Pirates on Rocks' Ship 996

"Oh right, the reward for clearing the fiftieth floor was a whopping 400,000 points!" Reina suddenly remembered that the reward for clearing the fiftieth floor was 400,000 points.

Having accumulated over a million points for the first time, Reina eagerly opened the shop, wanting to exchange them for items that could enhance his strength.

But after seeing what he needed, Reina suddenly didn't want to exchange it anymore.

Unfortunately, to advance the Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan again, he needs two million points. However, even if he advances again and it becomes the Rinnegan, Reina himself doesn't know what kind of power he can unleash.

Secondly, for Black Emperor to advance again, he needs one million points.

These two abilities are what he most wants to exchange for. He believes that he can improve the other abilities through his own efforts, so there is no need to spend points.

He now faces two choices: either exchange for the Black Emperor's abilities now to directly enhance his strength, or wait and exchange for the Rinnegan later.

Chapter 862 The Possibility of Hyōrinmaru's Evolution

When faced with a choice, Reina usually doesn't make a decision immediately, especially when he has enough time to think.

After closing the shop interface, Reina first opened his backpack, which contained some unused rewards from completing the game.

When he opened his backpack and used the A-level ability selection pack, he received an unexpected reward.

"Level A language proficiency?" Upon seeing that language proficiency was among the options, Reina immediately selected this ability.

Now is the crucial moment in their battle against the extraterrestrials. If he can learn their language, he can gain more information. Therefore, Reina immediately chose the ability after seeing the language proficiency.

After choosing language proficiency, Reina didn't feel anything special, but now wasn't the time to worry about such things. After the battle with the gatekeeper of the fiftieth floor, Reina had a clearer understanding of his abilities.

Therefore, he did not continue to enter the Tower of Trials. Instead, he planned to rest for a few days before continuing his training. He also planned to try the ability to absorb the power of ice that the gatekeeper had used before with Hyōrinmaru.

Since the gatekeeper can use it, it proves that he can also use it.

After resting for a while, Reina came out of his room and looked at the dazzling sunlight outside, which gave him a strange feeling of being reborn.

"Yo~ Reina, you're back?" Lacou, who lived next door to Reina, was about to go out when he saw Reina standing in the yard, so he greeted him with a smile.

"Ah~ it's Lacjo! I've been unconscious for several days?" Reina greeted Lacjo with a smile when he saw him, and then asked.

“I don’t know about that!” Laqué shrugged and said, “I didn’t go to your place, and I don’t know when you came back. You’ll have to ask the nurse who’s been taking care of you!”

Reina's face darkened; this guy was deliberately mocking him!

"Where's your older brother? Is he still on the island?" To avoid awkwardness, Reina simply changed the subject and asked.

Laco smiled and said, "Dad only left today. I heard that the Straw Hat crew caused quite a stir in the Chaotic Zone, and that the Marines and Kaido's men also showed up there. So Dad was worried that something might happen to them, so he took some people with him!"

"Oh?" Reina asked curiously, "What did Luffy and the others do this time? Not only did they attract the Marines and Kaido, but even Big Brother couldn't resist going over there?"

"I heard they repelled an attack by extraterrestrials and even found their weakness, so all the major powers couldn't resist sending people to make contact with them!" Lakyo replied directly.

"Huh...is there some mistake? How could they discover the fatal weakness of extraterrestrial visitors?" Reina asked with some doubt.

“Marco said the same thing, but he was worried about coming over, so he went instead!” Laqueo shrugged and said.

"Dad went by himself?" Reina frowned and asked.

“Of course not! The Navy and Kaido’s people are all over there! So Marco, Jozu, and the others accompanied the old man on that trip!” Laco said.

Reina nodded and then asked, "So who's left on the island now?"

“There are quite a few people, but not many captains left. Also, the Naga and Shirahoshi from Fishman Island are still on the island, but they rarely come ashore. They usually search for the extraterrestrial visitors' strongholds underwater. They have already searched the entire underwater area here, but they haven't found any of their strongholds. I guess they probably only set up strongholds on the front lines!” Lakyo said, stroking his chin.

"Since there's nothing to it, let's not make them do useless work. Let them rest!" Reina said with a smile.

