A cook, vice-captain of the Rocks Pirates?

Ryan didn't speak. He walked to the side of the ship and used a specially made long-handled ladle to scoop up a spoonful of dark green seawater.

He didn't taste it; instead, he brought the spoon to his nose, closed his eyes, and carefully discerned the ingredients with his sense of smell, which surpassed any sophisticated instrument.

A moment later, he opened his eyes, his expression becoming serious.

"This is not vinegar."

Raine calmly concluded: "This is a parasitic microorganism called *Morphobia lathyris*, which devours yeast and secretes a highly corrosive acidic toxin that destroys all life energy in the water. Simply put..."

Raine's tone turned icy: "Something is poisoning this ocean."

This discovery caused everyone present to turn pale.

For these monsters who consider gourmet food and fine wine the ultimate pursuit in life, this act of destroying food is even more infuriating than killing them outright.

"Who?! Which bastard did this?!"

Gatz was the first to roar, swinging the anchor with a furious expression on his huge face.

"If I catch him, I'll definitely put him in a vinegar jar and pickle him for a hundred years!"

"The fact that they can pollute an entire sea area suggests that the other party is probably quite powerful."

Vista polished his twin swords, his eyes sharp.

"And what is the purpose of doing this?"

"Perhaps the answer lies in the heart of this sea."

Renn's gaze fell upon the distant, faintly visible, massive underwater volcano.

That place is the energy source of this fermenting sea, and also the place where the sour and putrid smell is most intense.

At Newgate's signal, the Primordial Tortoise carried the angry gourmets slowly toward the underwater volcano.

The closer you get, the stronger the sour stench in the air becomes. Some fish carcasses, corroded by toxins and grotesquely shaped, even begin to appear in the seawater. The scene is like hell on earth.

When they finally arrived near the volcano, everyone was stunned by the sight before them.

The massive underwater volcano did not erupt lava as expected; instead, it fell into a deathly silence.

The crater was surrounded by a thick, dark green, viscous substance that resembled pus. Countless enormous, foul-smelling fungal carpets spread across the crater walls, like giant malignant tumors attached to a wound on a planet.

In the center of that enormous fungal carpet, an unimaginably massive, mountain-like figure lay curled up, motionless, as if it had been dead for a long time.

That was a dragon.

An oriental dragon covered in emerald green scales with a warm, lustrous sheen, like the finest jade.

Its body is slender and elegant, and its whiskers are like two flowing waterfalls. Even when it is asleep, it still exudes an innate majesty and nobility that belongs to a divine beast.

However, at this moment, most of the dragon's body was covered by dark green fungal carpets, its once glossy scales had become dull and lifeless, and the life force it possessed was extremely weak, like a candle flickering in the wind, ready to be extinguished at any moment.

【Ingredient Name: Brew Dragon (Guardian Form)】

[Attribute: Ancient Species, Mythical Beast, Guardian of the Fermentation Sea, feeds on the core energy of underwater volcanoes, and its saliva is the most crucial natural yeast for brewing the elixir of life.]

[Capture Level: Unable to Estimate (This creature is deeply infected and on the verge of death; any external stimulus could cause its life energy to completely collapse.)]

[Cooking suggestion: Its Dragon Ball is the legendary core of the elixir of life, a dream ingredient that can transform any liquid into the finest wine, but... it's recommended to cure its illness first, otherwise you'll only end up with the world's sourest vinegar lump.]

"I see."

Looking at the brewing dragon that had fallen into a deep sleep, Renn finally understood the whole story.

"This sea wasn't poisoned; rather, its guardian spirit has fallen ill."

There was a hint of regret in Raine's voice.

"This brewing dragon was infected with the bacteria, causing it to secrete acid full of toxins instead of yeast that could brew fine wine, which ultimately polluted the entire sea area."

"Then what do we do? Can it be cured?"

Newgate looked at the dying dragon, a hint of pity flashing in his eyes.

"You can give it a try."

The light in Ryan's eyes was like that of a doctor discovering a rare and difficult case.

"However, some special medicinal materials are needed."

Just as Raine was preparing to return to the progenitor tortoise and search his vegetable garden for a suitable treatment, the sleeping brewing dragon seemed to have also sensed the arrival of these uninvited guests.

Its enormous eyelids slowly and with great difficulty opened a crack.

A pair of dragon eyes that should have been as clear as jade were now filled with turbidity, pain, and madness.

"Roar!"

A hoarse, weak roar, yet filled with the rage of an invading territory, rang out.

The brewing dragon suddenly raised its enormous head and opened its abyss-like maw, but neither flames nor dragon breath were spewed out.

Instead, it was a dark green acid liquid, concentrated to the extreme and powerful enough to instantly corrode even a ten-thousand-ton ship into molten iron, rushing towards the ancestral giant tortoise like a flood bursting its banks!

The scene was as if the entire spoiled wine vat had come to life, ready to devour and digest these uninvited guests!

Faced with the corrosive acid that came crashing down like a natural disaster, the members of the Whitebeard Pirates showed no fear whatsoever; instead, they all revealed expressions of excitement.

"Hahaha! Finally, I can stretch my muscles!"

Gatz was the first to rush forward with the anchor on his shoulder; he felt that if he didn't fight soon, his bones would rust.

"Watch me smash it awake with one anchor!"

"Stop, Gatz!"

Ryan's voice stopped him in time from what could be described as a medical malpractice incident.

