Chapter 20 The Troubles of Happiness
Xie Wen held the fresh knife Bai Nagi in his hand, closed his eyes tightly, and slowly adjusted his breathing.
As he opened his eyes, a flash of black quickly infected Shironagi's entire knife, or rather the entire fish.
Xie Wen, who was holding the "black fish" in his hand, performed a hunter's knife technique, and the black color on it gradually receded. After putting Bai Nagi's knife into its sheath, the corners of Xie Wen's mouth raised slightly...
"Finally, I have completely mastered the armed color Haki."
In fact, it did not take Xie Wen much time to awaken the armed color Haki, but the process of mastering it was very difficult.
Although Xie Wen relied on the skills in Monster Hunter to touch the threshold of armed color domineering in advance, this also resulted in that if he wanted to activate the armed color at the beginning, he had to turn on the ghost form, or use Iai, Super Solution, Accumulation Specific moves such as force slash.
However, on the premise that you are not facing people with fruit abilities, there is actually not much difference when using these moves with or without the overlord color, because whether it is the moves in monster hunting or the armament color domineering, the biggest feature is It is to enhance one's own attack power. Even from this aspect alone, the effect of Monster Hunter's moves is actually stronger.
Moreover, Xie Wen's original intention of mastering the armed color was to deal with those fruit ability users, especially those with natural fruit abilities. Armed colors that could not be maintained for a long time were like useless to him.
In fact, he only figured it out later. Using his monster hunting skills to awaken his weapon color in advance was equivalent to skipping class while playing games. Although he could skip the previous content and run to fight the BOSS, if his own strength was not enough To defeat the BOSS, skipping this class is the same as not skipping it. In the end, you still have to make up for the missed class.
After figuring this out, Xie Wen had to abandon the skills in Monster Hunter and try to train his weapons in a normal state.
And skipping classes before was not without any benefit. At least it would save me a lot of detours when rebuilding my weaponry.
In this way, Xie Wen spent a lot of time and finally fully learned the armed domineering spirit today.
"The next step is to complete the map of this island, and then build the ship and prepare to go to sea!"
Finally starting a new journey, Xie Wen was a little excited when he thought about it.
It's a pity that both Keli and Sanji are not here. I want to share this good news, but I can't find anyone for a while.
Just when Xie Wen was hesitating whether to continue exercising or go directly to find the two cats, Keli Meow's voice came from not far away.
"Brother Xie Wen, Keli discovered a super big monster, meow!"
The small red figure rushed out from the bushes on the side, then climbed up Xie Wen's back on both hands and feet, put one hand on his shoulder, pointed the other hand in the direction from which he came, and said quickly: " Keli had just been frying fish at the beach, and suddenly a guy who looked a bit like a clay dragon appeared out of the sea. But it was much bigger than the clay dragon. Keli thought it might be the Sea King you mentioned, brother Xie Wen. Meow-like!"
"Really? Is it still on the beach now?"
Xie Wen confirmed with Keli Miao and ran in the direction she pointed.
As one of the specialties of the One Piece world, the Neptune class should have a separate page in the Hunter's Manual, right?
"Of course it's still meowing!" Keli, who was lying on Xie Wen's back, shook her little head triumphantly, "It has been knocked out by Keli with a bouncing bomb, and it will never wake up for a while. ! And Sanji-nii is still watching from the side!"
"Good job!"
Xie Wen reached behind his hand, patted her little head gently, and praised her loudly.
"Hey hey~" Keli, who was praised, rubbed Xie Wen's neck, and then asked expectantly: "Can we add new companions again, meow?"
Regarding the hunter's manual, Xie Wen naturally informed Kelimiao early on. This was also the main reason why she chose to blow up the Neptune creature instead of burning it directly.
"I'm not sure," Xie Wen said honestly, "but at least it shouldn't be a problem to get another third of the fragments."
While he was talking, he carried Kelimiao to the coast. Sure enough, there was a huge sea king lying here, but it looked more like a plesiosaur than a mud dragon.
But it didn't matter what it looked like. Xie Wen took out the hunter's manual as soon as he saw it...
Well, even if he didn't do this, Sanji, who had been staying here to guard the Sea Kings, would urge him to check the manual.
There are actually no surprises in the next development. Just as Xie Wen had guessed before, the manual not only unlocked the Neptune page, but also gave Xie Wen a second follower cat summoning coupon fragment. Even the color was the same as the first one. A fragment is also mainly off-white.
And when Xie Wen took out the first fragment, the two fragments were automatically combined together and became the "Following Cat Summoning Ticket (2/3)".
"That's great, meow!" Seeing this scene, Sanji meow was extremely excited and said in endless reverie: "Maybe after Xie Wen, you can get the second summoning ticket after you finish exploring this island, meow!"
