Chapter 904: Teacher Gildarts! Please teach me the true meaning of being torn apart!
All the pirates who can enter the New World have gone through risks and triumphed in the "paradise" in the first half, and have become tough guys strong enough to stand on their own . A bounty of over 100 million is the basic threshold, and don't even think about it if it's lower than that.
These hundreds of millions of pirates who pour into the New World every year are called "supernovas".
But even for such an existence, it is still difficult to move forward in a territory like the New World. If one is not careful, he will be buried in the sea and there will be no chance to start over.
Even the supernovas are like this, not to mention the rest. They basically have only two ways to survive: join the Four Emperors, or wait to be defeated by them.
Three years ago, the most famous supernova at that time sailed into the New World, challenged Whitebeard but failed, and finally became a member of the Whitebeard Pirates. He was 'Fire Fist' Ace.
Portgas D. Ace!
Time goes back a few days ago...
Ace was standing at the bow, his hands on his hips, gazing at the towering red earth continent in the distance. He had experienced this scene three years ago. Now things and people have changed, and he couldn't help feeling a little more sad.
Looking back on the past, I was also a handsome young man who was full of vigor, domineering and loved by everyone!
"Get off the bow, you bastard!!"
Buggy's upper body emerged from behind Ace, and then he grabbed him and pulled him off the bow. "Get it straight, this is my ship! You bastard!!"
"I'm just standing here for a while, what's the matter?!"
"Stop talking nonsense! Get down here. The bow is the captain's exclusive seat. Don't you even understand this?!"
Plop! Boom! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! …
After a tense and exciting fight, both of them sweated a lot.
"Damn it! The guy standing on the bow just now looked exactly like Captain Roger! This guy must be the captain's son!!!"
'Should we take this opportunity to go to the New World and contact that guy Shanks... Damn it!! To be honest , if it wasn't related to the captain, I wouldn't want to look for that bastard!! But even if it's Shanks, he might not know anything about this guy, right? If I could know where the vice-captain is, he would definitely know more about this matter! '
There are not many people in the world that Buggy can admire from the bottom of his heart, and the former Captain Roger is one of them. Therefore, Buggy always pays special attention to things related to Roger.
"Hey, Buggy! Today's training is about to begin!"
“Here it comes!!”
Ever since he witnessed Gildarts's magic-shattering ability a few days ago, Buggy has been in awe of it.
As a big man who has lived in Roger's pirate group since he was a child, Buggy is naturally familiar with the concept of "Devil Fruit Awakening". He knew very early that the appearance of different types of Devil Fruit abilities after awakening is different: the superhuman type can affect external objects, the animal type can transform, and the natural type can permanently change the climate of an area.
According to this rule, the superhuman-type Splitting Fruit he ate should be able to split external objects after awakening, which is the same power as Gildarts.
But there are very few people in this world who can use the power of devil fruit to awaken. Almost every one of them is a strong man standing at the top of the world, at least at the level of Shichibukai or the vice-emperors of the Four Emperors. It is simply not something he can do. So over time, Buggy's desire to awaken the devil fruit faded.
What's more, he himself doesn't like this devil fruit ability very much!
It was because of this devil fruit that he turned from the best swimmer on Roger's pirate ship into a landlubber who couldn't swim, and he also permanently lost the opportunity to obtain the huge treasure buried on the bottom of the sea!
However, times have changed. Now the New World is changing and turmoil is about to break out. It is a great opportunity for the pirates to fish in troubled waters, snatch food from the tiger's mouth, and seize the treasures accumulated by the Four Emperors for decades. How can Captain Buggy miss this opportunity? !
Not to mention, there is also a Captain John there, a shortcut to John’s treasure!
So, with the encouragement from many aspects, Buggy decided to train with Gildarts for a few days to see if he could understand the method of awakening the devil fruit from his crushing magic.
…
“Smash!!”
With a low shout, abundant magic power turned into dazzling white light and exploded in the air, cutting Buggy in front of him into dozens of pieces. Bucky, who was cut into pieces, lost his support and was about to fall to the ground, but as soon as he shook, he was controlled by Bucky's mind to piece them together again, fitting perfectly without any gaps.
“How is it? Do you feel it, Buggy?” Gildarts asked Buggy, who was closing his eyes and feeling it, looking as if he was enjoying the experience.
"No, I didn't feel anything!!"
Buggy first shook his head regretfully, then sighed and sat on the ground in a depressed mood, "I knew it, there are so many people in the world who use devil fruits, how could I be the lucky one?"
If Kira were here, he would definitely curse Buggy for being more Versailles than him, because Buggy is already the luckiest person in this ocean.
"Don't get too cocky, Bucky!"
Gildarts laughed and consoled him, "Haven't you heard the old saying? People who love to laugh will never have bad luck, and people who always make others laugh will have even better luck!"
