Chapter 10
After 20 minutes trying out my modified devil fruit I found that, although I can produce latex from my body but I cannot influence my surrounding like Katakuri had done with his devil fruit. So awakening is needed to make my surrounding become latex substance. Next my malleability has a limit, only parts of my body can be changed at the moments such as I can change my face completely by moving and cotracting my face muscles, like the one Mr. Fantastic did. I can make my hand flat as a paper, but I don't know if I can try enlarging my brain capacity. Well there is some theories that Mr. Fantastic is a genius because he enlarged his brain to make the cells more active, but lets not dwell on that.
After I finished practicing I walk towards to the nearby tree to rest for a few minutes and organize my thoughts. I walked past the rubble and the destroyed grounds of what it seems the remains of the fight with the slimes. I barely passed the area when I noticed that there seems to be an object glowing in orange color, a skillbook. It is very eye catching, it is under the pile of rubbles. Most skillbooks I found never had a bright color like this one. I went towards it and picked up the rocks above.
"An orange skillbook? maybe I missed it from earlier but this seems a bit strange, maybe a new type" I lowered my right hand and grabbed the book without hesitation. It broke into dust and was absorbef by me.
[Ding]
{New}[Function unlocked]
[Fixed Skills]
[(F)Dance Fighting <1/1>]
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"The hell" my eyes were reading it again and again. Eventhough I listened musics and songs in spotify, I knew about this type of medium, it was pretty much used by my grandparents and my parents time.
"Damn, I thought I will get skills like karate or something. But I got dance fighting, is that even a skill? 'Sigh', well the good things are the passives are pretty good, it will boost my stats in a fight and lastly I even can listen to the Earth's music. And where is this cassette player?" Then I remember, this system had a inventory. I click the tab.
[Inventory]
[Money: 40 coins]
[Items]
{New}[Cassette player}
I click the word, then a rectangular object appeared in my hand. 'Yeah, this is really a cassette player like the ones grandma kept in her attic' this player has a solar panel in its top. There is a lot of button, and a cassette tape inserted in it. This time I click the play button to see if its true.
"Tikk" a melody vibrated in the surroundings. This time a slow upbeat music started. The tempo is in slower paced. 'It feels like I'm back in my past world'
(Big Mountain - Baby I Love Your Way)
Ooh, baby, I love your way, everyday, yeah
Ooh, baby, I love your way, everyday
Shadows grow so long before my eyes
And they're moving across the page
Suddenly the day turns into night
'Hmm' I close my eyes and feel the song. It gave me refreshing feeling. All the tensions in my body both physically and mentally were all released. I just stood there and listen.
Ooh, baby, I love your way, everyday
I wanna tell you I love your way (I wanna tell you I love your way)
I wanna be with you night and day (everyday and every way)
Ooh, baby, I love your way
I wanna tell you I love your way
I wanna be with you night and day
Ooh, baby, I love your way
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I sat on top of a rock nearby, the tree shade covers me from the heat of the sun above. I already put back the cassette in the inventory. I felt refreshed this time. I began to think about the devil fruits in this world.
"Well from what I know devil fruits are 3 types. Logia, zoan and paramecia. Each one of them has different awakening and uses. Logia become intangible and can influence the surroundings with their elements when awakened like the one in punk hazard. Zoan can acquire the boost in pysical and senses or become partial or full-body form of what kind of animal their devil fruit represent, and when awakened they will have extreme regenerative abilities" I review the information I got from the series.
"Lastly paramecia, well what can I say. If it doesn't belong to logia or zoan then it is paramecia. They are the types that you can call 'Jack of all Trades'. You can get a fruit that is verys strong or you can get a useless fruit, like that jacket fruit from that boxer in Dressrosa, 'Sigh'" I sighed, well it is according to the user how to develop it, and it is the same for the other categories. But man, what if Chopper never got the Human-Human fruit but instead some person ate it? will they become human after being a human? that doesn't make sense, well enough of that.
