"But speaking of it, Blackbeard seemed to have followed Rocks." Mio murmured softly.
If according to the illustration, Rocks had eaten the Dark Fruit, then that was indeed the case.
The sea headquarters of Rocks Pirate crew is the Hive Island, and Blackbeard also used Hive as his headquarters after capturing Whitebeard's devil fruit.
The full name of Rocks is Rocks D Xebec, and the name of Blackbeard's pirate ship in the original book is: Sword of Xebec.
Of course, the topic is far off.
However, the reason Rocks calls Dark Fruit the strongest devil fruit is probably because Dark Fruit can plunder other devil fruit abilities, right?
The ship slowly sailed towards the distance and gradually left the island.
But at the same time, a white boat not far away approached the pirate island while Mio was leaving.
There was only one figure in a white robe on the boat, with a veil on their face, and their face could not be seen clearly, but that person seemed to be a female.
Mio looked over curiously. And this figure also looked towards Mio. The two eyes met each other.
Mio was stunned. In those eyes, there were ripples like the 'Rinnegan' in Naruto, and the red pupils had no emotion in them.
They were just like a pool of stagnant water. Just staring at them made Mio's scalp feel numb.
"Who is it?" Mio muttered in his heart.
The figure quickly looked away, and then stepped onto the island.
Mio also retracted his gaze. He was curious, but he didn't have the idea to explore.
He felt danger, and he felt that if he explored further, he would bring himself a crisis. However, he also remembered those eyes.
As the ship drifted away, the pirate island disappeared from his sight.
What Mio didn't know was that shortly after he had left, the pirates on the island made a sound of horror.
Many pirates madly fled towards the port. Soon, the panic on the island disappeared.
The figure in the white robe returned to the shore, and looked curiously in the direction where Mio had left.
"Weird feeling..."
...
Two days later.
North Blue Dabo waters.
Mio was standing on the deck while swinging his sword and fighting with Erica.
As the fight progressed, a wound appeared on Mio's body from time to time, and blood was spilled.
After a while, the battle ended.
Erica immediately took a medicine box to bandage Mio. Soon, Mio's chest was surrounded by white cloth.
Picking up the rum that he had previously set aside, Mio took a sip and sighed, "I wonder how long it will take for me to reach your level."
"With master's talent, he will soon be able to surpass Erica." After bandaging Mio, Erica waved her small fist and said seriously.
"Haha." Hearing this, Mio laughed and rubbed Erica's head.
There was no answer, but his mood suddenly became happy.
At this moment, the ship was shaking.
A figure on the sea suddenly rushed out and landed on the deck. It was Warwick.
But shortly afterwards, a huge figure suddenly rushed out from the bottom of the sea.
It floated beside the ship, and let out a roar at Mio and the others who were on the ship.
This was a huge sea beast with the head of a lion. It looked like it had encountered Warwick while diving and it chased after Warwick.
"Hmph! I couldn't beat you in the sea, but now Warwick is going to kill you." Warwick's two claws flashed with sharp cold light.
At this moment, he gritted his teeth and said. It semed like he was bullied under the sea.
Just after Warwick had finished speaking, Mio drew out his sword abruptly.
The corners of his mouth raised, and he rushed out in one step, "Warwick, leave this guy to me."
With a 'swish', a cold glow flashed across, and Mio held his sword in both hands and slashed out.
A black sword aura suddenly burst out, forming a crescent moon slash and it swept over.
Puff!
The huge sea beast became a living target in front of Mio.
The huge body of the sea beast suddenly turned into two halves and it fell into the sea, and the sea water beside it began to be stained red with blood.
[Congratulations on your inclusion of the Sea Beast gene!]
"Although it is not the gene of a Sea King, it is still pretty good." The corner of Mio's mouth raised, and he nodded in satisfaction.
Sea beasts and Sea Kings are different.
In the original story, in the fishman island, the ship Noah was dragged away by Sea Kings.
Sea Kings have a long lifespan and a huge size. They are generally located deep in the seabed and in Calm Belt.
Sea Kings are everywhere in the seas of this world, but they are rarely encountered.
Most of the sea monsters encountered are sea beasts.
Although sea beasts are not small in size, they are insignificant when compared to Sea Kings.
"Warwick, go and cut up some of this sea beast. This is good food, especially when it is used to make barbecue, it will taste very good." Mio grinned.
He had eaten sea beast meat before, and it tasted good, but the price was outrageous.
After all, in this world, not everyone is capable of hunting sea beasts.
Most of the people become food in the belly of sea beasts.
"Warwick will do it." Warwick nodded.
He jumped into the sea again. He waved his two claws, and cut off a large piece of meat, and returned to the ship.
As for the rest of the meat, there was not enough place on the ship, so it could only be left here.
"Erica, I will leave the dinner to you." Mio smiled at Erica again.
Erica narrowed her eyes into crescent moons and nodded lightly, "Um."
After that, she took the sea beast meat and walked towards the kitchen, ready to cook dinner.
Warwick, on the other hand, returned to the cabin. He was ready to go to the cellar to get some drinks.
Mio sat down cross-legged. With a thought, a panel appeared in front of him. He was ready to examine the genes of the sea beast.
[Sea Beast Gene: A huge creature in the One Piece world that exists in the sea and possesses immense power, but in the eyes of the strong in this world, it is just food. But the good thing is that sea beasts multiply very quickly, otherwise there might not be enough to eat, right?]
"It doesn't seem to be very useful." Mio murmured, then shook his head and turned off the panel.
Anyway, he would keep it. It might be useful in the future. After all, Mio had the idea of cultivating a sea creature.
Most of this world is covered with the sea. A creature with powerful strength that can swim freely in the sea would undoubtedly be of great help.
'When I go to Grand Line, I can go to Calm Belt and find Sea Kings to get some Sea King genes.' Mio thought in his heart.
He picked up the rum and took a sip.
Before he knew it, the destination where he had agreed to meet Doflamingo was almost reached...
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