Chapter 121: Huge harvest in one year.
Time flies, and a year has passed in the blink of an eye.

And for Li De and others, this year passed very quickly.

Although Li De and his companions mainly focused on cultivation during this year, they did not practice blindly. Every once in a while, Li De would take them out for fun to relax their tense nerves.

Go sightseeing in the City of Spring Queen, Santa Pobla; enjoy delicious food in the City of Gourmet, Kip; participate in various celebrations in the Carnival City, San Farod; and experience the forefront of fashion in the Fashion Island of the East China Sea. It can be said that Li De took his girlfriend to visit many places.

Under this training mode that combines work and rest, the strength of Li De and his group has skyrocketed.

After everyone's magic power has been transformed, the skills of using observation Haki, armament Haki and conquest Haki will definitely be of utmost importance.

For the rest of the time, those who gained abilities were busy comprehending and developing the techniques to use their abilities, while the two women who did not gain abilities were not idle either, practicing physical skills, swordsmanship, and physical reserve. In short, they referred to the ability value panel and practiced whatever was lacking.

Once someone has increased his ability to the limit, Li De will take him to Luskena. After all, the beasts there are really fierce, and their physiques are extremely strong, which can fully satisfy the women's desire to accumulate great achievements.

After a year, all the girls broke through Lv.2 and reached Lv.3.

Ipsilon and Delta even attacked Lv.4.

The reason they were able to make such progress was mainly because, among all the girls, they were the only two who spent the most time exercising.

Before obtaining the power of the devil fruit, the two girls allocated their time to three-color training and constantly strengthening their bodies.

At present, apart from Reed, the strongest is Delta, even Claire can only rank behind her, followed by Beta and Ipsilon, and finally Zeta and Victoria.

Here, Beta took advantage of the mythical beast species, otherwise it would be impossible for him to surpass Ipsilon.

Of course, this is just a comparison of physical strength. If we compare them based on the development of abilities, Victoria would be firmly in first place.

It's okay if you don't believe it. Just experience for yourself the hundredfold increase in charm and the temporary hundredfold increase in physical fitness that Li De felt personally, and you will understand how big Victoria's imagination is about the ability of the multiplication fruit.

You have to know that Victoria's charm increased a hundredfold, but it firmly suppressed Beta, who was becoming more and more sweet and lovely after integrating the sweet fruit.

Well, although the development direction of this ability is a bit unorthodox, this is only one aspect.

What really impressed Li De was that Victoria's amplification could even interfere with any cognitive things within a certain range, such as gravity. His practice over the past year or so relied on the hundred-fold gravity field area.

In addition, Victoria's amplification limit is not limited to a hundred times. It's just that the more it increases after a hundred times, the more magic power she consumes will soar, so magic power has become a limit to her ability to use it.

Of course, this restriction is nothing to Li De.

Li De once found a place alone and tried to increase the temperature by a thousand times, but ended up burning himself.

If it weren't for the temperature bodyguard's instant warning, Li De's observation Haki would have dissipated quickly enough, and it would have been more than just a burn. Part of the body might have even died directly.

You have to know that Li De’s own resistance to high temperatures has reached a very high level, but he was still burned. You can imagine how terrifying the amplified temperature is.

I have to say, it was not without reason that the World Government called Bondi Wald the World Destroyer.

Compared to Victoria's development of the super auxiliary properties of the multiplication fruit, the other women's development of the fruit abilities is slightly inferior.

Of course, it's not much different. After all, it will be awakened after fusion. The rest depends on how to perform some eye-catching tricks.

There is nothing much to say about Zeta's Thunder Fruit. Since she does not have enough scientific knowledge, her direction is more towards the tricks that Li De has seen in his mind, such as Thunder Release Armor and the Super Railgun.

Claire's Shadow-Shadow Fruit is slightly better. After all, the development of the Shadow-Shadow Fruit's ability has little to do with science. The tricks developed by Moriah plus the Shadow Release derived from Naruto are all Claire currently masters.

But this is not what Li De cares about. What he really cares about is the magic power after the second mutation of the Shadow-Shadow Fruit, which enhances the shadow spell.

In the original book, if Moria wanted to cut off someone's shadow, he had to suppress the person whose shadow was to be cut off. But with Claire, the Shadow Mage only needed to use a Shadow Escape to lurk in the opponent's shadow, and then directly use the flaming blade with burning shadow to slash at the heel, and then use the shadow gathering place to directly absorb the opponent's shadow into the body.

