Codex Pirates

Chapter 113

William didn't know what a group of subordinates were talking about. In fact, he didn't think as much as Crowe and others thought. After pointing out Kuina, he and Koshiro continued to wander, and at the same time talked about the topic of swordsmanship. William this time Apart from Oliver, the main reason for coming to Yixin Dojo is because he has recently faintly felt that his swordsmanship has reached the edge of a breakthrough, and he has touched the field of swordsmen who can split gold and iron, and cut iron like mud.

The specialty given to William by Fate Square is more like raising his potential. [Lightning Reflex] has improved his body's response ability and coordination, and [Strength] has improved his bones, muscle density, and even his own immunity. .

In addition, William also has two specialties closely related to swordsmanship, namely the special specialty [Zen Swordsmanship] and the achievement specialty [Blessing to the Heart].

[Zen Swordsmanship]: Your swordsmanship has begun to take shape in Zen. When using a sword, you can easily abandon distracting thoughts, concentrate, and give full play to your swordsmanship skills.

[Fortune to the Soul]: Through the guidance of famous swordsmen, your understanding of sword theory has deepened, and your swordsmanship pattern has been greatly improved since then, and the learning of swordsmanship skills is twice the result with half the effort.

With these two specialties, William's speed in the field of swordsmanship can be said to be rapid. [Zen Swordsmanship] makes it easy for him to abandon all distracting thoughts in daily training, and put all his energy on swordsmanship. This ensures his "learning Efficiency", and [Fortune to the Mind] is equivalent to giving William a "swordsman thinking".

What is swordsman thinking? When a person devotes himself to a field and thinks about things related to it all the time, his way of thinking will inevitably be changed. When they look at things, they are used to explaining and thinking in terms of their own field. Over time, they can often understand by analogy .

For example, William knew a chef in his previous life. He has been closely related to cooking since he was a child. He also loves this field. He can use cooking as a metaphor for everything he does in the kitchen.

William is similar now, the expertise of [Fu Zhi Xin], coupled with his practice in Yixin Dojo, usually practicing swords and using swords, fighting and even life, as long as he sticks a little bit with swordsmanship, he will either actively or passively associate with it. Swordsmanship triggers inspiration.

The steam fruit that William is currently eating has two abilities endowed to him in a way similar to "instinct". One is the ability to elementalize itself, which is basically possessed by natural devil fruits, and the other is the ability to increase temperature and heat. It was dubbed "boiling water" by William, which should be the "rule" ability corresponding to his steam fruit - to vaporize matter quickly. Only with this ability can the steam appear quickly, just like the condensate formed by cold. ice.

A Jin heard from the mouse that there is a natural ability user who ate frozen fruit in the Navy headquarters. He elementalizes ice, which may be similar to William. things freeze.

William didn't know if there was a bottleneck when the guy called the monster by the mouse lowered the temperature, and where the bottleneck was. He only knew that he would soon encounter a bottleneck.

His ability to heat and increase temperature comes from a certain regular power of the Devil Fruit. The initial upper limit is exactly at the boiling point temperature of water at standard atmospheric pressure, which is also the temperature of the steam produced by violent vaporization. This value is consistent with his body's initial control ability. Some kind of delicate balance was struck.

Next, reheat and increase the temperature, because William's pot of water "boiled", steam would escape uncontrollably, and the expanding gas would scurry around extremely willfully, and then release the heat that William had managed to raise.

So much so that now he can only keep the steam he controls at about 100 degrees, and the larger the area of ​​gas dissipation, the faster the heat loss will be. If he spreads the steam all over the dojo, let alone whether he can Do it, even if it can be done, even if you try your best to increase the temperature, the temperature of the steam that permeates the whole dojo is estimated to be pitifully low.

So although William knows that the boiling point of water alone can change with the pressure, the upper limit is not just 100 degrees, and the high temperature that the steam itself can reach is even more than that.

But until he finds a better way to prevent himself from "air leakage and heat dissipation", it is difficult for William to continue to make a fuss about the temperature capability of the fruit, so William's vision shifts from temperature to other aspects, trying other application techniques.

For example, when he was facing the enemy in Black Reef Town, he tried to use the power of gas volume expansion, and when his body was elementalized and turned into water vapor, he had a strange perception of stretching with the water vapor.

Although the wider the area covered by the water vapor, the weaker this perception is, but it is still an extraordinary experience. After all, when he is elementalized, he perceives external objects from the perspective of gas.

