Chapter 393: Calm Belt Journey
Their exploration of Calm Belt doesn''t start well at all. They haven''t found any ind even after going around for almost 4 weeks. But they kept getting attacked by Seakings that came out every once in a while. The Seakings kept attacking even though each one of them get beaten up badly and some even ended up in the pirates'' stomaches.
Sadly, the Seakings'' attacks are keeping them from getting too bored. They also do other things like ying games, music, training, sparring, etc to entertain themselves. But without other people to see, the giant Seakings be their onlypanions besides their crewmates.
Luckily, their suffering finally ends after going around without results for 26 days. They find their very first ind to visit in this exploration. It''s just a small ind the size of a small town, but they are still happy to find an ind after so long.
The Clown Piratesnd on the ind and they immediately get out of their ship after dropping the anchor. They all have the same reaction as they immediatelyy down on the beach to feel thend that they haven''t felt for so long.
This is the first time they sail for almost a month without finding anynd, after all. Their ship is fast, so they never need this much time to reach an ind after leaving one. They can even travel from East Blue to New World in just 3 days, so this is very slow for them.
That''s why they are very happy to see this small ind and they just want to feel thend for now. Even the Fishmen are missing thend too because they are Fishmen, not fish. They live on the seafloor, which basically is an underwaternd, after all.
The Clown Pirates keep rolling on the beach for a rather long time and most of them actually fall asleep. They feel at peace now after finding an ind after so long. Even if they are used to sleeping on their ship, sleeping on something unmoving still feels the best.
Buggy is also one of the ones who fall asleep on the beach. Well, every man in the crew falls asleep anyway. It''s only the women who stay awake because they don''t lie on the beach for too long and enjoy it differently from the men.
They wake up at night and immediately hold a party to celebrate the finding of this ind. They don''t even think of what to do next and just want to enjoy this moment. The partysts the whole night before they finally run out of alcohol, which is a nightmare for pirates like them.
"NOO! OUR LIVES!" shouts the boys.
"What?" asks Jude confusedly.
"Alcohol is their lives, everything they like is their life. Running out of alcohol is killing them," says D.
They''ve spent 26 days without being able to refill their alcohol supply. But they keep consuming it while sailing and now at the party. So now they run out of it and they can''t buy it here because there''s no civilization here.
"Don''t be overdramatic! Just go explore this ind and find fruits or grains! We can ferment them and make alcohol," says Mantis.
The boys lightened up and immediately takes their stuff before scattering all over the ind. It''s quite unreal how the boys are so concentrated because they don''t want to miss anything. They gather any kind of fruit and grain they find on the ind.
After a few hours, they return to their ship and give everything they find to Mantis. Mantis tells them to wash and sort the items which they do without any hesitation. She is the only one who can save them from this nightmare, after all, so they can only do what she asks.
After they''re done, Mantis tells them to leave and do their jobs, but they are hesitating. Then they ask, "Uhm, when will the alcohol be ready?"
"If you want something at least decent, the fastest is in a week," says Mantis.
Their souls immediately leave their bodies when they hear that. Mantis sighs and says, "Sigh, this is not cooking, this is fermentation, so obviously it will take time. You all should know too that the longer alcohol is aged, the better it tastes."
The boys are still sulking even if they know that. They will live a week without any alcohol, after all, so it feels like the end for them. But what can they do? It''s not like alcohol can juste out of a tree or ground.
So they start doing things to distract themselves from the alcohol. They haven''t explored the ind correctly, so they start by doing that. This is an exploration, after all, so they need to explore the inds they find like true explorers.
The boys then start exploring the ind and they finish just in a day. It''s just a normal ind without any strange things like those often found in Grandline. This is a good starting ind for them because they don''t need to get through shits on their first ind.
But they can''t hope that other inds in Calm Belt will be like this. Even though there''s not much information on Calm Belt, they still know a few things. Calm Belt is like thebination of Blues and Grandline.
They can use a normalpass to navigate here, but the inds also have a maic field like those in Grandline. However, Log Pose can''t be used to go to the next ind just because of the maic field. Although Eternal Pose can be used to mark the inds and return to them.
There are also many inds here that are absurd like Grandline''s inds. The easiest example is Ruskaina Ind located near Amazon Lily. It''s an ind in Calm Belt, but it has 48 seasons a year, which is extreme even for Grandline standards.
So The Clown Pirates are ready to find even more absurd inds than the ones they see in Grandline. But now, they just need to enjoy the normal first ind because they might not find another one on this journey.
They stay on the 1st ind for almost 2 weeks because they need to set an Eternal Pose. Even if it''s just a small ind, this is still the 1st ind they find in Calm Belt. So they want tomemorate it and make an Eternal Pose of this ind.
The problem is this ind doesn''t have a name yet, at least not to their knowledge. So they need to name it and they discuss it all night because they can''t really find a good name for it. Until finally they decide on a name after getting too tired of thinking.
"One Ind, everyone agrees?" asks the sleepy Buggy.
"Yeah," replies everyone with low energy as they are sleepy too.
"Alright," says Buggy before he falls asleep, followed by everyone else.
One Ind, a simple name they''ve decided just because they can''t think of anything else already. But it doesn''t sound weird, so they are satisfied with it. Then after their Eternal Pose is set, they leave the ind and go to find the next ind that they don''t know how long it will take them to find it.
Luckily, they find it just in a week now. It''s fastpared to before when they almost need an entire month to find the 1st ind. The other good thing is they don''t run out of alcohol now, so they can fully enjoy their time here.
They explore the 2nd ind which looks normal but has many giant beetles the size of average dogs. This ind is very big and giant beetles are everywhere. Other animals also live here, but their poptions are low and it''s hard to see them.
Still, it''s none of Clown Pirates'' concern because they don''t know much about biology. Only one of their scientists is interested in biology, so this is heaven for her. But it''s just another interesting ind for the others and a source of food for their journey.
Their opinion changes immediately after they find something that excites all of them. On the 4th day of exploration, they find something that seems to be manmade. It''s just a rusty and broken rod, but there''s no way the beetles made this rod before it broke.
Buggy grins and says, "Another ancient civilization. Another source of treasures."
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