"you……"
Bucky's eyes widened, and then he roared angrily: "Whose nose is funny?!!"
Gildarts: "..."
This guy is younger than me, right? Is he already so hard of hearing? Did he use his ability to split into pieces too much and hurt his eardrum? So pitiful...
It has been five days since Buggy trained his Devil Fruit ability for an hour every day, but he still shows no signs of making any breakthrough. He is like a pool of stagnant water isolated from the rest of the world. No matter how turbulent the outside world is, it cannot create even a ripple.
After training, it is time to eat. A hearty lunch can make up for the energy consumed when practicing the devil fruit.
Before Gildarts and Ace arrived, Buggy and his pirate crew basically just ate, drank, played and made noises every day and rarely trained, but from that day on, everyone started to become inward-looking.
With Buggy taking the lead and setting an example, the officers on the ship, such as Alrita, Kabaji, and Mochi, also began to practice devil fruits, swordsmanship and physical fitness, which was rare. Even Ace, who was a guest, began to try to increase the temperature of his flames because of Gildarts's previous teachings.
However, Gildarts knew that this kind of internal competition would probably not last long, because everyone on this ship was following Buggy's lead, so as long as Buggy could not hold on, the others would naturally give up soon.
Thinking of this, Gildarts suddenly became a teacher for the first time in a long time: "The last time I taught someone like this, it was with Kira... No, it should be with Natsu, right?"
"Listen, Bucky!"
"Hmm?? What happened??"
While eating, Gildarts said what he had observed from the perspective of an S-class wizard: "After observing for the past few days, I found that the magic I use and the devil fruit ability you use are actually very similar in some aspects! I am not just referring to the two abilities of 'crush' and 'break into pieces', but all magic and all... uh... the fruit abilities of the three of you. I don't know about other ability users for the time being, but I think it should be similar!"
"The most crucial point is that developing devil fruit abilities is very similar to developing magic. It all depends on belief. The stronger the belief, the stronger the user! Of course, magic is closer to emotion, while devil fruit abilities are more in line with imagination!"
The air suddenly became silent.
Bucky's eyes blinked, revealing clear stupidity.
Gildarts knew he didn't understand, so he changed his words and said concisely: "To put it simply, the stronger the magician's emotions, the stronger the magic; the richer the imagination of the ability user, the stronger the ability!"
"So as long as you follow the concept of 'shattered into pieces' and use your imagination to the fullest, your strength will improve by leaps and bounds!"
The development of devil fruits depends on imagination? ?
This is the first time I've heard of this theory...
"But... how can I develop the power of the fruit after it is torn into pieces? Even though I have decades of experience in sailing on the sea, I can only use the power of the fruit to the current level over the years! I have thought about releasing the power of 'splitting' to the outside world like you, but I have never succeeded..."
Buggy ate and chatted nonchalantly, and he didn't seem to care much about whether he could further develop the Devil Fruit. It was almost as if the word "bad" was written on his face.
"Well... I see that you can recover no matter how small you are split. So if you can divide it into smaller pieces than sand, so small that it cannot be seen by the naked eye, then it will be similar to the natural system of Ace and the others?"
Buggy shook his head. "No, no... I've thought about this before, but later I realized that even if it's split to that extent, it can't be used for attack, and it doesn't improve defense much! Besides, using a devil fruit consumes physical strength. The more detailed the split, the faster the physical strength will be consumed."
There are two types of superhuman abilities: one is gaining superpowers, and the other is becoming a superhuman.
The former is flashy, has a high limit, consumes a lot of physical strength, and the fruit ability will fade when defeated. Law is one of them. He becomes so weak after using a little ability that it's like fighting for three days and three nights.
The latter is plain and simple, with a low combat power limit, but basically no physical energy consumption. Buggy is this type. His splitting ability has almost reached the point of being passive, and he can remain safe even if he is chopped into pieces without knowing it.
But even so, the energy consumed by simple split and extreme split is still different, and Buggy is not a strong man, so he certainly won't waste a lot of energy to perform a useless "detailed split" during a battle.
Gildarts thought for a moment, and then brought out the various magics he knew as references: "I know a kind of decomposition magic that can decompose others into many little people. Each little person has an independent consciousness, but the attack power will be greatly weakened..."
Buggy frowned: "That's also an ability that can be released to the outside world..."
"Then why don't you try to use it on yourself! If you divide yourself into many parts, like the clone technique, then when you fight in the future, won't there be several of you attacking others in a group?"
"But you just said that the attack power will decrease, right?"
"Do you have offensive power?"
"…Just pretend I didn't say anything."
Seeing that the other party had listened, Gildarts nodded with satisfaction and continued eating.
Suddenly, he saw Irene's figure on the newspaper, and a bold idea popped up in his mind: "Hey, Bucky! Do you want to try to separate things like 'concepts'?"
“…Huh?”
