One Piece: The Strongest Trait System novel Chapter 276

Chapter 276: [276] : Incomplete Awakening! The True Power of Nika!

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"THE GROUND HERE IS MADE OF ISLAND CLOUDS!"

Luffy, Usopp, and Chopper bounced wildly on the cloud layer.

Vegapunk’s laboratory was built on a layer of clouds high above Egghead, recreating the Island Clouds of Skypiea through scientific means. Bouncing on them provided an elastic rebound, just like a trampoline.

"It really is! How nostalgic."

Nami, Vivi, and Robin, caught up in the fun, also began to bounce around.

Vivi laughed with pure joy.

As she laughed, her mind drifted back to their journey to Skypiea.

Back then, she had only just joined the ship, and she had kept her feelings for Rowen hidden deep in her heart.

Her title wasn’t "Desert Princess," but the infamous "Princess of Malice." The World Government had even pinned the blame for the Alabasta Incident on her.

For Vivi, who loved her country so deeply, this had been a devastating blow. She had even cried herself to sleep at night.

After all, she wasn’t the super great pirate with a 1 billion Beri bounty she was today. She wasn’t one of the Four main combatants closest to Rowen.

She didn’t even have Conqueror’s Haki, and her inner strength was nowhere near what it was now. While she had bravely infiltrated Crocodile’s Baroque Works, it was more the recklessness of youth.

At heart, she was just an eighteen-year-old girl. But Vivi also knew, back then, they were too weak before the World Government.

Even if Rowen had killed Crocodile, even if he had preliminarily mastered Haōshoku Coating and stepped into the ranks of the top-tier powerhouses, he was still no match for an Admiral, let alone the monolithic World Government.

So Vivi had never shown any negative emotions before Rowen or the others.

Only later did she realize that with Rowen’s Observation Haki, her attempts to hide her feelings were completely transparent.

But Vivi never expected that before they even went to Skypiea, in Mock Town, Rowen would directly use his ability to place a call to the Holy Land, Mariejois!

To the World’s Highest Authority, the Five Elders!

For her sake, he had unleashed his Conqueror’s Haki in Mariejois, knocking countless Celestial Dragons unconscious and creating the world-shaking "Mariejois Incident."

Changing her title from "Princess of Malice" to "Desert Princess," revealing the truth of the Alabasta Incident.

It was only later, when she could finally face her true feelings, that Vivi understood. From that moment on, she had completely and utterly fallen in love with Rowen, until this very day.

Vivi smiled brilliantly.

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"YOU’RE NOT BOUNCING HIGH ENOUGH! WATCH THIS!"

Suddenly, Rowen laughed, leaped into the air, and slammed heavily onto the Island Cloud.

GURGLE!

The moment Rowen landed, the Island Cloud rippled and transformed, becoming a rubber with astonishing elasticity.

Nika—Rubberization!

BOING!

"KYAA!"

The incredible elasticity made Nami cry out in surprise.

But Nami and the others weren’t angry—instead, they laughed and playfully pounced on Rowen.

The smile in Vivi’s beautiful eyes grew even more radiant.

Even now that Rowen had become a super great pirate with a bounty of 6,058,000,000 Beri... He hadn’t changed. He would still play around with them just like this.

"I’ve never experienced this before... how magical," Hancock blinked her beautiful eyes and also jumped onto the Island Cloud.

Rowen hadn’t rubberized all the Island Clouds.

After all, Hancock, Kaya, Franky, Brook, and the others hadn’t been to Skypiea before. For most people on this sea, Skypiea was just a legend.

So Rowen only rubberized the clouds Nami, Vivi, and the others were playing on.

Hancock and Kaya could first experience what a Sky Island’s Clouds were like, then choose to play on the rubberized clouds.

"Amazing! So this is a Sky Island Cloud?" Kaya laughed happily.

Skypiea, for her, who had been bedridden in her room before, was a distant legend. She never imagined she could personally experience an island built on clouds.

"Incredible! I’ve never experienced this," Franky laughed.

"YOHOHOHO! How light! Though I’m already light enough to be just a bag of bones."

Brook, who in the original story had guarded the ship with Zoro, was also having a great time now, cracking one of his signature skull jokes.

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"SUGEEEEEEEEE! THIS ELASTICITY!"

Luffy, Usopp, and Chopper, however, were having the time of their lives on the rubberized Island Cloud.

"Amazing, Rowen! You can rubberize the Island Cloud without using your Awakened state?" Usopp asked, amazed, while still having fun.

Rubberizing the surrounding environment was the power of the Human-Human Fruit, Mythical Zoan, Model: Nika’s Awakening, which could only be released in the Awakened Nika form.

But right now, Rowen wasn’t displaying Nika’s signature, pure-white warrior form at all.

"Shishishi! That’s because Rowen’s Devil Fruit power has gotten stronger! He doesn’t need to show his Awakened form to assimilate things with rubber anymore," Luffy explained with a wide grin.

"Eh? Don’t Devil Fruits stop getting stronger after Awakening?" Chopper was stunned.

With Rowen’s help, Chopper’s own Human-Human Fruit had already Awakened, turning him into the Ultimate Reindeer.

The Awakening of the Human-Human Fruit brought Chopper not just strength, but also enhanced research ability. Thus, not only his strength, but his medical skills had also surpassed the original story, reaching a new height.

As an Awakened user of the Human-Human Fruit, Chopper knew from the moment of his Awakening that his fruit’s power had reached its limit.

No matter how much he trained, the power of the fruit itself would not change.

Even for the World’s Strongest Devil Fruit User, Rowen, who could combine multiple Devil Fruit abilities and unleash power far beyond their individual limits—it was the same.

Even after Rowen became a Legendary-class powerhouse, his Rumble-Rumble Fruit, Human-Human Fruit, and other abilities wouldn’t get stronger.

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Rowen could feel that as Nika’s power grew stronger, the special heartbeat known as the ’Drums of Liberation’ was also beginning to awaken its true power.

This power was probably the true power of the Human-Human Fruit, Mythical Zoan, Model: Nika—the power of liberation.

Whether it was assimilating all objects into rubber, even being able to rubberize a human body for a terrifying ’True Damage’ attack, or integrating Armament Haki and Haōshoku Coating into Nika’s rubbery body, unleashing power a tier higher than other powerhouses of the same level.

As for Nika’s Imagination—it just made the user’s combat style more diverse and able to handle various situations—it didn’t do much to increase the actual combat power ceiling.

Like Luffy’s strongest move, the Bajrang Gun, which didn’t involve Nika’s Imagination—and Rowen’s strongest move, the Human God Gun, which also didn’t.

In contrast, Kaido’s Fish-Fish Fruit, Mythical Zoan, Model: Azure Dragon ability, which Rowen now possessed—

Whether it was the pure elemental control of Blast Breath or Gust—or the combination of elemental power and the Azure Dragon body’s strength—Thunder Bagua—or the strongest Flame Dragon Torch, all originated from the special ability this Mythical Zoan granted its user.

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