Chapter 330: Chapter 330: Shamrock, Descends!

Chapter 330: Shamrock, Descends!

Fish-Man Island, Ryugu Palace.

Within Ryugu Palace, there was already mass chaos.

"Not in the Sunshine Area!"

"Have you checked the Sea Forest?"

"We’ve checked — not there either."

"This old... this old minister has failed His Majesty Neptune, failed Queen Otohime!"

"Minister of the Right! Minister of the Right! Someone come quickly — the Minister of the Right has fainted!"

The guards of Ryugu Palace were patrolling everywhere within the palace.

"Still haven’t found Shirahoshi!?"

And before the throne of Ryugu Palace, an old Fish-Man with a flushed red face, a massive body almost like a Giant’s, a red nose, and a bright orange beard, glared at the Minister of the Left.

He was the contemporary King of Fish-Man Island, the master of Ryugu Palace — the Great Knight Neptune.

However, at this moment, this usually serious and steady Fish-Man was rarely looking agitated.

Beside him, the attitudes of his three sons — Fukaboshi, Ryuboshi, and Manboshi — were exactly the same. All three had anxious expressions, their faces even turning somewhat red from agitation.

The reason was simple.

Not long ago, they had received news — their younger sister, the most precious treasure within Ryugu Palace, Princess Shirahoshi and her pet Megalo, had both mysteriously disappeared.

"No — it can almost be confirmed that Princess Shirahoshi has already left Ryugu Palace..."

The voice of the Minister of the Right of Ryugu Palace was trembling slightly.

"Left!?" ×N

Fukaboshi glared angrily. "Because of that damn Vander Decken, Shirahoshi has never left the Hard-Shell Tower — she was clearly abducted by someone!"

As the eldest brother, he cared deeply about his younger sister.

In his view, she could absolutely not have actively left the Hard-Shell Tower — someone must have infiltrated through some means and abducted her.

But hearing this, the Minister of the Left smiled bitterly.

He had originally thought so too — but all traces within the Hard-Shell Tower indicated that Princess Shirahoshi had actively left through some means.

"Royal Brother, let’s go find her right now — we must find her even if we have to turn Fish-Man Island upside down!"

"Yes! Let’s go right now!"

Although they still couldn’t believe such a thing, the three Princes felt the most important thing now was to find their younger sister first.

Ryuboshi and Manboshi were the first to speak. They were about to head outside the Dragon Palace.

But—

"All of you, stop right there!"

Instead, it was Neptune who called out to his three children in a deep voice.

"Royal Father?"

The three Princes looked at their Royal Father in confusion.

"Now is not the time to go find Shirahoshi."

Neptune — who normally loved Shirahoshi the most and even had a tendency to be a doting father — spoke in a deep voice.

"Don’t forget — we are the royalty of Fish-Man Island."

"The most important thing right now is Fish-Man Island."

While speaking, he looked at the bubbles before him with a solemn expression.

Of course he was also very worried about Shirahoshi.

But just as he said — the most important thing right now was the entirety of Fish-Man Island.

He also knew about the unusual movements occurring on the sea surface recently.

He had long since activated the watchtowers near Fish-Man Island, monitoring everything happening in the nearby sea area.

He had to say, all the intelligence obtained through the watchtowers made him feel uneasy.

According to his intelligence, it wasn’t just the Sabaody Archipelago — the elevators of Mary Geoise had almost never stopped recently, and the entire surroundings of Fish-Man Island, including that part of the sea area in the New World, already had World Government warships stationed.

All of this told Neptune that the situation was not good.

But Neptune still held out hope — or to be more precise, he didn’t wish to see the past efforts of his wife Otohime turn into a bubble.

So during this period, he had been trying to communicate and liaise with the World Government.

Unfortunately, the Government didn’t seem to have the intention to talk deeply with him — his request to speak with Mary Geoise yesterday received absolutely no response.

What happened today made him even more uneasy.

"..."

Neptune’s gaze looked at one of the many bubbles before him — that was the intelligence transmitted from Fish-Man Island’s watchtowers through the special bubble technology, and then through the light energy transmission effect of the Sunlight Tree Eve.

Normally, these bubbles would display iridescent colors, and simultaneously transmit intelligence reports from the various watchtowers.

But today, one of the bubbles located on the sea surface had already gone dim.

"Royal Father, you are overthinking it!"