If it were night, the person would only feel pain in his heels and then fall into a coma due to the loss of his shadow.

But if it were daytime and there were no shadows, the person would immediately turn to ashes under the light.

Although the shadow in Claire's body will disappear when the object dies, the incomplete personal memories brought by the shadow will remain in Claire's body.

This was an accidental discovery made by Reed when he was helping Claire experiment with combining her abilities with magic.

However, Reed has already warned Claire not to use this trick unless it is absolutely necessary, because this incomplete memory is a bit disappointing.

If it was mental memory, it would be fine, at most it would be just a few more image fragments in the brain, but it was physical memory, which would affect Claire's control over herself, and she would have to spend time to readjust herself.

But if we exclude the last point, this move is quite sharp and can kill many creatures that cannot be killed by conventional means.

If Victoria found the correct way to use the Multiplication Fruit, Zeta is currently doing just fine, and Claire's combination of spells and abilities brought surprises, then Beta, who obtained the Snake-Snake Fruit, the Mythical Beast, and the Medusa form, has developed the ability of this fruit in an incredible way.

Why do you say it's unbelievable?

This is mainly because Bebeta's direction of developing his abilities is something Reed had never thought of.

Apart from Reed himself, among the four devil fruits currently obtained, the only one that Reed cannot give an opinion on is the Snake-Snake Fruit, Mythical Beast, Medusa Form.

After all, in Reed's opinion, after Beta awakened his ability, he had already developed the ability of the Snake-Snake Fruit, the Mythical Beast, and the Medusa Form to the point where it is difficult to add more tricks.

Compared with the development of abilities, more energy should be focused on strengthening the body.

This is what Reed always thought until Beta developed a completely new way of using it.

But Li De still underestimated the literary girl's persistence.

Beta developed a completely new usage with almost no development potential.

That's curse magic!
To put it simply, it is to use a medium such as the opponent's hair and blood, and then use magic to petrify the opponent little by little through the air.

The advantage is that you don't have to show up, but the disadvantage is that this curse magic is not very strong and can be easily lifted by holy magic.

Of course, Beta didn't care about this at all. After all, this was just a rough version that was temporarily created based on the Shadow series of spells. However, it proved that using abilities to develop magic was a feasible path.

Maybe this magic has no practical meaning to the developer itself, but please don’t forget one thing.

That is, unlike the uniqueness of the devil fruit ability, magic is universal.

As long as the spell template is determined, that is, a reasonable magic circle is constructed, anyone can use it. The only difference is the power. The path proved by Beta is actually very meaningful.

As the time is approaching the beginning of the plot of One Piece, which is also the day Luffy sets out to sea on May 5, Li De also plans to take a trip to the East China Sea.

You should know that the slippery fruit has not been eaten by Alrita yet. In other words, as long as Alrita gets the slippery fruit first, and then you have points, you don't have to go around the world looking for Alrita.

However, it is not easy to find the Alrita Pirates in such a huge East China Sea. Therefore, Li De plans to take everyone to the East China Sea this time to monitor the Alrita Pirates first.

Arriving at the training ground that Victoria had built using her powers, the girls were currently taking a break and chatting.

"Ipsilon, when I measured you yesterday, I found that you have grown another 1cm taller. Do you need to control your height? You know, you are already 187cm tall now." It was Claire who spoke at this moment.

"My beauty belongs only to my master. If I'm not tall enough to scare away those annoying flies, it will be very troublesome for me to socialize when I return home." Ipsilon said nonchalantly.

"Ipsilon, I personally think that as long as those disgusting nobles whose heads are full of lust want to, they don't care how tall you are. It may even stimulate their desire to conquer you." Beta couldn't help but grinned.

"Don't worry about what they think, but at least at social gatherings, there should be fewer people who dare to come over." Ipsilon couldn't help but glance at Beta.

After all, although Beta said this, the extent of her physical training over the past year was only slightly worse than her own.

With the blessing of the animal-type mythical beast, his height is also increasing rapidly.

"That's right!" Beta nodded. This was also the reason why she let herself go when exercising.

You have to know that compared with Ipsilon, the owner of this mythical beast species is more charming. If you don't use special means to dissuade her, the swarm of admirers who will flock to her will make people feel sick just thinking about it.

Of course, as a top tea art master, Beta is still confident that he can handle social events.

But if there are too many people, even she will find it difficult to handle it. Once such a situation occurs, it will be difficult for her to attend social gatherings in the future.

