One Piece: The Salted Fish Fruit

"Phew! That's good!" Mia patted her collar to comfort her. Her other hand rested on her waist and gripped the weapon in her hand, but the familiar feel was instantly different from before. This weapon felt as smooth as a part of her own body.

"Whose is this! Where is my weapon!" Mia drew her longsword from her waist and examined it closely. The metal bracers, woven from branches, shimmered with a purple-gold light, and countless tiny crystals, as fine as hair, were embedded within them. The blade radiated a cold and sharp glint!

"What a fine sword!" Was this a gift from him? Mia narrowed her eyes, recalling the scene that had just unfolded in that hall! Uranus—that's his name, isn't it? She felt like she'd heard it somewhere before!

"Is this one of those rare invaders who have no desire to invade? Then let me test you to see if you want to be annihilated!" A deep voice echoed throughout the empty hall!

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"Huff, huff! Almost there!" Mabi gasped for breath as she watched Robin draw closer, blood streaming down her arm. To resist the inexplicable suction, she used spatial vibration several times to force herself to stop moving forward, waiting for contact with Robin!

Chapter 117 The Demon-Slaying Order! Arrival!

"Salted Fish! Void Shatter!" Mabi seized the opportunity and stomped hard on her feet. The spatial ability mobilized by her spiritual power instantly surged from the soles of her feet and struck the void below. Instantly, spatial cracks appeared and spread outwards. The terrifying suction behind her disappeared instantly, and she regained her ability to move on her own. Taking advantage of this opening, her body instantly disappeared and reappeared on Robin, who was falling downwards.

"Get out!" Mabi forcefully pulled the falling Robin into her arms, twisted her waist and turned around, and lashed her leg hard at the falling Elephant Sword, causing it to fall into the abyss behind her.

"Huff! I finally caught you!" Mabi shouted, panting heavily. Her entire body was now covered with countless large and small cracks as she continuously used the spatial shattering technique to counteract the suction.

"I'm sorry, Mabi, you've suffered!" Robin said apologetically, half-lying in Mabi's arms and pulling the sea stone handcuffs away from Mabi's body to prevent them from touching him, while looking at the cracked surface of Mabi's skin.

"It's alright! If I were a little faster, I could have intercepted you halfway! I can't teleport you away with me, and it's hard to counteract this suction force with just my ability to step through the air! How are we going to get up!" Still falling, Mabi looked at the bright sky above and the waterfall cascading down beside her. It was now difficult to tell how deep they had fallen. Looking down, all she could see was a bottomless abyss.

"What the hell! Again!" Before Robin could answer, Mabi suddenly felt the suction from below become terrifying again, the wind howling in her ears, and the suction force below pulled the two of them down madly with a force several times greater than before.

A few seconds later!

"Land!" Robin exclaimed as she peered out from Maggie's arms at the distant black dot, but at her current speed, she could hardly resist!

"Land! It's over!" Mabi felt a chill run down her spine. In those few short seconds, with that suction force, the two of them had accelerated for at least a thousand meters. If they crashed into each other, they probably wouldn't even be minced meat!

"Robin, endure it! Teleport!" Maby shouted! It's better to fight to the death than to be smashed to pieces! She should have Neil open a spatial portal and send the two of them rushing in! Although this would damage her body, as long as she didn't die, the time droplet would restore her to full health immediately! This was a conclusion Maby had drawn from teleporting while carrying living beings, which made him abandon the idea of ​​teleporting with people!

"Fighting to the death! Never abandoning your companions even in the face of death! Using the power of the invaders to gain a chance of survival! Excellent character! So, can you maintain this?" Hong Hou's voice rang out in the empty hall, as if an unknown being was observing everything around him and then making a judgment.

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"Usopp, hurry up! Maple and the others haven't come up yet, something must have happened down there! Those bastards threw the keys into the sea, so we can't use them to open the handcuffs!" Nami urged Usopp, who was fiddling with the sea stone handcuffs on Angelia using two wires.

"Right away! Right away! I haven't seen enough of these keyholes yet, so I'm not very familiar with them!" Usopp replied without looking up.

"Heh heh! They can't come up! No one who goes down has ever come back up! Heh heh! When the Buster Call comes, you'll all be buried here with us!" Jabra laughed, his mouth full of blood, his words filled with mockery for the ignorant pirates waiting around him. Instead of leaving now, they were waiting for their companions.

"You talk too much!" Before he could finish speaking, an enraged Sanji kicked him away, sending him crashing into a distant wall and embedding him completely in it.

