Chapter 144

* Bz-z-z *

As soon as I put my glasses in, a familiar warmth passed through my body. Yeah, I haven't had this feeling for a long time. When you reach the maximum in a certain characteristic, the sensations are slightly different from simple pumping. I immediately felt a surge of vivacity and strength. The feeling of everything around has become much sharper, probably this is due to the pumped will of weapons to the maximum. Otherwise, I did not feel much change. Well, this is understandable, the fruit must be used to understand the improvements that have occurred, also with the royal will.

Only the will of observation remained not pumped. With her, I decided to postpone. My current one is enough for me, too, but strengthening in the royal one will not hurt. I'm sure now my hacks are almost top notch in this world. Probably only a few people surpass me in this characteristic. Perhaps Shanks is one of them, it's not for nothing that he became a Yonko, not being a fruit. Although, maybe he has a fruit, I just don't know about it ...

With a long exhale, I got up and went to test my strength ...

The next two days passed pretty quickly. The team, as always, went about their business. Some were training, some were messing around, and I was flying in my hybrid form and testing different techniques. For the upcoming battle, I've come up with a few, so I'm not going to be like fighting Jack anymore. Although I easily defeated him, then I did not even half master the dragon powers. Now it's different, I'm much stronger and better at handling my hybrid form. I can stay in it for several hours, and if I fight, then the time decreases noticeably. But this is not critical, an hour or two will be enough for a battle, I'm sure of that.

Basically, the buffs only concerned the timing of using my powers. And of course regeneration and protection. Back in Zou, my severed arm fully recovered. I think now, if I lose her, then not a day will pass before she grows up again. The regeneration is certainly not instantaneous, but amazing. Also with protection, even Zoro's strongest attack barely scratched me. This scratch healed in just a couple of minutes and nothing was left. Then I was certainly shocked, dragon fruit is something. Of course, I used my will, but even without it, Zoro needed to inflict more than a dozen blows to inflict significant damage on me. But if I used my hybrid form and maximum khaki, then his attacks would not do anything to me at all. Even if the whole team attacked me with the strongest techniques, in my strongest form, the result would not have changed much. Terrifying protection ... I have no idea what will happen when I move to the second stage of the fruit.

But even though it was all good, it was a nuisance. Since I have strengthened the royal will, then everything else has strengthened. The voices of the sea kings grew louder and unnerved. Sometimes I could make them quieter, but I still haven't figured out how to do it always. This ability can be controlled, but here's how, I won't put my mind to it. The trouble was that you couldn't plug your ears. It is simply useless ... The ability to hear is connected not with a simple hearing, but with some kind of inner one. Although, I should probably be happy. Thanks to this power-up, it may be easier to find the fourth poneglyph.

This poneglyph still haunts me. I know where the other three are, but the last one ... Hmm, it looks like you'll have to suffer. Who knows, maybe he is anywhere in Marijoa at all. So what? What pirate would stick in there? Although, I think they would have simply destroyed it, why would they keep such an important thing?

It's all strange ... I think that finding the last poneglyph will be even more problematic than fighting the Yonko.

By the way about them. I think we'll be arriving soon, who knows what will happen next ...

***

Six hours later, the Big Mom Archipelago finally appeared on the horizon. Totto Land, consisted of several dozen small islets surrounding one large one. It was this large island that was the main base of one of the Yonko - Big Mom. Whole Cake Island was the largest and most remarkable. It looked like one big cake or several cream cakes. Other islands were also mouth-watering: chocolate, nutty, cheese, biscuit and many others. It was just a real delight for the sweet lovers. It's a pity there is no island of booze or an island of meat ... Eh, then I would have stayed here too ...

Not far from Big Mom's main base. A huge fortress ship was visible. If I understand correctly, this is Germa 66. Unsurprisingly, I knew from the beginning that they would be here. Sanji would have to face them sooner or later.

I waved my hand and the sails immediately sank. Nami asked in surprise:

- What are you doing? We're almost there.

I looked at several towers in the distance and said:

- If we are not careful, we will be noticed. I slightly curved the space, so that we will not be seen through the telescope from that distance. But if we get closer, we will be immediately discovered. After about four hundred meters, there are strange slugs in the water. As far as I know, they are sending a signal to Den Den Mushi.

Nami nodded and asked:

- Clear. Then how do we get there? By air?

I shook my head and smiled:

- Why such difficulties? I will take you to the island in a couple of moments, and I will drag the ship into darkness. I'm not sure about Lingling's strength, but one of her sons has a very strong will, so even if we sneak in unnoticed, they might find out about us. - I sighed and continued: - It's unpleasant, but there's nothing you can do about it, Linlin is unlikely to be stupid and send generals to me. Jack was a good example, so she would think twice about risking her people. But she is a pirate, so you shouldn't count on a fair fight - looking at the guys, I said: "In the worst case, if I'm busy with her, you will have to take care of one of the Candy Generals. Then bring it to me. After killing him, I will become stronger and the chance of winning will increase. - the guys nodded and I continued: - If everything goes as it should, and I kill the general before I meet with her, then act according to the circumstances. But our main goal is the poneglyph pointer and of course Sanji. Sargon and Zoro will be able to occupy two generals, and I will try to kill the third. You can handle the rest.

Taking a serious look at them, I said:

"This is Yonko's team, be careful. You will definitely face the generals, and I will definitely face Lingling. Cover each other and do not forget that we are pirates, if there is an opportunity to cheat, then do it.

Everyone nodded their approval and I smiled, then stretched out my hand and quickly pulled everything into darkness. Nobody resisted, so it was very easy.