The three Princes didn’t pay it much mind.

"Watchtower One is the furthest from Fish-Man Island. Even through the Sunlight Tree Eve, it is inherently difficult to ensure communication is always unhindered. It’s highly likely just temporarily lost contact due to the influence of ocean currents."

"Yes — the Government’s ships are all still on the sea surface without making a move. Besides, hasn’t Jinbe already gone to the Sabaody Archipelago to investigate?"

"Mother had already obtained the recognition of a Celestial Dragon back then. Over these years, with our mediation, the Government has also expressed willingness to let us participate in the next Levely. How could they attack us?"

The three Princes were the same as their father.

Due to the influence of Queen Otohime, they all yearned to coexist peacefully with humans.

Over these years, they also believed Fish-Man Island hadn’t had any major conflicts with humans.

Not to mention they knew very well—

"Fish-Man Island is located 10,000 meters deep in the seabed. Even if the World Government really wanted to attack us, it’s impossible to do so without any movements..."

Fukaboshi’s words hadn’t even finished.

"Your Maj—"

VMMM!

Neptune saw that below the dim and extinguished bubble, another bubble seemed to emit an exclamation of alarm.

But the Fish-Man guard of the watchtower only had time to say a single word.

The next moment, that bubble was similarly extinguished.

And clearly, this was only the beginning.

VMMM! VMMM! VMMM! VMMM!

Almost without a moment’s pause, those countless bubbles began to flash continuously and then extinguish.

The interval between each extinguishing was less than ten seconds — getting lower and lower, deeper and deeper.

Without exception, from the moment each bubble lit up to when it extinguished, the Sunlight Tree Eve connecting Fish-Man Island couldn’t even transmit any effective sound.

"!!!" ×4

The expressions of Neptune and the three Princes changed drastically.

They understood what this meant.

Each bubble represented a watchtower of Fish-Man Island, distributed at various depths in the sea area above.

There were a massive number of Sea Kings blocking the way along the route. Even for Fish-Men to pass through these areas required caution and consumed a large amount of time — especially the closer to the deep sea and Fish-Man Island, the more dangers there were, and the stronger the water pressure they faced.

But right now, the time interval between the extinguishing of those bubbles was extremely steady.

This was enough to show—

"Something is destroying the watchtowers along the way and entering the deep sea without the slightest pause!"

It ignored the immense water pressure, bypassed the barrier formed by the Sea Kings, and easily destroyed every watchtower it passed.

What was that thing?

Was it some army they hadn’t discovered? Some unimaginably powerful giant beast? Or some terrifying weapon?

Neptune didn’t know.

But he knew what he should do.

"Fukaboshi, Ryuboshi, Manboshi — immediately use the Giant Conch of Ryugu Palace to notify all the citizens of Fish-Man Island to take refuge."

"Minister of the Right, immediately notify all soldiers to assemble..."

Neptune took a deep breath.

"No matter what is coming — we must protect Fish-Man Island!"

The three Princes and the Minister of the Right immediately took their orders and left.

Neptune watched the continuously extinguishing bubbles.

He began to get dressed.

Until that lowest bubble also extinguished.

Neptune finally put on his armor — armor he hadn’t worn for many years.

That silver armor, full of martial prowess and dominance, and the trident in his hand, were exactly the symbols of the Great Knight Neptune from years past.

Then he raised his head and leaped upwards.

The dome of Ryugu Palace instantly opened, and Neptune swam into the seawater — he raised his head from afar, ready to welcome the existence arriving at Fish-Man Island.

The three Princes, having already used the conch to evacuate all the islanders, along with many soldiers, closely followed the King’s steps and swam right above Ryugu Palace.

The so-called Ryugu Palace was the palace at the very top of Fish-Man Island.

And the so-called Fish-Man Island was the country existing reliant on the Sunlight Tree Eve.

So right now, Neptune and the three Princes swimming out from the dome of Ryugu Palace clearly saw it at first glance — that massive tree located above Ryugu Palace, huge to the extreme.

That massive tree emitting endless brilliance, dazzling like a sun in the deep sea, was the Sunlight Tree Eve.

Of course, even the Fish-Men of Fish-Man Island had never seen the truly complete appearance of that massive giant tree.

But today they faintly saw the scene above the canopy.

