From the Wandenreich's escape to One Piece

Chapter 114 Rumble-Rumble Fruit and Enel

Neither of them liked eating Devil Fruits, so Beltz didn't force them.

He also felt that Shanks should go for a purely domineering style.

There is also a very strange point in the world of One Piece.

Whitebeard possesses the Supreme Grade Sword, top-tier three-color Haki, and the strongest Paramecia-type Devil Fruit.

Roger possessed the Supreme Grade Sword and top-tier Haki of all three colors.

Garp, on the other hand, only possesses top-tier three-color Haki.

But theoretically, these three people are on the same level!

The difference won't be created just because you have a Supreme Grade Sword or a Supreme Grade Devil Fruit.

Of course, this only applies to combat.

The versatility of Devil Fruits is undeniable; as long as one eats a suitable Devil Fruit, one can achieve in a certain field something that even a simple Haki user could never accomplish in their entire life.

But at least in terms of their combat power, there won't be much difference. If you let Garp eat another Strength-Strength Fruit or even a Momo-Momo Fruit now, the increase in his strength would probably be only a tiny bit.

To put it bluntly, the enhancement of Devil Fruits is also dependent on the individual; it's impossible for everyone to receive the same boost, nor is it possible for the strong and the weak to receive the same boost.

If that were the case, the world would be in chaos.

According to Beltz, this might be due to a lack of self-confidence.

This lack of confidence refers to the fact that Haki users usually feel they are not strong enough, which is why they eat Devil Fruits. However, eating a Devil Fruit means that they no longer fully believe in their own Haki.

The domineering aura is the manifestation of this power of "belief". As the trust invested decreases, the domineering aura will also gradually weaken.

But Beltz himself had already eaten a Devil Fruit, so it didn't matter to him anymore.

Most importantly, others can't eat a Devil Fruit when they have extreme confidence in their own domineering aura, but he can!

He's constantly hypnotizing himself.

Therefore, he was determined to obtain the Rumble-Rumble Fruit.

Even if he doesn't find it this time, he will still come to Bika often in the future.

Bica is an island further south than Angel Island and Jaya Island, and it is also composed of white island clouds.

After Beltz and his two companions landed on the edge of the island, they truly saw the world above the clouds.

This strange world is made up of clouds. The foundations and houses are made of cloud islands, and the rivers and even the oceans are made of cloud rivers and cloud seas.

Bika Island is no exception; it floats quietly above the white sea at an altitude of ten thousand meters, like a giant...

A soft white wool blanket is spread out against the azure sky.

The air here is filled with a thin, crisp scent, and the sunlight pours down without obstruction, reflecting a dazzling, almost holy white light onto the boundless cloud plain.

"Outsider?"

Their appearance immediately attracted the attention of the residents of Bica.

People peeked out from the cloud houses or stopped on the cloud streets, casting glances that were a mixture of surprise, curiosity, and wariness.

These sky island residents don't look much different from the Blue Sea people, except that their skin appears exceptionally fair due to years of exposure to strong sunlight.

On their floating island, it's rare to see outsiders.

In particular, it was obvious at a glance that the three were not from the White Sea, but had come from the Blue Sea below.

Before arriving, Beltz had already explored everyone's subconscious, but he couldn't find the whereabouts of the Rumble-Rumble Fruit among them.

But he did not leave, after all, the residents of Bika had not seen all of Bika.

If someone had already seen the Rumble-Rumble Fruit by this time, they would probably have swallowed it.

Many years later, Enel discovered the Rumble-Rumble Fruit, ate it, destroyed Birka, and then went to Jaya Island and Angel Island.

Are these people from heaven?

Shanks muttered, "They seem no different from us."

"Yes," Shamrock added, "I thought it would have wings."

“Those are angels,” Beltz replied. “You will see winged people later.”

Bika's people didn't attack them, but they weren't very friendly either. Most of them just watched with curiosity, but there was some wariness in their eyes.

After all, they were people from Lanhai who had never met before.

They didn't come closer, and Beltz certainly didn't either. He simply led the two little ones to the place where the Rumble-Rumble Fruit was most likely to exist.

Passing through the almost stagnant Cloud Street, gradually moving away from human habitation, the cloud ground beneath our feet became less flat than before.

Finally, a ruin eroded by time came into view.

This is a small, abandoned temple, which may have been abandoned for hundreds of years. In the memory of the Bika people, they have seen most of the places in Bika, but this abandoned temple is the only one that no one has come to for a long time.

The temple was not large and had long since fallen into disrepair.

Most of the once magnificent marble pillars have collapsed, and the broken sections are now covered by softer secondary cloud formations.

Amidst the ruins, one can see many traces of violent excavation, as if the place had been ravaged in the distant past.

However, he didn't care whether there was other treasure inside; he only cared about whether there were any Devil Fruits.

"There's also soil."

Beltz took a couple of steps and noticed some soil under a collapsed stone pillar, and remarked.

"Is it that strange?" Shanks asked as he walked over with his hands behind his head.

"Of course it's rare. On the sky island, since you can't see the land, the soil is far more precious than gold."

Upon hearing this, Shamrock couldn't help but ask, "No wonder there's so much soil in your space, Captain. Are you planning to conduct trade on the sky island?"

Yes, Beltz filled his shadow space with a lot of dirt.

Part of it was gold and silver treasures, and part of it was a piece of land that he prepared for trading on the sky island.

Although he could simply take the gold, since the Sky Island people don't need it anyway, the soil down there isn't worth much, so he could just use the soil to replace the gold.

In this way, the Sky Island people won't lose out.

This temple must have once contained soil, which attracted the covetous eyes of the ancient Bika people. One day, they stole the soil from the temple, and without the soil, the temple lost its value for worship, and thus it fell into disrepair.

