Chapter 238: The Life Fixation Device
"A Paramecia Devil Fruit—"
In the vast white space, the group looked up at Louis's current form, an unshakable shock in their eyes. "Awakening?!"
As one of the pinnacle forces in the New World, the group naturally knew what a Devil Fruit Awakening was. They also knew that Louis would reach this stage that only a very few could. But when he had actually developed his fruit to this level, they found that their reaction was far from the calm they had anticipated.
"The Captain is only eighteen, right?"
"To have reached this stage at such a young age?"
"Captain, are you sure the fruit you ate isn't the Human-Human Fruit, Mythical Model: Angel?" Hajrudin looked up at Louis, whose size now rivaled Loki's, a hint of confusion in his eyes. "A Paramecia Devil Fruit... it shouldn't have the ability to make someone this big." Gradually, his voice trailed off.
Nearby, Goldberg thought for a moment and then asked tentatively, "Is it possible that the Devil Fruit the captain ate is actually a Mythical Zoan disguised as the Life-Life Fruit? Perhaps the Paramecia-type Life-Life Fruit doesn't actually exist in the world!"
Hearing this, the group all nodded in agreement. They all felt that although this idea was a bit wild, it also made a certain amount of sense.
At Louis's feet, Uta, with her hands on her hips, looked at the group of people who were letting their imaginations run wild and said, annoyed, "Hasn't Louis always been saying that he ate the Life-Life Fruit? The 'Mythical Zoan, Model: Angel' was just to fool outsiders."
Uta waved her hand, a speechless look on her face, and casually added, "Besides, even the outsiders who have fought with him have gradually started to realize something is wrong, haven't they? This story can't fool outsiders anymore, but it's managed to fool you, his own people?"
The group heard her and fell silent, a hint of embarrassment in their eyes.
Hajrudin, who had been the first to raise the question, felt his face flush. "Since nothing has happened," he said, trying to leave, "then I'll continue with my mission of moving islands."
After leaving this sentence, Hajrudin turned and walked toward the corridor.
The others saw this and also said, one after another, "We'll be leaving too."
However, just then, Louis suddenly spoke, stopping them. "Wait a minute."
Hajrudin and the others stopped, turning around with some confusion. "Is—is there something else?"
Louis showed the group a thoughtful expression. "You should all wait here for a while," he said in a deep voice. "I have an idea I want to test."
With that, Louis, still in his giant form, extended his hands, and in his palms, a ball of golden holy light, as if woven from thousands of golden threads, appeared. At the same time, on one side of the space, the clouds and mist churned, and a huge round table and many chairs appeared in their sight.
Then, Louis ignored the bewildered group and began his bold experiment on the spot. This scene made the group, who had been planning to leave, look at each other. In the end, they sat down at the round table and began to talk in low voices.
"What kind of experiment do you think the captain is conducting that he would ask us to stay?" Road bent his head and asked tentatively.
"Maybe he needs our cooperation for something?" Dong Yi of the Buccaneer race raised a hand and stroked the long white beard on his chin, giving his own opinion.
Gerd looked at Louis's giant form, a thoughtful look in her eyes. "I feel... the captain is researching a new ability for our safety," she said softly.
"Artus's ability to heal external wounds has already surpassed the legendary Op-Op Fruit, hasn't it? What else is there to research? How did you come up with that idea?" Asmodai, with her grim face and priest-like attire, heard her and was a little surprised.
To this, a special light flashed in Gerd's eyes. "If you have to ask why... it's probably a doctor's intuition," she replied without changing her expression.
"Is that so?" Asmodai was taken aback. But soon, she realized something was wrong. "Wait, you're a doctor too?!" Asmodai hadn't expected that this lion-transforming giantess was also a doctor, and had shown no signs of it at all.
To this, Gerd replied with a smile, "Because the captain is here, I've had no opportunity to use my medical skills at all!"
Asmodai looked at Louis, who was seriously manipulating his life energy, and nodded. "That's reasonable."
Just then, Daz Bonez, dressed in a black suit, walked in from the corridor. When he saw Louis sitting in the giant chair, he froze, a hint of confusion in his eyes. It took him a while to come back to his senses, and his expression became abnormally excited. Then, he looked at the group at the round table, and after a moment's thought, walked over to them and voiced his confusion.