Right now, in this deep sea illuminated by the Sunlight Tree Eve — something was plummeting.

Wherever it passed, the massive coral and fish in the sea were sliced and smashed to pieces in an instant.

Wherever it passed, even the surrounding Sea Kings let out roars of trepidation and moved out of the way.

Wherever it passed, that black-red Conqueror’s Haki lightning almost stirred the ocean currents.

That existence was like a falling star.

But Neptune and the Princes were completely certain — that was no falling star.

"A person?"

As a Fish-Man with senses far exceeding humans, Fukaboshi had already seen the figure plummeting from above.

That was a human.

He wore white armor, had red hair, and a treasured sword at his waist.

"Is it Red-Haired?"

Ryuboshi and Manboshi even recognized that face — on the entire sea, the appearances of the Four Emperors were no secret.

This made them confused as to why a Four Emperor would suddenly appear on Fish-Man Island.

But—

"No, it’s not Red-Haired Shanks."

Neptune spoke in a deep voice.

He tightened his grip on his trident, his gaze looking at that figure.

That falling star had already stopped above Fish-Man Island.

So Neptune could see the other party’s intact arms, that face without a scar, and also... those cold eyes.

He recognized Shanks — when Roger visited Fish-Man Island back then, he had seen the other party.

Neptune had even heard the Roger Pirates faintly mention Red-Haired’s identity.

He could be certain — the other party was not Red-Haired, but...

"That twin brother of his... he is a Celestial Dragon!"

Thinking of this, a gloominess flashed across Neptune’s eyes — a sense of unease had instinctively risen in his heart.

But—

"Sir..."

Neptune still forced himself to speak — he tried to communicate with the other party.

It was still that same hope.

The hope his wife exchanged with her life — he was unwilling to give up no matter what.

However, things could not go as he wished.

"..." 𝘧𝓇ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝘣𝓃ℴ𝓋𝑒𝑙.𝑐𝘰𝑚

Looking at Neptune below, and the Fish-Man army below, Shamrock’s expression didn’t change.

He didn’t seem to have the intention of communicating with Neptune.

His expression was very cold — that wasn’t disdain or hostility, but pure indifference.

That indifference even surpassed the malice of ordinary Celestial Dragons treating mortals as bugs.

In his eyes, Fish-Man Island below and the Fish-Men on it couldn’t even be considered living creatures.

They were mere specks of dust, not worthy of him casting malice or hostility.

Shamrock’s attention was solely focused on that unbelievable giant tree located near Fish-Man Island.

That warm sunlight even made him narrow his eyes slightly.

"Tree of the Sea, Sunlight Tree Eve."

He murmured softly — even in the deep sea, he seemed to still be able to breathe and speak.

This was to be expected.

As the current loyal servant of the Abyss, as the military force of the Abyss, he naturally wouldn’t be affected by the deep sea.

And while murmuring softly, his hand had already reached his waist, grasping the rapier.

Click.

The next moment, the sword was drawn.

VMMM!

Powerful black-red Conqueror’s Haki lightning wrapped around the blade.

Among all the God’s Knights, Shamrock was the only existence possessing Conqueror’s Haki.

From Shamrock’s body, pitch-black power surged from his left arm, swirling around his entire body.

Thus, within this deep sea, darkness completely replaced sunlight.

"Roar!" "Roar!" "Roar!"

The sword in Shamrock’s hand let out three beast-like roars.

Then — that blade wrapped in Conqueror’s Haki of extreme power actually transformed into a monster.

That sharp blade transformed into a dog’s head — and not just one, but a full three.

Every single dog head was massive, almost to the size of the Giant race. The dog heads were wrapped in the Flame Clouds symbolizing fruit awakening.

And from the mouths of those three giant dogs, sword blades thrust out.

Yes.

This was Shamrock’s weapon — a rapier that consumed the Mythical Zoan · Dog-Dog Fruit · Model: Cerberus, named Seven Sins.

That was the spoils of war his father won for him in God Valley back then, originally intended for him to consume.

But Shamrock rejected that fruit.

"Consuming a fruit brings fear of seawater. I don’t need power with such a weakness."

Thus, that precious fruit was given to his accessory.

What was even more terrifying was that even the sword in his hand had awakened its own fruit ability.

At this moment, it revealed its sharp edge to the world for the first time.

"Hell’s Paradise: Ferry!"

(End of Chapter)

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