"We've achieved a partial victory, let's have a celebration today. Rebecca and Mantis, you two go relocate the islands tomorrow, remember to say hello to Whitebeard then."
After giving instructions, Vic called everyone to prepare the food and drinks needed for the banquet. Titan Island also has trees and animals, but the plants and animals here are extraordinary. The plant fibers are more resilient and dense, and the animal bones are thick and dense.
Compared to the flora and fauna of the outside world, the plants and animals on Titan Island are much lower in altitude. After all, they have been growing and reproducing in a high-gravity environment for a long time, and this is the result of generations of growth. Therefore, you can also find fruits and meats here, but their flavors are very different from those outside.
" Via! Come with me, I need to discuss something with you." After the banquet, everyone had eaten and drunk their fill. Vic called out to Olvia, who was a little tipsy, and headed towards his house.
Olvia was still half asleep and hadn't noticed Vic calling her. It was only when Wendy nudged her that she snapped out of it. Everyone else stared in astonishment at the two who entered the house one after the other. What were they up to now that they had eaten and drunk their fill?
The two had been spending time alone in such a secretive manner many times over the past two years, and coupled with Olvia's increasingly mature and voluptuous figure, they couldn't help but suspect that the two were probably up to no good.
Rebecca and Ain's eyes nearly popped out of their sockets, reflecting the blazing firelight—not the flames of their own anger, but the reflection of the campfire itself. Whether they truly felt the fire within themselves was something only they knew.
Of course, Vic didn't actually do those things with Olvia. He just sought Olvia out to learn the Poneglyph. The fewer people who knew about this, the better. That's why Vic often sought out Olvia alone, and each visit would last for most of the day.
As for Olvia's physical form, her life has gradually become more stable now that she has no worries about food, drink, or daily necessities. In addition, she has started cultivating to become stronger, which is very different from when she was always on edge and hiding. Naturally, her physical form will undergo great changes, which is a very normal physiological change. However, putting the two things together will lead to endless speculation.
When Olvia saw Vic sit down at the table, she followed. Her somewhat dazed mind was quickly drawn to the five long scrolls of paper that Vic conjured out of thin air. Although she knew that Vic wouldn't talk to her about anything unimportant after the banquet, she still couldn't quite figure out what Vic was thinking as she looked at the five scrolls of paper.
"These are... rubbings of the Poneglyph? How do you have so many?"
Olvia's dazed mind was instantly jolted awake by the scroll Vic unfolded. The scroll was covered in Ancient Script, and its size was similar to that of the Poneglyph. Vic had taken out five such scrolls, which surprised her.
They've only managed to collect one Poneglyph in all that time in Ohara, while Vic quietly produced five. His ability and dedication are truly remarkable.
What Vic produced was not a rubbing, but a sketch he had made from memory before studying Ancient Script in Olvia, based on his photographic memory. It was just that the format and size were the same as the one in the Poneglyph.
The fact that Ohara only found one Poneglyph wasn't due to a lack of effort or bad luck, but rather because the team of archaeologists they assembled was simply too incompetent. Poneglyph are not ordinary things; without sufficient expertise, one cannot access many aspects of the world or reach many places. For such a team, finding even one Poneglyph was already incredibly lucky.
Look at the places where Vic found the Poneglyph? One was embedded in the base of the Golden Bell on Sky Island, but are Sky Island places that ordinary people can go?
Even if they could reach the Sky Island, could they find the Golden Bell, hidden in a Island Cloud for hundreds of years? The Shandia and the people of Angel Island searched for so long and couldn't find it. Do their ordinary people have the ability to reach that Island Cloud?
Another piece was found in the Sea Forest of Fish-Man Island. How many pirates have perished on their way to Fish-Man Island? If even powerful pirates are like this, what are the chances of survival for ordinary people? A slight mishap could take their lives. This is due to the harsh geographical environment.
There's another underground palace in Alabasta. Can ordinary people just go in? Do a few archaeologists have enough influence for the king to let them in for a visit?
There are several other pieces of Poneglyph like these, such as those in the underground of Wano Country and the Whale Forest of Zou. These are places that ordinary people are not allowed to enter, so how are the scholars of Ohara supposed to find them?
Others are simply hidden away, impossible to find without the ability to Voice of All Things, such as inside the mountains of Land of Hot Springs or under a desert in Alabasta. This is something that archaeologists alone cannot accomplish.
Another type is the kind that even those with the ability to Voice of All Things cannot find. There is such a Poneglyph in Vic's Dimensional Ring, which neither Roger nor Kozuki Oden could find.
This requires immense luck to encounter and obtain, and Roger, the former Pirate King, clearly did not have that kind of luck. Otherwise, he would have been the one who truly changed the world, instead of an adventurer born in the wrong era. Although Roger started the Great Pirate Era, his greatest role was to lay the groundwork, to foreshadow the era that was about to go wild.
"These are all things I encountered during my missions and adventures on the Grand Line over the years. I felt they would be useful, so I wrote them down. Later I learned that they were Ancient Script."
Now that the World Government is no longer a major problem, we can finally take a good look at what's recorded here. You've been obsessed with the Void Century of history, so take a good look at it too."
Of the five Poneglyph in Vic's hands, he already knew the general contents of three of them: the one from Alabasta recorded the location where Pluton was kept, the one from Sky Island recorded the location of Poseidon, and the one from Fish-Man Island was Joy Boy's apology to the Little Mermaid.
Pluton and Poseidon already knew that the apology was worth reading, and they also wanted to know what had happened back then. Vic Vic really wanted to know was what was recorded on the piece inside the Dimensional Ring and the piece guarded by the giant robot inside the mountain of Hot Spring Island.
" Vic! Meeting you might have used up all the luck I had in the first half of my life!"
Olvia, clutching an open Poneglyph, choked back tears as she spoke, her eyes welling with moisture. Her early life had been one of constant wandering and several major life-altering events, all for these few sheets of paper on the table.
But since meeting Vic, her life has completely changed. Things have become increasingly smooth. She has no worries about food and drink, no need to worry about being hunted down by the World Government, and she has also become stronger and has a certain ability to protect herself.
Seeing so many Poneglyph she had longed for again completely stirred her emotions. The contrast between the two different lives made her realize how lucky she was to have met Vic!
Ohara was just a Buster Call to the World Government, but Vic managed to force the Five Elders to compromise. Perhaps someone like him really could change the world! Olvia thought to herself.