ARCH: Give me the golden compass.
After Arch gave the system the command, the System Inventory tab popped out, and the tab turned into a void-like surface. Arch then put his right hand into the void screen and pulled out the Golden Compass.
This update to the system was requested by Arch himself, and it only applies to small items that are the same size as the system interface.
Arch opened the cover of the compass, but to his disappointment, the Golden Compass wasn't working again. "Damn it, why now! You've been on run for the past eight years when I didn't need you. And now that I need some coordination, you wouldn't work!" shouted Arch, who was irritated and pissed off while holding the Golden Compass.
He soon called out for the System to store the Golden Compass (assuming a typo from 'clock').
After that little hassle, Arch and the snake-fox continued their journey. They passed by the same scenery: a desolate and ruined land of Kibi. They decided to take a rest for a while. After their twenty minutes of rest, they continued the walk out from the dilapidated village.
Of course, along the way, Arch kept using his ROOM to search for things that had value, but he didn't find any. Along their way, he noticed a particular stone.
The stone was eight feet tall and had an orange color. The surface was carved in a messy way; it felt like a child had played with this thing.
The carved stone had one big eye drawn on the very top, followed by claws in the middle part of the stone, and a tail at the bottom. This carving was a very childlike creation.
But looking at this tall stone, which was much taller than him, Arch couldn't help but jump into a conclusion and begin reasoning about the meaning of this stone inside his mind.
He looked around to see more details that might be connected to this, but found nothing. Just a destroyed path, dying trees, and decaying plants were all that was present.
Curiosity got the better of him, so he tried to carry the stone. With his knees bent and his two hands clinging to the stone's sides, he tried to lift it to measure its weight, but it didn't move at all.
He then lifted it with everything he had, but the eight-foot-tall stone didn't move a single bit. It felt to him as if he were carrying a mountain.
ARCH: Wait mountain?
"Wait, mountain?" he said to himself, and an idea rushed into his mind.
He stepped back from his original position, and with the Tremor-Tremor Fruit power, he unleashed a powerful punch beside and almost under the eight-foot-tall stone.
The path was destroyed when he punched the ground. Then, he felt it: something below this eight-foot-tall orange stone was connected to something far below this place..
"That's why it's fucking heavy!" Arch shouted, his voice echoing across the wasteland.
He stood over the crater his punch had created, looking at the exposed base of the orange rock. It wasn't just a boulder sitting on the dirt; it was like the tip of an iceberg. The Tremor-Tremor vibrations had traveled deep down, revealing that this eight-foot carving was merely the "head" of something massive buried deep within the earth of Kibi.
Arch wiped the sweat from his brow, his grin returning. Whatever this was, it wasn't just a child's toy—it was a literal part of the landscape, or perhaps a seal for something much bigger.
"GURARARARARARA! Now, that's something to look for!" Arch exclaimed.
In Arch's left hand, a faint, blue light began to hum. A transparent sphere erupted from his palm, expanding rapidly until it enveloped the orange stone, the crater, and a massive section of the surrounding wasteland.
"ROOM..."
He stood at the center of his domain, feeling every atom within the space. "Let's check, shall we?"
Using the spatial awareness of the Ope Ope no Mi, Arch sent his senses diving deep beneath the surface. He wasn't just looking at the dirt anymore; he was "feeling" the density and shape of whatever was anchored to that orange stone.
As his mental scan went deeper—ten, twenty, fifty feet down—the sheer scale of the buried object began to take shape in his mind. It wasn't just a pillar or a foundation. It had a form. A massive, coiled, and ancient form that had been silent for a very long time.
"A temple..." Arch whispered, his voice tinged with genuine surprise.
Through the spatial awareness of his Devil Fruit, the "mountain-like" weight finally made sense. The eight-foot orange stone wasn't just a rock; it was the Onigawara—the decorative roof tile—of a massive structure buried deep beneath the wasteland of Kibi.
As the scan expanded, he could see the sloping curves of a grand roof, the thick support pillars made of wood that had somehow resisted rot for centuries, and a wide staircase leading down into a dark, hollowed-out chamber. The entire building was slanted, as if the earth itself had swallowed it during a massive cataclysm hundreds of years ago.
"Gurarararara! No wonder I couldn't lift it. I was trying to pick up a whole building with one hand!"
The snake-fox trotted over, tilting its head as it looked at the orange stone and then at Arch, sensing the change in the atmosphere. It let out a soft whine, its snake-tail flicking back and forth in curiosity.
Arch looked at the ground beneath his feet. He could feel the empty space inside the temple just thirty feet below the surface.
"Well, Foxxy, it looks like our hike just turned into an archeological expedition. I wonder what kind of treasures—or monsters—they buried along with this place."
-----to be continued-----