Chapter 231: Annihilating Rush Fist

Chapter 231: Annihilating Rush Fist

"This is too dangerous, Princess!"

"If the princess is going, we must go together as well."

The moment Vivi finished speaking, Pell and Chaka quickly stood up and spoke out.

Hearing this, Reiner hesitated for a moment. Although it was a bit blunt, the truth was that any one of his undead was stronger than the two of them.

If any real danger occurred, he would have to split his attention to protect two more people.

A bodyguard protecting a bodyguard... that's a privilege only a certain monkey has!

But since they were also acting out of concern, if they didn't go with them, the two of them probably wouldn't be able to sleep peacefully tonight.

On second thought, Reiner decided to just take them along. "In that case, you guys get ready. I'll go back and get some Light Dials."

"Mm, then we'll see you in a bit," Vivi nodded with a smile.

After a year, she could finally go on an adventure again. Her heart was thrilled.

Reiner and Nami rode the falcon back up to Weatheria.

The reason he wanted to explore the Sandora River was not only because of his encounter on the river's surface before, but also because of the rest of the story Vivi had just told.

According to legend, Set was a person born with misfortune.

Not long after he was born, his parents passed away one after another. At first, no one cared, and the tribe's chief adopted him.

Set was sturdy as a child, as strong as an ox, and everyone thought he would become a powerful warrior in the future.

However, before he could grow up, the chief's family quickly fell ill and died one after another.

The new chief continued to adopt him, and not long after, he also met the same fate.

At this point, everyone looked at the lonely Set and realized it was more than that.

It seemed that since this child was born, all those who were familiar and close to him had, without exception, all died of illness!

No one thought it was a coincidence. They all began to regard him as a bad omen.

From hostility to bullying, the young Set suffered tragic treatment in the tribe.

He endured it silently. That was his hometown where he grew up. Many of the people who bullied him had also taken care of him before.

Until things escalated, and the people decided to execute him, to sacrifice him to the earth...

Looking at those pairs of crimson eyes, he fought back.

The young Set displayed strength far beyond that of an ordinary person. In the tragic battle, he killed several warriors and escaped the tribe, covered in heavy injuries.

Painfully dragging his bloody body, he wandered aimlessly deep into the desert, reaching the war front of Geri with his last breath.

When the people of Rainbase found him, Set was on the verge of death.

Because he was young, no one treated him as a warrior, only thinking he was a war orphan. Someone adopted him.

That family had adopted a large number of war orphans. Set hid his identity and started a new life here.

However, fate did not let him go. It seemed he really did carry some kind of misfortune.

Since his arrival here, the nightmare continued to play out around him. People there continuously grew weak, fell ill, and passed away.

Set was panicked and began to doubt himself.

He didn't want to hurt the people around him anymore, and he was even more afraid of being seen as a bad omen again. He prepared to leave alone.

Set didn't know where else he could go. Perhaps dying alone in the desolate desert was his only destination.

And at this moment, a new orphan came to the family.

Her name was Nephthys.

She was a very gentle, very beautiful girl, with a head of green hair, like she was full of the vitality of life.

The misfortune that Set had inexplicably brought to those around him never happened again.

Set felt that this girl was sent by the heavens to save him. The two met, got to know each other, grew up together, and finally fell in love.

After growing up, Set did not disappoint everyone's expectations and became a powerful warrior, unbelievably powerful.

The power that had brought misfortune was now controlled by him, becoming a divine power bestowed by the heavens.

Later, Set, who was born in an eastern tribe, returned to his homeland.

With the army of Geri...

The horn of counterattack sounded, and the title of God of the Desert and War began to spread to every corner of this land.

Set appeared on the battlefield with an invincible posture, using his incredible power to pacify the barren land and rule over all the tribes.

The long war between east and west stopped, and this land welcomed its first unification.

The rift between east and west merged into one country. Set established the royal capital in his hometown and married Nephthys as his queen.

What was incredible was that this Asura of the battlefield did not become a tyrant. The country developed in an orderly manner.

But the person who governed the country was their queen?!

