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Pure Gold

"Pure Gold? Is that the Pure Gold from legend that can grant Immortality?" Brook couldn't help but widen his eyes. Even he hadn't expected that the Secret Treasure mentioned in today's meeting would be this legendary Treasure.

"It's just News for now, nothing is confirmed yet. But according to the Intelligence given by the Captain, that Lantern Fish that was sighted is likely the Giant Island Eater Fish that devoured Alchemy back then." Bell-lin said calmly, looking at the others.

"But does Pure Gold really exist? After all, something that can grant Immortality always sounds a bit strange." Simon said doubtfully.

The existence of Pure Gold only became widely circulated after the disappearance of Alchemy. You should know that according to records, the Intelligence that Pure Gold can grant Immortality is just based on News from an unknown source. After all, Pirates, Treasure, disappeared Islands, and Giant Monsters are almost the four major components of sea legends.

"The Legend of Pure Gold is indeed circulating, but the Island Alchemy, where Pure Gold is refined, disappeared more than a hundred years ago. No one knows if this rumor is true or false. After all, when I set sail, many people still firmly believed that as long as they found the disappeared Alchemy, they could obtain Immortality. Of course, in all this time, I have never heard of anyone finding Pure Gold, Yohohohoho." Brook added from the side.

Katie, sitting at the far end, also tried her best to act like an adult and pondered, "Moreover, Pure Gold is said to bestow humans with the Lifespan of Immortality, but according to the principle of equivalent exchange, this Immortality must have some unknown drawbacks."

"It's indeed hard to say. The time is too long ago, and the related research Data hasn't circulated at all, so no one knows what the principle is behind this legendary metal bestowing humans with Immortality." Bell-lin also added.

"Yohohoho, Immortality, what a truly tempting saying." The Skeleton Brook said with a smile. Everyone cast disdainful glances at the Versailles Brook, after all, this guy who ate the Revive-Revive Fruit probably doesn't even know when he will die.

Just then, the door of the Conference Room was opened, and then a man, 1.9 meters tall, with messy long hair, and explosive power hidden under his clothes, walked in.

"Pure Gold is not actually that Complex. It's just through special methods to extract the essence from a large amount of Gold, and add other Materials. Relying on its metal inertness characteristics, it affects the wearer's Body, slowing down the cell division speed within their Body, thereby achieving the purpose of Immortality. As for the price to pay, it's that when you wear Pure Gold Accessories, your Strength will be very difficult to improve."

"Captain!" Seeing the figure who entered, everyone in the Conference Room stood up and said excitedly.

It could be said that Nicholas directly chose to seclude himself after the Cake Island battle. Usually, he spends more than half a year cultivating at the highest level of Inazuma Island, which is filled with Lightning. Unexpectedly, he actually actively participated in the Freedom Pirates meeting today.

And everyone had no complaints about this. After all, for Pirate Crews in the New World, the Captain's Strength is the best deterrence. The stronger the Captain's Strength, the more detached the Pirate Crew's Status becomes.

"Mm, sit down everyone." Nicholas said, sitting in the main seat and looking at everyone.

"However, this Immortality is more of a pseudo-immortality. After all, the number of cell divisions in a person's lifetime is limited. Although Pure Gold can delay this process, they will eventually still face Death." As the manager on the Ship, Chief Manager and Ship Doctor Bell-lin obviously had a lot of say in things.

Hearing Bell-lin's words, Simon said with a face of disdain, "Turns out it's not Immortality? I thought that Pure Gold thing could really grant immortality. If that's the case, I might as well rely on Brook to achieve Fruit Awakening before I die. When I die, it would be more reliable to directly bring me up from the Underworld."

"Yohohoho, don't worry, I will definitely work hard. At that time, everyone can sail together with Skeleton bodies." "No!" As soon as Brook finished speaking, Bell-lin and Katie refused in unison. For girls, becoming a Skeleton might as well be just killing them.

"So Captain, are we going to fish for that Giant Lantern Fish?" Katie looked at Nicholas with a face full of anticipation. After all, Lantern Fish liver, when cooked, is a Delicious Food, especially that kind of extremely Giant Lantern Fish, its ingredients must be even more Delicious Food.

"But how to fish for it? That kind of Monster that can swallow Small Islands, the Bait needed to fish it up must be very big, right?" Katie thought of the size of the Giant Lantern Fish and suddenly became a bit dumbfounded. That kind of Giant Lantern Fish that can swallow Islands must have a different fishing method than other Fish.

"It's not that troublesome. According to my guess, the reason why that Giant Lantern Fish swallowed Alchemy back then was probably because it was attracted by the Radiance of Pure Gold. So if we get enough Gold, it might be possible to attract that Lantern Fish out."

"Gold?" "That's right."

"But there's still one point, we must find the general range of activity of that Lantern Fish. Otherwise, no matter how dazzling the Radiance is, it's impossible to lure it out across a Grand Line."

Several days later, in a Sea Area, the Seawater violently rolled and surged.

A group of Pirates were all panic-stricken, barely looking down at their feet.

However, this one glance almost scared them out of their wits. At this moment, under the Sea Surface, an extremely Giant black shadow actually appeared.

This terrifying size is even far more Giant than large Sea Kings. Their Ships, compared to this behemoth, are simply like shrimps.

"What Monster is this? Help!" "Run away!" "Quickly send News to Lord Simon and the others!"

Then, that Giant shadow gradually emerged from the Sea Surface. Even if only the Body exposed on the Sea, it was as big as a medium-sized Island.

Everyone finally saw clearly, it was a Giant Lantern Fish. Even stranger was that in its lantern, there was a dazzling Radiance flashing.

At the same time, a Giant Ship sped over directly from afar at top speed. Even because of the super fast speed, looking from afar, it was as if the Grand Line was split open.

The five people and one Skeleton on the Deck showed not the slightest panic towards this behemoth that was almost comparable to a medium-sized Island.

"It really is an amazing big guy." Vistad slightly tightened the Axe in his hand, seemingly wanting to use the Axe to directly chop this behemoth to Death. After all, for people who use Swords or Axes, facing such a big guy, they always want to chop a few times.

"Fish of this size are really difficult to cook." Katie, standing next to Vistad with two Swords at her waist, said with a face full of distress.

After all, even using Flying Slash to cut such a big size is very inconvenient.

While speaking, the Giant Lantern Fish with dazzling Radiance flashing above its head... finally opened its Gaping Maw, about to swallow this entire Sea in one gulp.

And the Sea King Authority Ship instantly accelerated and sped towards the mouth of the Giant Lantern Fish.

For Nicholas and the others, even if they were swallowed, there wouldn't be much danger.

As for those Pirates responsible for searching for the Lantern Fish, after some thought, unexpectedly, not many people chose to escape the swallowing range of the Giant Lantern Fish.

Obviously, seeing Nicholas and their Actions, these people also realized that there was something extraordinary inside the Body of this Lantern Fish.

Without greed, without desire, what kind of Pirate is that?

(End of Chapter)