Chapter 630: The Special Nature of the Island of Gods!
After Momonosuke's group retreated, the Straw Hat crew arrived at Onigashima.
Staring at the passage in front of them, Luffy's face filled with curiosity.
"Let's go."
"The captain might still be waiting for us," Shizuku said.
After speaking, Shizuku jumped first and dove into the passage.
The others followed and leapt in after her.
Soon, they brushed against fresh water. Shizuku immediately used her Nen to push the water away. At the same time, her Nen spread outward, wrapping everyone around her.
Shizuku was a Conjurer type Nen user.
Besides materializing weapons and equipment for combat, creating a protective barrier like this was child's play.
Guided by her, the group entered the cave.
"The captain left a message," Shizuku said, turning back with a serious expression.
"Once you enter the pool ahead, a White Dragon will appear."
"Also, this is seawater."
"Devil Fruit users, do not move around too much later, or you might get swept straight into the sea."
"Even I might not be able to save you."
"With the current created by the White Dragon, it's uncertain where we'll be carried."
Shizuku's tone was unusually solemn.
But with that delicate and adorable face, her seriousness almost looked like she was pouting.
"Got it."
"So beautiful."
Sanji was still Sanji.
Shizuku was a beauty, and she also had that innocent aura. He had absolutely no resistance.
He was the first to stand up and respond.
Sabo, much calmer, asked, "Understood, Miss Shizuku. Are we going straight in now?"
He truly knew nothing about what was happening here.
When he arrived, he sensed a battle and came immediately.
As for what came next, he could only follow.
"We shouldn't waste time on questions," Shizuku replied, counting on her fingers as she spoke.
"The captain is waiting for us."
"If you have questions, you have two options."
"First, ask after we reach the destination."
"Second, give up and stay behind."
Sabo scratched his head.
That was basically no choice at all.
"Let's go," he said. "We're setting off."
Shizuku expanded her Nen again, covering everyone firmly.
Then she jumped down and plunged into the seawater.
In the next instant, the White Dragon appeared.
It seized them in its current, carried them away, and vanished from sight.
"Whoa!"
"So this is the inside of the White Dragon?"
"It's like a sea train!"
Luffy pressed close, staring at the world beyond with sparkling eyes.
When he went to Enies Lobby to rescue Robin, he rode a train.
But a train moving through the sea itself felt far more magical than anything on the surface.
"Yeah, but it feels like we're going downward," Nami said, glancing around.
"Didn't we say we were going to the Island of the Gods?"
"Could it be underwater, like Fishman Island?"
"And here, both the Log Pose and the Eternal Pose are useless."
She raised her hand and looked at the pointer.
Eternal Pose, Log Pose, it did not matter.
Both spun wildly with no pattern at all.
"Maybe the place we're going isn't as close as we thought," Shizuku said calmly.
"Everyone, be ready."
As she spoke, she continued outputting Nen without pause.
Even inside the White Dragon's domain, the White Dragon was not gentle.
The currents and water pressure were terrifying.
Without Shizuku's protection, Nami and the others, whose physical strength was not enough, would have been crushed by the pressure long ago.
Shizuku believed they were not idiots, but she still warned them anyway.
...
At the same time, on the Island of Gods.
Boom!
A column of seawater shot into the sky, and a group of people landed on the island.
"This is the Island of Gods?" Ryuunosuke looked around, confusion in his eyes.
This black island had absolutely nothing that felt divine.
Even after activating Observation Haki, he could not sense anything unusual.
"Captain, we found something here," Chrollo's voice came through.
Ryuunosuke moved immediately.
"Infinity Stones?"
"So many?"
His expression shifted the moment he saw them.
Even now, Ryuunosuke's group did not possess a huge number of Infinity Stones.
But what lay here could not be measured by counting them.
It was measured by piles.
This island was stacked with Infinity Stone waste.
Leftovers after their energy had been perfectly extracted.
Discarded shells.
What kind of existence could possibly need this many Infinity Stones?
Even if Gaino used them without restraint, it would still take years to burn through this amount.
And that was assuming they were being consumed as pure offensive output.
If it was absorption instead, it would take even longer.
"Captain," Najenda reported from the side, eyes sharp, "we found large amounts of this Infinity Stone waste along the coastline."
"And the energy from the Infinity Stones can already be sensed in the air here."
"This must be the so called Island of Gods."
"It matches what Captain Chrollo discovered."
Ryuunosuke's gaze stayed on the dark island.
What exactly was hidden here?
"Search," Ryuunosuke ordered.
"No matter what you see, do not act recklessly."
"If you encounter danger, signal immediately, then avoid direct combat."
"Move."
As soon as he finished, Ryuunosuke spread his wings and rose into the sky.
From above the island, he noticed something even stranger.
This was not an underwater island like Fishman Island.
It was not a hidden inland island either.
It was simply an island on the sea, one that did not look remarkable at all.
And yet there were no neighboring islands nearby.
Even with Ryuunosuke's eyesight and perception, he could not detect a single living presence.
From the air, the entire island became clearer.
But the sight only made the unease in his chest stronger.
He could not yet tell where that feeling came from.
The main body of the island was covered in countless plants.
And those strange plants had a repelling effect on Observation Haki.
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