Pirates: Your Emperor is Back!

Ever since Rowan landed on Sky Island, he has been thinking about one thing——

The "Golden City" Shandora, according to records, was a city that was once brilliant.

Its glorious period, about 800 years ago, was almost parallel to the strong period of the Alabasta Empire!

But what makes Rowan feel strange is that he has never heard of the name of the city of Shandora.

It stands to reason that even eight hundred years ago, gold, a precious metal, was a hard currency among countries, and Shandora, who possesses a large amount of gold, should not be unknown.

Originally, Luo Wen didn't care about this, and only thought that the trajectory of history was a little bit fanned by butterflies, but now it seems that this is not the case eight hundred years later.

Shandora still exists, and it still leaves the legend of the Golden Land to future generations.

That being the case, why was Shandora not active eight hundred years ago?

Did you choose to lock the country to avoid war?

Or have nothing but a lot of gold and extremely weak military capabilities?

Or, have other goals than sea hegemony?

According to Rowan's currently known information:

About 400 years ago, Apayado had not yet been sprayed into the sky by the soaring currents, and it was still part of Gaya Island.

At that time, the explorer Rolando led his crew to land on Gaya Island, and found that there lived a group of people who valued fighting and honor above all else.

Their fighting power is astonishing, and they can even hunt sea kings, but their living environment is quite simple, and their culture is also very primitive.

Even when an infectious disease spreads, they will not choose to heal, but sacrifice living people to the mountain gods to pray for the protection of the gods.

This situation did not gradually improve until Rolando established a deep friendship with the then "big warrior" Calgara.

Judging from the situation at the time, this group of aborigines whose social structure was similar to "tribes" was absolutely unable to build such a magnificent city.

Even if there may be cultural inheritance due to war, it will not cause a huge civilization to decline to this point.

What exactly happened on Shandora?

The historical text that records the information of the ancient weapon "Sea King" is here.

Eight hundred years ago, the world government...

Is it because of that blank hundred years?

Neferutari, you bastard, what did you find again?

...

The domineering look spread, and countless tiny gravels spread in this lost city.

The gravel gathered and became people wearing traditional Alabasta costumes one after another.

Under Rowan's control, they lived in Shandora as if they were real people, recreating this golden city eight hundred years ago.

Consciousness spread in Shandora, and Rowan tried to use exhaustive elimination to find clues hidden in Shandora.

In the market, vendors are shouting, reasonable;

In the square, children are playing and playing, reasonable;

On the street, people come and go, reasonable;

In the basement of a high tower, there is a staircase leading to a deeper downward...

Rowan narrowed his eyes.

He repeated the deduction hundreds of times, but he still couldn't find the "reasonable" usage of the staircase.

Therefore, unreasonable.

...

Gan Foer and others arrived in due course.

"What is buried under Shandora?"

"Or, is Shandora built on 'what'?"

Facing Rowan's question, Gan Fall also fell into confusion for a while.

For Sky Islanders, the soil "Bass" is extremely precious and sacred, and Apayado is even more sacred and inviolable as the "Island of the Gods".

Ordinary sky island residents are not qualified to set foot on Apayado, and the previous "gods" who live on it will not be idle and try to excavate this island.

Ever since, Gan Fall was unable to answer Rowan's question.

Crocodile on the side seemed a little puzzled when he saw this.

"Why is it so troublesome, your knowledgeable domineering can't be displayed?"

Rowan pointed to a direction, which was the square in front of the tower.

"Stand over there and try."

Crocodile then turned into a cloud of sandstorm and came to the place pointed by Rowan.

He shrugged his shoulders with a cigar in his mouth, "I'm here, so what..."

Before finishing speaking, Crocodile's expression froze suddenly.

With an unbelievable face, he looked down and stomped his feet.

Not long after, a gloomy smile appeared on Crocodile's face.

"Hehehe, it's really interesting."

Several curious people also rushed over, including Gan Fall, Harb, Dalton, Bell and others.

But the reactions of these people were different.

Gan Fall and Hobb looked bewildered, not knowing what Crocodile was talking about, while Dalton and Hobb looked weird.

The two of them suddenly felt a slight... powerlessness?

That's right, it's like when half of your body is soaked in sea water. Although you won't drown, you still can't use your strength.

Dalton frowned and asked puzzledly, "What's here?"

Crocodile took a puff on his cigar and answered his question.

"Sea Tower Stone."

Crocodile stomped his feet, "It's just below us, and it's a huge amount of Hailou Stone!"

After he finished speaking, he lit his cigarette, thinking that he would be waiting for the exclamation of everyone, but when he turned his head to look, he found that those people were all looking at him, waiting for the next sentence.

Crocodile: "..."

Trouble is dead, this group of guys in the first half of the great route really have no knowledge at all!

He tried to explain, but after understanding what the Hailou Stone was and how scarce that kind of stone was, the initial exclamation was only a few exclamations.

Crocodile: "..."

accurate.

...

Luo Wen led the large troops to this side as well.

Gan Fall stepped forward, intending to learn more about the Universal Alliance, but Rowan shook his head.

"Old knight, wait a moment."

Gan Fuer clearly saw that the eyes of this strong man in Qinghai, who was under a strong sense of oppression, were shining like a boy with excitement at this moment.

Rowan stepped into the high tower and walked to the basement.

The crowd followed closely behind.

Most people just expressed their admiration at the ruins of Shandora, but those devil fruit capable users in the team felt a sense of powerlessness at this moment.

Crocodile disliked this passive feeling.

According to the induction of the territory, Rowan soon found out about a secret door in the basement.

It was inevitable that unnecessary information would be leaked, and all the idlers had retreated, leaving only the elite combat power of the Universal Alliance and Gan Fall himself.

"I'll drive."

Dalton was about to make a move, but was stopped by Rowan's hand.

It is related to Hailoushi. For a devil fruit capable person, it is too dangerous to open the door at will.

A pitch-black gravel guard slowly took shape, but what he held in his hand was not the usual spear, but a sharp blade wrapped in armed color and arrogance.

Swish!

In an instant, the sharp knife slashed across, splitting the bricks blocking the secret door into countless pieces.

After that, there is a dark passage.

"Black", there are two reasons.

First, because there is no light underground itself.

Second, it is because the material of that corridor itself is black.

——The blackness of Hailou Stone.

...

"A sea-floor stone corridor?"

Crocodile squinted his eyes, he never thought that under the massive amount of gold, there are such a large number of Hailou stones!

Knowledgeable and domineering went deep into it, but it was impossible to probe into the depths of this corridor.

That's a way--

A dead end for those with devil fruit abilities!