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Chapter 1254: Bullet Wants a Devil Fruit Again? (Three Thousand Characters)
"Admiral Ghost Shark."
Inside the command center of the Second Main Combat Division.
A communicator with headphones suddenly looked up at Douglas Bullet and Leone.
"Upper Ninja Yakura and Upper Ninja Baba have sent information saying that 'Zombie King' Gargantuar has been successfully captured, and they are on their way back."
At the same time, the communicator operated the video Den Den Mushi on the desk, projecting the footage sent by Yakura into mid-air.
Bullet and Leone focused their gaze.
They saw it was the process of the two ninja teams fighting Gargantuar.
They must have placed Den Den Mushi in a corner beforehand to film the fight.
The scene seemed to be inside a spacious main hall, where many thick stone pillars could be seen.
The light inside the hall was quite bright.
However, there was a layer of dark purple semi-transparent barrier, which affected the clarity of the footage.
"So that's it, they used the 'Four Violet Flames Formation' to trap the Zombie King."
At this moment, Chief of Staff Fey, standing nearby with his arms crossed, spoke up to explain.
He pointed to some dark figures in the footage.
"You see, the 'Four Violet Flames Formation' also prevented other zombies from approaching. These should all be burned to death by the barrier."
"Although setting up the barrier requires four ninja to split off, the benefits outweigh the drawbacks."
"And from the battle situation, Upper Ninja Yakura and Upper Ninja Baba teaming up is enough to suppress the Zombie King."
As for the remaining two medical ninja, their figures couldn't be seen in the footage.
They might have been held back as reserve personnel to deal with accidents and did not participate in combat.
After all, two Chunin-level medical ninja would instead hinder the cooperation between Yakura and Baba.
Bullet nodded.
Even if Fey hadn't said this, he could have figured it out, so he didn't waste words asking.
[Roar! Roar! Roar!]
"Ahhhhhh—you two bugs, I'm going to crush you!"
[Bang!!!]
In the footage, Yakura and Baba transformed into afterimages, fiercely entangled with Gargantuar, whose eyes were red, body size was nearly four meters tall, and seemed to have endless rage and violence to vent.
Gargantuar charged recklessly, trying to hammer or grab Yakura and Baba.
However, the two had rich combat experience and were exceptionally agile.
Apart from causing repeated destruction to the ground and stone pillars, Gargantuar couldn't even touch the hem of their clothes.
Instead, he constantly suffered consecutive bombardments from Earth Release, Wood Release, Explosive Tags, and Scorch Release from both front and back.
Earth Release was the specialty ninjutsu of Upper Ninja Baba, while Wood Release was being used by the White Zetsu on their bodies.
Although their Wood Release level was not as high as Yamato in the canon, it could still help with control and occasionally slow down Gargantuar's actions.
It was just that this Gargantuar was too thick-skinned and tough-fleshed.
Explosive Tags could only knock him down but couldn't cause much injury.
Earth Release's Earth Cones, Earth Bullets, Earth Walls, Wood Release's Wood Spikes, and Tree Branches naturally didn't have much effect either.
Sometimes, Gargantuar even crashed into the barrier of the 'Four Violet Flames Formation'.
Although blazing flames would burn on his body, making him let out a few painful screams, that was all.
In the blink of an eye, when the flames disappeared, Gargantuar showed no signs of being affected other than becoming more enraged, not even a trace of burn injury or blackening of the skin.
It was conceivable that ordinary Fire Release would also be useless.
For this reason, Upper Ninja Baba in the footage gave up Earth Release and switched to the sharper Wind Release.
As expected, after an A-rank 'Wind Release: Wind Blade' struck him.
Gargantuar's dark green chest was immediately cut open with hideous wounds, splashing out black blood.
"It worked!"
Leone shouted in surprise, feeling very invested.
Because if Bullet hadn't stopped her, this Gargantuar should have been her opponent.
"..."
Bullet glanced speechlessly at his little girlfriend. In his opinion, there was nothing worth exclaiming about.
This Gargantuar could have its defense broken by a Wind Blade with similar power to a Tempest Kick.
This indicated that its physical durability was not strong enough.
