February 3, 1508 ( Sea Circle Calendar )
Above Raijin Island in the New World, a wormhole opened in the Cumuloregalis Cloud, and Noah and the others filed out.
Then Noah released the Nautilus, and Vic plunged his hands into its Nautilus. Instantly, a layer of opal covered the Nautilus's shell, and then the Nautilus disappeared into thin air.
After everyone boarded the ship, the Nautilus sped off in one direction.
Kuro looked at the three Eternal Pose in his hand, constantly monitoring the flight path to prevent it from deviating from its course.
The purpose of this trip is to reach the Sea of Mist of New World.
According to various intelligence analyses, there are many islands in this sea area, but they have always been under the strict control of the World Government.
Noah suspected that this was the original source of the Dyna Stone because of a piece of news.
That was in 1476, when a World Government transport fleet in the Sea of Mist was attacked by a powerful pirate force, causing a terrifying tsunami in the surrounding waters.
Afterwards, the Navy even stationed Admiral Bloody Hand Bele in the Sea of Mist until around 1488, when Bloody Hand finally left the Sea of Mist.
Under what circumstances will a tsunami occur?
There are only a few answers: either Whitebeard's Tremor-Tremor Fruit, a violent explosion, or a strike from Uranus.
First, we can rule out the possibility of Uranus attacking, because Vegapunk hasn't created the Mother Flame yet, so Uranus's energy supply is definitely insufficient, Imu wouldn't use Uranus casually.
Both Whitebeard and Dyna Stone are possibilities.
The pirate force that attacked the transport fleet was none other than the infamous Rocks Pirates, of which Whitebeard was Rocks Pirates at the time.
Based on the Navy's subsequent reaction, Noah knew that there must be something very important to the World Government within the Sea of Mist.
One week later.
The Nautilus entered the outer edge of the Sea of Mist.
Noah amplified his Observation Haki using electromagnetic waves and quickly located several monitoring outposts established by the Navy in the area.
Clearly, the World Government has not completely abandoned the Sea of Mist.
However, these surveillance outposts are basically useless to the Noah Family, who can fly.
Soon the Nautilus entered the depths of the Sea of Mist from high altitude.
After finding the first uninhabited island, the Nautilus landed on it from high altitude.
The island was very quiet; Noah couldn't even sense any large animals, and the plants were sparse and looked malnourished.
However, Noah soon discovered some ruins on the island.
Kuro glanced at the rusty mine rails and the pile of rubble at the end of the tracks. "That was a mining shaft, but it's all been blasted down."
"Leave it to me!" Vic plunged his hands into the ground and began to assimilate the surrounding rocks.
After more than ten minutes, Vic shook his head. "Not here. There's just an ordinary copper mine ruin down there."
"Then let's go to the next island."
The Nautilus set sail again.
There are quite a few islands inside the Sea of Mist, probably more than thirty.
Noah and his group searched eight islands in succession but found no trace of the Dyna Stone.
The ninth deserted island is a very small island, with an area of less than 20,000 square meters.
Vic didn't pay much attention and just routinely sensed the situation through the underground rock layers, but he quickly opened his eyes. "Big brother, I've found something."
"Any discoveries?" Noah hadn't held out much hope for this island anyway.
"There's a huge, vortex-shaped cavity on the seabed on the northeast side of the island. I sensed some unstable rocks beneath it, somewhat like the Dyna Stone you described."
"We'll know once we take some samples."
Vic nodded, then manipulated the surrounding rocks to remove some unstable rocks buried more than 500 meters underground.
The moment the unstable rock was removed and appeared on the ground, its surface began to expand.
Boom! The violent explosion instantly destroyed a large area of rocks that Vic had created.
Noah knew immediately upon seeing the pebble-shaped stones that they were Dyna Stone: "That's it!"
"What terrifying power!" Kuro estimated that the fist-sized Dyna Stone had instantly destroyed a rock layer with a radius of nearly 120 meters.
"Is this the Dyna Stone?" Vic quickly dived underground and found the Dyna Stone buried deep inside. By sensing the elemental structure within it, he quickly figured out the composition of the Dyna Stone.
When Vic resurfaced from underground, he was holding a piece of Dyna Stone encased in crystal in his palm.
"Is it possible to replicate the composition of Dyna Stone now?"
Vic nodded. "Yes, I can now mass-produce Dyna Stone."
In fact, the Noah Family does possess powerful explosives. For example, Gairam can mass-produce metallic hydrogen cubes using the Cube-Cube Fruit, and these are just as powerful as Dyna Stone.
However, the metallic hydrogen cube has a drawback: apart from Noah and Gairam, no one else can activate the explosion command inside.
The metallic hydrogen cube needs to be decompressed before it can explode instantly.
While the Dyna Stone created by Vic is also extremely unstable, it will not explode as long as it does not come into direct contact with oxygen.
Therefore, by covering the surface of the Dyna Stone with a layer of crystal, Vic prevented the Dyna Stone from contacting the air. At the same time, the crystal is not very hard, so as long as it hits a hard building or rock, it will cause the outer shell to crack, thus exposing the Dyna Stone inside to the air and triggering a large explosion.
This means that this Dyna Stone can be used as a conventional weapon.
Of course, Noah wouldn't let ordinary members handle the Dyna Stone weapons casually, since his own strength was too weak and the weapons could easily be captured by the enemy.
Even if Dyna Stone weapons were to be equipped, they would be mounted on those Ark warships.
Noah no longer cares about the Ancient Weapon Pluton, since the Ark warships, equipped with Dyna Stone weapons on a large scale, also possess the destructive power to wipe out an entire island.
Moreover, the Ark is a warship that can be mass-produced.
From this moment forward, the Noah Family and the Kingdom of Dawn will have the initial foundation to challenge the World Government.
However, Noah was not blinded by the Dyna Stone weapon.
This thing is only destructive enough to deal with ordinary people or islands; it would be difficult to inflict fatal injuries on even a Vice Admiral- level expert.
Zephyr later provided Noah with a reference point through his own experience.
Borsalino, whose face was covered in Dyna Stone, didn't even have his clothes dirty. The Marine Headquarters Vice Admiral also suffered only minor injuries from the Dyna Stone.
Of course, if hundreds of tons of Dyna Stone were detonated at once, even a Vice Admiral- level expert in the core area of the explosion would not be able to stop it.
The problem is that the existence of Observation Haki makes it difficult for such ambush attacks to be 100% effective.
However, after Vic gained the ability to create Dyna Stone, his strength was basically at the Admiral level, even more terrifying than that of an ordinary Admiral.
This is the blessing of a top-tier Logia.
After consuming the Rock-Rock Fruit, Vic's potential will skyrocket, and he will soon be able to catch up with Joshua and Lilian.
As for Monet, even with Noah's development ideas for her Snow-Snow Fruit, she could probably only reach the level of Admiral Candidate, unless she could reach Zephyr's level in terms of physical strength or awaken Conqueror's Haki, she would have no chance of stepping into the Admiral level.