Elbaf.
Far from the existing forests, ice and snow still remained.
Charlotte Linlin, Lily, and Gerth were shuttling through the forest side by side.
"Ugh! How could Mother Carmel be so bad!" Gerth, having learned the cause and effect from Lily, couldn't help but curse.
Thinking of Mother Carmel's brutal appearance, Lily shrank her neck: "I was shocked when I saw it too; I couldn't believe it at all."
"It's really hateful. Linlin, Lily, don't think about her anymore." Gerth changed the subject: "Let me take you to find blueberries. We can make blueberry cake later."
"Blueberry cake?"
"It's a cake made with blueberries. Blueberries that have been pressed by snow will become sweeter!"
The three drilled into the bushes.
A moment later, Linlin held up a peculiar fruit not much bigger than a knuckle, showing it off excitedly to her friends: "Gerth, Lily, I found a weird-looking blueberry. Is this the Devil Fruit Loki talked about?"
Charlotte Linlin's advantage is high defense; most attacks cannot break through her defense.
Her disadvantage is low internal defense and a thin HP bar; once her defense is broken, she's done for.
The best strategy to make up for this shortcoming is to train herself into a tank with Haki and an invincible physique.
The mediocre strategy is to eat a Devil Fruit and use the vitality of a Mythical Zoan to make up for the shortcoming.
Regarding the choice of Devil Fruit, Loki had already considered it.
Naturally, he wouldn't let Charlotte Linlin eat an ordinary Devil Fruit randomly.
"I don't know; I haven't seen a blueberry like this either." Gerth tilted her head and looked at the fruit covered with spiral patterns, looking particularly strange, feeling somewhat confused.
"Yes, Devil Fruits are like this; they grow into strange appearances on the outside." Lily confirmed.
"Yay." Charlotte Linlin excitedly pulled the two away.
Fisherman's Village.
"Prince Loki, we brought you delicious blueberries." Gerth said.
Charlotte Linlin waved what was in her hand: "And a Devil Fruit, Loki. You said it could be exchanged for lots of Semla."
"Is this... the Soru Soru no Mi (Soul-Soul Fruit)?"
Loki stared blankly at the fruit Linlin was holding.
The Devil Fruit encyclopedia preserved in Elbaf is different from the castrated version circulating on the sea outside.
Loki recognized the true identity of this fruit with peculiar patterns at a glance.
It was exactly the fruit Mother Carmel once possessed, the Paramecia-type Soru Soru no Mi.
"Can fruits really choose people?"
Loki couldn't help but let his imagination run wild.
Just killed Mother Carmel.
And it immediately respawned near Linlin.
Does this fruit like Linlin so much?
"Loki, what are you staring at?"
Ida came out of the house, patted the dazed Loki, and invited Charlotte Linlin and the others: "Linlin, Gerth, come in. Today I made delicious cream puffs."
"Cream puffs?! Linlin wants to eat!"
Charlotte Linlin's eyes lit up, she stuffed the things in her hand into Loki's hand: "Loki, don't forget my Semla!"
Leaving a sentence behind, she squeezed directly into the house through the door crack.
"This fruit, should I eat it?"
Loki looked at the Soul-Soul Fruit and fell into deep thought.
That unknown Mythical Zoan fruit from the original timeline, combined with the infinite strength of this body after adulthood.
Could even suppress and kill the blackened Harald; it cannot be said to be weak.
But the premise is to bypass the guardian [Iron Thunder] to get it.
He would only be confident after becoming an adult at least, which would be too late.
He wouldn't make it in time for the God Valley Incident more than twenty years later.
And the Soul-Soul Fruit is also a powerful fruit with both mechanics and stats.
The user can manipulate human souls at will.
First of all, allowing souls to inhabit various objects to anthropomorphize them is definitely the best choice for developing forces.
Secondly, souls can be used to endow elements with life, thereby controlling thunder and fire.
Even the Mera Mera no Mi and the Goro Goro no Mi would cry upon seeing this.
In a sense, as long as there are enough souls.
The Soul-Soul Fruit can master countless elemental powers.
Finally, it can also recharge oneself to enhance strength, heal oneself... the usages are varied.
"Loki, do you dislike Mom's cooking?"
