Pirates: Trainer on the Straw Hat Ship.

Chapter 525 Everyone Goes to Elbaf
"Sir Moria, this is the ruins of the castle."

"However, since King Harald died, this place has been abandoned for many years. Elder Yalulu also led people to collect some items here and transported them to various villages in the Yang Realm."

"I wonder if there is anything else here that you are looking for."

A giant warrior who was originally responsible for guarding Loki was watching Loki behind Moria vigilantly, while reporting to Moria the information he knew.

"Hmm~"

Moria, who had been nodding and fawning in front of Chihong, now exuded the majesty of a superior.

He waved his hand calmly.

"Got it. There's nothing for you to do here anymore. You can go back first."

"...Yes, Lord Moria."

The giant warrior hesitated again and again, his eyes flickering rapidly, but in the end, he did not say anything like asking Moria to be careful of Loki behind him. He bowed slightly and left the castle area.

After the giant warriors left, Moriah turned his head slightly and looked at Loki beside him with a faint smile on his face.

"Okay, Loki. There are no strangers here. Where is the secret room you mentioned that only the royal family knows about?"

"If there really is a method in there that can allow people to enter the heaven, then you have done a great deed. I will definitely help you speak well of you in front of the masters of the Straw Hat!"

"You are such a powerful guy, are you really willing to be someone else's subordinate?"

Loki glanced at Moriah in confusion.

At this time, a week has passed since the end of the Elbaf Arena.

Under Moria's arrangement, Elbaf gradually accepted his new identity.

Various departments from the Straw Hat Grand Fleet have also begun to get busy in Elbaf, recording everything here and transferring it into the database for easy deployment by other departments when needed.

The "little people" who were rarely seen in Elbaf in the past are now everywhere on the island, and they can be seen on every branch of the World Tree.

"Haha~"

Hearing Loki's puzzled question, Moria first chuckled softly, and then did not give a direct answer:
"Once you have truly seen the masters of the Straw Hat Pirates, you will know what it means to truly be in a narrow-minded position."

"Okay, let's not waste time here. Where is the secret room you mentioned?"

"The more you say that, the more curious I become."

Loki stretched out his long tongue and licked his lips evilly, then stepped forward and took Moria towards the depths of the castle ruins.

The two turned left and right and soon came to a narrow, dark corridor.

Of course, when I say it is narrow, I am actually referring to Loki.

Loki, who has the bloodline of ancient giants, is naturally taller than other giants.

If he wanted to enter this corridor, he had to crawl on the ground.

But for Moria, whose 7-meter body is already tall enough for ordinary humans, he can move freely in this corridor, which even seems a little empty!
The two of them walked down along this corridor for more than an hour before the space suddenly became clear.

Moria waved his hand, and a ghostly fire with a dark green light instantly flew out from his body, quickly illuminating the entire area.

In an instant, a huge strange machine suddenly appeared in front of them.

"This is!?"

Moria's eyes flashed, and his gaze swept around.

"If my sense of direction is correct, we should be in the central area of ​​the World Tree between the Underworld and the Yang World?"

"what."

Loki, who was following Moria, also crawled in in a panic. He first stood up and shook off the dust on his body, then raised his head and looked around.

Looking at the huge unknown machine in front of him and the murals on the surrounding walls, the corners of Loki's mouth suddenly raised.

"It seems that my father the king is really hiding his true identity!"

"If my guess is correct, that thing should be the machine mentioned in the literature that can be used to control the sun stone to create dreams, right?"

Loki pointed at the huge machine in front of him and said doubtfully:

"This is strange. Given the customs and habits handed down in Elbaf, no one should be able to make such a sophisticated device, right?"

"And judging from the appearance of this workbench, it doesn't seem to be prepared for the giants."

"It should be the masterpiece of extraterrestrial life, right?"

At this moment, Moria, who had walked around the entire space, turned back and gave Loki a mysterious smile.

"Extraterrestrial life? What does that mean?" Loki was stunned.

Although he had considerable knowledge as the Prince of Elbaf, this was the first time he had heard of extraterrestrial life.

"look here."

At this time, Moria used the will-o'-the-wisp to suddenly illuminate a wall and motioned Loki to look.

I saw that on the wall full of ancient atmosphere, there was a series of murals, as if telling something.

Loki was stunned, and Moria explained to him based on the contents of the mural:
"If the murals here record what really happened in history, it seems that a long time ago, a group of extraterrestrial life came from outside the planet and landed on the top of the World Tree."

Call ~
The dark firelight swayed slightly, illuminating a scene of a little winged man riding a strange device and landing on a towering tree.

If Chihong appeared here at this moment, he would be surprised to find that the painting style of these murals was so similar to the ones he saw on the moon at that time!

Moriah also took the opportunity to direct Loki's attention to the next scene.

Above, I saw a group of little winged people holding spears, fighting against a group of monsters with sharp horns and bared fangs and claws.

The scene changes.

The fighting between the two sides stopped under the mediation of a giant humanoid creature without horns. The two sides became acquainted with each other after the fight and soon shook hands and made peace.

Afterwards, the winged men settled at the top of the World Tree for a while, but as time went by, the winged men, who seemed to be different from each other, were divided into three groups according to their respective characteristics.

They chose to follow the World Tree to the continent and headed far away.

The other party followed the island clouds in the sky and walked towards an unknown place.

Only one party still remained at the top of the World Tree, conducting some kind of transaction with the giants.

But the good times didn't last long, and the world seemed to be abnormal again.

The entire World Tree shook violently.

"Huh!? Why did it break here!?"

Moriah looked at the wall that was suddenly smashed by a huge fist, and a look of anger suddenly flashed across his face.

