In a sea area around Flevance, on a warship, Tsuru stood tall at the bow, a gleam flashing in her eyes. "It's completely chaotic here now! When will Kuzan arrive?"
Although she said this, a smile had already appeared in her eyes.
Beside her, a flash of emotion passed through Gion's eyes. Recalling Tsuru's brilliant arrangements during this time, the corners of her mouth unconsciously lifted into a smile. "Kuzan has already entered the North Blue on a warship from the New World. Currently, he is riding his bicycle here alone. He should arrive within a day.
"Afterward, Kuzan will freeze the sea. We will build a grand arena for slaughter for the pirates here."
However, speaking of this, Gion's gaze became somewhat worried. "It's just that some pirates from the New World are also getting restless.
"Those who couldn't make it there.
"It is said that some have also started heading towards the North Blue, wanting to join this pirate grand event known as the Shichibukai Preliminaries."
"Don't worry." Tsuru chuckled lightly. "With Akainu around, and Zephyr and Garp having also gone over, they won't be able to come.
"Unless they can fly and cross the Calm Belt."
Hearing about those two "old men," Gion smiled knowingly. "Did Garp-chan go too? That's really reliable!"
"Haha!" Hearing this cute nickname, Tsuru laughed knowingly.
In a sea area dozens of nautical miles away from Tsuru.
Merlin drifted the ship. Looking at the scattered wreckage of a pirate ship on the distant sea, he gazed calmly at three people clinging to floating wood.
"Monet, freeze it. You and Pink finish them off together."
Merlin leaned on the ship's rudder with both hands, turning his head to gaze coldly at them, who looked like drowned rats.
"Okay! Leave it to me."
Monet, with a cold aura, nodded. Snap! She jumped out using Moonwalk. The moment her feet touched the sea, crack crack! the sea surface froze.
Soon, an ice field appeared. Snowflakes fluttered down from the sky. Gripping her sword, Monet rushed over quickly.
Pink followed closely behind.
Merlin watched them cleanly finish off these few pirates, the corners of his mouth lifting slightly. After a year of training, the current Monet could stand on her own.
However, at this time, Merlin turned to look at Perona and Baby 5 on the deck, huffing and puffing with physical training. These two were still tender.
After watching for a while, the equipment slot appeared before Merlin's eyes. He looked at two equipment.
[Oars] Synchronization Rate: 75%
[Water Bear] Synchronization Rate: 29%
During these thirteen days, Merlin's "Ancient Giant" obtained a transformation from Oars.
[Ancient Giant]: Your body undergoes a marvelous change. Your vitality is incredibly abundant, and you possess a lifespan equal to that of ancient giants. As your size increases, your strength will grow accordingly. At the same time, your muscle and bone strength will also increase.
The characteristic that should have been "Giant's Longevity" was integrated into this specialty. Merlin could clearly perceive the vigorous life aura contained within his body now.
Although he didn't know exactly how long he could live, it was definitely above the average for the Giant race. And it was said that ancient giant types like Oars could live for about 500 years.
The other specialty obtained was from the Water Bear.
[Extreme Environment Adaptation]: Tenacious life potential allows you to survive in various extreme environmental conditions in nature. Whether high or low temperature, vacuum, or radiation, they cannot easily kill you.
This was a specialty that transformed Merlin's internal resistance. It didn't improve Merlin's physical fitness, but it gave Merlin extreme environment adaptability like the Lunarian race in this world.
"Merlin, the impact was too severe; we only found this much treasure."
Monet came up holding a treasure chest and placed it on the deck. Merlin watched her open it; inside was only half a chest of gold and jewelry.
"It's fine. It wasn't a powerful pirate anyway; more or less doesn't matter."
Thud! Pink jumped onto the ship at this moment, pointing to the right, and said to Merlin, "A group of pirates came over there. Looks like they come with ill intent!"
Surprise flashed in Merlin's eyes. Using Observation Haki to sense, on the sea a kilometer away to the left, a guy with a decent aura appeared on that pirate ship.
Before long, Merlin watched the pirate ship getting closer and closer, narrowing his eyes slightly. Their pirate flag was a skull with a wine bottle in its mouth. He spoke: "Shot Pirates. Captain Vasco Shot, bounty 100 million Berries."
"Vice-Captain Aquitaine, bounty 65 million Berries."
"Monet, I'll leave Aquitaine to you later; he's a swordsman."
"Pink, as for the remaining fifty people, I'll leave them all to you to solve. I'll stuff Who's-Who's shadow into your body."
Hearing this, Pink's eyes lit up, the corners of his mouth lifting unconsciously. He laughed, "Don't worry, leave it to me."
