Luffy Died When He Set Sail, And At The Beginning, I Become The Sun God?

"Luffy, where is the god you mentioned?"

Zoro looked up at the sky, the midday sun was a bit dazzling.

"The place we are in now is called Angel Island."

Luffy walked towards the Merry Go, explaining, "This is Angel Beach on Angel Island. In the northwest direction of this beach, there is a larger island called 'Sacred Domain' by the people of Sky Island. It is also known as the Island of Gods."

"The Island of Gods? An island where deities reside? Could it be a part of Jaya Island brought up by the Knock Up Stream?" Robin pinched her chin and speculated.

Truly a clever archaeologist, her mind worked quickly.

"How do we get to that Island of Gods?" Zoro asked.

"Of course, by boat. Do you expect me to carry you there? Robin is one thing, but I don't want to bring two people," Luffy replied.

In his words, Luffy leaped onto the Merry Go.

Usopp and the others were gathered at the bow of the ship. Hearing the commotion behind them, Usopp turned around nervously and said,

"Luffy, you... look!"

He moved aside, and Luffy and the others finally saw the strange scene.

A peculiar creature wearing a green cloak and holding a small wooden hammer stood there. The cloak's hat covered most of its face, only revealing its mouth.

It was less than a meter tall, similar to Chopper.

But strangely, this thing seemed to have a foggy glass effect, even though it was standing right in front of everyone, it looked very blurry.

"Luffy, is this a ship spirit?" Sanji's face was filled with astonishment. "We put that fruit on the deck just now, and this thing appeared and ate the fruit!"

Although he took out the fruit, it was also Luffy's first time seeing a ship spirit.

Curiously, he took a few steps forward, crouched down, and tried to communicate.

"What should I call you?"

"Merry... Go..." The little spirit's mouth opened slightly, like a newborn baby, trying hard to learn to speak.

"Merry, are you a ship spirit?"

Merry nodded.

"What can you do? How do we use the automatic navigation?"

"Tell... direction... or... destination..."

Upon hearing this, Robin blinked her eyes in surprise and said, "Does that mean they will help us sail the ship?"

I'm not sure about that, communication is a bit difficult.

Luffy thought for a moment and said to the rest of the crew,

"Next, we're going to hunt down the Thunder God. Usopp, are you going to stay on the ship?"

There's no need to consider that at all. Usopp immediately jumped off the ship.

Following suit, Johnny and Yosaku also jumped off the ship together.

"Luffy, even though I don't know what a Thunder God is, I really want to help you. But someone needs to stay behind on the Sunny, leave it to me!" Usopp gave a thumbs up and smiled, saying, "Have a safe journey!"

"Have a safe journey, Luffy, Zoro, Sanji, Robin!" Johnny and Yosaku echoed.

Robin smiled lightly and said,

"What are you afraid of? Don't you have Luffy with you?"

After the events that had transpired, her confidence in Luffy had reached an extremely high level.

After all, he had even repelled a Marine Admiral. This so-called God of Skypiea couldn't be that formidable.

"We do need someone to stay here. Usopp, we'll leave the Sunny to you."

Luffy nodded and stood up, saying to Merry, "Can you go to the northwest direction, to the Island of Gods?"

Upon receiving the command, Merry immediately transformed into green particles and merged into the ship's figurehead.

In the next moment, the ship started moving.

The anchor chain automatically retracted, the sails opened up, and the rudder moved without anyone controlling it.

Following the instructions, the Merry Go sailed towards its destination.

The people on the ship were all astonished.

"It's really moving."

"Luffy, where did you get something like that? It's unbelievable!"

"It's similar to the Six Powers fruit, really amazing."

Ignoring the comments of the three, Luffy suddenly came up with a great idea.

If I directly tell Merry to go to La Huder, can we go directly to the final island?

After returning to Qinghai, we must try it out!

After about half an hour of sailing, the island came into view.

Unlike Angel Island, the distant island is made up of land.

The island is covered with dense forests, and ancient trees can be seen everywhere.

"Does that Thunder God live in this place?" Sanji lit a cigarette and stared at the distant scenery.

"It's a Demon fruit power, and he has four priests under him."

After approaching the coast, Luffy jumped off the ship first: "There are remnants of the golden city of Shandora in this place, quite far away. Come along."

