The Pirate Princess Becomes Queen

The shadowy figure became alert when he drew his sword and rolled on the ground in a very awkward manner.

Hawkins' swordsmanship was far superior to what was known to the outside world. This move was originally a feint. Halfway through the slash, he exerted force on his wrist, took a step forward, and forcefully slashed down at the dark figure on the ground.

His substitute doll was already activated. Even if the shadowy figure exploded, sprayed poison, or launched some earth-shattering counterattack, he was not afraid. He could transfer any damage away.

His sword strike was both accurate and swift; the shadowy figure couldn't dodge it this time, and was cleaved in two diagonally from the neck down to the lower back.

"Hmm?" Hawkins felt something was wrong as soon as he swung his sword down. Was this the feeling of cutting into flesh and blood? It felt like he was hitting thin air.

There was no explosion, no poisonous fog, nothing at all; the shadow vanished.

Even with his considerable intelligence, Basil Hawkins was completely bewildered at this point.

He started divining again.

"The enemy is dead?" The tarot cards revealed a wrong answer; the probability of him killing the enemy with a single sword strike was only 2.1%...

To his surprise, the strange black shadow reappeared as soon as the divination was performed.

This time he saw it clearly; it was dark and resembled some kind of bipedal animal. What kind of animal was it? Sorry, the world of One Piece is full of strange and wonderful animals; even scholars might not recognize them all, let alone a pirate like him who studies feudal superstition.

Did he lose something? He checked himself over and found nothing missing, no organs were missing.

What exactly is going on? He has the unique skill of taking someone else's place, but the enemy hasn't shown themselves at all. What's going on? Are they keeping him here, and what kind of conspiracy is behind this?

Vivi didn't actually have any ulterior motives.

Despite having the approximate location provided by the Vinsmoke family, it still took her eleven days to find it.

She didn't think she was lost; she stubbornly believed it was because the waves in Beihai were too high, there were too many unruly people, and they were all giving wrong directions.

Vivi scolded Karu the duck for a while, "Look at you, you've wasted your time playing cards! You're always playing cards and not studying navigation! What a waste of your time!"

The duck wouldn't take the pot at all; instead, it jumped up and hit her with the frying pan. The whale Lab watched them playfully fighting and happily blew bubbles on the side.

After swimming three laps around the North Sea clockwise and counterclockwise, Vinsmoke Eich, the eldest son of the Vinsmoke family who was secretly monitoring him, was completely dumbfounded. Who are you looking for?

There was simply no time to waste here with her. Two days after Ichi left, Karu finally managed to study the North Sea charts and find Basil Hawkins' island.

Vivi set up a dark curtain that covered the entire island.

Normally, you can't collect attribute points without engaging in intense physical combat or getting injured.

If Hawkins were to sit on the ground and divine the future, Vivi would still gain nothing.

To use his skills, you must injure him, or at least put him in a combat state.

She then modified her dark veil and briefly merged her bloodline, Isis, into the black mist.

The black mist possessed Isis's abilities, enabling it to continuously and extensively drain the blood of creatures within its range.

Because of the large area of ​​effect, the amount of life steal is not much, almost like the amount of blood from a capillary. But even this small amount of blood provides Vivi with the conditions to continuously collect attributes, which, in terms of the character's stats, means she has entered combat mode.

Karoo the duck used its Devil Fruit power to have its shadow collect attributes in its place, while it and Vivi watched from a distance.

Hawkins is almost obsessed with divination; he needs to consult the oracle for every little thing.

As Vivi continued to lose health and perform divination, she began to absorb Basil Hawkins' abilities on a large scale.

In terms of Armament Haki, Observation Haki, and swordsmanship, he's not as good as Vivi, so he's not very valuable. However, Hawkins has a wealth of knowledge in occultism.

Most of the mystical knowledge in the One Piece world has disappeared. Hawkins' divination, the fishman Shirley's prophecy, the ability of "many people" to hear all things as Whitebeard said, and the gods mentioned by the natives on the island of the Seven Star Sword—if you look carefully, you can still see some traces of mysticism in the One Piece world.

However, just as martial arts declined rapidly after the rise of guns and cannons, these are all things of the past.

After the Devil Fruits appeared, everyone believed in the power of brute force. Have you ever been kicked at the speed of light? Gods, demons, and monsters can all be killed. Who would bother to learn outdated knowledge?

