Chapter 81: Ability Awakening Stage One

Soon the red light disappeared.

An effect Move Move Like liquid cleaning appeared on the blade, the edge turned blue, and then it returned to ordinary.

Just when he held the hilt, Karl felt the desire for slaughter in his mind constantly rising, and it was still the same now.

"Cursed sword, truly cursed enough!"

No wonder Shiryu was bloodthirsty; he was quite compatible with this sword.

Smoker walked over, looked at the Raiu in Karl's hand, and said: "Cursed sword? This sword is a cursed sword? Why can't I tell?"

"Here, try it and you'll know!" After speaking, Karl threw Raiu to Smoker, letting him experience it for himself.

"Cut, nothing spec..."

Before Smoker could finish speaking, he suddenly froze, a red light flashed in his pupils, he looked at Karl expressionlessly, held Raiu with both hands, and took a stance.

"Smoker?"

The next second, a strange red trajectory swept past Karl's side, and only a 'ding' sound was heard.

Karl drew Shusui halfway and blocked Smoker's attack.

"This guy..." Bang! He backhanded a kick, sending the Raiu in Smoker's hand into the sky, and accurately grabbed the hilt as it fell.

Smoker scratched his head in confusion. What just happened?

"This sword's water is too deep; you couldn't handle it and were controlled by it!"

"Then just now I was..." "That's right, you wanted to cut me."

Smoker immediately looked at the Raiu in Karl's hand with dread: "Is this a cursed sword? Fortunately, I don't use swords!"

Karl sneered and said with a smile: "So-called cursed swords are famous swords. Famous swords choose their masters. The weak are not worthy and therefore cannot handle them, leading to their untimely deaths. The weak fear famous swords, so they gave them the name 'cursed sword'."

Being called a cursed sword is the sword's honor, proving that the sword's fierce name is feared by people."

After speaking, Karl put Raiu into the scabbard and continued: "To use this sword, you must either revere its will and let it drink blood, just Move Move Like its original owner Shiryu."

"Or you must completely control it and let it become a weapon of slaughter in your own hands."

"Cut~"

Smoker lit a cigar and left leisurely...

The transport ship needed to sail all the way from the Calm Belt to the Red Line, pass through the pass of Mary Geoise, arrive in the New World, and then head to Punk Hazard.

This would take about two days (including nights) of sailing time.

Near dinner time, Karl took off his Aokiji-style eye mask, sat up from the lounge chair, and yawned.

"Cumulative slacking time has reached 8 hours, daily task completed."

"Reward: 7 attribute-specific enhancement cards + random reward *4 (can be stored)"

Karl thought silently: All enhance physique! Random rewards stay put.

Karl usually used all the enhancement cards from daily tasks, and stored the random rewards. Now, he had stored about less than a month's worth, totaling 122 draws including today's.

Karl was planning to save up to 150 draws and then draw them all at once!

After his body had a slight spasm, the enhancement ended, and his attributes didn't change much.

"Detected that the host's Devil Fruit awakening progress has reached stage one, the host can freely develop new abilities!"

"To help the host slack off happily, this system will automatically explore development directions for the host. Collecting data, please wait..."

Karl's mouth curled up slightly. Look, what is called a mature system?

"Data collection complete. The most suitable development direction for the host at stage one is purification."

Karl raised his eyebrows slightly: "Continue."

"Purification: By significantly enhancing the healing effect of Holy Light, the body immediately returns to a normal state, thus being able to instantly remove various negative effects, such as burns, poisoning, bleeding, and other common negative states."

"Developed to the extreme, it can remove negative effects produced by other Devil Fruit abilities on the host."

Sounds good! Although it still had no combat power, its auxiliary nature was directly maxed out.

"Not bad,"

Since the system had already told him how to develop it, Karl started experimenting immediately.

After condensing a ball of Holy Light in his left hand, Karl frowned. Now the Holy Light he released came with enhancement and healing effects. To enhance the healing effect alone, he had to find a way to separate enhancement and healing first.

After trying for a long time without success, Karl dissipated the Holy Light and dove into the cafeteria.

People are iron, rice is steel; if you don't eat a meal, you'll be hungry.

Even if he wanted to develop his ability, he would talk about it after eating.

At night, Karl had a dream. He dreamed that his left hand had white light, his right hand had yellow light, one hand healing, one hand enhancing.

Under his assistance, the three Marine Admirals slapped the pirates' mouths, and then the dream woke him up.

Karl climbed out of bed in a daze. The sky was already bright.

"Could it be that this is some kind of hint?"

Action speaks louder than words; Karl went to eat first.

After eating, Karl huddled in his room alone to develop his ability. He could accumulate slacking time and develop his ability at the same time, killing two birds with one stone.

What! You say who will guard the transport ship and prevent the surprise attacks of Sea Kings and pirates? Isn't there Smoker?

Otherwise, why bring him along?

After a day of hard work, Karl finally had a clue.

"Success or failure depends on this!"

Karl took a deep breath, held his hands in a virtual embrace, and rubbed out a basketball-sized Holy Light, then closed his eyes and felt the power of the Holy Light with his heart.

"Hoo~ right, right, separate, separate for me... right, very right!"

Karl, with his eyes closed, slowly opened his hands, and the basketball-sized golden Holy Light began to split at an extremely slow speed.

As time passed, the speed of splitting became faster and faster, and finally, under Karl's control, it turned into light balls of the same size.

One was white, one was yellow.

White represented healing, yellow represented enhancement.