One Piece: Under the Throne

It was already past midnight, and the only sounds in the basement of the Tree of All-Knowing Library were the flickering candlelight and the sound of writing.

After interpreting another paragraph, Dr. Kloba stood up and pounded his shoulders. After looking around, he announced that today's research was over.

Leo had been fiddling with the papers since he discovered the secret of the historical text, and only came back to his senses when he heard the doctor's call. Leo hurriedly put the papers in order, and then borrowed a few books on the grounds that he had not done enough research today, and quietly put the historical text papers in the books and took them out of the laboratory.

After returning home, Leo first went to check whether Robin was asleep. Seeing the little girl still smiling foolishly while sleeping, Leo also smiled knowingly. After covering Robin with the quilt, he tiptoed back to his bedroom.

After returning to the room, Leo couldn't wait to take out the paper pieces recording the historical text and continue to study them. The deciphering work was not smooth. Apart from the initial formation of a circle, there was no progress. Leo could only keep trying to rotate each piece of paper to try to reconstruct a new pattern.

But he couldn't just rely on luck, so Leo had to imagine some kind of graph as a reference, and finally he thought of the alchemy array.

After sketching out the shape in his mind, Leo began his first attempt, assuming that there was a pentagon inside the circle, and that each vertex of the pentagon intersected with the outer circle...

The rising sun spreads the morning light across the earth, and the cool morning light shining through the window heralds the beginning of a new day.

Leo stretched himself and turned off the oil lamp. He had been studying all night without realizing it. He walked out of the bedroom and went to the kitchen to prepare two breakfasts. He left one on the dining table and a note for Robin, then returned to the bedroom with the other.

Two hours later, Robin came to the restaurant, rubbing his sleepy eyes.

"Huh? Leo got up so early today that he even prepared breakfast?"

Before Robin started eating, she saw the note next to her breakfast. It turned out to be a message from Leo, asking her to go to the library by herself and saying that he had to make up for the sleep today because he had studied too late.

After reading the message, Robin didn't know how to describe her current mood. If she was also a time traveler, she would definitely wonder why even archaeologists were in such a mess.

Leo slept until noon, and the familiar feeling came back. This is the work and rest schedule that a geek should have. He opened the window, stretched his body towards the sun, and then leaned against the window. Leo thought it would be even better if he could light a cigarette at this time.

Leo arrived at the library soon. As soon as he entered the door, he saw Dr. Kloba greeting him enthusiastically with a smile on his face. But when he saw that it was Leo, he changed back to his poker face.

Leo: "Doctor, I have something to tell you."

Kloba: "Oh? Do you want to contribute to archaeological work again?"

Leo: "...Doctor, you are obsessed with money. I am serious."

"Okay, then tell me what's going on."

"I plan to study independently for a period of time, so I will temporarily withdraw from the study of the main historical text. Please approve it."

Kloba: "You mean you won't come again?"

Leo: "I know that it is a loss to the archaeological community for a young and promising scholar like me to quit research, but please rest assured that I will only be away for a short time, and I have decided to donate another sum of money to make up for the loss."

Kloba: "So you really don't plan to come, haha, it's a deal! The kid is about to leave and he's still donating money, it's really a double blessing."

Leo: “…”

Dr. Kloba didn't give Leo a chance to regret, he whistled and ran away.

Leo angrily found Robin, took her to a big meal, and then told the little Lolita about his idea of ​​doing independent research. Fortunately, the little Lolita was very reluctant to let him go, which gave Leo a little comfort for his heart hurt by Dr. Kloba.

Robin's reaction made Leo feel that his love for his sister was not in vain, but he didn't know that Robin didn't insist on letting him stay because she was afraid that he would study too hard.

In the days that followed, Leo devoted all his energy to unraveling the secrets behind the historical text. It took him another month to figure out the second set of figures in the inner circle, which was an eight-pointed star composed of two squares.

As time goes by, the cracking speed becomes faster and faster, because it is cracked from the outer circle inward layer by layer. The more graphics are reconstructed, the easier the remaining decryption work will be.

Three months later, Leo finally walked out of the room. During this period, he made countless attempts and finally solved the secret. Now the historical text has completely changed. A complete pattern similar to an alchemy array appeared in front of Leo.

Could it be that the Great Kingdom really knew alchemy? Or was this pattern a special energy circuit? It seemed that we had to try to figure out how to use this pattern next.

Leo re-drew the "alchemy array" on paper, but drawing the array diagram was easy, but he had no idea how to activate it. After several unsuccessful experiments, Leo's second-year syndrome came back. He put his hands together, then pressed them on the alchemy array, shouting "It's done!"

Leo maintained his meditation posture in silence for a long time, then stealthily opened the door a crack, and finally breathed a sigh of relief after confirming whether Robin was at home.

Phew! Fortunately, if Robin saw me like that, he would have laughed to death.

It seems that the inheritance left by the huge kingdom is not of mystical significance.

So Leo decided to carve this pattern on a metal that can carry energy. He chose a conductive material to try, carved the alchemy array on an iron block, and then powered it up. A magical scene appeared. The "alchemy array" actually emitted a faint blue light, and blue energy flowed between the lines. Leo was so excited that he almost jumped up. After working so hard for so long, he finally made some progress.

But then Leo encountered another difficulty, because this alchemy array did not change except for glowing, could it be just a lighting device? This reminded him of the useless trash can, and Leo was completely crazy for a while.

Leo didn't believe that the secrets that the people of the huge kingdom had gone to so much trouble to hide behind the historical text would be useless, so he found more metal carriers and even collected a lot of rare metals on the black market through mafia channels.

But even so, the research still made no progress. Leo was lying on the floor in the middle of the bedroom, his hair was messy and his eyes were confused as he stared at the ceiling.

Looking at the alchemy array that was successfully carved at the beginning, the blue light it emitted was so dazzling. Could it be that all the efforts for so long were in vain? Leo was getting angrier and angrier, and finally he smashed the carving knife hard on the alchemy array, but a magical scene happened.