Chapter 1622 Demonstration
The shopkeeper placed the parchment signed "Rob Lucci's blood name" into an empty box and gently pushed it into an inconspicuous corner inside the counter.
After he finished doing all this, he slowly raised his head and calmly swept his gaze over all the customers in the shop. "Words alone are ultimately too pale to describe."
"How about we go somewhere else? I can let you personally simulate and demonstrate the power of these two mythical beasts, so you can experience it with your body before making your final choice!"
His gaze fell on Lucci, carrying a hint of unfathomable meaning: "I won't let you sign that parchment for nothing. When you make your final choice, I will tell you what the corresponding price will be."
After the shop owner finished speaking, everyone in the shop except Lu Qi had a big question mark on their face and an expression of disbelief.
Eating a Devil Fruit, and you can even simulate the experience before deciding which one to choose?!
This is simply unheard of. Once a Devil Fruit is eaten, the power is bound to the body and cannot be changed. This is an ironclad rule on the high seas.
Even an outlier like Blackbeard Teach only obtained the Devil Fruits of deceased users through some bizarre method, rather than experiencing them first and then choosing them.
The rules of this shop have repeatedly overturned their understanding!
Lu Qi was taken aback at first, then his eyes burst with uncontrollable excitement, and his heart pounded with excitement. He never expected that signing that seemingly unequal parchment would bring such a benefit.
"Then let's all come together."
An overwhelming, absolute darkness suddenly surged from the shop owner's body, filling every corner of the shop and completely engulfing everyone.
Sight, sound, and even a sense of space vanished completely at that moment, as if everyone had fallen into a bottomless abyss where even time stood still.
It felt like only a blink of an eye, yet also like an eternity, as the darkness receded like the tide.
When everyone opened their eyes again, they found themselves no longer in the shop.
Beneath my feet was a hard, indescribable surface, and above and all around me was an endless, hazy void.
There is no sky, no earth, no sun, moon, or stars here, and you can't even feel a clear sense of up or down.
The only source of light seemed to come from a tiny, blurry outline in the far distance, which must have been the pawnshop number eight they had just left.
There was nothing else, not even a breeze or a sound; there was only absolute emptiness.
"This is a spatial rift outside the shop," the shop owner's voice rang out at the right moment, answering everyone's confusion.
He was already standing in front of the crowd, as if he had always been there. He raised his right hand, and the tip of his index finger quietly lit up, revealing a cluster of soft fluorescence.
Then, he flicked it gently.
The fluorescent light detached from his fingertip and suddenly split into four tiny points of light, rushing towards the gray void in all directions.
Where the light passed, the darkness was dispelled, and although it was still empty, at least there was clarity and a sense of place.
"Lu Qi, come forward!"
Lu Qi took a deep breath, suppressed his excitement, and walked up to the shop owner.
"I'll replace it with one for you right now. Let's start with this Hundred-Armed Giant Fruit!"
The shopkeeper once again exuded that familiar darkness, but this time it was extremely small, precisely enveloping only Lucci.
Darkness, like living tentacles, wrapped around Lucci's body and enveloped the Hundred-Armed Giant Fruit.
In an instant, it really was just an instant!
The darkness dissipated.
Lucci shuddered and abruptly opened his eyes. He clearly felt that the familiar power connection from the Leopard-Leopard Fruit within his body had disappeared.
Instead, a terrifying force of unprecedented, primal, and pure violent desire ignited deep within his bloodline and soul core, like a dormant volcano.
This power was so immense and violent that it was hundreds or thousands of times stronger than the power he had previously possessed in his ordinary leopard form. It was a leap in the level of life, the ecstasy of a mortal touching the realm of mythology.
"This feeling is truly wonderful, unlike anything I've ever experienced," he clenched his fists, his knuckles cracking as if he could crush steel with his bare hands.
"Begin your demonstration," the shop owner's voice pulled him back to reality from his reverie of power.
Without further hesitation, Lucci began to actively guide and release the surging power of the mythical beast within his body.
Under everyone's shocked gaze, Lucci's body began to undergo an astonishing transformation.
His body expanded and grew rapidly as if inflated, his once well-fitting CP9 suit was instantly torn apart, his muscles bulged and his bones grew with a creaking sound.
In the blink of an eye, a giant nearly twenty meters tall, with dark red, rocky skin and an aura of primordial ferocity, stood in the void.
Two more heads, identical to the central head but with even more ferocious and violent expressions, suddenly grew from the shoulders and sides of the giant's neck.
Three heads, six eyes burning with fighting spirit, simultaneously scanning the front, left, and right directions, leaving no blind spots in their field of vision.
At the same time, the muscles under the giant's armpits and on his back twitched violently, and four new arms, equally thick and covered with dark red keratin, burst out of his body.
Including the original two arms, there were a total of six giant arms containing explosive power, which swung wildly in the air, with a continuous whooshing sound as if they could easily tear space apart.
"This...is this complete beastification?!"
Kaku below looked up at the terrifying giant with three heads and six arms, his voice trembling with extreme shock.
The giant's three heads turned towards Kaku simultaneously, and spoke at the same time, their voices overlapping like rumbling thunder, yet clearly reaching everyone's ears:
"No" (left side)
"Only in a half-human, half-beast state" (Chinese head)
"Complete beastification will only make you stronger and more powerful" (right side)
Lu Qi nimbly moved his six newly formed arms, each one moving as if it were his own arm. He took a step forward with a loud, muffled thud.
He began to run. This twenty-meter giant ran at an astonishing speed, even exuding an oppressive and unstoppable ferocity.
The combination of strength and agility gave Lucci an unprecedented sense of control and exhilaration.
The shop owner, always eager for a good show, turned his head and glanced at the pirates with great interest.
The voice carried a seductive smile, "How about it, do you want to go up and try out his current level?"
"He has just acquired the Devil Fruit, and his understanding and development of the ability are not yet complete, which is the best time to deal with him!"
The shopkeeper's suggestion was like a spark thrown into boiling oil; the pirates' eyes blazed with excitement and even a burning desire to fight.
One-on-one?
How could anyone possibly face such a formidable three-headed, six-armed giant?
Of course, it's a just and righteous brawl!