"Crack!" With a series of metallic clanging sounds, everyone around breathed a sigh of relief.

"All right!"

"I'll go down and check!" Angelia, who had just regained her mobility, instantly leaped up and flew towards the broken hole, descending downwards. She already knew that several minutes had passed since Maggie jumped down to save her, and unimaginable things could happen in such a bottomless cliff. She had to know the situation no matter what.

"Straw Hat Boy! I've heard a little about Buster Call. Once it's activated, it will completely destroy the island that emitted it, erasing it from the map, just like Ohara did twenty years ago." Iceberg said, leaning against the broken wall and looking down at Luffy, who was squatting on the windowsill.

"Oh! So what!" Luffy swayed slightly with the sea breeze blowing from the sea and looked down at the bottomless abyss below.

"Ohara? Isn't that Robin's hometown? They suffered from the Buster Call!" Sanji put down his cigarette and asked in confusion.

"You don't know! CP9 didn't look for Robin?" Now it was Iceberg's turn to be full of surprise. CP9, which had been lurking by his side for four years, actually let go of the only woman in the world who could read ancient weapons! If Robin hadn't come to him, she wouldn't have been captured here.

"What?! What does CP9 have to do with Robin?!" The people around them exchanged bewildered glances.

"You know nothing? And yet you stormed Enies Lobby?"

"Yeah! To save you, Robin, Usopp, and Angelia, Iceberg!" Luffy tilted his head back, looking down at Iceberg leaning against the broken wall, and replied.

"Do you know why they captured us?" Iceberg's expression changed drastically. Things weren't as complicated as he had imagined; they weren't here to rescue Robin or for Hades.

"I know! These bastards dared to capture my comrades, and I'm going to bring them all back!"

"You bunch of lunatics! You know nothing but stormed Enies Lobby and beat us up!" Jabra, stuck in the wall in the distance, heard Luffy's nonsensical answer and roared wildly, trying to struggle to stand up. However, his bones had been broken by Sanji and he could hardly move anymore. But the thought of being beaten up by pirates who knew nothing made him want to jump out and curse them.

"Heh! You think you're in the right to kidnap my companion!" Zoro, carrying two bottles of wine from the kitchen, walked beside him and pushed his scabbard against his head, replying.

"Then let me tell you the whole story. I believe you won't abandon them and leave! Be prepared to die when facing the Demon-Slaying Order!" Iceberg looked at the group of young people who were looking at him. When he mentioned death, none of them showed any fear. He immediately understood their character.

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After the story was told, everyone felt a little heavy-hearted. They hadn't expected that Robin had been burdened with the shadow of the destruction of her hometown since she was eight years old and had to use various means to escape for twenty years. This was exactly what the Admiral Aokiji had told them before.

"You all probably already know what happened! A battle involving five vice admirals, ten rear admirals, and tens of thousands of marines! Straw Hat Luffy, are you still going to wait for them? The Gates of Justice have begun to open, and they will arrive soon!" Iceberg shouted, looking at the crack gradually appearing on the giant metal gate that stretched to the sky in the distance.

"We won't abandon a single comrade; we'll wait for them to come aboard!" Luffy replied, standing on the window sill and looking at the giant warship that was beginning to emerge, his straw hat pressing down on his head.

“Bagu, I’ll take you there! Karare and the others have finished their battle and they can take you away!” Franky looked at Karare and his gang standing on the opposite rooftop, grabbed Iceberg by the collar, straightened his arm, and swung him over.

"Frankie, you!"

"Haha! Bagu! I haven't avenged the old man yet, how can I leave here!" Hearing the last shout, Franky wiped away a tear from his eye. He already knew that what that bastard Bagu had done over the years was far greater than what he had done. For the sake of Water Seven, he could only forcibly forget the hatred for his teacher, but now that he was here, how could he give up that hatred? He believed that his underlings who hadn't come could take good care of him!

"Haha! Straw Hat Kid, let me go crazy with you guys!" Franky roared as he looked at the warships that appeared in the distance.

"Haha! Welcome!" Luffy turned around and laughed heartily.

"Hehe! Looks like this is going to be pretty dangerous!" Zoro leaned against a window and chuckled as he watched the warship speeding by in the distance, taking a swig of his drink.

"Miss Mia! Your guardian knight is here to protect you!" Sanji shouted as he ran over to Mia, who had turned into a snake and had a cold expression.

"Okay! Sanji, you must protect us!" Mia said with a smile, drawing her sword from her waist.

"This is absolutely perfect! Miss Mia, please let me..."

