Earth, Fire, Water, Wind...
These four should be elements, but what do Annihilation, Redemption, Apocalypse, and Karma refer to?
Roger looked at the strange prism box, feeling somewhat puzzled, but he vaguely felt that these eight nouns should be related to the demon lords.
It's not just as simple as there being eight demon lords.
It's that he once heard Aatrox say a sentence.
"After this world calms down, I will return to where I belong, which is Annihilation."
The Annihilation that Aatrox spoke of should be the Annihilation written on this box, and if we infer from Aatrox, then the other seven symbols should also refer to a demon lord.
Thinking carefully, the demon lords who have appeared or have some information leaked about them are Aatrox, Xi Miec Tian Lai who might descend in Wano Country, and Holy Lord, the father of Little Demon Dragon.
Aatrox has already been confirmed as Annihilation, so there's no need to say more.
He only knew about Xi Miec Tian Lai through Ann. Before Ann used Admiral privileges to investigate the Jaltzburg Fortress incident and the Wano Country incident, he only knew that the great demon Tunfo also represented a demon lord.
The Xi Miec Tian Lai matter was also a top-secret event, and even Admiral couldn't know the whole story. It wasn't until the Wano Country incident began that the World Government declassified all the files related to Xi Miec Tian Lai for Ann in order to deal with Tunfo.
It was at that time that Roger learned this secret through Ann.
Which of the eight great symbols would Xi Miec Tian Lai symbolize?
And Holy Lord, who showed traces the earliest, but also has the fewest clues among the current three demon lords.
Roger pondered for a moment, and his crew also came over.
Seeing the treasure box in Roger's hand, they couldn't help but feel confused. Roger told them his thoughts, and Mumei thought for a while and said, "Actually, we've all missed one."
"Hmm?" Roger raised his eyebrows, looking at Mumei and asking curiously, "What do you mean?"
"Think carefully, have you all forgotten Zero?"
Zero!?
Roger's pupils shrank, and memories flooded back. He instantly felt a sense of discord.
Rayleigh was the same. After Mumei said this, they both felt something was wrong.
That's right, how could they have overlooked Zero?
Zero was the highest position of Mumei and the others when they were previously demon followers. When one becomes Zero from number one, a special change occurs, allowing them to not only receive the will of the demon, but also possess more special characteristics and abilities.
But because the entire demon followers had basically sacrificed themselves for Aatrox, and their ultimate goal was to summon Aatrox from hell, they naturally thought of Zero as Aatrox's proxy.
But now that he thought about it, could Zero really be matched with Aatrox?
Aatrox, that person, no, that demon, although crazy, acted with pride, especially Roger, who had personally fought Aatrox, could understand this point more clearly.
Would he really put on an act in front of them and say those things?
That's right, since Zero was a person who carried the will of a certain demon, then he was actually equivalent to that demon's incarnation, and his style was obviously not Aatrox's, so who was he?
Why did he guide others to release Aatrox?
Is he also one of the eight great demons?
And what would he symbolize?
"Actually, it's not necessarily a demon lord, right?" Mumei thought for a moment and said, "After all, in hell, there are other powerful beings besides the demon lords, such as that death god."
Roger nodded. That was true. Kuchiki Byakuya's strength was also very strong and incredibly mysterious.
Although he had never really taken action, based on the fact that he kept treasures like the 'Key to Hell' and even Makima seemed somewhat wary of him, he felt that Kuchiki Byakuya might be a figure no less than a demon lord.
And Kuchiki Byakuya was clearly not a demon lord, which meant that hell was not just the domain of demons.
That Zero...
Could also be someone like Kuchiki Byakuya.
Otherwise, there's no way to explain why he wanted to release Aatrox...
Roger thought of a possibility and said, "Could it be the demon who built the Ascension Altar? That is, the demon that Aatrox has been looking for?"
Mumei thought for a moment, then replied, "It's not impossible. After all, Zero's appearance was also accompanied by the Ascension Altar. If that's the case, he must have some kind of terrible scheme."
That's right, they were actually easier to deal with demons like Aatrox who were relatively straightforward. Although powerful, they didn't have to scheme against them.
But the hidden demon, Zero, was really disgusting, even a demon lord like Aatrox had been constantly plotted against by him.
"In any case, we can't relax our vigilance." Roger sighed. He looked at the ruins again. His Observation Haki was always on full blast, but now he couldn't detect anything unusual here anymore.
"The harvest here is this treasure box. I don't know what this thing is."
Roger glanced at the prism treasure box in his hand again, and tried curiously to see if there were any mechanisms, but unfortunately, the treasure box didn't change in any way.
"Engraved with the symbols of what seems to be the eight great demons, this thing should not be simple. Let's put it away properly first." Rayleigh said calmly, "And these ruins, let's try digging again. Maybe we can find some more clues."
Roger nodded, but he still had some doubts in his heart.
Previously, in Hueco Mundo, Kuchiki Byakuya asked him to look for clues about 'Domination.' He originally thought that Domination would be one of the eight great demon lords, but the eight symbols in this treasure box didn't include Domination.
If we look at it from two characters, none of the latter four, 'Annihilation,' 'Redemption,' 'Apocalypse,' and 'Karma,' match Domination. Do these names have other meanings, or is his thinking direction wrong?
Is Domination not a demon?
Thinking carefully, Aatrox had also mentioned the word Domination before, when Makima appeared, and said that Domination came up with the method to seal him.
At the time, he hadn't thought that Makima was a demon lord, but simply thought it was some kind of Domination among the demon hunters. But later, the arrival of Toguro and the contents of the Dead Sea Scrolls made Roger suspect that Makima was actually a demon!
Because according to the contents of the Dead Sea Scrolls, that woman's body would destroy half the world once it came into contact with a certain creature. Only a demon would do such a thing.
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