January 21, 1508 ( Sea Circle Calendar )
Aside from returning to the Rum Kingdom for their annual meeting, Noah and his group spent the rest of their time searching for the Devil Fruit on Auckland Island.
This is typical of Noah's search for Devil Fruit; even using tarot cards for divination doesn't guarantee a very accurate location.
Moreover, even if the exact location is obtained, it is only the location at the moment of divination. Sometimes, Devil Fruit can be moved by people, animals, or natural disasters.
He was now certain that the fruit was not in the crater area of Auckland Island, but in the icy, snowy ice field region.
Faced with an ice field covering nearly two hundred square kilometers, Noah was also at a loss.
Suddenly he remembered someone, and immediately turned around and ordered, " Ray, go and bring Luo here."
"Luo? He should still be on Turtle Island, right? I'm coming over right away..."
A few minutes later, the wormhole reopened.
Ray and Luo jumped out of the wormhole.
"Is there something urgent at the Noah family's house?"
What stage has the redevelopment of Turtle Island reached?
"The transplantation of the predatory vines has been completed. With the replenishment of plenty of food, the island tortoises have recovered significantly. The next step is to replace the plants on their shells with symbiotic plants that are connected to the tortoises, which can further enhance their energy supply."
Noah nodded. "Well done."
Luo scratched his spotted leather hat. "It's my honor to be able to help the Noah family."
"I called you here this time to use your abilities to find a fruit hidden beneath the glacier."
"Searching for Devil Fruit?" Law thought for a moment, then quickly realized, "Should we use a CT scan?"
"Yes." Noah casually took out a few Devil Fruit from the cards. "First, use a CT scan to examine these Devil Fruit as a reference for their physical properties."
"No problem." Law held the Devil Fruit Devil Fruit both hands and quickly scanned them carefully several times with a CT scanner, recording their status during the scans. " Noah family, all set."
"Let's begin!"
Luo focused his mind. "Operating room - maximize!"
Its operating room area immediately covered a radius of 1,500 meters.
"Enhanced CT..."
A moment later, Law opened his eyes with regret. "There's no sign of Devil Fruit here."
Robin marked this location with an X on a detailed map of Auckland Island.
How many more times can you use this level of scan?
Luo estimated his stamina. "I can probably use it about 80 more times today."
"Eighty times? That should be enough. After all, this glacier is only about two hundred square kilometers. We might find it soon."
Soon Luo began scanning the area methodically.
On the 17th scan, Luo suddenly opened his eyes, a strange look in them.
What were the findings?
"The outlines of many buildings can be seen in the glacier below the Noah house."
"Building outline? What is the specific depth?"
Luo estimated for a moment. "Probably below 142 meters."
"This depth?" Noah raised an eyebrow, then his body entered a state of high-temperature steel. The glacier beneath his feet rapidly melted and was directly evaporated into water vapor by the high heat.
Soon a hole appeared in the glacier.
They didn't encounter hard rock until they reached a depth of about 145 meters in the glacier. He and Accino then worked together to continue melting the ice around them.
As the ice beneath melted rapidly, the buried ruins were revealed.
To prevent the ice above from collapsing, Noah manipulated the iron sand to form a ceiling and pillars.
Robin looked at some of the statues and Ancient Script in the ruins and quickly translated their contents.
"This is the ancient Ankuda people's shrine. According to the records of the Ohara Library, the Ancuda Kingdom was once a prosperous nation, renowned for its gem carving, and famously produced the Angel's Tears '..."
Seeing that the elevation was more than 50 meters below sea level, Noah knew that this so-called Ankura Kingdom was most likely submerged in the cataclysmic sea invasion eight hundred years ago.
"Some of the written records in the temples here describe their worship of the gem god, as well as how to perform sacrifices and various rituals."
"Can you find out where the capital of the Ankura Kingdom is?"
Robin continued examining the inscriptions on the surrounding buildings and quickly found the relevant information, "Every year on April 9th, the King of the Ankura Kingdom kneels and worships the God of Gems all the way west from the capital to the Gem Temple."
"In other words, the capital city is located to the east of the Gem Temple."
Ray suggested, "Brother, should we dig up these gems?"
"No rush."
Noah and Accino quickly cleared a path eastward.
After advancing about 4.3 kilometers eastward, they encountered the Ancura Royal Capital, which was located at a depth of about 110 meters above sea level. No wonder it was submerged.
Upon entering the royal city, one finds numerous jewels and ornaments within its buildings, truly befitting its legendary status as the land of gems.
The royal palace, in particular, is adorned with a variety of dazzling gemstones.
Because the area was likely to freeze into ice after being submerged by seawater, many Ankula people's bodies remain relatively intact, with almost no signs of skeletal remains.
Suddenly, Luo spoke up, reminding them, " The Noah family has discovered Devil Fruit, inside the royal palace."
A moment later, Law used the spatial abilities of the operating room to retrieve the Devil Fruit hidden within.
"Huh? This fruit looks unfamiliar..." Robin looked at the Devil Fruit in front of her with a puzzled expression, after all, she had seen the Devil Fruit Encyclopedia.
Noah also failed to recognize the Devil Fruit. He took out the Book of Devils and flipped through it from beginning to end, but still couldn't find any record that matched the characteristics of this Devil Fruit.
Robin was also very surprised. "How could this be?"
Suddenly, Noah seemed to realize something. "This place was destroyed eight hundred years ago. If this fruit has been frozen here for eight hundred years, it means that the Devil Fruit Encyclopedia eight hundred years later doesn't record it."
Robin realized as well. "That's right, the first officially published Devil Fruit Encyclopedia was published in 1247."
"Perhaps the World Government has the most complete Devil Fruit Encyclopedia, but they won't publish it publicly." Noah thought for a moment, then whispered a few words to Ray.
A few minutes later, Ray brought over a test subject whose prefrontal lobe had been removed, and then he brought Mary over as well.
Noah cut open the Devil Fruit and stuffed a piece of the fruit into the test subject's mouth.
Mary immediately sensed the subject's mind. This emotionless experimental subject was completely unable to resist Mary's Observation Haki, and she quickly learned about the Devil Fruit's abilities.
"Big brother, this Devil Fruit is Logia Rock-Rock Fruit."
"What? Logia?"
Everyone was very surprised.
"There's actually such a fruit..." Kuro was a little shocked.
" Rock Fruit?" Noah pondered the potential development of this fruit.
This fruit is clearly a superior version of the Stone-Stone Fruit and the Sand-Sand Fruit, since sand is essentially small rocks.
Moreover, after glancing at the enormous amount of gems in the palace, he realized that it was highly likely that someone in the Ankura Kingdom had used the Rock-Rock Fruit to mass-produce gem ore, which was why the kingdom had become known as the Gem Kingdom.
Noah quickly made a decision; he directly used Bege's Castle-Castle Fruit to retrieve the Rock-Rock Fruit from the test subject's body.