One Piece: The Eternal Flame

The Valley of the Gods belongs to the new world, and it can only be regarded as a small one among the many islands.

Gray stepped on the land of the Valley of the Gods, and the warships on the sea had gone away.

Nine years have passed, and the Valley of the Gods, which was once attacked by pirates, has regained its vitality.

At the end of the beach is a lush forest. In the distance, there seems to be some buildings protruding from the top. There are not many remnants of war here.

Gray walked through the end of the forest and came to the edge of the building complex. The architectural style here is somewhat similar to that of the holy land of Marin Vanduo, but most of the outside is dilapidated, as if it had been standing for too long and was formed by natural weathering.

Perhaps the navies who came here nine years ago to carry out missions had already cleaned up the place. Gray did not find any human remains outside, and the buildings were all covered by entangled vines of naturally growing plants, and the white walls inside could be vaguely seen.

Gray carefully recalled his little scattered memories, a huge tiger bared its fangs, a woman covered in blood said something to him, and a man in a cloak dragged him somewhere.

He randomly sat on a collapsed building, closed his eyes and carefully recalled that bit of memory, trying to rely on those fragments to determine where the place he was looking for was. When he came here, he felt completely strange and disgusted, without any nostalgic emotion.

Gray used to believe in his own origin, but after setting foot on this place, he felt that he was not an orphan of the Valley of Gods at all.

"Roar--"

In the forest, there were several ear-piercing roars of tigers. Gray stood up with his eyes open, his hands attached to the hilt of his sword, the black hair on his forehead moved automatically with the wind, and his black eyes looked right at the direction from which the sound came.

A gigantic tiger rushed out of the forest, its front paws first touching the ground, with enough force to push the ground down into a large crack-like pit.

Its golden animal pupils stared at Gray, and its whole body exuded the aura of the king of the forest looking down on the world. There were fresh bloodstains on the exposed sharp tiger teeth, and even the fur around its mouth became wisps of blood due to the blood.

Obviously, it was eating, but it was attracted by the sudden outsider Gray.

This tiger is somewhat similar to the one in Gray's memory, but all tigers are similar, and Gray is not sure if this is the one in his memory.

"Roar——" Of course, the tiger couldn't tell whether the human in front of him recognized him or not, but the other party invaded its territory, and it wanted to tear him apart.

The tiger bowed back and rushed towards Gray with its front legs. Accompanied by a roar, the big bloody mouth seemed to overlap with the picture in memory.

Only this time, Gray would not wait for the tiger to pounce on him as he remembered.

He drew his sword quickly, and slashed out a sword aura.

"——Roar!" The tiger suffered a solid blow, roared in pain, and spewed blood from his body in mid-air.

Gray's face was also inevitably splattered with blood, he wiped it off casually, and left the place without looking back.

And behind him, the tiger fell to the ground with a bang, with blood oozing from under its body, and it had already lost its life.

Just now, Gray could suddenly hear the woman's voice.

——"With all I have, I wish the fire of your soul will never go out."

Gray couldn't understand the meaning of this sentence. Is there really such a thing as a soul in the world?Or is it just a simple blessing?

Why did that woman wish him well?
Unknowingly, he walked to the central building of the island, but found nothing. Apart from the collapsed buildings and wildly growing plants, there were no useful clues at all.

Could it be that he can only go to Marie Gioia to take risks?

Gray leaned against the side wall a little irritably, and saw a little scratch on the wall out of the corner of his vision.

At first he thought it was a decoration on the wall and didn't pay attention to it at all, but now it seems that the winged figures on it are not that simple.

He swung his sword to cut off the vines, and carefully looked at the contents of the mural.

There are pictures on every wall, but some of them have long been invisible due to time problems, and some of them are broken into many pieces, and the stories cannot be connected at all.

Gray could only piece together a general picture through comprehension.

Many people with wings are holding the fruit. Looking at the pattern on it, it should be a devil fruit. Afterwards, those people took something out of the devil fruit and put it into another person's body.

That person woke up and possessed the power of a devil fruit. After that, many capable people fought again, and finally one person won.

So. what is this illustration of ancient people discovering that devil fruits can gain power?

Gray couldn't figure it out, and continued to look for the continuation of the story, but unfortunately, other murals were telling other things.

The most important part is just gone.

Can't find anything useful at all, Gray sighed, and decided to go to Marie Gioia to try again, but before that
He wanted to find a way that would not involve other people.

Gray knows that he can choose not to pursue the past, and living like this is the best choice.

But there was no other way, he had to investigate, a person without a past is like duckweed on the sea, which cannot take root at all.

Going back again, Gray began to consciously distance himself from other people, even if he was evaluated as arrogant, it didn't matter, or that's exactly what he wanted.

Cyborg had talked to him several times, but what he got in return was the latter's indifference. There were even rumors that Gray's wings were hardened and he wanted to break with Cyborg.

"This child's late rebellious period may have come," Hebrew guessed, "it seems that all children at this time are like this."

Cyborg was noncommittal, Hebrew didn't know, but he knew it very well.

Gray became like this after returning from the Valley of the Gods. He always packed his tasks to the brim, and came back many times with injuries all over his body.

As a result of the accumulation of so many tasks, Gray was promoted from lieutenant colonel to major general, the youngest major general at 20 years old.

Maybe it was because he regained his memory and remembered his real parents, so he was estranged from him?

Cyborg wasn't sure, but he did conceal the situation and never told anyone.

The time is coming, Gray is holding Griffin's scabbard, and the World Conference will be held again. This is the best opportunity to send the five old stars to break into Marie Gioia.