Conqueror Of All

Izan gazed at the figures awkwardly trying to walk towards his group. "Well, why not just come out. It's not like that I'm a cannibal who eats other humans." Izan spoke loudly with a calm voice as he shrugged.

A frown appeared on Nojiko's and Robin's face as they turned towards the figures, the two of them were calm as Izan wasn't bothered by their visit.

The group of visitors were five people, four men and a female. They had brown tanned skin, red tattoos covering parts of their bodies, barely wearing clothes and they had small white wings on their backs.

One of them was an old man, seemingly to be the leader, a man in his twenties with a mohawk by his side who seemed to have a frown on his face no matter what.

There were two other men with them, one of them was a bald man and the other one seemed to have a helmet covering his eyes. Lastly there was a female with them, she seemed to be in her twenties too. But, the difference between the men and her, was that she had whiter skin.

"So, who are you guys?" Izan tilted his head slightly as he glared at them, he released the aura from his scythe which seemed to freeze them in their places.

The eldest of them said respectfully. "I am the Shandia Chief." He had grey hair and beard and had a peaceful way of speaking.

Izan raised one of his eyebrows as he thought of the old chief to be an honourable man. "I can already guess some stuff." Izan raised his hand to stop those who wished to speak. "You're the race that's different from the inhabitants on Skypiea, and you guys are most definitely not normal humans either."

The Shandia Chief was rather surprised, but he didn't think of it that much. By his side, the frowning man – Wiper, who was actually the second in command of their tribe, spoke up against Izan with an irritated tone. "Who do you think you are that can talk to us like that?"

Before Izan could even speak, a staff hit Wiper's head. The Shandia Chief smashed his staff on Wiper's head, but he did it because he felt that if he didn't, worse things would happen.

"I am sorry for his attitude, he truly cares about his tribe." The Shandia Chief said with a small smile on his face as he was glad that the next chieftain would be a person who cared for the entire tribe.

Truly, Izan didn't care much about these things and he even didn't bother by Wiper's comment. But what Izan didn't know was that, Jiutian was a mere second away from slicing Wiper into pieces for his rude attitude against Izan.

"I bet you guys already know who I am. I don't really think that you guys came here unknowingly of who I am. I did after all fight that arrogant guy yesterday, which I can presume is your enemy…?" Izan shrugged as he felt that the 'Shandia group' in front of him were happy about arriving at this island, where seemingly Enel was residing at. Izan could easily put the pieces together and guess that the Shandia tribe had enmities against Enel.

Everyone of the Shandia group widened their eyes by what Izan said. He called the God Enel an arrogant guy. Their tribe had been fighting for over 400 years to reclaim the island so that they could keep their promise to their ancestors by keeping the Poneglyph safe from intruders.

"If you don't mind me asking, what actually happened and where is the God Enel now?" The woman of the group – Laki, asked with a curious tone as she glanced between Izan and the rest. She could clearly see that Izan was the leader of the group and none of his followers were weak.

Izan started grinning when he heard her question, he didn't mind much of their questions as he answered with slightly squinted eyes. "It all started with me telling that idiot a few things and he got mad." Izan shrugged at this point before continuing. "Afterwards we had a friendly battle which ended up with me killing him." Izan's grin slowly turned into a soft smile which seemed devilish to everyone else.

Everyone in the Shandia group gulped as they saw Izan's devilish smile. "We would like to thank you then. Our ancestors told us to regain this land and wait for someone who's destined for a treasure of some sort." The Shandia Chief said respectfully, he had already guessed that Izan might have been that person they have been waiting for.

Izan tilted his head slightly as he stared at the Shandia Chief "You mean the Poneglyph?" As Izan saw they were confused by what he said, he explained further. "It's like a block of stone with writing on it."

The Shandia Chief widened his eyes in shock as he remembered the previous Chief telling him the story about the stone which holds the secrets of the world. He nodded slowly as he stared at Izan with an excited gaze.

"Hey Robin, it seems like that we are going to get to view the Poneglyph earlier than I thought." Izan turned towards Robin and said with a smile. "Do you have any guesses what the Poneglyph have recorded?"

Robin pondered over it for a moment before she shook her head. "There are way too many guesses, at most I can only give a wild guess of what it might be."

"From what I can guess, it would most likely be either historical or information about an ancient weapon." Robin continued as she held her chin with her palm while contemplating.

"Ahh…" Izan sighed deeply at the thought of uninterested information he might gain from the Poneglyph. All in all, Izan didn't care about information of certain places, he had a slight interest in Void Century, but that was all. And, on the matter of the Ancient Weapons? Izan knew that his ship, Defying, was already strong enough to overpower any ship out there built by men.

The matter of strength and power from external places didn't cross Izan's mind that much, as he had been starting to focus more on his personal prowess. A smile appeared on Izan's face not long after. "Then, let's go and check the Poneglyph, whatever it is, it's better to check what it says."

Before some of the Shandia group could ask where the Poneglyph could be found, Izan peeked at Jiutian who had a faint smile on her face. "Jiutian my dearest, would you mind leading us to the Poneglyph?" Izan asked with a gentle smile on his face as he gazed at Jiutian's face.

"Of course I can." Jiutian responded as her smile turned even more softer when she heard Izan calling her 'my dearest'.

Jiutian closed her eyes for two seconds before she turned around and started walking.

Izan, Nojiko and Robin followed without thinking twice as they trusted Jiutian's ability to do anything and everything.

Following behind them, were the Shandia group who followed meekly behind them. They were rather cautious and bewildered that one of the females in Izan's group could easily track down something they haven't found yet.

"I am sorry to ask, but I don't think we got to know your name." The Shandia Chief asked carefully. Luckily he saw that Izan had an carefree attitude, but the Shandia Chieftain had cold sweat running down his back as he managed to get a glimpse of Jiutian's cold eyes.

"No worries about that." Izan laughed as he forgot to introduce himself to them. "I'm Izan and these are my followers, Nojiko, Nico Robin and Jiutian."

Izan managed to see the confusion in the Shandia group's eyes as they glanced at Nico Robin, Jiutian and Nojiko. "As far as I know, Nico Robin should be the last one who's able to read the Poneglyphs, but who knows if someone's hidden that can do the same." Izan shrugged as nothing was ever like it seemed.

That was why Izan always treated things from face-value and treated his planning in this world carefully. He knew that there was a lot hidden mysteries in the background of this world, this was the reason Izan never backed down against the Navy, he wanted to show them all that he is coming and he is far from afraid of anyone!