Shandora

Sky Island, higher in the sky, without clouds.

A man and a woman stood there like gods, looking down at the battle on the Sky Island below.

A breeze blew, causing Retsu Unohana's long hair to flutter gently. Her eyes lowered, she said, "Are you sure you don't need help? I can't think of a way for Luffy to defeat Enel."

"Rubber is immune to lightning; they don't need to worry."

Shiraishi shook his head. It was already destined, so there was no need to interfere. It was fine for them to joke around together occasionally.

"We are all destined to leave this world... We must let the king grow up."

"Yes, Zoro isn't doing well."

The Retsu Unohana.

"He's a man who can get back up no matter what happens."

Shiraishi answered confidently that while others were truly lying down, Zoro was merely recovering his strength.

Priest Ohm clearly couldn't understand; in his eyes, Zoro and Wyper were both defeated generals who couldn't move.

There's nothing to worry about.

He started counting the number of people in the arena. "Hmm, Holy, we can use that move now."

The giant white dog suddenly ran around the battlefield, and circles of white thorny Iron Cloud rose up with its footsteps, forming a huge inverted iron cage that trapped everyone, including the giant serpent Lord of the Sky of the Sky.

"Hahaha, this is Lord Ohm's Ordeal of Iron."

" The White Thorn Deathmatch!"

"None of you are going to run away."

With a whoosh, a flash of light, Zoro stood up, sliced down the excited, commentating warrior, and casually stretched his neck.

Why go through all that trouble? I'm not planning on running anyway.

"Damn it, Bai Jing."

As another warrior prepared to explain the cruelty of the game, a large hand covered the back of his head, then pressed his body against the iron cage.

Pfft

"Yes, once that's touched, things will get complicated."

Wyper calmly analyzed that the fallen divine soldier covered in blood in front of him was the best proof.

" Wyper!" A shout drifted from afar, and the black-haired female warrior came running. "Finally found you! Have you heard of me, Wyper!"

"Hey, Raki, don't come any closer!"

Wyper's expression changed drastically, and he grabbed Bai Jing with both hands, shouting, " Raki, run!"

"What did you say?" Raki was startled, a chilling voice coming from behind her, "Were you calling me?"

Raki turned her head, " Enel..."

" Raki, don't attack him, Enel! Raki has already given up the fight, you..."

Wyper was anxious to get out, but he couldn't break through the white thorn. He was attacked from behind by the divine soldiers, but he didn't change his expression and just looked at Enel in front of him.

He transformed into a dazzling bolt of lightning, knocking Raki down with a single blow. "Warrior of Shandora, you're more naive than I thought, Wyper."

"I treat all warriors equally, regardless of gender, whoever challenges me."

Wyper's face darkened. He pinned the divine weapon, which was still trying to launch a sneak attack, against Bai Jing, glaring fiercely at Enel. "Bastard."

"Don't die! Good luck."

Enel disappeared here.

Ohm exclaimed, "The fearsome god is omnipotent."

"I'll kill you all!" Wyper roared in fury.

In an instant, the battle in the iron cage escalated once again.

The belly of the giant snake.

"Ouch! That hurts so much!" Nami sat up, rubbing the back of her head with one hand, her eyes scanning her surroundings. The blood-red flesh was still writhing. Where was she...?

"Pierre!" Pierre's eyes were now round and swirling.

"We were swallowed by a giant snake; its stomach is incredibly long," Gan Fall, standing nearby as if nothing had happened, analyzing the situation.

"Hey! Aisa, are you alright?"

Nami crouched down, her face full of worry.

"I'm sorry, Wyper," Aisa cried out reflexively, then realized the terrifying war demon wasn't there, and regained her composure, asking, "Where is this?"

"Pierre!"

Nami helped Waver up and said, "It's a snake's stomach. Wake up! You're too slow. We need to get out of here before it's digested. I wonder if Waver has gone bad."

Gan Fall looked at Nami and said, "Why don't you stay on the ship? Besides, isn't that child Shandians?"

When Aisa saw it was Gan Fall, she raised the shockwave in her hand and shouted, "Wow, you're a god! I... I'm going to destroy you!"

"Stop!" Nami stretched out her hand, blocking Aisa's path.

"I wonder if I can pierce this stomach." Gan Fall touched the stomach wall, lost in thought. Could his gun do it?