"What's with the captain's form—"
Soon, he got the answer from the others.
"Devil Fruit Awakening?" Daz Bonez looked at his own hands, transforming them into sharp blades, and thought to himself. After a moment, he, who was also a Devil Fruit user, started a special exchange with the others.
"How does one awaken a Devil Fruit?"
This topic directly drew the newly arrived Daz Bonez into the conversation.
In a corner of the round table, Uta held her head in her hands, her purple eyes reflecting Louis's serious appearance, her thoughts unknown.
"..."
Half an hour later, the life energy in Louis's hands gradually dissipated, and his eyes also returned to calm. This scene made the group, who had been paying close attention to him, instantly stop their whispers and look over.
Immediately after, the wings on Louis's back, which had been faintly glowing, began to shine again. A dazzling golden holy light flickered between the wings, making the flawless white feathers look even more sacred and inviolable.
The next moment, one after another, feathers wreathed in golden holy light detached themselves from his wings and, in mid-air, returned to their original size. Louis's feathers, accompanied by a dazzling light, floated down like leaves rustled by a gentle breeze toward the group at the round table. Some of them landed precisely in front of each person. The rest landed in front of Dong Yi, Asmodai, and Artemis.
The dazzling and warm light attracted everyone's gaze. They subconsciously reached out and caught the feathers in front of them.
"The captain's feathers—"
The group felt a strange sensation coming from their palms, and their expressions changed subtly.
Uta looked at the feather in her hand, which had a familiar feel, then looked up at the large flaws that had appeared on Louis's wings, and raised an eyebrow. Then, they all looked up at the same time, once again looking at Louis's giant figure, waiting for his explanation.
Then, Louis's figure gradually shrank until he was about 3 meters tall. The giant seat behind him slowly sank and disappeared from everyone's sight.
"Too short!" Asmodai looked at Louis's 3-meter-tall form and said with some disgust. "That's completely the height of a child!"
Louis ignored her and walked directly in front of the group, beginning to explain the feathers in their hands. "These are feathers that have a large amount of life force sealed within them. As you can see, they are a part of me, and also a living thing."
"Living—" Hearing this, the group subconsciously glanced at the feathers, which showed no signs of life.
Louis's voice continued. "If you carry it with you and encounter an irresistible crisis, it will release its stored life force to heal you. And even if its stored life force is depleted and you are only a step away from death, as a part of me, it can also stop the flow of your life force, fixating it. I call this ability—Life Fixation!"
"The feathers in your hands can also be called a Life Fixation Device."
This was one of the abilities developed from his awakened Life-Life Fruit. Louis had given this ability a name that was the same as a certain technology from another world, because their effects were more or less the same. Louis had developed this ability mainly to improve the safety of his subordinates when they were away from him.
The group heard him, taken aback. But gradually, their expressions became horrified.
"Can such a thing really be done?"
"So, even if the captain isn't with us, if we're injured, we can still be healed?"
Louis nodded. "That's right."
Artemis and the others looked at the feathers in their hands, which were continuously flashing with a dazzling light, and subconsciously asked, "So many... won't it affect you?"
Nearby, Dong Yi looked at the more than two hundred feathers in his hands, then at the large flaws on Louis's back, and then felt the profound gaze from Uta. In an instant, he felt that the light feathers in his hands were as heavy as a thousand tons, making him break out in a sweat.
To this, Louis glanced at the leaders of the two clans and said in a deep voice, "The life force stored for you, the Lunarians, the Buccaneers, and the giant dogs combined... to the current me, is nothing more than a drop in the ocean."
"But," Gerd looked at the large flaws that had appeared on Louis's back, making his wings no longer perfect, and said with a frown, "Captain, your wings..."
Gerd's words made the group snap back from their shock. They noticed the wings on his back, and it also made the feathers in their hands feel scalding hot.
Louis heard her and merely glanced at his own back. The next moment, one after another, full and perfect feathers grew out from the empty spaces, filling them and restoring them to their perfect appearance.
Then, Louis looked around at the group and said in a deep voice, "I hope you will never have to use the Life Fixation Device. After all, it can only maintain your life. If you can't defeat your opponent or escape the crisis, the result will not change."
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