"Hmm!..." Mia pointed the tip of her sword directly at his groping hand.

"Jack, wrap these in cloud balls! Usopp, launch all of these into the sky!" Nami ordered, taking out a series of hollowed-out metal spheres as she began her battle preparations.

"Great! Perfect timing to test out my new weapon!" Usopp took out his specially made giant slingshot, shook it, and showed off his new weapon!

"Chopper! Here, take this laser cannon!" Usopp remembered that he had something extra in his storage space, so he took it out and threw it over.

"Haha! Is this for me?" Chopper's eyes sparkled as he hugged the metal weapon, which was even bigger than himself!

"Laser cannon? A super weapon! Usopp, do you have any more?! Do I have enough time to attach one to myself?!" Franky, who went to the kitchen to get a Coke, shouted when he saw the deformed weapon in Chopper's hand. With his eyes as a weapons expert, he could clearly see the powerful force that the weapon possessed.

"I'm out! Most of them are with Mabe. I'll get you a few when he gets here!" Usopp replied, preparing his ammunition.

"Haha! Let me take a look and I'll definitely help you install a few on your new ship!" Franky laughed heartily after getting the agreement.

"Big Brother Luffy! I want to join the battle too!" Merry, who was about the size of a fist and perched on Luffy's shoulder, said earnestly, raising his golden arm.

"Haha! Let's wait for Maple together!" Luffy laughed heartily upon hearing Maple's reply.

"You bunch of lunatics! That's the Buster Call, the strongest force below the Admirals! All five of them possess power comparable to Lucci!" Waitori, struggling with his wounded body, cursed as he looked through the shattered holes at the giant warships. But no one paid him any attention; everyone was busy with their own affairs!

"Cough cough! Damn it! I actually lost to a seventeen-year-old girl!" Kalifa coughed up blood and lay prostrate on the ground.

Chapter 118 The Demon-Slaying Order! War!

Half an hour ago!

"Huff! Where is this place?!" Mabi stared into the pitch-black darkness. She had clearly instructed Neilco to locate the land they had encountered, so how did they end up in this dark space? Even her senses couldn't detect any activity.

"That's it! The Light Shell!" He hurriedly took out a fist-sized seashell, turned on the button, and it immediately emitted a soft light, dispelling the surrounding darkness and illuminating the entire space. Looking down at Robin lying in his arms, he saw her limbs severed by the spatial rift. He quickly took out a wax pill, opened it, and dripped the transparent liquid into her mouth, causing the severed limbs to reappear at a visible speed.

"Luckily, it was just an arm and a forearm that were broken. Unlike before, when I teleported with a wild beast, I was cut in half by a spatial rift." Mabi stood up and kicked the broken arm and long white leg into a corner, afraid that she would be horrified when she woke up and saw her arm.

With her arms wrapped around the unconscious Robin, Maggie realized, with the help of the lamplight, that they were in a small space. Through the light, she could see that the smooth walls were covered with countless patterns engraved on them and had a metallic sheen.

"Is this the same pattern as that Sky Island ruin? Then this place must also be an 800-year-old ruin! There's no time to explore this now, let's go up first!" Mabi looked at the familiar wall and thought for a moment before kicking it. Not seeing any doorway, she had no choice but to force her way out through the hole!

"Boom! Boom!"

With Mabi's powerful strike, the entire room reverberated with a deafening echo that assaulted Mabi's eardrums. Under Mabi's immense force, enough to shatter steel ingots several meters thick, only a black mark remained on the entire wall, while Mabi's shoes suffered severe wear and tear.

"Ouch! What are these things? I need to break them open quickly! I didn't have time to deal with that bastard Spandam while saving Robin, and I don't even know if that idiot has activated the Buster Call yet!" He swung his injured foot back and forth on his tiptoes, cursing as he released his grip on Robin's leg, drew his long sword from his waist, and unleashed a colorless blade of energy powerful enough to slice through mountains.

"Clang!" With a metallic clang, Mabi looked at the terrifying shockwave that erupted from the collision and hurriedly shielded Robin in front of her, pressing her against the wall. She activated her Haki, covering her entire back to withstand the rapidly approaching impact.

"Damn it! What the hell is this wall?!" Maby cursed, turning around to look at the crack that was only a centimeter deep and a dozen centimeters long. But then something even more shocking happened before Maby's eyes: the crack seemed to wriggle and merge back together like a living thing before returning to its original state.

