Finally Sig, as was the case, entered the "Between the Gods" with Angel.
The other elders lined the street to welcome them and then stood guard outside.
The so-called "between of the gods" is a cylindrical space located underground in the Holy Land's dueling arena, presumably within the White Sea, surrounded by walls made of Island Cloud.
As a "room," it is very, very tall, with an unknown light source at the top that makes it anything but dark; on the contrary, it is radiant with light.
Around them were huge cubic stones, each engraved with numerous characters.
The larger ones are complex block-shaped characters—unlike the square characters that Sig is familiar with in Chinese, they are more like mazes drawn in squares!
The wooden box God-God Fruit had this kind of writing on it.
In addition, smaller characters were written in the gaps between these characters. Sig recognized them; they were all standard scripts—although the sea was a barrier, there was a common script in the world, everywhere, whether on the four seas or the Grand Line.
The mysterious script is in segments, clearly divided into sections, and these common characters are written in smaller characters between the segments.
These appear to be annotations of these mysterious characters, but only a small portion have annotations in smaller print, and most of them simply contain annotations of words.
Judging from the different handwriting and the different pen cloud colors used, it should not have been annotated by the same person.
"These words... does anyone in Bilca still recognize them?" Sig already had the answer in his mind, but he still asked one more question.
If anyone still recognized them, they wouldn't have left these scattered annotations, would they?
Angel shook his head and said, "No one recognizes it anymore... Eight hundred years ago, the lineage of Bilca seemed to have encountered a major problem. Many previous records were lost, or no one could decipher them. These annotations are the parts that the gods of later generations consulted and translated from the classics."
Upon hearing this, Sig's heart skipped a beat—eight hundred years ago? So, the "Void Century" still affected Sky Island?
Sig didn't say anything more, but instead looked at the small print annotations and judged how much content was missing based on the length of the original sentences.
Most of the sentences actually have no annotations at all. A few sentences have a few words of annotation, but the one with the most annotations is the stone directly in front of you after you enter the "Between of the Gods"—although he has never seen it before, Sig can guess that this should be the Poneglyph!
And among the gods, there were seven pieces...
Judging from its position and the arrangement of the text, it seems that what is written here is something like an "introduction" or "general outline," something quite important.
Following the text carefully, Sig realized that it was about "Bilca's mission," or rather, "The mission of the Moon person!"
Although the moon wasn't directly mentioned, Sig's connection to the original plot makes the implications quite clear...
This text records that the "god" of the Bilca people will one day ride the "Ark of Ark Maxim" and lead his people back to the "Vast Land".
The phrase "Ark Maxim" is a precise translation—indeed, this is the name of Enel's spaceship in the original work.
However, it was also mentioned that simply having the "Ark· Ark Maxim" is not enough to go to the Vast Land; you also need to bring a "full load of gold".
The paragraphs explaining the uses of gold were translated very poorly, only containing a few words: impact, repair, decomposition...
It seems they're using gold to repair something that was damaged in the accident?
Regarding the source of gold, the above mentioned words such as "waiting" and "accumulation"...
It's as if they're telling the Bilca people that as long as they "wait," they'll get gold?
"Gold? Such a rare thing... Even in the Blue Sea, gold is very valuable, right? In the White Sea, there are almost no native metals. What I'm wearing is basically all I have... Hey! Let's get down to business!"
Because the vocabulary in the translation was too limited, Angel couldn't make any connections; he was simply puzzled.
Where did they get so much gold?
Sig, on the other hand, was reminded of the Golden City Shandora from the original work...
Part of Jaya Island was washed Sky Island, which seems to be just an accident. However, it is true that the Shandorian who lived in the Blue Sea before all had wings on their backs—although they were different from the small wings of the Bilca people, they were indeed a unique decoration of the Moon person.
"Could it be... that your ancestors, along with another group of companions, had a mission to build the 'Ark of Ark Maxim,' while the other group remained in the Blue Sea to collect gold?" Sig proposed a hypothesis.
Indeed, the Shandorian regard protecting the "Golden City of Shandora" as a mission.
If we consider that Jaya Island, the homeland of the Shandorian, was bombarded by Ancient Weapon, it is very likely that the relationship between Shandora and the Great Kingdom was much closer than imagined.
However, it seems that both the Shandorian who remained in the Blue Sea and the Sky Island person in the White Sea were affected by the destruction and Void Century of the Great Kingdom a hundred years later, and their lineage was interrupted.
Even the civilization of the Shandorian has regressed to a level that can be described as "primitive".
Four hundred years Void Century, due to Rising Current, the Shandorian and a small portion of Jaya Island arrived at Accumulating Emperor Cloud, where Angel Island is located. The two sides were already "unrecognizable to each other," and a war that lasted four hundred years erupted...
Four hundred years later, the tyrannical Enel destroyed Bilca and came to Angel Island, ultimately bringing the "Golden Ones" and the "Ark: Ark Maxim" together.
This fueled Enel's ambition to reach the "Vast Land"...
The written records between the gods also contain a significant section on the role of gold, but unfortunately, most of it is incomprehensible.
Sig didn't think Enel's use of gold was correct.
If it's just used as a simple "conductor," there's no need to use gold at all—even if you're willing to pay any price for conductivity, silver would be a better conductor, and this is also true in the world of One Piece.
Furthermore, the world of One Piece contains many mysterious metals and alloys. From both an absolute efficiency and cost-effectiveness perspective, using gold as the material for "Ark: Ark Maxim" seems rather foolish.
Only Enel, who hadn't seen many metals, would have speculated about the uses of gold and concluded that it could be used as a material for the Ark.
Sig also thought that the Celestial Dragons' obsession with "Celestial Gold" suggested they might have some reason for wanting it.
Angel thought Sig's guess made sense, but... for her now, it was just a guess and had no practical significance.
"Shouldn't there be more specific information about this 'Ark Maxim'?" Sig didn't think so. In the original work, Enel invented the flying ship himself and then named it "Ark Maxim".
Angel nodded. "That's right, there are blueprints. However... the written explanations are all in unfamiliar characters. You can only look at the diagrams, and you need the power of the 'God-God Fruit' to control it." This was what the former elder told her yesterday.
Angel's parents, or rather, the Mutel lineage, had longed to return to the Vast Land, but they had been away from the center of power for a long time and did not understand what that meant.
Angel had always believed this was a matter of benefiting his people, but now it seemed like a distant dream. Even if a "god" appeared, the "Vast Land" wasn't something one could simply go to...