Chapter 72: Palace Confrontation! A Shocked World

"Magnificent! Truly magnificent, Boss!"

Inside the palace, Morgans gazed with fervent admiration at the figure leisurely reclining on the throne. "While watching from the sky, I cheered countless times for your spectacular performance!"

It has to be him!

No one else but him!

The only one who can turn this stagnant world, untouched for eight hundred years, upside down is the Boss!

The person he defeated was Black Arm Zephyr!

How many years has it been since a Marine Headquarters Admiral suffered a defeat? Although Zephyr is a former Admiral, his reassignment was only a few months ago, making him an Admiral still in his prime!

And most crucially, Boss is so young!

No one in the world has ever done such a thing! Or rather, in the eight hundred years since the World Government and the Marines were established, no one has ever been able to do such a thing!

Not Roger, not Whitebeard or Golden Lion, not even Rocks, who died in God Valley six years ago!

He was born to overturn this world!

Excellent!

Morgans's eyes were so fervent they practically glowed with electricity.

Fate, it favors me!

He thought, meeting the Boss is truly the happiest thing in the world!

Roa glanced sideways at this bird-man. His gaze made Roa's scalp tingle; was it a bit too intense?

Wait a minute.

During the latter half of the fight with Zephyr, the sky should have been constantly overcast, with continuous torrential thunder falling. How did this guy take pictures?

Never mind, no need to understand the Photography King's affairs too thoroughly.

"The Marines probably want to block the news. Releasing this report, won't it affect your cooperation with CP?"

After saying this, Roa suddenly felt a bit calculating.

After all, whether it affected things or not, the news had to be released anyway.

"It doesn't matter, Boss," Morgans chuckled. "The Marines don't know I was there, and I didn't know the Marines wanted to block the news."

"That's good. When is CP planning to act?"

"It has already begun, hehe. The president and another vice president have been invited to attend an event, and then they will unfortunately be attacked by pirates," Morgans's smile was still on his face, but the next second he was wiping his dry eyes with a look of profound sorrow. "I've even written their obituaries. The entire World Economic Journal will never forget their contributions. Their spirit will forever guide us who come after them."

Watching the deeply grief-stricken Morgans, Roa couldn't help but sigh, "Morgans, you're truly a loyal man."

"It's only right, only right," Morgans nodded repeatedly, looking embarrassed. "It's all for your great cause, Boss."

"So, what do you plan to do?" Roa asked with interest.

Ummit had already begun to act. Besides logistics, he had many partners worldwide who could serve as sales channels.

The loan shark magnate Field had decided to cooperate with Ummit. Not everyone had enough money, and at such times, Ummit could introduce the generous Field to them, though the interest rates were a bit high.

Anyway, with the Calamity Legion handling physical collections, there was no fear of anyone daring to default.

In addition, Field was also preparing to develop banking in many of the World Government's affiliated nations.

Finance, after all, was also a highly destructive industry.

Only Morgans remained, and Roa was genuinely curious how he planned to carry out his work.

"It's simple," Morgans smirked. "I plan to use different tactics in two different worlds."

"Oh?" Roa played along.

"For non-affiliated nations, the populace is generally suffering and largely numb to it, just muddling through," Morgans said. "At such a time, they need to know that in other parts of the world, people are living better, happier lives! I will have the newspapers vigorously publicize the prosperity and strength of the World Government's affiliated nations in non-affiliated countries."

"Then, let these suffering people know that their country's powerful rulers are living lives of extravagant decadence. In short, it's about guiding a trend of thought, making people believe that the country's hardships are due to the corrupt 'worms' in the upper echelons, thereby inciting rebellion—no, uprisings!"

"What do you think, Boss?"

"Not bad," Roa nodded repeatedly.

Isn't this the American approach?

Very effective.

The World Economic Journal's ability to guide public opinion is something no other country in the world can resist. As long as there isn't another large regional newspaper undermining them, the WEJ's president can make people see whatever they want them to see.

Isn't that how Luffy was elevated to a Yonko?

Even if a country's upper class isn't decadent, they'll have no choice but to appear so.

Humans are easily influenced, especially a crowd of disorganized individuals.

"The advantage of this is that the World Government will also think I'm trying to curry favor with them by helping them promote the benefits of the affiliated nations," Morgans continued to talk volubly. "But for the affiliated nations, we can't do that."

