Pirates: Your Emperor is Back!

"What's the use of studying these? We're doomed."

— These are the words of Nicole Robin.

Of course, this endless sentence must not be her own meaning, but what the pattern engraved on the golden pillar beside her wants to express.

To be more precise, those patterns are the so-called "ancient characters", but no one in the Universal Alliance understood them before, so they were ignored.

It's just... Crocodile couldn't help being curious.

Others might ignore these details, but that old guy—that is, Ryan Rowan, with his domineering look, it is almost impossible to miss the details around him.

Why didn't even Lion Rowan discover this ancient text inscribed on the Golden Pillar?

Curious people gathered around.

When Crocodile actually saw the so-called "ancient text", the original confusion dissipated.

No matter how fine Ryan Rowan's domineering perception is, it is impossible to "care" about such a "pattern".

No, to say that it is a "pattern" is a bit too preconceived.

If you find someone at random, at first glance, the pattern on that golden pillar is no different from scribbling!

To use an analogy, no matter how concentrated a person is, it is impossible to notice an inexplicable "scratch" on the wall around him without prior preparation.

The ancient writing on that golden pillar is really too scribbled.

Even if everyone doesn't know the ancient characters, but just judging from the strokes, it's no different from the graffiti!

No wonder Ryan Rowan ignored it.

If you have to say that the text of that kind of randomness was drawn by the aftermath of the battle between Luo Wen and Enilo, there might not be many people who would not believe it.

Among the people present—or above this sea, only Nicole Robin, an archaeologist who has been studying ancient texts since she was a child, noticed this text engraved on the golden pillar!

And the above meaning is also puzzling——

"What's the use of studying these? We're doomed."

This is a rather incomprehensible sentence, and everyone can't figure out what the person who wrote this sentence means.

Crocodile frowned slightly, and asked in surprise: "Is there such a thing as 'font' in ancient texts?"

In fact, Crocodile had seen quite a few ancient characters. Although he couldn't figure out their meaning at all, the overall handwriting style was still neat and regular.

But the ancient writing that now appears on the golden pillars is clearly not the case.

Crocodile couldn't help wondering, could it be another font?

But Robin shook his head and denied, "No, it's just a 'scribbled' handwriting."

Robin's fingers caressed the gold pillar.

The nature of gold is quite stable, and there is no need to worry about weathering problems like stones, so Robin can touch it with his hands.

In this way, Robin came up with more useful intelligence.

"The handwriting on it...is very new."

"new?"

Crocodile raised his eyebrows, "You mean, besides the Universal Alliance, who else came to Sky Island recently and left ancient texts on this golden pillar?"

If this is the case, things will be more interesting.

But Robin's answer made Crocodile slightly disappointed.

"No, the 'new' I'm talking about doesn't mean the latest, but the 'new' relative to the age when ancient texts should exist."

Robin said slowly: "This text comes from about eight hundred years ago."

"Hehehe, that's already been long enough, about the same time as the establishment of the world government..."

When Crocodile said this, he suddenly stopped.

He turned his head and looked at Luo Wen, as if thinking of something.

[Golden Dawn] The era in which Ryan Rowan was active was eight hundred years ago!

And the time when the lost city of Shandora was active was also eight hundred years ago!

This is no longer just a coincidence.

In other words, someone who was almost contemporary with Rowan wrote this passage in extremely scribbled ancient characters on Sky Island—or Shandora’s golden pillar—

What is the use of studying these? We are doomed.

Crocodile touched his chin, wondering: "What is the person who wrote this sentence 'studying'?"

Shandora?

No, since it was written 800 years ago, it means that the person who wrote this passage was in the same era as Shandora, and might even be a member of Shandora!

So, is it the sea tower stone passage not far away?

It is possible that the Sea Tower Stone Passage was not necessarily created by the people of Shandora.

But Ryan Rowan on the side suddenly interjected, speculating: "Is it possible... is it the ancient text 'itself' that wrote this passage?"

"What?"

Both Robin and Crocodile were surprised by Rowan's speculation.

According to Luo Wen, the complete meaning of this passage should be—"What's the use of studying ancient characters? Anyway, we're doomed."

This is indeed a fluent sentence, but why?

Luo Wen saw the doubt in the eyes of the two, and explained slowly:

"The so-called 'ancient characters' are still 'ancient characters' even to people eight hundred years ago."

"The existence of ancient characters is much longer than we thought."

"Far beyond the mere 'eight hundred years'."

Luo Wen gently caressed the golden pillar in front of him with his hand.

"Eight hundred years ago, in the era of chaotic wars among nations, archaeologists were extremely rare, because there was no stable environment for scientific research."

"Even if there are archaeologists, they are all a group of down-and-out scholars with a serious lack of research materials."

"And among them, there are even fewer people who understand ancient characters."

"To be able to write this passage completely in such scribbled handwriting shows that the person who engraved this passage must have extremely high attainments in ancient writing."

As Rowan said.

It is actually not difficult to write a foreign language neatly. As long as you have a dictionary and patience, even a child can do it.

But if you want to scribble a paragraph, you must be proficient in this foreign language!

When Rowan said this, Crocodile probably had a guess.

"Hehehehe, so that's what happened..."

Crocodile lit a cigarette and analyzed: "Shandora was destroyed 800 years ago. At that time, it was the era when the sea nations were fighting for hegemony."

"Perhaps this Shandora archaeologist realized that the ancient texts he devoted his whole life to research were useless, and he could only watch Shandora fall. That's why he left this sentence?"

Such speculation is not unreasonable.

But Rowan shook his head again.

"No, maybe he didn't mean that."

Rowan was a person who experienced that era, and was even one of the most dazzling people in that era.

Therefore, he can almost be sure that Shandora, which was once so prosperous, did not "participate" in the melee among the nations!

If not, it would be impossible for Shandora, who was able to build such a huge city, to remain unknown.

There is only one possibility——

The "lose" in this passage does not refer to losing the hegemony war!

Rather... some other existence.

And this "existence" is the direct reason why Shandora did not participate in the melee among the nations!

It may even be the root cause of Shandora's complete destruction eight hundred years ago!

Luo Wen's eyes turned, looked at the Hailou Stone Passage not far away, and murmured:

"Whether it's the arsenal in Beihai, ancient weapons, or Shandora now..."

"What are they fighting against?"