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Chapter 196 Reserve Member of the Knights of God? Quite a Powerful Figure

Chapter 196 Reserve Member of the Knights of God? Quite a Powerful Figure

"I have conquered the seas for decades, and I have always been the one to steal from others. When did these rats dare to sneak under my bed and steal my crown?"

Lox's tone was full of anger, and even a little disbelief.

He truly hadn't expected that these guys from the World Government would dare to directly invade his lair and steal his most treasured possessions. This was a blatant provocation, an extreme humiliation!

On this vast ocean, what king could tolerate such humiliation? He certainly couldn't, Lox.

Shiki the Golden Lion landed on the ground, his expression turning extremely ugly.

For a pirate, having his base raided was an utter disgrace. Especially when he saw the corpses of those World Government agents, he felt as if his pride had been brutally trampled.

"Captain Rocks, are you saying that someone pulled off an inside job right under our noses?"

Shiki's voice deepened, and Sakura Ten and Kuki were already half-drawn. "Who did this? Those bastards in the pirate crew, who is that damned traitor?"

In the chaotic ruins of the treasure vault, the air seemed to freeze.

Whitebeard Newgate walked silently toward the pile of agent corpses.

He crouched down and used his enormous hand to flip open the collar of an agent. On the other's collarbone, there was a hidden tattoo of a longsword surrounded by three beams of holy light.

"This logo—"

Newgate's voice was as deep as rolling thunder, and his knuckles turned white from gripping Murakumogiri with force.

"What's wrong, Newgate? You look like you've seen a ghost." Shiki the Golden Lion raised an eyebrow, his tone flippant, but his eyes also glanced at the ground.

Before Whitebeard could answer, Charlotte Linlin suddenly let out a piercing scream.

"Mama mama—Mama!"

There was no joy in that laughter; instead, it carried a chilling madness. Lingling's massive, mountain-like body trembled slightly, her eyes bloodshot as she stared intently at the tattoo.

She recalled her childhood, in the chaos of human trafficking and the shadow of "Lamb's House," where she vaguely saw similar patterns on those called "Celestial Dragons' lackeys"—one of the few times in her life she felt a chill.

"That's the Celestial Dragons' shield, and also their butcher's knife!" Lingling swung her Napoleon greatsword fiercely, a scorching sword aura cleaving a nearby stone pillar in two. "They're the watchdogs raised by those bastards who call themselves gods!"

Golden Lion keenly sensed Lingling's emotional breakdown. He turned to Whitebeard and said, "Newgate, it seems you recognize them. For a monster like Lingling to show this expression, these mutilated corpses on the ground were probably not ordinary assassins in life, were they?"

Newgate let out a long sigh of relief, and slammed the hilt of Murakumogi heavily onto the ground with a loud bang.

"They're not ordinary agents, nor are they CPOs. They're from the 'Knights of God.'"

"The Knights of God?" Shiki narrowed his eyes. "I've roamed the seas for so many years, and I've seen plenty of admirals and mad dogs from the Five Elders. This name is quite novel."

"That's because most of the people who have seen them have become fertilizer in the Holy Land of Mary Geoise," Newgate said in a deep voice, his eyes showing an unusual seriousness. "They are a military organization directly under the highest authority of the Celestial Dragons."

"Nominally, they are responsible for adjudicating disputes within the Celestial Dragons, but in reality, they are the Celestial Dragons' last line of defense. Even a Marine Admiral has no right to interfere with their actions without explicit authorization."

Newgate stretched out his foot and lifted the collar of the corpse, revealing a dark gold inverted cross emblem on the inside of the garment.

"But these people aren't official members of the Knights of God yet," Newgate explained. "Look at this emblem; they're just in reserve." The Knights of God have only nine official members, each a monster possessing top-tier Haki and the power of a Terror Fruit.

"To join the Knights, one must undergo the most brutal test of slaughter in the hunting festival known as the Valley of the Gods, proving that one possesses the 'divinity' to trample upon all mortals."

"For a reserve officer to have this level of strength, judging from his condition, he must have been a lieutenant general in life, right?" Brian squatted down and examined the dried bloodstains on the corpse. Judging from the condition of the body and its overall state, his strength in life was at least at the lieutenant general level.

Brian is quite interested in the Knights of God. The original work mentions them and there are corresponding members of the Knights of God. They seem to be of average strength, but they are actually not weak at all. It's just that they are affected by the protagonist's halo.

They are all top-tier experts cultivated by the World Government, a large and powerful organization. Even if they are second-generation, they shouldn't be bad.

Especially their Devil Fruits, which are top-notch, but they didn't have a good effect on this group of people, which Brian found very regrettable when reading the original work.

"That's right. These so-called reserves are mostly gifted young people selected by the World Government from various member states, or exceptionally talented combat-oriented members of the Celestial Dragons' collateral branches."

Newgate scoffed. "They've been subjected to inhuman brainwashing and combat training since childhood, with only one goal: to become the Holy Land's most loyal hounds. Since the reserves are here, and have died here, that means—"

"This means that their actions were orchestrated by the World Government, or rather, the Celestial Dragons." Brian stood up, a profound light flashing in his eyes.

Charlotte Linlin had calmed down somewhat by now, but she was still breathing heavily, her greedy eyes filled with barely concealed resentment: "Whether they're the Knights or the reserves, since they're in God Valley, there must be even more living specimens there, right?"

"Oh my god! I'm going to take their bones off one by one and see if the blood of these 'gods' is stinking too!"

Looking at Lingling's near-madness, Whitebeard turned to Brian and whispered, "It seems the Celestial Dragons have finally had enough. How dare they be so insolent on Beehive Island? Where did they get the guts?"

"But the problem is, since they were able to get so deep into such a hidden treasure vault, it's obvious that there are indeed their spies on the island, who are traitors to our pirate crew. Things are getting more and more interesting."

As Brian spoke, he also looked up at Rocks in front of him. During the discussion, Rocks' condition had improved a lot, at least he was no longer unable to control his Conqueror's Haki.