One Piece: The World King Who Emerged from the White Town

Chapter 497 Nightmare Battleship!

Time flies, and eight months have passed in the blink of an eye.

In June of the year 1510 in the Haiyuan calendar.

Our world's greatest shipwright, Mr. Tom, has finally finished!

It took more than a year, almost two years, to successfully build the super battleship that Abel had always dreamed of—Nightmare!

That's right, Abel had already decided on a name the moment he saw it.

It will be everyone's nightmare!

The ship is 155 meters long and 74 meters wide, with a black base and a silver light-absorbing coating, creating an unparalleled and technologically advanced unique hull.

The keel and ship body were made by the Treasure Tree Adam, while the cabins and decks were expanded from the wood of the Zombie Tree. It possesses super memory and vampiric properties, and has extremely strong defensive capabilities.

Tests showed that ordinary shells landing on the deck would at most leave a black mark, which could be wiped off easily.

After extensive calculations, an extra layer of Takra alloy was added to many parts of the ship's bottom and hull to maximize the anti-gravity effect, thus ensuring that the warship's top speed would not be inferior to most other ships.

The bow of the ship is adorned with a giant octopus head sculpture.

[Figurehead – David Jones] (Orange)

Equipment items

Description: After his death, Davy Jones was made into a figurehead by the goddess Corybusser.

Effect: Equipping this on the bow grants two ship hull skills. (Once equipped, it is permanently bound and cannot be removed.)

1. Ghost Transformation: Puts the entire ship into a ghost state, making it immune to all physical attacks. Duration: 30 minutes. Cooldown: 7 days.

2. Summon Sea Monster: Davy Jones blows his bronze whistle, summoning a giant deep-sea octopus from another world to fight for him. Duration: 30 minutes. Cooldown: 30 days.

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Below the figurehead is a relief of a six-armed, dark demon god, which is chained up.

Once the chains are unlocked, the six-armed Dark Demon God will open its arms, revealing its main cannon—the Death Ray Crusher.

【Extremely Worst Imperial Arm: Death Ray Crusher】(Orange)

Special equipment items

Description: Forged from materials of various legendary super-dangerous species.

Effects: Requires prior installation. Once installed, it releases a super death ray to devastate targets, with a range of ten kilometers. Automatic recharge time: 7 days. (The recharged energy will be automatically discharged upon removal from the system to prevent accidental explosion.)

Overload Effect: Forces the user into a super overload state, unleashing a powerful attack. After use, there will be a 60-day cooldown period during which it cannot be recharged or used.

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Because this weapon was so powerful, Tom designed some other things as well.

For example, when firing, the anti-gravity effect in a certain area can be turned off, making the ship draft deeper and thus resisting the terrible recoil.

When acceleration is needed, the anti-gravity effect in all areas can be activated to reduce the ship's weight and increase speed.

Abel's Nightmare Battleship was even nearly ten meters longer than the Whitebeard Pirates' Moby Dick.

It can also easily carry hundreds of cannons, thousands of crew members, and a large amount of supplies.

Of course, the only weapon on the entire ship right now is a single main gun.

So strictly speaking, this nightmare warship is not yet fully completed.

Abel specifically entrusted Judge with the final installation of the firepower and control systems.

Although Tom's shipbuilding skills are the best in the world, the other party really can't handle high technology.

What Abel needs is simpler and more convenient operation, and powerful firepower that can rival or even surpass 'Pluto'!

This is outside Tom's area of ​​expertise.

"How is it? This should be the most perfect work I have ever created in my life."

Tom said with a complex yet proud expression.

Abel nodded. “That’s exactly what I wanted. It’s a ‘work of art.’ But I won’t keep it hidden away like a vase for people to admire. It will be the nightmare of all my enemies, right up to their deaths!”

"To be honest, even now, I still don't know if handing it over to you was the right thing to do."

Tom suddenly looked at Abel very seriously and said...

"You give me the impression of being calm and somewhat capricious, but hidden beneath that calm facade lies danger, madness, and destruction. So, when building this warship, I was unconsciously influenced by your emotions, which ultimately resulted in this nightmare warship."

