024 Sun Candle

"Cough...cough." Hina had just taken a sip of juice when she saw the scene happening in front of her and made her choke until she coughed.

Smoker was dumbfounded. Whatever Devil Fruit this cat had eaten seemed to defy the laws of physics.

For people with rich combat experience, even if their brains are not thinking, their bodies will change their tactics to fight on their own.

By the time Smoker came to his senses, his Nanashaku Jitte had already hit Tom on the head.

Pa~

Tom was knocked to the ground, flattened into a cat cake less than 1cm thick.

Smoker's expression changed; it was over. He had beaten the cat to the death.

"It's alright, just watch." Lynch approached Smoker calmly.

The "cat cake" on the ground suddenly began to wiggle. After a few moments, it transformed back into Tom Cat.

Smoker's eyes widened and the cigar from his mouth fell to the ground.

This is so f**king outrageous!

"How's Tom? How could you be so rude to him in front of others?" Lynch rubbed Tom's head.

Tom felt aggrieved and ran to the distance to pick up the broken sword. A white light flashed and an intact sword appeared in Tom's hand.

Smoker: "..."

This cat is evil.

Leaving Tom to play with Smoker, Lynch returned to his room alone.

It's time to claim the reward for his killing in Mary Geoise that day.

Completing all five stages of the mission was a hellish level of difficulty. If it weren't for Kizaru's mercy, he even doubted whether he would be able to come back alive.

At such a high difficulty level, the rewards are definitely very attractive.

The system's rewards have never disappointed him.

"System, collect the reward from that day."

[Congratulations, Host, for completing the final five-stage task. Rewards are being distributed...]

[Zoan·Mythical Beast Species·Sun Candle]

A strange-looking Devil Fruit appears in Lynch's hand.

As for why it looks strange, is it because this fruit actually has special effects?!

The surface of the fruit was covered with frost, and the surroundings were covered with thunder. The most strange thing was that there was a halo of flame surrounding the outermost part of the fruit!

"The legendary Mythical beast species is rarer than Logia." Lynch stared at the Devil Fruit in his hand in shock

Such a reward was much better than he thought.

There are only a few species of Mythical beasts that have appeared in this world.

Kaido's Blue Dragon Fruit, Orochi's Yamata-Orochi Fruit, Sengoku's Golden Buddha Fruit, Yamato's Okuchi no Makami Fruit, Marco's Phoenix Fruit and some others.

Looking at the world's timeline in the past few hundred years, there are only eleven species of Mythical beasts that have appeared.

Each one is extremely powerful, rarer than Logia, with the ability to destroy the world.

"What's a sun candle? Why haven't I heard of it before?" 

Lynch wondered, as a flood of information about sun candles filled his mind.

As the name suggests, Mythical beasts are creatures that do not exist in reality and only exist in legends.

According to legend, Sun Candle is a mythical beast born from the universe's solstice and the essence of the sun, transformed from the Eye of Pangu.

As the ruler of the sun, he is revered as the "Holy God" by other mythical beasts due to his noble status.

Moreover, due to being influenced by his sister Taiyin Youying, a beast that comes from Chaos and the essence of Yin, his fruit is evolving into four forms. Besides thunder and fire, which symbolize the sun, it also possesses ice attributes.

Let me explain the four phenomena here. Sun Candle and his sister Taiyin Youying underwent a transformation together, giving rise to the four celestial beings: Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermillion Bird, and Black Tortoise.

So theoretically speaking, Sun Candle is the progenitor of Kaido's Blue Dragon Fruit.

After processing the information, Lynch could only think, "Awesome!"

A real man swallows Devil Fruit in one go. Lynch didn't hesitate; he swallowed the entire Devil Fruit in one gulp.

Boom!

As Lynch swallowed the Devil Fruit, he felt a surge of heat spreading through his limbs.

His height is increasing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

It began after surpassing two meters.

Two meters one... two meters four... two meters seven... three meters!

Before he knew it, Lynch had grown to three meters tall, still increasing in a wild manner.

Finally... five meters tall!

He stood in the room, astonishingly transformed into a tall giant, nearly reaching the ceiling.

Feeling the terrifying power surging in his body, Lynch felt like he was capable of anything at this moment.

With the fruit's ability, even an Admiral might not be unbeatable!

Little did he know, he had only eaten the Devil Fruit five minutes ago, already approaching the level of Whitebeard and Kaido.

He feared it wouldn't be long before he could casually sip a wine bottle with a Four Emperors.

"Hey, why did I become so tall?"

When he opened his eyes, Lynch had a headache. Being too tall is not a convenient thing in life.

Before he could think of a solution, his expression suddenly changed, and he hurriedly ran towards the open space outside.

There seems to be some strength coming out of the body.

As soon as he arrived on the deck, Lynch could no longer control the power in his body.

"Ouch~!"

Lynch disappeared, and in his place appeared a hugemonster—a lion-headed creature with antlers, tiger eyes, elk horn, dragon scales, and a dragon tail. Standing thirty meters tall, it looks 70% similar to the legendary Kirin.

The main difference between this monster and a Qilin is the thirty-five-meter-wide black and red halo behind it.

A layer of flames constantly burned on the black halo, hovering behind Sun Candle.

The moment Lynch transformed into his beast form, the warship suddenly sank under the weight of his huge body.

He simply flew high into the sky and let out the surging power in his body.

Well, it was more like floating than flying, since he had no wings.

"Roar!"

Sun Candle roared angrily, shooting several thunderbolts dozens of meters thick from his mouth as he charged towards the Sky. The sky, once filled with dark clouds, instantly cleared.

Golden lightning crackled in the air, resembling dancing electric snakes.

Lynch swiped his front paw, instantly freezing the sea within a ten-kilometer radius. The ships were trapped in place, unable to move.

"Oh my God, what a monster this is!"

The soldiers on the warship were trembling with fear when they saw this scene.

"The sky... it's breaking apart!"

"Help, the ship's frozen!"

Countless Marines looked at the series of changes in horror, unable to resist at all.

It felt... like a mortal facing a god.

Smoker and Hina looked seriously at the monster in the sky, feeling nervous.

Why did this terrifying monster show up here?

He just hoped they weren't the target, or else...

At this moment, someone said something weakly from the side.

"Well, I happen to see Colonel Lynch turn into that monster on the deck."

"Who said that? Who!" Smoker looked around for the figure who had just spoken.

"I... I did," Joseph timidly walked forward. Even though he knew it was Boss Lynch in the sky, he was still afraid by it.

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TO BE CONTINUED.

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