Chapter 9 The Beginning of the Fruit
As the time spent at the Naval Primary School grew, so did the amount he learned about the world.
Among them, he paid special attention to the Devil Fruit curriculum, although due to elementary school, he did not teach extremely profound knowledge, but even the simplest introduction was enough to benefit him a lot.
The source of power for Devil Fruits is stamina!
This information is what he thinks is the most impressive and core knowledge that he has impressed him so far.
Why? Let's see how much Devil Fruits rely on physical strength.
First of all, the fruit ability is used, which is divided into passive ability and active ability, and the degree of consumption of physical strength by the two varies.
He was a science student in his previous life, so he was more accustomed to analyzing things with data, assuming that he had a physical strength of 10 two years ago, when he first came into this world.
So generally speaking, the average consumption of passive abilities is 1, such as the rubber physique of rubber fruits, which is an ability that does not need to be actively used, and its consumption can be said to be close to zero.
But! Not all Devil Fruits have passive abilities, most of them only have active abilities!
And the active ability, the physical strength required for each activation is 2-3, although it doesn't seem like a lot, but this is only the most basic active ability, the physical strength consumed!
For example, if he transforms his body into smoke, just like that, it will also consume one-tenth of his physical strength! And to maintain the continuation of the fruit's ability, it will also continue to consume physical strength, although it is not much, but it adds up to a lot, and it is also extremely objective.
In addition, if you launch a more powerful ability move, the physical strength required will be increased by a multiplier, such as the gravitational ray of the vine tiger. Until now, Smoker couldn't imagine what terrifying physical strength it would take to pull a meteorite from space!
With his physical strength two years ago, just maintaining the elementalization could only last less than five minutes. In other words, even if he is an ordinary person, as long as there is enough ammunition to shoot him for five minutes, he will be killed!
Because elementalization is an active ability! He must first consume one-fifth of his stamina to activate elementalization, and then maintain it at the cost of 1 stamina per minute! If you still want to stretch your arms or something, you have to use physical strength!
Of course, even two years later, that is, he is now, will not be able to stretch his arms like Luffy, because he does not have enough physical strength and does not have enough smoke reserves.
However, he believed that as he grew older and his physical reserves increased, it should be easy to reach the level of Smoker in his previous life.
So after two years of training, what is his strength compared to other students? In terms of physical strength, not only can he maintain the length of elementalization for half an hour, but Tina, Belilgood, and they can use the ability for ten minutes all the time, even if it is a long time, eight minutes is their average time.
At the same time, he was able to split his elementalized smoke body at will.
It is split, not elongated, for example, he can imitate the beanie fruit of Berrygood, and also split his body into five or six circular spheres!
Of course, because it is formed by smoke, it is not as hard as the beanie fruit, which has the ability to strengthen, and if you want to use a figurative analogy, it is the difference between solid wood and stone.
However, his Smoke Ball is much stronger in terms of recovery ability, and in the previous battle practice with Berrygood, although his Smoke Ball appeared dents and cracks after several collisions, as long as he consumes physical strength to replenish the smoke, he can quickly recover completely!
As for the hardness, it is only because he does not have enough control over his own smoke, that is, it is far from enough in precision micro-operation.
In fact, he doesn't quite agree with the name "smoke fruit", "smoke" and "fog" are two kinds of things at all, one is fine particles, the other is a miniature liquid, how can they be confused?
After careful observation, his ability should be "smoke", that is, something composed of a dense pile of fine particles. So he can now officially determine that his ability should be called "Smoke Fruit"!
At the same time, he can also openly refute the views of the fans in his previous life who believed that the "gas fruit" is the "smoke fruit", oh no, it is the superior of the "smoke fruit"!
What is Gas? What is smoke? It doesn't matter at all!
And as far as he knew, there were only four types of subordinate and inferior fruits that Oda admitted.
Trough Fruit vs. Light and Heavy Fruit, Frozen Fruit vs. Ice Fruit and Magma Fruit vs. Burnt Fruit, and Weapon Fruit vs. Slash Fruit.
So let's get back to the point.
Since his "smoke fruit" is composed of fine particles, that is to say, its essence is "matter", then nature can strengthen its "hardness" by means of "condensation"!
Even that ridiculous "cookie fruit" can be as hard as metal, how can his "smoke fruit" not work!
So after understanding the nature of his fruit ability, he was full of confidence in his future, and the essence of "smoke" is "material". But his characteristics are not only that, as an excellent science student in his previous life, as long as he recalls the rich knowledge in his head, he can easily understand many things that more than ninety percent of people in this world do not know.
As for why he didn't dare to be arrogant enough to talk about everyone, it was because he knew that there were scientists in this world, and if he didn't talk about anything else, just talk about the future Vegapunk, he felt that his knowledge was really not worth mentioning compared to the other party.
A scientist who can create combat intelligent robots that can be used in actual combat and mass production, a scientist who can invent a weapon that feeds Devil Fruits, not to mention that he is a small science student, even those masters of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in his previous life can't compare, right?!
So his main task now is to improve his physical fitness as much as possible, increase his smoke stock, and improve his control accuracy of "smoke".
In terms of physical fitness, before he was promoted to the military academy, he could only exercise through boring and painful long-distance running, and as for the control accuracy, he came up with a small means.
The so-called control accuracy is divided into two directions, one is micro-operation, that is, to enhance "cohesion", and the other is molding, that is, "shape change".
The plasticity of "smoke" is much stronger than magma, flame, laser, and lightning, and there is no need to compare in terms of stability!
What the? Why not mention Kuzan's Frozen Fruit? Hehe, let's not mention it.
So now he will return to his newly assigned home to train on control after his long-distance run at school.
The training content is divided into two, one is to imitate the beanie fruit ability of Bean Good, after the elementalization of his body, split into different number of spheres, and increase the number of spheres as much as possible, which can exercise his control over the fruit ability.
He remembered that now Baerygood could split ten ball-sized spheres, so his initial goal was at least fifteen, with a cap of about twenty.
The second is to continuously condense the smoke to enhance the hardness of these spheres, of course, because his current smoke reserves are not enough, so the more condensed, the size of the spheres will be compressed and smaller.
His ultimate goal is to be able to split at least fifty football-sized smoke balls before he enters military school, that is, two years later, at the age of fourteen!
The hardness of a ball of smoke the size of a football should be no different from that of a hard stone!
Smoker drank water and walked towards the school building with Tina, feeling the pleasure of his body getting stronger every day, and his heart was secretly excited.
"What a future that is getting more and more exciting!"