Chapter 39: Atozu and the Devil Fruit
Under the campfire at night, the people of Sandia gathered around, there were not many of them, and everyone had a tired face on their faces.
After a brief dinner, Webber sent everyone back to the house, leaving only the two Urki pandas and himself and Aisha.
After recuperating, Ulki recovered quickly, but his upper body was wrapped in a thick bandage, and he turned to Weber and asked.
"Still can't get the chieftain in reach?"
Webber shook his head in silence, and Aisha on the side added, "The chief and the clansmen are fine, but because of the Lord of the Sky, they are far away on Angel Island and cannot contact us. ”
"The Lord of the Sky has only grown to a few hundred meters in more than four hundred years, why has it changed so much in just a few decades." Urki asked suspiciously.
"It's been like this for a while, Urki, do you remember Atozu?" Webber sighed and looked in one direction toward the Golden City of Sandora.
"The ancient tree that has lived for at least thousands of years?" Urki frowned, when he was a child, he inadvertently found an ancient tree with Webber in the depths of Sandora, which, according to legend, was the powerful Atozu.
The giant tree produces thousands of fruits every season, all of which are highly poisonous and inedible, and the corpses of poisoned birds are densely scattered underneath the tree.
But for some reason, Urki and the others discovered that one of the fruits had undergone a mysterious change, with strange patterns and strange colors on it.
However, during the more than ten years that Urki stayed on the Sky Island, he had only witnessed the change of the fruit once, and he didn't care about it at first, but after leaving the Sky Island, he found that this seemingly strange fruit was famous in the world, and its name was "Devil Fruit".
"Atozu has been producing fruit, but no one dares to eat it with that strange appearance."
Webber shook his head, a wry smile appeared on his face, and Aisha pulled out a box from the pouch she had been carrying, and he took it and handed it to Ulki.
Without much hesitation, Urki opened the box, only to see that there were two devil fruits inside, one in the shape of a pineapple in the shape of a purple-red, and the other in the shape of a banana, showing a faint blue.
Weber then explains, "When you were still around, the fruit we accidentally got ended up in the hands of Fowl, who fed it to a bird named Pierre, who gained the ability to transform into a Pegasus. ”
"That's a Devil Fruit, it should be in the form of an animal-based horse fruit Pegasus." During his years of wandering in the sea, Urki did collect a lot of information about the Devil Fruit.
There are three main types of Devil Fruits, superhuman fruits that can change the body, animal fruits that can change animal forms, and the most powerful natural fruits, which can master the ability to close to heavenly punishment.
"After you left, Athozu gave birth to a total of five so-called Devil Fruits, and the second was eaten by Anilu, which is the third or fourth."
"Anilu?" The name was a little unfamiliar, Urki asked.
"Angel Island people, he also strayed into Sandora, ate the Devil Fruit, and thus gained the ability to control thunder and lightning........."
Under Weber's narration, Urki and Panda also learned about what had happened to Sky Island over the years, and after gaining extreme power to match their ambitions, Sky Island came under the rule of Anilu.
But fortunately, Anilu was arrogant to the extreme, and he always thought that his abilities appeared because he was chosen by God, and did not pay attention to Atozu.
He didn't know that the tens of thousands of fruits that this tree would produce every year, and it would give birth to a Devil Fruit in about six or seven years.
After that, Sky Island fell into civil strife, and in the end, it was the arrival of the Straw Hat Pirates that completely ended Anilu, and also made Angel Island and the Sandians completely united.
"Why don't you eat the Devil Fruit against Anilu?" Urki frowned, and couldn't help but ask.
"The dragon slayer will eventually become an evil dragon, and only me and the chief know the secrets of Atozu, and no one dares to guarantee that a second Anilu will not appear unless it is absolutely necessary."
Urki was silent, he understood what the chief meant, and nodded.
Webber smiled bitterly and shook his head, "I thought that the matter had settled and Anilu had disappeared, but I didn't expect the Lord of the Sky to swallow the entire Atozu.
In the short time that followed, it fell into madness, swallowing every living creature into its belly, and its size changed dramatically. ”
Panda nodded and interjected, "When the mistake is to destroy the Lord of the Sky, so Weber, are you going to eat the Devil Fruit?" ”
Webber shook his head, his expression calm without a trace of waves: "It's not me, it's you who eat." ”
"We ???" Urki and the panda are taken aback.
"It's impossible for us Sandians to eat devil fruits, at least not now, the cooperative relationship with Angel Island is too fragile, once one side is stronger than the other, under the hatred accumulated by hundreds of years of hostility, the balance relationship will definitely be broken."
Weber had always hoped to end Anilu's rule, but now he hoped that Sky Island could develop better with the cooperation of the two forces, and there was no point in war.
Aisha nodded in agreement, her little face full of determination.
"Eat, thank you for saving my life." Webber waved his hand.
Urki and the panda glanced at each other, and the two nodded after catching up.
Especially the panda, although it is very eager for the Devil Fruit in its heart, it is not a Sandia person, so it is reasonable that it cannot take this Devil Fruit.
"Forget it, hundreds of millions of things, I can't ask for them." The panda shook his head again and again in refusal.
Hearing this, Urki and Weber looked at each other, and they both laughed out loud.
Together, they pointed to the city behind them made of gold, and in fact their wealth was enough to influence the whole world if the people of Sandia wanted to.
The panda was stunned for a moment, but also reacted, and nodded with a wry smile.
"Ulki, you can choose one first."
Urki unceremoniously picked up the pineapple-like devil fruit and swallowed it in one bite.
Then his expression became extremely exciting, as if he had suddenly suffocated, and he covered his neck vigorously, and the bruises on his face exploded, and it took a while for him to recover.
"What's wrong?" The panda looked stunned and couldn't help but ask.
"It's hard to describe the taste." Urki said with a wry smile.
Weber asked curiously, "What ability?" ”