Chapter 27 Player Rewards and Bounties (50...)
"Hmph hmph hmph~"
"Little money, so sweet~"
Violet moored the armored ship on the shore, jumped onto the beach, and walked towards the base while humming a song.
After teaching the simple-minded Amazonian lily islanders and the World Government how to respond, Violet gracefully withdrew, taking the spoils Hancock had given her and jumping back onto her armored ship.
After Violet sailed halfway, found the swordfish, and fought it for three hundred rounds, successfully stunning it with a single oar at the last moment, she received a message from Hancock that she had successfully redeemed the bounty and that the "Pirates Attack!" event was now settled.
[【Pirate Attack!】Event Completed]
[Event Rewards: 20 Planks, 20 Stone Bricks, 40 Straw Ropes, 5 Gears, 5 Rubies, 5 Sapphires, 20 Gold Ingots, 1 Magic Disassembler (Blueprint)]
[Magic Disassembler]
[Description: A machine inspired by a magician's hat, taking you into a magical world. Please note, this is not magic, but real magic.]
[Crafting Materials: Nightmare Fuel*1, Live Rabbit*4, Wooden Plank*3, Magician's Hat*1]
Before setting off, Luo forced her to empty her backpack and pockets, which were then instantly filled. Overnight, Violet went from struggling on the edge of poverty and barely surviving by collecting seaweed to becoming incredibly wealthy.
Slurp...
No, I need to calm down. She's a peace-loving farming game player.
Vera wiped her face to calm herself down, and following the image of Luo on the parchment map, she found Luo and Mihawk in the thicket.
Luo held a wooden sword. The guy, who usually covered himself up completely, was now only wearing a bottom. His skin was as white and rosy as a ripe shrimp in the not-so-hot weather.
Vera: "Roy!"
Violet rushed excitedly to Luo's side: "I'm back!"
Vera pulled the spoils from her pocket and showed them to Luo: "Look, look! What did I bring back?"
Luo, who was practicing sword swings to the point of exhaustion, almost crashed headfirst into a tree trunk when Violet bumped into him.
"Wait, don't get so close..." Luo Moming suddenly hallucinated a puppy carrying all sorts of "treasures" home.
Violet: "I encountered a [Pirate Attack!] incident on my recent voyage! These are all my rewards!"
"Pirates?!" Law exclaimed nervously. "Are you alright?"
Luo then saw the various high-quality gems that Violet had taken out. Well, it seems that even if something is wrong, it's not Violet who's in trouble.
Luo: "...That's too risky."
Violet: "Let's take a gamble and turn a bicycle into a motorcycle! We can say we're rich overnight now."
"We..." Luo glanced at Mihawk, who was sitting on a clean, neatly cut log, and thought to himself that "we" definitely didn't include this guy.
Mihawk watched the two children interact leisurely, and asked with interest, "Is everything alright?"
"Of course, we caught them all, and the rest were all converted into bounties."
No, I can't say anymore, or I'll start getting a little restless again.
Vera forced herself to focus her attention on Luo, and this actually allowed her to see something.
Vera curiously tapped the skin on Luo's chest: "Wow, Luo, your white texture outfit is gone."
Luo quickly covered his chest and took a step back: "You bastard, what are you doing? Don't touch me!"
Ignoring the sweat on his body, Luo picked up the neatly folded clothes and put them on quickly, buttoning them all the way up to the top button.
Vera: "Luo, your face is so red..."
Luo, enraged and embarrassed, exclaimed, "You've got it wrong!"
Violet: "Impossible! My eyesight is excellent. I can tell you, if there's even a single berry bush in the woods, I can spot it... Waaah!"
Luo covered Vera's mouth tightly, his eyes fierce: "You...look...wrong..."
Violet winked at him, her eyelashes fluttering as deftly as butterfly wings.
Luo Dun immediately let go as if he had been burned.
Mihawk stood up: "Today's training is over for now. The seeds in the fields have sprouted; would you like to go take a look?"
Violet's attention was immediately drawn to the farmland Mihawk mentioned, which was a crucial part of her future development plan.
Vera: "That makes sense, Luo, let's go take a look."
Violet: "And your sword, I've already gathered the materials, I'll make it for you when we get back."
Luo walked beside Vera: "Actually, someone of my skill level could also use a wooden sword..."
