Chapter 46: The power of the fruit.
John did not have to wait long, three days later he received a thank you from the Ministry and was promoted to lieutenant of Marineford.
A Marineford lieutenant under the age of nineteen was not unique, but still, it was a rarity.
John isn't excited about the promotion, he really wasn't even a commander, so he couldn't be too happy.
John was looking forward to when he could continue swimming, he was waiting for Tsuru to call him.
"Another failure? It seems that this direction of ability cannot be developed."
Looking at the flower that had lost its life force, John felt regret.
This was one of the countless times he tried to revive a plant that had lost its vitality, but unfortunately there was no response.
In the past, he thought that when he developed his ability to a certain extent, he would be able to revive a dead tree and change the life and death of a plant.
But now it seemed that the probability of this was practically zero: having lost the life force of the plant, he not only could not save him, but he could not control him and make him attack.
In short, the dead plant was beyond his control and he could not use his powers on them; he could only control a living plant.
Despite some regret, John was not disappointed, his ability was already very strong, no devil fruit could be invincible, there was always some kind of weakness, and the inability to control a dead plant may have been the weakness of his fruit ability.
It couldn't be called a flaw, only that it wasn't perfect. It was because John expected too much from his fruit abilities that he felt regret after such a lack appeared.
In the past, John imagined that if he could control the tree at will, how many people would be his opponents in a naval battle?
The vast majority of ships were made of wood, and if he could control it, he could cause the ship to disintegrate in an instant.
Now it seems that this idea is unattainable, because the ship's tree is not alive, and he cannot control it while it is not alive.
He could control the tree he created at will, but he could not control the tree that had already been killed and processed.
Another thing is that he had already read many books about plants and knew about the huge number of plants in this world.
He wanted to use his powers to create those plants mentioned in the books, but he didn't succeed; he could not create plants that he did not personally touch, only those that he touched.
This is the reason John used to ask Tsuru to help him collect plant seeds: he could use the seeds to create new types of plants he came across, or he could create them without seeds.
So for John, the more seeds he had, the stronger his abilities could be.
Of course, the amount of physical energy required to create different plants is different, the simpler and more common the plant, the easier it is to create and the less physical energy it requires.
The more powerful the plant, the rarer it is, the more energy is required to create it.
For example, a tree that can grow hundreds of meters will consume a lot of John's energy if he manages it now.
If he produced the seeds of such a plant, then the current John would probably have to expend all his physical strength to make it grow to its maximum extent.
Now he was desperately looking for seeds of all kinds of plants in order to expand his plant arsenal in order to create more types of plants and have more means of attack.
All kinds of plants existed in this world.
John remembered that the plot was about an island, an island of plants, where Straw Hat team member Usopp was sent by Kuma, it had a lot of plants, and those plants were very strong.
But he only remembered this episode, and when he first watched that episode of the anime, he did not take it seriously, so he could not remember what the name of the island is now, besides, it was dangerous, and he decided to go searching later, when it becomes strong enough.
A few more days passed.
"John".
On this day, Gion, who had not seen him for a long time, again visited this little courtyard of John.
"Gion, what brings you here?"
He was working on his fruit picking abilities these days and John took some time off from Tsuru so he didn't train with the female Marines these days so naturally he rarely saw them and Gion, the busiest of them all, didn't see never.
"The Vice Admiral is looking for you."
Gion first answered Ion's question, and then said in surprise, "Ah, John, you seem to have become taller again?".
John stared, "Yeah, I didn't care, but is that weird? I am not even nineteen yet, I am sure that I will still grow up.
Before he was worried about his height, even his father was over two meters, and he turned seventeen, and he was only a meter and eighty something, he thought that everything would end there, but fortunately it was not.
Since joining the HR department, he has been growing steadily: he is almost two meters tall, and in the future he will be even more.
If this trend continues, then there is great hope that it will grow by several tens of centimeters.
If that were the case, he might breathe a sigh of relief. He set himself the goal of becoming an admiral, so he would be embarrassed that he was lower than other admirals if he was strong enough.
Now it seemed that this problem was solved: men can continue to grow in height up to twenty years.
"By the way, Gion, the vice admiral called me, maybe she has a task for me?" John asked uncertainly.
Gion shook her head and said, "I don't know about it, you can ask the Vice Admiral yourself, let's go there."
John didn't hesitate and immediately followed Gion to Tsuru's office.
"Knock Knock".
"Come in."
Hearing a voice inside, John pushed open the door, and as soon as he entered, he realized that there was another person besides Tsuru.
"Is it a surprise to see me again, a pleasant surprise? Wow hahahaha."
Looking at Garp laughing with a smug face, John had black lines on his face, I'm surprised, my ass is surprised.
"Vice Admiral Garp".
"Ha, you used to call me Uncle Garp, why are you calling me Vice Admiral now?" Garp asked in confusion.
John didn't really bother to answer, he didn't understand anything, didn't he have any ideas in his head? Don't you have manners, old man?
"Vice Admiral, did you want to see me?"
Tsuru nodded and said, "Well, wait a bit."
After that, she looked at Garp and said, "Garp, didn't you say you didn't have enough people there?".
"Lack of people? When I said that, didn't I say that?"
Garp looked confused as he didn't understand what Tsuru meant because he didn't really say that.
But suddenly Tsuru's eyes sparkled, and in a soulful voice she said: "If I said that you said it, then you said it."
Garp recoiled in fear, ignoring the fact that he was in front of the outsiders, but in front of Tsuru, he didn't dare to be reckless.
"Yes, yes, yes, I said it, I said it, just now."
Tsuru was pleased and then said to John, "As you heard, Garp is short of men now, the task I give you is simple, Garp will go to sea soon, you will follow his team and go to fight the pirates."
"Yes, Vice Admiral."
John was overjoyed, he had been waiting for this opportunity for a long time, the opportunity to follow Garp would be the best for him.
As one of the strongest in Marineford, Garp had to go to sea to defeat the strong pirates. His current strength is still a little less than those pirates, but if he can face them, he will definitely not become a weak opponent for them.
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