Loading the second template, experience acquisition will restart. With a tap, Link understood.
The ones who helped solve the "answer" were the Beasts Pirates on Onigashima.
The pirates who died under Wood Release: True Several Thousand Hands, Top Transformed Buddha—among them Jack and some of the Tobi Roppo—provided Link with a vast amount of experience.
[Host: Link]
[First Inheritance: Senju Hashirama (unlocked 100%)]
[Second Inheritance: Uchiha Sasuke]
[Unlock Progress: 36.40% (+)]
[Experience: 28.31%]
If the second template's progress reaches the threshold, the third stage will unlock automatically; otherwise Link's stored experience would be even higher.
After all, each hegemonic force is a gigantic pool of experience.
Link did not annihilate the entire Beasts Pirates. Only the officers who stayed on the island suffered the collateral damage.
Those on duty in Wano—the highest-ranking officers and the Tobi Roppo—as well as some pirates, narrowly escaped.
Even King the Conflagration, who could fly, was the same.
If he had wiped out those top officers and the Tobi Roppo, Link would have gained even more experience.
But Link did not do that. Taking down Kaido and the pirates on Onigashima was enough.
Talents like Queen could be kept.
Every scientist is a fine tool user. Yafilandora can strip their hearts and make them serve.
If they refuse, imprison them, read their memories with the Memory-Memory Fruit, squeeze out all value, then eliminate them.
Or alter their memories with the Memory-Memory Fruit and turn them into puppets.
With his strength at a new realm, Link, unless necessary, kills less.
Perhaps it is a change of mindset.
Once he becomes Six Paths level, the world is a game field, and the people in it are all subjects, NPCs meant to serve.
Compared to weak and boring NPCs, unique NPCs are a bit more interesting.
Maybe Im shares the same mentality. Only then did the rise of the Four Emperors and the world government's loss of control over the mightiest sea not trigger a wholesale purge of the oceans.
In Im's eyes, only Nika is worthy to be a rival. The rest are not worth a strike, mere ants that amuse.
Soon, Teach finished seizing the fruit.
"Zehahahaha… congratulations on obtaining another top-tier Devil Fruit, Link."
The very second he took the Mythical Zoan, Azure Dragon model, Teach held it like a hot potato, hurriedly handed it to Link, and let out his unique laugh to offer congratulations.
Every time he seized a Devil Fruit for Link, Teach underwent another tempering of his state of mind.
His internal assessment of Link's threat level also changed.
Before taking the Quake-Quake Fruit, Teach had always thought he was only enduring for the moment.
Once he obtained "Dad's" power, he believed he absolutely would not lose to Link.
But after gaining the Paramecia Quake-Quake Fruit and entering the New World on the same track as Link, Teach discovered the gap was that large.
Even with two fruits, he could not guarantee victory over a great pirate like Ochoku, let alone the Four Emperors whose mind, skill, and body had all reached their pinnacle.
Teach only had the confidence that he would not be defeated by anyone.
As for crushing the opponent, he didn't even dare think of it.
Yet what even the strongest on the sea thought impossible—the super-strong being unable to crush the super-strong—Link accomplished, and more than once.
Ochoku, the Golden Lion, Charlotte Linlin, and now Kaido.
Although he had never seen Link go all out, with every meeting Teach felt the change in Link's aura and knew that Link's strength towered above his "Dad" at his peak.
Perhaps even the Pirate King who seized the throne in the last era would not be his match.
Link might be… the strongest man in history.
For a moment, Teach suddenly felt fortunate that the Logia Dark-Dark Fruit gave him the value to befriend Link.
Otherwise, he would share Kaido's fate.
"Thanks."
Link had no idea he had frightened Teach into submission.
After receiving the Mythical Zoan Azure Dragon model, he did not linger on Beehive Island. He took Kaido's corpse and left.
No matter whose Devil Fruit he had Teach seize, Link would always take the body away, extract blood, and then destroy it himself.
As a transmigrant, Link knew too well how much value a strong man's blood could have in certain hands.
King the Conflagration and Kaido, and the Seven Warlords of the Sea, were the best examples.
Without King and the Seven Warlords, there would be no Seraphim.
Without Kaido, there would be no artificial Azure Dragon model.
Having obtained from Vegapunk the method to create perfect clones, as long as Link had someone's blood, he could create a perfect clone.
For example, with Enel's, the Golden Lion's, and Kaido's blood in his hands, he could clone a new Enel, a new Golden Lion, and a new Kaido at any time, even the Golden Lion in his youth.
In terms of foundation, the Piercing Duke Pirates were astonishing, second only to the world government.
After Link left Beehive Island, the scene of him taking Kaido's corpse quickly reached Morgans in the form of photographs.
The next day, as expected, Link once again became the focus of the world.
The sensation this time surpassed even his defeat of Charlotte Linlin and his coronation as the world's strongest.
Defeating and killing are two entirely different concepts.
After defeating an emperor, Link then achieved the feat of killing an emperor. His status as the new-era strongest man in the world became even more unshakable.
Especially after Morgans' headline spread across the world, countless people snapped to attention.
The headline blared: "After Felling the Three 'World's Strongest'—The Strongest Man in History!"
The cover showed four bounty posters, one above and three below.
On top was Link.
Below were Whitebeard and Kaido, both dead, and Charlotte Linlin.
These three, once members of the Rocks Pirates and later three hegemonic Emperors in the Great Pirate Era, had held the titles "World's Strongest Man," "World's Strongest Creature," and "World's Strongest Woman."
Having defeated the three bearers of "World's Strongest," Link undeniably stood upon the tier of the strongest in history.
The following day, the Navy gave official recognition.
Link's new bounty poster spread across the world.
The bounty was so terrifying it reached the limit beneath the throne.
[Piercing Duke Link. Bounty: 5,540,000,000 Berries. Dead or alive.]
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