A magic merchant infiltrating Fairy Tail

Laki hesitated for a moment before telling Erza and the others about their past: "This is Apayado, and we are the Shandians, descendants of the original inhabitants who lived here 400 years ago. But the people from the Skypiea took our homeland..."

A touching story of several hundred words was slowly told by Rachi, making Erza and her companions furious—their hometown had been occupied, and their own people couldn't go home; how could they tolerate this?

Although they didn't hear the stories of the chestnut-headed uncle and the big liar Noland like Luffy and the others, and thus lacked some of the emotional impact, Robin's presence still made up for it.

Erza was the first to step forward, saying to Rachel and the others, "Don't worry, we'll help you reclaim your homeland..."

"unnecessary!!"

A loud shout interrupted Erza before she could finish speaking.

The group was taken aback, then saw Wapa, who had just been confronting Erza, walk over and angrily say, "We will take back the Shandians' homeland ourselves! We don't need outsiders like you interfering!! Get out of here right now!!"

hiss--!

Natsume and the others were filled with shock: This guy actually dared to yell at Erza?! His provocation earlier was one thing—Erza must have understood his feelings after hearing the story—but… he actually yelled at her?! Is he crazy?!

The group turned their gaze to Erza, who wore a stiff smile, her red hair slightly standing on end, and an unseen fire seemed to be burning behind her...

Such...such terrifying killing intent!!

Chapter 883 You've all moved into Apaya, what more sand do you need?

"The god you just mentioned, is it named Enel?"

Erza and the others had full confidence in Kira's intelligence, even now that they were in the sky. However, out of caution, and given Kira's earlier statement that Laxus was on the island, Erza asked this question.

"This one……"

Kira noticed that when these people heard Enel's name, they didn't show any signs of tension or fear. Instead, they looked at them strangely, as if they had heard some incredible name.

"What's wrong? Isn't that right??"

"Originally, yes, but a month ago, four... probably people from Qinghai like you came here. They successively defeated fifty divine soldiers and four divine officials here, and finally even defeated Enel! After the divine soldiers and divine officials were defeated, they were subdued by him, while Enel disappeared without a trace."

Kira: "..."

Erza and the others: "..."

Four people? A month ago? That's definitely one of those people from Laxus!

Unaware of the mages' expressions, Rachi continued, "Those people occupied the Shrine of God, but they neither inherited the title of 'God' nor managed Angel Island. When we entered Apayado, they didn't send anyone to drive us away or hunt us down, it was like..."

"An unknown extra who just happened to be passing by?" Kira blurted out.

Laki looked embarrassed: "I don't know what 'extra' means, but the other party really didn't leave their name."

Beside him, the man named Kamachili, who was wearing a pink straw coat and had a real mohawk, continued, "Those people helped us drive Enel away and allowed us to return to our homeland. To be honest, we are very grateful to them for that."

"However, Wapa is stubborn and feels that his homeland was not won back by our own efforts, which is an insult to the name of the descendants of the great warrior Calgara. So every few days he runs to the shrine of the gods to fight those people—of course, he has never won a single fight so far."

The group of mages rolled their eyes in exasperation, thinking to themselves, "That's to be expected! That's Laxus, after all. Kira is probably the only one among us who could defeat him."

Wapa, his face cold, tried to justify his defeat: "That guy can also use the power of lightning. He must have eaten a Devil Fruit like Enel, except he's not a Logia type."

Robin suddenly exclaimed, "Oh? You actually have records about Devil Fruits here?"

Wapa glanced at Robin and said, "It's been recorded in the history of Shandia all along, and occasionally people from Qinghai would come here and leave behind relevant records!"

"I see……"

"But isn't this just pure... uh, I mean, aren't you being a bit too stubborn?"

Lili suddenly spoke up, looking at Wapa with a puzzled expression: "For you, returning to your homeland should be more important than anything else, right? Now you can rebuild your homeland here, so if you didn't fight Enel, then he wasn't him..."

As a Transcendent born in Edolas who left his homeland for Aslant, Lili felt he had a lot to talk about with these primitive-looking Hui people.

Laki and her group were all stunned: "This cat can talk?!"

Is this the point of focus?? Listen to me properly, okay?!

After a brief moment of surprise, Wapa snorted coldly, exhaled a puff of smoke, and said, "What you conquer yourself is of course different from what someone else conquers!"

"What's the difference? I don't understand..."

Perhaps because Lili's appearance was cute and he looked like a child, Wapa's tone softened a bit, and he patiently explained for the first time ever: "The war between the Shandians and the Sky Islanders has lasted for 400 years because of Apayado. The hatred left over from generations cannot be easily resolved by a few outsiders driving Enel away!"

