One Piece: Starting with Coercion and Enticement of Nami

"so hard!"

Looking at the iron-colored scales of the venomous snake in my hand, I felt the hardness of steel.

The venomous snake opened its mouth wide and hissed.

A pale purple venomous mist was squeezed out from its fangs. Thoth's eyes flickered slightly, and he suddenly took a deep breath, using his powerful lung capacity to inhale the venomous mist.

Immediately afterwards, a burning pain shot through my throat, followed by a cracking sound.

With a squeeze of his five fingers, the venomous snake was crushed to death.

Thoth took out a specially made antidote from his waist, drank it all in one gulp, and soon the hallucinations and swaying in his vision gradually subsided.

Karina stepped forward and asked worriedly:

Are you alright?

He shook his head, then called out to them, "Be careful, the creatures that live here are very difficult to deal with."

He then looked at Karina and said, "You must stay close to me."

The latter nodded quickly.

Tote looked around and found a small patch of antidote herbs not far under the tree. He picked it, put it in his mouth, and analyzed its medicinal properties.

Soon, a look of surprise appeared in Tote's eyes. "The detoxification effect is stronger than my special antidote, and it can even increase physical strength after consumption?"

Sensing a subtle flow of heat within his body, and feeling a slight tingling and peculiar comfort in his muscles and bones, Thoth's eyes immediately lit up with heat, and he signaled to stop.

"Kalina, help me gather herbs."

Karina's learning ability was astonishing; she quickly learned, under Thoth's guidance, how to harvest herbs without damaging them.

A moment later, the group continued to explore further.

Along the way, they encountered all sorts of strange and exotic beasts: a pack of two-headed wolves, exploding army ants, rhinoceroses with steel skin and bodies several meters long, and a troop of monkeys with three tails and four ears.

Various rare and precious old herbs that possess unique toxicity or medicinal properties.

Boom!

Nami's entire body was covered in platinum wind armor. Holding the platinum wind staff, she slammed it down on the head of a wild boar with tusks growing from its back.

With a cracking sound as its skull shattered, the rock-spiked boar collapsed to the ground, unable to rise again.

Thoth looked puzzled. This was already the seventh powerful creature with abnormal abilities they had encountered, which was very unusual.

The creatures living here seem to have undergone abnormal evolution; even those without extraordinary abilities possess an abnormally strong physique.

As they entered the heart of the island, the scene before them silenced the Tote group.

Two hundred meters ahead, a basin with a diameter of over a thousand meters appeared, and a lake with shimmering water appeared.

In the lake area, you can see the ruins of collapsed ancient buildings emerging from the water.

At the center, a strange, giant tree grows, winding its way upwards.

The bark of the giant tree is gnarled and covered with dense, rough scales.

Amidst the dark green branches and leaves, clusters of purplish-black flowers, each the size of a soccer ball, burst into bloom.

A strange fragrance wafts through the air, and exotic beasts lie prone around the lake.

In the emotional resonance of the Tote, one can perceive the intense longing and fear in their hearts at this moment.

091. A different kind of fruit!

Desire? Fear?

why?

Thoth frowned slightly, because he couldn't sense any living creatures in this beautiful lake.

Like a monster's hunting ground, this lake is its absolute territory, and anyone who dares to intrude will only face death.

Thoth looked at the giant tree hundreds of meters away, its diameter over a hundred meters, its branches swaying gently in the breeze.

A picture of peaceful and serene times.

However, amidst the resonance of sights and sounds with lustful emotions, a subtle greed emanates from the distant giant tree.

"Wow! It's so thick and big, bluish-black, and there are bluish-black veins on it."

Karina tugged at Tot's arm, a strange smile appearing in her eyes. Tot looked down at her, his lips twitching involuntarily.

You'd better say tree.

Karina blinked, a smile playing in her aquamarine eyes. "Tell me, if you cut it down, what color sap will come out?"

"Ouch! That hurts!" Karina suddenly cried out in pain. Nami grabbed the back of her neck, her breath whistling, and wrapped her body around her, a mocking, angry voice emanating from her.

"Tell me, if I blow you over, won't it be overjoyed and tie you up with those veiny roots on the tree?"

"Nami? What are you thinking about?"

Karina looked helpless. "What I meant was, this tree is so strange, isn't it dangerous?"

Nami snorted coldly: "Do you think I don't know what you're thinking? Do you think I can't understand your suggestive remarks?"

Karina's eyes widened in confusion. "What do you mean by 'skirting' or 'not skirting'? Don't you know?"

Then, she looked at Thoth with a pitiful expression: "Look at Nami, she's so violent and bullies me again."

Nami's forehead veins bulged; that shrewish vixen! Meanwhile, Nojiko's lips curled into a smile.

"Stop being naughty, you guys."

Thoth withdrew his gaze and focused on an armored rhinoceros on the shore two hundred meters away. He resonated with its emotions, which aroused his own desires and greed, but then Thoth's own mental will took over.

Amplify these emotions.

A few seconds later, the rhinoceros became agitated, let out a long roar, stood up and stomped its feet, then charged toward the lake.

With a splash, water sprayed up.

The rhinoceros swam swiftly across the lake. Thoth watched quietly, his eyes slightly narrowed. Just as the rhinoceros approached within three hundred meters of the giant tree...

Whoosh!

Several thick, gnarled roots emerged from the lakebed, piercing, coiling, and tightening around the rhinoceros. The rhinoceros howled in agony as it was swiftly dragged beneath the giant tree by the roots. Then, thinner roots pierced through it, and under the watchful eyes of the Tots, the rhinoceros quickly turned into a mummified corpse.

Meanwhile, the flowers on the giant tree began to sway, and Thoth noticed that the fragrance in the environment was becoming increasingly intense.

