Chapter 863 Historical Texts
Albana.
The "dancing powder" incident a few years ago did cause the prestige of the Nefertari clan in the entire Alabasta to decline sharply. Crocodile's plan made everyone in Cobra, but for the people living in Albana, that period was the happiest time for them in the past ten or twenty years.
When Kira led everyone into the city from the west gate of Albana, the first thing they saw was a happy scene.
Residents living in the capital walk freely on the streets, doing business or playing, with happy smiles on their faces, like flowers being grown in a greenhouse.
Different from Nahana, whose prosperity was supported by the perfume trade, and Yudi, whose wealth was supported by the gambling market, this city was filled peaceful atmosphere. It might not be rich, but it was definitely safe and happy.
As the direct beneficiaries of the "dancing powder" incident, they are the last people in the entire country to betray the Nefertari clan because of this incident.
The abundant rainfall has significantly improved their quality of life. Even though they later learned that this rainfall was caused by depriving surrounding cities of rain clouds, and that this behavior was immoral and banned by government order, how could this group of people living in the desert, who are extremely short of water resources, complain about having too much water?
Yes, we got more rain, but are we wrong? No!!
The real wrongdoer is the one who used the dancing powder. If you want revenge, you should go after him. What does it have to do with us, the ordinary people living in Albania? We have no power, no influence, and no strength. How can we influence other people's thoughts? We are also very sad and helpless about the conspirators using "dancing powder"!
After some inquiries, Kira found that such thoughts were common among the people in this city.
It’s okay to scold the conspirators, but joining the rebels? Sorry, I can’t do that! As for why I scolded the conspirators instead of the royal family, of course it’s because… I can’t say anything without evidence!
"I feel like they still have a bottom line. At least they didn't do anything like 'eat from a bowl and then put it down and curse'..."
After hearing about King Cobra's reputation from the people, Kira complained to them, "If even people like them join the rebels, then this country will really be hopeless!"
There are ungrateful people in the world of pirates, such as the Navy Captain T. Penn mentioned later. Wasn’t he backstabbed by the people he protected?
"So, where are we going now?"
"Let's go to the royal mausoleum. The historical text passed down by the Nefertari clan is there. I want to get it!"
Since Kira had already told everyone about his plan, they knew that what he wanted to do now was to collect historical texts and obtain "evidence" for writing history.
"The royal mausoleum? It should be heavily guarded, right?"
The total population of Alabasta is about 10 million, and the standing army has 600,000. Even though most of the soldiers are stationed in various cities, there are still tens of thousands left in Albania. As one of the most important places of the royal family, the intensity of the guards can be imagined.
However, in this world where great power is concentrated in one person, the fighting power of tens of thousands of soldiers can't make much waves. For stronger pirates, they can be dealt with with a wave of the hand. For wizards of Kira's level, they are not even as terrifying as Acnorolia's roar.
Urrutia and the others were not interested in Kira's behavior. They had long regarded the experience in this world as a journey, so after entering Albana, they dispersed to go shopping. Therefore, in the end, only Robin, Levy and Lucy, the three members of the "ancient language learning group", followed Kira to the royal tomb to look for historical texts.
Perhaps it was because the kingdom's army was in extreme friction with the rebel army, when Kira and his four companions used invisibility magic to swagger in, they found that the guards of the royal tomb were unexpectedly sparse, and the infiltration process was easy.
After opening the mechanism of the underground passage, several people walked through a long and dark underground passage and came to an empty hall. In the center of the hall, there was an ancient stone tablet engraved with mysterious words.
Kira gathered his magic power and cast a simple lighting magic, allowing the entire historical stone tablet to be clearly presented in front of the few people. Although its five sides were covered with dust, there was no trace of decay or graying. The invincible knife of time seemed unable to leave the slightest mark on it.
“What a magical stone!”
Lucy went forward to take a look with curiosity, and then exclaimed: "Kira, are these stones really more than 800 years old? You can't tell from the appearance!"