If it were him, let alone Armament Haki, he wouldn't even need Iron Body. With just his muscle alone, he could withstand most ninjutsu attacks head-on.
Indeed, Ay's physique during the Third Raikage era could easily take a Rasengan.
Now, Bullet's pure physical durability was definitely much stronger than Ay's before.
After all, the time spent and sweat shed in the Gravity Training Ground would not be in vain.
Looking back at the combat footage projected into mid-air by the Den Den Mushi.
Before Upper Ninja Baba could be happy for a few seconds, the wounds on Gargantuar's body had already recovered as before, displaying powerful self-healing ability.
"Not bad, I wonder if it can do limb regeneration. If it can, its value will be even greater."
Bullet chuckled lightly, his words showing no concern for Yakura and Baba.
Leone's gaze beside him became somewhat complex.
Because the Secret Technique 'Lion Never Dies' of her Imperial Arms 'Beast King Transformation: Lion King' was to temporarily enhance her body's recovery ability.
As long as her head wasn't cut off, no matter how severe the injuries, even if her limbs were severed, she could quickly self-heal and regenerate in a short time.
However, the price was the consumption of life force. The heavier the injuries, the greater the consumption, so it was difficult to use it twice consecutively.
Of course, with her current physical ability, even if she suffered near-fatal injuries, she could probably use it twice in one combat.
But the problem was that 'Lion Never Dies', which seemed very powerful before.
After joining the World Government, it seemed to be gradually becoming less valuable.
Take this 'big monster' in front of her, for example. It could achieve limb regeneration just by relying on 'Life Return', without needing any Imperial Arms Secret Technique at all.
Also, Zoan ability users of Devil Fruits could also possess abundant life force once they awakened.
Although they couldn't do limb regeneration, no matter how severe the injuries, no matter how many times they were defeated.
As long as they didn't die, they could quickly self-heal while unconscious, and recover as before after eating a few meals.
This was just the power of the Sea Star Mainland. People and things from other worlds also had similar abilities.
Not to mention Muzan Kibutsuji, Kabaneri in the 'Nue' form could also achieve limb regeneration by sucking human blood.
Now, here appeared another big zombie that seemed to turn 'Lion Never Dies' into a passive effect...
Overall, although the Imperial Arms 'Beast King Transformation: Lion King' was still useful at the moment, it might become a chicken rib in a few years.
This made Leone fall into deep thought, until Bullet's voice sounded in her ear.
"What's wrong?"
Meanwhile, in the light screen footage, the battle situation took a turn.
When Yakura began to attack Gargantuar with her Bloodline Limit 'Scorch Release', the 'Zombie King' suddenly let out a mournful scream.
Even though the four orange-red fireballs didn't generate any flames after hitting him.
Visually, it looked far less impressive than the 'Fire Release: Karura' she had used before.
But it made Gargantuar immediately kneel on the ground, wailing in unbearable suffering, frantically headbutting the ground repeatedly, and finally rolling back and forth on the ground.
Looking closely, wisps of white mist were actually rising from his massive dark green body.
This scene not only made Yakura and Baba 'on the scene' stop their movements, but also greatly surprised everyone in the command center.
Leone was about to say something to Bullet but subconsciously asked, "What's wrong with him?"
"Uh, let me think..."
Chief of Staff Fey recalled for a few seconds, then showed an expression of sudden realization.
"Right, I remember the effect of Upper Ninja Yakura's Scorch Release is to rapidly evaporate the moisture within living organisms. This is making the Zombie King feel very painful?"
"So that's it, that's how he was captured alive. Just happens to be an ability counter, huh?"
After speaking, Bullet no longer paid attention to the footage, as the result was already decided.
Compared to that, he was more interested in knowing what Leone wanted to say.
Hearing the question, Leone hesitated before voicing her idea, finally looking up at Bullet.
"I want to exchange for a Devil Fruit, preferably a Zoan type!"
"Devil Fruit?"
Bullet raised an eyebrow: "Didn't you say before that you wanted to remain a non-ability user, and becoming an ability user would affect the Colorless Haki... Uh."
He suddenly stopped speaking.
Because Bullet realized that Leone's situation was different from his.
Leaving aside the fact that Leone was unlikely to have Conqueror's Haki.
Even if she did, the chance of mastering Colorless Haki wouldn't be very high.
So Leone had no need to specialize in Haki at all.
Compared to that, becoming an ability user might be a better choice.
"With my current talent, it's difficult to even reach Vice Admiral combat power, let alone Admiral. So I've decided to rely on the power of Devil Fruits!"
Leone spoke with increasing determination. Although she was very unwilling, she had to admit.
In the military of the World Government, she couldn't be considered a genius at all, so she could only rely on the accumulation of resources.
"Alright, I'll ask the Holy Land Treasury later if there are any good fruits."
Bullet nodded in support, but Leone shook her head.
"No need, my current military merit is enough to exchange for a Zoan Devil Fruit. I just hope there's a lion form."
"Heh, with your little military merit, at most you'll get a Common Species. Don't mess around with something that concerns your whole life, you stupid woman!"
Bullet, upon hearing this, sneered, while extending his thick finger and tapping her head.
Speaking of which, the difference in their body size was truly ridiculous.
Bullet was over five meters tall.
And Leone, even after secondary development under the influence of the Perfect Type-I Cell Reinforcement Serum.
Her height only barely reached one meter ninety from her previous one meter seventy.
"You're going too far!"
Leone heard the sarcasm in Bullet's words and punched his arm in displeasure.
"Alright, leave the Devil Fruit matter to me. Even if it's not a Mythical Zoan, I'll get you an Ancient Zoan. A lion form, huh..."
Bullet muttered to himself, stroking his chin.
However, right now he needed to deal with those zombies first.
He did want to turn the desert at the western end of the continent into a second large training ground.
But he didn't need as many as hundreds of millions of zombies, let alone the large number of zombies in other areas.
So next, he needed to conduct a large-scale cleanup of this Jupiter.
This would require more air force, cooperating with the ground forces' sweep!
Thinking of this, Bullet took out his Den Den Mushi from his coat pocket.
He was preparing to personally contact the command department to call in an entire air fleet to carry out a carpet-style super large-scale bombardment...
"Admiral Ghost Shark."
Inside the command center of the Second Main Combat Division.
A communicator with headphones suddenly looked up at Douglas Bullet and Leone.
"Upper Ninja Yakura and Upper Ninja Baba have sent information saying that 'Zombie King' Gargantuar has been successfully captured, and they are on their way back."
At the same time, the communicator operated the video Den Den Mushi on the desk, projecting the footage sent by Yakura into mid-air.
Bullet and Leone focused their gaze.
They saw it was the process of the two ninja teams fighting Gargantuar.
They must have placed Den Den Mushi in a corner beforehand to film the fight.
The scene seemed to be inside a spacious main hall, where many thick stone pillars could be seen.
The light inside the hall was quite bright.
However, there was a layer of dark purple semi-transparent barrier, which affected the clarity of the footage.
"So that's it, they used the 'Four Violet Flames Formation' to trap the Zombie King."
At this moment, Chief of Staff Fey, standing nearby with his arms crossed, spoke up to explain.
He pointed to some dark figures in the footage.
"You see, the 'Four Violet Flames Formation' also prevented other zombies from approaching. These should all be burned to death by the barrier."
"Although setting up the barrier requires four ninja to split off, the benefits outweigh the drawbacks."
"And from the battle situation, Upper Ninja Yakura and Upper Ninja Baba teaming up is enough to suppress the Zombie King."
As for the remaining two medical ninja, their figures couldn't be seen in the footage.
They might have been held back as reserve personnel to deal with accidents and did not participate in combat.
After all, two Chunin-level medical ninja would instead hinder the cooperation between Yakura and Baba.
Bullet nodded.
Even if Fey hadn't said this, he could have figured it out, so he didn't waste words asking.
[Roar! Roar! Roar!]
"Ahhhhhh—you two bugs, I'm going to crush you!"
[Bang!!!]
In the footage, Yakura and Baba transformed into afterimages, fiercely entangled with Gargantuar, whose eyes were red, body size was nearly four meters tall, and seemed to have endless rage and violence to vent.