"What happened, Mabi? Are we saved?" Robin shook her groggy head as she woke up. She only remembered feeling a sharp pain in her body before fainting, but now, upon examination, she found no injuries on her body, only that her clothes were torn, revealing her fair skin.

Upon seeing Robin awaken, Mabi released her arm and replied, "Yeah! I was teleported into a strange, hard space where normal attacks are completely ineffective!"

"Move back a bit! I'm going to try my spatial cutting ability again!" Mabi instructed, holding the knife in both hands, as she prepared to mobilize the mental energy within her body to activate Neilco's ability.

"Hmm?" Mabi frowned in confusion, sensing that her body was completely devoid of spiritual energy. This was the kind of situation that only occurred when she directly came into contact with Seastone.

"What's wrong?" Robin asked as he straightened his tattered clothes by the light emitted from the lamp shell.

"I can't use the Devil Fruit power!" Maby's expression turned grave. Without the enhancement of spatial abilities, she couldn't break through this hard, sealed chamber with her previous actions.

"Nilco!"

"I'm here! I'm not imprisoned! I might not be using the kind of demonic power you have! But without your demonic power to assist me, I can only teleport you and can't attack." As a soul creature that never rests, he had been keeping an eye on Mabi's situation from inside his arm guard so that Mabi could use his abilities in time.

"I'll go check it out! This kind of wall shouldn't be able to stop soul creatures." The pale-faced Neilco floated out and his illusory body, floating towards the wall, gradually disappeared into it as he ran to check the situation.

“Indeed! I can’t use my abilities either. Let me see if I can use the knowledge in those ruins to decipher them.” Robin crossed her arms in front of her, trying to activate her Devil Fruit, but nothing happened. She could only look at the patterned wall to find a way to open it. Since it was a man-made structure, there couldn’t be any space that couldn’t be opened.

Upon hearing Robin's answer, Maby naturally knew this was another historical site. Ever since learning about the relief on Skypiea, Maby had a vague idea about the disaster eight hundred years ago. That disaster wasn't solely the fault of the twenty kings, but also related to the demon bodies Neilco dealt with during his work. Given their advanced technology at the time, it wouldn't be unreasonable for them to create methods to imprison demons. However, the arm guard Neilco wore was a technological product of that era and had no connection to those demons, which is why it wasn't imprisoned here.

“I’m back! Judging from the style, this is indeed the base we built back then. It’s different from the dilapidated ruins we’ve encountered. There are still countless robots maintaining the base’s normal operation!” Neilco returned through the wall again to explain what he had seen along the way.

"Crack!" Just as Nielko finished explaining, a crisp metallic sound rang out, unusually clear in the empty room.

Mabi, Robin, and Neil looked toward the source of the sound and saw that the previously patterned wall began to flicker and flow, forming a door pattern, which then protruded outward to form a metal protrusion two meters high and one and a half meters wide, moving into the room.

"Clang! Clang!" The sound of metal clashing rang out from the doorway as a tiny metal figure, only 1.3 or 1.4 meters tall and wearing a round hat, walked in, pulling a cart loaded with cleaning supplies such as mops and rags.

Ignoring the three people in the room, he slowly walked to the wall where Maggie had kicked him, leaving a black mark. He took a clean white towel from the cart and began cleaning. Then, under the watchful eyes of Maggie and the others, he took out a vacuum cleaner-like tube to suck up the bloodstains on the ground that hadn't been cleaned up. He casually picked up Maggie's kicked thigh and arm and threw them into the trash can in the cart, washed the bloodstains on the ground, and then dragged the cart out again. Maggie and Robin took the opportunity to follow him.

"Brother Mabi, can you tell me what those two limbs are? I don't think there would be any fresh meat here after all this time." Seeing the all-too-familiar limbs, along with the torn clothes and blood on them, Robin's expression changed for a moment, then softened. He crossed his arms and followed behind Mabi, asking with a smile.

"Robin, look at all these robots! What keeps them running? Even those guard robots haven't been activated for eight hundred years, so they've barely lost any energy!" Maggie immediately changed the subject, staring at the robots that appeared at the end of the bright, gleaming metal passage. She absolutely couldn't answer Maggie's question now! Although she was eager to save her, she had still caught glimpses of things she shouldn't have seen. If she continued to ask, she would be discovered sooner or later!

"Really! Do you still remember how those robots treated you back then?" Robin laughed as he looked at the robots, all holding spears and all the same height and build!

"Intruder detected!"

"Intruder detected!" Countless robots stared at Mabi with red eyes, raising their strange spears that flashed various colors as they launched an attack!