Pirates: Trainer on the Straw Hat Ship.

"Vulcan Moth?!"

Usopp was stunned again when he heard the name.

If he remembered correctly, it seemed to be the name of a Pokémon in the Pokémon world! ?

Although butterflies and moths have many similarities to some extent, he had never thought of using such a degrading name.

However, after chanting "Vulcan Butterfly" a few times, he felt that the rhythm was strange, as if he was being taken advantage of. Usopp finally decided...

From now on, this mutated flame butterfly will be called the Vulcan Moth!

Anyway, there is no real Vulcan Moth in the pirate world, so who cares about these things! ?

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"Vulcan Moth, use Jet Fire!!!"

boom! ! !

Following Usopp's order, a vortex of orange-red flame appeared out of nowhere and rushed towards a level 40 Gentleman Moth not far away, instantly enveloping it.

"Squeak..."

Under the scorching heat, the gentleman moth suddenly let out a terrible cry.

But the next second...

Huh~!

A powerful storm suddenly swept over the flames, extinguishing all of them.

The Gentleman Moth, waving its dark yellow wings, turned around, eyes glowing red with anger, and looked at the attacker behind him.

And when Usopp saw that the fire vortex did not cause much damage to Gentleman Moth, his expression was slightly moved.

"Sure enough, is it a bit too much to ask a level 25 Vulcan Moth to challenge a level 40 Pokémon?"

"But..." Usopp raised his lips slightly, revealing a confident smile. "Then, let's try this next!!!"

"Vulcan Moth, activate the transformation!"

Usopp just waved his hand, and the Vulcan Moth, receiving the order, suddenly raised its head and let out a sharp cry.

“Chiu~!!!”

The Vulcan Moth, which is clearly an insect, made a sharp bird cry at this moment.

Then, the vast flames directly enveloped its body, and under the transformation of the flames, the body of the Vulcan Moth suddenly turned into the shape of a giant bird.

Its shape and appearance are very similar to Marco's phoenix form.

The only difference is that the flames all over the body of the Vulcan Moth are high-temperature flames that emit a hot breath, giving off an aura of sacredness and inviolability.

The scorching heat instantly filled the entire space. After entering the Suzaku form, the Vulcan Moth's originally dull insect compound eyes turned into a pair of sharp eyes.

"Hehe~"

Looking at the new form of Vulcan Moth, a look of satisfaction immediately flashed in Usopp's eyes.

He immediately gave orders to Vulcan Moth again, attacking the Gentleman Moth, whose strength was comparable to that of a billion-level pirate.

Under the power of the Suzaku Fruit, the flames released by the Vulcan Moth instantly became more turbulent and hotter.

The vortex of fire that could only cause minor damage to the gentleman moth, after falling on it at this moment, immediately burned a noticeable black charred mark on its body like the glare of the sun, and quickly spread throughout the body.

The Blue Dragon Fruit can give the user a strong body and some other peripheral abilities, while the Suzaku Fruit, which is of the same level, can give the user powerful fire control powers!

In the Suzaku form, the Vulcan Moth, which already has an extraordinary affinity for fire abilities, can be said to have completely become the god who controls fire in this world!

With the bonus of Suzaku's Flame, the power of the fire moves released by Vulcan Moth directly increases the damage by nearly twice.

Compared to the Suzaku flames which are like fire from heaven, the flame released by the Flame-Flame Fruit can only be regarded as ordinary fire in the world.

So, the Flame-Flame Fruit, XXXX!

Of course, the huge gap in levels is not so easy to narrow.

Even though it was injured by the flames of Suzaku, the Gentleman Moth still flapped its wings firmly, emitting a strong burst of purple poisonous powder, and at the same time used the wind-raising move to blow the poisonous powder quickly towards the Vulcan Moth.

It was so fast that people had almost no chance to react.

It is obvious that this poison powder + wind combo should be Gentleman Moth's specialty.

However, seeing this scene, Usopp was not at all panicked. Instead, an amused look appeared on his face and he chuckled.

"Poison powder? It's a really good combo~"

"If it's a normal Vulcan Moth, it would be hard to deal with this overwhelming dust!"

"Unfortunately……"

After muttering softly, Usopp suddenly looked up. Although he had the dual attributes of grass and insect, a flame-like flash flashed in his eyes, and he directly ordered:

"Vulcan Moth, rush over and give the opponent the final blow!!!"

"Use Blazing Fire!!!"

"Chirp~!"

The Vulcan Moth, having received the command, chirped sharply again.

In an instant, even hotter Suzaku flames gushed out from its body, completely enveloping its body, and then swooped down towards the Vulcan Moth on the opposite side.

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Half a minute later.

Looking at the fallen Gentleman Moth, Red quickly threw the Advanced Ball - Arceus Edition in his hand, subduing the Gentleman Moth and transforming it into two experience beams that flowed to Usopp and Vulcan Moth's bodies respectively.