Koshiro once said that everything has a breath, as long as you can hear the breath of all things, you can cut anything, and you can cut everything without interruption.

When a private exercise, the falling leaves followed the inertia, passed through the thin layer of water vapor formed by the elementalization of William's body, and finally fluttered to the ground, William's mind suddenly flashed.

At that moment, everything on the leaf - wind, gravity, inertia, its own density... William seemed to be aware of everything. He did hear the "breathing" of the leaf, and knew that he wanted to achieve the "everything" in Koshiro's mouth. To be able to cut off, but not to cut off anything", one must know how to use the power of the leaves when they "breathe" to follow the trend.

Just like when Koshiro danced his sword under the cherry tree.

At that time, Koshiro accurately grasped all the factors that affect the falling of the cherry blossom petals, combined with the extremely exquisite swordsmanship, and displayed such a beautiful and magical swordsmanship, every movement he swung under the cherry blossoms Swords are as simple and natural as breathing.

It seems that the lung lobes expand and contract with the influx of air, all of this is natural, just like human instinct.

Koshiro was a little surprised when William told his feelings. He knew that William was very talented, but he never thought that he could touch the edge of this realm so quickly.

William and his party lived in Shimoyue Village for three consecutive days. William, Edmond, and Aramis listened to the lectures under Koshiro again. They seemed to have regained some memories of studying and living in the dojo in the past, and the cadres of the other pirates came one after another. Continued to return to the ship.

On this day, William was fighting swords with Edmund and Aramis in the courtyard, while Koshiro led the students to observe from a distance.

William fights one against two, without using the power of the devil fruit, he won't be defeated by swordsmanship alone. The three of them are all masters taught by the dojo, and they have experienced actual combat at sea. They have both skills and murderous intentions, and they fight It seems that the move to kill, not only has the unique beauty of swordsmanship, but also has a strong murderous intent.

The thrilling place made the students in the dojo who had not experienced much actual combat feel cold sweat.

William was thinking about the words taught by Koshiro. He didn't just think about the pure power of swordsmanship, but more about the skills of swordsmanship, stabbing, slashing, slashing, changing his steps very little, and all his attention was on Ed. Meng and Aramis, more precisely, the two swords, feel the "force" they put on it, feel the power of inertia, and feel the "breath" of the sword itself.

When the swordsmanship in this world has reached a certain level, it has gradually moved closer to the philosophical level, changing from swordsmanship to swordsmanship, and it is no longer limited to pure physical strength, but emphasizes the cultivation of the swordsman's spirit and will.

Fortunately, [Zen Swordsmanship] and [Fortune to the Soul] gave William this talent.

Edmund and Aramis tried their best to attack William, but they were all blocked by William, as if all actions could not be hidden from William.

The two took a few steps back, took a few breaths, then looked at each other, and were about to attack together again, but William suddenly retracted his sword into its scabbard. The movement was stopped, because William then lowered his upper body, lowered his center of gravity, and leaned his body sideways. This is a standard Iai chop movement.

William kept the movement of the joint cut and did not move. Seeing this, Edmond and Aramis, who were on guard, took the initiative to attack. The two of them knew that William ate a natural-type devil fruit, so they did not have the slightest psychological burden in the competition, and they all gave it their all. for.

William didn't move until Edmund and Aramis took action. His pupils were out of focus, and he didn't seem to be concentrating on his opponent at all, but in fact, his body and mind were devoted to Edmond and Aramis. On the sword in hand, listening to the breath of the sword.

Click!

When Edmund and Aramis stepped into the range of William's attack, William pulled out his knife abruptly, and a sword-like light suddenly appeared in the courtyard, lightly hitting the knife in the hands of Edmund and Aramis. The two expensive knives were directly cut by the light of the knife like a piece of paper!

William closed his eyes tightly and hit the knife, still feeling the momentary realization, while Aramis and Edmund looked at the broken knife in their hands a little speechlessly.

After a while, Aramis saw William opened his eyes, looked at him with a smile on his face, and raised his broken knife at him pretending to be angry: "What are you looking at? Lose money!"

————

(I saw that some readers were puzzled by the title of the second volume, the second volume "Donghai Devil". The devil actually refers to revenge itself, as well as the devil fruit ability Barbarossa, and the devil fruit obtained by the protagonist.)