Chapter 250: Taking Down Wapol

"As for the other type of incense and the refreshing essential oil, if used long-term, they can probably make a person's mind more focused, their energy more abundant, and their brain a bit more agile. However, there aren't many things that can nourish the brain; in terms of rarity, I'm afraid they aren't much worse than these prescriptions."

"But... your prescriptions must still be missing a part! If these prescriptions are to nourish the body, one must break and then rebuild, so a part for destroying the physical body is missing... No, that's not right, it's a training method! One must absorb the medicinal effects through physical training!"

"And it should be a very sophisticated training method. Could it be that it must be combined with Life Return to absorb the medicinal power?"

"If that's the case, then the incense and the refreshing oil are for developing the brain and strengthening Observation Haki?"

Clap, clap, clap. Uchiha Feiyu clapped his palms, a look of admiration appearing on his face:

"As expected of a witch doctor who has lived for 140 years. Just by looking at a few prescriptions, you were able to guess the medicinal effects and even the training methods seven or eight-tenths correctly..."

"Correct. Those prescriptions are indeed formulas for training the physical body and for Marrow Cleansing and Blood Changing. The incense and refreshing oil do indeed have the effect of developing the brain. So, Doctor Kureha, are you willing to help me develop these prescriptions?"

"If you are willing to help, I can also provide you with specific methods for training the body and spirit. With your medical skills and understanding of the human body, it is very hopeful that you could extend your lifespan by another few decades or even a hundred years."

Upon hearing this, Kureha sighed:

"It seems this business deal is going to be a loss."

There was no helping it; the other party's prescriptions and training methods could be called priceless treasures. Having been given a look at them for free, even if Kureha's face were thick enough, she couldn't bring herself to ask for money.

"However, helping you research the prescriptions is certainly possible, but you'll have to wait a little while. Let me wrap things up; after all, I am the only doctor in the Drum Kingdom now."

"Doctor Dorie, am I not a doctor?"

"Stupid son, you are just a reindeer! You are 100 years too early to be a doctor!"

Kureha habitually tapped her stupid son, the little deer Chopper. In reality, Chopper's medical skills had long since passed the mark, but the Drum Kingdom was only the very beginning of the Grand Line, and it did not have much capacity to accept Devil Fruits, let alone a reindeer that had eaten the Human-Human Fruit.

With Chopper's appearance, if he were in the New World, he would have long since been snatched up by Kaido to join the Beasts Pirates. Yet in the Drum Kingdom, he was only regarded by the commoners as a snowy monster; he would be chased and driven away by villagers just for looking for food.

It was fortunate that Chopper was kind-hearted and innocent; otherwise, if it were someone with a slightly worse temper, those villagers would likely have been beaten into little pancakes.

Don't look at Chopper's small, cute appearance now; in reality, after transforming, he could take on a form over three meters tall and flatten an ordinary person into a meat patty with one slap. Not doing so was truly a great restraint.

"To put it bluntly, the problems in the Drum Kingdom should all be the mess created by that Wapol, right? Won't it be fine if I just go and deal with him?"

Uchiha Feiyu said this very seriously. Although Wapol was also a king of a World Government member nation, everyone understood what kind of king he was; compared to Alabasta, he was a hundred thousand miles behind. Taking out such a minor king was, for Uchiha Feiyu, no pressure at all.

"Heh, young people are certainly full of energy... You can handle that bastard king yourself! I just don't know when he'll be back..."

"Rest assured..."

Uchiha Feiyu looked into the distance and said with a light laugh:

"It won't take too long; this guy should be back soon!"

Originally, because he had experience cultivating Divine Sense, Uchiha Feiyu's range for Observation Haki was extremely vast.

After obtaining the Vampire Fruit and evolving into the Mythical Vampire state, Uchiha Feiyu's Observation Haki reached a distance of nearly 100 kilometers at its limit, which was already several times the diameter of the Drum Kingdom!

So, just when everyone else was oblivious, Uchiha Feiyu had already discovered a pirate ship sailing toward them—it was the White Iron King, a combination of a submarine and a sailing ship, which was Wapol's Wapol Pirates.