"Coming, Mom!" Loki interrupted his thoughts and turned to join the cream puff feast.
The fruit won't grow legs and run away.
Since it's come to this, let's eat first.
"Linlin, you're eating too fast."
"Oh!"
Late at night.
After repeatedly thinking and deducing the possible usages of this fruit, Loki made a decision: he would eat this Soul-Soul Fruit.
The giant's growth period is just too long.
There aren't many ways to solve the age problem in this world.
The Juku Juku no Mi (Ripe-Ripe Fruit) won't be found in Wano Country for at least another 40 years.
The Toshi Toshi no Mi (Age-Age Fruit) is even more elusive.
The Soul-Soul Fruit might be his only chance to participate in this magnificent era of surging winds and clouds ahead of time!
"Gulp."
To avoid tasting the legendary shit flavor, Loki chose to swallow it whole.
As the fruit entered his stomach, brand new lineage factors embedded into his body.
A wondrous feeling came from Loki's senses, as if a new, invisible organ had been born.
"Is this the soul..."
With a thought from Loki, his vision changed. The bodies of others in the world seemed divided into two halves: the outside was the body, and a ghostly white soul resided inside.
But soul power was constantly dissipating outward.
Loki looked around.
Everyone's soul presented a completely different situation.
Although a child's soul is small, it possesses a kind of vitality. Although soul power is dissipating, the soul is growing imperceptibly.
While the elderly are the opposite, gradually weakening.
Loki finally looked at himself. A powerful soul far surpassing his peers, no, far surpassing adult giants, shone in his soul vision.
If the soul of an ordinary giant child is standardized as 1, and an adult giant is 10.
Then he is at least over 100.
"Is this a bonus reward for living a second life, or a boost from the Ancient Giant bloodline?"
Loki guessed in his heart.
According to the performance in the original timeline, soul strength is positively correlated with individual strength and remaining lifespan.
"Now is not the time to get to the bottom of it; let's test the effect first."
Loki took a deep breath and injected soul energy into the space between his eyebrows.
Whether he can step onto the world stage ahead of time depends on this move.
Inside Loki's skull, his brain grew eyes and a mouth, replying respectfully: "Brain revived, status good, ready to work at any time."
"Very good, take over the body! Punch." Loki ordered.
In the next instant, Loki's body moved on its own, adopting a standard horse stance, punching back and forth with both hands.
"Hehehehe, success. The fully automatic hosting mode is feasible. I lack nothing now!!!"
Loki suppressed the urge to laugh wildly.
Success due to transmigration, failure due to transmigration.
His biggest flaw.
Is the laziness of being an old slicker.
He doesn't have the perseverance to persist in training like Hajrudin.
But not anymore.
He can let his body move on its own!
He just needs to endure some fatigue after training.
"Now is the most critical part."
Loki continued to order: "Growth hormone, within the safe range, max it out for me!"
"Understood! Anterior pituitary, work faster!" The brain began to assign tasks.
Loki followed suit, activating the thyroid gland and other parts affecting growth one by one.
Epiphyseal cartilage cells began to differentiate.
Protein synthesis intensified....
From then on, a freely adjustable valve was installed for the growth of Loki's body.
The cost was the crazy consumption of energy.
Gastrointestinal peristalsis completely decomposed and squeezed the last bit of value from the food, and then fat also began to burn.
"I somewhat understand Linlin's Eating Disorder now."
Loki's eyes turned red. Enduring the urge to gnaw on the bed, he walked towards the kitchen.
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Hearing rustling sounds, Ida woke up from her dream, grabbed a stick, carefully approached the kitchen, looked at the dark figure, and said helplessly: "Hajrudin, didn't you eat enough tonight?"
"Mom, it's not Hajrudin, it's me. Sorry to disturb your sleep." Loki turned his head, slightly apologetic.
"Huh?"
Ida lit a candle in surprise. Looking at Loki's height, which vaguely surpassed Hajrudin's, she was a bit dazed.
How long has it been, and he's starting to grow again?
Did Harald also wake up hungry like this when he was a child?
"It's okay, no need to apologize. Loki, you weren't full, right? I'll make something for you right now."
"Thank you."
"You are my child; this is only right."
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