110. Ancient Palace

110. Ancient Palace

Ken was sitting inside the carriage sipping some water. The desert of Alabasta was really scary with frequent desert storms. One such desert storm was actually going over them and Nami had to use magic to make a protective guard over themselves.

Vivi wasn't in a good mood because according to her such storms weren't common before but after Crocodile was messing up the weather with his Dance powder which could bring rain, it changed the weather of the country and was now suffering.

Nami went over and told to calm down and that everything would be alright. Luffy and others were busy looking at the storm which was passing above them. It was both a dangerous and beautiful sight to behold from inside the cover.

The storm at last blew over and the sky was again visible from the naked eye.

"The desert is scary." Chopper was a little scared seeing such harsh and hot weather even though they were in a carriage.

"Your winter island is more scary." Usopp retorted. This invoked an argument between Chopper and Usopp and everyone had fun looking at both of them. They started moving again and crossed over massive sand dunes. Ken in his previous life had never visited a desert. And actual desert with no vegetation and just sand dunes.T/his chapter is updated by nov(ê(l)biin.co/m

So this was new for him too. After hours of travel they finally saw a huge black mountain from afar. As they came close to the small mountain, they got to see that it was eroded by wind for ages and on the bottom of the mountain was hollowed in one part. Probably because the winds on the lower level carried heavier sand and thus eroded the lower part of a rock or a mountain more heavily than the upper part.

"Let's take a break under the mountain. Banchi had been walking in this hot weather for hours." Robin suggested as her pet had been in the scorching heat for some time. Though the turtle was made for a desert environment, Robin always felt a pity for her pet that had been out in this weather while they were just sitting in a carriage enjoying the sights.

Everyone accepted the proposal and just and just went under the half hollowed mountain. After stopping everyone got out and everyone was welcomed by a strong burst of hot wind in their face.

"It was a quicksand, Nami-san."

It was then, Ken saw the surroundings. The quick sand had thrown them into a huge space that was definitely man made. There were pillars in this open space that held the ceiling but some of these pillars seemed ancient and were already on the verge of destruction.

"Where is this place?" Ace asked as he looked around.

Luffy and Usopp had already started running around exploring the space while Ken's eyes were on the far end of this huge hall.

"What is this place?"

"This place looks like it was built in ancient times. These pillars look so old. Vivi, do you know this place?"

"No, I have never read about this place in the books before. But they say that the old palace of the kingdom was somewhere here." Vivi replied as she joined others in looking over the place. None of them panicked as they knew that they could get out of this place easily.

Meanwhile, Ken and Robin went to the other side of the huge hall and laid their eyes on something that was shining from afar. Robin stiffened at the spot when she realized what the eyecacthing thing was.

It was a Poneglyph.

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