“My gut feeling tells me that if I give it to you, you will become the nightmare of the whole world.”

"The last person who gave me a similar feeling was Gol D. Roger."

Roger eventually became the Pirate King, thus ushering in the Great Age of Pirates...

So what kind of turbulent waves will this man create on the sea?

"I hope I won't be executed by the World Government again for the same reason."

Finally, Tom jokingly revealed his true feelings.

"Don't worry, those arrogant guys will never have that chance again."

Abel looked at the super battleship in front of him, which he had spent almost all of his wealth on and waited so long to finally complete, and he looked so proud and triumphant!

"So how do you plan to drive it away?"

"Drive it away? No, it's not time for it to bare its fangs into the sea yet."

As Abel spoke, he pulled out something that looked like a wandering bottle.

[Voodoo Bottle] (Orange)

Equipment items

Description: A magical glass bottle imbued with divine power.

Effect: Allows a ship to be placed inside the bottle, retaining only the original weight of the bottle. (Cannot hold living creatures, but can hold inanimate magical items. Retrieving and releasing takes 1 minute.)

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He uncorked the bottle, pointed the opening at the nightmare warship in front of him, and began to absorb it.

One minute later.

The Nightmare Battleship appeared completely intact inside the bottle, and every detail inside could be seen through the glass.

"Now it really has become a 'work of art'."

Tom's tone was somewhat complicated, as if he was recalling what Abel had said earlier.

He initially thought it was just a metaphor, but he didn't realize it might also be a realistic depiction.

Abel generously spent 10 transaction points to store the [Voodoo Bottle] containing the Nightmare Battleship back in his system inventory.

Because the ship is inside, an additional handling fee is required.

If you accidentally lose this thing, it'll explode on the spot!

“Our deal is done. Where are you headed next? Back to Water Seven? I can give you a ride.”

In high spirits, Abel glanced at Tom, who was already balding, before leaving.

"Water City... I'd better not go back now. It will only cause them trouble. I plan to travel around by myself from now on."

"Okay, feel free to come to me if you have any trouble."

Abel told Tom to keep the Den Den Mushi he had given him earlier and prepared to give Tom some money and a small boat.

Chapter 498 A Treasure Map of Red Quality

During his journey back from the North Sea to the first half of the Grand Line, Abel was full of pride and high spirits.

These eight months not only allowed him to further improve his skills.

The biggest gain is the Nightmare Battleship I just acquired!

It's a pity that it's not fully complete yet; it will take some time before it officially sets sail.

However, Abel knew that that day was not far off.

First, the skills [Magic Card Modification], [Clothes Burst], and [Infinite One-Hit Slash] all leveled up to LV7!

[Dragon Fist] leveled up twice, reaching LV6, because he bought two [Intermediate Skill Upgrade Cards]!

Although [Asura Aurora Slash] is still at LV8, Abel has a feeling that it will be upgraded to LV9 soon, probably in the next two months.

The skill improvement was quite good, and other aspects were not neglected either.

He has fully mastered the techniques of 'hardening' and 'entanglement' with Armament Haki.

While providing defense and increasing attack power, you can also imbue the projectiles with an aura of dominance.

The next stage is 'externalization'.

By gathering Armament Haki in one's hands or on a weapon and releasing it, it directly transforms into tangible offensive or defensive power. It can unleash a powerful impact to repel enemies, form a protective barrier, or even defend against invisible attacks.

This technique is also known as 'Ryuo' in Wano Country!

Because no one was teaching him this advanced skill, Abel was finding it difficult to explore on his own and had not yet mastered it.

As for more advanced 'internal sabotage,' that's beyond Abel's current capabilities.

After all, one must walk one step at a time, and eat one bite at a time.

The progress in developing Observation Haki is also very encouraging.

In particular, he has found a way to integrate 'Transparent World' with Observation Haki, and is making good progress.

The current achievement is that when these two abilities are used simultaneously, his perception will accelerate to the maximum, not only slowing down the movement of surrounding objects by a factor of several, but also disrupting the perception of others to some extent.

The principle is to make a lot of deceptive movements within 'bullet time' so that the other party cannot distinguish the real from the real and therefore cannot make a prediction.