Mysterious Clan

"Are you the one who rings the bell?"

"Yes, i presume you're the tribal chief"

The tribal chief nodded.

The Shandia chief is an elderly man with a gray beard and mustache, and long hair of the same color. He wears the standard Shandia attire, covered by a long robe, and carries a staff, with a tribal mask on the top, and white fur underneath it. On his head, the Shandia chief wears a canine head as a helmet, decorated with feathers, probably a symbol of his status.

"Can I talk to you inside?"

"What about my friends?"

"Hem." The Tribal Chief looks at them eating relish leaving Xin alone on his own.

"You can go Xin, don't worry about us."

"That's right, we can handle all of this."

"Yes, you can go, dont worry about us."

"All of them nodded and continued eating and drinking, they didn't even want to stand up to follow Xin around.

"Okay, it seems they don't even want to follow me because of the food."

"Hahaha, they are just young people, from the look of their face, it seems they have a different plan than you."

"Okay, follow me on my tent,"

Xin stands up and follows the tribal Chief.

If you're curious why Xin and others are in Shandia's Tribal Camp, well no need to ask, Wyper takes all of them to present as Hero of Shandia because of their deed.

Inside of the tribal Chief tent is a simple but primitive atmosphere, there's skin of animals everywhere and some old scroll and a giant map of Shandia.

What attracts Xin most is the old looking rag hanging above the tent, his lips twitch seeing it because he knows what the symbol is.

"Based on what I see, you seem to know that mark," the Tribal Chief said while looking above.

"Yeah."

"The Clan Symbol, the old Clan ruling from 400 years ago, a supreme clan that even the World Government can't contend with."

"They are a mysterious clan from a strange Island that disappeared with them when they left. Their population is not that much but their strength can easily conquer the whole world."

"Based on my ancestor, a simple civilian like a fisherman can easily defeat even our Hero in the past, they can easily move the mountain and river, it's a powerful clan with different being included."

"You seem to know a lot?" Xin curios ask.

"Of course, the tale, heroic deed and every single history in the past has always been passed from generation to generation, there's about everything from the past."

"Actually, we Shandia is just a group of a peasant, a slave from that mysterious clan, and Skypiea is a private garden of them,"

"Our ancestor join that mysterious clan, not the main clan member but as worker,"

"Don't your ancestors have any pride? Why join a clan as a worker?"

Chief smiled and said," You don't know, joining that clan is hard as you think, the criteria is based on your own usefulness and understanding, so even those kings, emperors, and sovereigns want to join but fail at the end."

"In the past, being part of that clan was a huge thing, every famous person around the world wanted to join but only a handful of people finally accepted."

"We the Shandai people are gardeners and that Garden is this, the whole Sky Island, if only the world tree is here, this garden should be perfect."

"World Tree?"

"That's right, in the past when the Skypiea was still on the blue sea, there's a gigantic tree residing in the middle of the Island, but something happened in that past and that tree disappeared with the Mysterious Clan."

Chief helpless sign while looking outside," Do you know that the beanstalk is actually a piece of vine that has been coiled around the Word Tree in the past? They said that the World tree flies up in the air while the giant beanstalk pulls upward."

"Because that vine's root is deeply embedded underground, the vine stretches upward making it like that."

"So this whole Island is just a garden for them?"

"Yes, not only that, the whole world became an official garden of that particular clan, the Red Line became the longest premarket in the world where different benign trade uses their own local specialty."

"I can't imagine what time it is, there's no poverty, war, or even pirates and other crime, the world seems perfect….. But not after they disappear one night,"

"No one knows how they disappear but the whole Island disappears from the map. They said that someone attacked them and made them disappear. Some said they finally went back to their home but no one really knows what really happened that time."

"No one knows?"

"No one, even the only guardian left at that time."

"You mean the guardian of mist?"

Chief looked at Xin with a surprised expression, and he hurried to ask," How did you know?"

"I read it on the tablet at the golden bell."

"So you can read ancient texts….. Well, you're right, that night, the guardian of mist was out of the country, because of that she only left after the island disappeared."

"Guardian of mist at that time is the most mysterious of all the guardians, we don't know who he or she is."

"The only thing we know is that the guardian of mist waited for the clan to appear again until one day, she disappeared mysteriously."

"But before she disappears, she left a bunch of thing, like the Golden Belfry Bell, a gigantic animal in grand line, those mysterious cubes around the world, and lastly is this flag, the only flag left after the great war 400 years ago, two years after that great clan went missing."

"A war?"

"That's right, the Twenty Kingdoms and the faithful servant of the clan, protecting all the heritage left in this world."