I am the Bandit King of the East Sea.

After resting on the tree trunk for a while and regaining some of his strength, Sieg floated up and, enveloped in telekinesis, plunged downwards, chasing after the rainbow bridge.

When he arrived in the royal city of Elbaf.

He saw the Giant King sitting in the square with some of his curious subjects, while Gilman, holding a newspaper, was reading the news from it through a loudspeaker Den Den Mushi.

Sig’s appearance broke the silence, and all eyes of the giant and the bandits turned to him.

Unlike before, this time their eyes were filled with shock and disbelief.

Not only the giants, but even the bandits under Sig's command had the same reaction, as if they were petrified.

"Why are you all looking at me like that? Is there some big news in the newspaper?" Sig asked, a little confused.

"Sieg... Sieg? You're here?" Gilman seemed to snap out of his daze, but his gaze remained strange.

At first, he thought Sig was an ambitious bandit, then he learned he was King Sig of the old era, and now he knows his new identity...

"Sigurd?" The Giant King hesitated for a long time before finally speaking:

"Are you really Lox?"

"Was it you who led the Rocks Pirates across the border and confronted my Giant Kingdom back then?"

Sig was startled.

The giant king strode forward, his face filled with confusion:

"Lox is just a name you've used; there's no real person like him, is there?"

Sig: ?

He frowned, strode over to Gilman, snatched the newspaper from his hand, glanced at it carefully, and then almost froze.

He was completely baffled. The newspaper even claimed that Rocks didn't actually exist, and that he was essentially the same person as Wang Sieg, Sunguk, and others like him...

"Rumors! Pure rumors! This is fake news!" Sieg, beads of sweat forming on his forehead, shouted:

"Rocks really existed!"

Chapter 1229 Rocks Resurrected 5k

Sig was surrounded by bandits and giants, who stared at him with strange eyes, and he remained silent for a long time.

Nearly forty years ago, Rocks led the Rocks Pirates to invade the Elbaf Sea.

That incident was a confrontation between the world's strongest pirate crew and the world's strongest nation.

At that time, the giants of Elbaf seemed to have received word of the situation, as several other giant nations in the surrounding area rushed to their aid, including the ancient giant nation, the fish-giant nation, and so on...

Elbaf is the most powerful of the giant nations. Although the nations are not very harmonious with each other, they still understand the principle of mutual dependence.

The two armies were facing off on the coast of Elbaf, but ultimately did not engage in battle.

Therefore, although Lox once threatened Elbaf, the two sides were not exactly sworn enemies.

The Giant King's expression was priceless. He tried to press Sig for the truth, but Sig evaded the question and immediately ran away.

Using his telekinesis, he lifted the small boat, carrying the bandits, and quickly soared into the sky, disappearing from sight.

When the bandits returned to the Sky Island, the news inevitably spread, and soon many bandits knew about it.

“Gilman, when you see something like this, don’t you think it through before reading it to the giants?”

Sieg looked at Gilman with a hint of annoyance.

“Giants aren’t illiterate, they just have a hard time reading small print. They’ll know even if I don’t tell them,” Gilman replied, his expression a little strange.

"Boss Sig, is what you said in the newspaper true?"

“Of course it’s fake news!” Sieg said irritably.

"I see." Gilman suddenly looked enlightened.

"If the news reports are false, then what Zombie Rocks said back then must be the truth, right?"

"So the truth is, Boss Sig, you killed Rocks with your own hands?"

Gilman asked.

Zombie Rocks?

Sig thought for a moment before realizing that this happened two years ago when he returned to the Island of All Things as the Mountain Bandit King.

When Moria used the Shadow-Shadow Fruit's power to control Rocks' corpse, it was probably because Rocks' corpse was too powerful or too intact. After a period of chaos, what awakened was Rocks' consciousness, or rather, his lingering resentment.

In other words, the situation was equivalent to the dead Rocks being resurrected as a zombie and revealing the truth himself.

Afterwards, the news was suppressed by Sieg, and only a few people, such as Gilman and Crocus, knew about it.

These people did question Sieg afterward, but he always brushed them off with excuses and never admitted anything.

Until now.

"This might be a way to clear my name," Sig thought to himself.

Pirates are all villains; that's what public opinion dictates.

Whether it's Straw Hat Luffy, the Pirate King, the Mountain Bandit King, or even Fujitora and Zephyr, who have been capturing pirates and upholding justice in the New World for the past two years, they are all portrayed as wicked villains who commit all sorts of evil deeds in the World Government's propaganda.