“I told you so, but they just wouldn’t listen!” Lacyo shrugged and said, “How are things going on your end? Have you adapted to your new body yet?”

"I feel pretty good. I almost died this time, but I'll be more careful next time!" Reina pointed to his heart and said with a smile.

"Just be careful, don't go too far!" Lacy rolled his eyes, saying as he walked outside. "I have things to do, so I'm not going to waste any more time with you! Bye-bye~"

After watching Lacjo leave, Reina stretched his body in the yard before turning around and going back into his room.

He had originally planned to go out and have a drink with Whitebeard, but now it seemed there was no way to do so. However, he didn't want to go back to the Tower of Trials right now, since he had almost been killed inside and needed some time to process what had happened.

After eating some food brought by the maid, Reina led Hyōrinmaru, who had transformed into human form, and Senbonzakura to the back mountain.

"Hyōrinmaru, can you absorb the energy of ice?" Reina asked Hyōrinmaru after arriving at the back mountain.

“Of course, as the strongest ice-type Zanpakuto, I can absorb any ice-type energy! However, the speed and limit of absorption do not lie with me, but with you!” Hyōrinmaru nodded and replied.

"To use Hyōrinmaru to absorb ice-type energy, your spiritual pressure must be stronger than your opponent's!" Senbonzakura chimed in from the side.

“But I don’t have any spiritual pressure!” Reina scratched his head and said, “Besides, there’s no spiritual pressure in this world!”

Senbonzakura and Hyōrinmaru exchanged a glance and said with a smile, "It's the kind of energy you use to access us. The name of the energy doesn't matter; what matters is that your ability surpasses the opponent's!"

"What if I'm not as strong as the opponent, but the ice energy emitted by the opponent's moves isn't powerful enough for me to absorb it?" Reina said, frowning.

"That's not it!" Hyōrinmaru shook his head and said, "The upper limit of what I can absorb depends on you. The stronger your energy, the stronger the energy I can absorb. If the opponent is stronger than you but doesn't go all out, I can indeed absorb their ice energy to strengthen myself. But under normal circumstances, who doesn't go all out in a fight?"

Reina smiled, understanding Hyōrinmaru's meaning, and asked, "Can the ice-type energy you absorbed be used to strengthen you?"

“No!” Hyōrinmaru shook his head and said, “It can only be temporarily stored in my body. It can be used to enhance my energy during battle, but it cannot be used to strengthen my body! Unless…”

“Unless what?” Reina looked at Hyōrinmaru and asked.

Hyōrinmaru is arguably his most frequently used weapon, and even the system no longer offers any enhancements for it. So when Reina heard Hyōrinmaru say that there was still a possibility of enhancement, he immediately asked about it.

"Unless you can find the ultimate ice and place my body inside it, allowing me to slowly absorb its icy power!" Hyōrinmaru shook his head and said, "That's just a legend; after all, no one has ever actually seen the so-called ultimate ice!"

Chapter 863 Zanpakuto

Upon hearing Hyōrinmaru say that he needed the Ultimate Ice, Reina immediately opened the system's shop, wanting to see if there was any so-called Ultimate Ice.

"This is..." When Reina started searching within the ice attribute, the items on the list took him by surprise.

Because in addition to ultimate ice, the list also includes elemental attributes such as ultimate fire and ultimate wood, but the prices are also ridiculously high.

Reina originally thought that having a million points was a huge fortune, but now it seems that he is not much different from a pauper.

"Senbonzakura, what do you need to advance?" Reina asked Senbonzakura, looking at her side.

"Me?" Senbonzakura was taken aback and replied with some surprise, "I am not a Zanpakuto with the ultimate attribute, so I don't know what I need to advance. Perhaps... I can't advance at all!"

It was a Zanpakuto that Reina acquired later, and Reina didn't use it often, so he really didn't expect that Reina would want to help him advance.

In fact, if Reina only wanted to unleash greater combat power, there was no need to upgrade their main bodies now. Zanpakuto are different from ordinary weapons; you can only unleash greater power by understanding your Zanpakuto better.

As for Senbonzakura, there is still a lot of power that Reina has not yet tapped into. Although he has acknowledged Reina and even serves the same master as Hyōrinmaru, there is nothing that can be done. If Reina cannot fully develop them, then the strength they can exert will naturally be limited.

