Above the boundless sea, a radiant golden streak shot across the sky at a speed that defied all logic, heading straight toward Fish-Man Island.
Lucian Thorn's figure was wrapped in that divine light, his expression as calm and indifferent as ever.
The battle at Totto Land, to him, was nothing more than a foregone conclusion.
Whether it was Kaido or Charlotte Linlin, the moment he chose to make a move, their defeat had become a matter of time.
What truly interested him was the harvest from the battle.
With a thought—
A glowing virtual interface, visible only to him, unfolded quietly in the depths of his mind.
This was his most core secret—the very foundation that had followed him since his transmigration: the God-Tier Temporal Summoning System.
Lucian's gaze fell directly on the lower portion of the system interface—the area representing the analyzed templates.
There, two new portraits shimmered with dense golden brilliance, floating silently in place.
One portrait depicted a man with twin horns and an arrogant, wild expression—the so-called "Strongest Creature on Land, Sea, and Air"—Kaido of the Beasts.
The other showed a grotesque, grinning woman with a crazed smile—Charlotte Linlin, ruler of weather and souls.
[S-rank Template · Kaido of the Beasts (Strongest Creature on Land, Sea, and Air)]
[S-rank Template · Charlotte Linlin (Weather Monarch / Soul Sovereign)]
Staring at these freshly acquired spoils of war, Lucian's lips curled into the faintest of smiles.
However, just as his consciousness touched the two templates, ready to absorb half of their strength and abilities—
An anomaly occurred!
Buzz——!!!
Those two brand-new golden portraits suddenly flared with dazzling brilliance the instant they merged into the template library!
The entire system's template storage blazed with radiant light!
Lucian's eyes narrowed slightly.
He could see it clearly—within the template vault, all those legendary templates he had already unlocked, glowing with their own golden light, suddenly responded to the new arrivals with an uncontrollable resonance!
[Legendary Template · Peak Roger (Pirate King): Not Fully Analyzed]
[Legendary Template · Peak Whitebeard (World's Strongest Man)]
[Legendary Template · Peak Rayleigh (Dark King)]
One by one, the icons representing the pinnacles of the old era began to shine—resonating across time and space with the newly acquired Kaido and Charlotte Linlin templates!
Brilliant golden light erupted from each of those legendary portraits.
But it didn't stop there.
In the next moment, something even more astonishing occurred.
The golden beams radiating from each of the legendary templates began to converge—drawn by some mysterious force—into the very center of the system space.
They intertwined, spiraled, and fused…
Forming a rotating sphere of golden energy that seemed to contain an entire new world within it.
At the same time—
[Warning! Warning!]
[Multiple core participants in the "God Valley Incident" have triggered a high-grade temporal resonance within the same spatial-temporal node!]
[Resonance exceeds system thresholds!]
[Initiating special hidden temporal summon…]
Lucian's body, still suspended in midair, stiffened for a moment. A rare glint of surprise flickered in his eyes.
The God Valley Incident?
That place—the one the World Government had erased entirely from history, turning even its name into a forbidden word—was now responding?
These templates were resonating with that event?
Before he could dwell on it, more system prompts arrived in rapid succession:
[Calibrating space-time coordinates…]
[Locking onto historical anchor points…]
[Target Confirmed: 38 Years Ago – Grand Line – God Valley!]
[Constructing Special Legendary Time Gate: "God Valley"...]
[Construction Progress: 99%]
Seeing that 99% progress bar, Lucian's pupils contracted sharply.
Why stop at the last 1%?
He knew very well—system messages were never meaningless.
That final percent clearly corresponded to a missing key condition—a crucial piece of the puzzle.
And sure enough—
As he pondered, the rapid red alerts finally ceased.
In their place appeared a single, final line of text.
It clearly revealed the last key required to open the legendary time gate.
[Final Condition to Unlock "God Valley": Raise the analysis completion of the existing Legendary Template · Peak Garp to 100%. This template will serve as the temporal anchor to complete the final piece of the puzzle.]
Garp?
That was the template he obtained during the Marineford War!
Lucian's gaze shifted to one of the portraits in the template vault—still powerful, but its glow dimmer than the others.
[Legendary Template · Peak Garp (Marine Hero): Incomplete Analysis]
So that's it.
Lucian immediately understood.
Although he hadn't fully completed Roger's template, it was clearly sufficient for this task.
After all, the God Valley Incident had been the battle where Roger and Garp had joined forces to bring down the dominant Rocks Pirates.
Besides the powerful members of the Rocks crew, the two key figures in that event were none other than Roger and Garp—their destined rivalry finally finding common ground.
Now, with Roger, Whitebeard, Golden Lion, Kaido, Charlotte Linlin… Lucian had already collected most of the core participants of that legendary incident.
Only Garp—the other main character—remained incomplete.
That was why the gate to the past could not yet fully open.
"So I need to raise Garp's analysis to 100%… huh."
Lucian muttered quietly, understanding dawning in his eyes.
"Looks like… I'll have to 'visit' the Marine Hero again sometime soon."
After all, last time… that old man played his part a little too well.