Gargantuar charged recklessly, trying to hammer or grab Yakura and Baba.
However, the two had rich combat experience and were exceptionally agile.
Apart from causing repeated destruction to the ground and stone pillars, Gargantuar couldn't even touch the hem of their clothes.
Instead, he constantly suffered consecutive bombardments from Earth Release, Wood Release, Explosive Tags, and Scorch Release from both front and back.
Earth Release was the specialty ninjutsu of Upper Ninja Baba, while Wood Release was being used by the White Zetsu on their bodies.
Although their Wood Release level was not as high as Yamato in the canon, it could still help with control and occasionally slow down Gargantuar's actions.
It was just that this Gargantuar was too thick-skinned and tough-fleshed.
Explosive Tags could only knock him down but couldn't cause much injury.
Earth Release's Earth Cones, Earth Bullets, Earth Walls, Wood Release's Wood Spikes, and Tree Branches naturally didn't have much effect either.
Sometimes, Gargantuar even crashed into the barrier of the 'Four Violet Flames Formation'.
Although blazing flames would burn on his body, making him let out a few painful screams, that was all.
In the blink of an eye, when the flames disappeared, Gargantuar showed no signs of being affected other than becoming more enraged, not even a trace of burn injury or blackening of the skin.
It was conceivable that ordinary Fire Release would also be useless.
For this reason, Upper Ninja Baba in the footage gave up Earth Release and switched to the sharper Wind Release.
As expected, after an A-rank 'Wind Release: Wind Blade' struck him.
Gargantuar's dark green chest was immediately cut open with hideous wounds, splashing out black blood.
"It worked!"
Leone shouted in surprise, feeling very invested.
Because if Bullet hadn't stopped her, this Gargantuar should have been her opponent.
"..."
Bullet glanced speechlessly at his little girlfriend. In his opinion, there was nothing worth exclaiming about.
This Gargantuar could have its defense broken by a Wind Blade with similar power to a Tempest Kick.
This indicated that its physical durability was not strong enough.
If it were him, let alone Armament Haki, he wouldn't even need Iron Body. With just his muscle alone, he could withstand most ninjutsu attacks head-on.
Indeed, Ay's physique during the Third Raikage era could easily take a Rasengan.
Now, Bullet's pure physical durability was definitely much stronger than Ay's before.
After all, the time spent and sweat shed in the Gravity Training Ground would not be in vain.
Looking back at the combat footage projected into mid-air by the Den Den Mushi.
Before Upper Ninja Baba could be happy for a few seconds, the wounds on Gargantuar's body had already recovered as before, displaying powerful self-healing ability.
"Not bad, I wonder if it can do limb regeneration. If it can, its value will be even greater."
Bullet chuckled lightly, his words showing no concern for Yakura and Baba.
Leone's gaze beside him became somewhat complex.
Because the Secret Technique 'Lion Never Dies' of her Imperial Arms 'Beast King Transformation: Lion King' was to temporarily enhance her body's recovery ability.
As long as her head wasn't cut off, no matter how severe the injuries, even if her limbs were severed, she could quickly self-heal and regenerate in a short time.
However, the price was the consumption of life force. The heavier the injuries, the greater the consumption, so it was difficult to use it twice consecutively.
Of course, with her current physical ability, even if she suffered near-fatal injuries, she could probably use it twice in one combat.
But the problem was that 'Lion Never Dies', which seemed very powerful before.
After joining the World Government, it seemed to be gradually becoming less valuable.
Take this 'big monster' in front of her, for example. It could achieve limb regeneration just by relying on 'Life Return', without needing any Imperial Arms Secret Technique at all.
Also, Zoan ability users of Devil Fruits could also possess abundant life force once they awakened.
Although they couldn't do limb regeneration, no matter how severe the injuries, no matter how many times they were defeated.
As long as they didn't die, they could quickly self-heal while unconscious, and recover as before after eating a few meals.
This was just the power of the Sea Star Mainland. People and things from other worlds also had similar abilities.
Not to mention Muzan Kibutsuji, Kabaneri in the 'Nue' form could also achieve limb regeneration by sucking human blood.
