Start Sanctuary: I stole Athena

Chapter 25 The Phantom Beast Is Gone

"Here are 60 billion berries, and there is gold worth more than 70 billion berries. You can have it checked. If the number is correct, the devil fruit should be given to me." Ryan pointed to the two hills facing A. Dov said, looking for Orlando in the crowd as he spoke.

When people have money, they inevitably want to show it off.

Ryan just wants to point to the nose of that blind bastard in Orlando, show him these two hills, and ask Orlando if he can come up with 130 billion Berry.

But today Ryan is destined to be disappointed. After Orlando found out that he was used as a gun by Caesar, it was too late to hide from Ryan. How dare he appear in Ryan's sight.

In fact, Ryan was also a little shocked when he first saw the money, especially when he thought that these Berries would be given away to others as soon as they were in his hands, he couldn't help but feel a burst of heartache.

Ryan is also a person who has seen the world. Many years ago, he escorted the heavenly gold that the empire handed over to the Tianlong people. The amount of the heavenly gold was much more than this number, but it was other people's money. Now these 130 billion beli It's your own, this feeling is completely different.

Tianshangjin is the protection fee that the member countries of the world government pay a part of their treasures to the Tianlongren, the "world nobles" every year.

This protection fee is compulsory. Countries that do not pay will not only be kicked out of the ranks of World Government joining countries, but will even secretly help surrounding joining countries to devour this country.

But of course, where there are people, there are privileges, privileges are everywhere, and many powerful countries have privileges.

For example, some weak and small countries are forced to pay the heavenly gold once a year, and those who do not pay and wait are often destroyed.

Some powerful countries, and even the world government in a certain area, have to rely on their influence, so the world government will be more lenient with them in order to win over them, and can even pay them once every three years.

The payment of Tianshangjin is generally one-third of the tax of the entire country, and of course it will increase a lot from time to time according to the requirements of the world government.

As for reduction?

It is impossible to reduce the reduction. The countries that made this request have basically been kicked out of the ranks of the franchise countries, and now they have all disappeared from the world map.

The yearly tax revenue of the Holy Caesar Empire is about 600 billion Berry, and the payment of heavenly gold is as high as 200 billion Berry, but the payment time is unique, once every ten years, which is a privilege given to the empire by strength.

The world government needs the empire to help them contain pirates in the new world, and even the world parliament held every five years, the empire has a high degree of say, and often the opinions put forward will be directly adopted.

This can be seen from the surnames of the royal family. In this world, apart from the Tianlong people, only the St. Cavendish family dares to add a holy word to their names, and they have not yet been punished by the world government.

"His Royal Highness Ryan is the hero of the empire. If you say that this is 130 billion Berry, then there must be 130 billion, but..., but..." Adolf didn't look at the two hills in front of him, but rubbed his hands carefully at Ryan with some embarrassment. Said.

"But what?" Looking at Adolf's expression, Ryan suddenly had an ominous premonition in his heart. "You said it, I will get angry if I hesitate again!"

"Your Highness Ryan, it's like this. Yesterday, the auctioneer of this fruit suddenly decided not to auction it, so he took this fruit away." Adolf swallowed, while secretly cursing those who pushed him out to take the blame The bastard said cautiously: "Your Highness, you also know that people in our business value the spirit of the contract the most, didn't you also pay the money at that time?
So even if this transaction is not established, we can't stop it if they insist on taking it away. Originally, we wanted to notify you in person later, so that you don't have to make a trip in vain. As a result, you can see that you came here early.

But don't worry, Your Highness, because it is the seller's fault, he has already paid 10 billion Berry liquidated damages, and I will send the 10 billion Berry to your house right now. "

Seeing Ryan's complexion getting worse and worse, Adolf became more and more confident.

Adolf can't do anything about it, this phantom beast devil fruit itself was auctioned by Caesar, but last night, Caesar ordered someone to take this fruit away, even if he was given ten guts, he would not dare to question it The dictator of the empire.

Offending Ryan would mean death at most. If he disobeyed the great emperor, his entire family would be buried with him.

And now that most of the great nobles of the empire are here, Ryan should... not kill him in front of so many people, right?
"What did you say? Who is it?

Who took my fruit? Ryan grabbed Adolf by the collar, lifted Adolf into the air and asked angrily.

All of Ryan's plans are based on the fact that he got this devil fruit, including his cooperation with Colin. Colin invested in Ryan who ate the devil fruit, not the current Saga. You can't defeat the fifth prince.

Without this devil fruit, all of Ryan's plans would be ruined.

In terms of strength, Caesar is the strongest combat power that has ever repelled Whitebeard, and he also has the bug fruit ability of the childlike fruit, and he also has the support of the four great dukes under his command.

In terms of prestige, Caesar has been the leader of the empire for more than 50 years. Even Ryan and Colin combined can't compare to him.

And just as soon as the war ended yesterday, Caesar ordered Ryan to be transferred back to the imperial capital. Now Ryan can no longer command the army in Stormwind City in name, and Ryan can't afford to bet on how many people will respond to him if he orders privately.

It is impossible for Caesar to abdicate voluntarily, so if you want to usurp the throne, you can only suppress Caesar with the power of thunder. As for the comments of others after the usurpation, after all, history is written by the victors. After taking this position, all the noise will disappear of.

However, if you want to suppress Caesar, the two brothers Ryan and Saga are not enough for now.

It is impossible to be too cautious in the face of the strongest combat force. If there is no way to end the battle in a short period of time, the reinforcements will be doomed to fail once the reinforcements reach the isolated and helpless Ryan and Saga.

And if there is no fruit that suits him best, it will take Ryan himself to break through this bottleneck. I don't know how many years it will take.

As for waiting for Saga to break through first, this is absolutely unacceptable to Ryan.

Now he and Ke Lin are cooperating, if Saga breaks through first, then their relationship is likely to change from cooperation to vassal.

The lessons of so many years of blood told Ryan that he must never trust anyone when he was born in the royal family, even his father was plotting against him, let alone him, the twelfth brother who had deceived everyone.

(End of this chapter)