Chapter 337: Chapter 337: Seed of the Sea! The Method to Defeat Imu!
Chapter 337: Seed of the Sea! The Method to Defeat Imu!
"It’s even more terrifying than the initial estimates."
The coated Black Loyalty sailed through the sea.
On the deck near the ship’s helm, Fall looked at the surrounding environment with a somewhat solemn expression.
Everyone knew the dangers of the deep sea—and historically, among the coated ships diving from the Sabaody Archipelago, not even one in ten successfully reached the New World.
However, most of this danger should actually come from the deep-sea Sea Kings in the ocean.
But right now, at the depth where the Black Loyalty was located, theoretically there shouldn’t be too much danger yet.
But the fact was...
BOOM!
Even though they had used the bubble coating applied by the best coating craftsmen of the Sabaody Archipelago, it was still continuously warped and compressed by the seawater, as though it might give way at any second.
The entire hull of the Black Loyalty was also jolting violently—it originally looked like a cola bottle, so much so that amidst the jolting, it might as well have been a message in a bottle.
The former detention unit crew members on the ship were also holding tightly onto fixed objects nearby right now, looking around.
Countless undercurrents were generated out of thin air around the ship and then quickly annihilated.
They seemed to be in the midst of a storm — except this was no ordinary storm. It was an ocean storm raging in the depths of the sea.
And the place they were heading towards was exactly the ’eye’ of this storm.
"I see it, it’s right there!"
Accompanied by an exclamation from Hans.
The searchlights of the Black Loyalty rested on the massive figure in the distance.
It was hidden in the darkness of the deep sea, yet extremely eye-catching—because of the glowing light on that giant tree.
That dense, intertwined glow formed a massive pillar of light, seeming to connect the surface with the very seabed.
That was the ’Sunlight Tree’ Eve.
But...
"What terrifying scars..."
Upon getting closer to Eve, the pupils of Fall and the others all shrank.
Only now that they were close could they see it clearly.
That so-called ’pillar of light’ actually didn’t exist at all—it was essentially the massive wound slashed by Shamrock on the Sunlight Tree Eve’s body.
Because this wound spread along the trunk across the entire body of Eve, countless golden tree sap like sunlight continuously splashed out from it, creating this scene resembling a ’pillar of light’.
"Boss, Commander Fall, Commander Hans... the sea area ahead is too dangerous, the level of chaos in the ocean currents is several times worse than before. Even for the Black Loyalty specially reinforced by the SSG, wanting to get closer is also..."
The crew member responsible for navigation management shouted loudly.
In fact, he didn’t need to say more, the other people on the ship could also see it—in the sea area closest to Eve, the rioting of the seawater was indeed very exaggerated.
That dissipating light seemed to be the final heartbeat of this giant tree, stirring up the surrounding ocean currents to almost form a massive ’barrier’.
"Good heavens... why does this tree feel like a person?"
Hans also muttered at this moment—those ocean currents looked exactly like armor thrown up instinctively to protect a wound.
"..."
Hearing Hans’s muttering, Roy’s eyes also flashed.
A bizarre feeling welled up in his heart, but he didn’t say anything more to Hans, instead instructing softly: "You guys stay here and support, I will go in alone."
As soon as these words came out, Hans and Fall’s eyes instantly widened.
"Boss, what are you saying!?"
"Did you add vodka to your cola today?"
Hans was the first to speak. Although his words had their usual punch, they also carried distinct worry.
"Boss, are you confident?"
Fall, however, seemed to have thought of something and asked thoughtfully.
"Of course."
Roy completely ignored Hans, merely saying calmly.
"It’s just the deep sea and ocean currents, I’ve long gotten used to it—you guys can retreat slightly further away and clear out the nearby sea area. If there are any unusual changes, contact me immediately through the waterproof Transponder Snail."
Hans was instantly stunned, and then scratched the back of his head quite embarrassedly.
Following that, the crew members of the entire Black Loyalty also showed looks of understanding.
"Isn’t that right? When Admiral Zephyr trained the boss before, they trained in the deep sea."
They had already recalled this point.
Relying on physical strength to forcefully step into the chaotic deep-sea currents—this sounds like a fantasy.
But for Roy, this was something he could do long ago.
As if to confirm their thoughts.
Roy directly stepped to the side of the ship’s rail.
He took a deep breath, and then leaped.
Pop!
The next moment, his figure directly leaped out of the coating’s range, entering the deep sea.
But simultaneously...
VMMM!
A golden aura instantly covered his body.
The terrifying water pressure of the deep sea couldn’t so much as ripple the aura coating him.
His gaze looked at the ocean currents in front of him from afar, and then he clenched his fist!
