapter)