"Understood."
Law grabbed Enel, who was struggling weakly due to the Sea-Prism Stones, and stepped into the air, returning to the Golden Dragon ship.
Then.
Ian turned to look at the people on the shore.
Confused.
Everyone looked back at Ian with confusion in their eyes.
They still couldn't understand what had just happened.
Was the so-called "God Enel" defeated?
The supreme, invincible God Enel… Was he really defeated like this?
And now, the God-slayer rose into the sky, transforming into a golden god, overlooking everything. "Listen up, bring me everything related to this country's history."
At that moment, Enel was lying on the deck of the Golden Dragon ship, receiving treatment. He could clearly see the gigantic god soaring in the sky.
He hadn't seen Ian's appearance when he arrived, so he was inevitably confused. "That guy… What exactly is he?"
"He?"
Law skillfully used her ability to stitch Enel's wound, while casually saying, "Probably the sun."
"The sun?"
Enel was taken aback.
The entire Birka tribe sprang into action in an instant.
No one dared to refuse Ian's request, after he had easily defeated the God, Enel.
The Divine Army, under the leadership of the two surviving priests, Gedatsu and Ohm, acted like loyal dogs, frantically searching the island for everything Ian wanted.
In just one day, everything related to history on the island was delivered to Ian's hands.
It was a pile of materials resembling small mountains, and several elderly men with gray hair.
The materials were historical records from the Birka people, and the elderly were experts in many ancient Birka legends.
At this moment, Ian was flipping through the books while listening to the Birka elders recount the stories of the past.
"…Our ancestors were not originally natives of this sky; they came from a land that could be called an infinite expanse."
Infinite expanse?
At this point, the group of companions were somewhat astonished.
Was it the Blue Sea Island?
Did the Sky Islanders migrate from the Blue Sea Island?
Only Ian knew that the truth was far more shocking than they imagined.
"The moon? I've heard that the people of the Blue Sea sometimes refer to our homeland as that."
"Pfft—The moon?"
At that moment, everyone exchanged bewildered looks.
The moon?
Seriously?
"Ian," Yamato couldn't wait to tug at Ian's sleeve. "He said their ancestors came from the moon!"
"Keep listening."
Ian simply said, calmly.
With the elders' account and the materials collected from Birka,
The history of this country, as restored by Ian, is as follows.
Many years ago, a civilization called Birka was born on the moon.
They possessed highly advanced technology and had long since built a prosperous civilization on the moon.
However, perhaps because their technology was so advanced, their demand for resources had reached the limit of what the moon could supply.
About a thousand years ago, the environment of the moon began to collapse.
Rivers disappeared, vegetation vanished, and resources were depleted.
With no other choice, the Birkans decided to abandon their homeland. Using the remaining resources, they built a massive ship that crystallized Birkan technology, carrying everyone to the Blue Sea.
"Eh!" Hancock gasped in shock. "Such a thing really happened?"
Aliens... she had never heard of them before.
However, the migrating Birkans did not stay in the Sky Sea.
The White Sea and Sky Island were merely their first stop upon reaching the Blue Sea.
Only a small group of Birkans chose to remain here.
These people believed that their overly advanced technology had destroyed their homeland, so they decided to abandon science and live a peaceful life in the high skies.
They are the ancestors of the Birkans, who later became the Sky Islanders.
Most of the Birkans, however, went to the Blue Sea. This group believed that technology itself was not bad, they had simply misused it in the past.
They decided to rebuild Birka on the Blue Sea.
However, the story of these Birkans is not recorded in these materials.
It seems that the two factions never had contact again after this.
"But," Law asked in shock, "where are they? There's never been a country called Birka on the Blue Sea."
"Where did they go? What happened to their technology?"
"The blank one hundred years!"
Black Maria said, "Birka arrived in the Blue Sea around 900 years ago, right when the Void Century began."
"In the legends of the Giants," Dorry also pondered, "There was once a great nation in the world. Could it be that it was Birka?"
Ian closed the book in his hand, "What can be confirmed is that the people of Birka were the beginning of everything."
The Birka people brought new technologies to the Blue Sea, and the collision of two civilizations inevitably caused great upheaval.
This must be the beginning of the great change 900 years ago.
Everyone's expressions were slightly excited.
Although it was just a little, they had already touched the truth of the world!
"What a pity,"
Law sighed, "There's no record at all about Birka on the Blue Sea."
He was really curious.
Could D be related to this Birka?
Ian, at this moment, was flipping through some materials in his hand, looking somewhat distracted.
It was a thick stack of blueprints.
It looked like a ship—no, a super large and super complicated ship.
Could it be the blueprint for Enel's Ark?
But Enel's ship wasn't nearly this complicated!
The thick stack of blueprints was intimidating, covered with various annotations.
Although Ian didn't understand them, he couldn't help but feel impressed.
Enel's ship was probably derived from this, though a highly simplified mini version.
His technical skills were seriously lacking, so he had added a lot of shells to serve as power sources.
Ian asked the elderly people around him, but they didn't know what the blueprints were either.
Suddenly, Ian had a guess.
Could it be that the people of Birka, who went to the Blue Sea all those years ago, took the ship that embodied the essence of Birka's technology with them, but left behind the blueprints?
If that's the case, it would be quite interesting.
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