Chapter 94

Luo En thought for a moment and said.

"Of course! All the meals in my home were made by me."

"Good, then from today onward you will be in charge of cooking."

"Understood! Captain!"

"Sisi."

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That day, Luo En roughly explained to Conis the common sense of this sea that differed from the Sky Island, as well as the Marines, pirates, and Devil Fruits.

Conis listened very attentively.

When she heard that beings like Enel, the god on the Sky Island, were numerous in this sea, and that many powerful experts far surpassed his strength.

This angelic young girl displayed an expression of utter shock.

At the same time, she felt the vastness and danger of this beautiful sea, which was on a completely different level from the Sky Island!

After that day, aside from her daily cooking, playing the harp, and feeding the cloud fox Sisi, she buried herself in the ship's library.

She wanted to understand this sea as quickly as possible.

Days passed one by one.

Conis's understanding of this sea also grew richer day by day.

The World Government, Celestial Dragons, Marines, Revolutionary Army, pirates, the Grand Line, the New World, the Seven Warlords of the Sea, the three types of Devil Fruit users, the Four Seas...

She even learned quite a bit of 'common sense' that Luo En himself had never paid attention to.

For instance, the entire pirate world comprised 173 countries.

For instance, islands were divided into small islands, medium islands, and large islands.

Those possessing a complete ecosystem, lacking neither water nor food, inhabited by people, and capable of forming a town-scale settlement could be called small islands.

The Marines would generally construct military bases on small islands.

Medium islands were larger than small islands, containing at least several towns, or even large cities.

Marine branches would be established therein; the highest officer of a branch was at the Colonel level, governing that island and the nearby seas.

Large islands could accommodate an entire country; the Marines would not establish branches within them to avoid conflicts of power...

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On this day.

Conis was still reading in the library.

Suddenly, an explosion rang out from the sea surface in the distance.

"What happened?"

She hurriedly ran out.

"Nothing, two pirate crews are fighting each other."

Standing on the deck with eyes closed, holding a huge steel dumbbell in one hand and continuously performing sword-swinging motions, Luo En said without lifting his head.

"Pirate crews fighting each other..."

Wearing white three-quarter pants that revealed a pair of straight, fair, long legs, Conis stepped onto the deck and looked in that direction.

Following her gaze.

Only to see that on the distant sea.

Two pirate fleets, each numbering over ten ships, were locked in battle; cannon fire was constant, the sea surface exploded repeatedly, and pirate ships sank one after another amidst the bombardment.

It was extremely fierce.

"This is battle between pirates... how tragic."

Conis said in a daze.

"The Marines have arrived too; it seems things are about to get lively."

Luo En's voice sounded behind her.

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Before long.

Several warships emerged from the horizon, opening fire simultaneously on both warring pirate factions.

The sea in that direction instantly became chaotic, resembling a sea of fire.

Conis turned her head, looked at Luo En, and asked, "Will we become pirates in the future?"

"Hmm... I don't know. Are you afraid? If you want to go back, I can send you now..."

Before Luo En could finish speaking.

Conis, with the cloud fox Sisi perched on her shoulder and holding binoculars in her hand, shook her head: "I am not afraid, nor do I have the slightest regret; instead, I am very fortunate to have come to this sea and to travel with you. I am just worried... worried that my weakness will burden you..."

Hearing this, Luo En stopped the hand swinging the huge dumbbell.

He opened his eyes, turned his head to look at Conis, and smiled: "So that's what it's about; that's quite easy to handle, just become stronger, won't you?"

"But..."

She glanced at the huge dumbbell in Luo En's hand marked with '3t', "No matter how much I train, it's impossible for me to become as strong as you, Luo En, right..."

"There is more than one path to becoming stronger."

Luo En shouldered the huge dumbbell in his hand, looked at her, and smiled:

"For example... how about finding a Devil Fruit for you?"

Hearing this, Conis was stunned: "A Devil Fruit? Isn't that a very precious and hard-to-find treasure?"

"Logia types like Enel, Mythical Zoan types, and Ancient Zoan types might be hard to find, but Paramecia and ordinary Zoan types shouldn't be difficult."

Luo En bent over and placed the massive dumbbell on the deck.

"But in my opinion, you're better suited to the Human-Human Fruit than the Animal-Type."

"I'll keep an eye out for you during the journey."

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That said.

But until they reached the inland of the Sand Kingdom of Alabasta, Luo En and the others had encountered not a single Devil Fruit on any pirate ship or island along the way, nor received any information about Devil Fruits.

After all, once such a thing appears, it's either seized by a major power or consumed outright by someone.

Information about Devil Fruits might have to be obtained through underground channels.

Searching blindly across the vast ocean is truly difficult.

However, Konis herself was not in a hurry; after learning and familiarizing herself with the world's basics, she now began studying navigation and shiphandling from Luo En.

By the time they reached Alabasta.

She could already steer the ship skillfully.

The Traveler docked at the shore, and Luo En, wrapped in a black cloak, and Konis, draped in a long white robe that concealed her wings, stepped ashore together.

"So this is Alabasta, the superpower of the first half of the Grand Line…"

Konis, holding the cloud fox, gazed ahead, excited.

According to books, this nation was built by descendants of the twenty kings who founded the World Government eight hundred years ago; it is also called the Sand Kingdom, maintains an army of over six hundred thousand, and its land area is likely more than ten times that of Skypiea.

The moment Luo En's foot touched the ground, a system prompt echoed in his mind.

【Ding! Detected location: Alabasta. Check-in available. Check-in grants rewards. Proceed with check-in?】

"Check-in."

【Ding! Check-in successful. Reward obtained: Vitality +10.】

【Reward obtained: Special Artifact—Endless Flask.】

Luo En eagerly checked the effect of the Special Artifact—Endless Flask—but found only a single line of text: 'Stores vast quantities of alcohol, refreshes daily, never runs dry.'

"What… is this?"

Luo En stared at the heavy Endless Flask in his hand, a vein throbbing on his forehead.

"So it really has no extra effect at all—just provides alcohol?"

"Do I even lack money to buy wine?!"

He hadn't finished the wine he bought in the Shichibukai Islands, and he still had plenty stored in his system space.

Luo En, unimpressed, placed the Endless Flask into his system space via Wang Zhi's Treasure.

The moment he finished this action.