To be honest, Sieg already has enough bad reputation to bear.

But Sieg didn't want to bear the infamy of Lox.

The name Rocks has been largely erased by the World Government. The younger generation of ordinary people do not know this name. Those who still remember the name Rocks are mostly veteran pirates from the New World or old people from the old era.

If even this name is defined as a pseudonym of Sigurd, and even the great pirates of the old era believe it to be true, then Rocks has left no trace in the world.

Sieg waved for Gilman to leave, but soon several more people approached.

Leading the way was Stusi, followed by Crocus, Arlong, and others who had participated in the battle on the Island of All Things.

They were all very curious about what was being reported in the newspaper.

"The newspaper says you are Lox..." Stussy's expression was somewhat strange, a little bewildered.

"We met a long, long time ago."

She had contact with Lox a long, long time ago.

Before she became the Queen of the Pleasure District, she had visited Beehive Island, which was occupied by Rocks, and led the Rocks Pirates into the Elbaf Sea on the orders of the World Government.

Just as the two armies were about to clash, Stussy's little tricks were exposed, and it was only because of a momentary lapse in judgment that she was able to take the opportunity to escape the battlefield.

“This is fake…” Sig said, rubbing his forehead.

He hesitated for a moment, his gaze sweeping over Crocus and the others, before finally making up his mind and giving a general account of what had happened.

"So, a year before the Battle of God Valley, you killed Rocks and continued to live as him?" Stussy was shocked again.

Whether Sieg is actually Rocks himself, or Sieg killed Rocks and took his place... both truths are horrifying.

The former is enough to overturn many people's values, while the latter is also a shocking event.

At his peak, Rocks was the strongest of the Rocks era. Relying on the damage absorption ability of the Dark-Dark Fruit, he could quickly defeat a Marine Admiral at the cost of double the pain, and afterwards he could even have a melee with Roger, Rayleigh, and Jabba.

Even in the original timeline, Rocks was defeated only by the combined efforts of two great figures, Garp and Roger, which shows his immense power.

Afterwards, Marine Garp became a world-renowned hero, and Roger thus ushered in his own era, demonstrating that Rocks was indeed a pivotal figure in pirate history.

How could such a person be silently killed and replaced by Sieg?

“Wait...why?” Stussy asked, frowning.

"Why what?" Sig asked, somewhat bewildered.

“And your motive?” Stussy continued.

"Killing Rocks is understandable; fighting between pirates is perfectly normal."

"But after killing Rocks, why did you impersonate him, make contact with me, and enter Elbaf, and even later the Valley of the Gods?"

Attacking God Valley is indeed Rocks' style, and it's not surprising, given his inherent ambition.

Sieg was speechless for a moment.

Stussy's question hit the nail on the head.

Impersonating Rocks was to put history back on track, allowing Sieg, who was in the past, to return to his original timeline.

This kind of thing is okay to explain to Stussy in private, but who would believe it if you talked about it with other people?

Was he a time traveler who journeyed through the past?

"In short, we need to think about this carefully..." Sig fell into deep thought.

If he had a choice, he would certainly prefer that these things not be exposed, but he didn't have a choice.

He had only two options in front of him.

They either remain silent and silently accept being labeled as Rocks, or they strive to prove their innocence.

It can be said that... when faced with two evils, choose the lesser one.

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Two days later.

On Cloud Island, one of the nine floating islands, a visitor from the Blue Sea soared up on a rainbow and arrived here.

This man had a bird-like face and a round belly, looking like a large bird in human form; he was none other than News King Morgans.

Some might assume he's from a special race, or perhaps a member of the Mink Tribe, but he's actually a user of the Bird-Bird Fruit, Albatross Form. He's just been very cautious and rarely appears in human form.

Almost no one in the world knows Morgans' true identity, and this is one of his survival strategies.

Although Morgans was called by Sieg to find the precious tree Adam, he didn't do it himself; he simply delegated the task to his subordinates.

Two days ago, Sieg called Morgans and expressed his desire to be interviewed by Morgans.

This delighted Morgans, as Seager was currently in the spotlight and getting a personal interview was big news!

This time, he arrived quickly upon Sig's summons and, guided by Sig, ascended the cloud island.

"In the past few days, the New World has been turned upside down by the Navy and great pirates who want to challenge Sigurd, but no one has been able to run into Sigurd."

"So, they were hiding on a floating island! No wonder."