Reiner found it very incredible at the time. If the recorded legend was completely true, then this Nephthys seemed to be more than just gentle and beautiful.

The rest of the story was a bit vague, with many things glossed over.

Set and Nephthys had a child, the country developed rapidly, the east and west began to trade, exchanging what they had for what they needed, and the country was prosperous.

This land welcomed true peace, and Nephthys was deeply loved by the common people.

Just like that, many years passed until the queen fell ill and passed away. The prince took over the governance of the country, and Set also died in the same year.

To thank Nephthys for bringing peace, tens of thousands of workers from both east and west voluntarily initiated labor, spending twenty years to build a huge mausoleum for her, burying the husband and wife together within it.

The location of the mausoleum was inside the central rift, which was, as Reiner guessed, at the bottom of today's Sandora River.

"This sounds a bit incredible."

Back on Weatheria, in the living room, Nami said as she searched for tools, "If there really is a mausoleum at the bottom of the river, doesn't that prove this legend is true?"

"The magical King Set, and Queen Nephthys, the incarnation of the goddess of life, also really existed?"

"That's hard to say."

Reiner stood up from the sofa and said calmly, "Stories are recorded by people. They can write whatever they want. There will always be some discrepancies with real history."

For example, the construction of the mausoleum.

'Tens of thousands of workers', 'voluntarily', 'spent twenty years' – these three terms together were incredible enough.

Reiner didn't understand history, but he understood human nature.

Between death and labor, the workers voluntarily chose labor. That saying was a bit more reasonable.

"Alright, let's go," Nami said, holding up a few Dials to show him.

Before Reiner's incredulous eyes, she put them one by one into her Nami Valley, which was like a two-dimensional space.

Not long after, Vivi and the others also changed into light clothes.

After gathering at the royal palace, Reiner and Pell each carried several people and arrived at the bank of the Sandora River.

The silver waves shimmered, reflecting the round moon in the night sky.

Looking at the boundless river surface, Vivi turned her head and asked, "How are we going to get down?"

"There are two ways."

Reiner first waved his hand to summon a massive undead fish. He controlled it to open its mouth and pointed inside, gesturing, "The first way is more convenient. We can go inside and let it take us down."

"First, let's rule this one out. I wouldn't do it even if you killed me," Nami immediately gave a dead-fish-eyed look, crossing her arms to say "dame".

Reiner recalled the undead and shrugged. "Then we can only swim ourselves, with single-person coating bubbles."

"Coating?"

"Bubbles?"

Before the puzzled expressions of Vivi and the other two, Nami took out a small, pink, coral-like gadget from her chest.

Soon, a person-sized bubble squeezed out from it. Nami directly wore it like a diving suit.

Below, the highly resilient membrane clung tightly to her calves. Above, it was a round bubble, convenient for storing a little more oxygen.

Vivi and the others looked on with disbelief.

"How magical!"

"To think there's such a thing."

"But it looks very easy to pop."

"Don't worry, it's very resilient. You guys put them on too," Nami said with a proud smile, tossing the small coral to them.

Vivi took it excitedly and immediately tried it on, imitating Nami.

Splash! Splash!

The few of them, now coated, plunged into the water, slowly swimming downwards by kicking their legs.

Click! Click!

Flipping a switch, a bright light illuminated the surroundings.

It was very dark in the river. Even with each person holding a Light Dial, they could only barely see their immediate surroundings.

The boundless darkness enveloped them like a fog that couldn't be dispelled, making one feel inexplicably terrified.

Vivi's heart was beating fast. She swept the light around in a circle to see everyone.

This stimulating atmosphere of both fear and anticipation made her hands unconsciously start to tremble with excitement.

Her mind couldn't help but wonder what dangers they would encounter next.

"Where are you going? Follow Nami!"

Suddenly, Vivi heard someone shouting at her from behind. The voice was not loud, as if it came from very far away.

Coming back to her senses and moving the Light Dial, she saw Reiner waving at her rapidly.

Only then did she realize that in just a moment of distraction, she had almost lost her way.

"Sorry!"

