Chapter 72: Studying Jinbei and Gaining Supernatural Powers? The True Black Water Method
Chiba glanced at Jinbei, then turned to Magellan with a smile. "Director Magellan, you have quite a collection of interesting people on this sixth floor. This is the first time I've seen a Fish-Man up close."
Magellan chuckled knowingly. "Master Chiba, are you thinking of studying Jinbei as well?"
Chiba nodded. "Indeed. Director Magellan, would you allow it?"
Magellan smirked. "As long as you don't leave the sixth floor, Master Chiba, you can do as you please."
"Thank you, Director Magellan. A small token of appreciation for your cooperation." Chiba handed over a bottle of medicinal liquid.
This solution was made by dissolving a Foundation Establishment Pill in water, making it a potent restorative. While it wasn't the full strength of the pill, it was still incredibly valuable—especially to someone like Magellan.
"Thank you, Master Chiba," Magellan said with a grin, gratefully accepting the gift.
Chiba then approached Jinbei, scalpel in hand. Jinbei watched him warily. "What… exactly do you plan to do?"
Chiba smiled calmly. "Oh, nothing too serious. Just a little… 'donation'—a bit of bone, some muscle, maybe a few organs."
Without waiting for a response, Chiba made several precise cuts, carefully taking small samples from Jinbei's organs. He then administered the diluted Foundation Establishment Pill solution to ensure Jinbei's wounds would heal and his strength wouldn't falter.
Watching this, Magellan's eyes twitched. "This man… he's a mad scientist!" He shuddered. "I'll make sure never to let this lunatic study me!"
Despite the pain, Jinbei endured silently, groaning at times but refusing to cry out. His resilience was truly admirable.
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Three Days Later
[You have conducted extensive research on Jinbei's organs and analyzed his water manipulation abilities. Drawing on your past life's experience and physical condition, you have created the supernatural power: The True Black Water Method.]
[The True Black Water Method: A technique with nine levels. At full mastery, it allows the user to breathe underwater, control countless water currents, and summon the ancient Black Water True Dragon through true energy. This dragon can ride clouds, summon storms, control lightning, and stir up waves. By summoning up to nine Black Water True Dragons, the user can create the Black Water Formation. Once activated, a single drop of true water can flood rivers, turning the world into an endless ocean.]
A surge of knowledge filled Chiba's mind. This was a power on par with the Golden Crow Burning Heaven Method he had developed from Ace's abilities. If perfected, it would be a devastating force, especially given that the One Piece world is primarily made up of seas.
Chiba couldn't help but feel elated. With this new technique, he could dominate in any battle at sea, gaining a significant tactical advantage.
At the same time, Chiba had grown to respect Jinbei. Over the past few days, he had dissected Jinbei's organs repeatedly, yet the Fish-Man had not once begged for mercy. Jinbei was a true warrior. Additionally, Jinbei was close to Ace and would likely become friends with Chiba's younger brother, Luffy, in the future.
With that in mind, Chiba decided to repay Jinbei's fortitude.
He administered a full-strength Foundation Establishment Pill solution, allowing Jinbei's body to recover rapidly. "What incredible medicine," Jinbei muttered, feeling his strength returning at an astonishing pace.
But his relief was short-lived, as he thought to himself, "This might just mean I'm in for more suffering…"
To his surprise, however, Chiba placed a hand on his head, channeling true energy to open up Jinbei's meridians. With the Foundation Establishment Pill enhancing his recovery, Jinbei's body quickly adapted, and the meridians healed almost instantly.
As the energy flowed, Jinbei realized this was a completely new cultivation technique. "Is… is he actually teaching me a new skill?" Jinbei was shocked. From what he'd heard, Chiba was a 'legendary Marine.' But why would he help him?
"Is this because of Ace?" Jinbei pondered. Whatever the reason, he recognized that this technique was far more advanced than his previous methods. As he practiced, he discovered he could absorb the water vapor around him, refine it into his body, and even form a small, translucent water serpent within himself.
