After slicing Birka into two, the 4 returned to Skypeia, and what welcomed them was an all-out fight between the Skypeians and Shandians.
"Why are these winged people fighting?" Stussy asked.
"They are fighting because of this land; land here in sky islands is the most valuable thing," Raeven said.
"Big bro is right; we call it Vearth here. It's the most valuable resource in every sky island," Enel said.
They ignored the fight, and they just headed towards the ruins of the city of gold. When they saw it, they became speechless. This amount of gold is massive. Raeven summoned the ninjas to hurriedly dig up all the gold that they can. The four of them are not exempted either, so all of them started to dig out the gold on this land.
Just like that a month passed. Mihawk was bored already, so he came back to Sixis Island with Enel and Stussy, leaving the Ninja Khans and Raeven on the ruins of Shandora. At the same time, the fight between the two tribes began to calm down, so Raeven always used his Observation Haki to detect anyone coming close to him. It took him 3 months to mine 1/4th of the city, and he stopped; he can always mine in the future. He climbed the giant beanstalk and saw the golden bell. When he saw the poneglyph under it, he wrote words saying, "The Dracule Family came here. This massive golden bell looks good. Try to ring it, Roger."
After that, he left the sky island and headed back to Sixis Island. When he returned, Shakky had already left. When the trio arrived, Mihawk gave her a barrel of the promised specially brewed aged wine.
April 22, 1498
After thinking of the things here in the Blue Sea, he became enlightened, and he already knew his strength. Right now he is in the so-called weakest sea, but the rest of the world didn't know that here is the base of their family, and in this weakest sea he is the weakest on this island. The Amazons destroyed him in a spar, so after 3 months of intense reading and rehabilitation so his body will become healthy again, finally he can start training, and he's even lucky because Raeven returned on this day. After all, he can't miss Stussy's birthday.
When he returned, the 4 of them quickly melted the gold and turned it into gold bars. Kozaburo made a specialized mold for this that has their family crest, the reaper holding a sword on it, and the value of the gold they mined reached approximately 900 billion bellies.
When Stussy heard that, she became numb; Mihawk and Enel started to think about how much booze their brother can make with that money, while Raeven began fantasizing about air-cooled and heated rooms.
The next day they hurriedly contacted Vegapunk to ask for the price of an air cooler, a room heater, and an elevator. After measurements, the price was just 200 million, and the whole Dracule Tower will be renovated. Sadly, Vegapunk said that he is currently very busy because of work, so he can only do this project after 4 years. Either way, Raeven already paid because he knows that in the future that amount will double or even triple as inflation comes into this world.
Saving gold right now and other valuable minerals is the right thing. After Stussy's birthday, Mihawk left the island to continue his journey, while Raeven finally remembered to sign in on his system. The system reward this year is a storage ring; inside it is a massive 20,000-tonne solid gold cube the size of a poneglyph. When Stussy saw this, she nearly fainted again. They stored it inside the treasury of the castle; this is the safest place they know, as only a person acknowledged by Raeven himself can enter here.
After that the hellish training of everyone began. Raeven trained with them too, but his training intensity was too much for them. After a while news about the clash of the Whitebeard and Roger pirates was all over the news, and months later a visitor arrived on the island.
"Whahahahaha, Raeven, you cheeky brat, we come to visit you!" Roger's loud voice can be heard across the shore of Sixis Island.
"You don't have to shout, you know, Roger-san," Raeven said as he welcomed the Roger pirates.
"You tricked me there. I rang the bell, and the fight between the Shandians and the Skypeians stopped. I didn't know that you can read the ancient texts too," Roger said. He didn't know that there was a war happening there, so he didn't bother ringing the bell, but when Oden saw the new writings on the poneglyph, he rang it, and the war stopped.
"So you are Dracule Raeven. Come and fight me!!" As usual, Oden charged forward when he identified who was called Raeven that he usually heard in the ship.
"Wait, Oden, don't." Rayleigh tried to stop him, but it was too late. What happened was a deja vu; just like when he first met Roger, he was blasted by a flying slash covered with conqueror's haki.
"Whahahahaha, I knew it; that bastard Garp had a rough time with you," Roger said. On the way here, they met Garp while the man was out on a vacation, and after a fight, Garp told Roger about Raeven's overwhelming Conqueror's Haki.
"That man just didn't want his men to become collateral damage, so he let me go," Raeven said, and after a while Oden recovered, and a banquet began to celebrate their visit here.
While the banquet was happening, Raeven introduced Enel to the Roger pirates, whom he quickly got along well with. Roger introduced the new additions to his crew too, Oden and Toki, with their son Momonosuke, and their two retainers from Zou named Inuarashi and Nekomamushi. The kids and Toki drank some juice because they are not 15 yet, and Toki can't drink any booze because she is pregnant.
When Raeven took out his prized booze to drink, the whole Roger Pirates became excited; after all, even with money you can't buy this kind of booze. Only this young man in front of them can make it.
"Everyone, don't be shy; we're all friends here, and as the host, I should prepare the best, right? Cheers!" Raeven said as the party raged on. Shanks, Buggy, and Enel on the side were given a shot glass to taste the booze; with one shot of gin, they became red and dropped on the ground. They are too weak to drink it, which made everyone laugh.
"The first one to fall among us is a sissy." No one knows who said that, but everyone didn't want to become a sissy, and as the dawn came, no one knew who fell first, but when Raeven woke up, he was already lying on a bed. Beside him were Oden and Roger. He stood up to stretch his limbs, and after that, he headed to the kitchen, where he saw Toki and Stussy cooking breakfast for everyone.
He greeted them with "good morning," and after that, he took a shower and changed his clothes. When he returned to the kitchen, it was already rowdy; everyone was waiting for the food to be served. When the last plate was placed on the table, the breakfast began.
It's afternoon when the Roger Pirates bid farewell; they said that they will visit again once they finish circling the whole world. Raeven, Stussy, and Enel waved them goodbye.
The next day peace returned to Sixis Island, and the training continued. The Kuja Pirates trainees here are already showing signs of using Armament and Observation Haki. Stussy has already mastered Kami-e and Soru; she is proficient in using her Observation Haki, but sadly she can't use Armament Haki yet as her psyche is still weak. Maybe another year of training and eating well, and then she can finally use it.
While Raeven was busy watering his farm and trees, Stussy came to him while holding his den den mushi; it was Shakky who was calling.
"Raeven-chan another batch of trainees will arrive at your island in a month, they are being escorted by Gloriosa-san, as for the trainees that you deem worthy of graduation you can talk to Gloriosa-san about it" Shakky said and Raeven said okay and he ended the call, because right now no one among the trainees are worthy to graduate maybe in another year they can graduate after they mastered at least four Rokushiki skill and learn basic armament and observation haki if they can't master those things then they can forget about graduating, after two years if they can't learn Rokushiki or Haki the members of Kuja pirates will took them and they will be residents of Amazon Lily, they can forget sailing the only thing they will do there is to guard the island and do some small things