"In the end, they are similar to Enel. They all occupied this place with absolute strength and then set the rules. The only difference is that they are not as dictatorial as Enel and do not allow anyone to come to the island."

"But they are not Sky Islanders after all. They have neither experienced our history nor can they stay here for long. Once they leave, Enel will still come back to continue his rule. Even if Enel doesn't come back, the conflict between us and the Sky Islanders will still exist!"

The news that Laxus drove Enel away sounds exciting, but upon closer inspection, it's clear that this is only a temporary solution.

Lili understood his meaning and could only express his regret.

As Wapa said, the main conflict between the two sides is still the ownership of Apayado. The Shandians cannot accept that their homeland was given to them by others, and the Sky Islanders cannot give up the land they have already acquired.

"I have a question. Why do the Skypiea people insist on occupying this place?" Happy, like a good student in class, raised his hand and asked.

Wapa paused for a moment before replying, "...According to them, the land is the eternal dream of the Sky Island people."

Killer knew that the infinite land Enel had been searching for was the moon. In the original story, after he was defeated by Luffy, he successfully arrived at the moon on the golden ship and met the moon people there.

The moon people are short in stature, have wings on their backs, live in craters on the moon's surface, possess advanced lunar technology, and have enemies known as space pirates.

According to speculation from experts on Tieba, the Sky Islanders come from the moon and yearn for the earth because it is their homeland. This is similar to the Shandians' desire to reclaim Apayado, which is a kind of symmetry.

Later, because the Sky Island contained a substance that could make people grow to enormous size, the originally short Moon People grew to the size of normal people they are today.

In search of energy, the lunar people came to the Pirate Planet. Their first stop was Sky Island, where some settled down, while others continued down into the Blue Sea, with some settling on Jaya Island.

The Lunaria are unsurprisingly a branch of the Moon People, but for some reason they have become white-haired, black-skinned firebirds.

Next are the Dwarfs, who, like the Moon People, live underground. Their capture to create SADs demonstrates their advanced science and technology, similar to the Moon People, except they lack wings. The reason for removing their wings is likely to better integrate into the Pirate Planet, given the severe racial discrimination among the Qinghai people.

The Shandians acted swiftly. A month ago, after Laxus occupied Apayado and opened it to all Sky Islanders, they quickly moved their secluded village, 'Hidden Cloud Village,' here.

The reason they were able to get ahead was mainly because one of them was a girl named Aisha who had a very high level of mental network since birth.

The Mind Field, also known as Observation Haki, allows one to sense attack auras and predict an opponent's next move after awakening. With further training, it produces different effects depending on the individual, including the ability to read minds, hear all things, foresee the future, perceive emotions, and detect bio-information...

Kira suspects that Observation Haki might have originated as "Mind Field," and considering Oda's development of Wano Country and the recurring theme of symmetry, perhaps "Ryuo" was the original name for Armament Haki.

Aisha is 11 years old. Her clothes and appearance are not much different from those of ordinary residents of Shandia. She wears an earthy yellow hat with a white cloth covering her dark red short hair. She wears a light orange dress that looks like it is made of linen. She carries a white shoulder bag and is barefoot. She looks like a wild girl, naturally innocent, lively and cute.

At this moment, she was happily sharing her treasure with Wendy, which was a bag full of sand. Judging from how much she cherished it, she probably wouldn't be willing to trade it for an equivalent volume of gold.

Kira was initially puzzled by this. He thought, "You've all returned to Apaya, why would you need sand?" But then he realized, "Maybe this is what it means to stay true to your original aspirations?"

Chapter 884 The Lights of Shandora

After a brief discussion, Kira and the others decided to split the team into two groups.

One search party is tasked with finding Laxus at the Shrine of the Gods; the other is an adventure party tasked with thoroughly searching for gold in Apayado.

Kira had no interest in men, so he simply gave the signal receiver to Erza, asking her to lead the team to Laxus, while he took out the mineral detector and began his adventure to find gold.

Many people joined his team, after all, most of the mages in Fairy Tail were poor and couldn't say "no" to Gold Saints. If they did, it would definitely be something like "Don't go".

Robin also joined the adventure team. She already knew that Apayado was the other half of Gaya Island in the Blue Sea, that the surging ocean currents four hundred years ago brought them here, that there was a golden village here, with a golden bell in the middle of the golden village, and a historical text on the bell tower. Therefore, she couldn't wait to explore it.

After learning that Kira and his group's goal was gold, the Shandians, including Wapa, paid little attention to their actions. These people had never seen gold before and had no interest in it whatsoever, truly regarding money as dirt...

