Luffy, how can you become the Pirate King if you don't work hard!

If Shiki were still alive, he wouldn't go around telling everyone that he was defeated by Luffy; the older generation of pirates were very concerned about their reputation.

Nami unfolded it and looked at it, then said with a strange expression, "It seems to have really made the headlines."

The front page headline featured a world-shaking event!

Legendary pirate Shiki the Golden Lion has been imprisoned in Impel Down once again!

"The Navy Achieves a Glorious Victory, Upholding Justice on the Seas!"

The report was extremely sensational, attributing the capture of Golden Lion entirely to the Navy's heroic actions. It detailed how the Navy planned and fought, ultimately bringing the legendary pirate who had escaped for twenty years back to justice. However, it remained vague about the specific details and who defeated Golden Lion.

It's that time of year again when journalism is all the rage.

Those who read this newspaper naturally assumed that Golden Lion had been captured by the Navy.

It can only be said that they take the blame, but Luffy and his crew get absolutely no benefit.

But it also brought the only good news.

The towns that were supposedly lost, as reported in the newspapers, were actually caused by Shiki. Shiki was imprisoned in Impel Down again, and the incident ended there.

Nami and the others breathed a sigh of relief.

Luffy, however, was concerned about something else, saying, "So it was the World Government who took Shiki away? I sensed a strange presence from them."

“I didn’t expect them to send people straight to Impel Down,” Nami said, taking a closer look at the report. “It seems they didn’t mention us. The World Government must have covered this up again.”

Robin took a sip of the soup Luffy had made and said calmly, "That's a good thing. We caused too much trouble at Enies Lobby, and it hasn't been long since then. The storm hasn't completely died down yet."

Nami patted her chest: "It's great that the World Government didn't know that Luffy defeated Shiki."

Robin gently put down her spoon and analyzed rationally: "Not necessarily. The World Government's top brass and the Navy's internal staff definitely already know. Just like Crocodile and the Enies Lobby incident, they simply chose the reporting method that was most advantageous to them. They control public opinion, and they decide what they want the public to know and what they want to hide."

Luffy pursed his lips. "This World Government is really annoying."

He picked up a piece of meat, ate it, and asked, "By the way, I haven't asked yet, where is our next destination?"

Nami took out the sea chart and Log Pose, checked them, and said, "The end of the first half of the Grand Line, a place called Sabaody Archipelago."

"Oh oh oh!"

Everyone immediately became excited.

Chapter 254 Seven Warlords Assassin

Grandma Kokkoro from Water Seven told them a lot about the Sabaody Archipelago.

"Is the first half of the voyage finally coming to an end?"

"Red Line! Mermaid Island!"

"I wonder what the second half will be like? Is it a place called the New World?"

"The enemy will definitely become stronger!"

Zoro gripped his chopsticks tightly, feeling a sense of urgency. "I'm full, I'll go practice some more."

He stood up to leave.

Nika, holding a small jug of sake that she had secretly coaxed Nami into giving her, called out, "Hey, Moss Head, want to have a drink with me?"

A flicker of struggle crossed Zoro's face; for a drunkard, the allure of fine wine was immense.

But he ultimately shook his head firmly: "Next time, for sure."

After saying that, he walked towards the training room without looking back.

Sanji stood up and stretched his still sore ankles: "Count me in. My aerial walking technique is still a bit lacking; I need to master it as soon as possible."

He left with Zoro.

Luffy watched the two men's spirited backs as they walked away, feeling both amused and exasperated.

"Why does this make me seem like I'm the one with the most free time?"

Over the next few days, everyone seemed to enter a state of preparation.

Zoro and Sanji were training harder against each other, while Usopp was studying his new type of ammunition and trying to develop his Observation Haki.

Chopper is studying medical books and trying to develop more forms of the Rumble Ball, Vivi is practicing her fine control over the Wind-Wind Fruit on the deck, Robin is reading ancient books and organizing historical data, and even Nami is cramming on a thick book on nautical meteorology.

Luffy, following the "Pirate King Training Plan," sometimes learned navigation knowledge from Nami, and sometimes discussed ship maintenance and modification with Franky, which was quite fulfilling.

Nika is probably the one with the most free time.

This sun god, who was originally filled with bitterness and hatred and was single-mindedly thinking about revenge and freedom, now seems to have completely fallen in love with a life of debauchery, spending his days with a wine jug.

My only wish now is that Nami will give her the key to the wine cellar.

After sailing for two days, we thought we would arrive at the Sabaody Archipelago smoothly, but an accident still happened.

