The magic merchant who mingled with Fairy Tail

The pirates who can enter the new world are all ruthless characters who have experienced risks and surfed the waves in the first half of the 'paradise', and are strong enough to stand on their own. A bounty of over 100 million is the basic threshold. Anyone with a price lower than this is not allowed. Do not think.

This group of over 100 million pirates who are poured into the new world every year is called 'Supernova'.

But even if it is such an existence, it is still difficult to move in a territory like the New World. If it fails, it will be buried in the sea, and there will never be a chance to come back.

This is true even for the Supernovas, not to mention the rest. They basically have only two ways to live: surrender to the Four Emperors, or wait to be defeated by the Four Emperors.

Three years ago, the most famous supernova at the time sailed into the new world. He failed to challenge Whitebeard, and finally became a member of the Whitebeard Pirates. He was Ace, the "Fire Fist".

Portcas D. Ace!

Back in time a few days ago...

Ace was standing on the bow of the ship, with his hands on his hips, looking at the towering red continent in the distance. He had experienced this scene three years ago. Now that things and people have changed, he couldn't help but sigh a little more in his heart.

Thinking back to the beginning, I was also a high-spirited, domineering and handsome young man who was loved by everyone!

"You guy, get off the bow of the boat!!"

Bucky's upper body emerged from behind Ace, and then he grabbed him hard and pulled him off the bow of the boat. "Let me make it clear, this is my uncle's boat! You bastard!!"

"I'll just stand here for a moment, what does it matter!!"

"Stop talking nonsense! Come down here. The bow of the ship is the captain's exclusive seat. Don't you even understand this?!"

thump! Boom! Boom! Bang, bang, bang! ! …

The intense and exciting struggle made both of them sweat a lot.

'hateful! The way this guy stood on the bow just now looked exactly like Captain Roger! This guy is definitely the captain's son! ! ! ’

‘How about taking this opportunity to go to the New World and contact that guy Shanks... Damn it! ! To be honest, if it wasn't related to the captain, I wouldn't want to go find that bastard! ! But even Shanks may not know about this guy, right? It would be nice to know where the deputy captain is, he must know better! ’

There are only a few people in the world who can admire Bucky from the bottom of his heart. The former Captain Roger is one of them, so Bucky is always particularly concerned about things related to Roger.

"Hey, Bucky! Today's training is about to begin!"

"coming!!"

Ever since he witnessed Gildarts' crushing magic a few days ago, Bucky had been shocked.

As a big shot who has lived in the Roger Pirates since he was a child, Bucky is naturally no stranger to the concept of "Devil Fruit Awakening". He has known for a long time that different types of Devil Fruit look different after awakening: Superman type It can affect foreign objects, the animal type can transform, and the natural type can permanently change the climate of a place.

According to this rule, the superhuman split fruit he ate should be able to split external objects after awakening, which is the power of Gildarts.

But there are very few people in this world who can use their Devil Fruit abilities to awaken. Almost every one of them is a strong man who stands at the top of the world. At least they are at the level of the Shichibukai and the Four Emperors. It is simply not something he can do. As time went by, Bucky's desire to awaken the Devil Fruit faded away.

What's more, he doesn't really like this Devil Fruit ability!

It was precisely because of this Devil Fruit that he went from being the best swimmer on the Roger Pirate Ship to a landlubber who couldn't swim, and he also permanently lost the opportunity to obtain the big treasure buried at the bottom of the sea!

It's just that time has changed, and now the situation in the new world is changing, and turmoil is about to arise. This is a great opportunity for the pirates to fish in troubled waters, seize food from the tiger's mouth, and seize the treasures accumulated by the Four Emperors over the past few decades. How can he, Captain Bucky, just do this? miss? !

Not to mention, there is Captain John there, a shortcut to John’s treasure!

So with various motivations, Bucky decided to train with Gildarts for a few days to see if he could learn how to awaken the Devil Fruit from his crushing magic.

…

"Crush!!"

With a low cry, Peiran's magic power turned into dazzling white light and exploded in the air, cutting Bucky in front of him into dozens of pieces. Bucky, who was cut into pieces of flesh, lost his support and was about to fall to the ground. But as soon as it shook, Bucky used his mind to control it and put it back together, making it a perfect fit without leaving any gaps.

"How's it going? Do you feel it, Bucky?" Gildas asked Bucky, who was closing his eyes and feeling, as if he had endless aftertaste.

"No, I didn't feel anything!!"

Bucky first shook his head regretfully, then sighed and sat on the ground depressed, "I knew there were so many people using Devil Fruits in the world, how could I be the lucky one?"

If Kira were here, he would definitely scold Bucky for being better at Versailles than him, because Bucky is already the luckiest person in the ocean.

"Don't belittle yourself, Bucky!"

Gildas laughed and comforted, "Haven't you heard the old saying? Those who love to laugh will have good luck, and those who always make people laugh will have good luck!"

