One Piece: The Legend of Beasts

Without giving anyone a chance to respond, Tempaz raised the two needles in his hand high up and crossed them above his head. Instantly, the two silver needles glowed with a pale blue light, and the blue sky suddenly darkened. A dull and long bell sound resounded throughout the city, as if it was a call from the underworld, adding a bit of weirdness to the already depressing atmosphere.

"what the hell……?!"

The captivating bell sound continued to echo in his ears, and Kaido felt a splitting headache, as if his head was about to explode. He turned his head with difficulty and found that others were the same.

“Enjoy the feeling of time slowly being taken away.”

Tempaz was like nothing had happened, slowly moving the long and short needles from left to right across a semicircular arc. A huge ancient pendulum clock gradually appeared in front of him, firmly fixed on the ground. As the pendulum swung back and forth, the speed of the hands on the clock kept increasing, almost too fast to see clearly. After a while, the clock surface flashed with dazzling colorful lights, and Kaido and others only felt an invisible gravity pulling them, and they moved towards the pendulum clock step by step involuntarily.

"Damn it! What the hell is that!"

Lingling tried to struggle, but found that she couldn't move at all, and she couldn't even activate her domineering power. Seeing that she was getting closer and closer to the clock, something suddenly occurred to her mind, and she shouted loudly: "Uno, can that thing be trusted?"

Hearing her hasty words, the young man immediately understood and raised his voice to the limit: "Mr. Noah! Please activate the protective shield I installed on you!"

"Oh! Wrap it around me!"

A reliable and steady voice came from afar. Right above the pirate ship docked at the port, a green dome gradually spread outward, covering the entire ship.

At the same time, Kaido and the other four pirates lifted their feet off the ground, spun their bodies and flew away involuntarily, and were sucked into the clock without a single one left.

The light on the clock surface gradually dissipated, the sound of the bell gradually faded, and the sky returned to its clear blue state. Tempaz retracted the two needles in his hand, stared at the huge pendulum clock standing on the ground, and raised his hair with a smug smile: "Spend the rest of your life here, pirates, so far, no one has been able to break our prison of time."

He walked towards the dock and suddenly stopped in front of the pirate ship. He swung the long needle from left to right, and a light blue light shot out, hitting the surface of the protective shield and rebounding. Seeing this, Tempaz jumped up. With a violent explosion, a hole with a radius of five meters was blown out on the ground where he was standing. However, the pendulum clock not far away remained motionless, without even a scratch.

"It can defend and bounce back the attack at the same time... By the way, that kid's name is Uno, right? He can actually create something that even I can't do anything about. He's quite good at it. He didn't waste his time."

Tempaz fell back to the ground, with his arms folded across his chest as he looked at the intact protective shield, still chattering, "It's a pity that we can't keep them alive, otherwise we could have made more money at the Navy Headquarters. Speaking of which, we are really lucky. The leader Charlotte Linlin got 8.15 million, and her subordinate Long Bread got 4.27 million. The one named Uno was not seen in the bounty order, so he is probably a trainee sailor. As for the little devil with horns, I remember seeing him somewhere, and it seems to be called..."

Just as Tampaz was thinking hard, the voice of Den Den Mushi rang out from his arms. He answered the call reluctantly, and the voice of his employer, which had callused his ears, came out: "Tampaz, how are you doing with the task that the king asked you to do?"

"Everything went smoothly. There were four enemies in total, and we captured them all."

"Oh! I was not wrong. It turned out to be the right thing to do to find you!"

The Den Den Mushi called out excitedly, "Can you bring those thieves over here now?"

Tempaz replied expressionlessly: "I'm very sorry, but after our Time Prison is activated, it cannot be destroyed or moved. Even we cannot interfere directly. We can only wait for a day for it to be automatically lifted. Besides, by then, not even ashes will be left."

"Really? That's a pity..."

The voice was slightly disappointed, and after a moment of silence, it said, "In that case, you should return to the palace first. I will hold a most luxurious celebration banquet just for you!"

"Well, since you said so, I can't refuse. Remember to include the expenses during this period."

"...Okay, everything is up to you."

Den Den Mushi's voice stopped, and Tempaz looked up at the direction of the capital, saying with disdain, "The foolish king created a pathetic country, but I, who only care about money, am not qualified to say such things."

