Pirates: Your Emperor is Back!

Before that, I want to ask you a question:

Do you know "gardening"?

Or, have you ever planted some kind of plant in a flowerpot in your home?

How does it grow?

How to break ground? How to get nutrients? How to blossom and bear fruit?

If you have a little understanding of this way, 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.

It was also because of this that he expressed shock and surprise at Luo Wen's words.

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

It sounds like a joke.

The world is really big, so there is no shortage of weird plants, this is true on the Great Route, and 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 dinner plates, and there are also special species that can absorb the nutrients of the entire island with just one plant, turning it into a dead place.

But that's just "plants" after all.

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

No matter how terrible those things are, they will not affect the entire sea.

But the "tree" that Rowan is talking about now seems to be not that simple.

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

Jia Zhi was thinking about Luo Wen's words, and asked: "How do those words describe?"

Luo Wen waved his hand lightly, and countless gravels floated slowly on the sand table in front of him.

Suddenly, countless gravel figures climbed up from the sand table, and they stood neatly in front of the tree, and started to move after the gravel on their bodies solidified.

Gage saw what the gritty men 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 people fell to the ground, as if his lifespan had come to an end.

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

They buried the old man who had fallen on the ground, not far from the tree.

And just when Jia Zhi felt that everything was settled, Luo Wen suddenly moved his finger.

Swish!

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

And because of the control of the ability of the rustling fruit, the sand table was not destroyed, but the internal "cross-section" was completely displayed to Jiaji.

Gage gets a glimpse of the buried old man and what happened afterwards.

The roots of the tree grew slowly, and finally touched the old man's body, and then sucked him into a dead bone almost instantly.

Gaji understands that this is the so-called "becoming the nutrient of the tree".

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

But what happened next made Gaji's pupils tighten unconsciously...

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

Luo Wen's ability development for the rustling fruit can indeed be said to be the pinnacle, especially in terms of the accuracy of the ability.

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

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

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

The "Devil Fruit" just lay quietly beside the tree.

But those gritty people are living as usual.

Until "a few seconds" passed, one of the gritty men 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, the gravel man couldn't bear the curiosity in his heart, opened his mouth, and bit the devil fruit.

"The first phase is over."

The voice of Rowan explaining from the side sounded.

"In this way, the first devil fruit ability user - was born."

Gage's eyes widened suddenly, 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 closed again under Rowan's control, and countless gravels blocked the gaps, making it a complete individual again.

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

"When the first devil fruit user was born, people quickly discovered that this miraculous fruit can bring them unimaginable power."

The gravel 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, the gravel man who had eaten the devil fruit dodged sideways, and began to get angry in the direction of the arrow.

Rowan continued:

"Great power 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 the war."

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

"Lian 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 say, this is 'one' of the reasons for the formation of the war."

"but……"

Luo Wen changed the subject and said with a smile: "You should know what the result will be when a certain powerful force is used in a war."

Of course Gage knew.

"War" with stones, "War" with swords, "War" with shells...

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 death!

boom!

On the sand table, a fierce war broke out.

The gravel man who ate the devil fruit rushed into the crowd and started killing.

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

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

In the end, the grit man who ate the devil fruit was forced to end his crazy behavior. He was killed by countless ordinary grit man, and his body turned into sand and scattered everywhere.

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

His intuition told him that something more terrible was about to happen.

as expected.

One after another, "fruits" appeared on the tree.

So densely packed that it is impossible to count them.

——Those are "Devil Fruits"!