Vera turned her head and stared silently at Luo.
Luo: "...Thank you."
With a "you're teachable" look on her face, Vera patted Luo on the shoulder: "That's more like it. Luo, you should know that tsundere has become obsolete."
The island wasn't very large, and Violet and her companions quickly made their way from the thicket to the farmland. The fertile, black soil that had been divided up had just been planted with seeds a few days earlier, and now different kinds of seedlings had already sprouted.
Vera stepped forward to check: "There are carrots, corn, potatoes, asparagus, and onions."
Because of the lack of similar crops, all crops have a "loneliness" debuff, but otherwise they have no shortage of water, fertilizer and care.
Mihawk: "It's all about fertilizing and watering according to your method, and... talking to the plants."
Mihawk initially didn't know what to say to a lush green carrot seedling, so he simply read out the names of several great swordsmen he knew, their weapons, and the times when he had defeated them, in order, once in the morning, once at noon, and once in the evening.
But as he continued reading, Mihawk suddenly realized, "Hmm? I think I could have used that sword technique during the previous battle, and that swordsman's attack seemed to have some merit..."
He stood in the field, smelling the scent of soil and seedlings, with the setting sun reflecting off the black blades of the night behind him.
Mihawk silently pressed down on the feathered hat on his head.
So that's how it is. Indeed, farming and sword practice complement each other. After returning, he should find an island to stay on for a long time, cultivate a piece of farmland of his own, and then, just as the child on this island asked, communicate with these plants about sword techniques every day.
Mihawk's intuition as a peerless swordsman told him that this would greatly benefit him.
Violet carefully inspected each seedling: "They will be mature by the end of this month, and then we can feed them to Lightning for seed selection."
Lightning, the seagull in the golden cage, flapped its wings in dissatisfaction, angrily pecking at the "Lightning" sign hanging outside the cage.
Mihawk: "These seeds matured several times faster than normal."
Vera scratched her head: "It's probably because of the farmland and fertilizer? Actually, I'm not really sure."
Mihawk: "So, even if we use the seeds you provided, as long as they're planted elsewhere, they'll become no different from ordinary crops?"
“Well…” Vera pondered for a moment, “The growth cycle should be no different from that of ordinary plants, but as long as they are well cared for, these crops can still grow to enormous sizes.”
After all, the shorter growth time is an effect of [Advanced Farm], and unless Violet builds it for someone else herself, this bonus is unsustainable.
On the contrary, gigantification is an Easter egg in the game's planting system. As long as the crop is kept in the population and not alone during its growth cycle, and there is enough water, fertilizer, and care, it will produce gigantic crops, yielding two to three times the normal harvest.
After hearing Violet's answer, Mihawk looked at the young girl: "Do you know what this means?"
Two to three times the harvest means that if all the constituent republics use the seeds provided by Vil, they will never suffer from hunger again.
No, Mihawk refuted his own deduction. With the Heavenly Gold available, using Violet's seeds would only multiply the Heavenly Gold several times over, leaving the ordinary people of the constituent republics with just enough to barely make ends meet.
Non-republican states are often within the sphere of influence of some pirates. Although they are not required to pay the Heavenly Gold, they still have to pay "protection fees" to the pirates.
Pirates are not synonymous with kindness. Since their islands are rich in resources, they'll collect more protection money.
Therefore, whether it's shortening the crop growth time by several times or the "giant crop" that he hasn't seen yet, once the news gets out, Violet's island will directly become a piece of fat meat coveted by everyone. At that time, the World Government, the Navy, and pirates will not let her go.
His sharp, hawk-like eyes were fixed on the girl in front of him: "Once news of these crops gets out, ambitious people will seize them by force."
Vera looked at Mihawk: "Will Mihawk steal these seeds?"
Is this something I can ask directly?!
Luo nervously put his hands behind his back, ready to activate his ability at any moment.
Mihawk's voice was deep, as if merely contemplating this possibility was an insult to a swordsman who pursued the straight path: "I disdain doing such things."
Vera opened her arms: "Isn't that good? There are those who will violently seize things, and there are also those like Mihawk who are willing to get along amicably and exchange things fairly."
"Besides, speaking of violent robbery," Vera said with a smile, taking out a [tentacle spike]. "I may not be very good at this, but I can give them a beating first..."