"Black Body Style: Hadoken: Sea Quell!"
He threw a punch.
The next moment, the crowd on the ship shockingly saw—from the edge of Roy’s fist, a golden wave like a ray of sunlight through the dark blasted the ocean currents in front of him to pieces in an instant.
The ocean currents split apart, and a golden path opened up before Roy.
Roy stomped on the seawater with both feet, rushing into that passage like an arrow leaving the bowstring.
"As expected of the boss!"
Seeing this scene, the crew members of the Black Loyalty couldn’t help but sigh in admiration once again.
Their admiration for Roy rose ever higher.
Only...
"Speaking of which, the boss could actually completely blast open a path and take us in together with him, right?"
Right now, Hans spotted a small flaw in the logic.
"..." ×N
The crew members fell silent for a moment.
They stared at the massive pathway Roy’s punch had blasted open. It did seem that way.
"The boss must be worried about us encountering danger."
Finally, Fall explained it like this.
That just barely satisfied them.
And on the other side...
VMMM!
Roy, his figure rapidly breaking through the ocean currents like a cannonball, looked from afar at the giant tree getting closer and closer in front of him.
[Discovered ’Lineage Factor Creation: Sunlight Tree Eve’]
[Detected the existence of a massive amount of ’Source Energy of Lineage Factor’ within, can be absorbed]
And right now, the voice ringing by his ear and the prompt from the Fruit Encyclopedia in his eyes also silently corroborated his plan.
"Just like the Treasure Tree Adam, an immense amount of Source Energy of Lineage Factor also exists within the Sunlight Tree Eve."
"No, to be exact, the Source Energy of Lineage Factor of the Treasure Tree Adam had been largely squandered by Teach, while the one within the Sunlight Tree Eve remains nearly intact."
After confirming that every ’golden ocean current’ formed by the tree sap of the Sunlight Tree Eve nearby could trigger the parsing effect of the Fruit Encyclopedia, Roy inwardly confirmed what he had suspected.
"With this amount of Source Energy of Lineage Factor, as long as it is completely absorbed, and then enough ’wishes’ are collected according to the plan, all the Zodiac members under his command can obtain their own ’Star Fruits’, and there will even be a lot left over."
What Roy was pondering in his heart right now was exactly his true purpose for coming here.
Yes.
After confirming that Imu was going to move against the Sunlight Tree Eve, and establishing its significance through what had happened in Elbaf, Roy already had a plan.
First, under the circumstance where Imu had explicitly stated He was going to attack the Sunlight Tree Eve and Fish-Man Island, Roy knew in his heart that the probability of this tree being preserved was minuscule.
But as the second-in-command of the Star Hunter Unit, Roy saw plenty of ways to work the situation to his advantage.
So, he made a series of plan arrangements.
He first had Loki and the Giants head to Fish-Man Island to provide support—he wasn’t sure how much force Imu would dispatch to destroy Fish-Man Island, but even if the entire God’s Knights were dispatched, Loki and the Giants could still hold the line without difficulty.
Besides that, he had also taken care of the enemy’s reinforcements—this point, Garp and the other members of the Star Hunter Unit could help him accomplish, oh, and also the Straw Hat crew and Rayleigh who accidentally got involved.
So currently, it seemed all situations were developing according to Roy’s goals.
"Next, as long as I absorb the Source Energy of Lineage Factor inside the Sunlight Tree Eve, then the ’plan’ can begin!"
Thinking of this, even Roy couldn’t help but feel a bit excited.
The plan he was going to execute next was an unprecedented attempt.
Today, he was going to make the organization named ’The Zodiac’ truly and definitively manifest before the entire world.
Although Roy had myriad thoughts in his heart, his footsteps didn’t show any panic.
In just a few breaths, he arrived right in front of the Sunlight Tree Eve—that hideous and massive rift on Eve’s trunk lay fully exposed before him.
Golden sap continuously seeped out from that rift.
"Absorb."
Roy directly issued the command in his heart.
Then...
BOOM!
Countless golden brilliance instantly seemed to transform into a mist, continuously surging towards him.
[Parsing and absorbing ’Source Energy of Lineage Factor’...]
The prompt sounding by his ear and the continuously increasing numbers within the Fruit Encyclopedia filled Roy with satisfaction.
However, exactly at this time.
"Fish-Man..."
From within Roy’s mind, a voice abruptly came, stopping Roy cold.
Roy scanned the surroundings with suspicion, and finally rested his gaze on the tree body in front of him.
"You... are not... the one... attacking..."
That voice was very weak, and spoke very slowly, as if it hadn’t spoken for many years.
But as the words continued to fall, her speech grew more fluent.
"You are not the person who attacked me."
She said this, her hostility towards Roy apparently fading.
