Chapter 369: Esdeath's Frustration

[Power of the Earth].

This is actually the name of a skill, and there is no such special ability at all.

If you insist, it is just that Sakaki in the special episode wrote a book called "The Secret of the Earth", which records Sakaki's own combat experience.

It's just that there is a fan fiction that compiled a special setting called "Power of the Earth" based on this book.

And now the "Power of the Earth" manifested in Naruto has only two simple effects. One is that it can control a small amount of soil, and the effect will be much stronger after leaving Pokémon Island; the second is that as long as Naruto's body is in contact with the ground, he can continuously restore his physical strength and chakra.

It's like Naruto has become the earth jinchūriki, and in the future he may be able to develop abilities such as the earth coat.

As for why Luffy and Naruto awakened special abilities.

Dark suspected that it might be related to the fact that these two people were the original protagonists of the two worlds. Pokémon Island has a "link" with the two worlds, so the luck of these two people in their own world may have been transmitted to Pokémon Island through the "link".

Apart from this statement, it is difficult for him to associate other reasons.

After all, there are many people who are more suitable for the power of waves and the power of the earth than these two people, especially the power of waves. There are too many people who are more qualified than Luffy.

Especially in Dark's opinion.

Luffy's future is basically certain that he will not become a wave hero. He can only be regarded as a person who has awakened the power of waves.

Because the wave hero has his own clear and firm "justice", but Luffy.

It's not that every action of Luffy has nothing to do with "justice". After all, there are many things that Luffy has maintained "justice".

For example, driving away Arlong, defeating Crocodile, saving Caesar's experimental children, liberating Dressrosa and Wano Country, at least these things are considered "justice" by the local people.

It's just that Luffy is too casual and too reckless, such as the classic Imperdon jailbreak.

Also, the ‘D’ clan is absolutely inseparable from the word ‘freedom’, but the life of the Wave Hero is not free. From this point of view, Luffy has no chance to be the ‘Wave Hero’.

Anyway.

It is indeed legitimate for Garp and Zephyr to bring these two boys who have awakened special abilities here.

And after Dark associated Luffy and Naruto with the ‘Son of the World’, he also had the idea of ​​taking these two children as apprentices.

So, in mid-July, Luffy and Naruto were forced by their grandfather to become Dark’s apprentices.

Naruto didn’t have any objections, but was very happy.

But Luffy was always unhappy.

He just didn’t like the feeling of having someone above him. Grandpa and brother are already at the level of family affection, so he wouldn’t feel repulsive.

It is precisely for this reason that Luffy has always refused to call Dark Master.

Until one day, Garp gave Luffy a love education, and Luffy was influenced and obediently called Dark Master, and he never made trouble again since then.

Back to August 2.

Luffy and Naruto have been training with Dark for two weeks.

Dark even bought the full-level [Earth Power] to teach Naruto how to practice.

How to say it

After these special abilities reach the full level, each one will produce an extremely incredible effect, incredible enough to be compared with the existence of legendary Pokémon, and it is also in line with its price equal to that of legendary Pokémon.

The difference between the power of the earth and the power of the wave and the super power is that the direct combat ability of the power of the earth is not strong.

The most lethal one of the three abilities that Dark currently possesses is undoubtedly the super power, which is the ability to kill the target without anyone noticing, and can even tamper with a person's mental consciousness.

The second is the power of the wave, which is a comprehensive special ability, an all-round enhancement, and even has a "healing" effect, but it is not as strong as the power of the evergreen.

As for the power of the earth, although its direct combat effect is not strong, his other effects are very terrifying.

It can be said that the entire planet's land is Dark's power bank. As long as he stands on the land, he will be "invincible".

The scope of "invincibility" here is very wide.

It not only includes the recovery of various abilities in the body, but also the recovery of injuries and even the recovery of vitality.

Although the vitality recovery effect here does not include the extension of life, it is also very abnormal.

This means that as long as there is a piece of land that has not become a wasteland, Dark can always abuse all kinds of forbidden techniques that would consume vitality without scruples.

If Naruto adds a pair of reincarnation eyes, even if it is just an ordinary Mangekyō Sharingan, his strength will be extremely terrifying.

This is the most terrifying part of the power of the earth in Dark's view.

In teaching Luffy and Naruto, the training plan formulated by Dark is not much different from that of Esdeath, but there are differences in the focus.

