Pirates on Rocks' Ship 996

According to the murals, the ancient moon people had wings. They came to Earth because of a lack of energy. What puzzled Reina the most was their method of arrival: they didn't travel in advanced spaceships, but rather by balloons…

Yes, judging from the messages on the murals, they came to Earth via balloons.

Besides the murals, there were also some words on them, but Reina couldn't understand them and didn't know what they said.

Before transmigrating, Reina had done some research on the world of One Piece, and the biggest secret was ONE PIECE itself. The final island should hold the answers to all the secrets.

This includes the Void Century, the meaning of the D Clan, and that vast kingdom that, though rarely mentioned, truly existed.

What role did the descendants of the moon people on the sky islands play after their ancestors, the moon people, came to Earth?

Looking at the murals on the wall, although they only depicted the reasons and process of the moon people coming to Earth, Reina had a feeling that he was about to learn something extraordinary.

After looking at all the murals, Reina walked to the middle of the small room, where there was a spiral staircase. It seemed that he could leave this place by going up the spiral staircase.

After going up the spiral staircase, you'll find yourself in another small room, but it's no longer pitch black. A huge chandelier hangs from the ceiling, illuminating the entire room.

The room was very empty. Apart from the chandelier overhead, there was nothing else in the room. There were no murals on the walls, only a half-open wooden door.

After opening the wooden door, there was another passage. Reina followed the passage and walked for a while. Suddenly, he heard some noise ahead in the passage.

“Olga… Dr. Assie… is that you?” Reina called out after listening carefully.

But no one responded except to his own echo, so Reina quickened his pace and continued onward.

After passing through the long passage, Reina arrived at an open space. The first thing that caught his eye was a high platform in the middle that resembled an altar. There was no obstruction above the platform, and the moonlight shone down, making it much brighter than the passage.

By the moonlight, Reina saw Olga and Dr. Asie lying on the ground.

"Olga! Dr. Assie!" Reina quickly stepped forward to check.

"Hiss~~ Is this electricity?" When he touched the two people, Reina felt his Black Emperor ability being passively triggered, absorbing a weak current of energy.

"Thank goodness they're just unconscious. What happened? Why were they knocked out by an electric shock?" After briefly checking on the two and finding that they had only been knocked out by an electric shock, Reina looked around but didn't find any machinery or wires that could release electricity.

"Ray...Rayna? Be...be careful!" Perhaps because Rayna absorbed the residual electric current in their bodies, the two of them slowly regained consciousness after a while.

"Olga! Are you alright? What happened to you?" Reina squatted down next to Olga and asked.

"I don't know either. My father and I were just about to go up and take a look when we were suddenly struck by an electric current and then passed out!" Olga said, shaking her head.

“It’s a magnetic field! That altar has an electric magnetic field, so we were attacked by electricity after we broke in. Reina, be careful, this place doesn’t seem ordinary!” Dr. Asie struggled to sit up and said.

“This place seems to have been built by the moon people; their technology is far more advanced than ours!” Reina nodded and said.

"A lunar person?" Dr. Assie was taken aback. He and Olga did not have any lighting equipment, so they did not see anything in the room where Reina found the mural. They had simply felt their way forward through the central spiral staircase and arrived here.

Reina nodded and described the murals he had seen, which surprised and intrigued Dr. Assie.

As a scientist, such a discovery would naturally pique my interest.

"You two rest here for a bit, I'll go upstairs and check on them!" Seeing that the two had begun to recover, Reina felt relieved.

"Be careful. The current above isn't fatal, but it's not weak either. It's best to look around and see if you can find any mechanism that disrupts the magnetic field!" As expected of a scientist, Assie immediately warned Reina.

Reina nodded and began to look around, but he didn't find anything suspicious.

"It seems the entire altar is a small magnetic field. To destroy the magnetic field, the altar must be destroyed!" Dr. Asie slowly got up, circled the altar, and said with a sigh.

"So, does that mean I have no choice but to force my way in?" Reina asked, frowning slightly.

“Something’s strange here, and I need more time to figure it out!” Dr. Asie demonstrated his professionalism when he said this.

However, what Reina was most afraid of wasting time was the worst thing he could do. If he couldn't get back to the pirate ship as soon as possible, his perfect attendance bonus for the month would be ruined. So he decided to try to force his way back.

