Transcended as Lord Buggy-Part 2

399. Recruit

Buggy's offer is too sudden for Maverick, so he can't decide anything yet. Buggy tells him to not rush it because they will stay here for a few days to do their exploration. Maverick can observe them and interact with them to know if he can trust them enough to leave this island together with them.

The crew continues their exploration the next day and now they stop hunting the strange alien-like animals on this island. They only hunt animals that look rather normal because they don't want to get stomach aches again. Also, those animals didn't taste that good anyway.

The Clown Pirates explore the island and map it quite fast. They also scavenge anything they find in their ways that look valuable. Their harvests aren't much because Enel has said that most of the metals he senses are deep underground.

Maverick follows them around because he is curious about what they are searching for. He is quite confused when they take gold scraps and gems they found on the ground. These things don't seem valuable to him who lives in a jungle for years.

"Why are you taking them?" asks Maverick.

"They are very valuable and sought by a lot of people in the world. These shiny scraps can provide a lot of food for people out there," says Buggy.

"Ooh, do they use it for their hunting weapons too?" asks Maverick.

"Huh? No, that's not what I mean," says Buggy with a stunned tone.

"Then, what are they using for arrowheads?" asks Maverick.

"Arrowheads?!" says Buggy with a more surprised tone.

Buggy then asks Maverick to show his arrows and Maverick show them. The heads are black, but the black color disappears when Buggy rubs them. The black color turns into a shiny gold color which makes Buggy stunned.

"You use gold for arrowheads?" asks Buggy.

"Yeah, my dad taught me to use them because they don't rust. But the color is too eye-catching, so I rub charcoal on them to hide the shine," says Maverick as if it's a normal thing.

Buggy and the others in his group tilt their heads to think about it and it makes sense to them. For Maverick, gold is just another metal. The most useful thing gold can do on this island is by being shaped into tools like other metals. Also, it's easier to shape gold than metals like steel because they have different melting temperatures and gold is lower than steel.

Anyway, Buggy and co continue the exploration without minding too much about Maverick's gold arrows. They continue the mapping and scavenging until they finish in 3 days. This island is very big, after all, so 3 days is fast enough time to finish mapping.

The next day, Enel sends his lightning through the ground all over the island once more to detect the metal scraps which are most likely treasures. Then he draws their locations on the map they just made. Buggy then signs the crew to excavate the locations that Enel has marked to get the treasures.

Everyone takes their tools and starts their work immediately. They have equipments for this kind of thing because they've done this many times. Now, they are miners instead of pirates and with their power, mining becomes easy work.

Maverick keeps following them everywhere to see what they are up to. Everything the Clown Pirates do is a new thing for him. He starts to enjoy his time with them, listening to their stories, chatting, singing, and dancing with them every day.

Then without anyone's realization, the 13th day has come. They've finished their treasure hunting and get a lot of treasures. Although they also get a lot of junk because Enel only detected metals. He couldn't really tell what kind of metals he found.