Nami turned her head again and shouted, "Idiot, don't move... What if you provoke it and make it go berserk? Don't you want to live? Use your brain!!"

Gan Fall quickly replied, "Sorry, I was just saying, hypothetically."

"Nonsense, if anyone would do something so stupid, I'd like to see what they look like."

Nami remarked, "Any normal person should understand that you can't just do whatever you want."

"Whoa whoa!"

Luffy let out an excited shout and ran over quickly, yelling, " Nami... Strange old man, what are you doing in this weird cave?"

Nami, seeing Luffy, exclaimed in surprise, " Luffy!"

Regardless, encountering the captain at this moment brought her some relief, and she explained the current situation.

"Really? That's terrible! You got eaten by snakes?"

Luffy looked at them with a pitiful expression, thinking, "They're so pathetic, getting swallowed by a giant snake."

Nami really wanted to beat this guy up. She grabbed Luffy's face and yelled, "You're the same way! This is Orochi's belly!"

Luffy couldn't resist playing a prank, "Imitating Usopp."

Gan Fall crossed his arms over his chest and exclaimed in shock, "What? So you're the captain?"

Aisa couldn't understand either, and sighed, "You really are oblivious; you didn't even realize you'd been eaten."

"Pee!" Even Pegasus couldn't help but scoff.

Luffy, belatedly realizing what was happening, shouted in panic, "Huh?! So this is the giant snake's stomach?! Was I eaten too?!"

Nami pointed at Luffy and said, "Wasn't that what I was just saying? Look, your clothes have melted."

Luffy glanced at his clothes, growing increasingly panicked, and exclaimed, "Whoa, it really is! Hey, we need to find the snake's butt right now..."

Nami slapped Luffy the face, angrily saying, "Do you think you can get out of there?!"

Luffy asked, puzzled, "We were eaten, shouldn't we get out of there?"

Nami frantically slapped Luffy's face with her hand, shouting, "I don't want to! I'd rather be digested by it!"

Gan Fall exclaimed, "The women of the Blue Sea are truly fierce."

Aisa's forehead was sweating. " Nami is terrifying."

After giving Luffy a few taps, Nami calmed down and said, "Anyway, this snake swallowed us because it was in a bad mood. We need to get out of here before it goes berserk..."

At this moment, Nami, Gan Fall, and Aisa all realized a terrifying truth: why had the snake suddenly gone mad for no apparent reason?

Then Nami looked at Luffy, who was Luffy in ash.

"Were you causing a scene here the whole time?"

Nami's anger level is subtly increasing.

Luffy, oblivious to the danger, rubbed his stomach and said, "Haha, I was thinking of digging a hole to get out, I'm so hungry, do you guys have any food?"

"You big idiot!" Nami's anger erupted, and she punched Luffy hard on the head.

Wyper tried to deal with the giant snake.

Zoro's target is Ohm, the priest who presides over the Ordeal of Iron.

Regardless of what the surrounding iron cages are, taking out the moving enemies first is definitely the right thing to do.

After several attempts, Zoro roughly figured out this guy's attack methods.

"Dual-wielding style: Eagle Wave."

" Iron Wall."

The cloud blade in his hand instantly transformed into a wall, blocking Zoro- like shockwave.

Priest Ohm swung his cloud blade again, and in an instant, it transformed from the wall into a long whip.

" Iron Whip!"

brush.

The weapon, sharp as a knife and flexible as a whip, sliced across the battlefield in an instant, leaving a long crack in the earth.

Zoro had already dodged away.

"You from the Blue Sea, I didn't realize you were so capable."

Ohm praised, then pushed up his sunglasses, "However, your sword's radius is only two meters around you, while my Cloud Blade is dozens of meters long. It can transform into a sturdy shield when retreating, and it can be used for both offense and defense. You have no chance of winning."

"The eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, and mind are the six senses of a person."

Zoro recited his realization, "Add to that good, evil, and neutrality! Each has its own purity and defilement, and that makes thirty-six kinds of afflictions in a lifetime..."

The priest Ohm was completely bewildered. He said, "My sword is already aimed at your heart. Pray to the gods."

"Thirty-six afflictions in the first life, seventy-two afflictions in the second, and so on..."

Seeing that the person opposite him was ignoring him and continued chanting, Ohm, enraged, suddenly swung his Cloud Blade like a wave, attacking Zoro, who was assuming Three Sword Style stance.

