Traveler in the Pirate World

Above the sky, the newly born bright moon half looks down at the earth and half looks up at the stars. There are green grasslands, dense forests, towering mountains, plains that stretch to the horizon, and rushing rivers that stretch across the earth until they merge into the sea.

Under the crust covered with lava, the giant beast is still struggling with its terrifying vitality. Bits of pale flames spew out along with the fiery red magma, forming a dark cloud in the sky.

Snow and wind were drifting above the glaciers representing the two poles, but who could have imagined that the endless ice peaks floating above the sea, crossing the lava at the center of the earth, tightly bound the remains of the giant beast.

The wind swept through the sky, and the sea churned with it, free and without any constraints. The original and most primitive kinetic energy made this planet keep moving.

Among the dense forests of thousands of mountains, on a pool of blue water, pavilions stand tall. There are no jade carvings, nor gold dragons. The trees are in the forest, and the stones and tiles are in the rocks. There are seven pavilions, three or two pavilions, and a stone platform, connected by water corridors.

There are lotus leaves all over the green lake, and most of the flowers are lotus. Bartol, who looks like a young boy and is somewhat androgynous, floats among the lotus leaves. He raises his head to drink and exhales a sip of fragrance, while his fingertips play the piano to sing a beautiful melody, which echoes in this empty valley, ethereal and graceful, reaching into the sky.

Ze Li held her chin with one hand, her long hair flowing gently, and looked at the chessboard on the stone table with calm eyes, reluctant to make a move.

Elsie sat opposite him, leaning on the stone round table with her hands resting on her head. Her long, smooth hair cascaded down her back like a waterfall, swaying like flowing water. It was obvious that her mind was not on playing chess.

Aresia stood in the center of the huge stone platform, holding the sword in both hands, looking forward, and waving the sword in her hand earnestly with the sound of breaking wind.

On the second floor of a pavilion with a doorplate carved with plant patterns, Qinaxi leaned against the window, looking down at the world through layers of clouds.

Anubis was suspended above the world's largest volcano, with endless white flames gushing out from his body and flowing continuously into the depths of the earth.

On the stone cliffs of thousands of mountains, Risk stands alone on the peak, like a stone carving, motionless and contented.

"It's so boring!" Even though they were thousands of miles apart, Elsie's slightly lazy voice still rang clearly in everyone's hearts.

"Yeah, I don't know what I want to do all of a sudden." Zeli's white fingertips twisted the warm black jade chess piece, turning it boredly, "Lady Lily said that we should have our own lives, but what is our own life?"

"I really want to travel with Lady Lily. I can drink lots of fine wine. Of course, it's not as good as the wine Lady Lily brews!" Bartol shook the wine glass in his hand with a gloomy look. "It's a pity that we are too conspicuous now. We definitely can't follow Lady Lily."

"Hmph╯^╰" Anubis snorted indignantly, "The mission Lady Lily assigned to us is not over yet, and the monster is not dead yet. If we want to completely cleanse these sinful souls, we won't be able to do it without a few years!"

"You are always so careless. If you can't become a god, you won't be able to follow in Lady Lily's footsteps." Aresia still waved the sword calmly. Although her arms had the power to break mountains and seas, she looked like an ordinary person in both stillness and movement. "Although we have a long life span and will have the power to overturn the world after adulthood, if we don't work hard, sooner or later we will be left far behind by Lady Lily.

Time is nothing to us of the Immortal Race, and it is nothing to Lady Lily either. A temporary separation is also nothing to us."

"All living beings in the world, all things are caused by cause and effect, one can see the true self in the cycle of reincarnation, and see all living beings in all eternity. The traveler passes through the living beings, which means he is both within the living beings and outside of them." Qinasi's soft voice rang in everyone's heart. She leaned on the windowsill, and her calves, which were dangling in the air due to sitting on a high stool, kept swinging.

"Eternal life is only the basis of the path to enlightenment. Lady Lily can see all living things among the countless living beings. Strength is something that comes naturally to Lady Lily, but an eternal and immortal state of mind requires a long period of time to hone.

But we are different from Lady Lily. We need more than just mental growth. We also need strength. After all, we have only just reached the threshold of eternity."

"Elements carry our insignificant seeds of rules. With the power of elements, we can display them in the form of substantial elemental phenomena. But in the final analysis, we are only relying on the power of Lady Lily.

When the seeds of our rules take root and sprout in this elemental soil, until their roots become strong enough to truly take root in this world, that is the day we will ascend to godhood. "It started to rain heavily in the sky, and the merciless wind blew over Risk standing on the top of the mountain. The rain wet his face and clothes, but he still stood still like a stubborn stone, as if he had lost all his breath.

He was slowly blocking out all his senses, and only used the seed of rules that was naturally derived from his own elemental mark from Lily, in the deepest part of his soul, in the pure self, to try to contact a corner of the vast world outside.

The unique power of rules belonging to himself slowly explored the protection range of the elemental imprint. The world in his eyes slowly began to become different. The gravity he controlled gradually became visible in his extremely small perception range. The feeling of looking directly at the operation of all things was like looking directly at the truth.

But this feeling was short-lived. To the entire world, his rules were too weak. The huge amount of information caused his extended rules to shatter in the blink of an eye.

Risk woke up during this long moment, and countless lights seemed to flash in his slowly opened eyes. Even though it was only for a moment, he only gained a tiny bit of insight from the world, but it was already different from the previous moment.

Just like the gap between an ordinary calculator and the world's top supercomputer, the amount of knowledge an ordinary person can acquire in the same amount of time is vastly different from theirs, and so is the rate of growth.

……

It drizzled again in Alabasta tonight. Lily and her friends set up a tent among the desert rock forest. The sound of the dripping rain echoed outside the tent, helping people fall asleep peacefully.

Alberto sat alone in a dilapidated building from the old times, with a burning fire in front of him. The crackling sound of the burning dead wood complemented the slight ticking sound among the ruins.

But no one knows how fast the white-haired girl sleeping in the tent is growing every moment, and no one knows how terrifying the power is contained in this slender body.

Merojan looked at the sleeping Lily with complicated eyes. After hearing about the Alt incident, Lily had changed more and more. Every time he looked at Lily's seemingly unreal beauty, Merojan always had a very strange feeling in his heart.

Just like...

It was like looking at a landscape and a sky full of stars. Lily was clearly right in front of me, but I couldn't help but feel that she was very far away. But this seemed to be just an illusion, because sometimes she was actually very close, as if she was everywhere.

Lily seemed to be very close, within reach, and also seemed to be everything in the world. She was both the scenery in front of us and the stars and moon in the boundless sky that were out of reach. She was both real and unreal.

The slightly cool fingers slid across the girl's fair face, and the warm body temperature made Mellojan feel a little relieved.

"You have been here all along."

The girl murmured in her heart that she was the one saved by the revolutionary army and also the one saved by Lily, even though the girl didn't know it.

In the dark world, a fire is lit. The flowers that once sat in the brothel waiting for the day when they would bloom and be picked by anyone no longer have to wither. She is grateful to all those who saved her and brought her sunshine.

"And you were one of the ones who started the fire!"