Now, here appeared another big zombie that seemed to turn 'Lion Never Dies' into a passive effect...
Overall, although the Imperial Arms 'Beast King Transformation: Lion King' was still useful at the moment, it might become a chicken rib in a few years.
This made Leone fall into deep thought, until Bullet's voice sounded in her ear.
"What's wrong?"
Meanwhile, in the light screen footage, the battle situation took a turn.
When Yakura began to attack Gargantuar with her Bloodline Limit 'Scorch Release', the 'Zombie King' suddenly let out a mournful scream.
Even though the four orange-red fireballs didn't generate any flames after hitting him.
Visually, it looked far less impressive than the 'Fire Release: Karura' she had used before.
But it made Gargantuar immediately kneel on the ground, wailing in unbearable suffering, frantically headbutting the ground repeatedly, and finally rolling back and forth on the ground.
Looking closely, wisps of white mist were actually rising from his massive dark green body.
This scene not only made Yakura and Baba 'on the scene' stop their movements, but also greatly surprised everyone in the command center.
Leone was about to say something to Bullet but subconsciously asked, "What's wrong with him?"
"Uh, let me think..."
Chief of Staff Fey recalled for a few seconds, then showed an expression of sudden realization.
"Right, I remember the effect of Upper Ninja Yakura's Scorch Release is to rapidly evaporate the moisture within living organisms. This is making the Zombie King feel very painful?"
"So that's it, that's how he was captured alive. Just happens to be an ability counter, huh?"
After speaking, Bullet no longer paid attention to the footage, as the result was already decided.
Compared to that, he was more interested in knowing what Leone wanted to say.
Hearing the question, Leone hesitated before voicing her idea, finally looking up at Bullet.
"I want to exchange for a Devil Fruit, preferably a Zoan type!"
"Devil Fruit?"
Bullet raised an eyebrow: "Didn't you say before that you wanted to remain a non-ability user, and becoming an ability user would affect the Colorless Haki... Uh."
He suddenly stopped speaking.
Because Bullet realized that Leone's situation was different from his.
Leaving aside the fact that Leone was unlikely to have Conqueror's Haki.
Even if she did, the chance of mastering Colorless Haki wouldn't be very high.
So Leone had no need to specialize in Haki at all.
Compared to that, becoming an ability user might be a better choice.
"With my current talent, it's difficult to even reach Vice Admiral combat power, let alone Admiral. So I've decided to rely on the power of Devil Fruits!"
Leone spoke with increasing determination. Although she was very unwilling, she had to admit.
In the military of the World Government, she couldn't be considered a genius at all, so she could only rely on the accumulation of resources.
"Alright, I'll ask the Holy Land Treasury later if there are any good fruits."
Bullet nodded in support, but Leone shook her head.
"No need, my current military merit is enough to exchange for a Zoan Devil Fruit. I just hope there's a lion form."
"Heh, with your little military merit, at most you'll get a Common Species. Don't mess around with something that concerns your whole life, you stupid woman!"
Bullet, upon hearing this, sneered, while extending his thick finger and tapping her head.
Speaking of which, the difference in their body size was truly ridiculous.
Bullet was over five meters tall.
And Leone, even after secondary development under the influence of the Perfect Type-I Cell Reinforcement Serum.
Her height only barely reached one meter ninety from her previous one meter seventy.
"You're going too far!"
Leone heard the sarcasm in Bullet's words and punched his arm in displeasure.
"Alright, leave the Devil Fruit matter to me. Even if it's not a Mythical Zoan, I'll get you an Ancient Zoan. A lion form, huh..."
Bullet muttered to himself, stroking his chin.
However, right now he needed to deal with those zombies first.
He did want to turn the desert at the western end of the continent into a second large training ground.
But he didn't need as many as hundreds of millions of zombies, let alone the large number of zombies in other areas.
So next, he needed to conduct a large-scale cleanup of this Jupiter.
This would require more air force, cooperating with the ground forces' sweep!
Thinking of this, Bullet took out his Den Den Mushi from his coat pocket.
He was preparing to personally contact the command department to call in an entire air fleet to carry out a carpet-style super large-scale bombardment...
