" Rebecca! Go with Mantis as soon as possible to resolve his concerns. The clarification news has already come out, and I believe the list of the Shichibukai will be announced soon. Then we will have a fixed territory."
I need to leave for a while to take care of some things. Don't worry about my safety, everyone else just needs to focus on their own tasks. Here, take this; handle anything that comes up."
After giving instructions to Rebecca Mantis, Vic handed Barnett the Den Den Mushi (a type of electric scooter) to contact Ban. He was about to go find the island mentioned in the Poneglyphs and didn't know when he would be back.
If it's Alternate Dimensional Space like Rainbow Mist, then it's really hard to say. If there really is a chance to become a god, he would try it there too. So the intelligence work needs to be handed over to Barnett, the first mate. He needs to handle any important matters.
As for Vic's safety, they are not worried at all now; the ones who should be worried are the people who encounter Vic.
After giving his instructions, Vic vanished from Titan Island in Inazuma. The location recorded in the Poneglyph was in the first half of the Grand Line, which is somewhat unconventional.
If it truly is an important place for becoming a god, it would most likely be in the New World, or more likely in Laugh Tale. However, the coordinates on the Poneglyph are in the first half of the Grand Line, which makes Vic doubt whether it really is the place for becoming a god. With trepidation, Vic spent about ten days traveling to the sea area near the coordinates.
The Poneglyph record the locations of four islands, which are connected in pairs to form a cross. The intersection of these islands is the final coordinate. This marking method is somewhat similar to Laugh Tale and the four red Road Poneglyph.
However, the Poneglyph were written by Joy Boy, so it's not surprising that they are consistent with each other. Two of these four islands are in the Grand Line, and the other two are in the East Blue. The range is quite large. If it were someone else, it would take a long time to find the correct locations.
Furthermore, the journey involves crossing the Calm Belt, which is quite dangerous. Anyone lacking strength would be courting death if they came to search for the island, but it was very easy for Vic.
It only took Vic two days to stand on the island at the crossroads. However, once on the island, Vic did not move for a long time. He had some complicated feelings because he often came to this small island in the Calm Belt!
The island recorded in the Poneglyph hidden within the Dimensional Ring turned out to be the Mystery Island he had visited in the East Blue, and he had come there almost every month thereafter in search of the Mystery Fruit.
The fact that Vic had been a frequent visitor to such a hidden island by Joy Boy is truly remarkable. It turns out that what people have been pursuing all along may have already been theirs, but they were simply unaware of it.
Vic now understands why the island is divided into four islands for cross-location: the mirrors within the islands are already difficult to decipher, let alone the giant tree hidden in the lake that appears only once a month.
Without cross-referencing, it would be very difficult to pinpoint the exact location. This island has no specific name and is not well-known; without someone deciphering the Ancient Script, it would be impossible to find this place.
For those who haven't deciphered the Poneglyph, even if they stumbled upon this place, they wouldn't have imagined the secret of becoming a god within a tree, just like Vic did before. That's why this island in the Calm Belt has remained in its original state for eight hundred years, perhaps partly due to the protection of the Sea Kings.
"Wind Island! It doesn't refer to an island in the wind, but rather an island in Calm Belt. The Mirror in the Island must be the small lake in the center of the island, which does indeed have a mirror effect!"
The tree in the mirror must be the giant tree that only appears on the night of the full moon, usually hidden in the lake, so it can indeed be called the tree in the mirror. But how do we explain the last line, "becoming a god in the mirror"?
Could it be that eating this Mystery Fruit will make me a god? But I've already eaten quite a few! Besides increasing my spiritual power and providing a large amount of Primal Spirit, it hasn't done anything else. Even if it could increase my strength, it wouldn't be by much!
Does that mean I have to eat all the fruit on the tree for a qualitative change to occur? But there are only two fruits a month, how long would that take? Or is the last sentence just my wishful thinking in order to become stronger? And that's not the real meaning? If so, how should it be explained?
Standing on the edge of the Mystery Island, Vic looked at the cliff where he once lived and thought to himself, there are no traces of the Jianmu anymore, everything has returned to its original state. But Vic's mood is different when he comes here again. He comes with the hope of becoming a god!
However, he was disappointed when he saw the Mystery Island. He had been here countless times and knew the place very well. Even if he could use the Mystery Fruit to enhance his Conqueror's Haki to its maximum, it wouldn't be something he could do in a short time.
There are hundreds of thousands of Mystery Fruit on that giant tree! Two fall down every month, so it would take more than four thousand years to harvest all 100,000. Vic has even tried to pick them by force using his superior strength.
However, forcibly picking the fruit by external force is completely ineffective and may even be poisonous. It's as if you're going against the giant tree's will and forcibly picking the fruit. The moment you forcibly pluck the fruit, the mysterious power within it will transform, turning from a sacred fruit that enhances spiritual power and provides Primal Spirit into poison!
Fortunately, Vic's medical skills were top-notch; otherwise, it would have been a real joke if such a powerful person had been poisoned to death, especially in such a place where no one would know.
Based on the effect of the Mystery Fruit on Vic's mental strength, more than two hundred fruits in ten years are far from enough to raise his Conqueror's Haki to its peak. Time simply doesn't allow it. So even if raising Conqueror's Haki to its peak would make him a god, it would be useless. Vic only has a dozen years left.
"Since it's recorded in the main Poneglyph, Joy Boy should have thought about things eight hundred years in the future. Everything else is planned according to this timeline, so there shouldn't be such a mistake here. Could there be some hidden secret?"
Or is it that he can't even control this giant tree? It seems we'll have to wait until the full moon to take a good look at that tree!
Vic then thought of the many contingency plans Joy Boy had left behind over an eight-hundred-year period, and this place was clearly one of them. The countless Mystery Fruit were meant to strengthen allies, so there must be a way to obtain a large number of Mystery Fruit.
Vic's current task is to find a solution, so he decided to study the giant tree first before considering anything else. If he still can't find a solution, then he will have to continue searching for other Poneglyph.
Perhaps other Poneglyph will record numerous methods for obtaining Mystery Fruit, just like the Poneglyph that records how to obtain Pluton's energy.
To ensure that these Poneglyph fell into the hands of the D. Clan, and that the contingency plans recorded on the stones did not fall into the hands of the enemy, the physical objects and their uses were recorded separately, Vic guessed.
However, the specifics will depend on the results of this exploration. With more than half a month to go until the full moon, Vic was cultivating by the lake in the center of the island while waiting for the time to arrive.
Half a month passed quickly. The sun set in the west, the sky gradually darkened, and a crescent moon rose on the distant horizon.