Chapter 353

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353

Sanji leaned on his knees, breathing heavily as he finished the fight. That actually took more effort than it should have. 

The destroyed body of the Golden Knight lay on the floor, in two halves. The moment the Golden Knight was destroyed, the circuit lights on the dungeon walls and floors started to dim down, and blink. Right after that, the whole place started to shake.

"What's happening now?" Usopp asked.

"Well, I'm not gonna find out!" Law said, quickly activating his ability, "Room!" The horizontal sphere, this time covered the whole room in an instant, and Law found something. 

He quickly moved his sword, slicing the air, and cutting down a wall further in the dungeon. With that, "Shambles!" 

Everyone, Sanji, Anchor, Robin, Cricket, Usopp, Chopper, the little Groot and Law himself were teleported near the broken chunks of the wall. In there was a room filled with high tech never seen before. 

The hidden room was an ancient chamber that seemed to defy the very era they knew. The room bore the weight of countless years, its walls adorned with a hodgepodge of aging electronics and machinery. Wires and cables snaked through the space like intricate veins, connecting to consoles and devices that pulsed with a faint power. It was a tableau of technology from a bygone age, and yet, it exuded an air of timeless sophistication.

Digital screens adorned the walls, their once-brilliant displays now dimmed by the passage of time. Mysterious symbols and text written in the ancient language flashed on the screens. 

Several strands of codes being written and rewritten, as the whole room started to shake. Amidst the electronic chaos, there was an eerie sense of stillness, as if time itself had stood still within this hidden sanctum.

"You! How did thee find this place?!" A voice came out of the screen, the same voice of the now-destroyed Golden Knight. It seemed it had a back up of sorts. "It matters not! I shall bury this whole place, if need to be! For I shall not yield to defeat!"

"Why don't you stay down!?" Sanji grumbled, intending to move and destroy the whole place, but someone did before him. 

Law had enough of the bullshit, with his powers still activated he moved his sword, slicing down everything in front before anything could go wrong, cutting down the wires that connected itself to the wall. 

"What?! Stop it! You are…" The voice couldn't even finish his sentence as the whole dungeon turned off, other than a few screens, most of the light sources in the dungeon, including the small circuits, shut off. And at the same time, the shaking of the dungeon stopped. 

"That actually worked?!" Law said, getting everyone to look at him. "I-I mean… I wasn't fully betting on it." 

Cricket sighed, his shoulder dropping, feeling tired. "Is it finally over now?" he said looking at the floating chunks of tech that flew in air.

"No… it seems not." Robin said, walking forward, near one of the screens, that was still active, and floating. Even with everything cut off, there was still scribbles of words running on the screen. 

But no one could read it, as that was being written in ancient text. Well, except her. 

"It seems our Golden Knight here has the tenacity of a cockroach." She said, looking over her shoulder. 

"Wait! Its in the screen?!" Usopp asked.

"How's that even possible?…" Bepo finished. 

"Well, for one, the Golden Knight was what you would call an Android," Robin said, getting a head tilt from several of his crewmates. "He's a robot." 

"Wait, Robin-ya, are you telling me that… that thing is a machine?" Law asked, "Like the Pacifistas?" 

"Yes," She sighed, as a few members of the crew had stars in their eyes. "And a very crude one at that…" she said glancing at the screen. 

An amused smile appeared on her lips as she read what was being typed. She would have never imagined that she would read out curses and swear words in the ancient language. 

However, suddenly all of it stopped, and the screen became blank. Almost as if someone cut off the line.

"I am Groot?"

She blinked and looked at this side, the little tree creature had taken something out of the floating rubble, a square box, that hummed with blue light and power. The Groot then looked at her, "I am Groot."

"…Nice catch Groot," She said, "Can you give me that box, Groot? It might be something dangerous." 

The tree creature looked at Sanji, and when he nodded he gave the box to Robin. Robin took the box in hand, and inspected it. The box was small compared to the other large things in the room, still, it was bigger than Robin's hand, and it weighed a good several pounds as well. 

Even though, it looked like it was made out of glass, it was in fact some translucent metal, that was cold to the touch. There were some small inscriptions on it. 

It was a bit hard to read due to it being old, but she could make out what it said.

"Hmm… it seems this is some kind of power core… a very good one." She said, before looking at Law, "Can you find things similar to this box…? there might be other power cores in here." 

Law nodded and with his powers, several other power core boxes came out, but unlike the first one, which glowed blue, they were yellow and half the size of the original one. 

While he did that, suddenly the dungeon started to shake again. 

"What's it this time?!" Anchor asked, putting up his guard as he looked above.

The noise was coming from above, Sanji also looked and frowned, before he blinked in surprise. 

Suddenly the upper part of the ceiling was drilled down and a person came down, landing within a small crater. It was Luffy. 

And he looked a bit worried, only after seeing Robin, Sanji, Usopp, and everyone else safe did he look relieved. But then he did a double take looking at the small tree creature. 

"Groot?" He mumbled, uncharacteristically. 

"I am Groot!" the tree creature nodded. 

Luffy opened and closed his mouth, he grinned, "Well, I'm Luffy. Join my crew!" 

Of course, there was a collective groan from his crewmates. 

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