As time passed, the magnificent golden city gradually grew ancient and overgrown, with vines winding their way along its buildings.
No one knew where the island's native inhabitants had gone, and no one remained to tend the increasingly abandoned city.
Every building bore the marks of time.
Rewinding such a long stretch of history seemed to place a considerable burden on Nanke Doyle. At some point, beads of sweat had covered his forehead.
The viewers could make them out through the broadcast.
Many began to worry whether he could hold out until the truth was uncovered.
At last, space froze.
Time began to flow normally again.
"Someone's coming."
After nearly four hundred years without a single visitor, this mysterious land, the "golden city" of Shandora, finally welcomed its first guests.
"Huh?"
"This is...!"
A group arrived at the heart of the golden city, cheering and jumping for joy.
The sight of those familiar faces shocked everyone.
There was no one who did not know them.
They were the Roger Pirates.
In the previous era, they had been the only legendary pirate crew capable of rivaling the Flying Pirates.
They had survived the Battle of Edd War and repeated encirclements by the World Government.
Their captain was the legendary Great Pirate who had ushered in the Great Pirate Era, Gol D. Roger.
No one had expected that, after hundreds of years, the first people to find the Golden Land would be the Roger Pirates.
Even now, people still remembered what the "Pirate King" Roger had said before his death.
"You want my treasure? You can have it all if you want it. Go find it! I left all my treasure there!"
Those words had ushered in the Great Pirate Era.
Many had never had a clear idea of what Roger's treasure