"you……"

Bucky's eyes widened, and then he roared angrily: "Whose nose makes people laugh?!!"

Gildas: "..."

Is this guy younger than me? Are you already deaf like this? Did you use your fragmented ability too much and hurt your eardrums? so poor……

It has been five days since he trained his Devil Fruit abilities for an hour every day, but Bucky still shows no signs of breaking through. He is like a pool of stagnant water isolated from the world, unable to make any ripples no matter how bumpy the outside world is.

After training, it's time to eat. A hearty lunch can replenish the energy consumed while practicing Devil Fruit.

Before the arrival of Gildarts and Ace, Bucky's pirate group basically ate, drank, played, and rarely trained every day, but from that day on, everyone began to get involved.

With Bucky taking the lead as an example, the cadres such as Arrita, Kabaji, and Mochi on the ship also rarely began to hone their devil fruits, swordsmanship, and physical fitness. Even Ace, who was a guest, also Because of Gildas' previous teachings, he began to try to accumulate his flames at a higher temperature.

However, Gildas knew that this kind of involution might not last long, because everyone on this ship was following Bucky, so as long as Bucky could not persist, others would naturally give up soon.

Thinking of this, Gildarts suddenly became more approachable as a teacher after a long absence: "The last time I taught someone like this, I taught Kira... No, it should be Natsu, right?" ’

"Listen, Bucky!"

"Huh?? What's wrong??"

While eating, Gildas revealed what he had observed with the eyes of an S-class wizard: "After these few days of observation, I discovered that the magic I use and the Devil Fruit ability you use are actually different. It's very similar in a way! What I'm talking about here is not just the two abilities of 'Crush' and 'Split', but all magic and all... uh... and the fruit abilities of the three of you, and others. I don’t know about the ability person yet, but I think it should be about the same!”

"The most critical point is that the process of developing Devil Fruit abilities is very similar to the process of developing magic. It mainly depends on a belief. The stronger the belief, the stronger the user! Of course, magic is closer to emotions, and Devil Fruit abilities are more relevant. Combine your imagination!"

There was suddenly some silence in the air.

Bucky blinked his eyes, revealing his clear stupidity.

Gildas knew from this look that he didn't understand, so he changed his words and said concisely: "To put it simply, the stronger the emotion of the magician, the stronger the magic; the richer the imagination of the ability user. , the stronger the ability!"

"So as long as you follow the concept of 'falling apart' and use your imagination to the extreme, your strength will improve rapidly!"

Does the development of Devil Fruits rely on imagination? ?

This is the first time I have heard of this theory...

"But...how can I develop it if it is torn apart? Even though I have decades of experience in sailing the sea, I can only use the fruit's ability to this extent over the years! I have thought about being like you, The ability to 'split' has been released to the outside world, but it has never been successful..."

Bucky was eating and chatting casually, seemingly not particularly concerned about whether he could develop the Devil Fruit in depth, and he almost had the word 'poor' written all over his face.

"Well... I think you can recover no matter how small you are divided into. So as long as you are classified into something smaller than sand, or even invisible to the naked eye, isn't it almost the same as Ace and others' natural type??"

Bucky shook his head: "No, no... I have thought about this before, but later I discovered that even if it is split to that extent, it cannot be used for attack, and there is not much improvement in defense! Besides, using Devil Fruit will consume stamina. , the more detailed the splitting, the faster the physical strength will be depleted."

There are two situations for people with superhuman abilities, one is to obtain superpowers, and the other is to transform into a superhuman body.

The former is flashy, has a high minimum limit, consumes a lot of physical energy, and the fruit's ability will fade when defeated. This is the case for Luo, who will be as weak as if he fought for three days and three nights with just a little use of his ability;

The latter is simple and unpretentious, with a low lower limit of combat power, but basically does not consume physical strength. Bucky is this type. His ability to split is almost passive, even if he is chopped into pieces without knowing it, he will be unharmed.

But even so, the physical strength consumed by simple splitting and extreme splitting is still different, and Bucky is not a strong person, so he will definitely not waste a lot of physical energy on a useless 'detailed splitting' during the battle.

Gildas thought for a while, and then brought up the various magics he knew as a reference: "I know a kind of decomposition magic, which can decompose others into many villains. Each villain has an independent consciousness, but attacks The strength will be greatly weakened..."

Bucky frowned: "That's also an ability that can be released to the outside world..."

"Then try using it on yourself! If you divide yourself into many parts, like a clone technique, wouldn't it be just a few of you beating others in a group when fighting in the future?"

"But you just said that your attack power would be reduced, right?"

"Do you have attack power?"

"……forget it."

Seeing that the other party listened, Gildas nodded with satisfaction and continued to eat.

Suddenly, his eyes caught sight of Irene's figure on the newspaper beside him, and a bold idea came out of his mind: "I said, Bucky! Do you want to try and separate out things like 'concepts'?" ?”

"……Eh??"