Esdeath is a full-scale training, because she has not shown any bias in any aspect.

But Luffy and Naruto are different.

Luffy's chakra attribute is only fire, and the other party is unwilling to mark it.

Therefore, Luffy's training mainly focuses on physical skills, physical fitness, and wave power. When he has free time, he will learn the two-color domineering and eight-gate escape technique in advance.

Naruto's chakra attributes include wind and earth. Earth is probably produced by the "power of the earth". In addition, Naruto's characteristics of the power of the earth are very suitable for practicing various forbidden arts.

Therefore, Naruto's training mainly focuses on the wind and soil escape ninjutsu, the power of the earth, and forbidden arts. When he has free time, he will study the magnetic escape combined with the wind and earth, and polish his physical fitness.

Esdeath only returned to Dak yesterday, and it was only yesterday that she learned that she suddenly had two more junior brothers.

Esdeath has some ambivalence towards these two junior brothers.

She really couldn't bear to look down on these two junior brothers with runny noses who seemed to have some missing brain stems, but what made her unwilling was that her strength seemed to be inferior to the two junior brothers.

Originally, Esdeath thought that it was just because Luffy and Naruto had better foundations that they were stronger than her.

If they start practicing at the same time, Esdeath will not be worse than these two junior brothers.

However, after Esdeath observed it for a day, she realized that she was so wrong.

It only took Luffy and Naruto a day to control the power of waveguides and the power of the earth, but it took Esdeath a week to barely generate a ray of telekinesis in his body.

This made Esdeath feel a strong sense of frustration. She even suspected that she was not a 'genius' as her master said. Her talent was completely incomparable to that of her two junior brothers.

Luffy and Naruto are 'Children of the World'. A little luck has been transmitted from other worlds, and they are special abilities that are directly awakened, so they can quickly start using them on the first day.

But Esdeath has no special abilities at all. She relied on her own talent to develop them in just one week.

At least in Dark's view, Esdeath's level of genius is higher than the first two.

Because the first two are not geniuses, they are wall hangings.

As for Esdeath's frustration, Dark noticed it, but did not explain it.

Esdeath's biggest drawback is that she is overconfident and arrogant. If Esdeath is not put under constant pressure, the child will always drift away.

Time quickly came to a week later.

August 9th, Year 2 of the Alliance Calendar.

Dark has entered SAO again, and the players have reached the 12th floor, which can be said to be quite fast.

Players have become more and more familiar with how to survive in this death game. Now, even if they hear that they have to defeat the boss next, they can still show their expressions.

This time Dark entered SAO because he felt it was time to add two new buildings to the players.

[Elf Center] and [Friendly Store].

At present, the most effective way for players to recover after a Pokémon is injured in battle is to use props, but the explosion rate of props that can be used by Pokémon is very low.

Therefore, the vast majority of players let their Pokémon rest and recover over time.

But this greatly slows down the leveling process for many trainers.

Especially as the layers get higher, the monsters become more and more powerful, and the Pokémon take more and more damage.

Unfortunately, there is no sub-class in the game that can refine Pokémon items, which makes items that can be used by Pokémon very popular.

In particular, rare props like [Magical Candy (Level-up Pokémon)] and [Preemptive Claw] will cause the guild [Holy Dragon United] to rob them.

"Build an elf center first, and then set up a friendly store on the 15th floor."

Duck opened his administrator panel and started operating directly.

The advantage of the game is that you can change these values ​​​​at will, which is very easy.

By setting the price of these products in the panel, you don't need to send people to keep an eye on them. Just put an NPC and you can keep an eye on the store.

If Dark had had this ability when he unified the maritime world, then those Elf Centers and Nurture House branches would have opened all over the sea.

For the existence of the Elf Center and Friendly Shop, Dak has also set up automatic construction procedures.

Every time a player conquers a level, an Elf Center will be automatically copied on the new level; the Friendly Store will be copied every five levels.

Of course, the Elf Center and friendly shops on each floor will certainly not be exactly the same.

The recovery power of higher-level elf centers will be stronger, and the friendly stores will have more goods.

The cost of using the recovery machine in the Wizard Center is 100G/time, and the products in the friendly store have their own prices.

It also started from the location of these two buildings.

Only then did Dark understand the doubts that had been in his mind from the moment he was 'linked' to the world of SAO.

‘How do you make magic coins in this world? ’