Pirates on Rocks' Ship 996

Chapter 1185 The Mysterious Treasure

Finding a way out from among countless mirrors is not as simple as it seems, especially when they dare not damage the mirrors.

Luffy, who had previously been blinded by the mirror, smashed it in anger, causing countless traps to appear from all directions. If Reina hadn't reacted quickly, someone might have been injured.

So after that incident, they tried their best not to damage the mirror.

"Another maze! I hate mazes the most!" Olga said, looking at the mirrors around her with annoyance.

"Hehehehehe... It's alright, just follow me!" Perona said quite happily.

It turns out that she had already released countless negative ghosts when she came in. Ghosts have no physical form, so they won't bump into the mirror. Using ghosts to explore is the best option.

With Perona's ghost leading the way, they easily navigated the mirror maze.

"Looks like we're in for another battle. I wonder what kind of monster it will be this time!" Looking at the exit ahead, everyone knew that they would likely face another fight once they went in.

Luffy didn't care; he loved the thrill of adventure, so he took the lead and went in first.

"It seems there won't be a fight this time. We should have reached the location of the real treasure!" Robin looked around and said with a smile.

After exiting the mirror maze, they entered the final space.

Why is it called the final space? Because upon entering, one discovers a stone tablet. Although the tablet is covered in ancient script, it poses no challenge for Robin.

After Robin translated the text, they knew this was the final space.

"It seems something must have happened back then, which is why they all fled here!" Robin looked around and found many skeletons on the ground. These must have been the last humans on the island back then.

"They probably fled here to escape the war!" Reina nodded and said.

After searching the entire place, they found that it was a complete shelter. Although it was not large, it had everything one would need.

“It must be because the Great Kingdom was defeated back then, so they were forced to flee here! But this doesn’t seem like a place with treasure!” Naga said, frowning.

“Let’s keep looking! Their treasure probably isn’t gold!” Reina shook his head and said, “That gold was probably deliberately placed in the palace, so that people would think that’s where they kept their treasure and thus overlook this place!”

“That’s right, they must have left something behind, maybe it’s their legacy!” Naga said, her eyes lighting up.

She herself was like that. As an ancient race, the Naga race also faced the predicament of extinction. However, what they left behind in the end was not gold and treasure, but their heritage.

So the group split up again to search, this time focusing less on gold and silver treasures, and finally made a new discovery.

“This should be their cemetery! Some of the first to die were buried here!” Robin pointed to an empty space in the corner and said, “Although there are no tombstones, judging from the neat burial spacing and the remains inside, they shouldn’t have suffered fatal injuries!”

"Then what does this prove?" Bai Xing asked, puzzled.

Naga, however, looked thoughtfully at the open space and said, "If this is where they buried their people, then the item is very likely in this area!"

Reina nodded in agreement, because traditions are often buried with one's people.

However, digging up someone's grave is never a good thing, so Reina didn't let Luffy and the others do it. Instead, he punched the ground himself, shaking up all the dust and revealing the skeleton inside.

"There really is something!" After Reina shook the soil, Robin immediately discovered a stone tablet buried in the soil and a treasure chest made of gold.

Robin went straight to examine the stone tablet, while Olga and Perona went to check the golden treasure chest first.

However, they also discovered a problem at the same time.

"This treasure chest doesn't have a key!" Olga said to Reina with a frustrated look on her face as she held the golden treasure chest.

"Father, there are no words recorded on this stone tablet!" Robin said, looking puzzled.

Logically speaking, such a stone tablet should record something very important, but apart from some strange patterns, there is nothing on it.

But when Reina finally obtained the golden treasure chest, the system notified him that he had completed the treasure hunt.

That means these things are the real treasure.

Although he can't open the golden treasure chest yet and doesn't know what the stone tablet is for, it doesn't affect his ability to complete the mission.

“Let’s dig up this stone tablet and take it with us! We can study it slowly when we get back!” Reina said after thinking for a moment.

But when they started digging, they discovered after a long time that the stone tablet had somehow become one with the underground rock.

"Should we break his connection?" Naga hesitated for a moment before suggesting.

Reina shook his head and said, "Let's not do anything rash for now. There's probably something fishy going on here!"

So everyone stopped digging and went to look at the strange symbols on the stone tablet.

"Hey? Look, doesn't this symbol look like the pattern on the gate when we entered that golden palace?" Olga said in surprise, pointing to a pattern on the stone tablet a moment later.

Upon closer inspection, everyone realized that they were indeed the same.

“Then these patterns… might be the rooms we’ll encounter later!” Robin said, stroking his chin.

“But what does this have to do with the stone tablet?” Reina asked, frowning.

"Could this stone tablet just be a map? Telling us how to get here?" Naga hesitated for a moment before guessing.

"But we're already here! What's the use of a map now that we're here?" Perona said, looking puzzled.

"How about we just leave this thing here? Nobody's going to come here anyway, and we can come back for it when we figure things out!" Olga thought for a moment and then said, "Or we can just cut it in half and take it with us!"

After studying it for a long time without any clue, Reina had no choice but to agree with Olga's suggestion to cut the stone tablet in half and take away the part with the symbols on it.

"Break!" Olga swung her longsword, slashing directly at the stone tablet.

"Zizzizi..."

However, apart from a series of sparks, only a faint white mark remained on the stone tablet.

Olga stared in astonishment at the stone tablet before her. She was now a master swordsman, capable of cutting through steel, yet she had only managed to leave a mark on the tablet.

Chapter 1186 Unsolved Mysteries

When Reina discovered that Olga's slash could only cut through stone tablets, he decided to try it himself.

