Challenge

It's already a couple of days after Xin's back, the girls already see him and stop going out to spend time with him.

Of course, because the original Guild Master is already back, Mikako finally stops working, but seeing Xin don't even know how to do the paper works she helplessly sighs at Xin's assistant.

Assistant as in she does everything that Xin should do from paper works, planning, and distributing funds.

As for Xin, he is now walking around the island fixing someplace he needs to fix and expanding their own Island.

Astrea who follows him can't help but to ask," Why are you expanding the Island, Master?"

"I plan to build a collusion here and a Guild Town, I see that the whole Island is overcrowded already so we need to expand it even bigger."

"But you can ask us to do this, you just come back and you are already doing some big project." Hiyori said.

"Na, I'm fine, this is an easy task for me."

"But, Hancock-senpai can easily do this, and she can make it all rock without dirt."

"What do you mean?" Xin was confused.

"Last time, I saw Hancock-senpai petrifying a huge part of the sea, it's so huge that you can even make a new headquarters there."

"Not only that, her ability is super powerful, she can even walk in the sea just making the sea floor petrify."

"Devil Fruit awakening?"

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Awakening is a special stage that can only be achieved by a few Devil Fruit users in the world of One Piece.

Devil Fruit powers can, in rare instances, achieve "awakening", greatly increasing the abilities of the user. The details of how a Devil Fruit can be awakened are currently unknown, but the increased abilities have been seen to allow significantly greater power, more refined control, and new abilities that would otherwise not be possible. The effects of the awakening depend on the type of the Devil Fruit.

As stated in the series, the fruits are classified into Paramecia, Logia, and Zoan types and each one of them can be awakened.

For Zoan-type powers, awakening grants far greater strength, speed, and durability than unawakened Zoan powers. This also includes faster recovery time, which functions involuntarily, even when the user is unconscious.

For Paramecia-type powers, awakening allows the user to use their Devil Fruits at a new level of strength and in different manners than they originally could. Luffy notes that such a feat makes it no longer appear to be the power of a mere Paramecia.

An awakened Paramecia allows the user to spread their power beyond their own body and transform inorganic material around them to match the nature of their Devil Fruit power, as well as manipulate the transformed material in any way they desire. The transformation effect can be spread over a very wide area.

As for Logia-Type there is still no news of any Logia-type user awakening their own ability. But some say they gain extreme physical and endurance but this is just speculation not the actual truth.

Once the powers of fruit are awakened, the user starts to affect things other than their own body, such as their immediate surroundings.

The Mero Mero no Mi is a Paramecia-type Devil Fruit that allows a range of attacks which use emotions of lust or perversion to transform opponents into stone.

The major strength of the fruit, as demonstrated by Boa Hancock, is that the user is able to transform those who lust or love after the user into stone in varying degrees by using their "dirty thoughts". Victims that have been completely turned to stone are incapable of consciousness and susceptible to physical damage unless the user de-petrifies them.

Petrification can also be achieved through physically striking an opponent, although the only area that is turned to stone is the contacted area, as opposed to the entire body.

And it seems the awaken will make Boa petrify even the sea that devil fruit user major weakness.

But still, he needs to see her before he can give a final answer on what kind of awakening ability she got.

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After renovating a huge area of the sea, Xin starts to build a giant Colosseum, the same as one in Dressrosa but it's bigger and more durable.

With multiple magic and runes, the Colosseum is now indestructible, even Kaido comes and wreaks havoc here, Xin is pretty sure the Colosseum is still fine.

After everything is done, Xin finally goes back to take lunch but his work still does not end today.

When he arrives at the office, a special form is waiting for him to read, it's just a special form of challenge.

"What's this?"

"A challenge letter."

"Challenge letter?"

"That's right, a challenge letter that we develop to balance all the Guild Rankings anyone can challenge anyone who they think weaker than them."

"By doing this, the Guild Ranking always reshuffle every month and the ranking always causes excitement for everyone, after all, they want to know who is who from all of them."

"So every month there's a challenge?"

Mikako shook her head." No, you can only challenge someone if you have enough Guild Points to use, it's not easy to challenge"

We all know Guild Points is our currency here, points are more valuable than gold so everyone treasures every point they have."

"Of course, the Guild Point that the challenger uses will be divided to the winner and to the guild, by doing this everyone will get something."

"In short, if the challenger wins they get the rank of the loser, if the ranker wins they get the challenger half points."

Mikako nodded," And also there's a different kind of challenge but the same you need to pay the corresponding amount of points needed for it."

"By the way, how many points do you need to challenge someone?"

"In normal, it's only 1000 Points, it's like a couple of low-end quests, but if you challenge a high-Rank Guildmate, you need to use 100,000 or more based on how much the Guild values that person."

"For example, this challenge is actually for Ikaros,"

"Someone actually challenges Ikaros?" Xin is surprised someone have a death wish, he clearly knows how strong Ikaros is fighting the Queen of the Sky is suicide.

"Challenging Ikaros need 1,000,000 Guild Points, i almost 5 S-Rank Quest, or 20 A-Rank Quest or donating 1 Billion Gold."

"Someone is actually giving 1Billion to us!"

"There are too many idiots in the world Xin, and we are lucky enough to have one biggest idiot here."