As he continued, the serpent grew larger, his aura becoming stronger. If he could reach the third level of this technique, he might even be able to break out of Impel Down and escape with Ace.
"Could it be that Chiba is preparing me to assist Ace?" Jinbei thought, becoming even more motivated to master the True Black Water Method.
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Meanwhile, Chiba's curiosity was far from sated. The sixth floor of Impel Down was home to a number of infamous prisoners—ideal subjects for his "research."
One name in particular caught his attention: Sir Crocodile, also known as "Mr. 0." A powerful Logia user with the Sand-Sand Fruit, Crocodile was as formidable on land as Jinbei was at sea. In a battle, Crocodile could use his sand powers to his advantage, making him nearly unbeatable on solid ground.
If Chiba could master both the power of the sea and the land, he would be invincible. Even if he someday turned against the Celestial Dragons, he would have the means to defend himself.
With a plan forming in his mind, Chiba approached Magellan. "Director Magellan, I hear there's a man named Sir Crocodile here on the sixth floor. Could you take me to him?"
Magellan smirked. "Ah, that one? Yes, he's here. Follow me."
Chiba discreetly handed him another bottle of medicinal solution. Magellan accepted it with a grin, leading Chiba to Crocodile's cell.
Inside, Crocodile lay restrained by seastone shackles. He didn't even open his eyes as Magellan approached. In response, Magellan kicked him hard, sending Crocodile crashing to the ground.
"Stop playing dead and get up!" Magellan barked, clearly less respectful of Crocodile than he was of Ace.
Crocodile opened his eyes, glaring at Magellan. "You dog… when I get out of here, I'll kill you."
Magellan sneered. "With what? You're never leaving this place."
He turned to Chiba. "Master Chiba, this is Crocodile, user of the Sand-Sand Fruit."
"Release his shackles. I want to study his fruit abilities," Chiba said.
Magellan hesitated, recalling the havoc Crocodile could wreak with his sand powers. "Are you sure, Master Chiba? His powers could cause serious damage…"
"Impel Down isn't entirely built with seastone, is it? And I'm here. Do you really think he'll escape?" Chiba reassured him, offering yet another medicinal solution as incentive.
Satisfied, Magellan gestured to a jailer, who approached and unlocked Crocodile's restraints.
The moment his shackles fell away, Crocodile grinned darkly, his hand transforming into a blade of sand. In an instant, he sliced through the jailer, draining his moisture until only a dried husk remained.
"Ahhh… freedom at last! You fools don't know what you've done." Crocodile smirked, his gaze shifting towards Magellan.
Sensing danger, Magellan prepared to attack, but before he could react, Chiba moved like lightning, appearing in front of Crocodile. He pulled his arm back, enveloping his fist in pitch-black Armament Haki, and struck Crocodile with devastating force.
Crocodile barely had time to react, his body failing to fully turn into sand. The punch connected, sending him flying across the cell and smashing into the stone wall. When he finally stopped, a dark bruise ringed his left eye, and he looked up, dazed and furious.
"Damn it… my Logia powers didn't protect me?" Crocodile muttered, stunned. "Just how strong is his Armament Haki?"
Magellan, too, was shocked. He knew that Armament Haki could counter Logia users, but he hadn't expected Chiba's mastery to be this overwhelming.
Chiba smirked, tauntingly. "Oh, Miss Crocodile, don't be so grumpy."
Crocodile's eyes flashed with rage. "What did you just call me?"
"I heard you were once a woman, but then you underwent… changes. Is that true, Miss Crocodile?" Chiba teased with a mocking grin.
"You're courting death!" Crocodile roared, unleashing a wave of sand toward Chiba.
With a flicker of movement, Chiba dodged and delivered another powerful punch, this time to Crocodile's other eye, leaving him looking like a bruised panda.
Crocodile, now utterly humiliated, went berserk, pouring all his energy into his sand powers.