“It is very weak and delirious now, and using brute force will only make its condition worse.”

"What should we do then, yoi?"

Marco hovered in the air, and he could clearly sense that the acid sprayed by the other party contained an extremely domineering and strange power that could annihilate life energy. Even his regenerative flames would probably be unable to completely purify it in a short time.

"Joz! Hold on!"

Newgate's voice was as steady as a mountain.

"Oh!"

Having prepared for a long time, Joz roared, his entire body instantly covered in dazzling diamond light, like an insurmountable wall of sighs, fiercely blocking the torrent of acid.

Chapter 289 Super Pill

Chirp chirp chirp —

A sickening, corrosive sound, like strong acid being splashed on metal, rang out.

For the first time, Joz's indestructible diamond body let out a mournful cry of unbearable strain.

He felt a chilling, bone-piercing, terrifying force that seemed to disintegrate him at the atomic level. His brilliant diamond surface dimmed at a visible speed, and even developed tiny pits as if it had been corroded.

"This guy's saliva... is so toxic!"

Joz gritted his teeth and dug two deep furrows in the turtle shell with his feet, barely managing to withstand the attack.

"This can't go on!"

Ryan's eyes became incredibly serious. Like a top surgeon, he instantly analyzed the patient's condition and devised the boldest and most efficient surgical plan.

"The Mourning Bacteria within its body have deeply merged with its life energy core. Only by using a more powerful energy, full of life and creativity, to target and destroy it from the inside can the two be separated."

"And those who can do this..."

Raine's gaze fell on the increasingly mystical twin divine trees on the back of the progenitor giant tortoise, and on the seven-colored leaves on the trees that exuded different auras of law.

He turned around and gave a series of concise yet authoritative instructions to the enormous kitchen behind him, which resembled a small factory.

"Dorum! Bring out that space-based orbital food delivery cannon, connect it to the Twin Trees' backup energy core, calculate the parabola, target, the dragon's mouth!"

"Yes!"

A glint of the fervor of a top craftsman flashed in Dorum's eyes. He knew that his designs, brimming with wild imagination, would finally come in handy again.

"Marco! Vista! Silver! You guys are in charge of harassing it, drawing its attention, and buying me three minutes!"

"understand!"

"As for Gatz..."

Looking at the eager giant, Ryan calmly said, "Your job is to shout 'Dinner' with all your might when I fire the cannon."

Gatz: "???"

A special operation to cure the dragon's illness was thus launched.

Marco and his two companions, like three sharpest blades, launched an attack from three different directions on the berserk brewing dragon.

Their attacks were not lethal, but they were extremely disruptive.

Marco's regenerative flames transformed into countless bluebirds, relentlessly pecking at the dragon's eyes.

Bista's sword light flowed like mercury, specifically targeting the parts of the dragon's body most severely corroded by the fungal carpet, the parts that were most painful and itchy.

Silver was even more elusive; his spear always managed to strike the dragon's joints from the most tricky angles, driving it to distraction.

"Roar!"

The brewing dragon was extremely annoyed by the harassment. It frantically shook its huge head and spewed corrosive acid, but it could not hit the three slippery opponents.

Just as it had successfully captured all attention, Renn's surgery was ready.

In the kitchen, Ryan's movements were fluid and fast, leaving only afterimages.

He plucked several leaves from the Twin Trees, each containing the power of a different law.

There are golden leaves that represent protection, orange leaves that represent joy, and a gray leaf that represents speechlessness, which was just born because of one of Gatz's foolish ideas.

He placed these leaves, along with the sage's salt with neutralizing properties that he had previously collected on the island of Flame Island, and the pulp of a newly formed Origin Fruit from the World Tree, which was full of pure life energy, into a huge medicine mortar made of shape memory alloy.

Then, he handed the medicine to Newgate, who had been waiting for a long time.

"Captain, thank you for your help."

Raine said calmly, "Use your vibrational power to vibrate them at a frequency of 3,721 times per second into the finest powder that can reach the soul."

"Gurarararar! No problem!"

Newgate laughed loudly, unleashing the power of the Tremor-Tremor Fruit with extremely precise control.

The medicine vibrated rapidly in his hand, but without making a single extra sound.

Soon, an ultimate powder, which combined complex concepts such as protection, joy, silence, purification, and creation, and presented a dreamlike seven-colored luster, was completed.

Raine mixed the powder with some adhesive ingredients and quickly kneaded it into a super pill that was over ten meters in diameter and looked like a giant rainbow candy.

"Dorum! Prepare for launch!"

"Ready! God's Gift No. 1 is ready!"

The massive cannon, designed by Dorum and featuring a steampunk aesthetic, slowly rose, its muzzle pointing directly at the still-roaring brewing dragon in the distance.

Ryan and Newgate worked together to shove the giant rainbow pill into the cannon barrel.

"Gatz!"

"Raine shouted."

"Here I am!"

Gatz took a deep breath and, with all his might, unleashed the loudest and most voracious roar of his life at the dragon.

"Dinner's ready!"

The sound was like thunder, even drowning out the roar of the volcano.

Upon hearing this piercing shout, the frenzied brewing dragon actually paused instinctively, opening its enormous mouth as if responding to some ancient instinct about feeding.

"Now! Launch!"

boom!

The enormous rainbow pill traced a perfect parabola through the air, whistling through the air and trailing a seven-colored tail flame, before flying with unparalleled precision into the open maw of the brewing dragon!

"Roar?"