As soon as he finished speaking, his figure disappeared from the spot, and in the blink of an eye he was nowhere to be found, leaving only the ancient and strange pendulum clock at the scene.

After a long period of dizziness, Kaido opened his eyes again and felt himself sitting on the ground. His muscles were filled with soreness. He calmed himself down, propped up his upper body, and looked around. It was pitch black as far as he could see. From a distance, he could not see the end. From time to time, the shadows of numbers would appear. The only place to stand was the huge disc under his feet, which was a clock to be precise, and it was accompanied by a continuous "ticking" sound.

He ran to the edge of the clock and tried to jump down from here to find a breakthrough, but as soon as he stood up and jumped, he felt that he hit an invisible wall and was bounced back. He rolled several times before he stabilized his body and muttered, "It won't work. I can only destroy this place."

"It looks like we're all stuck in this damn place."

A familiar voice came from behind. Kaido suddenly retracted the half-swung mace and looked back. He saw Lingling walking slowly towards him with a long sword listlessly, followed by Long Bread and Uno. He couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, waved at her and asked, "Do you have any way to leave here?"

Lingling sat on the ground, rubbing her aching fists, and muttered, "If there was, I would have run away long ago! I beat this damn bell for a long time but there's not a crack at all!"

"Oh ha ha ha! There will be times when you are at your wits' end."

Kaido teased, trying to lighten the mood, and shifted his gaze to the boy in the helmet.

Uno immediately understood his intention, sighed softly, and explained to the three people: "The only thing that exists in this space is this ridiculously large clock. Apart from this, if you want to leave this clock, you will be forcibly bounced back. In other words, the exit can only be within this range."

"In that case, why not just smash it to pieces?"

"Listen to what I have to say first."

Uno shook his head to deny the boy's reckless idea and continued, "Since Tempaz is confident that we can't get out, it means that the structure of this clock must be very complicated, just like this."

Before he finished speaking, he spread out the five fingers of his right hand and pressed them heavily on the clock. A spider-web-like green light spread out from his wrist. After a while, the green light gradually faded away, and there was not even a trace of scratch on the surface of the clock.

He looked at his right arm and said, "The 'Decomposition Fruit' I ate has the ability to decompose any object it touches in an instant. Even a powerful domineering ability user would find it difficult to counteract this ability, but it did not cause any damage to the clock. In other words, ordinary methods cannot cause any damage to the clock. Also, look."

People followed his gaze and saw that the clock was still rotating clockwise, but the twelve numbers on it were jumping irregularly at an alarming rate, making it impossible to tell what time it was. Uno looked at the numbers and said, "Although the numbers are messed up, the pointer is currently at 0:3, which is obviously inconsistent with the time outside. Moreover, from the moment I came in, I noticed that the clock initially remained at 0 o'clock, and began to rotate when we landed. Therefore, I made an assumption."

He looked at everyone and said word by word: "Maybe at a certain point in time, we will lose all our time!"

Long Bread held his head and cried out in amazement: "What should we do then? Are we just going to sit there and wait for death?!"

"Don't say discouraging words to me!"

Lingling stood up suddenly and chopped the clock with a knife, making a sound of metal collision. She put one hand on her waist and said coldly, "If anyone dares to give up easily, I will chop him down first!"

"..."

Long Bread had never seen her so angry before, and was so scared that he couldn't say a word. Kaido gave a thumbs up and said, "Oh, haha! Now you are worthy of being our leader!"

"Huh, I feel a lot more relaxed after venting."

Lingling sheathed the knife and asked Uno, "Do you have any good ideas to get out of this predicament?"

"I'm sorry, but I can't think of any solution at the moment."

Uno shook his head, put his finger on his chin, and said thoughtfully, "For now, we can only observe if there are any flaws in this clock."

Another twenty minutes passed, but everyone felt as if a century had passed, and they were getting impatient. Kaido stretched his muscles out of boredom, and his eyes inadvertently glanced at his right hand. It would have been fine if he hadn't looked at it, but when he looked at it, he was shocked to find that his arm had become much thicker than before, and the surface was covered with thick sweat hair.

"What's going on? My hand..."

Kaido stopped talking halfway because he realized that his voice had become much older.

"Mmmm! Why are you suddenly like a gorilla?!"