The knowledge gap was severe, but fortunately, Hawkins's legacy was relatively complete, and Vivi absorbed and learned it very diligently.

"Spiritual mathematics," "astrology," "physiognomy," "philosophical classification: mysticism," "secret transmission: psychology," "predictive divination," "guided divination," "astrology"... a whole bunch of random skills left her dumbfounded.

Chapter 193 They've Been Discovered

If Vivi were to learn all these dazzling skills from scratch, it would take her at least ten years.

Ten years? Ten years from now, the daylilies will be too cold.

Many skills contradict the scientific knowledge from her previous life. For example, this so-called basic "spiritual mathematics" has a lot of strange algorithms in Vivi's eyes, such as "numbers have spirits". For example, 1 must be recalculated when it encounters 7 because these two are so-called "spiritual numbers". Or, in divination, the numbers "18", "191" and "277" should be avoided. Why avoid them? It was not said. It seems that the predecessors encountered these three numbers in divination and then died, leaving behind some kind of last words.

Weiwei couldn't see any pattern in it; it felt like an empirical science.

The more you calculate, the more naturally you'll learn.

In a short period of time, she couldn't cram too much knowledge into her brain, so she could only learn Hawkins' strengths first. Skills like "astrology" were something he hadn't even figured out himself, let alone Vivi, who seemed completely lost.

After absorbing a small portion of the knowledge, she was considered to have entered the industry.

Now she goes out pretending to be blind, puts up a sign that reads "Ironclad Predictions," and can definitely earn enough for two meals a day.

She hadn't realized it before, but now she did: Basil Hawkins' path was completely different from that of Mrs. Mermaid Shirley.

If we were to use the Harry Potter universe as a framework, Basil Hawkins would be learning arithmetic divination, searching for truth in numbers, while Mrs. Shirley the Mermaid would be mastering traditional divination, going with the flow.

"Spiritual mathematics" combined with "guided divination"—this is Hawkins' path to divination.

These two skills have the most light spots, so Vivi put aside the vague theoretical subjects and focused on learning these two skills.

Vivi closed her eyes to study, occasionally showing expressions like "Oh, so that's how it is" or "I understand, I get it." Duck Karu sat to the side in a daze, while Hawkins in the distance finally noticed that something was wrong.

You're losing health every moment, and even if it's not much, you'll notice a problem after a while.

Using the dim light, he tried to leave the island, but found at the dock that his pirate ship had already been sunk by someone.

“The enemy must still be on this island. Since I can’t find them… I’ll use my spirit to find them.”

He quickly drew cards, and soon, following some kind of premonition, he drew one from the thick stack of tarot cards in his hand, and then looked at the card.

"Very well, reversed Pope. My skill will surely be activated successfully."

Suddenly, a bewitching purple light rose from his sword blade, which twisted and deformed, eventually turning into a large clump of fluffy straw.

The straws swelled and intertwined in the air, and as the purple light rapidly spread, they eventually transformed into a gigantic humanoid monster made entirely of straw.

This monster had white hair and red eyes, and was like a cloud, with only its upper body floating in mid-air.

As Hawkins gave the order, the enormous monster made of straw opened its mouth and made a low, guttural "gnaw gnaw gnaw" sound.

This move put a greater strain on Hawkins than he had imagined. Coupled with Isis's continuous blood draws, his face was covered in wrinkles, making him look ten years older.

"Did I overuse my Devil Fruit power? I'm still not skilled enough at this move... My face looks like I'm about to die." He glanced at himself in the mirror, then activated the Straw-Straw Fruit's power, transferring all the blood-sucking and aging caused by forcibly using the Devil Fruit to his subordinates who had been implanted with the Stand doll.

In the distance, a muscular pirate instantly withered and collapsed. The move that Hawkins found extremely difficult to execute would be fatal to an ordinary person. The pirate's face aged rapidly, his hair dried up, his teeth fell out, and his once strong heart lost its vitality, beating slowly twice. The muscular pirate's body shriveled up, looking like an eighty-year-old grandfather, his body hunched over, his legs trembled, and he died.

Hawkins, on the other hand, had returned to his peak condition. With a flick of his arm, a straw doll, resembling a mother-child Gu poison, corresponding to the aging pirate, detached from his body.

