Pirates on Rocks' Ship 996

"Not a real treasure?" Robin's heart skipped a beat. She had also felt something was off. These gold and treasures might be priceless to them, but to an ancient, great kingdom, they shouldn't be considered treasures. Although this place wasn't the ruins of a great kingdom, but merely a vassal kingdom, it still shouldn't be like this.

Upon hearing Reina's words, Robin also began searching around to see if he had missed any clues.

While Reina was searching for clues and collecting treasure, Luffy was engaged in a fierce battle with a giant skeleton, and the entire Golden Palace trembled as they fought.

Chapter 1182 The Hidden Door

While Luffy was fighting the giant skeleton, the Naga, Shirahoshi, and the fish-man warriors who had retreated earlier also encountered trouble.

When they entered the Golden Palace earlier, Reina was worried that the statues would come back to life, but after they all went in, there was no sign of the statues coming back to life.

But at this moment, the statues had already blocked the way for the Naga and their companions.

"Sister-in-law Naga, what do we do now?" Bai Xing asked nervously.

Despite having experienced numerous wars, Shirahoshi still felt somewhat afraid when facing the enemy.

"You protect the princess, I'll go and test it first!" Naga didn't let the merfolk warriors go forward, but instead planned to test the strength of these statues herself.

But before she could get close, a soldier from the Neptune Army attacked the statue first.

"boom!"

"Pfft!"

With just two moves, the Sea King's soldiers fell to the ground, while the golden statue continued to surround Naga and the others with an expressionless face.

Naga, her face ashen, knew that with just a few of them, they would not be able to break through the barrier of these statues, so she had no choice but to lead Bai Xing and the others slowly back toward the Golden Palace.

Fortunately, the statues did not seem to dare to approach the Golden Palace. After forcing the Naga into the palace, they stood still and stopped pursuing.

Reina and Robin, who were searching for clues, were somewhat surprised to find Naga and the others had returned.

“Didn’t I tell you to leave first?” Reina asked, frowning.

"Mr. Reina, the golden statue outside has come back to life, we can't leave!" Naga said helplessly.

"Alright, then you guys help search around and see if there are any traps or mechanisms here. I suspect these treasures aren't the real treasure!" By this time, Reina had almost finished collecting the treasures, but he didn't immediately go to help Luffy.

Firstly, this is Luffy's battle, and he doesn't want to get involved.

Secondly, Luffy's role was originally to help him restrain the giant skeleton; his main goal now is to find the real treasure.

"Oh!"

"Boom!"

No sooner had Reina finished speaking than Luffy exchanged a punch with the giant skeleton. Even in Gear Third Giant Mode, Luffy was still sent flying by the punch, crashing into the wall of the Golden Palace before finally stopping.

The giant skeleton was also knocked down by the impact of Luffy's punch and fell directly to the ground.

"Cough cough cough... What a troublesome guy!" Luffy slowly got up and wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth.

At this point, he had already turned into a tiny version of himself; this was the backlash from the third gear.

However, with his current strength, this backlash won't last long, and he'll recover quickly.

"Freezing for thousands of miles!" But Reina did not stand idly by any longer. With the addition of Naga and the others, more people were searching for the mechanism, which was a good opportunity for him to take action against the skeleton.

As Reina's slash struck the fallen giant skeleton, the skeleton's body began to slowly freeze.

"Everyone split up and search for the mechanism! I can't keep him frozen for too long!" Reina shouted when he saw this.

Robin took the opportunity to run directly towards the golden throne, as it was the most likely place to find any traps or mechanisms.

"Crack, crack..." Robin had barely arrived at the throne when the ice on the giant skeleton began to crack.

"Oh no! Luffy, let's stop him together!" Reina shouted to Luffy, who hadn't recovered yet.

"Okay!" Luffy nodded and started running towards the giant skull.

"Roar~~~"

Before they could get close, the giant skeleton broke free of its restraints, shattered the ice, and roared at Reina.

"Gum-Gum Rocket!" Luffy, now back to his normal size, attacked the giant skull.

"Charged Strike - Flowing Light Slash!" Reina also leaped forward, slashing at the giant skeleton's neck with his sword.

"boom!"

Luffy's attack hit the opponent first, but it only knocked down the giant skeleton that had just sat up again.

"Zzz~~~~"

Reina's slash, upon hitting his opponent, merely produced sparks and did not achieve the effect of severing the opponent in two.

"What a tough bastard!" Reina's expression was rather unpleasant. His swordsmanship had now reached the level of a great swordsman. If he wasn't the best in the world, he was at least on par with the likes of Shanks and Hawkeye. However, this giant skeleton had taken a sword strike from him without suffering any damage, only leaving a white mark on its neck.

"Here it is!" Just then, at the bottom of the Golden Throne, Robin finally found the mechanism. After opening it, a hidden door appeared behind the throne.

"Let's go!" Reina said to the group immediately upon seeing this.

But at this moment, the giant skeleton had recovered. It slapped its hands on the ground, stood up, and opened its mouth in Robin's direction.

"careful!"