Saying this, Merlin looked at Baby 5. The little girl was also looking at Merlin at this moment. Merlin smiled. "You come over here. Give them a few rounds of artillery baptism first."
"Yay!!" Baby 5 cheered happily, then trotted to the side of the ship. Immediately after, her body changed.
Limbs turned into brackets, torso and head turned into a cannon barrel. A cannon with a diameter of three meters was instantly set up. At this moment, a pair of big cartoonish eyes opened above the muzzle, and a muffled voice came from the muzzle: "Big Brother Merlin, fire?"
Merlin narrowed his eyes. They had entered the range of three hundred meters. Immediately, he shouted, "Fire!" Boom boom boom!!
In a breath, three iron-clad steel shells were fired. The aim was slightly off, exploding on the side of their hull.
At this moment, having a reference, Baby 5's eyes lit up. Boom boom boom boom!
Shells flew out one after another.
But at this time, Merlin's gaze sharpened. Looking towards their bow, water-blue solid bubbles suddenly flew out one by one.
Boom boom boom! Boom!!!
The shells were hit by the bubbles and exploded in the air.
Baby 5, seeing her shells intercepted, instantly became unhappy. Mustering her strength, she fired shells again one after another.
Soon, both sides were in a stalemate. Seeing this, Merlin's heart moved. The shadow under his feet seeped into the underground ice storage of the cabin. In an instant, positions swapped. Merlin appeared inside the underground ice storage, where Oars' frozen corpse was located.
Merlin didn't plan to bind the equipment, which meant this equipment had also graduated. "I'll bury you in two days."
Saying this, Merlin's figure disappeared.
On the deck, Merlin watched the gradually approaching pirate ship, his gaze moving slightly. He glanced at the shadow under Baby 5's feet. After thinking, he abandoned the idea of giant-ifying the cannon. It would be a pity to break a good whetstone all at once.
Reaching out to pat Baby 5's already hot cannon barrel, Merlin said, "That's enough. If you fire again, your barrel will explode."
Baby 5 fired the last shot and transformed back, puffing her cheeks and exhaling a breath of hot air. "Actually, even if I explode, it's fine. It won't affect my main body."
At this time, Perona complained, "But it hurts! Last time you experimented, you were crying alone."
Before she could finish, her mouth was covered by Baby 5's hand, blushing. "Did I ask you to blabber?"
Perona narrowed her eyes, and a Negative Hollow passed through Baby 5's chest.
Baby 5 fell to her knees, saying extremely negatively, "I'm so sorry for being fierce to you!"
"Hmph!" Lifting her chin and looking down at her, Perona said grumpily, "I think you just need discipline."
十几 seconds later, Baby 5 chased Perona all over the deck in exasperation.
"It's good to be young! Watching them, I feel like I'm getting younger too."
Pink sighed cheerfully. Merlin chuckled, "Thirty-year-old uncle?"
Pink: "..."
At this moment, the opponent's pirate ship had approached within a hundred meters, stopping opposite the hundred-meter diameter ice surface Monet had just frozen.
At the bow.
A ugly burly man more than five meters tall with a sausage nose and drunkard's flush appeared, carrying a wine gourd half the height of a person, drunk. However, a gleam flashed in his squinted small eyes. "Topushishi! You are the White Demon..."
Buzz! A dark red blade light bloomed instantly, flying to the front of his ship in a flash. Vasco Shot's eyes widened in anger. Boom! His whole person soared into the sky. Bang!
His huge body slammed heavily into the slash. After a two-second stalemate, the slash shattered, but simultaneously, his figure flipped backward.
Shing! At this moment, a vertical slash struck again.
Shot, who had just steadied himself, turned pale with fright and hurriedly dodged to the side. However, in doing so, his pirate ship was split in two in a blink. Instantly, screams rang out one after another from his ship.
Bang! At this time, Shot jumped off the ship, landing heavily on the ice in front. Looking at Merlin, his eyes looked like they were about to spit fire.
"Little ones, get on the ice, quick!"
Shot stared fixedly at Merlin and had to shout to those behind him.
On the split pirate ship, amidst panicked shouts, pirates scrambled onto the ice one after another.
Merlin landed on the ice at this moment, followed by Monet and Pink. Merlin looked at Shot a hundred meters away, the corners of his mouth lifting. "Are you here to trouble me?"
A smile played on Merlin's lips, but there was no laughter in his eyes. At this time, Shot roared, "Damn bastard, you broke my ship, so leave yours behind!"
