Chapter 130: - 130: Sleeping Ancient Town
With the Golden Ark’s lightning system now paired with Golden Lion Shiki’s Float-Float Fruit, its speed was unmatched. The ship departed directly from Baron Island.
No one else knew the Hell Pirates had already left their territory on Elan Island.
"Brook, that old town with the vampire legend—Sleeping Town—is in the New World, somewhere between Dressrosa and Drum Island. There’s an isolated, ancient island right in the middle of that sea zone.
Legend says it was once home to an ancient kingdom that fell for unknown reasons. Lots of myths were left behind, and the island’s usually shrouded in mist."
Antonio flipped through stacks of intel as he explained in detail.
An ancient kingdom? No wonder in the original timeline, Redfield had to rely on Nico Robin to decipher ancient text just to locate the Vampire Fruit.
So that means... the Vampire Devil Fruit was discovered ages ago? And just left there, buried in myth?
Were people back then brain-dead or what? Who finds a rare Mythical Zoan-type Devil Fruit and doesn’t eat it? They actually treated it like treasure and stored it away?
Or maybe there was some reason the original owner didn’t—or couldn’t—eat it. Some kind of fear?
Did they discover the "devil" inside the fruit? Could the Vampire Fruit, like the Nika Fruit, have a will of its own?
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