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Chapter 21 - Chapter 21 – The Island That Was Erased

Location: Nullpoint Isle – Latitude 0.0 | Longitude ??.?? (Coordinates Forbidden)

"There was an island so dangerous, the world didn't sink it.

It erased its very memory."

— Silvers Rayleigh

🧭 Uncharted Waters

The Oro Jackson had never felt heavier.

Following Toni's emergence from Serpent Trench, Roger plotted a course no log pose could track. He didn't read maps—he remembered them.

Nullpoint Isle.

"This place isn't off the records," Roger explained.

"It is the record. The original chapter. Before the world was rewritten."

Toni's Mythblade vibrated constantly now. It was no longer a weapon—it was a compass pointing toward truth.

🔍 System Notification – World-Class Restricted Zone

Area Entry Alert: NULLPOINT ISLE

🧩 Void Tag: Level Ω

⚠️ Marine Cipher Pol Armament Lock Engaged

🔍 Mythic Ruins Identified: Origin Vault

🔐 Memory Chain Fragment: 3 of 7

☠️ Known Threats: Cipher Pol Sigma, Elite Marine Hunter "Vice Admiral Glayve," and Sealed Entity – ???

➤ Optional Quest: "Reveal the First Lie"

Kael turned to Toni.

"You realize if we go in, there's no turning back, right?"

Toni looked forward.

"There was never a back. Only forward."

🌫️ The Island That Shouldn't Be

Nullpoint appeared not with land, but memory.

A fog thick with whispers enveloped the ship. Images drifted in the mist—wars, faces, ancient kings, the First World, the construction of the Red Line.

When the mist cleared, there was a cratered isle where the sea split in a spiral. No birds. No trees. Just a stone gate made of black Poneglyph material, carved in circles rather than words.

Rayleigh's eyes widened.

"That's not a warning."

"That's a lock."

🚪 Vault of Origins

Toni stepped through the gate.

Inside: floating glyphs, drifting memories shaped like crystal specters. The walls hummed with ancient voices.

Then a voice—familiar—echoed in Toni's mind.

"You have arrived, Child of Divergence."

The walls displayed him. Toni. Across different timelines.

In one, he died in Marineford. In another, he never joined Roger. In another, he was the enemy.

But this path—the real one—was the one where he refused to become fate's puppet.

The Mythblade glowed.

🔓 "Memory Chain Fragment 3 Acquired"

Echo of the Lost Emperor – King Talion

⚔️ Ambush – Cipher Pol Sigma Attacks

The chamber exploded.

Figures in white and gold armor dropped from above—Cipher Pol Sigma, the World Government's anti-temporal division.

Leading them was Vice Admiral Glayve, whose skin shimmered like obsidian and whose sword curved backward like time itself.

"You are not meant to awaken the Eye."

"Return the Mythblade… or be deleted from all timelines."

Toni drew both blades.

"Come try."

⚔️ Battle – Toni vs. Vice Admiral Glayve

Glayve bent time with each slash, making Toni's moves strike seconds too late.

But Toni focused. The battle wasn't about speed. It was about will.

"Form XVI – Clocksplit Arc!"

Toni used Echo Dive—diving half a second into his opponent's past and slicing before the attack even launched. The battlefield warped. Ice exploded. Fire shimmered. Memory bled.

Glayve gritted his teeth.

"You... bear the mark of the Original Sin."

With a roar, he unleashed his Trump Card:

Judgment Zero – Memory Collapse Slash!

But Toni didn't dodge.

He stepped through it.

"Form XVII – Myth Reforged."

Blades crossed. Steel sang. Light erupted.

When it cleared—Glayve's blade lay shattered, his body frozen mid-motion.

📜 System Panel – Chapter 21 Update

✅ Quest Progressed: Reveal the First Lie

🔓 Memory Fragment Unlocked:

– "King Talion – The Betrayed Mythmaker"

– Talion forged the Mythblade not to fight—but to remember the truth after the world forgot.

💠 Title Gained: Timeline Divergent

🗝️ Mythblade Sync: 91%

➤ New Skill Unlocked: Form XVII – Myth Reforged

→ Power: Realign a collapsing event into a stable timeline (1 use per week)

⚠️ Cipher Pol Sigma Retreating – but two signals remain locked onto Toni's presence.

🧩 Final Revelation – The Map of Truth

From the vault emerged a final relic—an ancient map shaped like a spiral mirror. It didn't show land. It showed what was erased:

An empire beneath the Red Line.

A kingdom that spanned the skies.

And a ship… larger than an island.

Roger stepped beside Toni.

"The Final Island. The truth. And the reason the world fears us."

"Welcome to the next step, Toni. To the war... for history itself."

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