A fire dragon had been baring its fangs and brandishing its claws in mid-air, and bolts of electricity had also been flashing above its dragon mouth.

No girl would be in a good mood after someone had disturbed her date, and Stella had taken action even faster than Drake.

"Tch, he’s fast!"

Stella had said unwillingly, and Enel had already run away by the time that the fire dragon that she had released had bitten down.

Putting aside other things, the Goro Goro no Mi did indeed have a very large advantage in terms of speed, and it was estimated that only Kizaru, the ability user of the Pika Pika no Mi, could have been on par with him.

Drake hadn’t cared much about that clown Enel, and the time that he could continue in this posture wouldn’t be long.

Walking with Stella on a beach that had been made up of island clouds, Angel Island had been completely different from the Hidden Cloud Village.

Putting aside the differences in civilization and the technology to process island clouds, which had caused the architecture to be completely different styles, even the ecological environment had been different.

There had been plants whose flowers and leaves had been like rubber balls, and there had been strange animals that could transform into rubber balls and fly up by inflating themselves, and the scenery here had been able to satisfy people’s imaginations of a dreamlike land in the sky to some extent.

It was no wonder that the Shandians hadn’t been willing to reconcile with the Sky People, and they had had their ancestors’ land and the promise that they had valued the most stolen from them, and they could only live in barren places, and no one would have been able to forgive it if they had been in their place.

The two had also caught a cloud fox, an animal that had been unique to Skypiea, on the way.

Just thinking about how this little thing, which had had a light body and had been covered in clean white and fluffy fur, would definitely be liked by girls.

That little guy had also been quite sensible, and it had been quite well-behaved when Stella had been holding it in her arms.

Looking at the little fox, whose head had almost sunk into those two soft things, Drake had felt somewhat envious. It had been good that this had been a female fox, or Drake would have definitely performed a castration operation himself.

But to be fair, there really had been a lot of intelligent animals in this world. You could see this from that sea cow who had even been able to learn haki.

This cloud fox, which Stella had named Angel, had also looked quite intelligent, and it might have been able to master haki if it had been cultivated.

He should say beforehand that Drake had purely been curious about the matter of animals mastering haki, and he had definitely not been jealous of the benefits that it had been enjoying.

Perhaps it had sensed something, and the little fox’s fluffy white fur had all stood up, making it become like a big furball.

Stella had thought that she had been holding it too tightly, making it have its fur stand up, and she had quickly loosened her hold a bit.

The little fox had also calmed down, wondering why it had suddenly had a creepy feeling, and it had been completely unaware that it had already been arranged by Drake.

The two had been sightseeing all the way, arriving in the town area, and they had been able to sense the strangeness of the atmosphere as soon as they had entered the town.

Because of the characteristics of the island clouds, the layout of the town hadn’t been flat, but had instead been three-dimensional. There had also been a lot of small island clouds distributed above the giant island cloud base, and a lot of shops and residences had been built on them.

But this street, which had been called Lovely Street, had been empty right now, and it should have been related to the giant hole in the ground.

There hadn’t been anything to see here under these circumstances, and Drake and Stella had decided to go to Upper Yard to watch the fun directly.

Upper Yard had been a part of Jaya Island that had been taken to the White White Sea by the Knock Up Stream four hundred years ago.

And to the Sky People who had been living on Angel Island, and had regarded land as the most precious thing, this could be said to have been a treasure that had been bestowed by heaven.

So under the lead of the "god" who had been the ruler of Angel Island, the Sky People had driven the Shandians out, occupying this land, and they had called it the Holy Land.

Of course, with the Sky People’s focus on land, they naturally wouldn’t have drastically transformed this rare land.

So Upper Yard had maintained its appearance from four hundred years ago, and it had combined with the special clouds above Skypiea, forming a new scenery.

Drake had raised his head, looking at the trees that he didn’t know how tall they had been, and these forests had been filled with giant trees that had been growing for who knew how long, and it had had a special feeling of being spectacular.