Such a place—

Will there be Devil Fruits?

Beltz suddenly focused his gaze on the collapsed wall, where a house had tilted and fallen, but had not completely collapsed.

Beltz walked over and carefully pushed open the creaking cloud-wood door. Fortunately, the house did not collapse directly.

The room was dimly lit, with only a few rays of sunlight streaming in through holes in the roof, forming beams of light that illuminated the countless dust particles dancing in the air.

This place resembles a sacrificial chamber, with a simple stone altar in the center, which is also leaning precariously.

In the dust in front of the altar, an inconspicuous, dusty wooden box was half-hidden.

Beltz stepped forward, brushed the dust off the lid, gently opened it, and immediately smiled.

Inside that wooden box, a Devil Fruit lay quietly!

Rumble-Rumble Fruit!

"That's the second Devil Fruit." Shamrock remarked upon seeing Beltz acquire another Devil Fruit. "Are there really that many Devil Fruits?"

"You'll see later that, apart from me, I doubt anyone else in this world will be able to find Devil Fruits like this."

The main problem is that the Devil Fruits he found were not ordinary Devil Fruits.

Very good, that completes the mission to reach Bika.

He came out of the house again and saw a child running towards him quickly.

He was a boy of about six or seven years old, two years older than Shanks and Shamrock. He was pale and had a head of fluffy blond hair that had been permed with a thunderbolt, but what was most striking about him were his ears.

His ears were unusually long, and his eyes were filled with vigilance and anger.

The features were so obvious that Beltz recognized the person as Enel immediately.

Enel, panting heavily, blocked the path of the three of them.

Enel roared, "Who allowed you to come in?!"

His voice was shrill with anger as he spread his arms, trying to block the three uninvited guests, despite how frail he appeared in front of Beltz.

"No one allowed us in, but no one forbade us from coming in either," Beltz replied with a laugh. "You dare to steal things from the temple!" Enel saw the soil in Shanks' hand, the same little bit from under the stone pillar earlier, and picked it up to play with it.

Shanks felt a little embarrassed by his angry gaze, after all, he had indeed "stolen" someone else's soil.

Moreover, this soil seemed to be very precious on the sky island, so he quickly let go and let the soil flow down.

Enel was even more furious when he saw this!

"You—you—you actually trampled on the sacred relic like this!" Enel stared wide-eyed at Shanks in disbelief.

He considered the earth more sacred than anything else, so when he heard that there were outsiders in Bika and that they were heading towards the abandoned temple, he immediately came here.

"It's just ordinary soil."

Beltz said, "I have plenty more here if you want."

As he spoke, a clump of soil appeared in Beltz's hand.

"?!"

Enel was stunned again upon seeing this.

This soil—

How did it come about?

"You stole it too?" Enel looked at Beltz warily.

"No, no, no, this isn't soil from the temple; it's soil we brought from the Blue Sea," Beltz explained. "The soil that you White Sea people dream of is everywhere down there."

"You should be able to see the moon, right? It's the planet that appears higher up at night. It has countless layers of soil, but compared to the blue ocean, that soil is nothing."

"Impossible!" Enel exclaimed immediately upon hearing this, "That's the infinite earth in the sky!"

"No, that's just a satellite, it's nothing compared to our world," Beltz explained. "It's just that that's the place where you can see the most soil, which is why you call it the infinite land."

"The world below has as much land as you want."

"How about it? Why don't you come with me? If you come with me, I can show you the world below."

Yes, Beltz also took a liking to Enel at this time.

He actually had no interest in raising Enel, because Enel was too unpredictable. As a boss in the future pirate world who claimed to be a god, regardless of his strength, at least in terms of brutality, few in the pirate world could match him.

Even the Celestial Dragons, it took a huge number of talented people to wipe out a country.

But Enel directly destroyed his homeland, Birka, and then planned to destroy Angel Island and the Land of God, which he ruled, with a single lightning strike!

Beltz wouldn't bother with someone with such a strong destructive drive.

But just because he doesn't use it doesn't mean he can't give it to others.

Can I give it to Shiki?

Anyway, Shiki is short-staffed right now.

His fleet was large, but most of it consisted of rotten fish and shrimp.

So, it's only right that I, as an ally, should provide him with some combat strength.

Although he's lost the Rumble-Rumble Fruit, he's still a boss-level character. After some training down below, he should have no problem becoming a subordinate under Shiki.

At the very least, his Observation Haki is indeed unique.

Beltz also considered building a faction, but later felt that it was pointless to do so.

People form factions to deal with another group of people who have come together.

Because in a world where even the strongest people can easily be beaten to death by a mob.

But he doesn't need it.

He just needs to keep improving himself, and sooner or later he will be able to surpass everything in the pirate world.

Therefore, building a force in the One Piece world is meaningless, but it is necessary to build a force in the Bleach world.

Besides, isn't there a Shiki who is diligently building up his power?

"Are you kidding me?"

"I'm not lying to you, if you don't believe me—" Beltz stretched out his hand, and the next moment he transmitted part of the image through his mind.

Those were some of the scenes he saw below: the Kingdom of Sorbet, Wano Country, the Valley of God —

These places all have a lot of land.

He even transmitted some knowledge about the moon and the earth!

When Enel received this information, he was completely stunned.

this----

How is that possible?!

Everything Beltz transmitted utterly destroyed his worldview.

At this time, Enel had not yet been to Angel Island, nor had he seen the Land of God. The largest piece of soil he had ever seen was only a small piece of soil in a flowerpot.

He has come to regard this as a sacred object.

And the moon in the sky, he has worshipped since childhood as an infinite earth!

But at this moment, Beltz told him that there was also an infinite earth in the lower realm, even larger than the moon!

That----

It's exactly the place he's been dreaming of!