"For the World Government's affiliated nations, even if we expose the corruption of kings and nobles, they will be protected by the government. So, the focus should be on conflicts between nations."

"Wars between World Government affiliated nations are never few. With just a little effort, inciting war is not difficult at all."

"However, this kind of thing cannot be too frequent, otherwise the World Government will surely notice."

"Starting with non-affiliated nations is enough for now."

Roa didn't mind; you can't get fat in one bite.

This Morgans guy really has a trick up his sleeve. After the American approach, it's the British one, truly a palace confrontation. You could call him Morgans the Sleeping Dragon!

Hmm... maybe not. The Chancellor probably never imagined that thousands of years later, 'Sleeping Dragon' and 'Phoenix Fledgling' would become derogatory terms.

"I have an idea," Roa said with a smile. "Morgans, you should form a secret organization, lurking in various countries. On one hand, to steal intelligence, and on the other, to provide help at critical moments."

"Have Field cooperate with you. He's not short on money."

"Oh! Boss, you are truly wise! Indeed, many things cannot be done directly by the World Economic Journal!" Morgans said with a face full of adoration. "Please leave it to me! I'll have the organization set up very soon!"

This is what you call professionalism.

Now, all that was left was to wait.

The next day, the world shook.

The World Economic Journal's newspapers were spread across most of the world by the diligent efforts of the News Coo.

Bringing the most earth-shattering news to the world.

People with even a slight understanding of the world were now stunned.

"Admiral Zephyr was actually defeated?!"

"Impossible! Fake News! An Admiral is the World Government's strongest power!"

"He's not an Admiral anymore!"

"But that was only a few months ago, wasn't it? He can't have gone from an Admiral to a mere grunt in just a few months, can he?"

"The Marines, can they still protect this world? Even an Admiral was defeated!"

"Calamity Roa! He, he's how old?! How can there be such a monster in the world?!"

"He's already so terrifying now; who can stop him in the future? Is this world going to be destroyed by him?!"

Roa, this name had already brought profound fear to the people of the world.

This fear seemed to be no less than that caused by Rocks back in the day.

Because he was so young, no one knew how terrifying he might become in the future.

Almost globally, the concentration of black aura slightly increased.

Marine Headquarters.

"Damn the World Economic Journal!!"

The Fleet Admiral furiously punched his desk to pieces. "Who allowed them to leak this news?!"

The Marines had truly lost face this time.

"Vice President Morgans was also invited to attend a tea party," Vice Admiral Tsuru rubbed her temples. "He must have simply passed by the battlefield."

"Tell the World Economic Journal's president to give me an explanation!" Sengoku roared.

"That... might not be possible, Brother Sengoku," Vice Admiral Tsuru twitched her lips. "Just this morning, the former president of the World Economic Journal was attacked by pirates during an event and died along with another vice president."

"What? Such a coincidence?"

Mariejois, Room of Authority.

"That brat is becoming more troublesome."

The Five Elders also had headaches. "Is he really going to revive the Rocks Pirates?"

"Rocks was far inferior to him at the same age. If he's allowed to grow, he might be even more terrifying than Rocks!"

"What should we do? Go all out to find his whereabouts?"

"If he hadn't killed so many World Nobles, I would have thought about letting him join the God's Knights. That kid is indeed an unprecedented genius."

"Yes, it's a pity that Rocks found him."

New World, Whole Cake Island.

"Roa!!" Katakuri exclaimed. "It hasn't been that long, and you've already caused such a huge commotion again?!"

"I don't even know how to tell you to wait anymore! It's too far already!"

"But never mind, just wait!"

Wano Country.

"That brat!" Brother Kaido's expression was strange. "Could it be that he's already stronger than me?"

He couldn't even beat Zephyr.

Roger Pirates.

"Hahahaha! There's actually a guy like that in the world! I really want to meet him!"

"Give it a rest, Captain, if you really meet him, there'll definitely be a fight!"

Whitebeard Pirates.

"That brat, has he grown this strong?" Whitebeard's face showed some displeasure. "This world is about to face many disasters."

And then, somewhere in the sky.

"Gahahahaha! Roa, you stinking brat, you truly don't disappoint me in the least!"

"Search! Even if we have to scour the entire New World, we must find that brat! If we don't find him soon, it'll be too late!"