One Piece: The Strongest Trait System novel Chapter 259

Chapter 259: [259] : The New Physique Trait! Legendary-Class! Nika Fruit’s Nemesis! A Second Awakening??

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After the "special tutoring" session with the girls had concluded, Rowen shifted his focus back to the improvement of his own strength.

The recent battle, the grand siege that had annihilated three Marine Admirals and two of the Four Emperors, had been nothing more than an appetizer.

The true final enemy was still waiting. Imu.

And—

"Blackbeard... took advantage of the chaos to seize Hachinosu and become an Emperor?" Rowen murmured, looking at the wanted poster in his hand, a crimson-black light flashing in his eyes.

There’s definitely something wrong with this guy’s combat strength...

Even without the Tremor-Tremor Fruit, he still defeated Ochoku, a former member of the Rocks Pirates and a legendary pirate in his own right, and seized Hachinosu Island.

In the original story, Blackbeard used Koby to defeat Ochoku.

This man’s power level had always been a mystery; in battle, his strength, even his personality, would constantly shift.

And...

"The Dark-Dark Fruit..." Rowen’s eyes flashed with an astonishing crimson-black light.

After obtaining the power of the Human-Human Fruit, Mythical Zoan, Model: Nika, Rowen’s perception of the Dark-Dark Fruit had also changed.

These two Devil Fruits—seemed to be natural opposites.

The Nika Fruit granted its user the BUG-like ability of Imagination. Whatever the user could imagine, could become reality. It could even create things from nothing, grab lightning to attack—it was also called the most ridiculous ability.

And the essence of a Devil Fruit was the manifestation of the desires of people from the past.

Nika’s Imagination could be said to be the ultimate manifestation of a Devil Fruit’s ’Desire’.

’What is thought, becomes reality.’

And the Dark-Dark Fruit—was an ability that could nullify all other Devil Fruit abilities.

Nullifying all the ’Desires’ of the Devil Fruits it touched.

These two abilities were complete opposites, natural nemeses.

Compared to the Demonic abilities Imu would later display, the power of the Dark-Dark Fruit was more like the nemesis of the Nika Fruit.

Even the core "Desires" they embodied were in direct opposition: the Dark-Dark Fruit’s all-consuming gravity, and the Nika fruit’s all-encompassing desire for liberation...

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"But, in the end, even Devil Fruits have their limits," Rowen mused, an astonishing crimson-black light flashing in his eyes.

"ONLY HAKI... CAN TRANSCEND ALL."

Rowen incinerated Blackbeard’s wanted poster.

No matter how powerful or bizarre a Devil Fruit was, its power reached a peak after awakening. That was an unbreakable rule.

But Haki, especially the pure manifestation of willpower that was Conqueror’s Haki, had no such limit.

The potential of the human spirit was infinite. The potential of Haki was therefore infinite.

Not to mention, Rowen’s current Haki was already far, far stronger than anyone else’s in this era.

At the Summit War, it had already been enhanced beyond the Emperor limit, reaching a new level. And after this war against Big Mom and Kaido, it had strengthened by another 30%—

Without relying on any Devil Fruit abilities, with Haki alone—there was no Devil Fruit ability in the One Piece world that could resist Rowen.

Unless—it was superimposed with Haki on the same level as Rowen’s, only then could it contend with him.

For example, Imu & Joy Boy.

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"I just don’t know... between Joy Boy’s and Imu’s Haki, and my own now—who is truly the Strongest?" Rowen mused with interest.

But the intel on Imu and Joy Boy was too scarce; even with the enhanced intellect of the Human-Human Fruit, an accurate comparison was impossible.

But since it was the final battle, Rowen had to be fully prepared.

His own combat strength would not stop improving.

After obtaining the special physiques of Kaido and Big Mom—Rowen’s own Superhuman Physique and Demonic Physique potentials had also been completely upgraded.

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New Physique Trait: Ultimate Physique (Apex Gold): In this world, no one’s physical potential is greater than yours!

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A new physique Trait.

Very simple and direct. The Ultimate Physique of the One Piece world.

A new physique Trait born from the fusion of Luffy’s Superhuman Physique, Zoro’s Demonic Physique, Kaido’s special constitution, and Big Mom’s natural monster physique.

The reason it was still Apex Gold was simply because that was the highest tier.

Whether just entering the Admiral-level threshold, or reaching Rowen’s level, both were Apex Gold.

But their power was on completely different levels.

The Admiral-level threshold was equivalent to ’1’ in the Apex Gold tier. A peak Emperor like Kaido was around ’7’. Though much stronger than the Admiral-level threshold, there was no qualitative difference.

But Rowen’s current combat strength had long since surpassed the ’10’ level of Apex Gold.

Surpassing ’10’ was a new level, representing a complete Transcendence of the Emperor, Roger level, reaching a combat strength on par with Imu and Joy Boy.

Rowen decided to name this new tier: LEGENDARY-CLASS.

And after enhancing his physique to the Legendary-Class, absorbing ordinary physique Traits no longer provided any improvement.

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The deep sea contained a much richer concentration of "Sea Energy."

With Rowen’s current physique, he could withstand immense water pressure, diving to the extreme depths of the ocean. And with his various Fish-Man Traits, he could breathe freely in the depths. By using the immense Sea Energy, he could use his "Born for the Sea" Trait to continue to elevate his Haki.

It was through the "Faction Fortune" Trait that he had achieved his Legendary-Class power in the first place.

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Zoro, Sanji, and Ace—as long as these three fully mastered Haōshoku Coating, they were guaranteed Emperor-level combatants.

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