Leibi put on special reading glasses and tried to use magic to analyze it, but the result disappointed her, because there was no such text recorded in the props, so it could not be automatically analyzed.
Fortunately, she had learned a lot of words from Robin that day and could interpret a few.
"This is... the historical text passed down from generation to generation by the Nefertari clan?!!"
Robin couldn't hide her excitement, and the boiling blood made her face flush.
She had been working at the Baroque Workshop for so many years just for this piece of work, but before yesterday, she had never thought that obtaining historical texts would be such a simple matter.
Now that the historical text was before him, Robin could no longer wait. He quickly scanned it, translated the words one by one, and memorized them in his mind.
When Robin finished translating the entire text, she was suddenly stunned because she found that it actually recorded the burial - Wano Country.
"You said before that you told Crocodile the location of 'Pluto'?"
Robin turned to look at Kira, only to find that Kira was holding a camera in his hands, taking pictures of the historical stone tablet in front of him. He was immediately stunned.
"Yeah, it should be written here, right? 'Pluto' is in Wano Country."
"Uh... yes."
Kira's voice froze Robin again. She was sure Kira couldn't read words, and it was his first time here. So how did he know the location of Pluto? Was it the "special intelligence channel" he mentioned? What was that?
If possible, she also wanted to use that intelligence channel to find out the whereabouts of more "historical stone tablets"...
"Are you really not interested in 'Pluto'?"
Hearing Robin's words, Kira stopped what he was doing and looked at her with a look that said, "This child is so pitiful." "I have magic spirit power, why do I need Pluto? I don't even know if that thing has energy or can be driven!"
Lucy asked curiously, "Kira, Robin-san, what exactly is the 'Pluto' you mentioned?"
Anyway, it’s not Hades…
While checking whether the photo he took was clear, Kira replied: "'Pluto' is one of the three ancient weapons in the world. It is a warship built by a huge kingdom with super advanced technology more than 800 years ago. It is said that it can destroy an island with one shot."
Lucy suddenly realized: "An island?? It doesn't sound that strong, does it?"
After seeing weapons like Magical Spirit Power and wizards like Kira, Acnorolia, Auguste, and Irene, they were no longer sensitive to the power to destroy an island.
If you can’t destroy a country with one move, you will ultimately be an ant in the weapons world!
Robin was confused: What's wrong with you wizards? Are your standards so high?
"Have you finished looking at it? I'm going to put it away." Kira handed the three people the photo he had just taken with the Polaroid camera. "If you want to see more, just look at this!"
Lucy took it and looked at it, frowned and said, "Isn't the font too small?"
Kira put another magnifying glass on the ground: "Wouldn't it be possible to see it with this?"
Three people: "..."
When Kira put the historical stele into his personal space, Robin suddenly asked, "I wonder if I can learn the 'magic' you mentioned?"
"Huh? Are you interested too?" Kira was very surprised. "I thought you were not interested in anything other than archaeology and history."
Robin pressed the hat on his head and said calmly, "I just thought it might make my archaeological work more convenient. If it involves your privacy or secrets, just pretend I didn't say anything."
Pressing the hat... a sign of guilty conscience!
Kira narrowed his eyes and instantly saw through Robin's thoughts, but... could Robin really do this kind of arrogant attitude of wanting something in his heart but pretending not to care on the surface?
"Everyone has different magical talents. I'm not sure if you can learn space-attribute magic," Kira reminded.
"Really? Then..."
Robin was about to change his words, but Kira interrupted him: "Let's try it first!"
"Eh?! Is it okay?" Robin suddenly raised his head, a hint of surprise flashing in his eyes.
Kira nodded. "Of course, magic is not something that needs to be kept secret! In Aslant, magic books are expensive, but they can be bought after all. It's just that this is not Aslant, so if you want to learn magic, you need to pay a little price."
"What's the price?"
Kira's mouth curled up immediately: "First, you need to join 'Fairy Tail'!"