The three of them got off the ship one after another, and as for the Merry, it automatically retracted its sails and dropped anchor.

"The trees here are really big, several hundred years old? No, even if it's several hundred years, they shouldn't be this tall and thick." Zoro looked around.

Under Luffy's lead, the group headed straight for their destination.

400 years ago, the golden city of Shandora, which was carried to the sky by the Knock-Up Stream, was pierced by a huge beanstalk when it reached the highest point and was about to fall.

Later, in order to compete for this island from Qinghai, the people of Sky Island and the people of Shandora fought a long war.

In the end, the people of Sky Island won.

"The people of Sky Island built a temple on that beanstalk."

Luffy concluded.

"Was it for the gold?" Robin frowned.

"No, the people of Sky Island did it for this land, called 'Basshodor' on Sky Island. The people of Shandora were more concerned with guarding the historical text."

"The historical text..." Robin was very interested and wanted to see it with her own eyes.

In response, Luffy didn't directly say what the historical text specifically recorded, so as not to disappoint her.

At the same time.

On the giant beanstalk, in the temple.

Enel lay on the bed, supporting his head with one hand, and holding an apple in the other, casually biting into it.

"This person from Qinghai knows quite a lot. Hahaha, interesting, do you want to come hunt me?"

He swallowed the apple along with the core, then wiped the fruit crumbs off the corners of his mouth with his thumb.

"Go inform the priest and bring these four people back."

"Yes, Enel-sama!"

The servant, who was fat and almost spherical in shape, went off to carry out the order.

"There's still some time before the completion of the ship, so I'll play with you a little, person from Qinghai."

Lost in thought, Enel raised his left hand with his palm facing the sky.

Electricity flickered on his body, and the power of raging thunder gathered in his palm, finally striking the sky.

"Divine punishment!"

In the forest.

Luffy suddenly looked up, a slight smile forming at the corners of his mouth.

"You guys should move away."

The three of them looked up and immediately saw a beam of light descending from the sky. Without thinking too much after hearing Luffy's warning, they quickly moved away in all directions.

Boom!

A ten-meter diameter pillar of light fell, instantly piercing the ground.

"Luffy!" Zoro's expression changed.

Luffy, who was accurately hit, was engulfed by the violent power.

Robin covered her mouth and said, "This sound, it's the atmosphere expanding at the speed of sound, it's thunder!"

"Thunder?" Sanji said dumbfoundedly, "Is that the move of the Thunder God?"

The intense lightning came suddenly but disappeared quickly as well.

When the light dissipated, Luffy stood there unharmed, except for a hollow circular area formed outside the spot where his feet stood.

The island was pierced through!

"Are you okay?" Zoro looked surprised.

Sanji slapped his palm and suddenly realized, "Luffy is made of rubber, so he's not afraid of electricity. That's how it is!"

"It's not rubber, it's the Sun God."

Luffy patted the nonexistent dust off his body and said, "I'm a little annoyed that I was struck by lightning for no reason. You guys can come over slowly, I'll go beat him up first."

As he spoke, he had already entered Gear Second.

"By the way, on your way here, you might encounter a few priests, so be careful," he warned.

Robin whispered, "It's not for no reason, aren't we all going to kill the gods? It's self-defense, right?"

"Indeed," Zoro agreed with a nod.

The temple.

Enel frowned.

"Rubber? What's that?" he asked.

Born on Sky Island, he had never heard of it.

In his perception of the Mantra, a presence flew towards him at an extremely fast speed.

He suddenly looked up and saw a silver light streaking across the sky, then falling into the temple.

Enel squinted slightly.

"Is it a Devil Fruit user?"

"Good afternoon, God Enel," Luffy greeted with a light laugh. Looking around, he saw dozens of shocked divine soldiers.

"Who are you!?" someone angrily shouted.

"I'm not here for you, so get out of the way," Luffy glanced at the person, and in an instant, they collapsed with their eyes rolled back.

Enel: "...

What's going on?

Why did his divine weapon fall?

I don't understand!

It's like how ordinary people can't understand why physical attacks are ineffective against him.

At this moment, he also doesn't understand why his subordinates faint with just a glare from someone.

"I received a report earlier that there was an illegal immigrant, a man who claimed to be the Sun God, was it you?"

"......."

