After making a pact to fight Bullet, Aphelandra successfully took his heart.
Next, Karl assisted Aphelandra to speed up the process of taking hearts.
While they were taking the hearts, the surveillance in the Infinite Hell disappeared, and the elevators and staircase entrances were sealed, causing a huge commotion in Impel Down.
Magellan, who had learned of this, endured the discomfort of his diarrhea and was about to lead his subordinates to break through the obstruction to the Infinite Hell.
However, at this moment, Magellan received news of a Warlord invading Impel Down, and his face became even uglier.
But between the Infinite Hell and the Warlord, Magellan prioritized dealing with the Infinite Hell.
Although the Warlord was troublesome, compared to the monsters in the Infinite Hell, he was not worth mentioning.
If those major criminals were to escape, in its weakest period, not even he, the warden, could suppress them.
But...
Just as Magellan was preparing to use his Venom Demon to create a passage to the Infinite Hell with a stronger version of his poison.
The vice-warden, Hannyabal, who had been sent to stop Blackbeard, and several of the chief guards, had not been able to stop the Blackbeard Pirates from breaking through the entrance to the Infinite Hell.
After seeing Blackbeard appear, Magellan could only temporarily stop the corrosion of the poison and turn to attack the Blackbeard Pirates.
Seeing Magellan corroding the stone wall, Blackbeard, who realized that someone had beaten him to it, did not get careless and instantly defeated like in the original story.
He decisively used the ability of the Dark-Dark Fruit to absorb Magellan's venom, and then ganged up on Magellan with his companions.
Inadvertently, Blackbeard had bought Karl some time.
At this time, in the Infinite Hell, Karl had also finished taking all the hearts.
During this period, Karl also met one of the legends of the old era, "Red Count" Patrick Redfield, who had stood on equal footing with the three legends by himself.
As a super-powerhouse with the rare natural Observation Haki, which was even rarer than Conqueror's Haki, the Red Count's current strength, although severely weakened by old age.
But his pinnacle-level swordsmanship and Haki were still an existence that surpassed the monsters of the New World.
He and Bullet were both super monsters in the Infinite Hell.
Besides the Red Count, Karl also met the former chief guard who had been imprisoned in the Infinite Hell because of his bloodlust and frequent killing of prisoners—Shiliew of the Rain.
Facing the powerful, monster-like Karl, Shiliew of the Rain was also very cooperative when Aphelandra was taking his heart, without any resistance.
Besides these super monsters and powerhouses, Karl also met monsters from his past life that he had some impression of, or no impression at all, but who exuded a powerful aura.
Like the Red Count and Shiliew of the Rain, these monsters all cooperated with Aphelandra and exchanged their hearts for freedom.
The number of major criminals in the Infinite Hell was more than Karl had imagined.
Just with the things to hold the hearts, Nami had dismantled two cells and created several giant stone coffins.
After taking the hearts of all the major criminals and marking their numbers and names.
Marguerite opened the air door, and Karl gave Nami a look.
Nami took out a golden ball the size of a head from the backpack she was carrying.
Without any visible action, the golden ball liquefied and formed a handful of golden keys that flew into the cells.
After pushing Jinbe into the air door, Karl said to these major criminals, who were slightly stunned by this scene, with a playful smile, "I've given you the things to regain your freedom."
"I will not take you away, because next is the time to show your value."
"A reminder, Magellan is on the level above, fighting a powerful enemy."
"The entire great undersea prison is now in a state of chaos."
"The Marines will not send reinforcements. Now is Impel Down's weakest moment."
"If you can't escape from here, then it means you're not that great."
"A weak fellow doesn't even have the qualification to do things for me."
"A heart that has stopped beating, I will throw it away directly."
"I will be waiting outside for the world-shaking good news."
"When I need to use you, I will contact you through the World Economic Journal."
"Then, good luck!"
After finishing, under the gazes of a crowd full of anger, Karl took Nami and Aphelandra and walked into the different dimension.
Marguerite then closed the air door.
"That stinking brat, under that polite exterior, he's actually hiding a look-down-on-everything arrogance..."
Crocodile curled his lip and revealed a ferocious smile, "But now, he does have the look of a fifth Emperor of the Sea."
Boom—!
Bullet, on the other hand, wasted no words. After using the golden key to open his Seastone shackles.
He casually threw the golden key aside, transformed into a giant afterimage, and crashed into the ceiling of the Infinite Hell.
A strength that even time could not weaken, but had instead enhanced, directly broke through the ceiling of the Infinite Hell.
Or rather, the ceiling took the initiative to make way for Bullet.
The Clank-Clank Fruit could arrange and combine all objects.
Like the Float-Float Fruit, anything touched by the Clank-Clank Fruit would be liquefied and fused.
A mere ceiling of the Infinite Hell could not stop Bullet.
Seeing Bullet make the first move, Crocodile was not to be outdone and transformed into yellow sand and flew up. Using the most powerful corrosion ability of the Sand-Sand Fruit, he turned the ceiling into yellow sand, creating a large hole leading to the level above.
As Bullet's former rival, Crocodile had his pride and would absolutely not go through the passage that the other had made.
"It's good to be young!"
Seeing this, the Red Count, who had undone his shackles, had a look of envy in his eyes.
Immediately after, the Red Count's figure also disappeared out of thin air.
He did not make a passage, but followed behind Bullet.
He now needed a long time to recover to his strongest state at this age.
After the three monsters left, the major criminals who had undone their shackles one after another also began to act with their own schemes.
Karl had only taken control of their lives; he had not restrained their freedom, nor had he forced them to be his subordinates.
In other words, besides not being able to offend Karl, and having to help Karl do one thing when necessary, they were all free.
With freedom, they could do whatever they wanted.
But before that, they had to defeat that poison-user and escape from this great undersea prison.
But now, their strength was at its weakest.
Defeating that poison-user would not be an easy matter.
So, many people immediately thought of joining forces.
Or, with other thoughts, they acted alone, and so on...
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