Perhaps afraid that he couldn't hear her in the water, Vivi shouted very loudly, but her voice was still very faint when it reached Reiner's ears.

It was too dark around them. They had only been submerged for a short while, and it was already becoming difficult to tell the direction.

Only Nami, who was more sensitive to the water currents, could easily distinguish the six directions here.

She led the way down, while Reiner guarded the rear, keeping an eye on everyone.

The moment he entered the water, he had activated his Observation Haki, keeping their positions in his mind.

Just then, Vivi's pupils constricted. As if seeing something terrifying, she shouted at him at the top of her lungs.

"Reiner! Behind you!"

Vivi's expression was a little panicked as she waved her hands and gestured.

However, Reiner, as if he had expected it, gave her an "OK" sign and extended one arm out of the membrane.

With a kick of his leg, he turned his body. A massive fish opened its giant mouth, and the surging current sent Reiner towards its mouth.

It was a Sandora Catfish, one of the top predators in this river's food chain.

"The power will be much weaker in the water, but it's enough."

Reiner was unmoved, letting his body get closer and closer. Until he was right in front of it, a corner of his mouth lifted into a fierce grin!

He suddenly clenched his fist. The surrounding water seemed to be pushed away. The movement was not large, but he twisted his waist to send power to his arm, and his fist shot out swiftly!

"Annihilating Rush Fist: Pierce!"

An impact broke through the heavy water, directly shooting out a thick vacuum column!

Bang!!

A dull explosion sounded. The impact that had entered the catfish's mouth then shot out from its back, directly blasting a huge hole through it!

Fetid blood began to spread, dyeing the surroundings red. The catfish remained in its open-mouthed posture, motionless, its body slowly being lifted up by buoyancy.

Reiner turned his body back, smiled faintly, and gave Vivi another "OK" sign.

"One-shot?!"

"A bounty of 800 million Berries... terrifying!"

Pell and Chaka's eyes widened in shock. To be able to exert such power in the water, and to think the other was an ability user.

Vivi was still holding her hands worriedly, looking at Reiner with disbelief. "So... so strong!"

"Let's go! We're going to lose Nami if we wait any longer!" Reiner waved at them.

Soon, the group continued to follow Nami downwards.

That move just now was one of the results of Reiner's year of hard training.

He had used the Impact Dials from the sky island to continuously feel and imitate Lucci's Rokuogan to practice a punching art that could emit an impact.

Reiner hadn't learned the prerequisite techniques like Rokushiki. With his exaggerated physical fitness, he no longer needed them. But even so, it had taken him a long time to learn.

He didn't know how long it would take a so-called once-in-centuries genius to learn it with his physique.

After mastering it, Reiner had also tried many other force application techniques based on it.

The move just now was to concentrate the power at the first point to pursue piercing damage.

He could also expand the impact surface to use an impact move mainly for shattering the target.

When he mastered the external projection of Armament Haki and could cause internal damage, stacking it with Haki, the power of these moves could be further enhanced.

Under Nami's lead, the group continuously descended. During this time, they also received a lot of obstruction from various ferocious creatures in the river.

However, the water was one of Nami's home turfs. She directly transformed into the lawless madman, Zhang San, and ruthlessly electrocuted the fish with violent lightning.

She had already mastered her fruit's ability very well. The scattered lightning was perfectly suppressed by her, so she didn't have to worry about affecting others at all.

The coating bubbles could withstand extremely high water pressure. Before half of their oxygen was consumed, they had already dived several thousand meters.

This river was so large it was incredible even to Reiner. Fish-Man Island was only ten thousand meters under the sea.

Soon, Nami at the very front stopped and gestured back at them.

Getting closer, the light from the Dials could already see the riverbed.

"We're at the bottom. But which way should we go?" Vivi asked, looking around.

The range that the light could illuminate was only filled with various reefs covered in green algae, and schools of colorful fish swimming through coral clusters.

"Don't worry, leave it to Nami," Reiner said, coming to Vivi's side and beginning to observe the surroundings.

The terrain here was a bit complicated. They had to be very careful not to let sharp objects cut their bubbles.