The mocking laughter reached Kaido's ears. He blushed and turned around unhappily to complain: "None of your business! I just... eh?"

He stood there in a daze as if he had seen something new. He was silent for a moment, then burst into thunderous laughter. He hammered the ground with his hands, tears streaming down his face uncontrollably as he laughed until he was out of breath. “Oh hahaha! Look at you… you look like this… I can call you an old woman! No, let me laugh a little longer… Oh hahaha!”

Looking at Kaido's laughing face, Lingling quickly took out the mirror she carried with her and saw a round face on the mirror. There were fine wrinkles at the corners of the eyes, a pointed nose, and a bloody mouth that seemed able to swallow several people. The figure was also out of shape, like a ball, which was very different from the gorgeous appearance before.

Lingling was stunned for a long time, as if struck by lightning. Then she threw the mirror to the ground, smashing it to pieces. She clenched her fists angrily, her eyes spitting fire: "When we get out of here, I will make that bastard Time taste a taste worse than death!"

Seeing this, Uno couldn't help laughing. At this time, he had become a tall and straight young man with a wisp of beard on his chin, which made him look more stable. He looked at the time on the clock, and after some careful consideration, he clapped his hands and shouted in sudden enlightenment: "I know what's going on! Every minute that passes will take away one year of our time, and our appearance will increase accordingly. If this continues, we will die of excessive aging soon!"

The white-haired old man sat on the ground, raised his right hand tremblingly and agreed: "I agree... We must find the exit before then... Someone give me a hand..."

The noisy sounds gradually died down, and the four people gathered together, staring intently at the clock that continued to tick. However, no matter how hard they racked their brains, no one could think of a way to escape.

Another two minutes passed, Kaido was hitting the clock with his mace in despair, having already lost confidence. As time went by, his body gradually grew bigger and his face looked older.

Ever since Kaido learned to wield weapons, he has participated in countless wars, large and small. Although he has encountered countless life-threatening difficulties, none of them can be compared to this time.

For the first time, he deeply experienced what despair was.

——Let’s just end it like this. I can’t get out anyway.

Just as this self-destructive thought emerged in his mind, a serious and calm voice echoed in his mind.

Are you just going to give in and surrender willingly at the feet of your enemies?

No matter how strong your opponent is, he or she can't make you give up. If you grit your teeth and persevere to the end, there will be no one in the world who can defeat you!

"It's so noisy... I get it."

Kaido muttered to himself, holding the mace with both hands and raising it high above his head. Countless purple air currents gathered on the surface of the mace, crackling sounds continued, and the surrounding air seemed to vibrate.

Noticing Kaido's foolhardy move, Uno hastily dissuaded him, "It's useless! This won't damage the clock at all!"

"Of course I know this may be a meaningless waste of energy. But if I fight to the end with all my strength, I won't feel any regret even if I fail!"

Kaido roared loudly, with several veins popping out on his forehead. He concentrated all his domineering power on his weapon and was about to smash the clock hard. Suddenly, a long voice suddenly resounded around.

"Gulu!"

Then, a sharp and strange whispering sound came from behind, which made people shudder.

"I'm hungry. Hand over the puffs... to me..."

Upon hearing this, Wu Nuo's face changed and he couldn't help but blurt out, "Not good! Miss Lingling is having an eating disorder attack!"

New character life cards:

Name: Uno

Sex: Male

Blood type: F

Devil Fruit: Parahuman Decomposition Fruit, which can decompose everything it touches into its original structure

Haki: Observation Haki, Armament Haki

Hobbies: Disassembling machinery, music

Dislikes: Having your helmet taken off

Favorite food: Fried chicken, coffee

Birthday: January 1 (taken from UNO Spanish 11)

Age: 13, Zodiac sign: Capricorn

Height: 165cm

Birth: Grand Line

Introduction: A trainee pirate who joined the Rocks Pirates two years ago and became a subordinate of Charlotte Linlin. He has regular features and wears a conspicuous huge silver helmet. He is responsible for intelligence gathering and mechanical modification. He is polite to everyone, but does not want anyone to see his true face. Being a pirate seems to be to accomplish a certain purpose.

Origin of the name: From a Spanish card game called UNO, where players are required to shout "UNO" when the last card is left.