Chapter 288: 288. The Truth Of The World
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"My treasure?"
"If you want it, I'll let you have it."
"Go look for it."
"I left all of it at that place!"
It was Roger's dying words that made ONE PIECE the key to starting the Great Pirate Era.
But from start to finish, Roger never said what he saw as treasure, and what the great secret treasure really was became what everyone imagined for themselves.
Some people think it's loads of treasure, some think it's a strong weapon that can scare the whole world, and so on.
Most guesses are based on Roger's fame and power as Pirate King, as well as his reason for making the World Government and Marines afraid, and most made sense.
More people chose to believe it was a weapon, even Kaido and Big Mom. After all, it was for this reason that Golden Lion started the Ed War before Roger became Pirate King.
It's just that only when you really reach this final place can you see what the great secret treasure really is.
The so-called treasures didn't have any powerful weapons either.
Only Roger left the mark of the Roger Pirates under the huge letter "D".
"This is the so-called great secret treasure. Maybe Roger saw the story of 800 years ago he learned at Laugh Tale as a treasure, and saw this 'D' as a smile. Then it can explain why he named the final island Laugh Tale."
After all, another name for Raftel is "Laugh Tale".
Hearing this, the rest of the people were also looking at the stone. Although the shape and the letters on it were still clear, anyone could tell it was hundreds of years old.
Everyone there knew about the blank century that was erased by the World Government.
Robin looked around until she found the wall at the beginning, and then began to explain the words carved by the Roger Pirates.
"We have finally come here, to the end of this world, to this place, and I will record all the history I have collected here, the so-called truth of the world, and why it was hidden for a hundred years..."
"The truth of history."
When this topic came up, everyone stopped and waited for Robin to continue reading the information on the stone.
The story begins with people from the moon who suddenly came down to this world.
At that time, the world's tech was far from what it is now. There were millions of islands in the world, and more than half of them were countries cut off from others by the sea.
And then one day, beings with wings on their backs suddenly showed up in the world. People said they were creatures from the moon who came to this planet because there weren't enough resources on the moon.
Having great tech and a highly advanced moon society, they soon brought big changes to the world.
Not only did ships that could cross the sea become common, but tech like weapons and even robots began to be used all over the world.
However, the moon people with such tech did not try to rule the world. Instead, they seemed to love peace and brought tech to the world, only hoping they could live peacefully with the humans here.
This starting point was naturally good from the beginning.
But as time passed, tech began to spread slowly, and greed also slowly grew.
Although the moon people still wanted peace, it was clear that the natives, after feeling the power of tech and seeing beings weaker than themselves, slowly began to think about stealing and taking over.
The moon people saw this but couldn't do much about it.
Because after hundreds of years, the tech they brought had spread all over the world, and some places had even gone beyond what the moon people had brought.
War soon spread from just one area to almost the whole world without anyone noticing.
So it seems the moon people, who didn't want to join this war, chose to move to three different islands. Skypiea and others were left behind by the moon people.
The moon people leaving seemed to make the war worse.
That is, after that time, after getting moon tech, some humans grew greedy. They used their power to call themselves gods and began to see other people as slaves while trying to control the world.
During this time, among these self-called gods, someone found a colorful and strange seed. Out of curiosity, they grew it into a Tree of Knowledge in just one year. People seemed able to make this tree grow strange colored fruits through worship, and after eating them, they could get powers they wanted.
Some people could control nature, some could have super strength, and some could turn into animals. But after people died from eating a second fruit, the "God Fruit" was then called the "Devil Fruit."
Though they were called devil fruits, these fruits made people lose their powers when in water, which made the self-called gods feel even more powerful and made their greed grow.
Using Devil Fruits at first, the god group's control over the world reached its peak.
And because of their status as gods, this changed from a war between countries to gods making slaves of others.
But where there is control, there is fighting back.
The conflict between slaves and wars kept getting worse, and a group of people began to secretly form a group to fight back. This group included humans and giants, and they added D as a symbol in the middle of their names.
If you heard someone had a D in their name, even if you hadn't met them, you knew they were on your side.
The first group pretended to give in to the gods, then went to the tree, took the Devil Fruits, and completely destroyed the tree.
As the tree fell, the fruits also strangely disappeared, as if they had broken free from the tree and could now appear all over the world.
This action naturally made the humans in the god group angry, and they began to hunt down members of the D clan.
But after getting the same powers, the battle was no longer a time when these gods couldn't be beaten.
At this point, the gods' control over the world began to slowly weaken.
But to completely get rid of these gods, even members of the D clan would find it hard to do.
The fighting went on until that blank century of history when a man named Joy Boy came along.