As a seasoned pirate fan, he would never mistake this fruit—the top-tier Rumble-Rumble Fruit!
This earliest-appearing and most powerful Logia fruit, if it appeared on the open sea, would guarantee at least Admiral-level combat power.
The Rumble-Rumble Fruit could possess both the ultra-fast speed of the Glint-Glint Fruit and generate temperatures surpassing magma.
Most terrifying was its devastating destructive power, which could instantly destroy an enemy’s internal organs, and Raigo gathered from thunderclouds was an island-destroying move.
As long as one ate this Devil Fruit, they could easily one-shot pirates with a bounty below one hundred million Berries.
‘Zeus!
Hurry up!’ Charlotte Rector urged aloud.
Getting closer and closer to the fruit, just at the moment when he reached out his hand and was about to touch the Rumble-Rumble Fruit, an accident suddenly occurred.
The cloud mountain beneath his feet shattered from the inside, opening a wide gap.
Broken cloud stones and white soil, mixed with flying shattered clouds across the sky, splashed in all directions.
The connected clouds around it were also torn apart by the erupting airflow, and a huge beast accompanied by a roar rushed out from the breach.
‘Roar oh~!’
A giant light-yellow crab broke through the clouds, its hard shell resembling heavy metal armor.
Its two huge crab claws collided with each other, making a harsh click-clack sound, and its pair of greenish eyes were full of ferocity.
The crab claws gleaming with a metallic cold light went straight towards Charlotte Rector’s head to pinch him.
Clang!!!
The giant crab claw clamped solidly onto Charlotte Rector’s head, but Charlotte Rector was fine.
On the contrary, this big crab’s shell went numb from the huge rebound force, and its greenish eyeballs were filled with confusion.
As if it were saying, ‘Why is your head harder than my crab claws?’
Charlotte Rector couldn’t even be bothered to give the crab another glance.
A five-year-old Charlotte Linlin could destroy most of a giant village.
Having inherited the physique of an Iron Balloon, Charlotte Rector had been training all these years, and now his physique was even stronger than five-year-old Charlotte Linlin’s.
This crab simply couldn’t break through his defense; in his eyes, it was nothing more than a dish.
Ignoring the crab, Charlotte Rector raised his hand to pluck the Rumble-Rumble Fruit, opened his mouth, and swallowed it in one bite.
‘Boom!!!’
The rolling clouds above were torn apart by the thunder light.
A dazzling translucent white light—thunder powerful enough to illuminate the entire island of Birka—fell from the sky, striking the giant crab directly.
Thunder raged, and the big crab’s entire body was roasted glowing red by the high temperature generated by the lightning, emitting a faint fragrance from its shell.
The big crab’s huge body fell limply toward Birka, and the crab claw pinching Charlotte Rector’s head also loosened.
Under the sunlight, the shadow of the crab’s body almost enveloped the entire island of Birka.
The residents on the island raised their heads in unison, looking at the giant crab falling from the sky, fear instantly crawling all over their faces.
Women holding their children ran flusteredly toward the island’s port.
The men clenched the spears in their hands, their eyes filled with the resolve to protect their families to the death.
‘Everyone!
You must stop the Crab God!
You can’t let it kill our families anymore!’
‘Stop it even if it kills us!’
Just as they gripped their weapons and prepared to make a desperate struggle, the Crab God in their eyes crashed straight into the central plaza of the island.
The huge body landing stirred up flying fragments of clouds across the sky, and the entire ground continued to vibrate along with it.
The reddish crab shell cracked open, revealing the snowy white crab meat inside.
The crowd instinctively looked up into the air, searching for the person who killed the Crab God, when suddenly someone pointed at the cloud mountain on the western side of the island.
A white-haired youth had fine lightning winding around his body, and his light golden eyes carried an indifferent expression!
Electric light lingered around his body, and his aura was heavy and intimidating, looking just like a high-and-mighty deity!
‘A deity has descended!!!’
‘The Thunder Emperor has saved us!!!’
‘Praise the Thunder Emperor!!!’
The woman holding her child knelt on the ground and wept tears of joy, while the men roared loudly, their shouts mixed with excitement, relief, and heartfelt reverence.
Charlotte Rector was feeling the changes in his body.
With the electromagnetic force bonus of the Rumble-Rumble Fruit, his Observation Haki could now easily perceive meteorites in outer space.
Even all the movements in Mock Town on Jaya Island in the Blue Sea below could be clearly captured by him.
When Charlotte Rector came back to his senses, he saw the Birka civilians kneeling on the ground continuously shouting, ‘Thunder Emperor!’
‘Lord Rector!
You seem to have saved them!’ Zeus floated leisurely, looking at the civilians below with a smile.
Charlotte Rector stroked his chin with his right hand.
The title Thunder Emperor wasn’t bad.
These Birka civilians lived ten thousand meters high in the sky, surviving under thin oxygen and harsh environments.
Their physical fitness was far stronger than the civilians on the open sea, almost reaching the level where everyone was a soldier.