Among the five of them, four were ability users. Even though Vivi hadn't eaten a Devil Fruit, the water pressure here was not something she could withstand.

Speaking of which, Devil Fruits seemed a bit cheap.

Nami stood on the ground covered with fine sand, extended her arm out of the bubble, closed her eyes, and carefully felt the water flowing over her skin.

After a good while, she opened her eyes and shone the Light Dial in one direction. There was only pitch-black darkness there.

Reiner and the others took the initiative to move their light beams to help her illuminate it, but all they saw was still deep darkness.

Nami kicked her legs a few times and floated up in front of them, gesturing in that direction. "There's a large obstacle there affecting the water flow. Let's go and see."

She glanced at everyone's bubbles, which were already about half their original size.

"Let's leave about a third of the air. If we don't find anything, we'll go up and then come down again later," Nami continued.

Reiner nodded. Using the undead, they could go up in an instant, but breathing with too little air would be difficult. A third was about right.

Then, the group continued to swim under Nami's lead.

Before long, they saw something incredible at the bottom of the river.

A giant stone pillar stood diagonally on the riverbed. Nami couldn't help but quicken her pace and swim up.

Reiner felt a sense of alarm. As he followed, he also expanded his Observation Haki in a circle. The water was too unfriendly to Devil Fruit users; he had to be vigilant of his surroundings at all times.

Fortunately, as the first person on the ship to awaken Observation Haki, his talent in this area was okay. His training progressed faster than with Armament Haki, so he didn't have to worry about consumption for now.

The group arrived before the stone pillar and surrounded it. Its base was already buried in fine sand, and it was covered in green seaweed.

In the few exposed places, one could vaguely see patterns that were almost completely corroded.

"Why is there something like this here?"

"Could it have sunk?"

"No, it should have been originally built here. Look over there."

Reiner turned his light and swept it around. Within the illuminated range, there were several more similar stone pillars, arranged in two rows and extending into the depths.

The group looked at each other, nodded, and reached out to tear off a piece of seaweed from the stone pillar before them.

Seeing more of the exposed carvings, which depicted eyes, fish, snakes, and other patterns, Vivi's pupils instantly constricted!

She had seen the patterns on it before! Reiner and Nami had seen them too!

The place where the Poneglyph was located, the underground palace where they had fought Crocodile!

—The Funerary Hall!

"Could it be that there really is a mausoleum here?"

The group looked along the several stone pillars into the depths, feeling a little creeped out.

In this gloomy environment, the thought of a mausoleum that had been silent for hundreds of years...

Nami felt her skin crawl, and goosebumps immediately rose. "Ahem, let's go. We have to get up early for research work tomorrow. Everyone should go to bed early tonight."

With that, she kicked her legs and began to swim upwards.

Reiner: "..."

He reached out and grabbed her ankle. No matter how hard she kicked, she couldn't move forward an inch.

Nami was so anxious she almost cried, holding her face and shaking her head frantically. "Waaah! Dame, dame, dame! I don't want to go in!"

"Don't be afraid, Nami," Reiner said, pulling Nami back with a mischievous smile. "At any rate, we've come all this way."

"Come all this way, my foot! That might be Vivi's ancestor! Can't you show him some respect!" Nami shouted, exasperated.

Vivi, on the other hand, looked embarrassed. She hadn't thought of that just now. She was actually quite excited. She said sheepishly, "Um... it's alright. We're just going in to take a look."

Even if the history was true, King Set wasn't necessarily her ancestor. Maybe Alabasta was rebuilt after his kingdom was destroyed. It was impossible to trace back to such ancient history now.

"Archaeology, right. Let's just treat it as archaeology," Vivi suddenly said, feeling at ease with herself in an instant.

Reiner then said to Nami, "Do you think it's possible that there's a large amount of buried gold and jewels inside?"

"As expected, you guys can't do without me."

Hearing this, Nami's demeanor immediately changed. She put her hands on her hips and shouted righteously, "Reiner! Dig three feet deep for me!"

Alright, alright, I'll even dig up her family's ancestral grave for you!

(End of chapter)

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