"Finally returned to my country!! I can't wait to see the panicked faces of my subjects when they see me return!!"

The one speaking was a man with a bizarre appearance, resembling a hippopotamus. Most eye-catching was the man's huge mouth and his chin made of steel.

"Wapol?! Wapol is back!!"

"It really is that bastard king! What is this bastard king coming back for?! Didn't he already abandon our kingdom?!"

Wapol's appearance was too easy to recognize. As soon as the ship docked at the pier, the commoners on the pier recognized his identity and immediately revealed expressions of terror.

Of course, while most commoners were terrified, there were also some strong young men who, filled with indignation, walked out carrying weapons.

"Wapol, what are you coming back for?!"

"Mahahahaha! This is my country, you ask me what I'm coming back for? I'm obviously back to rule you!"

Wapol, shaped like a hippopotamus, laughed loudly, immediately making the young men on the pier so angry they were fuming:

"You had plenty of ideas when it came to making all sorts of messy laws and exploiting us, but when the pirates came, you ran faster than anyone. A king like you is something we can't afford to put up with!"

"That's right! We don't need a king who burns our houses to eat every day!"

"Hmph!! A bunch of unruly rabble!! Do you think you can escape my clutches?!!"

After a few words, Wapol, looking furious, directly ordered his subordinates:

"Open fire, give this bunch of rabble a taste of something fierce!!"

The pirate ship behind him extended many cannons, and Wapol's group of subordinates also each picked up guns. With a boom and a roar of bombardment, screams immediately erupted from the people on the pier.

"Mahahaha!! You rabble, do you know the power of this king now! If I can't deal with pirates, can't I still deal with you all?!"

Wapol, laughing wildly, looked at the burning pier and couldn't help but slurp, drool flowing out.

"Roasted house! Delicious roasted house!! I haven't eaten roasted house in so long!! What kind of life have I been living on the sea, mahahahaha! Finally, it's back to my favorite dining segment!!"

Ignoring the heavy casualties and the fleeing residents of the port, Wapol's gaze fixed on the burning buildings, and he opened his strange, huge mouth and took a bite.

Because they feared corrosion from seawater and sea winds, the buildings near the port were basically made of stone. Under long-term wind and rain, they had been honed to be harder than metal, yet facing Wapol's huge mouth, they were like biscuits, bitten directly into powder, chewed twice, and swallowed.

"It's truly delicious!! So tasty!!"

Wapol breathed rapidly, panting, a look of greed appearing in his eyes:

"This bunch of damned rabble! Let me eat all of their houses!!"

Just at this moment, a trace of pale red blood color flashed across the sky, and then Wapol heard a voice from behind him:

"Although I've long known that many kings in the One Piece World don't act like humans, to not act like a human to your extent is truly rare."

"Other kings, even if greedy and vicious, are at least not as stupid as you. It's truly a waste of a god-tier fruit like the Baku-Baku Fruit."

"Who is it! Who are you?"

Upon hearing the voice, Wapol was immediately furious. He turned his head and happened to see a patch of blood-colored mist.

In the blood-colored mist, Wapol's group of subordinates opened their mouths wide, struggling frantically, wailing silently, but in the end, they melted into a puddle of mush in the blood mist. Afterward, the vast blood mist merged into Uchiha Feiyu's body, as if it were a blood-red cloak.

"Waaaaahhhhhhh!! You, you, you... who are you?"

Seeing such a bizarre and terrifying scene, Wapol was almost scared to the point of wetting himself. He scrambled backward, his face full of horror.

There was no helping it; the Wapol from the original work was not a person of any courage. He could still fight someone like Luffy, but facing Blackbeard, who had strength far exceeding his own, he truly didn't say a word and just fled in a panic.

The terrifying ability Uchiha Feiyu displayed was even more frightening than that of Blackbeard; seeing such a situation, Wapol was naturally scared half to death.