Without batting an eye, he commanded the enormous straw demon that had been conjured from his sword: "Go, find the enemy hiding in the shadows, and kill him."

The straw demon gnawed around to get a sense of direction, then swiftly charged toward Vivi.

Vivi was still chatting idly with the duck.

"Karu, let me test you. What does 3 plus 4 equal? ​​You think it equals 7? Haha, you're wrong. It actually equals 6, because 7 is a lucky number!"

The duck looked completely bewildered, its big eyes seemingly saying, "Are you kidding me?" Weiwei also found it too bizarre; she really wasn't used to using this "spiritual math" method.

"...Got it, 3 plus 4 equals 6. Let's look at the next question... Hey? Holy crap, this thing actually spotted us! What's that flying thing in the sky, an evil spirit?"

Vivi had no intention of fighting Basil Hawkins, so the question of whether or not to kill him was not even on her mind.

They had no past grudges or recent animosity, so why kill? There are so many pirates; could she possibly kill them all? She came to learn, and after she's learned, she'll quietly leave. Later, when Hawkins' skills improve, she can come back and fleece him again—what a great deal!

To everyone's surprise, this guy actually unleashed a powerful attack, summoning an evil spirit.

Within the evil spirit's sight, her black mist lost its concealment, and she and the duck were now exposed.

“I didn’t intend to kill anyone, so why bother…” Vivi tied up her loose hair, picked up the Second Generation Onikiri and the Black Blade Shusui, gestured for Duck to hide in the back, and then activated the zombie army.

The straw spirit had already located her, and Hawkins even saw Vivi through the spirit's perspective.

The two sides could not reach a peaceful resolution.

If you want war, then let's fight!

Having seen the three admirals and Whitebeard at his peak, Vivi showed no fear whatsoever of an enemy of the Supernova caliber.

"All things have a spirit... Is it just flying around in the sky like a target?" Cutting down Noah's giant ship requires charging up, but cutting down this broken scarecrow doesn't.

Her right hand rested on the hilt of the black sword, Autumn Water. The heavy black sword still did not respond to her at all, but whenever she cut down any flying object, the black sword would become a little easier to handle. At Vivi's level, she was very sensitive to every change in her weapon, and she felt that this was a good opportunity.

The other party is flying around in the sky so casually, why should she be polite?

"Frost Moon Style Swordsmanship. Dragon Slayer!"

The crimson blade light was like a red lightning bolt flashing across the night, directly pulling out a clump of blackish-gray matter from the straw demon's body. The blade light first shattered this "spirit" and then cleaved the straw demon's body in two from the middle.

Chapter 194 Karu's Zombie Army

Hawkins reacted extremely quickly. His "spirit," which was connected to his mind, was damaged. He immediately activated the Stand Doll, and another pirate lay down in the distance. The straw spirit that had been cut in half was restored to its original state, as if nothing had happened.

"Wow, this is interesting..." The opponent's Stand ability was even more bizarre than expected. Vivi thought he could only transfer physical damage, but she didn't expect that he could even transfer mental damage, which is considered a mystery-related injury.

The existence of Devil Fruits can be said to have destroyed the very foundation of the world's mysticism; it's truly a bug.

She thought for a moment and did not swing the knife again.

"What a pity. If I had the fire abilities of Ace or Akainu, I could definitely counter this guy." She sighed with regret, though of course, that was completely pointless.

Where would a vampire who hates sunlight find fire powers?

Hawkins' scarecrow is afraid of fire, but her zombie army is even more afraid of fire!

"Go! Let our army charge up!" She waved her hand with an air of superiority. The duck was still in a daze, so she had to kick it.

"Quack! Quack quack!—" The duck hurriedly stood up, picked up a small red flag that looked like a tour guide, waved it twice, then took out a microphone and gave orders to the zombie army that had already crawled out of Lab's stomach.

The next moment, as if a bugle call had been sounded, the zombies were all excited, shaking their heads and waving their hands, striking poses.

"Night of the Zombies!"

"Night of the Zombies!"

"Oh! Yo!—"

She cut off a large number of pirate shadows on Fishman Island, and together with the shadows she initially cut off from the Long Long Pirates, the number of zombies on her side now exceeds two hundred, making it look like a vast and imposing force.