One Piece: Blue Scale Admiral

The golden sphere, which had sunk deep into the mist, was swallowed by lightning and quickly melted again, turning into golden liquid that flowed across the sea.

Under Rorschach's magnetic manipulation, the molten gold sphere rapidly expanded from a solid sphere, quickly growing dozens of times larger and transforming into a large golden sphere with a diameter of tens of meters.

Lightning crackled within, illuminating the golden sphere with a dazzling golden glow, like a golden sun rising from the mist.

The golden sun floated silently in the mist, like a mysterious treasure, waiting for its prey to take the bait.

Rorschach, standing on the edge of the island, focused his mind and amplified his five senses to the extreme by the stimulation of lightning, releasing his Observation Haki, which could perceive a super wide area, like a satellite radar, covering the sea for tens of kilometers in radius.

Time passed little by little.

Soon, it was just over two hours later.

The long wait had made Moria impatient, so he took the unconscious Perona back to the castle.

In fact, if Moria hadn't been so wary of Rorschach, fearing he might damage his ship, he wouldn't have stood by and watched.

Hibari stood to the side with the Den Den Mushi in his hand, still trying various methods to contact Vivi on the other end of the Den Den Mushi.

suddenly!

Luo Xia, who had been standing with his arms crossed and eyes closed, quietly sensing his surroundings, suddenly opened his pair of azure eyes.

"Clap!"

A flash of lightning appeared where he stood, and he vanished instantly from the edge of the island.

Its speed was so fast that it even exceeded Hibari's ability to detect it with Observation Haki.

"Brother Luo Xia!"

Seeing Luo Xia suddenly set off and disappear, Yun Que's spirits lifted, and a glimmer of hope appeared in her worried eyes.

Could it be that Rorschach has already found Vivi?

Above the hollow golden sphere with a diameter of 100 meters, Rorschach appeared as if by teleportation, gently landing on the surface of the sphere, his eyes gleaming with a strange light as he looked at the sea of ​​mist ahead.

At that moment, in the direction he was looking, the hazy mist that enveloped the surrounding sea was churning continuously.

The waves were rising and falling violently over a radius of hundreds of kilometers.

It was as if a tsunami was brewing in the foggy sea.

It's as if beneath this deep, dark sea, a colossal sea monster is rapidly swimming towards us, its immense size causing the entire ocean to churn in its wake.

Seeing the glimmer of light appearing at the edge of his Observation Haki perception, Rorschach's eyes narrowed.

"They're here! They really are lanternfish!"

He hadn't expected that he was just trying anything as a last resort. After hearing Moria's story, he couldn't think of any other way to find the missing Vivi, so he used this golden fishing method.

But it did attract lanternfish.

Moreover, judging from the churning of the foggy sea and the large-scale undulations of the surface, one could tell that the approaching lanternfish was probably unimaginably huge.

Thinking of this, in order to prevent the approaching sea monster from affecting Lark who was still on the Thriller Bark, Rorschach immediately stood on the floating golden sphere and manipulated the sphere under his feet to move closer to the rapidly approaching behemoth.

"Splash!"

The sea rose high, the fog parted to both sides, and a massive, mountain-like black shadow emerged from the deep sea, led by a dazzling light.

Under Rorschach's gaze, a deep abyss five or six kilometers long opened up in the sea below.

"Boom!"

The sea surface within a radius of tens of kilometers suddenly exploded, and a towering storm was stirred up by the endless body of the lanternfish, which blew Rorschach, who was flying in the sky, so that he was thrown backward and lost his balance.

Two rows of massive, mountain-like fangs opened, lunging towards the golden ball beneath Luo Xia's feet, while billions of tons of seawater poured into the enormous lanternfish's gaping maw.

Looking at this enormous lanternfish, which was more than ten kilometers long, Luo Xia couldn't help but twitch his cheeks.

"Holy crap, this is huge! Compared to this lanternfish, Moria's ship looks like a miniature toy."

Seeing the lanternfish's gaping maw, which had already swallowed the golden ball and was about to close slowly, Luo Xia didn't hesitate. He plummeted, his body unfurling a layer of deep blue, domineering armor, along with a compressed air barrier. Like a meteor falling to earth, he swiftly disappeared into the lanternfish's gaping maw, passing through its chasm-like teeth, and rushing into its body along its esophagus.

The moment the lanternfish opened its mouth wide, Rorschach's Observation Haki detected several familiar presences.

It was Vivi and Cobra!

On Thriller Bark, Moria, who was too big to sleep in a bed and could only lie on the floor to sleep, suddenly tilted his massive body and rolled down the same tilted floor like a bowling ball that had been knocked over.

"What's going on? What happened?" Moria frantically steadied himself, transforming into his shadow mage form. He became a dark shadow, clinging to the swaying, tilting castle wall, and peered in the direction where Rorschach had been. "What's that brat up to now? Is he trying to dismantle my ship? Damn it! I'll never let him get away with this!"

The sea surface, stretching for hundreds of kilometers, was undulating. Even the terrifying three-masted sailing ship, as large as a small island, could not remain stable on such a turbulent sea and was constantly rocked by the waves.

Inside the lanternfish, within three stomachs that resembled internal worlds, on a lush island, Vivi and her friends were listening to a blond, obese man tell his story.

This was the man who had just shouted from deep within the forest, begging Vivi and the others not to harm the little girl named Olga.