Early that morning, Little Merry, sitting on the lookout tower, idly watched Luffy exercising below.

Some of them were still sleeping, while others were already up and doing morning exercises like Luffy.

She suddenly noticed a vast expanse of thick fog stretching as far as the eye could see on the horizon ahead.

"Everyone, something's up!"

Merry immediately shouted through the ship's loudspeaker, "A very large area of ​​dense fog has been spotted ahead. It's so thick that you can't see anything at all."

Encountering dense fog at sea is extremely troublesome.

A shipwreck could occur if one is not careful.

Because it is impossible to determine whether there are reefs, icebergs or other obstacles ahead, and sailboats do not have brakes, once they get too close, it is easy to not have time to avoid them or stop.

Even Merry, the ship spirit, experiences a significant decrease in perception in dense fog.

As the navigator, Nami rushed out of the women's dormitory immediately, her expression serious: "How big is the area? Can our ship go around it?"

Merry tried to sense it, then shook her head in frustration: "No, Nami-neechan, the range is too large."

This is a difficult situation.

Nami glanced at the Log Pose in her hand, which was pointing directly into the thick fog.

She decisively took command: "Everyone, adjust the sails and slow down! Merry, put the Going Merry into the Sunny's dock, we'll slowly move closer."

After the two ships merged into one, the Sunny Journey slowly approached the dark fog that seemed to devour all light.

As the Sunny slowly entered the dense fog, the surrounding light quickly dimmed, as if it had suddenly gone from daytime to dusk.

Visibility plummeted to less than fifty meters, and all around was deathly silent, with only the sound of the sea gently lapping against the hull.

The deck lights were turned on, but in the thick fog, the light didn't travel very far, barely illuminating a small area around the ship.

Luffy stood at the bow of the ship, reaching out to grab a handful of the mist in front of him; it felt cold and damp to the touch.

"The fog is so thick, you can only see clearly when you're very close."

"It's easy to get lost, isn't it?"

Looking around at the almost identical gray-white surroundings, Weiwei said with concern.

As a former undercover agent in Baroque Works, she had read a great deal of intelligence about the various seas of the Grand Line and already had her suspicions.

"If I'm not mistaken, this area of ​​the sea should be the so-called Devil's Triangle."

"That's right,"

Robin confirmed Nami's guess, her voice tinged with barely perceptible tension, "This is it. Legend has it that over a hundred ships mysteriously disappear here every year, and there are all sorts of terrifying rumors about ghost ships and monsters..."

Ghost ship?

monster!

Upon hearing this, Nami's face turned pale. She was already quite timid, and instinctively clung tightly to Luffy's arm like an octopus.

Little Merry was startled and cried out, then hugged Luffy from behind around the waist.

"Hey, hey, hey, is this the haunted sea that Grandma Kokkoro was talking about?"

Usopp and Chopper huddled together, trembling, exclaiming, "Why did we have to come to a place like this?!"

Just then, Luffy's passive talent [Information Derivation] was triggered, and information about this sea area flooded into his mind.

"I see,"

Looking at the chilly fog around him, Luffy's eyes lit up. "This is actually the territory of Gecko Moria, one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea. He's responsible for many of those missing ships, his goal being to steal their shadows to create a zombie army!"

"A zombie?!"

Nami and Merry screamed at the same time and hugged each other even tighter, while Usopp and Chopper were completely petrified.

"Why are there zombies in this place?!" Nami's voice trembled with tears.

Luffy explained, "It should be Moria's Shadow-Shadow Fruit ability. He can cut off other people's shadows and then stuff them into corpses or specially made dolls to create obedient zombies."

To be honest, this ability is quite interesting.

The important thing is that this is the territory of the Seven Warlords of the Sea.

Franky stroked his chin and asked, "What happens to the person whose shadow is taken away?"

"It will die if it sees sunlight. It cannot be exposed to sunlight, otherwise it will turn to ashes."

"Why are we so unlucky? We just defeated Shiki, and now we've run into a Shichibukai?!"

Nami's teeth started chattering uncontrollably, and she was practically hanging on Luffy. "And why do you look so happy?!"

Luffy put his arm around Nami's slender waist and smiled sheepishly.

Of course I'm happy.

His idea was actually very simple: opponents of the Seven Warlords level are rare on this sea.

We've finally met one, how can we not have a good fight and have some fun?

Luffy never expected that Gecko Moria might be the weakest of the Seven Warlords of the Sea.

Thinking about it this way, I've actually encountered quite a few of the Seven Warlords of the Sea.