Alabasta: Maybe / Alabasta: Fate

Lin Mo walked up to the statue and pushed it ninety degrees counterclockwise. A mechanical sound came from beneath the grass beside him, and soon a concealed hatch opened, revealing a staircase leading underground.

Without a word, Lin Mo headed straight down the stairs.

The Poneglyph he was looking for lay in the deepest part of this underground passage.

Supposedly, this Poneglyph had been guarded by generations of Alabasta's kings. It was also a major reason Crocodile had stationed himself in Alabasta, though he did not yet know that its contents had absolutely nothing to do with the Pluton he wanted.

Before long, Lin Mo reached the underground tomb. After passing through a long corridor, he came upon a massive stone door five or six meters tall.

Lin Mo pushed the door open and entered. Inside was a spacious, domed burial chamber, but there was not a single coffin in it. Instead, there stood an enormous square blue stone covered in writing he could not understand at all.

This was the Poneglyph he had come for.

Without much hesitation, Lin Mo stepped forward and stored it in System Space.

Immediately afterward, the system notification sounded.

Ding, ding! Poneglyph stone tablet +1. Current hidden mission progress: 3/30.

Chapter 542: Alabasta: Maybe

Three down!

Once Enel and Kaku get their Poneglyphs, there'll only be twenty-six left.

Hmm... twenty-six... completing the collection still seems a long way off.

Giving it no further thought, Lin Mo turned around and left after storing the Poneglyph in System Space.

Back on the lawn, he returned the Catfish Statue to its original position. The underground entrance slowly closed, looking as though it had never been opened.

Because this tomb was so unusual, generations of Alabasta's kings had deliberately left it unguarded to keep outsiders from