One Piece Nine Tails

Chapter 278: Mother of Heaven

"That's right, this place used to be ***. But now... everything here has disappeared, along with the CP agents and the scholars and residents of *** that the World Government sent out before... They've all vanished!"

Everything... disappeared?!

An couldn't help but swallow hard, unable to comprehend what was happening.

A world-renowned archaeological sanctuary had suddenly vanished?

Even its existence seemed to have been erased from most people's memories. And those who still remembered it couldn't speak of it.

What was going on?

She felt a chill down her spine. This power was genuinely terrifying. Was it the work of a demon lord again?

Wait, among the eight symbols of the eight great demons, which one could cause such a phenomenon?

Earth, Fire, Water, Wind, Causality, Apocalypse, Oblivion, Salvation... The ones capable of such effects should be Oblivion or Causality. However, Aatrox was sealed a few years ago, and although he had an insatiable desire for destruction when he appeared, he hadn't done anything this extreme.

Could it be Causality?

No, it was hard to say.

An took a deep breath and said, "I'll go check out ***."

"Hmm?" Kong thought for a moment. He remembered the attitude of the Five Elders during their recent conversation.

He knew the Five Elders took Ohara very seriously. Ohara's actions had crossed their bottom line.

Kong said gravely, "Alright, but be careful. We still don't know what's happened there. If it involves a demon lord-level enemy, do not engage. Report back to headquarters first."

"Understood. But if it involves demons, what about the Black Order...?" An asked.

If it were Makima, wouldn't she know something?

No, she would know something, right?

After all, she was Makima, the Control Devil, and one of the Four Demon Lords!

Kong replied, "I've already discussed this with Marshal Makima. She said the Black Order will also conduct an investigation."

A nodded, glanced at the two in the office, and left.

She was heading to the vanished Ohara.

...

So, what had happened in Ohara?

In reality, Ohara hadn't 'disappeared' but had been 'concealed'!

Genichi, or more precisely, a new tool he had recently drawn, was the only one capable of such a feat.

Thanks to the enormous emotional energy generated by Roger's last moments and the massive influence of his death, Genichi had amassed many emotion points.

Especially positive emotional points. The ordinary people of the world had no idea what Roger's death truly meant. They only knew that it was a good thing.

Roger was the Pirate King, and to ordinary people, pirates were deeply hated, making Roger the most terrifying one. Roger's capture and execution by the World Government were a huge relief for them.

Additionally, some were inspired by Roger's last words and set out to sea, initiating the Great Pirate Era and contributing substantial positive emotion points.

Although many of these emotional points were directed at Roger, a significant part was indirectly linked to Genichi because of his profound influence on Roger.

This was why Genichi had been spreading his influence—to strengthen the people of the pirate world, which had greatly benefited him.

As they grew stronger, they could provide more emotional points.

So, over the years, Genichi's positive emotion points finally surpassed ten million. Roger directly or indirectly provided half of these points, with most of the rest coming from Wano.

And the tool drawn from these ten million positive emotion points was...

"Secret Angel · Mother of Heaven: Originating from the world of The Lord of the Mysteries, initially a Sequence 2 Secret Servant, later defeated and turned into a sealed artifact by the Goddess of the Night, used for divine descent."

"Mother of Heaven possesses powerful negative effects, causing those close to her to disappear."

(When drawing cards connected to the Mother of Heaven, the probability of drawing extraordinary characteristics from the twenty-two paths of The Lord of the Mysteries world increases.)

Yes, this was the source of Ohara's concealment—Mother of Heaven!

In The Lord of the Mysteries, she was the divine descent vessel for the Goddess of the Night. Now, Genichi played the role of the Goddess of the Night.

Mother of Heaven retained all the abilities of a Sequence 2 Secret Servant, including but not limited to dream entry, soul repose, driving the dead and natural spirits, bestowing lousy luck, and the ultimate concealment.

Concealment could make the target enter a state unperceivable by the outside world.

In the "concealed" state, the visible reality was shrouded in a dark fog, allowing only a rough sense of location and surroundings without influencing the external world.

From the outside, the concealed person or object seemed to have been erased from existence, which could extend to memory erasure on a large scale and passive basis, affecting only the weak.

Hence, the two scenarios at Marine Headquarters are as follows: the weak Marines lost their memory of Ohara because everything about Ohara had been concealed.

Even the strong couldn't speak "Ohara," as it had been concealed.

A true god on the path of Night could create a world to house the concealed, like the misty town created by the Goddess of the Night.

But this world lacked such a place, so Ohara remained in its original location, in a concealed state, seeing a shadowy outside world and losing all contact.

In their view, everything around them was shrouded in a dark fog, and the sky turned pitch black instantly.

Spandine, representing the World Government's will as part of CP9, felt an immense fear from this sudden change. For a cowardly and despicable man obsessed with promotion and wealth, the world's sudden alteration and loss of contact with headquarters made him uneasy.

"You... what have you wretched scholars done!" Spandine couldn't help but step back, shouting furiously at Dr. Clover under the Tree of Knowledge.