"There is a special creature at the Ark of Promise doing very strange things—that is also you, right?"
"...What?"
Roy’s heart instantly chilled.
Ark of Promise—that clearly referred to the Ark ’Noah’ existing in the Fish-Man District.
Coincidentally, the Zodiac ’Uma’ was indeed currently at the Noah preparing for the plan.
"You are... Eve!?"
But quickly, Roy reacted.
From her words, her identity was self-evident.
"Mm."
Eve didn’t deny this: "I am Eve—the secondary seed of the Genesis Pillar, the ’Seed of the Sea’."
She said this: "You are truly special. You are clearly not ’Nidhogg’, yet you have already absorbed the power of the ’Seed of the Sky’."
Her voice paused, seeming to confirm something, and finally said with certainty: "Plus my power, Uranus and Poseidon also seem to be following by your side... mm, there’s no mistake, you should be the ’Prophesied Person’."
Although already extremely weak — her tree body on the verge of death — Eve’s voice still carried a calm and gentle feeling.
However, the words she spoke right now made Roy, who originally thought nothing could surprise him anymore, stand stunned on the spot.
The reason he was stunned was of course not just because of the unbelievable fact that ’the Sunlight Tree Eve actually has its own intelligence’.
More crucially, it was what she had said.
Seed of the Sea? Seed of the Sky? Seed of the Earth?
From her words, it wasn’t hard to deduce that the Seed of the Sea was Eve herself.
Then the Seed of the Sky should be...
"The Treasure Tree Adam!"
Roy asked in his heart.
"Hm? You’ve already obtained his power, and you still don’t know?"
Eve asked strangely instead.
"We are the seeds bestowed upon the world by the Initial King—the Sky and the Sea, and the final ’Seed of the Earth’."
"The person who obtains the power of the three seeds will obtain the qualification to create a new world and become the new ’Genesis Pillar’."
"But how strange... that person clearly should have been Joy Boy."
She said this.
And hearing this, Roy reacted almost immediately.
Of course he didn’t know the situation of the Treasure Tree Adam—because when he headed to Elbaf, the Treasure Tree Adam had already been brought to the very edge of death by Teach, and the vast majority of the Source Energy of Lineage Factor within it had even already been swallowed into Teach’s body.
At that time, even if that giant tree had the intention to communicate with someone, the spirit was willing but the flesh was weak.
And the reason why Eve said Roy obtained the power of the ’Seed of the Sky’ was not wrong either—because when Elbaf sank, Loki had transferred nearly all the remaining Source Energy of Lineage Factor from the Treasure Tree Adam — which he had been carrying within himself — over to Roy, in order to save the citizens of Elbaf, which resulted in the creation of the ’Aster’, this special Ship of the Stars.
Of course, none of this was the crux.
The true crux lay in the fact revealed by Eve’s words just now.
"The three seeds bestowed upon the world by the Initial King, upon obtaining them one can obtain the qualification to create a new world..."
These words were of immense importance to Roy.
Because they directly revealed a most crucial truth.
Back in Elbaf, Roy had already analyzed Joy Boy and Davy Jones’ plan—by relying on the combination of the Nidhogg Fruit, the Dark-Dark Fruit, and the Nika Fruit, these three legendary fruits, one could indeed absorb Source Energy of Lineage Factor and convert it for one’s own use, thereby obtaining the possibility to confront Imu.
But at that time, Roy actually still had a doubt in his heart.
And that was... having the means to confront Imu did not guarantee victory.
Imu controls the Genesis Pillar, even in a bound state He still possesses powerful strength.
Truly defeating Him means defeating this world itself.
As long as this bound world still exists, then Imu will definitely be immortal and indestructible.
So theoretically speaking, even if those three fruits were indeed obtained by someone as Joy Boy and the others had anticipated, even combining them to confront Imu, truly defeating Him would still be impossible.
But now, Eve had given the answer.
"Davy Jones bestowed two seeds upon the Giant race and the Fish-Man race, respectively the ’Seed of the Sky’ and the ’Seed of the Sea’."
From these two names, it wasn’t hard to infer that the two Ancient Weapons, Poseidon and Uranus, were highly likely related to this as well.
And beyond these two, one final ’Seed of the Earth’ still existed somewhere in the world.
Roy could guess—these three seeds contained powerful Source Energy of Lineage Factor, and at the same time highly likely contained the wishes related to the ’Sky’ and ’Sea’ from the birth of the world.
When all three seeds converge on one person, combined with those three fruits designed by Joy Boy and the others, one can truly ’remold’ the world.
And as long as the world is remolded, then...
Imu, as the God of the previous world, could at last be truly defeated!
(End of Chapter)
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