That doesn't seem quite right either; they value land highly.

A group of people repeatedly warned Kira not to cause any damage, otherwise they would fight back against Kira and his group even if it cost them their lives. Their attitude was very firm.

Kira simply nodded and smiled, casually agreeing—since the other person already knew he was weak and would have to fight to the death to fight back against him, what else could he say?

The 'Golden City' Shandora was thrown onto a sky island 400 years ago and was buried by the clouds of the White Sea, leaving only a part of the buildings on the top.

After Enel arrived here, he spent several months finding Shandora, looting all the gold inside, and building a golden ship—the Ark 'Proverb'.

There are two places that were missed. One is the golden treasure inside the Lord of the Sky's belly, which Luffy and his crew later took and sold for 300 million. The other is at the very top of the giant vine in the middle of Apayado, where the Golden Bell is located, as well as a huge golden pillar.

Kira vaguely remembered the following descriptions of the Golden Bell: the Golden Bell was called the 'Light of Shandora', its sound could travel ten thousand meters, and could be clearly heard even in a storm. Its original purpose was to 'comfort the spirits of the dead', so that the deceased ancestors could return to this land at any time without fear of getting lost.

Considering all the events before and after the Skypiea arc, it can be reasonably inferred that the Golden Bell's chimes were originally intended to reach the people on Skypiea, namely the lunar inhabitants who stayed there!

The story also mentions that the lights of Shandora went out once, 800 years ago, when the Shandian tribe was wiped out because of the existence of historical texts.

It's important to understand that these texts are not ordinary historical texts, but rather historical texts recording the location of Poseidon, one of the three ancient weapons, highlighting the significance of this place.

Kira even suspected that this was one of the places recorded on the guiding stone...

wrong!

Kira suddenly remembered that he seemed to have said before that he wanted to create a century-old history for the people of Qinghai.

Excellent! Regardless of whether this is actually one of the four indicators, from now on, it is!

Of course, Kira wasn't an idiot. Considering that the historical text was written eight hundred years ago, the location it points to should be Gaya Island in present-day Qinghai, not Apayado, which is over 10,000 meters above sea level!

"Where should we put the four locations? We have Skypiea, so we should have Fishman Island too, right? And then... Wano Country? And the last one... how about Elbaf?"

Based on Luffy and his crew's adventures, Killer selected four important locations from his memories. Unfortunately, he didn't have a map of the Blue Sea at the moment, otherwise he could have seen where these four locations would be connected.

"Wait! If Angel Island is the first stop for the Moon People on their way to Pirate Planet, then this place is just as important as Jaya Island. It wouldn't be unreasonable to consider it one of the four landmarks?"

But Sky Island is located 10,000 meters above the ground, and Fishman Island is located 10,000 meters below the surface of the ocean. These two places are basically the highest and lowest islands that appear in the entire manga. If Laugh Tale is located at the intersection of the four points, then these two places should be diagonally opposite each other, right?

Does that mean Laugh Tale is likely just above sea level? That would be so disappointing!

No, no... what if one of those places is the moon? Speaking of which, is it even possible for the moon to appear on a nautical chart?

Besides these four locations, the sunken waterfall in the sea on Enies Lobby is also suspicious. Perhaps it was once the site of a giant kingdom? Or maybe it's a light that has been extinguished?

The extinguishing of lights most likely signifies the destruction of civilization.

If the sunken waterfall on Enies Lobby was indeed once a civilization, the only one capable of destroying it completely would probably be the Heavenly King, whose true identity remains unknown to this day.

Some speculate that Celestial Dragon might be a flying mechanical dragon, which explains the names "Celestial Dragon" and "Celestial Dragon Hoofprint," a theory that Kira finds quite convincing.

A mechanical dragon fired cannons from the sky, destroying a civilization at the location of Enies Lobby. This caused the earth's crust to move and the sea level to rise wildly. That's why Wano Country built high walls to defend against the sea, and Fish-Man Island built Noah's Ark for survival.

This conjecture is very similar to a story in the Bible, and there are believers in Qinghai. For example, Bartholomew Xiong was a missionary who always held a Bible in his hand.

The Sky Islanders and angels look exactly alike, and the Celestial Dragons claim to be 'descendants of the Creator.' So this 'Creator' is very likely the one who led humanity to climb the Red Line to escape the sea, and perhaps his name was Mary Geoise.

Amidst a jumble of thoughts, the metal detector led Kira and the others closer to the giant vine. When they arrived at the designated location, they found that the detector's pointer was pointing downwards. Kira was not surprised and simply dug through the clouds beneath his feet, then jumped down and arrived at the ruins of Shandora.