After all, women are very jealous, and Beta also needs to give other women a weakness that they can attack. After all, she doesn't want other noble women to be unwilling to come to any social gathering she attends.

In that case, the character settings created in the novel would be wasted.

"But speaking of it, this world is really very suitable for body shaping. Even though my height keeps increasing, my proportions are still so perfect. I can't help but admire myself in front of the mirror for a few more minutes." Ipsilon said very proudly.

"Delta thinks so too, especially the BOSS." When Delta said this, he was interrupted by Li De's cough.

"Ahem, let's stop chatting here." Li De said.

"BOSS, what's the matter?" Delta asked immediately.

"Well, I plan to take you all to the East China Sea tomorrow." Li De nodded and said.

"Master, are we finally going to the East China Sea to find my devil fruit?" Ipsilon said with his eyes lighting up upon hearing this.

"Indeed, the time is almost right." Li De continued to nod.

"Sid, don't you have enough points?" Claire couldn't help but ask.

"My dear sister, it doesn't matter if it's not enough. After all, this time we are not looking for the user of the Devil Fruit, but the Devil Fruit that has not been eaten. As long as it is not fused, you can get it and eat it first, and then fuse it after you have enough points." Li De said with a smile.

"Oh, I forgot about that." Claire couldn't help but laugh. After all, once habitual thinking is formed, it is easy to fall into misunderstandings without any reminders.

"Then master, how do we find it?" Victoria asked.

"I have divided the East China Sea into several areas, and each person will search for information about a pirate group in each area. As long as we find the captain of the pirate group and keep an eye on him, we should be able to get results." While Li De was speaking, he took out a map of the East China Sea and Alrita's bounty order.

"Master, is this the aunt with freckles all over her face?" Beta asked.

"Beta, every fat person is a potential stock. If she really gets the slippery fruit and loses weight, she will be a top beauty who is not inferior to Hancock." Reed nodded and replied.

"It's a pity that she has no chance, but it's still a good thing for her. At least she doesn't have to die." Ipsilon didn't want the devil fruit he had reserved to be eaten by such a freckled aunt.

"Ipsilon, not necessarily. Pirates live today and never tomorrow. As long as there is a chance, even for one day, maybe others will be willing to do it." Beta habitually argued with Ipsilon.

"Okay, about the area division, Zeta, your mobility is the strongest among us, so your area is the largest, so it will be a bit hard for you." Li De said, pointing to the map.

"I'm not tired, master!" Zeta shook his head and said.

"Then there is the area that Claire and I are responsible for, and finally there is Ipsilon, Beta and Victoria, the areas that you are responsible for." Reed then divided out the other areas.

"Master, the areas near the entrance of the Grand Line and the Red Earth Map are not included." Zeta said carefully.

"Don't worry about these places. With the strength of the Alrita Pirates, they have no qualifications to enter the Grand Line. In addition, there is a natural Devil Fruit user guarding Rogue Town, so Alrita will not go to the surrounding waters. As for the area near the Red Earth Continent, don't worry about it. Any pirate with a little self-awareness will not run to the route where the World Government is escorting Tenjo Jin to seek their own destruction." Li De explained with a smile.

"So that's how it is. By the way, master, do we have to come back after we leave?" Beta asked.

"No, after all, there is not much time left in this world, so I plan to form a pirate group for fun. After all, this is my second time here, and I always feel that something is missing if I don't experience the life of a pirate." Li De shook his head and said.

"Should we notify the people on the island?" Ipsilon asked.

"There's no need. We've taken away all the valuable things anyway. As for the war for land between Angel Island and the Shandians, it has nothing to do with us." Li De shook his head and said.

The valuable thing in his mouth is naturally the gold in the Golden City.

Although he already had so much gold in his hands that it was just a number, Claire wanted to fill her magic bag. The dragon's habit was understandable.

Therefore, most of the Ark Maxims built by Enel were dismantled by Claire, and the golden bell cast together with the historical text was also taken away by Claire. Only the historical text of Aquaman and the base that recorded the information left by Roger were left, which were casually discarded by Claire in the ancient ruins where the gold was originally stored.

This was the result of Reed asking Claire to hold back, otherwise Claire would have looted everything and would not have left out even a single bit.

There is no gold left on the Island of Gods except for the small amount of wealth in the belly of the giant snake.

The next morning, Li De took the girls to the East China Sea.

As for the Island of Gods, the local people would probably understand what it meant. After all, when Li De wanted to take people out for fun, he would not take away the mansion as well.

This time even the mansion is gone, which means it will never come back.

(End of this chapter)