Chapter 74

In the perception of Observation Haki, Smoker was everywhere in this smoke-covered area.

It was impossible to perceive his specific location. Unless Smoker voluntarily canceled elementalization, it was difficult to find his tracks.

"Enough, put away your magic!"

Smoker canceled elementalization, and the surrounding smoke disappeared without a trace in the blink of an eye.

"How does it feel?" Smoker's expression was faintly excited, as if he had discovered a new continent.

"Very strong! I think your previous usage completely wasted the advantages of the Smoke-Smoke Fruit."

Smoker nodded. To be honest, he had been learning the development methods of the three Admirals, but could smoke compare to magma and ice?

Clearly not.

"Exactly, my development direction was completely wrong!"

Karl nodded with gratification: "It seems you already have ideas in your heart. I happen to have some ideas about the Smoke-Smoke Fruit too, so I'll just tell you all of them!"

Smoker hurried over, indicating he was all ears.

"The first direction is what I just said: large-scale smoke coverage, using smoke to occupy space, repel air, and make people unable to breathe. Besides that, there's another effect: interfering with Observation Haki perception."

Smoker was stunned. There's this function too? Why didn't he know? Did Karl use Observation Haki just now?

"Yes, just as you thought. When you weren't fully elementalized, I could still perceive your location, but after you elementalized..."

Smoker said: "I merged with the smoke, and even Observation Haki couldn't perceive my location! Is that it?"

Congratulations! You've learned to answer ahead of time!

"Exactly!"

Smoker rubbed his chin and nodded. This news was very important to him. In the smoke, his perception wasn't affected at all!

Isn't this better than using his Seastone Jitte?

"What about the second one? Tell me quickly!"

Karl glanced at Smoker faintly and pulled a cigar from his body to put in his mouth.

"Click~"

Smoker tactfully used his lighter to help Karl light the cigar. Only then did Karl nod: "The second is to compress the smoke density and volume, instantly striking it into the enemy's body, instantly achieving a suffocating effect."

"Or silently control the smoke to drill into the enemy's body, thereby suffocating others, which is equivalent to an advanced move of large-scale smoke coverage."

"Either way, you can quickly solve the enemy, make them lose combat power, and let them be slaughtered by you, unless they can hold their breath and fight you the whole time!"

Smoker clenched his fists, a flash of light in his eyes. Yes, yes, yes, exactly right, brother!

At this moment, he felt more and more that the Smoke-Smoke Fruit should be used this way!

"The third type is more difficult: creating smoke clones."

"Smoke clones?"

Smoker stretched out his hand, and a small smoke person appeared in his palm, doing various actions: "Is it Move Move Like this?"

Karl shook his head: "Almost, but not enough. A so-called clone means letting it act independently from you to scout, contain, fight, etc."

"However, it's best to wait until you awaken Armament Haki before researching clone combat, otherwise the effect will be poor. After all, the nature of smoke is there."

"That's all for now. I can't think of other development directions for the time being."

Karl scratched his head and continued: "If you can achieve the effect I just mentioned, you can easily take down pirates with bounties of around one billion."

Smoker was immediately grinning from ear to ear: "Enough, enough, I can't wait to try it!"

After saying this, Smoker immediately ran to the corner and released a large amount of smoke to experiment on his own.

While experimenting, he discovered that when elementalized, the Seastone at the top of his Jitte would affect the speed of elementalization, which made Smoker so angry that he threw the Jitte into the sea on the spot, swearing he would never use this thing again.

Seeing this, Karl laughed dumbly. He had finally thrown that piece of junk away.

Come to think of it, Karl's Holy Light Fruit was actually developed quite well, but he just didn't have many opportunities to use it.

Currently, his Holy Light could be released individually or in groups, providing healing and physical strengthening effects. The effect of individual Holy Light release was stronger than group release.

Then there was the improvement of the healing and strengthening effects. At the current stage, his Holy Light could improve Karl's physique by two stages, but that was only for him, the owner of the Holy Light Fruit.

The effect for others was only half of his, and the effect of group-released Holy Light was only one-fourth.

The weaker the strength, the stronger the effect of Holy Light, and vice versa.

The duration had also increased from the original one hour to three hours. Of course, that was just standby time. Once a fight started, the duration depended on the situation.

Unless Karl developed it into something Move Move Like an aura one day, providing continuous effects.

As for combat development, it was still limited. Currently, there was only one move, "Instant Radiance," releasing a strong flash to interfere with the enemy's vision, which was very chicken-rib-Move Move Like.

After all, the Holy Light Fruit was a genuine auxiliary Devil Fruit. Its attack power was equal to zero, and it could only be used on allies. Using it on enemies was purely a "sixth-man" behavior.

At this time, Ain walked over, looked at Karl, and said: "Hmph! Partial! Why don't you ever guide me on developing my ability?"

Looking at Ain, who had an "I'm angry" look, Karl was suddenly between laughter and tears.

"It's not that I don't guide you, but your ability is actually similar to mine. Strictly speaking, both are auxiliary Devil Fruits, and the development direction is very clear."

Ain pouted her cherry lips and muttered: "How is it clear? Why don't I know?"

Karl blew a smoke ring and looked at Ain, saying: "Think about it, as long as your Reverse-Reverse Fruit can continuously improve its effect, it's already very strong!"

"Whether it's instantly reducing the enemy's age or restoring an elderly person's state, it's very useful. The only weakness is that it can only be released at close range."

"If one day you can be Move Move Like me and develop it to a group-release effect, then you'll be invincible!"

Karl wasn't joking. Once Ain's Reverse-Reverse Fruit awakened, it might really achieve this effect.

The Holy Light Fruit was group strengthening, and the Reverse-Reverse Fruit was group regression. Just thinking about it was scary.

Ain revealed a smile. What Karl said wasn't unreasonable, but she hadn't even developed long-range release, so how could she talk about group release?

However, Karl's attitude made her very satisfied. When that hateful woman Hancock left, hehehe...

"Hmm, I'll work hard!"