"From what I understand there are 2 kinds of paramecia, one was to transmute and others to produce. The rubber fruit in the canon belong to the first kind, transmuter. Where people use it only to their bodies like the original Luffy, Mr.1, Bon Clay and so much more. The second type belong producers where the users produce it and uses outside their body like Doflamingo, Magellan and the likes. There was also the devil fruits that pertains to souls and revive, I don't know which do they belong" I said it out loud. 'As for me I have 2, transmutation and production. When I reach awakening not only I can influence my surroundings maybe I can even transmute myself to have unlimited stamina if possible. Well, little Luffy, I will use your gears in your part' I mentally said while looking at the blue sky.
This time I opened the skills that I got from the crystals that was dropped in the ground in the fight with the slime commander. A new tab is added and that was fixed skills. Well it is a passive skills from what it looks like.
[Skills] [Fixed Skills]
[E skills]
[E-Basic Perception: 2%]
[E-Basic Swordsmanship: 1.5%]
{New}[E-Basic Emroidery]
{New}[E-Basic Cooking]
{New}[E-Basic Navigation]
{New}[E-Basic Markmanship]
'What do I need embroidery for?' not only I can get skills used in combat, I can also get lifestyle skills. Maybe I can make my own clothes or design them. I have different ideas though.
'Well my strength isn't enough to venture deep in the forest, lets just stay here till I'm ready and grind some stats'. I then watched the remaining time I have.
[Time remaining: 7 hours
"That's a lot to upgrade, well let's just farm more slimes and increase the proficiency of all my skills for the rest of the day" I mused to myself.
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During the rest of the day I farmed a lot of slimes, by making an exp farm. I combined slime to transforms into commander and then I will let them generate 20-40 slime soldiers before killing them all. Then the cycle continues. I also practised attacking them with my markmanship by shooting them with my ability. Overall it had been a productive day. I also notice that some animals will not turn crystal directly like the rabbits I found, well in short I ate it after cooking. Eventhough I'm here in different plane I will still get hungry. I watched the remaining time I have in the hologram.
[Time remaining: 1 minute
Well lets just review my progress now. This time I can fight bandits amd thugs and can defend myself in the real world. I opened my status tab.
[Status]
[Strength: 4.8 >> 8.6]
[Stamina: 4.2 >> 9.0]
[Willpower: 6.0 >> 6.2]
[Remarks: You're getting stronger but not enough. You have the power of 9 adult man combined]
"Farming this guys after my stats was upgraded gave little amount crystals. Maybe there is a limit on what stats needed to farm crystals. I'm already high level, so my farming pots will not work anymore. Well, I will venture in the forest to find another exp generator after the reset tomorrow. I then click the inventory tab.
[Inventory]
[Money: 85 coins]
[Item]
'This is good, when I convert this coins I have 85000 berries now. But I need more, having good ships requires money after all' then I look over the proficiencies I gained today.
[Skills]
[E-Basic Perception: 2% >> 6%]
[E-Basic Swordsmanship: 1.5% >> 4.0%]
[E-Basic Emroidery]
[E-Basic Cooking: 0.8%]
[E-Basic Navigation]
[E-Basic Markmanship: 3.8%]
"I really wonder if this reached 100%, will it evolve into another rank. Well it was common sense when you played games. I just needed to earn more, I have 20 years to spare anyway" I laid down in the grass and watched the dark sky above. Yeah, this place had day and night. I can see the stars and moon, it is pretty interesting if you think about it. I really wonder how big this 'God Sanctuary Plane'. I closed my eyes and feel the cool breeze in the air. This place is peaceful. I then heard the announcement.
[Ding]
[Iniating ejection]
[Ejection completed]
My body feels like feels like invigorating. It seems like when I am send back in the real world, all the fatigue I've recieve in the God Sanctuary plane will be cleansed.
I open my eyes and saw that I am back in my room. The wooden ceiling, the bed I laid, the soft pillows I hugged were all around me. I opened my system and saw the time needed to come back there again.
[Time: 8:02 am]
[Reset time: 16 hours]
"I clearly remembered that I slept 9 pm yesterday, thanks to inbuilt time clock in the system. So that means I slept for 3 hourse before I entered in that plane at midight" I said to myself. 'Well, lets just eat breakfast now'.