"Then win people over with virtue."
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"I really want to kick you into the sea right now, yoi."
After spending several days looking at Namüller's painting "Ville on Her Island," Marco's dead fish eyes became even more pronounced.
"Let me see, let me see." Sachi snatched the portrait from Marco's hand, glanced down at it, and exclaimed in surprise.
"What is this? A stick figure performing acrobatics?"
"What stick figure juggling!" Namuel, his face flushed red, snatched the portrait, crumpled it, and stuffed it into his arms. "I told you from the beginning that I'm terrible at drawing."
He was born from the fish-man race in the ocean! The ocean, the ocean, the ocean—I'll say it three times because it's important!
How could paper and paintbrushes be stored in the underwater environment? As for going to sea, he joined the Whitebeard Pirates as soon as he set sail. Why would Marco expect a pirate to have such an elegant skill as painting?
“Phew—” Marco let out a long breath, clearing his mind of the image of a stick figure running in front of a simple sketch of a tree while holding an unidentified object. “Tell me again what that island looks like.”
Namuel: "Hmm, the island isn't big, but it has forests, beaches, and strange buildings... Oh, and some high-tech machines!"
Sachi: "Could it be Punk Hazard?"
Punk Hazard is an island located in the New World, belonging to the World Government, and is an important research base for the Navy.
Marco: "Have you ever considered that high technology is just what Namur thinks is high technology, and may not actually be high technology, yoi?"
Sachi: "Oh, right!"
What is it? You're talking as if he's so ignorant!
“Why isn’t it high-tech? I’ve never seen those machines anywhere else in all these years.” Namuel finished speaking and glared at Sachi. “What do you mean by ‘navy’? High-tech means the navy’s technology. Can’t it be that our fish-man girls are clever and invented their own machines?”
Hybrid fish-men are still fish-men, and their intelligence must be inherited from their fish-man race!
"Wait, fish-men?"
Marco raised an eyebrow: "Didn't Izou say that the reason he noticed her back then was because she, as a human, was walking with the fish-men like friends?"
Why are they fishmen?
Sachi: "Oh, right."
“Impossible.” Namuel shook his head after a few seconds of recollection. “Although she is of mixed race, at least one of her parents’ generation was a fish-man.”
Otherwise, they wouldn't have such obvious fish-man characteristics.
Marco: "So, now we're going to some random island somewhere, to find a little girl of some unknown race?"
Namuel: "Well, well, it happened so suddenly, I... I wasn't prepared at all."
Marco: "Get ready... Since that little girl named Vera teleported you there once, she might do it again."
Marco smiled and placed his hand on Namur's shoulder: "From now on, you will carry a Den Den Mushi with you every moment of the day, whether you are eating, sleeping, taking a shower, or going to the bathroom... you must never leave it behind."
"This is what you need to prepare, Yoi."
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Achoo!
Violet sneezed violently, then rubbed her sore nose.
Luo touched Vera's forehead with the back of his hand with concern: "Have you caught a cold?"
Violet shook her head: "No, maybe someone is thinking of me."
Vera looked at Mihawk: "Mihawk, do you want the seeds of these crops?"
Mihawk nodded: "If possible, I would like to make a trade with you. In the form of pewter, jewelry or whatever."
Mihawk had no intention of taking advantage of a child. He looked at Vera and emphasized, "If these crops ultimately yield the results you've described, then their value is immense."
Mihawk himself had no intention of researching the seeds; farming was purely a personal hobby. However, he knew that this unprecedentedly high-yielding crop was far more valuable than ordinary seeds.
“I don’t need pomegranates or jewels,” Violet asked. “Do you have grass, twigs, or wood?”
Mihawk recalled that there seemed to be several islands outside the sphere of influence of the member republics that were covered by large forests.
Mihawk: "Then let's trade in timber."
[You have unlocked a new faction]
[Pirate Faction]
[Hawkeye Mihawk (Ally) has been unlocked]
Violet exclaimed in surprise, "So you're a pirate?!"
After waiting a few seconds without any new events appearing, Violet glanced at her status with regret: "Why is my hunger level so low again?"
Violet reached into her pockets: "Let me see what else we have to eat... monster meat, lobster, seaweed, oh, and fish!"