Regarding Wapol's question, Uchiha Feiyu had no intention of answering at all; he merely extended one hand, and the blood mist behind him condensed into a Black-Red Blood Blade in his palm, which he flicked out casually.

The Black-Red Blood Blade flashed and vanished; before Wapol could even react, he felt a chill in his arms and legs, followed by a burst of intense pain.

"Waaaaah! My hands, my legs!! What did you do!!"

Watching his own severed limbs, Wapol began to howl and cry out loudly, while his wide-open mouth tried to eat his own hands and feet.

With the power of the Baku-Baku Fruit, if he were truly allowed to eat his hands and feet back, he might even be able to reconnect and reorganize them, but Uchiha Feiyu would certainly not give him that chance.

"Too noisy, you glutton!"

Uchiha Feiyu reached out and grabbed him with ease; the voice of the wailing Wapol immediately grew faint, his skin wrinkled, his body withered, and he turned into a white-haired, decrepit old man who looked as if he had only one breath left.

This was the most primitive ability of the Vampire Fruit: directly draining another's lifespan to replenish one's own strength; Wapol himself had not even awakened Haki, so he naturally could not resist this ability.

Casually stopping the bleeding for the unconscious Wapol to prevent him from dying of blood loss, Uchiha Feiyu then directly put Seastone Handcuffs on the guy; because he lacked hands and feet, the Handcuffs were placed around his neck.

Now that Wapol was captured, there were no more hidden dangers on Drum Island; Uchiha Feiyu went to Wapol's Pirate ship and found Doctor 20 there.

"From now on, you are free. If you want to continue being doctors, then continue being doctors here!"

Although Doctor 20 were Wapol's subordinates, they had all been snatched from the Drum Kingdom, so they had no loyalty to this king and naturally had no objections.

These people were originally the most excellent doctors in the Drum Kingdom and had enjoyed a very high social status; after being snatched away by this brain-dead Wapol, their lives were naturally worse than before, and now that they heard they were free, they all left the ship in high spirits.

However, seeing the carnage on the pier made these doctors tremble; they had not expected that young man who looked so gentle to be so ruthless in his actions. Fortunately, although he was ruthless, he was not black-hearted, otherwise... in the black markets of the One Piece World, skilled doctors could fetch a very high price.

Having finished off Wapol's subordinates, captured this idiot king, and let Doctor 20 go, Uchiha Feiyu finished all this with the air of a great hero who kills but doesn't bury, and left the pier while dragging Wapol along.

After returning to the castle, Uchiha Feiyu threw Wapol onto the ground; this Baku-Baku Fruit user, under the triple torment of aging, severe injury, and Seastone, was already on the verge of death and only let out a groan when thrown to the ground.

"Eek—how terrifying!!"

Chopper saw the pitiful Wapol for the first time, his fur standing on end in fright; with a 'whoosh', he hid behind Dorie, then poked his head out:

"He looks like he's dying! Dorie, let's save him!"

Kureha frowned, her voice sounding a bit cold as she said:

"Who is this old man? You were too ruthless!"

Uchiha Feiyu shrugged his shoulders and explained:

"This isn't just some old man; if you look closely at his attire, I think you should be able to recognize his identity."

Kureha was slightly stunned, then took a careful look at the disabled "old man" on the ground, staring at that large iron chin for a long time before she realized:

"This guy... this guy is Wapol? It can't be wrong; although he's turned into an old man, his skeletal structure and that large iron chin haven't changed at all. It really is that bastard Wapol!"

Hearing this, Chopper, who was hiding behind Dorie, also jumped out, looking at the old man groaning on the ground in shock:

"It's actually that big bad king?! How did this guy turn into this? Could it be that he was struck by divine retribution?!"

Kureha was not as naive as her silly son; hearing this, she rolled her eyes:

"How could there be any divine retribution?! This guy must have been turned into this state by a Devil Fruit Ability!"

"Tsk tsk, how miserable. Both his appearance and his internal organs and bones are about the same as this old woman's! It's as if decades or even a century of time were stolen away in an instant."

(End of chapter)