Just at this time, Drake’s ears had twitched, and he had heard the sound of someone blowing a whistle.

Stella had looked at Drake, asking for Drake’s opinion with her eyes.

Drake had opened his mouth, saying, "We don’t have any clear goals anyway, so let’s go over and take a look!"

After saying this, the two had set off at the same time, flying towards the direction that the sound had been transmitted from.

Passing through the sea of trees, the two had seen that trapezoidal high platform that had been standing in the clouds.

A ship that the two had been quite familiar with, the Going Merry, had been parked on the high platform, and the only one on the ship had been Chopper, the reindeer, who had been forced into a corner by one person and one bird.

The game that Enel had arranged had been four trials that had been targeting the people who had intruded into Upper Yard, and the four God’s Enforcers under him had each been in charge of one of them.

And the man who had had a small mustache had been Shura, who had been in charge of the String Trial.

Shura had revealed a disdainful smile, pointing the knight lance, which had been equipped with a Flame Dial that could spew fire, at Chopper.

Just as he had been about to launch an attack, he had suddenly discovered that two more people had appeared before Chopper at some point.

"Hey! Who are you guys?"

This location had been located inside of Upper Yard, and they could have only arrived after passing the trial. What Shura had feared the most had been that Drake had passed through the String Trial while it had been unguarded by him.

But it hadn’t made much of a difference to him, and it wouldn’t have been a problem as long as he had resolved all of the people before him.

Chopper had transformed back into a small one, with tears in his eyes, grabbing Drake’s leg, saying, "I’ve finally been saved!"

Drake had squatted down, patting Chopper’s head, saying, "Don’t worry, I’ll resolve this quickly!"

While saying this, Drake had looked at Shura, saying, "I advise you to turn around and leave right now, but you won’t listen, right! After all, your killing intent is about to overflow!

What was your name again... never mind, you aren’t a character worth remembering anyway."

Shura’s eyes had widened, because he had watched Drake approach before him suddenly with his own eyes.

Shura had stabbed out the knight lance in his hand subconsciously, but Drake had actually grabbed that red-hot lance tip, which had been heated by the Flame Dial, with his bare hands.

He had only seen Drake move his finger, and the knight lance had then been broken violently, and fragments of the lance’s body had been flying everywhere, and before he could even reveal a shocked expression, Drake had given him a side kick, making him put on a painful expression.

Shura had flown out directly, crashing through several trees that ten people couldn’t have wrapped their arms around, breaking them.

Chopper, who had been behind him, couldn’t help but move his throat, and although he had been beaten quite miserably by the other party before this, he couldn’t help but pity the other party after seeing this scene. As a doctor, he could be certain that that guy definitely wouldn’t be able to stand up for these next few months.

Drake had indeed been that strong as always, but it had been too reassuring to have him as a comrade.

That giant bird that had been following by Shura’s side had been stunned, and it hadn’t been able to snap back to its senses, opening its mouth subconsciously, revealing the fire-spewing mechanism that had been made by the Flame Dial in its throat.

Drake had furrowed his brow, raising his hand, closing the other party’s open mouth.

The giant bird had been struggling frantically, but it hadn’t been able to break free of Drake’s pincer-like hand at all.

With a muffled sound of a boom, black smoke had been spewing out from the giant bird’s nostrils and the corners of its mouth, and it had softened, rolling its eyes back.

After throwing away the giant bird casually, Drake had raised his head, looking at the speckled giant bird that had been flying over in the sky, and the long-bearded old man who had been wearing knight armor on its back.

What had been attracted by the whistle hadn’t only been Drake, and that had originally been a signal for help for this old man.

And this old knight had been Gan Fall, who had once been the god of Angel Island, and had now called himself the Sky Knight.

But at the same time that Gan Fall had appeared, Drake could sense that the island had begun to become lively.

On one side, the Straw Hat Pirates had already begun to battle the God’s Enforcers, and on the other side, the aura of the Shandian guerrilla army had also been approaching continuously... and a full-scale conflict had been about to break out.

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