Chapter 39:
With the Devouring Talent, Victor could clearly feel the changes in his body—it seemed to be craving food.
Although his physique hadn't changed, he could feel his talent had become stronger.
Moreover, with the enhancement of the Devouring Talent, he could perfectly master the ability of the Glutton-Glutton Fruit—he just didn't know yet whether he was afraid of seawater or not.
So he opened his eyes, filled with joy.
There was only one drawback: outside his mouth, a strange extra mouth had appeared embedded.
But this was just because Victor hadn't controlled it yet. Once he became familiar with the fruit's ability, this wouldn't be a problem at all.
Immediately after, he took out food and went on a mad eating spree.
The food he swallowed was instantly digested by his body and turned into energy.
After meeting his body's needs, it continuously strengthened and improved his physique. Victor could feel his body constantly growing stronger.
Not only that—the scar on his chest from Roger's Divine Departure wound was gradually disappearing.
This was impressive—after all, that wound was caused by Conqueror's Haki-infused Divine Departure. Normally, such wounds would leave permanent, unerasable scars.
"Victor—how do you feel?"
Heracles and the other partners gathered around Victor, very curious.
"Hmm, feels fantastic. From now on, eating will be super convenient—one bite can swallow a whole year's worth of food for all of you."
Victor said, then directly took out a massive pile of food.
Immediately after, Victor suddenly opened a huge, steel-like mouth and swallowed the entire feast in one gulp.
"Wow—can do that too? Gotta say, this saves a ton of eating time."
"Too awesome. Do it again!"
"What other abilities are there?"
While everyone was amazed, they also grew curious about other directions for the Glutton-Glutton Fruit's abilities.
"Wait for it."
Next, Victor once again performed the feat of swallowing three Sea Kings in one bite, then took out a portion of gold.
He swallowed it in one gulp. After a short while, he spat out a perfectly lifelike golden robot about 1.8 meters tall.
"Huh? A robot? And then what—can it move?"
Heracles looked at the golden robot in front of him, feeling a bit puzzled.
The other crew members also looked over curiously—including Rayleigh, Roger, and the rest.
Immediately after, the robot moved on its own, picked up a broom, and began sweeping the deck.
This was the work command Victor had given the robot.
Victor's development of the Glutton-Glutton Fruit ability was far more useful than Wapol's later on.
"It even has self-awareness? This fruit has this kind of ability too?"
"Remolding and granting abilities with the Glutton-Glutton Fruit?"
"Too amazing—now we don't have to clean the ship or rooms anymore. Perfect!"
Everyone watched in wonder.
"Victor—quick, make one for each of us to handle housework."
In an instant, everyone wanted such a robot—who likes cleaning anyway?
"This metal looks somewhat special."
Jabba looked at the robot in front of him with great interest and observed it closely.
"Uncle Jabba—try chopping it with an axe."
Victor raised his hand to signal Jabba.
"Okay, I'll try."
Jabba directly gave the robot one axe chop.
It immediately dented the robot, but the robot quickly returned to its original shape.
"Hoho—this metal is interesting. Seems like it has great potential."
Rayleigh's eyes lit up as he watched.
"Hmm—this is a new type of alloy synthesized through the Glutton-Glutton Fruit ability. Hardness, strength, toughness, plasticity—all extremely reliable, and it even has memory ability."
Victor nodded in agreement.
Then Victor directly took out the Ryo Wazamono-grade sword Yomi Fire he had bought on Sabaody, swallowed it in one gulp, and followed with several other metal pieces.
Victor pondered for a moment, then spat out a double-edged Mo Dao (horse-chopping blade) three meters six long and weighing one hundred eight jin.
He had directly used the Glutton-Glutton Fruit to recast Yomi Fire, forming a new, even more lethal long blade.
"Hmm—very handy."
Victor swung it twice and felt very satisfied.
His current height had reached two meters nine—this Mo Dao looked perfect in his hands.
"Hoho—not bad. You actually forged a sword yourself."
Jabba felt the Glutton-Glutton Fruit's ability was pretty good.
"Hahaha—so this is the Glutton-Glutton Fruit ability you wanted. Not bad, not bad. Since you got the Glutton-Glutton Fruit—let's celebrate! Banquet time!"
Roger saw the excited crew and immediately shouted for another banquet.
"Hahaha—banquet it is then."
Having finally obtained the fruit he wanted, Victor was also very happy.
Then he took out massive amounts of food.
So everyone started another lively banquet together.
Meanwhile, Victor swallowed large amounts of metal and created a housekeeping robot for every person on the ship—as gifts for everyone.
As Victor became more proficient with the Glutton-Glutton Fruit, he soon achieved the ability to manifest a giant mouth form.
Now he no longer needed to eat himself—he could simply summon the Gluttonous Giant Mouth and swallow food directly.
This was far too convenient.
Then he directly swallowed all the gold in his inner space, followed by the special wind dials and jet dials from Skypiea.
Not only that—he also swallowed large amounts of insulating materials.
Victor took out the flying ship blueprint he obtained from Skypiea and memorized it.
Then he used the Glutton-Glutton Fruit ability to directly fuse it inside his body into a flying ship.
Moreover, it was larger than Enel's Ark Maxim, with more functions, and no need to worry about electrical leakage.
When Victor finished creating it, he didn't need to take it out right now—because the Glutton-Glutton Fruit's ability inherently came with its own storage space.
Another advantage of the Glutton-Glutton Fruit that no other fruit could compare to: no need to worry about stamina recovery.
As long as Victor ate large amounts of food and first stored it in the Glutton-Glutton Fruit's storage space as emergency rations.
When stamina was heavily consumed, he could directly digest it to replenish energy.
Not only that—Victor could also devour any energy-containing items to replenish internal consumption.
In other words, Victor no longer needed to worry about combat endurance problems.
And just at that moment, Victor received a call from Shakky's Den Den Mushi.
"Shakky-nee—looking for me?"
Victor saw it was Shakky contacting him—she must have something to ask for help.
"Victor-kun—your strength has been rising very fast lately. Bounty went up again."
Shakky's seductive laughing voice came through the Den Den Mushi.
"Sigh—it's all empty fame, nothing meaningful."
Victor said modestly.
"Hehe—alright. Now for the serious part."
"I'm the one who needs your help this time, Victor-kun."
"Victor-kun, I feel something's not quite right on Hive Island lately. And my intuition tells me something bad is going to happen."
Shakky calmly spoke about the God Valley incident this time.
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