Although he didn't know what the other party was going to do, Reina couldn't help but feel that something was wrong. He shouted a warning to Robin and stepped forward, blocking the giant skeleton.

"Roar!"

The giant skeleton roared and spat out a cloud of green gas in Robin's direction.

"Ice Dragon Whirlwind Tail - Skybreaker!" With a swing of the Hyōrinmaru in his hand, wherever the tip of the sword touched, even the air was frozen. The green gas exhaled by the giant skull was also completely frozen by Reina.

"Luffy, take them and go!" Reina shouted as soon as he saw Luffy was about to come and help.

Seeing Shirahoshi, Naga, and the others rushing towards the hidden door, Luffy gritted his teeth and had no choice but to go and help. Fish-men are not as fast on land as they are in the sea.

"Gum-Gum - First Aid Charge!" Using his ability, Luffy directly "tied up" Naga and Shirahoshi, then retracted his arm and quickly threw the two to Robin, while he continued to rescue the other Fish-Man warriors.

On the other side, seeing that his attack was blocked by Reina, the giant skeleton did not stop and rushed directly towards Robin's location, seemingly trying to prevent them from entering the secret door.

"Your opponent is me!" Reina once again stood in front of the giant skull, the Hyōrinmaru in his hand emitting a chilling aura, as if it could freeze everything around him.

"Roar!" But the giant skeleton seemed to be unaware of anything and slapped at Reina with one hand.

Reina easily dodged the opponent's attack and quickly arrived at the giant skeleton's feet, slashing the Hyōrinmaru in his hand towards the giant skeleton's heel.

"when!"

As expected, ordinary slashes could not sever the opponent's bones, but the heel touched by Hyōrinmaru was quickly frozen by ice, and the ice rose all the way up the opponent's bones, completely freezing the giant skeleton again in just a moment.

Chapter 1183 A New Opponent

Thanks to the opportunity created by Reina, the group finally managed to enter the secret door to the Golden Throne.

"Phew~ What a troublesome fellow!" Reina breathed a sigh of relief after entering.

"Hehehe... What an exciting adventure! I can't wait for the adventure to come!" Luffy had a big smile on his face, seemingly enjoying the adventure very much.

Reina, on the other hand, was more concerned about the treasure. He wanted to get the treasure and complete the mission, because his body had almost recovered. He could go back to Xuan Yue Island to earn points in the Trial Tower and didn't want to waste any time here.

However, after entering the hidden door, they had already walked for several minutes, but it didn't feel like they had reached the end at all; it seemed like the road had no end.

"Something's not right!" Reina was the first to react, immediately stopping and looking at Robin, saying, "Activate your Sharingan and see if there's anything strange around us!"

Upon hearing this, Robin immediately activated her Sharingan.

Now that her Sharingan has become a double tomoe, although she consumes more ocular power each time, the growth rate and capacity of her ocular power have also increased.

However, even after Robin activated her Sharingan, she couldn't see anything wrong.

"There's only one road here, we can't possibly go the wrong way!" Luffy scratched his head, looked at Reina, and said.

Reina frowned and thought for a moment, then said, "It's very likely that the other side has used some kind of trick to hide the real passage!"

"This..." After thinking about it, everyone realized that it made some sense.

So instead of simply continuing forward, they began searching their surroundings as they moved forward.

Soon, Luffy, who was walking at the front, made a discovery.

"Come here quickly!" Luffy shouted excitedly to his crewmates behind him.

Everyone quickly looked towards Luffy, only to see that Luffy's arm had disappeared from the stone wall.

"What is this...?" Robin stepped forward and stretched out his arm, only to find that his arm had actually passed right through the stone wall.

"I see, it seems the correct path is here!" Naga stepped forward and tried it, then realized that this was the right path.

After passing through the fake wall, the group entered a more spacious area.

"Huh~ what are those?" Luffy said, pointing to a platform in front of him.

Reina looked in the direction Luffy pointed and saw a platform at the end of the road. On top of the platform grew some plants, and in the middle of the plants, there seemed to be something.

"Luffy, be careful!" Reina warned as he saw Luffy heading towards the platform.

"Hehehe... It's okay!" Luffy laughed and leaped up, jumping directly onto the platform.

"Whoa~~~ What is this?!" When Luffy arrived at the platform, he was immediately startled by what he saw.

"This is... a box?" Reina and the others also arrived at the platform one after another and saw a rectangular box made of gold wrapped in plants, which looked somewhat like a coffin from their previous life on Earth.

Reina and Luffy exchanged a glance, then stepped forward simultaneously, intending to open the strange box.

"Crack...knock..."

Although the "box" made entirely of gold was somewhat heavy, it was no match for Luffy and Reina, who quickly opened it.

"empty?"

But when the two opened the lid, they found it was completely empty, with nothing inside.

"Father, wait!"

Reina was also puzzled and was about to reach into the box to touch it when Robin stopped him.

"What's wrong? What did you find?" Reina turned around and saw that the two tomoe in Robin's Sharingan were spinning rapidly, so he stopped and asked.

“Something’s not right here!” Robin shook his head and said.

As soon as she finished speaking, the rectangular box made entirely of gold began to vibrate.