He had short, blond hair the same color as the little girl's, and he was naked except for a lizard skin that smelled foul.

It turns out the man's name was Asie, and he was the father of Olga, the blonde little girl who attacked Vivi.

He was originally a scientist who, in order to cure his daughter Olga's strange illness called Emperor Fever, conducted some experiments and developed a magical metal that could significantly reduce biological aging.

That metal could emit a brilliant golden light like the sun, a hundred times more dazzling than pure gold, which is why Asier called it pure gold.

The effect of pure gold on living organisms is almost equivalent to an elixir of immortality, capable of maintaining the human body in a near-eternal state.

Unless harmed by external forces, a person who wears pure gold will not die of old age as time goes by.

"What year is it in the Haiyuan calendar?" Asie asked Weiwei, holding his daughter who had forgotten how to speak because she hadn't communicated with anyone for so long.

"It is now the beginning of the 1518th year of the Haiyuan calendar," Vivi told the truth.

"What? The year 1518 of the Sea Calendar?" An incredulous look appeared on Asie's fat face.

His lips trembled as he glanced at Vivi and the others, then at himself and his daughter Olga in his arms, and tears suddenly welled up in his eyes.

He actually cried.

"Waaah, I can't believe it's been almost two hundred years! Oh my god, Olga and I have been trapped inside Lord Lantern for nearly two hundred years! When will this end? I want to go back to the outside world, back to the sea!"

"Two hundred years?" Weiwei and the others couldn't believe their ears.

Cobra exclaimed in surprise, "You mean you've lived for over two hundred years?"

Asie nodded while crying, choking out, "Yes, if it really is the year 1518 of the Sea Calendar, then we have indeed lived for more than two hundred years. Olga was diagnosed with a terminal illness when she was six years old. After wearing a pure gold ring to slow down her aging, she has maintained the physical condition of a six-year-old ever since. She was born in the year 1316 of the Sea Calendar."

"1316 of the Sea Calendar?" Cobra and Vivi stared wide-eyed, finding it unbelievable and hard to believe.

"Two hundred years ago, I remember there was a great swordsman named Shimotsuki Ryoma who was very powerful. Asie, have you ever met him?" Jaka's face was full of curiosity as he kept looking at the fat man.

Asie shook his head. "I've never met him, but I've heard of Ryuma's name. Newspapers often report on him slaying all sorts of monsters and great pirates. Not long before I was swallowed by Lord Lantern, I read in the newspaper that the great swordsman Shimotsuki Ryuma slew a flying dragon and protected Wano Country from its attack. It's said that he also mastered the black sword Shusui and is about to ascend to the throne of the world's greatest swordsman."

As Asie recounted the story from two hundred years ago, Vivi's eyes lit up, and she felt a sense of temporal disorientation, almost forgetting her current predicament.

Just as she was about to ask Asie about the situation of the Alabasta Kingdom two hundred years ago, the island beneath her feet suddenly shook violently.

The next second, the world spun around.

The island beneath their feet suddenly tilted upside down, as if it had been lifted up by an invisible hand and flipped into the sky.

The people who were originally standing on the island's ground, as well as the ships that crashed onto the island and the large number of animals on the island, all began to fall down with a crash at any moment.

Below was the ocean filled with an endless stream of viscous green liquid.

"Ahhh!"

The sudden and unexpected change terrified everyone.

If someone were to fall in, they would be completely destroyed.

"Father!"

Watching Cobra fall beside her, Vivi let out a desperate scream.

Her body transformed into flowing yellow sand, enveloping Cobra's body and temporarily holding him back.

At the same time, he used a sandstorm technique he wasn't very skilled at, stirring up strong winds in an attempt to lift everyone up.

However, with her current physical strength and the abilities she could use, she simply couldn't make these dozens of people float away.

"Yo!"

The cries of eagles and falcons could be heard in the distance.

A dark shadow flew in swiftly, extending its curved eagle claws to grab at the falling Jaka and the others.

Jaka also grabbed several guards around him with quick reflexes, while simultaneously reaching out to grab Asie's shoulder.

Asie had his eyes closed and was holding his daughter Olga tightly.

"Bell!" Vivi exclaimed in surprise.

"Run! The island above us is about to fall!"

However, Bell was shouting in panic.

Vivi's body trembled, and when she looked back, she saw the small island, which was hanging upside down in mid-air, crashing down on them.

Above are islands covered in gas, and below are deadly stomach acid.

Even with brief flights, one cannot escape the islands that are covered in debris.

At this moment, they were utterly trapped, with nowhere to turn and nowhere to hide.

"Bell! Take His Majesty the King and Princess Vivi away! Don't worry about us!" Seeing this, Jaka broke free from Bell's eagle claws and, with a string of guards, fell towards the churning green liquid below.

"Jiaka!" Vivi's eyes reddened.

Just then, the surrounding air suddenly gathered together, turning into invisible chains that bound the people falling from mid-air.

A familiar, gentle, and reassuring voice reached Weiwei's ears.

"I've finally found you, Vivi."

Chapter 453 Pure Gold in Hand

A familiar voice reached her ears, and Weiwei turned her head sharply to see a tall, silver-haired boy walking through the air, reaching out to grab and pull her.

"call!"

As the invisible air currents surged wildly, unseen chains of air bound the falling people, pulling them out of the place where the island had fallen.

Looking at the tall young man standing before her, Weiwei's eyes welled up with tears, and she couldn't help but blurt out.