One Piece: The Eternal Flame

"Don't be afraid, with us here, no one will dare to beat you." Mitian patted his chest like a reliable little adult, "I'm the one who can kill a big bear with a boulder!"

"Smash the bear to death?" Bao Na opened her eyes wide, and was easily led away by Mitian. She exclaimed, "You are so powerful, brother."

"I wonder if you can talk to us about this empty island." Ace looked at the old man and said with a smile, "If it's something we can do, we will help."

"But." The old man looked at the villagers behind him hesitantly, and opened his mouth, "We need to work during the day, and we must collect all the gold, so that we can have food at night."

Ace thought for a while, and said with a smile: "Well, we'll pick it up for you too, and tell us about this empty island while picking you up, okay?"

"That's fine." The old man nodded in compromise.

In fact, he knew in his heart that these two pirates were beyond their ability to deal with. Instead of being forced to tell the situation, it would be better to obey earlier, so that they would suffer less.

The experience of the past few years has made the old people no longer trust outsiders easily, especially the pirates in Qinghai. Even if these two people are friendly now, maybe they will show their true colors in the future.

"Things have to start three years ago..."

This empty island is called Lavis Island, and the people living on this empty island are the Baja Kingdom, which was a rich and comfortable country three years ago.

In the center of the island, there is a gold volcano named Gude, together with the storm that blows below the empty island—Diny, Gude erupts gold stones every three days, and Dani blows a storm every three days.

The country of Baja has unparalleled gold mining and alchemy technology. Most of the buildings and daily necessities used in the country are made by smelting gold and stones erupted by Gude.

And three years ago, the Owen Pirates headed by Owen came to Sky Island through Daini, and were rescued by the kind residents of the island. Little did they know that this kind deed would lead to the destruction of the entire country.

The Owen Pirates come to their senses, marveling at everything made of gold.

Greed has become the only way for them to repay their saviors.

During the period of recuperation, the Owen Pirates did not show any flaws, and they even found out that the Baha Kingdom has enshrined a god for generations.

They entered the palace of the kingdom and stole the fetish, and the captain of the pirate group gained the power enough to destroy the kingdom of Baja.

They occupied the empty island, imprisoned the wise king, and locked the king's children in nine different villages to threaten and warn the villagers.

Young people were caught in factories producing gold products day and night, while old people and children were left behind, earning a little food to eat by collecting gold.

You need to go through Daini to enter the empty island, but there is only one way to leave the empty island, and that is to take the birds raised by the royal family, but now the birds must be in the hands of the pirates.

"Haven't you thought about resisting?" After listening to the old man's narration, Mitian was quite angry and couldn't help asking.

The old man sighed, "Of course I resisted. No one will tolerate their own land being invaded by others."

"But is there any way, that damned Owen has obtained the power of God, we simply... can't resist at all."

"What god's power?" Ace asked.

"The fetish that we worshiped for generations was acquired by that pirate group." The old man sighed, his tone full of fear, "They have the ability to turn people into gold."

"All rebels were turned into gold," added others.

"Turn into gold?" Ace frowned, he thought of a future owner of the golden fruit - Gilder Tezzolo.

The head of Gulan Tezolo, the world's largest entertainment city, and the opponent is a person with the ability to control gold.

He doubted that the current Owen was the previous golden fruit capable user, and the fetish enshrined in this country was the devil fruit.

"In fact, since you came to this empty island and took your first breath of air, it will be very difficult to leave."

The old man said in a heavy tone, "The gold brought by Gude's eruption is all in lumps, and the gold powder sprinkled all over the sky is Owen's masterpiece. We can't control our breathing, and the gold powder we inhale will become Owen's handle to control us."

"That is to say, as long as you step into the empty island, it means that Owen can turn it into gold, right." Ace looked at the thick layer of gold powder on the ground. These magnificent and beautiful powders became poison that pierced the intestines. It turned out to be so ironic.

"Ace, let's blow that Owen away!" Oden was already furious. Although he was naughty and active, he received an absolute royal education since he was a child. Sukiyaki taught him a lot of truths in order to make him a wise monarch of Wano.

Although he didn't like to listen to these long-winded speeches, but deep down in his heart he still imprinted the teachings of sukiyaki, without clothing and food, this is a scene that any wise king would not want to see.

Moreover, he could not understand and accept the Owen Pirates' practice of repaying kindness and revenge. The most important thing for a samurai is reputation and kindness.

Ace raised a smile under Oden's expectant eyes, raised his fist and said, "Of course, get rid of that pirate group before Gray and the others come!"

"Oh!" Mita raised his arms excitedly, "It's great!"

"No, no, no! You are going to die." The old people were taken aback by their decision, and they all waved their hands unanimously, "We didn't say this for you to die!"

"It doesn't matter if we continue to live like this. If outsiders give their lives to help us, it will be too painful." An old man covered his face and cried bitterly.

"The pirates in Qinghai should be plundered by the pirates in Qinghai." Ace smiled, although he was smiling, but there was no warmth in his eyes. "Our pirate group has taken a fancy to his treasure, and it has nothing to do with you."

As he said that, an orange-red flame appeared on his fist, the flame was beating, warm and bright.

The old people and the children had obviously never heard of Devil Fruits, which were popular in Qinghai, and only a few appeared on the empty island.

If they knew that the devil fruit they had guarded for generations would gain power after eating, they would not have suffered so passively.

"You...are you also the possessor of divine power?" The old man said, and was about to kneel down again, but Ace helped him up, "This is not some kind of divine power. If I really want to say it, it is the power of a demon."

"The power of the devil?" The old man murmured, tears welling up in his eyes, "If, if you can really save us, so what if it's the power of the devil?"