Time Travel: Age of Discovery

The ship docked, the sea breeze swaying the navy's flags. Inside the cabin, Teya exhaled slowly and stared across at Tina.

"That's the end of it."

Teya told Tina the whole story, leaving her stunned and unsure how to respond. Having weathered so many battles, even in such a short time, Tina was no longer the naive child she once was.

Her so-called wish to obtain the Kankan fruit is now just a small episode in her growth journey.

Yet, when Teacher Teya mentioned finding the Kankan Fruit, Tina's heart trembled. Teacher Teya had remembered that unintentional remark, and Tina's cheeks flushed slightly.

"Mr. Teja." Tina turned around, gently pinched the hair at her temples, and asked in a low voice, "Are you hiding this from me because you want to give me a surprise?"

Thea wanted to mention that Smoker might already know about this, but he didn't say it in the end, and just nodded to Tina.

Seeing this, Tina was overjoyed. She didn't try to hide her joy and hugged Teya, saying, "Tina is very pleased. Thank you, Mr. Teya."

Teya instantly felt a soft touch and could only smile awkwardly, thinking to himself: Are children nowadays so precocious?

A moment later, Thea and Tina stood side by side at the bow, holding a nautical chart. It indicated a day's journey from here to the marked island. However, upon closer inspection, Thea saw that a piece of gold and silver was missing; it was definitely not the result of accidental theft.

It is unbelievable that the most important part is missing, so there is only one possibility - the pirate did not put the most crucial thing in it, probably as a precautionary measure.

From this point of view, Teya believes that adequate preparations must be made. If the island is indeed where the treasure is located, then the pirates are very likely to have gone ahead and are lurking on the island.

Therefore, there are two possibilities: one is that Teya arrived at the island empty-handed, and whether it is true or false, he got nothing.

Secondly, the pirates had not yet left and were still setting up an ambush on the island, intending to attack Teya. However, Teya believed that even after suffering a loss once, the pirates would not act so easily.

Therefore, Teja would rather believe that his treasure has been taken away than that it is still waiting on the island.

However, now that he knew about this, even if he gained nothing, Teya decided to go and find out what was going on, just in case he found something.

"Mr. Teya, do we still need to go there?"

"Of course. If I don't witness it with my own eyes, how can I know what the outcome will be? I'm not willing to give up halfway." Teya gently stroked Tina's head and continued with a smile, "If you really find the treasure, it will all count towards your military merits, and then you can exchange it for the Devil Fruit you desire."

"But..."

Before she finished speaking, Tina suddenly realized she had slipped up. A look of disappointment appeared on her face, as if she had remembered something: "What if the treasure map is just like the one in the old man's notebook, and it's full of broken things?"

Hearing this, Thea was caught off guard and coughed a few times. It turned out that Tina was still resentful about this matter. In the past, the village chief of Fuxi Island gave Tina and Smoker a notebook and a "Village Sword." The notebook described a treasure location, and Thea once took Tina on a search.

Although they found some things, they were all useless. I think they were just jokes made by the village chief when he was young.

This incident left a deep impression on Tina, and she still has a strong interest in adventure. At this moment, Teya can only comfort Tina and say that such a thing will not happen again.

After comforting Tina, Teya breathed a sigh of relief, but a wave of worry lingered. After all, he wasn't entirely sure if this operation would succeed. If nothing came of it, what would its value be on the black market? Whether it could even be exchanged for a Devil Fruit remained uncertain.

Rantea did not have high expectations for this, he just wanted to exchange what he needed in order to obtain the devil fruit. Rantea thought about it and realized that he seemed to be quite unlucky. Every time he got Bailey, it either sank to the bottom of the sea or was accidentally lost. He almost became a "spendthrift boy".

"Mr. Teya, shall we set off immediately?"

"No, there's one thing I need to take care of first." After saying that, Teya looked towards the naval base in the distance...

One day later.

"Captain, where is this place? Why are you here?"

The scarred man looked at the deserted island in front of him and questioned the captain with doubts.

The captain remained silent, simply surveying his surroundings with a calm desolate gaze. No one had ever set foot on this island before. It was desolate, littered with rubble and devoid of any sign of life. After landing, they trudged along the gravel. After a short distance, the captain ordered everyone to remain where they were and headed alone deeper into the island.

Everyone was suspicious and talking about it, but they didn't know what happened.

The scarred man sensed something was amiss, but was powerless to stop it. He could only tell everyone to stay in formation and find a clean boulder to sit on and wait. In the center of the island lay a withered forest. The captain walked along the path until he stopped in front of a boulder...