The Pirate Princess Becomes Queen

"Yeah, yeah, they'll be causing trouble again in a few days, won't they?"

"Ugh, so annoying!"

Several squirrels were chatting in a tree hole, while pigeons were complaining on the treetops. Vivi used "Listen to All Things" in combination with Observation Haki to hear the information, which did not fully reflect the animals' meaning, but the general meaning was similar.

Her face lit up with joy! She had finally found it!

Beneath the roots of a tree, she discovered an underground cave.

With a torch in one hand and a flower in the other, she leaped down.

Her arrival was like a boulder thrown into a calm lake; the bats in the underground cave rushed towards the torch like madmen.

The game didn't mention that there were so many bats! She instinctively reached for her sword to slash.

She paused for a moment before swinging the knife, because she didn't sense any malice. Between her physical instincts and her perception, she chose the latter.

She crouched on the ground, cautiously "listening" to the sounds around her.

All she "heard" was fear; the bats were even more panicked than she was.

"Don't be afraid." She had never been able to use her ability to hear all things and convey their voices. This ability seemed to only allow her to passively receive things and not actively express her own meaning. However, after awakening her Observation Haki, she was able to transmit some simple meanings in a very mysterious way.

"Don't be afraid..."

"Don't be afraid..."

She closed her eyes, slowly rose, and without using Conqueror's Haki or any other powerful techniques, let the bats fly around. The entire underground cavern was filled with the sound of bats flapping their wings. She extinguished her torch, straightened her chest, and raised her head, betting that she meant no harm and that no bats would come to hurt her.

Bats hovered and swarmed within centimeters of her, densely packed like a thick, giant wall. They hovered for a minute, and her expression grew calmer and calmer. The startled bats also recovered from their panic.

A minute later, hundreds of bats flew out of the underground cave through the opening she had come from. Below the cave, Vivi discovered an ancient underground labyrinth.

She placed her palm at the entrance to the underground labyrinth and listened intently to its story.

This labyrinth originally belonged to a blood-worshipping cult. Bat-Bat Fruit, Mythical Zoan type, and Vampire form Devil Fruit were among the cult's collections. Now, the cult has long since turned to ashes, and the main part of the former underground labyrinth was thrown into the sea. It then drifted with the ocean currents and eventually became part of Torrance Island.

Vivi returned to the hotel and called Karu the duck.

The commotion of the bats flying out of the tree hole had already woken up some townspeople. She couldn't let the following events be disturbed, so she had the ducks keep watch and notify her immediately if any strangers approached. She then took a shovel and started digging a hole.

Only the main part of the maze remained, largely intact, but ultimately damaged. Vivi didn't need to navigate the maze; she dug from top to bottom. Her superhuman strength and stamina allowed her to dig a passage from the cavern directly to the deepest part of the maze within two hours.

It was already past midnight. Duck Karu looked around, diligently fulfilling his duty as a sentry. After resting for a while, Vivi led the duck down the passage and walked twenty meters forward to a steel gate covered in mottled bloodstains.

The gate is like a 3x3 grid. Every ten minutes, the nine squares move up, down, left, or right according to a certain rule. Each square contains a question. Only by entering the answer within ten minutes and answering the three questions at the top of the 3x3 grid consecutively will the gate open.

Those in the sect naturally know the answers to the nine questions, and they can arrange and combine the nine questions however they want without any problem. It's not difficult for them to pass through this door, but it's a bit troublesome for outsiders.

The Vampire Fruit is very important to the cult, and they have installed a detonation device behind the door. Vivi can't guarantee that the device behind the door is not malfunctioning, so she can only check these issues.

All nine questions involve extremely obscure historical knowledge. Given the general level of education in the One Piece world, most people would be completely lost.

Vivi was, after all, a princess who had received a court education and had some historical knowledge, but she couldn't guarantee that she would answer correctly.

She instantly unlocked a cheat code, able to hear everything!

She could hear some of the sound of the steel gate, and every now and then she could see images of cult members passing through it. Using her historical knowledge, she listed her answers in the soil beside her, choosing the questions she thought were most likely to be correct.

She was 100% sure some answers were correct, and only 70% sure about others. She started to wait, waiting for the three questions she was 100% sure about to move to the top of the 3x3 grid.