But because they were located ten thousand meters high in the sky, their information was closed off, they were unaware of various matters on the open sea, and they couldn’t access the technology of the sea.
The residents of Birka still used self-made weapons.
These weapons were crudely made, but they had rich combat experience.
Cake Island happened to lack combat power, so perhaps he could bring them back to Cake Island.
Compared to recruiting pirates who plundered everywhere on the sea, this group of civilians was much more reliable, as well as stronger and more loyal!
Right now, in the hearts of this group of Birka residents, he was the savior who rescued them!
Charlotte Rector stood on Zeus, slowly descending toward Birka.
The moment his feet touched the ground, the surrounding civilians shouted in unison!
‘Thank you, Thunder Emperor, for saving us!’
‘The Thunder Emperor has descended!’
‘O God!
Please take us in!’
Seeing Charlotte Rector land by stepping on the clouds with their own eyes, everyone’s eyes were filled with awe.
‘Um!
I’m not a god!’ Charlotte Rector shouted loudly, worrying secretly that he would be deified just for eating the Rumble-Rumble Fruit.
Once they truly reached the open sea, wouldn’t all those Devil Fruit users be worshipped like gods?
If they were to fight in the future, before the opponent even made a move, simply by using a Devil Fruit, his own people would kneel down, worship, and shout ‘God,’ making it impossible to fight at all!
The civilians hurriedly nodded, ‘Understood!
Understood!
You are not a god, you must have been sent by god to save us!’
Charlotte Rector: ‘…’
(It’s completely impossible to explain!)
For the sake of his long-term plan, Charlotte Rector decided to go along with their thoughts for the time being.
Then he would slowly enlighten and correct their thoughts, otherwise there would be no way to cultivate this group of people into effective combat power.
Charlotte Rector asked them to deal with the big crab first.
After chatting, he learned that this big crab was a cloud beast that monopolized Birka’s offshore waters.
A month ago, the sky beast suddenly appeared in Birka, destroying the boats that went out to sea to hunt.
The sky beast forced them to hand over a large amount of food every day to feed it, and only when it was full and left could they go out to sea to catch sky fish.
If it wasn’t full, it would kill the residents who delivered the food.
In just one month, the sky beast had killed sixteen people.
Charlotte Rector, who killed the sky beast, logically became the ‘Thunder Emperor’ in their mouths!
After finishing his meal, Charlotte Rector strolled around Birka, where he could see civilians everywhere transforming various Skypiea shells into daily necessities.
Flame Dials were used to make fires for cooking, and Breath Dials were made into small boats, but in Charlotte Rector’s view, the potential of these Sky Dials had not been fully developed yet!
A new plan was slowly taking shape in his heart, but he planned to conquer the entire Skypiea first, gather the Sky Islanders together, and then execute the plan.
…
One day later!
‘Wait for me to come back!
I’ll take you to live a wealthy life!’ Charlotte Rector sat on Zeus, waving goodbye to the Birka civilians gathered on the shore.
Until Birka’s outline completely disappeared from his sight, Charlotte Rector breathed a sigh of relief.
The Birka civilians were simply too enthusiastic.
The moment he mentioned leaving, a group of people knelt down in front of him with a thud, and some even directly hugged his thighs and wailed loudly.
If he hadn’t repeatedly promised that he would definitely come back, there was no way he could have left!
But this was a good thing.
When taking them to the sea in the future, there was completely no need to worry about this group of people changing their minds or turning into ungrateful ingrates!
In the pirate world, people full of talk about morality were everywhere, but people who truly adhered to morality were as rare as endangered animals.
Skypiea Upper Yard Entrance.
Scattered on the ground were broken spears and shattered cloud armor, with fine fragments of clouds drifting slowly against the ground.
Shandian warriors and Skypiea warriors lay sprawled across the island clouds.
The cloud armor on the Skypiea warriors’ bodies was shattered all over the ground, and the tips of their long spears were chipped.
The bronze skin of the Shandians was covered with blue and purple fist prints, and they bared their teeth while sucking in breath, revealing incomplete teeth.
Sitting in front of these people was a tall woman.
A head of fluffy, curly, rose-pink long wavy hair spread wantonly down her shoulders.
She wore a wide-brimmed cowboy hat trimmed with purplish-red polka-dot ribbons, and delicate deep-purple teardrop earrings hung from her ears.
On her upper body, she wore a deep pink bikini printed with rose-red polka dots as an inner layer, and an outer short grey-blue lace-up crop shirt, with the lapels tied in a knot in front of her lower abdomen, revealing her tight, smooth waist and abdomen.
Her shoulders were paired with gilded tassel epaulets, and the outer layer was draped with a long cape trimmed in white, with the inside of the cape being a rich dark rose-red, and the garment adorned with rounded brass buttons.
Her lower body was paired with glossy black tight leather pants, a metal-ringed belt was buckled at her waist, and high-heeled black patent leather knee-high boots were stepped on her feet.
Her voice was hearty yet carried a bit of seduction.