"Titan, take all this gold."
Titan knew what to do. He transformed into a taotie, opened his enormous mouth, and unleashed a terrifying devouring force.
The ground shook as Titan swallowed the buildings along with the gold into the space inside his body. It did not take long.
Once inside Titan's body, the gold could naturally be sorted out.
Soon, the two followed the giant vine up from its roots to its top.
A thick cloud rested there, looking much like all the others. Yet this very cloud concealed the Golden Bell, keeping Enel from finding it despite six years of searching.
He could never have imagined that the Golden Bell he had worked so hard to find was right above his own shrine.
There was no sign of a Palace on the vine now, though. It must have been built later.
The first thing that came into view was the massive Golden Bell, with vines still wound around it.
Both the bell itself and the golden pillars supporting it on either side stood a hundred meters tall.
Beneath the Golden Bell was a three-tiered set of steps.
Besides the bell and its two pillars, there were two smaller pillars, one on either side, as well as the steps below.
They were made entirely of gold, not merely plated with it.
It was hard to imagine how such an enormous structure had been built.
A project on this scale surely had nothing to do with these natives.
Hades already had a guess about that: it had most likely been giants.
The Golden Bell was certainly more than four hundred years old. Its history went back eight hundred years.
There was also a Poneglyph on it.
This gold, along with a vast quantity of other treasures, had been brought here from