"Roy, where exactly is the thing you're looking for? I'm freezing to death."
Spandam tucked his sword beneath his arm and breathed warm air into his hands.
Before him lay a huge, freshly dug pit.
Desert nights were already frigid, not to mention that Aokiji had frozen all of Alubarna.
Roy glanced at Spandam, who was slacking off at the side with barely any strength left.
Boom!
Roy punched the rain-soaked, frozen ground.
The powerful shockwave sent large amounts of frozen sand flying to the sides.
"We're about to find it. Spandam, quit slacking off. Go clear away the sand that's about to slide down around us."
His fists continued to pound the ground.
The place where the Poneglyph had originally been was not very deep below the surface.
But because Crocodile had recklessly used Desert Sunflower, the underground area had turned into quicksand, causing the Poneglyph to sink deeper.
Roy soon smashed out a pit dozens of meters deep with his bare fists.
Bang!
Roy swung his fist down and struck the ground again.
This time, there was no sound of fist hitting sand. Instead, it sounded as though he had struck something hard.
"Finally dug it out!"
He brushed away the sand covering the Poneglyph, revealing gray-black stone.
He continued exerting force until the entire Poneglyph appeared before him.
"Hey, Spandam, stand farther back. I'm about to throw something up."
Roy called a warning to Spandam, who was still slacking off above.
Bang!
The veins on Roy's arms bulged as he grabbed the Poneglyph and hurled it upward.
The massive cubical stone block flew six or seven meters into the air. Roy then tensed his calves and leaped up, his iron fist coated in Armament Haki smashing directly into the bottom of the Poneglyph.
The tremendous impact launched