After waiting for an hour, she began to answer the last question.

Like an old-fashioned safe, there's a spinning wheel below the question; you answer a question correctly as long as you spin it to the correct number.

The first question appeared quickly.

"When was the nation-building event held in the Bridge Country, Tetchla Wolf?"

"That's simple, it's the 820th year of the Haiyuan calendar."

Then came the second question.

When will 20 countries jointly establish a world government?

"Hehe, I know this all too well, it's the year 720 of the Sea Calendar. Huh? What's going on?"

Weiwei had just finished the second question when she saw the third question at the top suddenly move to the box below, and then it was replaced with a question she wasn't very confident about.

When did the tree fever outbreak occur in the Kingdom of Rubenir in the North Sea?

She didn't have time to think about the reason for changing the question; she only knew that she had to answer this question.

Regarding this question, Vivi was far less certain than with the previous two. The image coming from the steel gate was blurry, and she wasn't sure if it was the year 1060 or 1050 of the Sea Calendar.

She actually thought both answers were correct. Such a disease, which spread so widely and for such a long time, could not be defined by a simple date. But she knew it was useless. She didn't know how historians recorded this event.

She remembered reading in one book that it was 1060, but then she thought another book recorded it as 1050.

One of the two answers must be correct, but she just doesn't dare to take the gamble.

After much hesitation, and with five minutes already gone in the ten-minute time limit, she made a decisive move and played her trump card! She wanted to add an extra layer of insurance to her answer; she wasn't very confident in herself, but she had confidence in others.

She called her best friend, Nicole Robin, for outside help!

Nicole Robin was woken up by the noise and was completely bewildered. "Ms. Wednesday, why are you calling in the middle of the night and asking me about history? Are you out of your mind?"

"What are you doing? Staying up all night studying history?"

"Ms. Ms. Quan Zhou Ri, this question is really important. I've been thinking about it for ages and I still can't find the answer. I can't sleep. Please tell me the answer quickly! Hurry, hurry!" Weiwei urged.

Chapter 78 Bat-Bat Fruit. Mythical Zoan Type. Vampire Form

You can't sleep at night, so you come to bother me?

Nicole Robin was utterly speechless at Vivi's reasoning.

She thought Ms. Wednesday might not be quite right in the head, but fortunately, there aren't many people with normal minds these days. Baroque Studio is a gathering place for a bunch of lunatics, so this way of asking questions in the middle of the night isn't too out of the ordinary.

Nico Robin is not a pirate, a bounty hunter, or even a revolutionary. She is a genuine scholar. Although she found Vivi's way of calling in the middle of the night to ask historical questions strange, she still thought about it seriously from a scholar's perspective.

Rubbing her forehead to clear her head, she repeated the question: "Are you asking about the Kingdom of Lubniz in the North Sea? When did tree fever originate?"

Weiwei nodded quickly: "Yes!"

Nicole Robin said earnestly, "If I remember correctly, historians define this as the year 1060 of the Sea Calendar..."

"Thanks!" Vivi decisively ended the call. Nicole Robin, who had been used as a tool, was speechless, shook her head, and continued to sleep.

As Weiwei entered the number "1060", an unpleasant mechanical sound came from inside the steel gate, and under her tense gaze, the gate slowly opened.

Karu the duck hid behind Vivi, peeking inside.

The duck has always been timid. It used to often act as a bodyguard in front of Vivi, out of loyalty to its owner. Now that it sees its owner becoming more and more powerful, often "wielding" a blade of light, it has resigned itself to the role of a pet.

At this moment, it stared wide-eyed at the door and looked behind it, but unfortunately it was pitch black inside. It looked for a long time but couldn't see anything.

"There are monsters inside, and their favorite food is duck meat!" Vivi was in a great mood. She brandished her claws and scare the ducks, making Karu squawk loudly in fright.

After waiting a while, estimating that the indoor and outdoor air circulation had resumed, she gestured for the duck to wait outside, and then slowly went inside herself.

There were no lights behind the door, and she couldn't see any lighting equipment, so she could only carry a torch and slowly walk inside.

She first looked at the back of the steel gate from a distance and saw a large area of ​​gunpowder.

If this explodes, it's hard to say what will happen outside the door, but everything inside will be destroyed, and the Devil Fruits will have virtually no chance of surviving.

