Pirates: Your Emperor is Back!

Before that, I would like to ask you a question:

Do you know "gardening"?

Or, have you ever planted any kind of plant in a flowerpot at home?

How does it grow?

How to break out of the ground? How to get nutrients? How to bloom and bear fruit?

If you understand this a little bit, the next thing may be easy to understand.

Fortunately, although Gage doesn't like things like flowers and plants, as a scientist—especially a former top scientist, he still knows the production process of "plants" very well.

Because of this, he was shocked and surprised by Rowan's words.

"You said, we are... nutrients?"

This sounds like a joke.

The world is really big, so there is no shortage of strange plants, not only on the Great Route, but even more so in the "New World" of the Great Route.

Among them, there are even terrifying plants that can use the entire island as food on their own plates, and there are special varieties that can absorb the nutrients of the entire island and turn it into a dead place with just one plant.

But that's just "plants" after all.

Regardless of the devil fruit ability, even the artillery fire of the pirate fleet can completely destroy these plants!

No matter how terrifying those things are, they won't affect the entire sea.

But the "tree" that Rowan is talking about now doesn't seem to be that simple.

"Are you saying that above this sea, there is a tree that uses the 'world' itself as nutrients?"

Gage was thinking about Rowan's words, and asked, "How do those words describe them?"

Rowan waved his hand gently, and countless gravels slowly floated on the sand table in front of him.

Suddenly, countless small gravel people climbed up from the sand table. They stood neatly in front of the tree. After the gravel on their bodies solidified, they started to move.

Gage saw what the little gritty people were doing.

They are "living".

Build houses, cultivate land, grow crops, hunt, fish...

And "life" means "the passage of time".

Gradually, one of the older men fell to the ground, as if his lifespan had come to an end.

It can be seen that the other small gravel people around are very sad.

They buried the old man who fell to the ground, not far from the tree.

And just when Gage felt that everything was settled, Rowan suddenly twitched his finger.

Swish!

A thin line of sand and gravel swept across, dividing the entire sand table into two with the place where the old man was buried as the dividing line!

And because of the control of Shasha's fruit ability, the sand table was not destroyed, but the internal "cross-section" was completely displayed to Gage.

Gage was able to get a glimpse of the old man buried and what happened after that.

I saw the roots of the tree grow slowly, and finally touched the old man's body, and almost instantly sucked him into a dead bone.

Gage understood that it was the so-called "nutrient for the tree".

This is actually not surprising in nature. After all, human beings are also a link in the food chain, and eventually they have to be buried in this land or the sea.

But what happened next made Gaji's pupils involuntarily shrink...

After the tree absorbed the nutrients of the old man, the branches trembled slightly, and finally a "fruit" was born at the end of the branch.

Rowan's ability to develop the shasha fruit can indeed be said to be the pinnacle, especially in the level of ability accuracy.

Even on this small sand table, Rowan still has the ability to evolve all the details to perfection.

Therefore, Gage can see that the texture on the fruit is very similar to the devil fruit!

When the fruit had grown to a certain stage, it heard a soft "pop", and like any fully ripe fruit, it fell from the branch.

The "devil fruit" lay quietly beside the tree.

And those little gritty people are living as usual.

Until "a few seconds" passed, one of the gravel villains discovered the existence of this fruit.

He picked up the fruit and jumped up and down, as if curious about what it was.

In the end, Little Gravel couldn't hold back his curiosity, opened his mouth, and took a bite on this devil fruit.

"The first phase is over."

Rowan's voice explaining from the side rang.

"Just like that, the first Devil Fruit Ability - was born."

Gage's eyes suddenly widened, and he began to think about what happened on the sand table just now.

But Rowan began to tell the next story.

"The next step is the second stage."

The sand table that was divided into two was re-closed under Rowan's control, and countless gravels blocked the gap, making it a complete individual again.

On the sand table, the movements of the gravel people suddenly accelerated, as if they were simulating the rapid passage of time.

"When the first devil fruit person was born, people quickly discovered that this magical fruit can bring them powerful powers that ordinary people can't imagine."

The gritty little man who was the first to eat the Devil Fruit stood on a small mound and seemed to be laughing out loud.

Suddenly, a gravel arrow shot over, and the gravel little man who ate the devil fruit ducked sideways, and started to get angry in the direction the arrow was shot from.

Rowan continued:

"A powerful force will inevitably create a 'gap' between people, and the 'gap' will inevitably breed 'resentment' in people's hearts."

"When the 'resentment' accumulates to a certain level, a 'war' will break out, which is one of the reasons for the formation of war."

Hearing this, Gage suddenly waved his hand, then grinned and said:

"Ryan Rowan, are you a dreamer? Don't you know that even if there is no powerful force, conflicts will break out between people because of desires, and eventually turn into wars?"

"certainly."

Rowan nodded, "So I said, this is one of the reasons for the formation of the war."

"but…"

Rowan's words changed, and UU Reading www.uukanshu.com smiled and said, "You should know what will happen when a certain powerful force is used in war."

Of course Gage knew.

"War" using stones, "war" using swords, "war" using cannonballs...

Those "wars" share a name, but they are not of the same nature at all.

Strong force means more sacrifices!

To put it more bluntly - means more deaths!

Boom!

On the sand table, a fierce war broke out.

The small gravel man who ate the Devil Fruit rushed into the crowd and started to slaughter.

Countless gravel villains were "killed" and fell at the foot of the big tree.

And the roots of the tree gradually spread, absorbing the dead gravel villains.

In the end, the gritty villain who ate the Devil Fruit was forced to end his crazy behavior. He was killed by countless ordinary gritty villains, and the corpse turned into sand and scattered everywhere.

Everything seemed to be settled, but Gage's eyes were still fixed on the branches of the tree.

Intuition told him that something more terrible was about to happen.

as predicted.

One after another "fruit" appeared on the tree.

There are so many that it is impossible to count them.

- Those are all "Devil Fruits"!