One Piece: Nobody knows Devil Fruits better than me.

Chapter 162 The Island Ship of the Red Line? The Shadow of Lox

Sunlight streamed through the torn thick fog.

Just as he had expected, Yu Chenlong was right in front of him.

In the long past, a colossal creature that had been hidden in the mist appeared before him.

As Moria's song and the intelligence provided by Brook suggest.

It was an island ship of unbelievable size.
No, to be precise—calling it a ship is a bit of a stretch.

That was almost an entire continent!
Even after Chenlong transformed into its Crimson Dragon form, its already enormous body appeared extremely small in the face of the continent below.

The entire continent is covered with forests and trees, and in the very center of the continent stand three enormous 'mountains'.

The middle peak is the tallest, while the other two are much smaller.

And at this moment.
"Woo!"

On the central mountainside, two enormous holes appear to be the eyes of this island.

From the entire mountain peak, an endless stream of gray mist, almost tangible, continuously gushed forth.

The thick fog continued to spread, as if it had solidified into its 'sail' at that moment.

"Boom!"

The sound of huge waves came, and it began to move.

Even Chenlong was shocked by what he saw.

The continent was the ship, the mountains were the masts, and the mirages were the sails—this colossal ship, which had existed since ancient times, was something completely beyond his comprehension.

"really."

After a brief moment of shock, Chenlong confirmed his guess.

"The fog in the Devil's Triangle was indeed created by this thing."

"Abyss".

Chenlong murmured softly.

The facts are clearly before us.

The enormous thing in front of them, almost the size of a continent, was the giant ship called the 'Abyss', which appeared in the prophecy song of the Kozuki clan.

Moreover, similar to the Giant Soldier's Hand, this giant ship, which is at least eight hundred years old, is also a 'Fruit Ability Item'.

Chenlong was not surprised by this.

Although in this day and age, the ability to make objects consume Devil Fruits was developed by 'Vegapunk' through research on lineage factors.

However, according to Vegapunk, the technology of the ancient kingdom that existed eight hundred years ago far exceeded Vegapunk's understanding—in fact, the core of Vegapunk's research on Egghead Island was a robot from the ancient kingdom named 'Emmet'.

Whether it was technology or research on lineage factors, that kingdom 800 years ago had clearly reached its pinnacle.

With such a level of technology, it's not surprising at all that a ship could consume a 'Devil Fruit'.

It consumed the 'Mirage Fruit', a Zoan-type Mythical Beast, so it is alive.

And it is through each breath and each exhale that this 'Devil's Triangle' was created.

"It's going to disappear again."

At this moment, the surrounding fog continued to gather again.

The sound of the enormous waves began to disappear eerily, as if the surrounding 'mirage' could even absorb sound.

Seeing that the ship was about to disappear into the thick fog again, Chenlong quickly descended downwards.

"boom!"

His figure transformed back into a half-human, half-dragon form, appearing instantly in the forest below amidst flashing thunder.

The moment Chenlong stepped into the forest, he noticed that the surrounding fog seemed to have thinned out considerably.

More importantly
"."

He could see the surrounding trees constantly changing.

They are sometimes large and sometimes small, sometimes green and sometimes withered.

Chenlong casually summoned a gust of wind, which slightly dispersed the fog in front of him.

Then he saw it—the trees in front of him had turned into withered branches in an instant.

“Mirage.” Recalling the characteristics of the ‘Mythical Beast Species: Mirage Fruit’ that he had just seen in the Fruit Encyclopedia, Chenlong naturally understood.

In the almost sunless Devil's Triangle, what kind of forest could exist for such a long time?
The forest on this giant ship is probably just a mirage created by this fruit.

"Based on Mr. 4's dog-gun Rasu, non-living objects might exhibit fruit abilities after eating Zoan-type Devil Fruits other than the Human-Human Fruit, but they probably wouldn't possess high intelligence."

"At most, they can only acquire basic, beast-level intelligence."

Chenlong wondered to himself.

"This giant ship must be the same; it's not very intelligent, so it only instinctively drives the mirages to keep the island in its 'past' state?"

While pondering this, Chenlong soon discovered another problem.

It was only after he stepped into the forest that he saw the ground of the island.

"Red"

He bent down and grabbed the soil and the rocks below, revealing a striking red color.

Although a long time has passed, things here have retained their original appearance due to the 'mirage'.

This allowed Chenlong to immediately recall where he had seen the exact same red color before.

"Yes, isn't that right?"

“This size of ‘land’ is incomparable even to large islands—there’s practically no other answer as to where it came from.”

That fact is clearly before us.

"Red Earth Continent".

Yes.

The color of the soil and rocks on this island was almost exactly the same as the vast continent that he had seen before in the Sabaody Archipelago, the one that divided the world!
"This ship was once part of the 'Red Earth'!"

After realizing this fact, Chenlong could even instantly and clearly discern which part of the 'Red Earth Continent' the ship belonged to.

In fact, the entire red earth continent has almost no 'scars'.

The only exception is ten thousand meters below the seabed, above the location of Fishman Island.

The entire red earth continent is unique in that one place, where there is a huge void.

That is also the gateway to the 'New World' for all the pirates who head to the Grand Line.

Almost no one in the world knows how that void appeared, or where the original 'land' inside it went.

but now.
Chenlong seemed to have found the answer—that piece of land had been transformed into the massive island ship beneath his feet, named 'Abyss'.

"The intelligence is already so explosive right after we boarded the ship."

Chenlong muttered to himself, trying hard to suppress the shock in his heart.

But after only a moment, he couldn't hold back any longer.

Because at this moment
"Um!?"

He had been maintaining his 'Wind and Thunder Mind Network' ever since he boarded the ship, and now he was sensing something incredible.

"Boom!"

So the next second, Chenlong's figure transformed into a bolt of lightning and hurtled off in a certain direction of the forest.

With lightning speed, he arrived at his destination in almost an instant.

Then, he saw the figure moving forward through the mist in the forest below.

It was a tall and imposing figure.

He had blue and white hair, a purple lightning bolt-shaped mark on the left side of his face, and a beard on his chin and cheeks.

He wore gold earrings in both ears, a black coat, and a knife casually tucked into his waistband.

Just as Brooke described, he appeared to be injured—his upper left side was wrapped in thick bandages.

But there is no doubt about it.

Both his posture and his unique domineering aura convinced Chenlong that he had not mistaken him for someone else.

The guy in front of him was the 'Great Sea Ruler' from before the Pirate King, whom he had been investigating recently.

Locks D. Gibek.

(End of this chapter)