Luffy are still admired their new ship, he was still running in circles, laughing like a child.
"This is amazing! Our very own ship!" Luffy shouted, hopping onto the figurehead.
Jack, however, wasn't just admiring the Merry. He was thinking. If we're going to sail the Grand Line, this ship needs to be stronger. The waves, the storms, the enemies we'll face… a normal keel won't cut it.
He still remember the reason going merry cannot be fixed is because the damage keel, so he wanted to upgrade the keel first.
He turned to Luffy. "Captain, I have a request."
Luffy tilted his head. "Huh? What is it, Jack?"
"Permission to upgrade the ship."
Everyone froze.
"Upgrade… the ship?" Usopp blinked. "You mean, like adding cannons or something?"
Jack smirked. "Not exactly. I'm going to make the Going Merry nearly indestructible."
Nami crossed her arms, skeptical. "And how exactly do you plan to do that?"
"First I need to ask captain permission," said Jack while looking at Luffy.
Luffy nodded, "Ok jack"
Jack walked to the bow, placed his palm gently on the Merry smiling figurehead, and closed his eyes. A soft golden glow spread from his hand, pulsing down into the ship keel.
He only change the structure of the keel and never other structure, he afraid if he change everything then Franky won't join Straw hat Pirates.
They need... No he need franky for his template character progres.
Zoro raised an eyebrow. "You change it to metal. ."
Luffy leaned forward, eyes sparkling. "Ooooh, shiny!"
The merry head and the keel had become shiny, it had change the properties into a metal and this is not a normal metal but Vibranium, the most advanced metal in MCU.
The entire ship seemed sturdier, as though it had just been reforged.
Jack exhaled, lowering his hand. "Done."
Nami crouched down and knocked on the deck. "Metal? Won't it rust."
Jack grinned. "Nah... This is not a normal metal, this is vibranium and it is easy to bend it and it is anti rust. Stronger than steel, harder than seastone. You could ram this ship into a battleship and the battleship would break first."
"Vibra-what-now?" Usopp asked.
"Think of it as the strongest metal in existence," Jack explained.
Luffy's jaw dropped. "Whoa! So Merry is super strong now?"
"Yes," Jack said proudly. "She won't break easily. Not from storms, not from cannon fire, not even from sea kings."
Luffy jumped up and down on the deck. "THIS IS AWESOME! JACK, YOU'RE AMAZING!"
Zoro smirked. "Heh. Guess we won't have to worry about the ship snapping in two anymore."
Even Nami, looked impressed. "If that's true… this ship might just survive the Grand Line."
Usopp wiped a tear dramatically. "Going Merry, you're even more beautiful now…"
Jack chuckled at their reactions, he still remember bucky arms are always being destroyed when fighting others using normal metal.
But when he changed it into Vibranium, even sentry the most powerful superhero at that time cannot broken it. The vibranium arm has more and solid vibranium unlike Captain america shield, that is why it was ridiculously strong that even sentry cannot broke it in half.
Kaya and Merry looked surprised, "you can change something into metal?"
"Yes, my ability is matter transmutation," replied Jack.
"Amazing, so is it only metal you change?" asked Kaya.
"Nope," he then showcasing his ability put it on the ground and the ground suddenly become small river. Then he touched the branch it changed in to meat and luffy when he saw the meat grab from Jack hand.
Kaya smiled and said, "With this I feel relieved, that means Usop won't need to starve."
Everyone become silent even luffy who just ate half the meat stopped eating, they looked at Usopp.
Usopp who become embarassed looked around.
"Captain, you said you are inviting me to join your crew?"
Luffy smiled, so are you agreed to join?
"Yes," smiled Usop. "I will be the captain."
"I am the captain," rebuked luffy angrily.
P/S: I think, Ikaris and Makkaris power are a bit overpowered in paradise. They can literally move at speed of light. But I think the most broken power is Druig because he can manipulate even marine.
I saw some post, even his eternal friend cannot escape his mental manipulation, he can put someone to sleep. So maybe I will downscale his character a bit, maybe someone who had trained and awaken his haki can resist manipulation for a few second and those who had conqueror haki can resist it automatically.
Feel free to comment, what character next.