$ Chapter 241 Surrender or Death!

Soul and body.

There is an invisible connection between the two seemingly unrelated things.

From Rod's own feeling, before eating the [Soul Soul Fruit], his physique had almost reached the limit of what he could achieve, which was even better than Kaido, who was known as the strongest creature in "sea, land and air".

However, that seemed to be his limit.

Even with the help of the golden finger, even if he was injured and recovered again and again in battle, his physique was only slightly improved, and it would never be improved in a short time like before.

It was as if he had reached the limit of what he could achieve.

However, after eating the [Soul Soul Fruit], Rod finally knew the connection between the soul and the body.

He also knew the reason why his physique could not be improved quickly.

A strong physique needs a strong soul to control it.

If the physique is endlessly improved, but the soul cannot keep up, a situation similar to "vegetable" will appear in the end.

He has a strong physique but cannot control his body.

The reason why his physique improved slowly before was a kind of self-protection.

Like the body, the soul can also become stronger.

However, unlike the body, there is no special means in this world to strengthen the soul.

Only with the passage of time and the increase of experiences, can the soul slowly improve in this process.

The tempering between life and death, or the arduous battle, can also promote the strengthening of the soul.

However, the degree of strengthening is very small and the improvement is very slow.

Just like the degree of Rhodes' recent physical improvement.

For most people in this world, they will never encounter the situation where Rhodes cannot improve his physique because his soul is not strong enough.

The soul strength of most people in this world is enough to withstand the physique equivalent to that of a vice admiral of the Navy Headquarters.

And those who can train their physique to surpass it have all experienced a long time, hard training, and countless times of life and death.

Their souls have long been strong enough to control their physiques in this process.

Moreover, for normal people, physical enhancement is a process of accumulation over time, and as the body becomes stronger, it will become more and more difficult to continue to enhance it. This is a matter of course.

Only Rhodes!

Only Rhodes is an exception!

His physical enhancement does not require day-to-day training, nor should it become difficult as the body becomes stronger.

He has the golden finger [What doesn't kill me will make me stronger], and as long as the conditions are met, his body should continue to become stronger unreasonably!

However, because of the strength of the soul, after the body reaches a limit, Rhodes's body cannot become stronger quickly. This is a self-protection mechanism to prevent him from becoming a "vegetable" with a very strong body but unable to move freely.

However, as he ate the [Soul Soul Fruit], this problem has been completely solved!

He just ate the devil fruit and has not had time to further develop the fruit ability. The soul enhancement brought by the fruit itself alone makes Rhodes clearly feel that the ceiling has been raised.

'It has been enhanced by about two levels. ’

Rod felt the change in his soul strength and another change that followed.

‘Now, the extent to which the physical strength can continue to increase rapidly is about 20%. ’

Rod opened his palm and then clenched it into a fist.

On the basis of the current physical strength, it will be strengthened by 2 more layers.

If he fights Big Mom with such strength, he may be able to resolve the battle within ten moves.

This is still considering that Big Mom can recover from injuries and strengthen herself.

Thinking of Big Mom, the previous user of the [Soul Soul Fruit], Rhode's heart was moved.

After becoming a user, the other party must have strengthened his soul.

However, the other party obviously did not realize the relationship between the soul and the body.

Big Mom, Charlotte Linling, had extraordinary strength when she was a child.

It can be said that her physique almost represents the ceiling of this world.

However, her strength obviously has flaws.

Although she was born with divine power, she also has gluttony. As long as she cannot satisfy her appetite, she will lose her mind and lose control of her power.

Although she has a talent like [Steel Balloon], she also has a defect like [Nun Photo]. Once she is used by others, she will become more fragile than ordinary humans.

According to the connection between the soul and the body that Rhode deduced by himself, it seems that.

Sometimes, Charlotte Lingling's physical strength far exceeds the limit that the soul strength can control, making her unable to control her power according to her own will, and she appears to be out of control.

And sometimes, her soul strength far exceeds her physical fitness, even suppressing her body, making it fragile.

'Could it be that there are really multiple souls in her body? The soul of Sister Carmelo, the last person with the ability of [Soul Soul Fruit], has been hidden in her body? '

Rhode couldn't help but flash such a thought in his mind.

After all, according to what he knew in his previous life, there have always been various speculations about the relationship between Charlotte Lingling and Sister Carmelo.

Rhodes shook his head and shook these thoughts from his mind.

No matter what kind of relationship they had, now that Big Mom had died at his hands and the [Soul Soul Fruit] had been eaten by him, the past was no longer important.

The only thing that deserved Rhodes' attention was probably the possibility that "the soul power far exceeded the physical strength, suppressed the flesh, and caused the flesh to become fragile" shown by Big Mom.

At least, before figuring out whether there is such a possibility, control the soul strength not to increase too quickly!

Squeak~~~

The sound of the door being pushed open rang in Rhodes' ears.

Rhodes raised his head and looked at the people who appeared in front of him.

"This Juice Minister has something to tell you, Rhodes."

Rhodes held a heart in his hand, threw it in his hand for Rhodes to see, and then pointed to Smoothie who came with them.

This is a tall woman, especially her long legs. Luo was not as tall as her legs when she stood beside her.

"After we went over, the other party seemed to know the situation here, and quickly stopped fighting and took the initiative to come and talk to you."

Luo added.

Smoothie glanced at Rhodes with a complicated look.

From her, she felt a power similar to her mother's.

That was the power of the [Soul Soul Fruit]. As the 14th daughter and 35th child of Charlotte Lingling, Smoothie has been growing up surrounded by various Homies since she was born.

The Soul Soul Fruit has a special sense of oppression, which is different from the domineering color domineering. It is a sense of oppression at the soul level.

For this kind of power, Smoothie is very familiar.