He couldn't believe that something as simple as a stone could be impossible to cut.

He put away Hyōrinmaru, and Senbonzakura appeared in Reina's hand.

Hyōrinmaru is a functional Zanpakutō, but in terms of sharpness, Senbonzakura is still better than Hyōrinmaru.

"Charged Strike - Slash!" After a brief charge, Reina swung his sword, striking the bottom of the stone tablet.

"Sizzle~~Crack!"

Like Olga, Reina's slash also failed to sever the stone tablet, and the Thousand Cherry Blossoms in Reina's hand even broke off.

Everyone stared in astonishment at the broken Senbonzakura, their eyes filled with disbelief.

It should be noted that the two weapons in Reina's hands, although not world-renowned swords, are known to those familiar with them as divine weapons that are in no way inferior to the twelve Supreme Grade Swords.

So when they saw that Senbonzakura had broken off here, they all wondered if they were seeing things.

However, Reina didn't seem surprised or show any regret. Instead, he continued to swing the remaining hilt of the knife in his hand.

To everyone's astonishment, the blade, which had already been reduced to fragments, began to move again and started cutting around the stone tablet.

"Zizizizizi..."

The blade continued to cut around the stone tablet, shattering it into countless sparks.

A moment later, Reina swung the hilt of the Senbonzakura sword in his hand, and the blade returned to the hilt, forming a new Senbonzakura.

However, when everyone looked at the stone tablet, they couldn't help but gasp, thinking that the stone tablet was still intact.

"It seems we can't demolish it by force!" Robin sighed and said.

If given enough time, she might be able to figure something out, but if they can't take it with them, they obviously can't stay here indefinitely.

"Forget it, since there's no other way, let's go! Let's go out and figure out how to open the treasure chest first. Maybe there are some clues inside! We can come back later!" Reina shook his head, put away the Senbonzakura, and said.

The stone tablet was made of some unknown material. Even with his strength and the combined power of the Thousand Cherry Blossoms, he couldn't cut it. If he were to take it back and give it to Dr. Vegapunk, the old man might really like it, since it was a rare material.

However, he had no intention of giving up on this place. He would bring more people over when the opportunity arose. Apart from the dilapidated buildings, there were still many things worth studying here. It was just that being underwater was indeed a bit inconvenient. He would think of another way later.

So after Robin made a rubbing of the pattern on the stone tablet, the group, led by Reina, began to return the way they came. This time, on their way back, Robin made a point of searching each room to see if there was a pattern that matched the one on the stone tablet.

“Father, there really are matching patterns here!” In every room where she encountered enemies, Robin found patterns exactly the same as those on the stone tablet, but she didn’t understand the meaning of these patterns.

Finally, when they arrived at the Golden Palace, Robin not only found the pattern on the stone tablet on the gate, but also the same pattern on the forehead of the giant skull.

"What do these things actually represent?" Robin asked, frowning.

“It’s really a bit puzzling! These patterns are everywhere—in the passageways we’ve walked through and the rooms where we’ve encountered enemies—and now they’re even on the giant skull. Could they be some kind of totem?” Naga hesitated for a moment before saying.

"If we don't understand, let's leave! This isn't the place to study!" Reina dodged the giant skeleton with a single move, then led everyone away from the Golden Palace.

After they left the golden palace, the giant skeleton stopped moving, but the golden statues outside the palace had no intention of letting them leave and rushed over with their weapons.

"Luffy, I'll cover the rear. You take Shirahoshi and the others and leave first!" Reina took the lead and rushed out, attracting the attention of the statues.

Upon hearing this, Luffy nodded and led the others towards the exit.

Soon, with the help of Reina and Luffy, everyone successfully left the area and returned to the passage.

Once they arrived here, there was no more danger, and the group could finally relax a bit.

However, when they arrived at the initial passage, Reina remembered that they seemed to have another path they hadn't completed.

"Why don't we give it a try? We don't have any other clues right now, maybe we can find something over there!" Olga hesitated for a moment before saying.

After thinking for a moment, Reina nodded and said, "That's fine, maybe there are some clues over there!"

“But… Father, that place is more likely a death trap! If we’re not careful, it could cause casualties!” Robin said, frowning.

Because it's very obvious that it's a trap to lure people who don't know the correct route.

“Alright then! Naga, you take Shirahoshi and your people up first, Olga, you all go up too, Luffy and I can go together! We two are strong enough to protect ourselves, and even if we encounter any traps, it will be easier for us to leave!” Reina said after a moment of thought.

Luffy had no objections; he loved adventure anyway, and he wasn't afraid of danger even if it lay ahead. His strength was enough for him to ignore ordinary dangers.

Robin also wanted to go along, thinking that she might be able to help if she was there, and could even help decipher ancient texts if they came across them.

However, Reina told her to leave first, and that they would let her go over after they had scouted the area and confirmed that there was no danger.

But Robbie didn't agree, just as Reina was worried that she would be in danger, so she was worried too.

Furthermore, since Reina is currently unable to use his Sharingan, his strength has decreased significantly, which is what worries her. If she is there, she can use her eye power to stimulate Reina's Sharingan at crucial moments.

Finally, with no other choice, Reina had to agree to take Robin along, and the three of them formed a temporary team and continued to advance towards the other side of the passage, while the others went back to the sea to wait for news from them.

As they left the passage, Naga made a conscious decision, having a merman warrior hide at the exit to wait for Reina and the others. After all, this was the seabed, and if anything unexpected happened, the mermen would be able to play a greater role.