" 108 Pound Phoenix!!"

Zoro spun around rapidly, his swords spinning in unison, the sword energy from his three blades transforming into a massive, all-encompassing blade wheel that slashed towards his opponent.

A single strike was unleashed.

The swirling blade's momentum grew stronger and stronger, its spinning speed increasing, creating a deafening hurricane.

In an instant, it shredded the cloud blade, said to be harder than steel, that the priest Ohm had unleashed, and then, without pausing, it devoured everything in its path like a vicious dragon.

"How could this be?!"

The attack came too fast, and the range of the blade wind was too wide.

Ohm only had time to let out an incredulous cry before he was thrown into Blade Storm, blood splattering everywhere as he spun and flew backward.

A soaring slash, a one-hit kill.

Robin is exploring the ruins of Shandora.

From the remaining, dilapidated walls, she saw characters carved into them, and a look of surprise crossed her face. "I never imagined... that ancient script from the Poneglyph could be found so everywhere here. Besides the people who compiled the Poneglyph, there must be no one else who could carve these characters."

"Keeping our true intentions hidden in our hearts and remaining silent, we are the ones who write history, accompanied by the tolling of the clock tower..."

Robin muttered to himself, then suddenly remembered, "That's right, the Golden Bell! Noland's logbook mentions a huge Golden Bell."

Looking at the dilapidated yet magnificent ruins, she fell into deep thought, wondering if this was how the Poneglyph were transported to this city.

This city once fought against some kind of malice; the City of Gold Shandora fought to protect the Poneglyph, but was ultimately destroyed.

Robin flipped through his notebook again and walked to the center of the four altars, but he didn't see the bell tower and Golden Bell as described in the notes; instead, he saw only a huge vine.

What is the history that even this once extremely prosperous city is so desperately trying to protect?

Robin murmured to herself, her passion as an archaeologist making her yearn to return to that blank era and see what had happened in the past.

Continuing forward, she noticed tracks on the road. "Are these mine cart tracks? There are signs of previous transport; they're still quite new."

"Haha, isn't that amazing? Even though it was launched into the air, it's still a magnificent and enormous city, Shandora."

Robin turned her head and saw Enel sitting on the broken wall of the ruins, smiling at her.

Enel spread his hands and said, "If the legendary city were shrouded in clouds, it wouldn't be able to display its magnificence. I'm the one who discovered it; those idiots before had no idea this city existed."

Robin already had a guess in mind, but still asked doubtfully, "Who are you?"

"God."

Enel said the word with an air of self-assurance, then took out an apple and ate it, saying as he ate, "That's really amazing. Are you an archaeologist from the Blue Sea?"

Even I spent months discovering this site. Is it because you can read the ancient script that you found it so easily?

Unfortunately, the golden ruins you're looking for are gone; you've arrived a few years too late.

"Gold..." Robin suddenly remembered what the Straw Hat Pirates's purpose was and said, "Speaking of which, I didn't see any trace of the gold mentioned in the diary. Did you take the gold away?"

Enel nodded and said, "Gold is a good thing; only that glittering metal is befitting of my divine status."

"Then what happened to the Golden Bell that was originally placed here?"

Robin pressed for an answer.

Enel tilted his head. "What Golden Bell?"

"He doesn't know..." Robin murmured to himself. Who exactly has the Golden Bell in their hands?

Enel asked, "Did you discover anything while examining the ancient texts?"

Robin shook his head and said, "Unfortunately, we didn't find anything. Since it wasn't there when you came, maybe it didn't drift into the sky with you."

" Shandora's proudest landmark is its enormous Golden Bell and clock tower; what I'm looking for is the clock tower."

Robin finished speaking.

"Wait," Enel suddenly interrupted, "That thing is floating into the sky too."

"Four hundred years ago, when the Island of God was born, that is, when the island was thrown into the sky, it is said that a tremendous bell rang throughout the entire country."

Enel stroked his chin, recalling, "The older generation in this country called it the island's song, huh? So that clock was made of gold."

"Great! There are only eight minutes left in this game. I'll go look for it then, haha."

He paused for a moment, then added, "There seems to be another insect on the edge of the island."

Robin was surprised by this statement; she realized that the man in front of her was too arrogant to lie.

How could they detect us from such a distance, so far from the edge of the island?