"Has the Sea King already descended?", Sora guessed.
"You guess," Rosse slightly smiled, signaling Sora to take a guess at the answer.
The three great ancient weapons, he was determined to obtain them all.
Such dangerous weapons, of course, couldn't be left in others' hands.
"Guess?", Sora also became interested, thought carefully for a moment, and said uncertainly, "Queen Otohime?"
She had heard some rumors saying that this mermaid queen possessed the power to peer into people's hearts since birth.
Now she understood clearly, that was a sign of innate Observation Haki.
Possessing such an ability did match the image of the mermaid queen.
"Not her, she's a princess, not the queen," Rosse shook his head with a smile.
"Princess? Queen?", Sora was confused for a moment, then suddenly understood, rolling her eyes hard at Rosse.
At that moment, she thought of herself, thought of Queen Titi.
No need to think. She knew the mermaid queen must be a descendant of Princess Otohime and would definitely stand on Rosse's side.
"It's not really because of the mermaid queen, I just think Princess Otohime's philosophy is quite interesting," Rosse said with a chuckle.
"I'm not Gion, no need to explain to me," Sora laughed lightly. She didn't believe Rosse's nonsense.
Moreover, she didn't care about these things at all. So long as Rosse had a place for her in his heart, it was already enough.
Being able to be brought here by him alone this time already meant a lot.
Thinking of this, her eyes softened, and she gently caressed her slightly bulging belly.
If nothing unexpected happened, the child in her womb would be Rosse's firstborn.
Although not of Celestial Dragon bloodline, and this world didn't value firstborn inheritance, the assurance Rosse gave her was already enough to make her feel secure.
For Sora, the sense of security Rosse gave was something no one else could offer.
To protect the present, she would stop at nothing, eliminating all enemies before Rosse.
"This time, you didn't come here just to look at this stone tablet, right?", Sora calmed her emotions a bit and turned to look at Rosse.
This was an easy guess to make.
After Rosse came here and finished reading the Poneglyph, he showed no surprise at all.
He wasn't surprised by the Sea King-related content, nor was he surprised that a Poneglyph was here.
That already indicated Rosse knew there was a Poneglyph here long ago, and even knew what was recorded on it.
"Just trying, to see if I can do something interesting."
Rosse smiled and took out the Trident of the Sea God, which was imbued with Armament Haki. The tip of the trident heavily stabbed onto the Poneglyph.
Clang!
After the metallic clashing sound, the Poneglyph remained undamaged, and the Trident of the Sea God, thanks to the Armament Haki, was also unscathed.
"It's said that the stone used for carving ancient text is of special material and can't be destroyed," Sora said.
Though she said that, she still felt Rosse might have a way.
"In this world, there's no such thing as indestructible material, especially these stone tablets, they were man-made. If they can't be damaged, then how were these words carved in the first place?", Rosse chuckled softly, then wrapped the trident with Conqueror's Haki. The head of the trident scraped against the stone tablet, producing a piercing grinding sound.
As his power focused at one point, marks began to appear on the stone tablet.
Although not very deep, it already showed the Poneglyph could be damaged.
It's just that due to the special material, at the very least, Conqueror's Haki must be used to inflict damage to it.
Screech!
As Rosse exerted more strength again, seawater continuously gushed from the trident's head, spraying onto the stone tablet while entwined with Conqueror's Haki.
This time, Sora could clearly see it.
The surface of the tablet was being continuously eroded.
The engraved ancient texts were becoming increasingly blurred as the surface was destroyed.
The stone tablet wasn't very big. The engraved part was only one side, roughly a 3 meter by 3 meter square.
Rosse only took ten minutes to shave off a layer of the tablet's surface, erasing all the ancient text on it.
"Your Highness, what words will you engrave?", Sora asked softly. She had more or less understood the purpose Rosse brought her here.
The previously engraved side had been filled edge to edge, there wasn't any spare room.
If new words were to be engraved, the layout and such would need to be redesigned, which happened to be something her brain was best at.
"A Sea God once ruled the human world and had a father-daughter relationship with the mermaid queen among the three great Sea Kings. Every 800 years, the cycle repeats, and the Sea God and the mermaid queen shall return. When that time comes, the entire ocean shall heed the Sea God's command," Rosse spoke softly, with a smile on his lips.
Fate? Prophecy?
When venturing out into the world, identity is self-made.
He never believed in fate. Since this world believed in it, he'd craft it with his own hands.
"Understood," Sora immediately got it. Rosse wanted to create a prophecy.
Since the original Poneglyph records included someone who could be the 'child of destiny'...
Then why couldn't that child of destiny be Rosse?
Standing on Rosse's side, Sora instead felt a spark of excitement.
To participate in the rewriting of history, she felt honored.
Just after thinking for a moment, and combining it with the amount of text originally on the tablet, she had already thought of a draft.
Thinking it, she did it.
Sora immediately took out her notebook and wrote the ancient text on the paper.
"The layout and script won't be a problem; ordinary people won't be able to tell the difference," Saying this, Sora tore off the note and handed it to Rosse.
"This is enough," Rosse took the paper, memorized it, and began copying it onto the ground.
Writing on a Poneglyph took a lot of physical energy.
He didn't want to make a mistake and have to redo it. If he had to redo it a few times, this stone tablet would be ruined.
After many attempts, once Rosse was sure he had it memorized, he finally picked up the Trident of the Sea God and began carving it into the tablet.
He didn't know how the ancient craftsmen engraved the words back then, but with his current power, carving wasn't hard at all.
It only took thirty minutes to engrave the story Sora had written.
This was the first Poneglyph Rosse had altered, but it would definitely not be the last.
With this experience, he now had a lot more room to operate going forward.
There were at least a hundred such stone tablets in the Holy Land, enough for him to write a whole narrative.
Once they were placed all around the world, a completely new history could soon be pieced together.
"This plan was first proposed by Robin. Now it's up to you to refine it. The story writing, I'll leave that to you. Best if you can flawlessly insert it into the historical narrative I've prepared for you," Rosse stood side-by-side with Sora, admiring the newly engraved words on the stone tablet, and said.
"The story part is no big issue. The number of Poneglyphs isn't especially large, and there are plenty of places where we can insert things," Sora understood Rosse's idea. From the time she started learning ancient text, she already knew Rosse had been raising a pair of archaeologist siblings in the Holy Land.
Just one thing puzzled her.
"Since this plan was originally proposed by Robin, why not let her execute it?"
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