After adjusting his state slightly, Reina began to walk up the stairs to the altar. Just as he was about to reach the top, the entire altar suddenly filled with electricity, illuminating the surroundings.

"Ugh..." The current that struck Reina was immediately absorbed by him, but the current did not disappear immediately. Instead, it continued to attack Reina. In less than ten seconds, Reina's energy absorption capacity was saturated. Helpless, he could only jump backward and leave the area of ​​the altar.

After he left, the electricity on the altar slowly disappeared.

Chapter 48 Launch Pad

Reina tried several times to get through the electric current to the center of the altar, but it was no use. The current was always there. Although he could release energy and absorb it at the same time, it was extremely tiring. So after a few attempts, Reina had to give up on his plan to force his way through.

Although this continuous attack had a significant effect on his training of Black Emperor Energy, his primary objective was to leave this place, so he did not continue.

"Found it!" Just when Reina was at a loss, Dr. Asie shouted excitedly.

"Have you found a way to control the current?" Reina, who had just finished absorbing the residual energy in his body, stood up from the ground and asked.

"Yes, this should be it!" Dr. Asie pointed to an inconspicuous protrusion below the altar and said, "Although this isn't exactly a control method, pressing this down should disrupt the magnetic field and thus eliminate the current!"

"I see. Shall we give it a try?" Reina didn't understand the principles of magnetic fields, but as a scientist, Reina trusted Assie very much.

“Alright, go up and try again! There should be no current anymore!” Dr. Asie moved the small protrusion under the altar a little and then said to Reina.

Reina nodded and walked toward the altar again. This time, no electricity appeared just as he was about to reach the top, and he successfully reached the top of the altar.

"But... how are we going to get out?" Looking at the grooves carved on the top of the altar that resembled wires, Reina had no idea what to do!

"Let me see!" Dr. Assie couldn't wait to run up after seeing that Reina had gone up smoothly.

"Wait... these are... I need to study them!" After reaching the altar, Dr. Asie immediately noticed the lines carved on the ground and then abandoned Reina to begin studying them.

"Ahem... well... that's how my father is when he's doing research. He doesn't pay attention to what's going on around him, which is why people misunderstood him back then!" Olga, who had followed behind her father, explained apologetically as she looked at him lying on the ground.

“That’s how focused people are, and only focused people can achieve success in their field. Dr. Assie’s invention of pure gold is not an accident, but a testament to his skill!” Reina praised with a smile.

Hearing Reina praise her father, Olga's slightly embarrassed face immediately lit up with pride; this was a father she could be proud of.

"So that's how it is... So that's how it is... It's truly a masterpiece of divine craftsmanship!" After a while, Dr. Asie stood up from the ground, looking at the lines and praising them endlessly.

"Doctor, have you figured it out?" Rainer asked immediately.

Assie shook her head and said, "Its principle is quite complex, and it certainly won't be possible to fully understand it in a short time!"

"Then what do we do? Are we going to be stuck here forever?" Olga asked, frowning.

"Ahem... I haven't figured that out yet, but getting out of here shouldn't be a problem!" Dr. Assie scratched his head and said with a smile.

"Huh?" Reina and Olga looked at Dr. Asie at the same time, completely puzzled.

"This should be a launch platform. It uses the current from the magnetic field to power the platform and then launches us out, so we can leave this place!" Dr. Assie explained.

"Launch...launch?" Olga looked at her father in surprise, as if asking if he was serious.

"Launch it? Like a cannon? How are we going to land it?" Reina asked, somewhat puzzled.

He himself should be fine. As long as the launch altitude isn't too high, the chances of him landing safely are very high. But Dr. Assie and Olga are not so sure.

"I don't know, I haven't tried it!" Dr. Assie shook his head and said.

"So do you know how to operate it? Since this thing is here, it proves that someone used it to leave this place before, so there shouldn't be any problems with us doing this!" After thinking for a moment, Reina said, "Or we can launch me first, and launch you guys after everything is fine!"

The main reason is that he needs to return to the pirate ship. Otherwise, it would be safest to stay here longer and let Dr. Asie continue his research.