"Liquor Furnace Wild Fire (Shuro: Goka)!" Shot took a big gulp of wine, then spat it out at Merlin. Simultaneously, he snapped his fingers with his right hand in front of his mouth to create a spark. Boom! A raging sea of fire surged over.
"Snowstorm."
At this time, Monet suddenly took a step forward, exhaling a breath of frost. In a blink, a blizzard whistled out.
Boom hiss hiss!
Alcohol fire collided with the blizzard, and huge water vapor exploded.
In a blink, the space between the two sides became shrouded in clouds and mist.
At this time, Merlin kicked off the ground, his figure rushing out rapidly. In a breath, he arrived in front of Shot, Zanye in his hand swinging a cold light. Only at this moment did Shot see Merlin appear, his eyes widening in anger. "Damn it!"
He blew out an alcohol bubble with a whoosh, which exploded with a pop!
As the bubble exploded, a violent shockwave erupted at this moment. Unfortunately, Merlin's blade edge also arrived at this moment. Carrying immense force, the blade cut through the shockwave and slashed his chest. Bang! With a muffled sound, Shot felt like he was hit by a warship, his eyes bulging as he flew backward.
Boom! His whole person smashed through the mostly sunk sailing ship behind him.
Merlin's figure flashed, chasing after him.
At this time, the pirates who had been blown east and west by the shockwave a second ago reacted. But just as they wanted to move, a stream of snow appeared behind them. Monet's figure emerged from the snow and landed on the ground, saying with cold eyes, "Can't let you disturb Merlin!"
In the next second, her hands spread back, simultaneously turning into a pair of ice-white wings, then waved forward. "Ice Snow Feathers!"
Ice snow feathers shot out like arrows.
The pirates turned pale with shock, scrambling and rolling backward to escape. Monet then focused her gaze on Vice-Captain Aquitaine. Simultaneously, an ice snow wall rose from the ground behind her. After doing this, she kicked off and rushed towards the target.
Rushing into the ship ruins, Merlin quickly caught up with Shot, who had just stood up. Bang! A muffled sound.
Shot was kicked in the chest by Merlin, flying backward again in a blink. Shot couldn't stop spitting out a mouthful of bloody water.
Merlin looked at him buried in the wooden ruins after smashing through a plank, disappointment in his eyes. He thought it would be an evenly matched opponent, but unexpectedly, it was a thick-skinned half-assed drunkard.
Physical strength was okay, but combat ability was garbage.
The Glug-Glug Fruit (Gabu Gabu no Mi) he had was also developed averagely.
It seemed he could only create alcohol bubbles for now.
Although the alcohol bubble intensity was good, the practical value was just so-so.
In a blink, the shadow swelled under him, then turned into a shadow python baring sharp fangs rushing towards Shot. Boom! Instantly smashing through the wooden debris, it bit Shot's neck and dragged him back forcefully.
In this moment, five sharp shadow spikes suddenly rushed out from the shadow under his feet. Splurt splurt splurt... Five consecutive shadows wrapped in Haki pierced through Shot's body.
A dozen seconds later.
Drip! Drip! Drip!
Looking at him fixed to the ground by solid shadow spears, constantly bleeding, a look of boredom flashed in Merlin's eyes. "Your purity is too low."
Shot's eyes were blank. He felt he must be drunk; why did he think of hunting this kind of monster?
Not long after.
The black flames on his body dissipated, and a shadow blade cut off his head. Merlin looked at the Glug-Glug Fruit origin power appearing in the equipment slot.
Merlin's heart moved, looking at the Megalodon Fruit in the second slot.
Compatibility was 85%.
Seeing this, Merlin thought, It seems the synthesis compatibility between Paramecia and Zoan is the highest! Almost all within high compatibility.
[Synthesize]
With a thought, the Megalodon Fruit and Glug-Glug Fruit origins began to synthesize.
Stamina in his body began to consume rapidly.
A moment later, Merlin panted, looking at the Devil Fruit in the second slot.
He gave it a nice name.
[Name: Zoan - Alcohol Tooth Shark Form] (Based on Megalodon "Ju-shi-sha" + Alcohol "Shu/Sake" -> "Shu-shi-sha")
[Effect: After equipping, grants you the ability to transform into an Alcohol Tooth Shark and generate alcohol bubbles. You can freely switch between human, beast, and hybrid forms, and gain biological characteristics possessed by this synthetic creature, the Alcohol Tooth Shark.
However, at the same time, you will also possess a restriction from nature (PS: This restriction is integral to this origin power; it can be "weakened" but cannot be erased).]
[Synchronization Rate: 1%]
[Evaluation: A supernatural creation ingeniously combined by pure power of will and the world's origin.]