But after doing all this, a strange look flashed across his face.

Looking at the man and the moth who were already leading the Vulcan Moth to find their next target and continue leveling up, Chi Hong couldn't help but whispered softly:

"Why do I feel like... Usopp is more of a trainer than me!?"

At least when he was leveling up with the Straw Hat Pirates on weekdays, he would never give every order in detail like Usopp did.

More importantly...

As the king of the Zerg, Usopp has absolute control over Vulcan Moth, and he is more adept at commanding it than even Red, a registered trainer.

For a moment, Red felt like he was an experience-enhancing pendant, following behind trainer Usopp, throwing Poké Balls to him and gaining more experience.

A thought flashed through his mind, and he saw Usopp and Vulcano taking down another Pokémon. He followed closely and added an Advanced Ball - Arceus Version to it.

This is different from the Poké Balls used before, which needed to be purchased at friendly stores.

Because in this game world, Red has the ability to make Poké Balls using items collected from the roadside, the effect of the Poké Balls in the Arceus version is directly weakened by the machine.

Minus the ability to obtain items, only the increase in experience points remains.

Fortunately, the process of obtaining Poké Balls in this world is very simple, so Red doesn't feel sorry for throwing them away.

Just like that, with Usopp and Vulcan Moth's hard work throughout the day, both the man and the pet gained a lot of experience...

Usopp successfully upgraded to level 50. Even without using his special gadgets and fruit abilities, Usopp's current basic attributes alone are enough to make him a strong man!

The Vulcan Moth also successfully upgraded to level 8, reaching level 33.

Of course, this is because Usopp wants to train Vulcan Moth, which has just emerged from its cocoon and gained the power of the fruit.

Otherwise, with Usopp and Red as the dual coaches, the experience they gained would definitely not be limited to this.

After a day of testing, they successfully mastered the power that the Suzaku Fruit bestowed on the Vulcan Moth in addition to the Suzaku Flame.

The most obvious point is...

After entering the Suzaku form, Vulcan Moth's original fire + insect attribute combination was successfully transformed into fire + flying.

As a bug-type, the Vulcan Moth has the ability to learn certain flying-type moves, but most of them are innocuous flying-type moves like Wind Rise and Feather Perch.

Dingtian, which is the flying-type move with the power of Air Blade at level 75, sends out air slashes to attack the opponent.

However, after taking the Suzaku Fruit, flying-type moves have no restrictions on Vulcan Moth.

It can even easily learn a move like the Divine Bird Smash, which has a power value of 140 points.

Combining the power of the Ability Flame Body and Suzaku's Flame, a full-strength attack from Vulcano is enough to cause heavy damage to a level 50 Pokémon.

In addition, although the Suzaku Fruit did not give Vulcan Moth the strong body of the Azure Dragon Fruit, nor did it give it the immortal body that can recover as quickly as the Phoenix Fruit...

But it allowed the Vulcan Moth to successfully master another special ability - the purifying flame!!!

The flames wielded by the Vulcan Moth Suzaku form not only burn the enemy, but also have the ability to purify all physical discomforts.

Negative buffs such as paralysis, freezing, poisoning, etc. will never appear on the body of the Vulcan Moth again in this life.

Once the Vulcan Moth has mastered the purifying flame, it can even use its own flame to cure other people's bad conditions, just like Marco.

Whether it's physical or mental...

I can only say that it’s a good thing that Chopper changed his job early.

The Straw Hat Pirates now have an unlimited supply of good medicine, and the deck of the Merry has a green grass field that has been injected with a lot of energy by the red and can last for a long time...

Coupled with the increasing number of methods used by the public...

The ship's doctor has no presence in the Straw Hat Pirates at all.

Now that they have the all-purpose Purifying Flame, Chihong is doubtful whether they will really need a ship doctor in their future adventures! ?

Of course, in addition to being a doctor, Chopper is also an excellent pharmacist, and now he is learning all kinds of knowledge from his partners...

In the future, he will definitely become a figure that no one can underestimate in the Straw Hat Pirates.

After testing the power of the Suzaku Fruit, both Akane and Usopp showed expressions of satisfaction.

At the same time, they are also looking forward to the performance of several other mythical beast-type devil fruits.

In addition to the Black Tortoise, White Tiger, and Kirin, there are also many mythical beast fruits in Usopp's internal warehouse.

However, most of those fruit abilities have names that Chihong has never heard of. They are probably related to the mythological system of the island country or other regions in the previous life.

Since they were not specially marked by Saint Satan, it also means that the abilities of these fruits may be just that.

It may be strong, but it is far inferior to the mythical beasts such as Azure Dragon and Suzaku.