This feeling of looking at something halfway and suddenly it’s gone is really infuriating!
Judging from the size of the fist, the person who destroyed the mural was probably a pure-blooded ancient giant who was much larger than Loki.

“Does it stop here?”

Loki, who was watching the mural with Moria, was stunned. He didn't care about this world and only wanted to destroy it, but now he showed a trace of regret.

"The history of this world seems to be more interesting than we imagined."

Moria, who had just learned about the existence of extraterrestrial life not long ago, sighed sincerely while using his personal terminal to take pictures of the contents of the murals one by one and uploaded them to the red chat box. Then he fixed his eyes on the middle mural.

"I've been concerned about this since the beginning..."

"Loki, these winged creatures in this mural didn't leave the World Tree by boat or other means of transportation, right!?"

"what……"

Loki responded in a deep voice, guessing what Moria wanted to say:
"If these winged creatures aren't walking on water, then they must have left Elbaf openly on the land!"

"As expected!" A hint of understanding flashed in Moria's eyes. "Vegapunk's guess is correct! In the ancient times, this world should have more land than ocean. However, for some unknown reason, the sea level inexplicably rose and swallowed up the continent."

"The content on this mural is the best evidence!"

“…………”Loki fell silent.

As someone who had hardly ever been to Elbaf, he couldn't understand how shocking this news was to the world.

Moria, who didn't get a response, didn't feel bored. He suddenly closed his personal terminal, then smiled and murmured:

“This is the charm of history~”

Moria, who has always only cared about power, felt the urge to get to know this world for the first time today.

……

……

a few days later.

The situation reported by Moria attracted Chihong's high attention.

He even took time out of his busy schedule to personally escort Vegapunk and his team to Elbaf in secret.

After some investigation by Vegapunk, he finally confirmed that the huge device did have the power to control the Sunstone.

However, the design of the machine was too old, and due to the knowledge gap, even though he was the smartest man in the world, he was unable to figure out how the machine worked.

Just like he still couldn't figure out the internal structure of the ancient robot Emmett.

There are still many things in this world that even Vegapunk finds difficult to understand.

Ancient robots are one, and this strange machine is another.

However, this also made Vegapunk more certain that in the ancient times, the people or rulers at that time definitely possessed technology and power far beyond what they have now.

The fact that such a powerful technological force can be completely disappeared is enough to show that there is definitely another force in this world that is interfering with the occurrence of some things.

At least in the discussion between Vegapunk and Red, they all agreed that with the power currently displayed by the World Government, they were not worthy of doing such a thing.

In the end, the discussion was fruitless and Red could only return to Elbaf with doubts.

And that secret room just happened to be the best location for Vegapunk to build a scientific research base.

This may be just an ordinary small house for the giants, but for ordinary humans, it is too big.

But this is Elbaf, everything is so huge.

The passage outside, which forces even giants to crawl forward, just adds a bit of concealment to this place.

Anyway, there is no possibility of any human coming to this place. As long as there are no mischievous giants coming in, no one will disturb Vegapunk's research.

After handing over Vegapunk and the construction of the research institute to Moriah, Red returned to the Pokémon Sea again.

With continuous practice, the levels of the companions are slowly improving.

He is almost achieving his first small goal of having all his members at the general level.

Currently, only Uta is still hovering at level 50.

However, her strategic significance is far greater than her actual combat power, so it doesn't matter if her level is slightly lower.

On the contrary, the levels of Luffy, Zoro and Sanji, the three strongest fighters of the Straw Hat Pirates, are now showing a feeling of reaching a bottleneck as their levels increase.

At this time, Red missed the setting that could use magic candy to directly increase the level of Pokémon.

It’s a pity that due to unknown rules, after Luffy and his friends reached level 50, the magic candy no longer had the ability to [increase one level] for them. It was just that after eating the magic candy, their attributes could be improved to a certain extent.

And when the attribute reaches a certain value, the effect of this improvement will be pitifully small.

Nowadays, even if Luffy and his friends eat a hundred magical candies, there will not be any obvious improvement.

So now the item "Magic Candy" has been treated by Red as something like good medicine, and is used as a reward for the guys in the Straw Hat Grand Fleet.

After returning to the Pokémon Sea, Red quickly returned to his machine-like life again, and continued to kill in the Pokémon world with his companions.

Time passes slowly.

In the blink of an eye, two months passed.

Half of the time has passed since the six-month agreement made by the Straw Hat Pirates.

On this day, Chihong had breakfast as usual and was preparing to continue pulling his companions into the world according to the names on the schedule.

Just at this moment, the screen of the personal terminal that had not rang for a long time suddenly lit up, and Uta's beautiful singing voice rang out.

"Ok?"

Chihong was stunned for a moment, but still subconsciously answered the voice call request.

The next second, Moria's excited voice suddenly came from the personal terminal.

"Master Red!!! Dr. Vegapunk…"

“He succeeded!!!”

"What!?"

Chihong suddenly became excited and asked quickly:
"What do you mean by success... Vegapunk has created a device that can enter the heavens!?"

"That's right!!!"

Moriah was filled with emotion as he thought about what would happen in the future:
"But Dr. Vegapunk said that the current device is not suitable for everyone."

"So the doctor hopes that you can bring all the other adults of the Straw Hat Pirates here to select the most suitable candidate to enter the heaven."

"Is that so...Okay, I got it! We'll be there soon!"

Since this concerns the final secret of this world, Chihong couldn't help but laugh excitedly.

Snapped!
After hanging up the phone, Chihong suddenly snapped his fingers.

A pretty figure suddenly appeared beside him.

"Red, what's wrong!?"

As her level increased, Meili, who had become as graceful as an 18-year-old girl, appeared beside Chihong.

And Chihong grinned:
"Merry, go inform everyone."

"We are about to set sail!!!"

(End of this chapter)