One Piece: The Strongest Trait System novel Chapter 62

Chapter 62 - [62] : The Power of Logia Awakening!

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Smoker Traits: Smoke-Smoke Fruit (Apex Purple) (Unawakened).

Smoke-Smoke Fruit (Apex Purple) (Unawakened): Smoke Human. Can transform the body into smoke for offensive purposes. Upon Awakening, can permanently alter the climate of an area, and can draw upon the altered climate to gain astonishing stamina recovery speed (Pale Gold tier effect).

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Rowen examined the Trait screen before him, his eyes flickering.

Smoker's current strength was entirely concentrated in his Smoke-Smoke Fruit, hence only that single Trait was displayed.

Just as expected, it's one of the weaker Logia Devil Fruits.

Despite being a Logia—which inherently made the user virtually invincible against non-Haki users—it only reached the Apex Purple tier.

Even after Awakening, relying solely on the fruit's power without Haki or other enhancements, it only provided effects equivalent to a Pale Gold tier Trait.

Looking at the System's description of the awakened Smoke-Smoke Fruit, Rowen's eyes glinted with understanding.

So, Logia Awakening does involve permanently altering the climate of an area.

In the original story, Aokiji and Akainu's battle for the position of Fleet Admiral transformed Punk Hazard into a half-ice, half-magma island—a permanent alteration!

But that alone wasn't the truly terrifying aspect of Logia Awakening. After all, permanently changing the weather didn't directly boost the user's combat power significantly.

The real power of Logia Awakening lay in the ability to draw upon the altered climate to sustain oneself, gaining incredible stamina! And the Devil Fruit abilities themselves would also be enhanced!

The importance of stamina in the One Piece power system was self-evident; Haki and Devil Fruit abilities both required stamina as fuel.

No wonder Aokiji and Akainu could fight for ten days and nights on Punk Hazard!

They were drawing upon the power of their awakened Logia fruits!

After eating a Logia fruit, the user effectively becomes that element. Smoker, having eaten the Smoke-Smoke Fruit, was a Smoke Human.

Within a smoke-filled environment, since the user is smoke, they naturally held an absolute home-field advantage. They could use the ambient smoke to rapidly recover their stamina, granting astonishing endurance.

Furthermore, the potency of their Devil Fruit abilities would also increase, reaching the fruit's true peak potential.

No wonder—According to the established lore, Zoan fruits—especially the rarest Mythical Zoans—should provide the greatest physical enhancements to the user.

Yet, the ultimate stamina monsters in the One Piece world often turned out to be top-tier Logia users like Akainu.

Rowen looked at Smoker, a predatory crimson-black light flickering in his eyes.

This Smoke-Smoke Fruit—I'm taking it!

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"'Sky Sovereign' Rowen?! Captain Smoker, you must be mistaken! They just have the same name! Rowen is a really nice person! Huh?" Tashigi instinctively refuted Smoker's claim, but then her brain seemed to short-circuit, freezing mid-thought.

Wait... something's not right here.

Captain Smoker had called out Rowen's name before she even introduced him.

But Rowen is so kind—how could he be the infamous Sky Sovereign Rowen?

They should just have the same name, right?

"Are you an idiot?!" Smoker finally snapped, unable to restrain himself.

He knew Tashigi was DENSE, but surely not this DENSE!!!

"Y-You... you really are that Sky Sovereign Rowen?" Tashigi stared blankly at Rowen. Her severe nearsightedness, combined with her intense focus on swordsmanship training, meant she wasn't good at remembering faces from photos.

"Yes, that's me," Rowen confirmed readily.

Tashigi's mind went completely blank.

"What are you doing, you foolish woman?! Get over here! He's a pirate with a 100 million Beri bounty! And you—you must be Roronoa Zoro!" Smoker yelled, then turned his attention to Zoro.

100 million Beri!

The number alone sent cold sweat dripping down the foreheads of the Marines accompanying Smoker. A 100 million Beri pirate! The soldiers looked nervously at Rowen, their grips tightening unsteadily on their weapons.

