Time Travel: Age of Discovery

A middle-aged scholar disguised himself as an old man and sneaked into the banquet, planning chaos and taking the opportunity to seize the mysterious surgical fruit, which led to this incident. Everyone was trying to profit by themselves, including Teya.

But the old man with white hair and beard was panting, and he swung the long sword in his hand, and blood drops on the blade fell to the ground.

The masked man had a frost on his face. This was beyond his expectations. The mission failed and his men suffered heavy casualties. He knew very well what kind of punishment he would face when he returned.

At this moment, anger was burning in his chest and he was ready to fight to the death at any time.

"Wait a minute!"

Teya suddenly spoke, attracting the attention of the two.

Teya pondered for a moment and said, "Perhaps we are not enemies. Everything comes from the 'dark side'. Fighting again is pointless. Why not..."

"Shut up, who the hell do you think you are? You know nothing!"

The old man had no demeanor of an elder and spoke vulgarly, which made Teya unhappy, but he took a deep breath to calm himself.

"Calm down. Fighting right now won't benefit anyone. Why not sit down and exchange intelligence and sort out the threads? If we don't agree, it won't be too late to take action later."

Teya calmly analyzed the current situation. This suggestion made the two of them ponder and finally put down their weapons.

After a brief conversation, Teya learned that the old man's name was Sherman, but the masked man did not reveal his name, so Teya called him the masked man.

The three of them each stated what they knew. They were all wise men, and after sorting out their knowledge, they were convinced that everything originated from the "dark side".

However, the source of this incident should be the host of the Water Dome, who privately sold the results of the surgery on the black market, causing this disaster.

Hearing this, Teya secretly complained, as if everything would be fine if the fruit was handed over to the headquarters.

The three men told everything they knew. Teya still concealed his name and called himself a knight-errant who was deceived by the middle-aged scholar and involved in this matter.

Teya knew very well that his identity must not be revealed. If the navy broke into the black market and caused a stir, if this matter were to be spread out, not to mention whether he could continue to serve in the navy, Marshal Kong would definitely punish him severely.

Having said that, even though the two men had concealed something from him, Teya knew that the masked man was a black marketeer and Sherman's origins were unknown.

Looking at the old butler, dressed in black, with a neat hairstyle and quite polite demeanor.

But his words are full of swear words, which is really hard to praise.

"Damn 'Dark Side'! How dare that middle-aged man tease me? If it weren't for my superior skills, I'd have met with disaster long ago."

The masked man seemed to remember something and looked at Sherman in confusion.

"Why did you get involved in the black market?"

"Me? I... just happened to be passing by."

No one would believe it. Teya had previously claimed that he was just a passer-by, and they both understood each other tacitly, so they didn't investigate further.

Although Sherman is rough, he knows that CP's identity cannot be revealed.

He secretly learned the news of the results of the operation and obtained the invitation to the Water Dome Auction by his own ability, but was beaten to it by a middle-aged scholar.

Oddly enough, the middle-aged scholar seemed to know his identity and teased him with the power of the fruit, which made Sherman feel humiliated.

At this point, the situation is generally clear, but the masked man is in a worrying situation and he doesn't know how to explain it to the top black market officials.

He did not know that the consequences of this matter would be more serious, so he carefully looked for people who were present to testify. Even if he was punished, he would not lose his life, otherwise he would have no way to defend himself.

He secretly looked at Sherman and Teya, and felt that although Teya was capable, he was young and frivolous, and although Sherman talked a lot, he was older and more stable.

So he set his sights on Sherman, but the time was not right.

"By the way, the leader of the 'Dark Side' seems to be involved in this matter."

Teya's words reminded the masked man, and he remembered that he had knocked out the leader of the "Dark Side" and had forgotten about it for a while.

At this point, the situation came to a temporary end. The three of them no longer needed to fight, and Teya left.

The masked man told Sherman his idea, and Sherman agreed after thinking it over.

At this moment, the two people's communication bugs rang at the same time.

The two of them were separated by some distance, talking on the phone with their backs to each other.

"what!"

They both exclaimed at the same time.

The masked man held the communicator bug and shouted, "Are there any rare animal-type devil fruits?"

"The Operation Fruit has been..." Sherman looked troubled, scratching his head with his left hand, "forcibly swallowed by the Ichimi Fruit user and disappeared."

In a certain sea area, on the deck of a ship, the captain of the CP search team looked hopeless.

Sherman's words made him feel powerless.

How long will this search take?

At the same time, inside a palace on a mountain on an island in the Grand Line.

The two black market leaders sat on the sofa.

Broken wine glasses and broken cigars were scattered all over the floor.

"Will the Five Elders take our lives for this gift?"

At this time, Teya had left the black market island for many days, and the middle-aged scholar's boat happened to be available for him to board.

Teia stood on the deck, holding the devil fruit in his hand and tossing it like a toy.

"Although I don't know whether this fruit is precious, the method of obtaining it is much simpler than I imagined."

"Looking back, I feel quite regretful that I wasn't able to have a good fight."

The ship is sailing further and further away, and Teya may become the biggest winner in this matter.

Five days later, the black market turmoil had subsided.

At first, Teya was worried about whether he would be suspected, after all, he took away the animal-type fruit and left too easily.

Gu Teya expected that people from the black market might come after him, so as a precaution, he deliberately stayed on the next island for a few days.

Even Teya himself found it funny that he was waiting for others to come and settle the score.

The two islands are not far apart and can be reached in just one day.

However, five days later, Teya felt that even if the other party wanted to find him, there seemed to be no conclusive evidence to prove that he took the fruit, and the survivors could not confirm it. The situation was critical at that time, and there was no time to care about these things.

Even though the other party had started looking for him, Teya realized that his plan might have been wrong from the beginning.

This place is so close to that island, just like the saying that the most dangerous place is the safest place. Teya felt that he had miscalculated...