Chapitre 140: Chapter 139
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According to Du Feld's intentions, there should have been a banquet lasting seven days and seven nights to barely match his status.
However, the banquet lasted only three days before they ran out of many precious food supplies.
The reason was that a certain genius who was terminally ill ate way too damn much!
For three whole days, all he did was eat and sleep, wearing out dozens of cooks on the ship to the point of exhaustion.
The most impressive part was, using the talent of "Rapid Digestion" and the advanced skill "Food Disappearance" of the "Food Honor" technique, Abel could digest anything he ate quickly, converting it into biological energy that could be stored in every cell of his body.
Although there's a limit to how much energy could be stored, don't worry, he had a special trick up his sleeve.
That's the "Battle Preservation Fist" training!
He channeled the excess overflowing biological energy into his "Dantian" as a reserve 'battery.'
And this "Dantian" could be considered as a point, but also as an internal universe with infinite space.
There's almost no possibility of filling it up with stored biological energy.
Anyway, Lao G had been practicing it for years without ever finding its limit.
This made it seem like Abel had a stomach leading to an alternate dimension; no matter how much he ate, his belly never bulged.
This was particularly terrifying!
In reality, his Gourmet Cells were constantly at work because many of the foods were things he had never eaten before, including many precious ingredients.
So despite seemingly doing nothing but eating and sleeping for three days, his body was actually being strengthened; he was getting stronger just by eating.
While he had not yet reached his next evolutionary bottleneck, the 'Gourmet Energy Progress Bar' had been filled by about half.
If it wasn't for Du Feld fabricating an excuse to go their separate ways on the fourth day, Abel might have been able to push the progress bar even further.
"The richer the people are, the stingier they get!"
Upon leaving, Abel purposely said this in a 'whisper' loud enough for everyone to hear.
This turned the face of the king of usury to a splendidly colorful shade of black.
Probably, if it wasn't for the alliance already formed with Donquixote Doflamingo, in addition to knowing that Abel had a terminal illness with not many days left, Du Feld would have made them understand what the temper of a wealthy person is like!
"Damn!"
On the way back to the North Blue, Donquixote Doflamingo made a special trip to Jaya Island as well as to several other islands.
This was Donquixote Doflamingo scouting the next phase in his family's development.
After completely dominating the North Blue, the next step would naturally be to venture into the Grand Line.
The first half of the Grand Line is known partially as the graveyard of pirates, and partially as a paradise, the 'rookies' paradise'.
Some islands were already occupied by various forces, but a portion of them frequently changed flags, meaning intense competition and the absence of a truly strong force in control.
Most likely because they underestimated the area
They were too busy fighting for territory in the New World.
So Donquixote Doflamingo's next phase involved planting their Donquixote family flag on these 'unclaimed' islands; taking over as many as they could.
Then they could gradually establish a network of strongholds to expand their business further and further.By that time, even throughout the entire underworld, his name would be completely notorious.
However, this was merely the most basic of plans.
Doflamingo also had a more daring, more aggressive plan for expansion.
And this plan was one that no other person, no other power, could accomplish—it was entirely unique.
Because it required making use of the identity of 'Celestial Dragon' that he had once been cast away from!
Although it was a risky venture that could easily backfire, success would bring unimaginable rewards!
Even the Navy, which had always been after him, would no longer pose any obstacle or have any means to deal with him.
He could then take everything and quickly push forward into the New World in a very short period of time.
....
On Jaya Island, there was a town called Mock Town, where Doflamingo and his crew were out drinking.
Abel, not fond of drinking and chatting with a few old men, decided to slip out on his own to wander around.
Jaya Island was both ordinary and special at the same time.
Because the ground they were stepping on was just one half of the original island, while the other half had been blasted into the sky, becoming a 'Sky Island.'
Over 400 years ago, the admiral and botanist of the North Sea Lvneel Kingdom's exploration team—Montblanc Noland had come here. He later became known as the 'Great Liar', his story about the City of Gold being almost as famous amongst North Sea children as the bedtime tale 'Warriors of the Sea - Sky Island.'
But in reality, just like Germa 66 was not a simply imagined evil force, the City of Gold truly existed, and Noland was not a great liar.
Abel looked up into the sky and thought: "That chuunibyou 'God of Thunder' should be somewhere above in the clouds right now."
He tried to recall exactly when Enel consumed the Goro Goro no Mi (Rumble-Rumble Fruit).
He certainly wasn't so arrogant as to think he could measure up to a 'God' by besting one Logia type Devil Fruit user recently.
After all, the power of the Goro Goro no Mi, with just a bit of development, was formidable enough.
Unless he were to gang up with Doflamingo and other executives to overwhelm the opponent, there was little chance for him to personally gain anything.
So after some contemplation, he decided to hold off for now.
Let the opponent enjoy the free life in the skies for a few more years until he felt confident enough that he could completely crush him. Then, he would go and give him a good beating, to see if he could subjugate him using the "Contract of Conquering Devils."
Not obtaining the Goro Goro no Mi, but having a user of its power as an underling didn't sound too bad.
And with the "Contract of Conquering Devils," he didn't have to worry about Enel's rebellious, chuunibyou nature becoming problematic first.
"Hehe, enjoy your final moments of freedom, Enel," Abel mused, with an enigmatic smile directed at the sky.
Meanwhile, high above in the Sky Island at a height of ten thousand meters.
A man with his upper body bare, carrying thunder drums on his back, wearing a white headband, with long earlobes adorned with a pair of golden earrings, and wielding a golden staff, suddenly shuddered as if he had been targeted by something terrifying.
But when he covered his surroundings with his 'Mantra' (Observation Haki), he found nothing out of the ordinary.
"How odd. Could it be because of the nightmare I had last night?"
AN:
Random questions: I'm probably going to translate Naruto : Starting as a Worker. This is already translated up to Chapter 68 by ZhouXi but he stopped translating it for two months already. Should I pick it up from the start and translate every chapter? Or translate a few chapters first to gain traction and then jump to Chapter 69 (haha funny number)?
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