Vera: "How about lobster bisque with fried fish fillets tonight?"
Violet: "I'll have another serving of vegetable stew."
With the abundance of supplies, Violet moved beyond simply eating to survive and began to explore various ways to enjoy the different kinds of food in the game.
Although this character can only eat vegetarian food, there are still many options in terms of diet.
Mihawk looked curiously at the cooking pot in the base.
Although he had been on the island for the past few days teaching Luo some basic swordsmanship, Mihawk did not rashly use the island's ingredients while the island's owner, Violet, was not present.
As for Luo, although he could also use that cooking pot, it was just an ordinary cooking pot in his hands. He could only add various ingredients and ice to boil it, and what came out was just a stew that could warm you up and fill your stomach. It had nothing to do with the magical restorative abilities that Violet possessed.
Mihawk had eaten the dishes cooked by Vil when he first arrived on the island, and he was quite impressed. Given the opportunity, Mihawk would naturally be happy to try more of her dishes.
"That's troublesome."
Violet pulled a green lobster that was still waving its big claws arrogantly out of her pocket, threw it directly into the pot, took an ice cube from the refrigerator to weigh down the lobster that was trying to crawl out, and finally grabbed two twigs and stuffed them into the pot.
Cover the pot, light the fire, and start cooking.
Glug glug...
Mihawk looked at Vera, who was waiting attentively beside the cooking pot, and no matter how many times he watched, he still thought this cooking method was truly amazing.
Luo seemed unsurprised, after all, it wasn't the first or second time that Violet had demonstrated her amazing cooking skills to him.
After 10 seconds of cooking, Vera lifted the lid and served the fragrant lobster soup on a plate amidst the rising steam.
Vera: "Clang clang clang!"
Mihawk: "Hmm, so what exactly is this...?"
Luo glanced at his cheap teacher and offered a makeshift explanation for Violet: "Devil Fruit ability."
Mihawk: "I see. That makes no difference."
There are all sorts of Devil Fruit users in this world, and it's not unusual for some to be exceptionally good at cooking.
Mihawk sat on a round stool carved from wood and elegantly sipped his lobster soup.
Mihawk: "It's delicious."
Mihawk remarked, "He's already on par with the world's top chefs."
After stuffing the last bite of the vegetable stew into her mouth to replenish her hunger, Violet, unable to stay idle, prepared to clear the side quests on Luo.
[You crafted the swordfish dagger]
[Consumes 1 Dead Swordfish, 2 Gold Nuggets, and 1 Tree Branch]
Violet handed the swordfish dagger to Luo.
Luo looked at the sword in his hand, which smelled of salted fish: ...Alright, this way we can eat it as a reserve food if we encounter another storm in the future.
[You have lost 1 Swordfish Dagger]
[The swordsman's wife is a sword!] Quest complete.
[***'s affection for you has increased, raising the probability of ***!]
Violet: ?
Is there a bug? Why is there so much garbled text?
As a renowned swordsman, Mihawk exclaimed, "A fine sword."
“Right?” Vera rested her chin on her hand without any politeness. “Of course I’m giving Luo good stuff.”
Violet looked at R'lyeh's hope, the farming prodigy, Luo: "After all, Luo is the number one resident of the island."
Mihawk stood up, interrupting the two children's late-night chatter: "You should rest."
Mihawk looked at Luo: "Tomorrow morning, it'll be the same place. First, practice swinging your sword 1000 times."
"yes!"
After Mihawk's figure disappeared, Vera nudged Law's arm: "You must be exhausted, Law."
Vera was relieved: "Thank goodness Mihawk isn't my teacher."
Luo suggested, "Maintaining our combat strength is important. Why don't you train with me tomorrow morning?"
Vera turned and walked towards the coconut leaf shed: "Haha, I'm so sleepy. I should rest quickly, otherwise staying up late and getting up early will give me dark circles and I won't grow taller."
Luo spread the dried grass bundles on the side of Verna.
"good evening."
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[She's a devil, she's a devil, help!!]
Hiss—
[Is this the Navy? Help... Help! There's a monster killing people here at the auction house!]
[What? Miss, what did you say? Please describe it in more detail... Hello, hello, Miss, are you alright?]
