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

Whether in Wano Country or in Impel Down, there was always a beam of destructive light descending from the sky.

It can wipe out the power of a country.

That's understandable.

The expressions on the faces of Saints Vochuli and Maz instantly turned extremely grim.

"You know too much!"

"There's no point in living anymore!"

"Know too much?"

Luffy tilted his head. "It's not that I know too much, it's that you guys are hiding too much."

He pointed to the image of Vegapunk in the sky:

"And now it's not just me who knows too much, but the whole world wants to know."

He looked at the two Elders' faces, contorted with anger and fear, and suddenly burst into laughter.

I'm in a panic!

Luffy burst into laughter, "I thought you guys would never be in a hurry! Turns out you guys can be afraid too!"

"Straw Hat Boy!"

The roar of the Holy Vocuri shook the air, and a terrifying aura surged around him.

If Luffy's Conqueror's Haki hadn't been equally powerful, an ordinary person would have lost consciousness long ago under such pressure.

"Let me tell you in order what will happen to this world next."

There is a period of history that has vanished into thin air, and the historical records of this so-called blank century have been completely erased.

This interrupted history can only be glimpsed by deciphering those letters from the past, known as the official historical records, scattered throughout the world.

However, interpretation of the Poneglyphs is strictly prohibited by the World Government.

“This is my second sin.”

Upon hearing this, Luffy curled his lip.

In his view, Vegapunk was too honest; what crime was this?

If this is considered a crime, then they are all extremely wicked, having seen far too many historical records and blank historical records from the past hundred years.

But that's really true.

The vast majority of people still accept the rule of the world government.

Vegapunk said, "There was once a group of excellent archaeologists. I deciphered a batch of documents and several historical texts that were preserved thanks to their efforts, and I did my best to study them. I have no regrets."

A little further from the battlefield, Robin heard the sound. She gently pressed her fingers to her lips, her body trembling slightly.

Ohara.

Her mother, Dr. Clover, and those scholars who dedicated their lives to history.

Those books, documents, and manuscripts that were reduced to ashes in the flames of the Buster Call.

Those truths swallowed by gunfire, truths that can never be spoken.

The people Vegapunk was talking about were all her family and friends.

Those outstanding archaeologists ultimately left behind a spark of hope.

“And that spark is not just mine alone.”

Robin smiled happily.

"History is a story."

"In other words, what I know is only part of the story from those hundred years."

"I cannot fill in and recount the missing historical facts based on my own imagination, but I want to preserve the truth that has been determined here."

He paused for a moment, then said, "The protagonist of this story was born nine hundred years ago in a kingdom with an extremely advanced civilization."

Robin's body jolted violently.

Nine hundred years of advanced civilization—it seems Ohara's research direction was indeed correct!

That enormous kingdom, which was erased from existence by the World Government, really did exist!

"That was a man named Joy Boy, who fought with a body that could stretch and contract, much like Nika, the sun god in the legends of Elbaf."

He was the first man on this vast sea to be called a pirate!

The first pirate?

Everyone except the Straw Hat Pirates was shocked.

After all, I've never heard of anything like being the first pirate.

Chapter 623 Im, you've finally come.

The truth of the world is slowly unfolding before our eyes, and the Five Elders, who do not want to be caught off guard, lose their composure.

But there's no use in being anxious.

Even in a rush, time must be factored in.

These opponents are not ones that can be easily defeated by being hasty.

The truth revealed by Vegapunk is slowly being unveiled to the world.

"He is called a pirate because, although I have only read a small part of the original historical text, it contains records of an epic battle."

At that time, Joy Boy's enemy was the current World Government, or more precisely, the predecessor of the World Government, the Provisional United Army of Twenty Kingdoms.

It can be said that Joy Boy and his group were so powerful that they had to form an alliance to fight them. And since the cause of that battle was still unclear, it could only be described as a clash of two ideologies, with no inherent good or evil.

Luffy slowly turned his head, his gaze passing over the battlefield where the fierce battle was raging, past the smoke and ruins, and landing on the huge steel giant.

The first pirate?

Joy Boy?

That guy really did call me that.

but,

“I am who I am, not Joy Boy.”

Luffy grinned.

What Vegapunk said next was actually similar to what Luffy learned from the Poneglyphs and Nika.

Joy Boy was born in a highly developed civilization that is hard to imagine existed nine hundred years ago.

"In this century-long war, there were indeed weapons that could not be manufactured even with modern technology, and of course, even a genius like me could not create them."

When Vegapunk got to this point, a hint of responsibility appeared on his face.

He is hailed as the most brilliant mind of our time, yet when faced with past technologies, much of it seems like reading gibberish.

Who says times are always moving forward?

As it turns out, the old era was often not necessarily worse than the new era.

He continued, "And here's the problem: the Void Century ended with Joy Boy's defeat, and the Final Battle left the world with irreversible and enormous war scars."

As we all know, the world is made up of islands, and seafaring is extremely dangerous. Many people never have the opportunity to learn about the cultures of other countries in their lifetime.

This common sense that we take for granted does not apply to the world a thousand years ago, because the earth-shattering changes during the blank century caused the world to sink into the sea. The place we live in today is a fragment of the past continent.

The world of a thousand years ago has now sunk without a trace!

The mainland is connected.

Therefore, the giant bridge kingdom in the East Blue is not without reason; the World Government clearly knows about the previous history.

Robin hadn't expected that Vegapunk would also be able to glean historical information from the texts left behind by Ohara.

"A continuous continent?"

Everyone who hears this will involuntarily have a picture in their mind.

That was what the world used to look like, a vast expanse of land connected as one.

Now many people can no longer take Vegapunk's words as a joke. This old man speaks so eloquently, could it be that the blank century of history is real?

"It can be inferred that long ago, there were several continents in the world that we did not know about. If the world has not changed in any way compared to the past, then it is absolutely impossible to erase a hundred years of history from the world's memory."

Although it seems absurd, this explanation makes sense. My conclusion is that the sea level rose by 200 meters in those short hundred years!

As for why sea levels rose during those hundred years, most people would assume it was caused by an unexpected natural disaster, but I'm certain it was a man-made disaster.

If such dramatic changes were caused by nature, then the initial disasters they caused should have caused continuous damage to the world over hundreds of years.

Whether measured from climatology, geology, environmental science, or atmospheric science... the results from any perspective show that the changes were far more significant than what could be resolved in just one hundred years.

Luffy's lips curled up slightly.

He knew what Vegapunk was about to say, and smiled at the two Five Elders whose expressions had changed drastically, "He's talking about the Ancient Weapons, isn't he?"

Whether in Impel Down or Wano Country, that destructive power represents two words.

Heavenly King!

Luffy has personally experienced the power of ancient weapons; destroying a country is a perfectly normal thing for him.

That makes sense.

Meanwhile, Vegapunk in the sky seemed to have heard Luffy's words, and his expression became extremely solemn.

"If that's the case, the reason must lie elsewhere. I reached a conclusion a few days ago when I detected a global-scale sea level rise."

The reason is that ancient weapons that sank the world to the bottom of the sea eight hundred years ago still exist today, and are being used again in modern times.

In other words... the epic war that took place during the blank century is still ongoing!