One Piece: The Strongest Trait System novel Chapter 289

Chapter 289: [289] : The Awakened Devil Fruits! This Land is Hell!

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"KAIDO!"

Warcury’s expression soured as he glared at the Seraphim designed to look like a young Doflamingo.

Kaido—the man who had once sought death by repeatedly launching suicidal attacks on Marine Headquarters and the other Emperor’s fleets.

The man who had taken on the entire Marine force and an entire Emperor’s crew by himself, only to be defeated and captured.

As a pirate, Kaido had been defeated seven times.

He had been captured 18 times when challenging the Marines and the Emperors alone. And subjected to over a thousand tortures and sentenced to death 40 times.

When they tried to hang him, the chains snapped.

When they put him on the guillotine, the blade shattered.

When they tried to impale him with spears, the spears broke.

He had sunk nine giant prison ships.

BEFORE SKY SOVEREIGN ROWEN, NO ONE COULD KILL HIM. NOT EVEN HIMSELF.

And as the Warrior God of Justice among the Five Elders, Warcury had personally ordered Kaido’s execution sentences in the past.

He would never mistake him.

Though this person had the appearance of a Seraphim, the soul within... was undoubtedly the great pirate who had died at the hands of Sky Sovereign.

The Former Emperor and World’s Strongest Creature—

—Kaido of the Beasts.

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"KAIDO?? HOW?? DIDN’T HE DIE AT THE HANDS OF SKY SOVEREIGN ROWEN??"

Vice Admiral Doll’s face was filled with horror, her forehead already drenched in cold sweat.

The other Marine Vice Admirals also had looks of utter disbelief.

But then, Doll and the other officers fell silent.

After all... they had just seen Kuzan, who they had personally witnessed die at the hands of Sky Sovereign, return from the dead right before their eyes. The resurrection of Kaido, who had also been killed by Sky Sovereign, wasn’t so hard to comprehend.

But to understand was one thing—to accept was another!

What level of pirate was Kaido??

Before the complete rise of Sky Sovereign Rowen, the strongest in a one-on-one fight was likely Kaido.

That was the near-unanimous consensus of the entire world at the time. 𝘧𝑟𝑒𝑒𝘸𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝓁.𝘤𝘰𝓂

The title of "World’s Strongest Creature" was well-deserved.

In the perception of the world back then, Kaido was the Emperor with the Greatest individual combat power.

And his current Haki fully proved that point.

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"HOW... CAN YOU USE HAKI??"

Warcury looked furious.

Neither the resurrected Crocodile nor Kuzan, though they could use their former Devil Fruit abilities—with Kuzan’s Ice-Ice Fruit being no weaker than before and Crocodile’s Sand-Sand Fruit being even stronger, mastered to its absolute limit—had a single shred of Haki.

Crocodile was a special case—for his own reasons, he had been unable to use Haki since becoming a Warlord.

But Kuzan’s Armament Haki was among the absolute top-tier on the seas, yet now he couldn’t use it at all. This could only mean one thing:

—As Special Elemental Homies, they were incapable of using Haki.

This, of course, was not surprising to the Five Elders.

After all, Armament Haki was the manifestation of physical and spiritual power combined. An Elemental Homie—whose entire body was an element and had no physical energy, could not possibly use Armament Haki.

Of course, the Seraphim were the Strongest Form of Humanity created by Vegapunk. With their Lunarian bloodline—they possessed incredibly powerful physiques. Each Seraphim could use very strong Armament and Observation Haki.

But what Warcury was talking about wasn’t Armament Haki, but CONQUEROR’S HAKI!

The current Kaido’s Conqueror’s Haki was no weaker than when he was alive. In fact, it was even stronger!

A Kaido like this, even without his former powerful physique and the Fish-Fish Fruit, Mythical Zoan, Model: Azure Dragon... his combat power wouldn’t be much weaker than before.

Peak Emperor-level combat power!

This was a terrifying force capable of completely shattering the balance of this war!

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"WORORORO! SURPRISED?? I’M SURPRISED TOO! BUT THIS HAKI... IS MINE!"

An astonishing crimson-black light flashed in Kaido’s eyes.

Ace and the others were also very surprised. They weren’t surprised by Kaido’s appearance.

Before they came to this battle, Rowen had infused Kaido’s soul into this Seraphim using the Soul-Soul Fruit ability. The original consciousness within the Seraphim had been ejected by the Paw-Paw Fruit.

Although they were weapons of war, the Seraphim were, in fact, Humans with their own consciousness.

Vegapunk called them the "Strongest Form of Humanity." This was how they could use such strong Armament and Observation Haki.

And for both the S-Bear Seraphim that Kuma’s soul was infused into, and the Doflamingo-based Seraphim that Kaido’s soul was infused into—Rowen had used a combination of the Paw-Paw and Soul-Soul Fruits to safely eject their original souls.

This had been a great relief to their creator, Vegapunk.

Although the original souls were gone, the powerful physical energy from the Lunarian bloodline within the Seraphim was completely intact.

Combined with Kaido’s incredibly powerful spirit, in theory, the Kaido-infused Seraphim should be able to use even stronger Armament and Observation Haki.

Just a moment ago—Vegapunk had been performing the latest adjustments on the Kaido-infused Seraphim.

But that only included strong Armament and Observation Haki.

This Conqueror’s Haki—which was no weaker than Kaido’s when he was alive, even stronger, was also a huge surprise to Ace and the others.

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"COULD IT BE...!"

Saturn broke out in a cold sweat, a possibility dawning on him.

"IS IT THE PORTION OF CONQUEROR’S HAKI THAT SKY SOVEREIGN ROWEN TOOK FROM YOU??"

Saturn stared intently at Kaido.

"WORORORO! AS EXPECTED OF THE FIVE ELDERS! YOUR BRAINS WORK PRETTY WELL," Kaido laughed loudly.

As he laughed, the violent crimson-black lightning boiling around him surged furiously.

"I see... Rowen once took all of Kaido’s Haki. So Rowen’s own Conqueror’s Haki contained a part that belonged to Kaido. By giving that part back to Kaido, since it was originally his, he can use it without any hindrance."

Sanji quickly figured out the key point after the hint.

Ace and the others immediately understood.

Conqueror’s Haki, unlike Armament Haki, was the pure manifestation of spiritual power, and one had to have the Disposition of a king to awaken it.

Neither Kuzan, Crocodile, nor Enel had the Disposition of a King, so they naturally couldn’t use Conqueror’s Haki.

Just as before, Rowen could already transfer Haki to them through the spiritual channels he had established, but those without the kingly Disposition could only use it to strengthen their Armament Haki, and were still limited by their physical strength.

But those like Luffy, who had awakened Conqueror’s Haki, could directly use it to strengthen their own.

The Disposition of a king was the ticket to using Conqueror’s Haki. That could not be changed.

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