A growing desire also rose within him, and Thoth spoke up in time: "Cover your noses, everyone."

Noki and the others did as instructed.

At this moment, the wild beasts around the lake became agitated, and some of them, unable to resist the temptation, jumped into the lake.

Whoosh!!

Tree roots, like giant pythons, snaked outwards, accompanied by screams and wails. The stench of blood in the air gradually intensified.

"Hiss!" Nojiko and Johnny couldn't help but gasp.

"So brutal?"

"What kind of monster is this?"

"Thoth, look! On the third branch from the top, there's a purplish-red fruit growing bigger under the flower!"

Nami quickly spoke up, pointing at the target with astonishment.

"I saw it, this strange tree is indeed very eerie."

A strange look appeared in Thoth's eyes, and as the giant tree devoured more and more ferocious beasts, the fragrance in the surrounding environment became stronger.

As their numbers increased, the previously hesitant beasts grew increasingly agitated, and even a new group from the more distant forests rushed over and jumped into the lake together.

The giant tree was enjoying a sumptuous feast.

The purplish-red fruit on the branch was also growing rapidly.

Tottenham's calm and peaceful state of mind resonated with Nojiko and the others, preventing them from being affected by the unusual effects of the fragrance.

Thoth also deduced from the fragrance that it would not have any other negative effects on the human body.

Half an hour later, on the shore of the lake, besides Tote and his group, there were still about thirty strange beasts that had managed to resist.

But their eyes turned bloodshot, and the longing and anticipation in their consciousness seemed to be boiling over.

Thoth sensed all this, and a hint of anticipation appeared in his eyes as well.

By this time, the giant tree had finished devouring the captured beasts, and its thick branches began to sway, as if it were very satisfied with its tribute.

Immediately afterwards, plump, purplish-red fruits, each the size of a human head, fell from the branches.

It fell onto the lake surface.

The roots and stems in the lake quickly stirred the water, and the fruits were swept away by the current and floated towards the shore.

Thoth's eyes flickered slightly. "Nami, bring all those fruits back."

Nami couldn't hold back any longer. With a playful laugh, she transformed into a white tiger in the blink of an eye, riding the whirlwind and soaring through the air.

Gusts of wind swept across the lake.

Wherever Nami passed, the wind swept up the fruits on the lake and made them fly up. Before long, Nami had collected nineteen purplish-red fruits and flew back.

However, at this moment, angry roars came from the shore, and the strange beasts roared in despair, their bloodshot eyes glaring at them.

Immediately afterwards, more than twenty ferocious beasts charged over.

Thoth glanced at them and said, "Nojiko, you guys go and beat them up."

Upon receiving the command, they burst forth with their feet on the ground. Nojiko closed in on a six-meter-long giant wolf and knocked it down with a single punch.

Johnny transformed into a giant dragon, punching and kicking, sending one ferocious beast after another flying. Joseph's upper body turned crimson, and with each high-temperature punch, screams and roars of the beasts echoed one after another.

Karina and Tiger Girl stayed beside Thoth, when Nami descended from the sky, and nineteen fruits landed at Thoth's feet.

Tiger Girl's eyes held a deep longing, while Nami, in her white tiger beast girl form, landed beside Thoth, her eyes displaying a strange expression:

"My body had a strong craving, like the feeling of seeing delicious barbecue after being hungry for seven or eight days."

Thoth nodded. He, too, had a craving for food. He picked up a fruit, and in the resonance of all things breathing, a vigorous yet somewhat eerie pulse of life appeared in his consciousness.

At this moment, Thoth glanced at the beasts that were fighting Nojiko and the other two to a standstill not far away.

Although the alien beasts were not as strong as Nojiko and the others, they had thick skin and thick flesh, and their life force was very strong.

Thoth looked at the fruit in his hand, his eyes filled with intense curiosity. Nami continued, "There were five more fruits that were too far away for me to get my hands on. There were about ten beasts nearby on the other side of the lake, and they ate them."

Thoth nodded. "It's good enough that we've acquired this many."

Thoth looked at the fruit in his hand with curiosity in his eyes, then sat on the ground to calm himself down.

I then took a bite, and the taste was fragrant, sweet, and slightly bloody.

A hint of tension flickered in Nami Karina's eyes; the unknown always makes one uneasy.

At that moment, as he swallowed the fruit, a surge of exotic life energy rushed into his body. Thoth was surprised and continued to eat large mouthfuls. Soon, the entire fruit was finished.

A thick flow of heat coursed through the body.

However, at the same time, a strange force was stirring Thoth's consciousness, amplifying his desires to an extreme.

Through the analysis of the characteristics of "Tasting a Hundred Herbs", Thoth gradually understood the effects of this fruit.

The abundant alien life energy serves as fuel within the body, and the intense desires it arouses transform into mutation "seeds," instinctively influencing the body to mutate in the direction of a certain yearning.

It's like the IQ plant flower that the Golden Lion possesses, which induces biological evolution.

However, the effects of this fruit are even more rapid and violent.

At that moment, Thoth understood why there were so many alien creatures on the island.

The instinct of beasts is to survive, reproduce, and become stronger. Powerful beasts, driven by a strong will to survive, will gravitate towards even greater power.

Eating this fruit causes physical mutations, which then multiply generation after generation, eventually giving rise to a unique species of ferocious beasts.

In the state of breathing, consciousness becomes clear and still as water. That strange power cannot affect Thoth, but the vigorous life force within his body cannot be released, and then begins to mutate and destroy Thoth's body.

A sharp, piercing pain shot through my body, but at that moment, in a state of mental clarity, I observed that the proficiency of the skill "Self-Recovery" was rapidly increasing.

[Self-Recovery (Mastering the Skills 628...629...630/1000)]