Luffy grinned and said, "Enel, this world doesn't need two gods, and besides, you're a false god."

"Hahaha.... interesting, really interesting."

Enel changed his position from lying on his side to sitting cross-legged.

His right elbow rested on his knee, his fist supporting his chin, his head slightly tilted, and he looked relaxed.

"I'm in a good mood, so I'll give you a chance to challenge me."

As he spoke, his other hand opened its five fingers, "Five minutes, I'll sit here without moving, and you can attack me as much as you want."

Pausing for a moment, he added, "But after five minutes, I will strike again and punish your three subordinates."

"Oh, you're quite particular."

Luffy couldn't help but laugh.

After a light laugh, his figure moved and disappeared from the original spot.

R......!

Enel's pupils contracted, shocked in his heart.

His Haki almost failed to capture the opponent's movement trajectory, let alone predict it.

Enel's gaze suddenly became sharp, quickly locking onto the area in front of the bed.

That silver-white figure abruptly appeared in his field of vision, with only a fist descending towards his face.

The next moment,

Boom!!

Enel was bewildered to find that everything in his field of vision suddenly shifted and then tilted at an angle.

No, it was his hair that had moved.

Before the sensation of pain reached his brain, Enel's head was thrust into the bed beneath him by a punch.

It was as if a tea shoot had been uprooted and bent over, with its head buried in the ground.

Luffy pulled his fist back and calmly spoke, "Don't worry, there's still over four minutes left."

Zap! In a flash of lightning, Enel's body quickly disappeared from the bed.

Luffy turned around and saw Enel holding his crooked jaw, staring at him in disbelief.

"How did you manage to hit me!?"

"Can't handle it? You said you wouldn't move, but you ran away. I even went easy on you, you're really boring."

Luffy's face darkened, clearly displeased.

Enel's body was surrounded by flickering lightning.

He wasn't an idiot. When he realized that Luffy could hit him, sitting there and taking a beating would be foolish.

Since obtaining the power of the thunder, he had never been humiliated like this before.

Having lost interest in playing, a murderous intent appeared on his face.

"30 million volts, Thunderbird!"

Swinging the staff in his hand, he struck the drum behind him. In the next second, the terrifying power of lightning erupted, giving birth to a thunderbird that quickly attacked Luffy.

Luffy walked towards his opponent expressionlessly.

The terrifying thunderbird landed on him, but it couldn't inflict any damage.

Crackling lightning flickered around him as Luffy reached out and actually grabbed the lightning in his hand.

"What!?"

Enel's eyes were about to pop out. Why would someone be able to catch lightning, an energy like this, with their bare hands?

"Can't you understand? If you can't understand, then it's 0.0."

Mocking him, Luffy tore apart the Thunderbird that was wrapped around him as if he was tearing off his clothes.

Enel immediately showed an expression of disbelief, even suspecting that his eyes were playing tricks on him.

"How is this possible? My power... What are you!?"

"The Sun God, your natural enemy."

Luffy grabbed the Thunderbird with both hands and kept squeezing it, violently compressing the power of lightning between his hands, eventually turning it into a palm-sized thunderball.

In the next moment, he threw it fiercely towards Enel.

The thunderball hit Enel and burst into a dazzling light.

Boom!!

The terrifying power of thunder erupted, instantly sweeping through the temple and engulfing everything around it.

"What a joke! Using thunder to attack me? Using my own power to attack me? I am a god!"

Enel became furious and released all of his power.

200 million volts, Thunder God!

The cloak formed by lightning wrapped around his body, and suddenly, Enel transformed into the form of a Thunder God.

However, before he could make a move...

A beam of white light instantly pierced through his Thunder God form.

Luffy grabbed Enel's neck with his right hand and with a loud bang, slammed him directly onto the ground.

The terrifying lightning still couldn't cause the slightest bit of damage to him.

Enel's face became blank.

"Even among gods, there are differences! Your Thunder Fruit is indeed powerful, but it pales in comparison to my own fruit."

While saying this, Luffy lifted Enel into the air.

Enel was shocked to find that he couldn't even transform into an element.

The force gripping his neck tightened, making it difficult for him to even convey his voice.

"Fruits are truly superior to everything!"

(Note: The translation assumes that "0.0" is meant to represent a mocking expression rather than a literal translation.)