Alabasta was very special in this world.
Eight hundred years ago, twenty kings had jointly overthrown a certain giant kingdom, forming the World Government that had been ruling the world ever since.
And the descendants of the twenty kings had also called themselves the descendants of gods, and had all moved to Mary Geoise above the Red Line. Which was the world nobles who were now called the Celestial Dragons.
But one of the twenty kings had refused to move into the Holy Land, and that had been the Nefertari family, the royal family of Alabasta.
For eight hundred years, the Nefertari family, who had originally had the qualifications to become Celestial Dragons, had been ruling this desert kingdom. Making this country's status especially different.
In fact, it was also because of this that the secrets that had been hidden in this country had far exceeded other people's imaginations.
For example, the Nefertari family's hidden name was "D," which was something that not many people in the Nefertari family themselves had been clear about.
Compared to these secrets that had been related to the Void Century, the location of Pluton wasn't anything.
Don't look at how Alabasta had almost had its country stolen by Crocodile, but Alabasta was actually a super power that had a huge land area, and had a standing army of over six hundred thousand.
If the current king, Nefertari Cobra, hadn't been a benevolent king who had been caring for his people, he could have suppressed the rebel army forcefully.
In this world where most kingdoms' territories were only a small island, countries of this scale like the Alabasta Kingdom were rare.
And as a foreign port of such a large country, the prosperity of Nanohana Port could be imagined.
Drake and Stella had landed in Alabasta here.
Because Alabasta's land area had been huge, Drake had decided to buy a map here first.
And then the two had been strolling around here for an entire day.
Stella had bought a large pile of desert-style clothing, and it was fortunate because of this that Drake could feast his eyes.
He had to say that that aquamarine bustier and the red gauze clothes had made Stella's figure look even more domineering. That was also Stella's favorite piece, and the crystal decorations on it, which had been making rustling sounds with every movement, had made Drake unable to open his eyes.
He had refused the peddler who had been trying to sell him golden apples, and speaking of which, wasn't it fraud to sell ordinary apples after brushing them with gold paint, calling them golden apples?
Apples were one thing, but wasn't it a bit too much to sell pears that had been dyed gold, calling them golden apples as well? Although the average IQ in this world was worrying, they wouldn't be so stupid to this extent... right?
But this had also aroused Drake's interest, and it wasn't in these fakes, but was instead in the legends of Alabasta's golden apples.
Legends all had their origins, and especially in a world like this, since there was this kind of legend, which was to say that there was a corresponding prototype.
As expected, what had been displayed in the original plot wasn't everything, and the unknowns in the real world couldn't be completely described with dozens of pages of plot. But this was also the source of enjoyment to Drake.
The royal family's library should have quite a few materials that the outside world couldn't see, and he could investigate it later on.
Having been strolling around like this for a day, Drake and Stella had found a hotel to stay in, planning to set off to Rainbase to find trouble with Crocodile after spending the night.
The next day, after Drake and Stella had finished washing up, they had gone to a restaurant to have breakfast.
But he hadn't expected that he would see a man sitting before the counter after walking into the restaurant, knocking on the table with his knife and fork, urging the boss to bring the food.
An orange cowboy hat, with badges that had had "smile" and "sad" on the brim. There had been a red bead necklace below his neck, and a skull tag had also been hanging from it.
The letters ASCE had been tattooed on his arm, but there had been a line through the S. What had been most eye-catching had been the crescent mustache skull symbol on his back.
That was the symbol of Edward Newgate, one of the four sea emperors of the New World, the strongest man in the world.
Looking at the man's freckled face, Drake had naturally recognized this person's identity.
The commander of the 2nd division of the Whitebeard Pirates, Portgas D. Ace, the sworn brother of the protagonist Luffy. Drake had a deep memory of this person, who had been the greatest regret in the original plot.
But the biggest meme about him should have been that so-called Mera Mera no Mi that even dogs wouldn't eat.
The main reason was that there were quite a few people in the New World who had the ability to control flames, for example, Big Mom, who had been controlling the homie Prometheus, and Kaido, who could spew Heat Breath.
Even Luffy had a move called Fire Fist, which could attach flames to his fist.
And although it was clearly a rare Logia, the Mera Mera no Mi ability user Ace had encountered the Dark-Dark Fruit, which had countered all devil fruits, first, and had then encountered the Magma-Magma Fruit, which had been superior, later on, not having any prestige at all.
Putting aside everything else, Drake himself had been a natural counter to Ace. Thinking of this, Drake's eyes had had a trace of playfulness.
Perhaps it was because he had sensed Drake's gaze, and Ace had turned his head, looking over.
Not having noticed the impoliteness in Drake's gaze, what Ace had felt first had been a feeling of pressure.
Having grown up wildly in the mountains and forests since he had been young, Ace had cultivated an extraordinary intuition. When facing Drake, he had suddenly had the feeling of facing that king of the forest when he had been young.
Drake had smiled and nodded at him, which had made him relax, but he had still been somewhat absent-minded while eating.
It was strange if he could have eaten with peace of mind, clearly feeling that there had been a giant dragon behind him! In the end, it had instead been Drake, who had come later, who had left first.
Just as he had been planning to leave the town, finding a place to summon Phoenix, Drake had run into a group of people on the street.
White uniforms, a seagull symbol, it had been a group of marines. And the silver-haired man who had been at the lead had been chewing on two cigars, and his jacket had been open, and a row of cigars had also been stuck on his chest and arms.
The marines were different from the pirates, and although they had a complete training mechanism, a new generation who had displayed enough quality to carry the marines hadn't appeared like the three admirals.
But there had indeed been promising and excellent talents in the marines as well, and Smoker had been one of them. Because he had been a Logia ability user just like the three admirals.
It was just that Smoker's Smoke-Smoke Fruit had indeed been inferior to the other Logias in terms of performance.
Although it was said that there weren't any useless fruits, and there were only ability users who didn't know how to develop them, there were indeed gaps between the fruits.
But the one who could be blamed for being bad was indeed only Smoker himself, and the Smoke-Smoke Fruit hadn't had any advantages in speed or strength, but he had still insisted on developing in these directions. He had turned this fruit into a disgrace to Logias like the Swamp-Swamp Fruit in the end.
If it had been Drake, he estimated that he would have referenced the ability of the Zanpakuto Haineko from another world, developing in the direction of detailed operations.
Through his battle with Kaido, Drake had had a certain understanding of these two abilities, devil fruit abilities and haki.
Drake's own magic power had been produced by that special organ, the Magic Power Source, mixing the natural magic power from the outside world with his own life energy and spiritual energy.
And haki had been a special ability that had been transformed from life energy and spiritual energy.
Devil fruit abilities had been similar to it in essence, as if the devil fruit had increased a special organ in people, which could transform the same two kinds of energy into special energy that could drive all kinds of abilities.
So haki could capture the entities of Logia ability users, because the two had been the same energy in essence.
Drake had known of quite a few kinds of magic that could turn people into elements, for example, the Water Body magic that Juvia, who had joined Fairy Tail, had mastered.
But the difficulty of this kind of magic was usually quite high. Just the entry-level requirements for a mage's qualities were very strict.
Devil fruits were different, and you could obtain the ability just by eating one, and there hadn't been any requirements in terms of physique or talent. It was just that the extent to which they could be developed depended on the individual's ability.
But it had only been this long, and Drake had seen two Logia ability users, who had been extremely rare on the sea. Crocodile, who he was going to meet in a bit, was also a Logia, so it seemed that his affinity with Logias wasn't shallow, huh!
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