At that time, if Usopp cultivated extra talented Zerg, he could consider forming a new group such as the Seven Demon Kings or the Twelve Zodiac Signs under the Four Heavenly Kings.

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"Sanji, do you have a minute?"

On this day, the Straw Hat Pirates were training on Fishman Island as usual.

Franky, who had successfully modified his body, took the initiative to find Sanji for the first time and made a request to him.

"I'm still a little rusty on fighting skills. I attended a few classes of Yuren Karate before, but I don't think it's suitable for me."

"Red asked me to come to you for help."

"Fighting skills?!"

Sanji, who was about to find a secluded place to practice awakening his dragon attribute, suddenly stopped.

Facing his partner's request, he certainly had no intention of refusing, so after thinking for a moment, he immediately nodded and said:

"Is it the method that Red mentioned before, combining thermal weapons and fighting techniques?!"

"Although I haven't actually watched it, but from what Chihong described, that fighting technique is indeed somewhat similar to my fighting style."

"After lunch, let's find a place to study it carefully."

"That's really SUPER... Thank you!!!"

Hearing Sanji's affirmative answer, Franky's face immediately broke into an exaggerated laugh.

Then a strong wave of air gushed out from under his feet, and he flew up instantly, flying towards his own modification factory to prepare for the special guidance in the afternoon.

the other side.

Nami, along with a group of strong men from the Straw Hat Army, slowly descended from the sky on a whirlwind.

Nami pointed to the bookshelf in the temporary study and said to the people behind her:

"Okay, put all these books here."

"Yes, Lady Nami!!!"

Following a unison response, a group of strong men from the Straw Hat Army opened the packages on their backs and stuffed the books on their backs into the bookshelves one by one, sorted by category.

This is the book about Fishman Island that Nami just borrowed from Ryugu Castle.

Even though the Fish-Man Island and the Fish-Man tribe are located deep under the sea all year round, many special scholars have emerged from the Fish-Man Island.

If Fisher Tiger had not been captured and made a slave during the adventure, he would most likely have become one of these many scholars after the adventure and written down his adventure stories.

Relying on the inherent advantages of fish-men and mermaids, Fish-Man Island has many books and documents that record the world.

However, due to geographical reasons, this information has never appeared in the outside world. It can only be seen on Fishman Island, ten thousand meters deep under the sea, or even in Ryugu City.

Nami has recently encountered some obstacles in her fruit training.

Although she has mastered the various attack methods of the Disaster Fruit and cleverly combined them with the Magic Weather Stick.

But to achieve the awakening of the fruit ability that Akashi mentioned is a huge difference.

Although Nami also knew that it was impossible to awaken a devil fruit in such a short time, especially a powerful ability like the Disaster Fruit.

But she still thought of a way to break the deadlock.

That is to understand more about this world and the various natural disasters that have occurred in this world.

And these books and documents are her first step to understand this world!!!

It just so happens that she can also use the knowledge in these books to complete her teaching of navigation to little Chopper.

At the same time, there are many books on Fishman Island that record the scenes of the underwater world and the causes of marine disasters...

These are precious information that cannot be bought anywhere else, and will be of great help in their subsequent voyages.

This wave of operations can be said to kill three birds with one stone!

In addition to Nami and Franky, Brook, who is also inferior in combat power, is also constantly absorbing the energy of the wandering souls captured by Red to strengthen his own soul.

Luffy tries to combine the power of Hachan and Nika;

Zoro, who comprehended the Zen of swords and explored the higher peaks of kendo;

Sanji, who taps into his physical potential and awakens his attributes;

Usopp, who breeds peerless insects and creates the strongest subordinates;

Chopper, who has learned all kinds of methods and is becoming an all-purpose assistant;

Robin, who combined fish-man karate with the power of the fruit;

Nami, who understands the world and comprehends natural disasters;

Franky perfects his mechanical body and seeks a new way to fight;

Brook strengthens his soul and moves towards becoming the King of Souls...

Today, the members of the Straw Hat Pirates are rapidly improving and growing their strength at a speed that is incomprehensible to the world.

I believe that when they appear in the sea again, they will definitely bring a huge surprise... or shock to the world!

Seeing his companions training so seriously, Red, the busiest member of the entire pirate group, also showed a gratified smile.

"If this momentum continues, in another month, even the weakest Brook will be able to reach the level of an elite admiral. Combined with his unique soul attack method..."

"Even if he is an ordinary vice-chairman, he has the strength to fight."

"And by that time, Lab and the others who are out escorting the slaves will almost complete their mission and report back."

"It seems like it's time to gather our strength..."

"Let the world know... who is the real king!!!"

The corners of his red mouth curled up slightly, and his eyes flashed with countless thoughts.

Four Emperors!?

That was just a stepping stone in his plan!

After all, he and Luffy went out to sea not for a mere Four Emperors position...