"You're the bounty hunter who doesn't cherish swords, using them just to make money?!" Tashigi exclaimed, her earlier confusion replaced by accusation directed at Zoro.

Rowen was the first person to truly acknowledge her dream.

The other man was a swordsman capable of earning the acknowledgment of a cursed sword like Kitetsu—someone she admired. Yet, one turned out to be the infamous 'Sky Sovereign' Rowen, and the other, 'Pirate Hunter' Zoro, who treated swords merely as tools for bounty hunting?

"Sky Sovereign Rowen! Roronoa Zoro! Surely you wouldn't stoop so low as to use a woman as a shield!" Seeing Tashigi's complete confusion, Smoker cursed inwardly, then tried to provoke them.

The clumsy woman was too close to them; even with his Smoke-Smoke Fruit, Smoker wasn't absolutely certain he could save her before they harmed her.

"Woman? I don't see any woman here. I only see a swordsman," Rowen replied, looking pointedly at Tashigi, a slight smile touching his lips.

Tashigi needed respect and acknowledgment.

Languishing aimlessly in the East Blue wouldn't help her achieve her dream. Since that was the case... Rowen decided to add some fuel to her fire.

"Th-That's right! Captain Smoker! I will fight too!" Hearing Rowen's words, Tashigi snapped out of her daze.

SHINK!

Shigure flashed out of its sheath.

"Rowen! Roronoa Zoro! I'm placing you under arrest!" Tashigi yelled, biting her lip.

Rowen's words—had genuinely made her happy. Only Tashigi knew how deeply she resented being born female, believing it hindered her path as a swordsman.

'Women can't become strong swordsmen... Women can't possess great strength... Women can't achieve their dreams...' She had heard such things countless times growing up.

But Rowen... acknowledged her dream and treated her as an equal swordsman. That equality was what Tashigi craved most. It made her truly happy. But precisely because of that... she had to arrest Rowen! Save him from the path of evil!

"Hyaa!" Tashigi's Shigure sliced through the air in a beautiful arc, aimed at Rowen.

WHOOSH!

Tashigi's vision blurred. Rowen suddenly appeared behind her.

Thwack!

A swift chop to the back of her neck caused Tashigi's body to go limp, collapsing to the ground.

"Shave?!" Smoker's eye twitched upon seeing Rowen's movement.

'That technique... wasn't that the 'Shave' from the Navy's Six Powers?!' As a former student of Zephyr 'Black Arm', Smoker was intimately familiar with the Six Powers.

"Indeed. 'Shave' from the Six Powers," Rowen confirmed with a calm smile.

Although the similar Shakushi Trait from Kuro had been converted, Rowen had memorized the feeling of that high-speed movement technique.

And the principle behind Shave—rapidly kicking off the ground dozens of times in an instant to generate explosive propulsion—was something his current physique could easily handle.

After reaching Apex Purple with his Superhuman Demonic Physique, Rowen's body was more than capable. During his recent days of training, Rowen had completely mastered the Shave technique.

"Hmph!" Smoker's expression turned cold. With a roar of smoke, both his arms transformed into swirling clouds.

"White Out——!" Smoker bellowed. His smoke-arms twisted into spiraling columns, shooting out to capture Rowen and Zoro.

"So this is the feeling of a Logia Devil Fruit?" Rowen observed with interest as the smoke enveloped him. 'Quite strange—the body literally becomes the element.'

"It's even trickier than that Buggy guy's Chop-Chop Fruit," Zoro commented grimly, looking at the smoke binding him.

Tashigi, who had been trying to push herself up, froze completely upon hearing Rowen's words, tears suddenly welling up in her eyes. 'Why... why is the one person who understands her so completely... a pirate?'

The next moment—

VMM!

CRACKLE! CRACKLE! CRACKLE!

Thump! Thump! Thump!

—Conqueror's Haki!

Rowen's Conqueror's Haki—amplified by Born of the Sea, could now exert tangible physical force on reality. This naturally included affecting Logia Devil Fruit users.

WHOOSH! (Shave!)

CRACK!

CRACK! CRACK! The sheer force of the blow spiderwebbed the ground around him.

—Armament Haki!