One Piece: The Strongest Trait System novel Chapter 293

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"Sky Sovereign Rowen… he's not from this world, is he?"

As Nusjuro's words faded, the demonic eyes of the other four Five Elders also flickered with a horrifying, underworld light.

For 800 years since the World Government's founding, they were the chosen ones—handpicked by Imu from among the Celestial Dragons to wield ultimate authority over the world.

In this entire world, no one knew its deepest secrets better than they did.

The Void Century, Joy Boy, the Sun God Nika, the Great Kingdom of D...

Countless secrets that even the Four Emperors—the most powerful figures in the pirate world—could never access were all at their fingertips.

But ever since Sky Sovereign Rowen appeared out of nowhere, he had launched an asymmetrical assault on them in terms of information, as if he knew the secrets of this world even better than they, the Five Elders, did.

He even knew of each of their existences, and even knew of their Immortality.

Now, it was proven that Rowen had long known of Imu's existence.

Add in the fact that Rowen had no special bloodline and was incredibly young... There was only one explanation that could account for all of it.

SKY SOVEREIGN WAS NOT FROM THIS WORLD!

BUT FROM ANOTHER WORLD!

A WORLD THAT KNEW EVERYTHING ABOUT THEIRS.

THAT WAS THE ONLY WAY HE COULD HAVE RISEN SO FAST!

The Five Elders were the best of the best among the Celestial Dragons—handpicked over 800 years of careful selection. Their wisdom and power were unmatched.

After witnessing so many of Sky Sovereign Rowen's unbelievable actions and his accomplishment of so many impossible feats, they had finally reached this conclusion.

It was... the only conclusion that made sense.

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"Sky Sovereign isn't from this world? What does that mean??"

Veins bulged on Akainu's forehead as cold sweat broke out across his skin. It wasn't that Akainu lacked intelligence—he simply didn't have access to the right information.

The Five Elders knew too many secrets, knew the deeper secrets of this world.

From their perspective, with all the intelligence they had on Rowen's meteoric rise, reaching that conclusion wasn't too hard. But for Akainu, who was kept in the dark about these secrets, figuring out that Rowen came from another world was impossible.

"Hmph. As expected of the Five Elders."

Zoro and the others did not deny it, but all smiled.

"Shishishi! That's right! Rowen is from another world! He promised that once he becomes the King of the world—we're all going to his world together!"

Luffy grinned cheerfully.

Now both sides had laid all their cards on the table—this was a head-on collision. Rowen had never intended to hide his otherworldly origins from the Five Elders anyway.

The Five Elders knew too many secrets, and Rowen had accomplished too many unbelievable things on his path to rising.

With that kind of intelligence and their position at the top of the world, if the Five Elders still couldn't figure out Rowen's true identity, it would be a disgrace to their title—and an insult to 800-years of careful selection that had put them in power.

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And the moment they got the confirmation from Luffy and the others, the underworld light in the Five Elders' demonic eyes grew even stronger.

HE ADMITTED IT!

HE REALLY ADMITTED IT!

THEIR DEDUCTION WAS COMPLETELY CORRECT!

Though they'd already figured it out, having it confirmed still shook them. Even with their iron wills, the Five Elders felt a deep tremor of unease.

From another world entirely... and one that knew far too many of their secrets!

Then, the truth of D... the truth of Joy Boy, and the Void Century, which was a taboo for their World Government—

—Did Sky Sovereign Rowen know??

However, considering that Nico Robin—the Devil Child and Ohara survivor—was still actively hunting for Poneglyphs, and given Sky Sovereign Rowen's transparent nature with his companions, if he truly knew the Void Century's secrets, he would never keep them from her.

Most likely, Rowen was in the dark about the Void Century just like everyone else. This reasoning was exactly why the Five Elders hadn't completely panicked when they first suspected that Sky Sovereign came from another well-informed world.

As long as he didn't know this biggest secret, other secrets being known by Sky Sovereign Rowen were not fatal.

As for acting?

Given Sky Sovereign Rowen's current power and position, acting like that would be a massive underestimation of his Disposition.

So the Five Elders could be virtually certain that Sky Sovereign Rowen had no knowledge of the Void Century's history.

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Of course, there was one thing they could be completely certain of.

From the moment he arrived in this world, he had known of the existence of Nika and Joy Boy.

And knew that what Straw Hat Monkey D. Luffy had eaten was the Human-Human Fruit, Mythical Zoan, Model: Nika.

This was the only way to explain why Sky Sovereign, who knew countless secrets of this world and possessed terrifying potential, had chosen to partner with the then-insignificant Straw Hat.

Combined with the abilities Sky Sovereign Rowen had already demonstrated, the Five Elders could be almost certain that he could directly identify the exact Devil Fruit powers others possessed—and most likely, he could also detect whether someone had the makings of a King and could awaken Conqueror's Haki.

Before Conqueror's Haki awakened, there was no way to tell if someone had the disposition of a King—

—If they could identify it early, the World Government would have been screening for it centuries ago—and every Conqueror's Haki user would either be serving as a Marine or, if they were exceptional enough, recruited into the Celestial Dragons as members of the God's Knights.

They would have eliminated every potential threat to the World Government right from the source!

After all, the only forces that could truly threaten the World Government were Conqueror's Haki users—specifically top-tier Emperor level fighters who had completely mastered Haōshoku Coating.

These elite combatants weren't completely helpless even against a Legendary-Class opponent like Imu.

A handful of them working together could actually give him a real fight.

Just like during the Summit War, when Garp, Sengoku, and Akainu joined forces against Sky Sovereign Rowen—who had shattered the Emperor ceiling.

Conqueror's Haki was the real gateway to elite-level power. And precious few people held that key.

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Even counting Roger, Whitebeard, and even Rocks's era—the number of powerhouses who had mastered Conqueror's Haki was only around 30, and these people did not belong to the same era.

One could imagine how rare Conqueror's Haki was—

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