Now she feels this power from Rhodes, and what it means is self-evident.

"Tell me, what do you want to talk to me about?"

"What will happen to the Ten Thousand Kingdoms? What will happen to the members of the Charlotte family?"

Smoothie took a deep breath, suppressed the emotions in his heart, and then tried to speak in a calm tone.

My mother has been killed. Facing an enemy who can kill my mother, my power can't do anything at all.

Instead of being incompetent and furious, what is more important now is the situation of my family.

Ten Thousand Kingdoms is the country established by my mother, and it is also the home of my brothers and sisters.

"What do you think you did wrong?"

Rhodes stood up. Although he was not as tall as Smoothie, and even his legs were not as long as his, his momentum was not weak at all. The powerful spirit emanating from him made Smoothie's breath choke.

"In this war, I am the winner."

"Now, you should not ask me questions, but kneel down to me as a loser."

"Now, I give you a chance to start over."

Smoothie's eyes flashed a trace of struggle, but he soon remembered his two sisters who were still staying on Mordic Island, and more brothers and sisters in Ten Thousand Kingdoms.

They probably have no ability to resist the next attack from Tyrant Fist Rod!

The aura exuded by this man, whether it is domineering or the oppression at the soul level that is exactly the same as that of his mother, is stronger than that of his mother!

"Sorry!"

Smoothie slowly knelt on the ground and lowered his head so that Rod could look down on him.

"I would like to ask you to forgive the other members of the Charlotte family, and in return, we will become the sword in your hand!"

Rod looked at Smoothie who was kneeling on the ground in front of him, with a slight smile on his face.

Sure enough, in this world, fists are power!

After he showed his fist and killed one of the Four Emperors head-on, even the daughter of Big Mom surrendered voluntarily.

And as the impact of this battle expands, more and more people will take the initiative to join his army.

After all, he is the first person in the world to kill the "Pirate Emperor" so far!

With such a reputation, all kinds of people will flock to the Rod Pirates, whether they are passionate young people with dreams or ambitious people with other plans.

This is momentum!

As long as his fist gets bigger and bigger, and more and more people are killed, more and more people will come to him. These people who come to him and gather around him can leverage greater power.

This is power!

However, for those who come to him because of interests, necessary clamping means are necessary.

Thinking of this, Rhodes stretched out his arm, and a sense of oppression emanated from his body.

That is the ability of the Soul Soul Fruit.

"Surrender or Death!"

Rhodes' whisper rang in Smoothie's ears.

Soul Spell! !

Smoothie's heart trembled suddenly.

This is the ability of my mother, who can judge people by asking questions. As long as there is a little fear in your heart, your soul will be taken away by my mother in the form of life!

I don't know how many people have had their lives taken away by this move of my mother. Even among brothers and sisters, some have had their lives taken away because they angered my mother.

And now, the Tyrant Fist, who took away my mother's fruit ability, also judged himself in the same way.

Although the content of the questioning is inconsistent, the result will probably not be any different.

The moment fear arose in her heart, her life was no longer under her control.

Unfortunately, the two sisters on Mordick Island and the other brothers and sisters of Wan Guo...

All kinds of thoughts were turning in Smoothie's mind.

The next moment, she felt as if something floated out of her body.

It must be life.

Smoothie thought so in her heart, and then waited for death to come.

"So it's in this form."

Death did not come, only Rhode's voice came from above her head.

Smoothie suddenly raised her head and looked at Rhode in front of her.

Rhode held a ball of translucent things in his hand, twisting irregularly in his hand.

This was part of the soul he had just extracted from Smoothie.

Under the ability of the Soul Soul Fruit, the soul is manifested in the form of life.

When he just activated his ability, he could feel that he could harvest Smoothie's soul as a whole.

But he did not do so, but only took away one year of the other party's life.

And the reason why he took away one year of the other party's life was just an experiment of his.

‘But, such a soul cannot be used directly to strengthen one’s own soul.’

Souls are different from souls.

Just like the body, no matter how skilled a doctor is, there is no way to directly transplant one person’s body tissue to another person, and the same is true for the soul.

Rod can give the part of Smoothie’s soul that he just harvested to objects or other things, so that they can act like humans, or take this part of the soul into his own body, and use this part of the soul to treat himself when needed, or temporarily enhance his strength.

However, this part of the soul cannot be directly absorbed to strengthen his own soul.

‘Is the development of the ability not deep enough?’

Rod’s mind was turning.

If the soul harvested from others can only be used to give objects to make them anthropomorphic, or to treat or strengthen oneself in battle, then the benefits of this devil fruit will be much smaller.

Although Rod can give souls to natural elements such as fire and lightning like Big Mom to enhance his means of attack, but when his physique is strengthened by two more layers, this elemental means of attack will be dispensable to him.

You must develop the ability to strengthen your own soul!

Rhodes waved his hand and collected the part of Smoothie's soul.

The principle of the devil fruit ability is still unclear, but the development of the devil fruit ability seems to be a more idealistic thing.

The appropriate ability can always be developed later.

Rhodes put this matter in his heart for the time being, and then looked at Smoothie.

"I feel your will, so it's time to show your value."

"Take us and take over the power of all nations!"

Good news: Today's update is caught up!

Bad news: Tomorrow's update will also be delayed!

In addition: I am struggling with a question. Did Big Mom die after being sucked into the magma? And if Big Mom dies, will the Homies she created with her ability disappear, or will they continue to exist?

The effects of some devil fruits are permanent. Even if the ability user dies, the ability effect will not disappear, just like the sweet fruit of the empress.

And some ability users will lose their abilities even if they lose consciousness, just like sugar.

Is this difference caused by the different devil fruits or the different levels of development of the ability users?

What do you think? I'll take it into consideration.