One Piece: The Magician

The very center of the Mist Forest, the deepest part of the tomb of the last prince.

"Open it, Sherlock."

Robin stared at the mysterious black stone coffin, a pair of beautiful eyes flashing with rare excitement.

As an archaeologist, Robin has explored at least a dozen ancient tombs over the years, and he has extensive experience in digging graves and opening coffins.

However, this coffin from the last prince of the Kingdom of Askar a thousand years ago was undoubtedly the oldest she had ever seen, and it was also the most valuable for investigation.

"Ah."

Sherlock nodded, and with a thought in his mind, the knight in heavy armor who was waiting on the side immediately stepped forward.

Out of caution, a certain glasses first controlled the black knight to test around the sarcophagus. After confirming that there were no traps or other traps, he slowly pushed the coffin board of the black sarcophagus away.

The two stepped forward and took a closer look. They found that there was no mummy or skeleton lying in the sarcophagus as they imagined. There were no gold and silver treasures as burial objects, and there was nothing that could be related to the sword.

Obviously, the so-called cursed holy sword is not here.

There are only these few things inside the sarcophagus:

A humble clay jar, an ancient book with a black cover, and a somewhat broken scroll.

"These off-white powders are... I see. Could it be that cremation was popular in the ancient Askar Kingdom thousands of years ago? This is a good discovery."

Robin put the jar containing the ashes of the last prince back into the distance, and turned to look at the broken scroll placed next to it.

Sherlock picked up the ancient black book. At first he thought it was another black code book.

But after holding it in his hand, he realized that it was different from the black books he had obtained before. Its material was rougher, and it looked like an antique that had been dusted for many years.

A certain glasses took a rough look and found that the content in this ancient book was also written in ancient characters. Unfortunately, due to time, many of the characters appeared blurred.

Not only that, the book also comes with illustrations of fruits, each of which has a strange arabesque-like pattern.

"Could this be..."

A strange color flashed through Sherlock's dark eyes under his lenses. Even if he didn't read these ancient texts, he could probably guess what was recorded on them just based on these illustrations.

This ancient black-covered book is obviously a devil fruit illustrated book!

"Could it be that someone had already started studying Devil Fruits about 1000 years ago?"

Sherlock pushed up his glasses slightly and muttered to himself.

He had never seen a Devil Fruit illustrated book, although given the sorcerer's status and financial resources in the East China Sea, it was not impossible to get a Devil Fruit illustrated book.

But the East China Sea is the weakest sea, let alone Devil Fruits. There are only a few people with abilities who have eaten Devil Fruits, so Sherlock didn't pay much attention to them before.

(As far as I know, there are people in the Navy who have been researching Devil Fruits. I think they will be very interested in this devil fruit drawing book from thousands of years ago.)

Thinking of this, Sherlock put this precious ancient book into the mirror space and turned to look at his companion.

"Robin, did you find anything there?"

The female archaeologist did not answer immediately. She stared at the scroll in her hand. After pondering for a moment, she asked quietly:

"Have you heard of [Hell Fruit]? Sherlock."

"Hell fruit? Never heard of it."

Sherlock shook his head, but then he immediately thought of what was described on the mural, and his expression changed slightly.

"Wait, you mean..."

"Yes, it's the one painted on the mural." Robin nodded lightly.

"And the demon Azathoth killed by the last prince actually refers to the devil fruit user who ate the [Hell Fruit]."

Then, the female archaeologist took a deep breath and began to describe the contents recorded on the broken scroll.

The Hell Fruit is a very special devil fruit. After eating it, the eater will not gain any supernatural abilities at first, but simply become a

A landlubber who is afraid of sea rocks.

But when the person with the ability dies, his soul will return from hell and be reborn, and he will also have the ability to control the fire of hell.

This kind of calamity fire from hell is extremely terrifying. It can not only burn the soul, but also control, absorb, and spread the negative emotions of human beings, making them become puppets who have lost themselves and strengthen themselves.

It can be said that this hell fire is simply the natural enemy of all living things.

Looking at this alone, the ability of this hell fruit is simply unbelievable, but correspondingly, the side effects of this unbelievable ability are also quite terrifying.

Because a person with abilities is also a human being, even if he dies once and is resurrected, he must still have negative emotions in his heart...

Therefore, people who have eaten the Hell Fruit have gained extremely powerful power in a short period of time.

But without exception, they all turned into black flame demons dominated by negative emotions, and burned completely after a wave of wanton destruction and killing!

This is simply an uncontrollable natural disaster, and since the Devil Fruit eaten by the ability user will reappear after death, it is impossible to completely eliminate "Azathos".

Later, the king of the Kingdom of Askar accidentally obtained this Hell Fruit. He knew the horror of this Devil Fruit, so he hid it deep in the treasure house of the palace.

Not long after, the Hell Fruit was mysteriously stolen and secretly eaten. Then the black flames of Hell ignited again, and the demon who brought disaster and despair returned to the world!

Fortunately, the prince's swordsmanship was unmatched in the world, and he killed the ability user in time, and secretly found the Hell Fruit that reappeared.

At this moment, a mysterious man appeared.

He said to the prince:

"Since humans with emotions cannot control the power of this Devil Fruit, what will happen if an object without emotions eats it?"

And this mysterious man has exactly the same ability.

The prince was also worried that the hell fruit might be eaten by others in the future, so he agreed to the mysterious man's plan.

The legendary cursed holy sword - the Seven Star Sword, was born.

"It's so stupid..."

Hearing this, Sherlock pushed up his glasses slightly and said, "If I guess correctly, that mysterious man is actually the culprit who stole the Hell Fruit, right?"

"Yes."

Robin nodded and continued: "All of this is actually the plan of the mysterious man. The purpose is to prompt the prince to launch a foreign war after obtaining the Seven-Star Sword, a great weapon."

"After all, only war, an extremely barbaric and violent activity, can generate the most negative emotions, and only war can push the power of the cursed sword to its peak!"

Sherlock remained silent and just looked at what was depicted on the mural. There were no fewer than ten countries participating in the war, and the number of soldiers and civilians affected by the war was probably in the hundreds of millions. The negative emotions it generated were simply unimaginable.

And the purpose of all this is just to "charge" a weapon? !

A certain glasses silently took a breath, thinking that the mirror fruit ability user from thousands of years ago was so heartless and crazy, even though he was as calm as him, he felt shuddering.

"What then?"

The magician asked again: "Judging from the legends handed down from the Kingdom of Askar, that mysterious man's plan failed in the end, right?"

"later......"

Robin pulled the scroll to the end, frowned slightly and said, "The handwriting at the back is a little blurry and damaged in some places. It's not easy to read. I'll try to translate it."

"After the prince launched the war, he seized a Devil Fruit from a defeated country. After realizing that he had been deceived by a mysterious man, he ate the Devil Fruit and used the fruit's power to seal the Seven-Star Sword. Then commit suicide, so no one can break the seal."

"And the name of the devil fruit that the prince finally ate was..."

The female archaeologist's voice suddenly stopped, and her expression was filled with unconcealable shock.

After a while, Robin put down the scroll in his hand, turned to look at Sherlock, stared at the latter's eyes under the lenses, and said with a serious face:

"...Baobao fruit!"