The chilling recording played over and over again. Standing next to Lucci, Kalifa and Kaku, who were checking the list of people attending the auction that night with him, exchanged a glance and saw the speechlessness in each other's eyes.
The auction house owner was bound together with thorny whips, his face bruised and swollen, curled up in a corner.
Lucci: "Is the woman's voice on the Den Den Mushi the first person to report to the Navy, and later the one who was captured by 'Demon Hand' along with other CP members?"
Boss: "Yes, that's right... When the navy later checked the number of guests, only that girl was missing."
Lucci narrowed his eyes: "In other words, no one actually saw the girl being taken away by 'Ghost Hand,' it's just the Navy's speculation."
Kaku thought for a moment: "Spandam shouted 'She's the devil' at the last moment before he was captured. The 'she' in that sentence should refer to the real culprit who caused everything."
"How...how could this be?" the boss exclaimed incredulously. "That was just a little girl!"
Ignoring the boss's shock, Lucci and his group arrived. Everyone in the auction house fell into a coma when the navy arrived. To ordinary people who were unaware of the truth, this might be another piece of evidence that the "devil" existed.
However, for Lucci and his companions, who are well-informed, after ruling out poison gas or special Devil Fruit abilities, this performance clearly points to an obvious answer.
Conqueror's Haki.
The world is never short of all kinds of young and terrifying monsters. Although there are only a handful of people in the entire ocean who have awakened Conqueror's Haki at a young age, it is not unprecedented.
If that seemingly frail little girl appearance was merely a deliberate disguise by someone possessing Conqueror's Haki, then everything makes sense.
Lucci's gaze fell on a blurry photograph on the table. It was a picture taken by a tourist when he accidentally took a picture of the Sabaody Archipelago. The auction house owner himself identified the person in the picture as the only missing black-haired tourist.
In the video, a black-haired girl walks down the street, completely unaware that she has been photographed.
"Besides that, I think there is another piece of intelligence that we need to pay attention to."
Kalifa pushed up her glasses: "Around the time of the 'Demon Hand Incident,' both the Sun Pirates and Whitebeard Pirates' affiliated ships came to the Sabaody Archipelago."
"The Whitebeard Pirates came twice; the second time they seemed to be looking for someone."
"Have you noticed anything unusual during the surveillance of Whitebeard?"
"They seemed to suddenly become alert and gather around a certain point in time, but soon returned to normal."
The navy and government agencies have not found any intelligence about Namur returning to Fishman Island.
"Increase surveillance on the recent movements of these two pirate crews," Lucci said. "Has there been any other change on the high seas lately?"
Kaku: "Speaking of changes, Basque Jolt is known as 'The Big Barrel' and has been captured by Boa Hancock, the new emperor of Amazon Lily and captain of the Kuja Pirates."
"Hancock captured the Great Barrel and his pirate crew, and handed them over to the government to collect the bounty. The government then extended an invitation to her to become one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea, which she accepted."
The so-called Seven Warlords of the Sea is a special title bestowed upon pirates by the World Government. The World Government will extend an invitation to those powerful pirates who intimidate a region. If they agree, those pirates will receive certain preferential treatment from the World Government in the future.
For example, their bounties will be withdrawn, their bounties will no longer be increased, the World Government and the Navy will no longer send troops to hunt them down, and when they want to go to the New World, they will no longer need to go through the Sabaody Archipelago, but will instead take the safer and faster route provided by the World Government and the Navy.
Similarly, the Seven Warlords of the Sea are required to obey the World Government's mandatory summons orders and pay a certain amount to the World Government.
"Have all the candidates for the Seven Warlords of the Sea been decided?"
"Not yet. It is said that because the Sun Pirates changed captains some time ago, the government intends to make the new captain Jinbe a Shichibukai to offset the impact of the former captain Tiger's rampage in the Holy Land."
Kalifa: "If Jinbe finally agrees, it could be a breakthrough. Perhaps we can get more clues from him about the mastermind behind the 'Demon Hand Incident'."
Lucci nodded in agreement with Kalifa's explanation.
He pointed to the blurry photo on the table.
Lucci: "Issue the bounty first, then the reward will be set..."
"Seventy million Berries."
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Author's Note: That Muir who eats, showers, and goes to the toilet while wearing a Den Den Mushi: [Cracks]
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