Only extremely rare Devil Fruits can [Awaken].

———— Dargrass Barrett

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What is Awakening?

How can I awaken?

This is the ultimate question that Victor often asks himself.

During the battle on Falling Bell Island in the Western Sea, Moonlight Moria once mocked herself, saying that it was more difficult for a special superhuman Devil Fruit like the Chain Fruit to be born and half-awakened than ordinary Devil Fruits.

Later, the relationship between himself and Moonlight Moria became better and better, and he also mentioned this issue to the other party. In this regard, Moonlight Moria's tone was inexplicably weird, and she just dropped a sentence lightly.

[The awakening of the Devil Fruit needs an 'opportunity', and it is useless for you kid to practice hard. 】

Then no matter how much I asked, the other party just kept silent or clumsily changed the topic.

Tut...... It must be that he himself has not reached the level of awakening, so he can't say why.

To put it mildly, Victor thinks that his combat talent is not the strongest in the world, but at least the top level. However, whether it is achieving 100% compatibility with the Chain Fruit, or the daily training that has not slackened for a moment, or the battle with a strong enemy, nothing can make you touch the level of [Awakening].

As the effect of the exercise became lower and lower, there was no room for the auxiliary effect of the overlord color domineering on combat power, and he was already able to perceive that he had touched the ceiling called [Limit].

Maybe there can be a slight improvement through hard workout, but the overall level is like that. If you really want to make an analogy, it may be the level of [Flame Calamity] KING or [First of the Three Stars of Desserts] Charlotte Katakuri.

Maybe ordinary people can already be satisfied, after all, not everyone can reach the level of the Three Calamities or the Three Generals, this is already the highest level of power in the world.

But Victor was not satisfied, his ambitions had not yet been realized, and this level of strength ...... Not enough! I don't want to be a silver medalist on this sea, I'm going to embark on the path of becoming the 'strongest'.

I need further strength, [Fruit Awakening]!

[Opportunity]? It's good, the opportunity that can't be waited for is created by me. In the most extreme desperate situation, tap all your hidden powers, and let the chain fruit truly [awaken]!

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The shores of Goakishima have been transformed into a 'Thousand Needles Forest' lined with countless huge rock cones.

Suddenly, a cone of rock collapsed! Four figures burst out of the smoke and dust in the sky and continued to fight together.

The Serpent King, Liquid's claws contain a strange power of thunder and lightning, and he swings towards Victor at great speed. Victor frowned as he dodged, his always invincible special knowledge and domineering were unusually ineffective when facing the Serpent King, and sometimes he would even give back wrong information.

It can only be compensated for by its own combat experience.

A long green knife sprang out from the palm of Victor's right hand, which was the famous knife 'Wind Bead'! After the famous sword 'Thunder Left' was developed by Victor as a chain stand-in 'Melancholy Blues', this wind bead became Victor's most used melee weapon.

Under the guidance of Mai Hongji, Victor's swordsmanship has also made great progress, and now he can also call himself 'Sword Hero'. I saw Victor quickly swing the famous sword wind bead, and several flying slashes slashed towards the king of snakes in the air!

Jingle Bell!

Several flying slashes were all blocked by the 'Big Barrel' Jot holding a stone wine gourd, this huge wine gourd is of a strange material, not only is it particularly hard but also a good carrier of armed color domineering, and Victor's repeated attempts to 'open the chain' to it have failed.

"Fox Fire Flame Wheel Turn!"

An orange-haired fox about 6 meters long was in mid-air, and a bewitching purple fox fire appeared out of thin air at the tips of nine large furry tails behind him. Then she curled up, stretched her tail into a ring blade, and the whole person spun and slashed towards Victor at high speed, and the fox fire on the tip of her tail was connected into a deadly high-temperature ring blade!

Victor was about to dodge with the moon step, but found that all his dodge space was sealed by the big wine barrel in front of him and the king of snakes who spread his wings and fly, so he had to pick up a long knife and resist.

At the first moment when the fox fire blade collided with the famous knife 'Fengzhu', the armed color domineering covered on the blade was unstable for a while, and this weird fox fire was very restrained from the armed color domineering.

In the second moment of the collision, the domineering dissipated, leaving only the confrontation between the blade and the high temperature.

At the third moment of the collision, the famous knife 'Wind Bead' emitted a mournful sound of metal friction, and it broke off in response to the sound, and the fracture was melted, and there was no possibility of continuation.

Everything happened in just one second, the famous knife Fengzhu finally won a short opportunity for Victor, and after sawing off the Fengzhu, the high-speed rotating fox fire ring knife incarnated by Dai Peng was also paused, and Victor's right foot was instantly covered with black and red metal feet, and Dai Peng was kicked away from the side.

Then came a thunderbolt of arrows, aimed at Victor's head!

"Inazuma, Enamine Arrow!"

Victor saw golden sparks appear at his feet, and the zippers generated under his feet snapped into each other with the zippers on the ground, pulling himself several meters to the side, avoiding the strange lightning arrow.

A huge fist appeared in front of Victor's eyes!

'Big Barrel' Jot twisted his whole body strength and shot out angrily, the huge fist slammed straight into Victor's arms that were instantly crossed in front of him, accompanied by a dull air explosion and a violent shock wave, Victor was directly blasted backwards by this huge force, shattering several huge rock cones.

"Wha! You kid is dead!! ”

'Big Barrel' Jot danced happily, and the fat face that was kicked by Victor with a crooked nose and a slanted mouth was full of a hideous smile: "I'm going to kill you!" Be sure to torture you in the most painful way and slaughter you again in the end!! ”

"Don't act like a layman, Jot."

The King of the Serpent flapped his wings and landed beside the big wine barrel, and said in a leisurely tone: "That guy is still alive, don't be like that kind of little pirate who doesn't go into the stream and talk about 'killing' all day long." ”

"Ahh

In the pile of rubble in the distance, Victor, whose shirt was in tatters, shook his arms, stood up and pulled his somewhat messy blonde hair back into his back: "This kind of line [Kill you] is said after the action is completed, this is the rule of our 'mafia world'." ”

Dai Peng, the nine-tailed fox with a slight tail wagging slightly, walked to the king of snakes with a catwalk, and looked at Victor in the distance, with a smile on the fox's face: "What a good man...... It's a shame to kill it~"

In the distance, somewhere a pile of rubble suddenly trembled.

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