"Well, I was just about to tell you about this." Xie Wen stroked Sanji's cat and gave him another piece of good news, "I have successfully mastered the Armament Haki, and I will go all out next. By pushing the picture, you can also prepare a ship for going to sea."
Hearing this news, Sanji was extremely happy. He patted his chest and said, "Pushing pictures is easy, meow! I've already traveled through the entire island, meow!"
Sanji Miao, who has also undergone hard training, has also improved a lot in strength. Although it is still not as good as Sanji's performance in the comics, it is still no problem to explore areas that he did not dare to approach before.
If it weren't for the "player" Xie Wen who had to be present when opening the map, the exploration rate of this island would have been 100%.
"Brother Xie Wen, what should I do with this sea king?"
Keli Meow obediently lay on Xie Wen's shoulder, and after watching him and Sanji Meow end their conversation, she asked in a sweet voice.
"Hmm..." Xie Wen pondered for a while, then pulled out Shiragi and walked towards the Neptune creature, "Kill it, and then let Sanji use it to make a feast for us!"
In fact, according to his original idea, he wanted to try to subdue this Neptune type and let it carry him out to sea. However, Xie Wen vaguely remembered that Neptune type seemed to only obey the orders of the mermaid princess who had awakened the power of Neptune. , others could not tame the Neptune species, so they gave up the idea.
Of course, the main reason was that the kitten lying on his shoulder was almost drooling into his neck, and he naturally didn't want to disappoint Kelimiao.
Besides, he was originally quite interested in Neptune meat, but the taste was secondary. The key is that according to the analysis of some Haimi and fan authors, Neptune meat mostly has the effect of enhancing physical fitness, and Xie Wen himself is the same. Those who agree with this statement...
Otherwise, how can we explain why the vitality of the aboriginal people here is so strong, even some civilians who have not had much exercise.
So it’s outrageous that Kuina would die from the “Supreme Grand Staircase”!
While complaining about the plot in the comic, Xie Wen stabbed the blackened Shiro Nagi into the head of the Neptune creature, then took out his hunting knife and stabbed it into the corpse.
After getting a high-quality Neptune tenderloin, he tried to stab him again...
After all, with such a big body, maybe he can be stripped a second time?
"Tsk!"
After the failed attempt, Xie Wen took back the hunting knife angrily, and then helped Sanji Miao to deal with this big guy...
There was no way around it. Whether it was his or Elu Cat's extra-dimensional backpack, the internal space was limited. Without some processing, they wouldn't be able to fit such a large Neptune.
That night, Xie Wen and the two cats ate a hearty Neptune meal. It’s unclear whether it can enhance their physical fitness. Anyway, the taste was really good, and even Keli Meow made her stomach ache. Full of food, he lay in Xie Wen's arms and moaned "meow, meow, meow".
"What a greedy little cat," Xie Wen rubbed Kelimiao's belly and nodded her little nose angrily and funny, "Let's see if you dare to eat like this in the future."
"Ah wu...Brother Xie Wen, please stop talking, meow..."
Kelimiao shyly covered her face with her little paws, and pushed her little head hard into Xie Wen's belly...
This made Sanji Miao on the side very envious.
Xie Wen moved Kelimiao in his arms to the side, then smiled and waved to him.
"I don't really want to be touched by you, meow..."
Sanji, who squeezed into Xie Wen's arms, hummed while looking up to the sky, exposing his soft belly.
"Yes, yes, this is because I want to thank you for the feast you cooked tonight, and I took the initiative to give you a massage, Sanji."
Xie Wen didn't expose this arrogant cat who didn't mean what he said, and devoted himself wholeheartedly to his great cause of cat masturbation.
Sigh... If I summon more cats in the future, my two hands may not be enough... In addition to the flower fruit, I don't know if there are clone fruits or the Renren Fruit, Phantom Beast Species, and Thousand-Armed Avalokitesvara. A devil fruit that allows you to have more hands.
Xie Wen, who has a cat in one hand, is happily worried.
There are many opinions about the domineering color of the armed color, but there is no official explanation.
Anyway, in my opinion, Oda probably didn’t think much about the color issue at first, that is, the earliest Garp was able to hurt Luffy’s “colorless Haki”, and when Zhan Momomaru first appeared, he didn’t show any color. .
As for the coloring later, the main reason is most likely the comic's expression technique. Otherwise, how can readers intuitively know that the character uses domineering?
It was not until the black sword was refined with domineering that the official decision was made, and black was designated as the main expression of domineering.
As for red and black, purple and black, etc., I feel that it is more to distinguish the characters, and there is no distinction between superior and inferior.
Of course, I don’t rule out that Oda will have some new ideas in the future, but at least so far, I still write according to my own understanding of armed color haki.
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