Vivi thought to herself, "That was close."

Luckily, my best friend was there for me, otherwise it would have been a real problem.

She was worried that the torches would ignite the gunpowder, and she didn't want to delve into the reason for the sudden change in the last question. It was nothing more than a defensive measure known only to members of the cult and completely unknown to outsiders.

The space behind the door was not large, about ten square meters. By the light of the fire, she could see a box with a very pirate-style design placed on a table in the center.

The box is very ornate, and despite being in this enclosed space for over a hundred years, it hasn't rusted much.

The box was unlocked. Vivi used the tip of her sword to pry open the lid and found a pale purple fruit, about the size of an apple, with strange patterns on its surface, lying quietly inside.

The Nefertari family naturally had a Devil Fruit encyclopedia. After just one glance, she was certain that this was the Devil Fruit she had been thinking about since the beginning of her transmigration: the Bat Fruit, Mythical Zoan type, Vampire form.

Mythical Zoan-type Devil Fruits are actually rarer than Logia-types, with legendary creatures like vampires being the cream of the crop. While this fruit might not be the strongest in terms of raw power, its life-saving ability is exceptional! If Vivi were truly pushed to the brink, unable to defeat Im or the World Government, what could she do? She could simply survive! Unless she wanted to die, the Vampire Fruit would allow her to live for countless years. What about the Three Admirals or the Four Emperors? Are they that impressive? Vivi might not be able to defeat them, but she could outlive them by sheer lifespan!

Holding the Devil Fruit, Karu the duck looked at her worriedly as she walked out of the steel gate.

Vivi felt that eating a Devil Fruit, something that only happens once in a lifetime, needed a bit of ritual, so she cleared her throat and coughed.

She said in a reciting tone, "Karu... there are limits to human abilities."

The duck stared at her with wide eyes, not understanding what its owner was trying to say.

"I've learned one thing from my short life: the more you scheme and plot, the more you realize that human abilities have limits... unless you transcend humanity!"

"quack?"

"I'm not going to be human anymore, Karu!"

The duck was so frightened that it took out a frying pan to hit her, but Weiwei quickly gestured to indicate that she was not sick.

She picked up the Devil Fruit and put it to her lips. The thought that she would never be able to swim again flashed through her mind, but she quickly dismissed it. Her talent was limited, and she was too young. She had very little time left. If she wanted to catch up with those powerful sea warriors, she had to eat a Devil Fruit.

She took a big bite out of the side of the Devil Fruit.

Even with ample mental preparation, this thing still had a huge impact on her taste buds. It was incredibly bitter. Even though the fruit was still in her mouth, the strong reaction in her stomach made her feel like vomiting. However, her Observation Haki read a kind of exhilaration from this feeling. It was a joyful emotion transmitted from her cells, beyond the resistance of her stomach.

The cells are absorbing the Devil Fruit's energy in an unbelievable way.

It's a very contradictory phenomenon: the stomach and intestines reject it, but the cells absorb it rapidly. The name "Devil Fruit" is truly fitting; it really is like a devil, making people both love and hate it.

Vivi's Observation Haki allows her to observe others, and naturally, she can also observe herself. After just one bite, Vivi knew that all the Devil Fruit's power had been transferred into her body, leaving only the function of making her taste terrible.

“Let’s go, Karu…” Vivi packed the remaining fruit into her bag, and just as she was about to say something, her legs gave way and she fell to the ground.

The duck rushed to help her up, only to find that she had already fainted.

Just as it had placed her against the wall, Duck Karu picked up a frying pan and some green onions. It pondered for a moment which of these things could wake its owner. Before it could figure it out, Vivi woke up on her own.

I felt dizzy quickly, but I woke up quickly too.

She stood up shakily, leaning against the wall, feeling extremely dizzy, as if she had a severe cold.

The discomfort during the body modification process was much greater than she had imagined. In her memory, when the Red Earl ate the vampire fruit, he was fine after eating it, but she had never experienced the process of falling into a coma and then waking up, only to fall into a coma again.

Compared to legendary pirates like Red Earl, the gap in physical ability between myself and them is truly enormous.

Vivi adjusted her breathing rhythm, and with each passing second, her stamina increased dramatically, as her blood was supplying energy to her body in an incredible way.