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Three Days Later
[You have thoroughly examined Crocodile's body and mastered insights into the Sand-Sand Fruit. Combining your knowledge and personal experience, you have developed a new supernatural ability…]
[PR/N: In raw chapters, he's calling crocodile 'Aunt Shua' then i changed it to 'Miss Crocodile'.]
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𝙄 𝙬𝙖𝙣𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙖 𝙢𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙚𝙭𝙥𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙨 𝙢𝙮 𝙜𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙩𝙪𝙙𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙤𝙨𝙚 𝙬𝙝𝙤 𝙨𝙪𝙥𝙥𝙤𝙧𝙩 𝙢𝙚 𝙤𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙟𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙣𝙚𝙮. 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙧𝙞𝙗𝙪𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝙢𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙖 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙡 𝙙𝙞𝙛𝙛𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚!
𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗸𝘀 𝘁𝗼:
• 𝙅𝙘𝟭𝟮𝟬𝟮
• 𝘼𝙝𝙢𝙖𝙧𝙞𝙟𝙖𝙝
• 𝗝𝗮𝗰𝗼𝗯 𝗠𝗼𝗲𝗲
𝗔𝘀 𝗮 𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗻, 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘂𝗻𝗹𝗼𝗰𝗸:
• 𝗘𝘅𝗰𝗹𝘂𝘀𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀: 𝙂𝙚𝙩 𝟭𝟴𝟱+ 𝙖𝙙𝙫𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚𝙙 𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙥𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝙖𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙙 𝙤𝙛 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙚𝙡𝙨𝙚.
• 𝗘𝘅𝗰𝗹𝘂𝘀𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗦𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘁-𝗢𝘂𝘁: 𝙍𝙚𝙘𝙚𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙖 𝙨𝙥𝙚𝙘𝙞𝙖𝙡 𝙨𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮 𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙥𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙖𝙨 𝙖 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙠 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙨𝙪𝙥𝙥𝙤𝙧𝙩!
𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝘆 𝗳𝘂𝗲𝗹𝘀 𝗺𝘆 𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝗮𝗹𝘀𝗼 𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗽𝘀 𝗺𝗲 𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆. 𝗜𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂'𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗮 𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗻 𝘆𝗲𝘁, 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗷𝗼𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘂𝘀!
👉 𝙅𝙤𝙞𝙣 𝙣𝙤𝙬: 𝙥𝙖𝙩𝙧𝙚𝙤𝙣.𝙘𝙤𝙢/𝙂𝙤𝙙𝙊𝙛𝙍𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙚𝙧
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𝙒𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙥𝙤𝙬𝙚𝙧 𝙤𝙛 𝘾𝙝𝙖𝙩𝙂𝙋𝙏 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙗𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙙 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙢𝙮 𝘼𝙙𝙫𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚𝙙 𝙏𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙨𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙋𝙧𝙤𝙢𝙥𝙩, 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙘𝙖𝙣 𝙚𝙛𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙡𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙡𝙮 𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙨𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝘾𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙚 𝙣𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙡𝙨 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙤 𝙀𝙣𝙜𝙡𝙞𝙨𝙝 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙝𝙪𝙢𝙖𝙣-𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙚 𝙖𝙘𝙘𝙪𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙮, 𝙘𝙖𝙥𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮 𝙣𝙪𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙙𝙚𝙩𝙖𝙞𝙡. 𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙪𝙣𝙞𝙦𝙪𝙚 𝙩𝙤𝙤𝙡 𝙙𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙪𝙡𝙩𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙧𝙞𝙫𝙖𝙡 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙛𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙝𝙪𝙢𝙖𝙣 𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙨𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙨, 𝙗𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙚𝙭𝙥𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙖𝙘𝙘𝙪𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙨𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙚𝙣𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙚𝙭𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚!
👉𝗦𝗵𝗼𝗽: 𝙋𝙖𝙩𝙧𝙚𝙤𝙣.𝙘𝙤𝙢/𝙂𝙤𝙙𝙊𝙛𝙍𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙚𝙧/𝙎𝙝𝙤𝙥