"No, the current here is generated by a magnetic field, not by any power generation device, so the current generated won't be much! There should be a device storing the current under the altar. You absorbed too much current just now, which means the altar's energy can only be emitted once!" Dr. Asie shook his head and said.

"How long will it take to store the current for the next launch?" Reina asked, stroking his chin.

"I estimate it will take at least three months!"

"Huh? That long? No way, we can't stay here that long! Even if we don't starve, we'll die of boredom! Don't hesitate, Reina is right. Since this thing is here, it's definitely not meant for us to be launched and fall to our deaths!" Olga shook her head immediately upon hearing this.

“Alright then! You two stay close to me later!” Reina nodded and said.

"First, move this part aside a little, then I'll go down and restore the original position, and finally come back up and restore this part! The three of us need to stand in this circle, and once the energy is activated, it will launch us!" Dr. Asie said, pointing to a small raised dot on the ground.

Reina and Olga exchanged bewildered glances, neither of them understanding what Dr. Assie had said!

"So, we just need to stand here and not move, right?!" After thinking for a moment, Reina pointed to the circle on the ground and asked.

"You can understand it that way too!"

"Honestly, it would be so much better to just say it like this. Why make it so complicated? People simply won't understand!"

Once everything was ready, Dr. Assie restored the last protruding point, and instantly the entire altar lit up again, with countless currents surging wildly. Reina felt a force gathering beneath their feet.

Suddenly, he realized a very serious problem: when this energy acted on him and tried to launch him out, his Black Emperor ability would be passively activated and absorb the energy directly. So how could he go out like that?

However, at this moment, there was no time for him to absorb energy, so he had no choice but to desperately suppress his Black Emperor ability to prevent it from absorbing the force that was about to act on him.

This was the first time he had tried to suppress his abilities, and only at this moment did he realize that he was not yet proficient enough in mastering the Black Emperor's power.

"Zzz~~Zzz~~~~Boom!"

A surge of electricity passed through, and the energy circle beneath their feet suddenly erupted with powerful energy, sending the three flying.

Ah~~~~~~

"Ah~~~ Ah~~~"

"grass!!"

Three voices rang out simultaneously, and three figures were taken off from their original positions and soared into the sky.

Just now, Reina still couldn't suppress his Black Emperor ability. The moment that energy came into contact with him, he absorbed a portion of it. However, he also discovered that by passively activating the Black Emperor ability, he could only absorb about half of his maximum energy.

Moreover, because he was suppressing himself so hard, he didn't even absorb half of his limit just now; he only absorbed about a third of it.

Compared to that enormous energy, what Reina absorbed was insignificant.

"Ah~~ Ah~~ Ah~~~"

Compared to Olga, who kept screaming, Reina was much calmer. Although it was his first time flying and he was worried about how to land, he still had the mood to look at the scenery around him.

"So we were launched from a small hill in the middle of the island!" Seeing the hill beneath his feet, Reina finally realized where he was.

But they are flying higher and higher, without any sign of slowing down. If they fall from such a height, they will definitely not survive, let alone if they fall onto a small island, or even if they fall into the sea.

"Ray...Ray...Rayna, what should we do? I don't want to fall and die! That would be so ugly!" After the initial panic, Olga had stopped crying, but tears still clung to the corners of her eyes.

As for Dr. Assie... he had already passed out.

"Don't worry! Didn't you notice? There's a layer of electricity protecting us." Reina wasn't that worried; he was just wondering where they would end up if they continued flying like this.

"They... they wouldn't just fly all the way to the moon, would they?" Hearing Reina's words, and thinking about where they had been before, which was probably built by the moon people, it was very likely that this was a device someone else had built to return home!

"I... I don't think so!?" Reina was convinced that it was impossible to fly to the moon. After all, once you leave the atmosphere of Earth, you enter a vacuum in outer space, and it would be impossible for them to fly to the moon alive.

But when Reina thought about how the lunar people in the murals could reach Earth using balloons, he felt that nothing seemed impossible in this world.

"Rena...is our speed slowing down? We're not even on the moon yet!" After breaking through the clouds, Olga felt that her ascent speed had slowed down considerably, and looked at Rena with some confusion, asking.

"I guess there are three people, so they're probably short on energy! We should start descending in a bit!" Reina nodded and said calmly.