Reina was unaware of this; he believed that the reason his Zanpakuto couldn't exert its full power was because he lacked spiritual pressure.

This resulted in him being able to use his two Zanpakuto, but not being able to unleash their full power.

On this point, Hyōrinmaru and Senbonzakura remained remarkably silent, a consensus between their Zanpakutō and a source of pride for them.

If, as its master, you cannot understand your Zanpakuto, then you deserve to be unable to become stronger.

However, after hearing Senbonzakura's answer, Reina didn't think much of it. He assumed that Senbonzakura genuinely didn't know how to advance, since no one would want to be anything less than stronger.

But he forgot that Senbonzakura and Hyōrinmaru were not real humans; they were merely Zanpakutō, and Zanpakutō have their own pride and rules.

Reina summoned them to the back mountain today not only to inquire about Hyōrinmaru's absorption of ice power, but also to test his own strength. Therefore, he directly had Hyōrinmaru and Senbonzakura team up to fight him.

Although it was just a friendly spar, Reina clearly felt that his attack speed was faster, his body was stronger, and his moves were smoother.

"It felt pretty good. It would be even better if we could find someone with an ice-type Devil Fruit ability to test it out!" After the battle, Reina stroked his chin, looked at Hyōrinmaru, and said.

"Isn't there an ice-type ability user among your adversaries? Given the strength of his ice, I should be able to absorb it!" Hyōrinmaru said softly.

"You mean Aokiji? That makes sense... Going to play with him is fine! After we've dealt with Aokiji, we can go back to the Tower of Trials to continue our training. When we break through to the sixtieth floor, we'll really be rich!" Reina said with a smile.

After saying that, Reina took Hyōrinmaru and Senbonzakura directly to find Lakuyo. Now that Whitebeard was not around, Reina was in seclusion, and Marco and the others had left with Whitebeard, the affairs on the island should be left to Lakuyo to handle. He must have informed the pirate crew before leaving the North Blue.

"What? You're leaving the North Sea? What are you going to do?" Lakio looked at Reina with a surprised expression and asked.

“I want to go find Aokiji and play with him!” Reina said directly.

"Aokiji? What do you want with him? We have a good relationship with the Navy now, so don't do anything reckless!" Lakyo said, frowning.

"Don't worry, I won't do anything reckless. There are just some things that need to be verified!" Reina shook his head and replied.

Although Lakuyo didn't want Reyna to cause trouble for Aokiji, he didn't have a good reason to refuse, so he could only tell Reyna to be careful and contact Whitebeard immediately to tell him about it.

After leaving Whitebeard's base, Reyner did not leave the North Blue directly, but went to the Navy's base in the North Blue first.

"Why are you here?" Sengoku asked, quite displeased, seeing Reina's relaxed expression.

"Eh? What are you doing here? Didn't I hear that your Navy sent people to cause trouble for the Straw Hat crew? You're here... Could it be that Garp guy who went? Aren't you afraid that the grandfather and grandson will turn the place upside down?" Reina was quite surprised to see that the person the Navy was receiving was Sengoku.

"This is our problem, it has nothing to do with you!" Sengoku's face darkened as he replied, "It's perfect that you're here, so why don't you explain to me why you let the extraterrestrials target Mary Geoise?"

"Isn't that obvious? Although we cooperate in the North Blue, don't forget that the Navy and the pirates are on opposing sides!" Reina rolled his eyes and replied.

Although Sengoku was angry, he still understood this principle, so he just glared fiercely at Reina and did nothing else.

“Don’t look at me like that! If you had the chance, I don’t think you would have missed it either! We’ve been dealing with each other for so many years, let’s not bother with these formalities! I remember when our Whitebeard Pirates were first formed, we were chased by you and that unlucky guy Zephyr quite a bit!” Reina said, shrugging.

"You didn't come here just to catch up with me, did you?" Sengoku took a deep breath, suppressing his temper, and asked.

“Of course, I’m here to ask for your help! Where’s Aokiji? I need to talk to him about something!” Reina nodded, his smile fading, and asked.

"Kuzan? What do you want with him?" Sengoku asked with a suspicious look.

Since Kuzan failed to become Fleet Admiral, he originally planned to leave the Navy, but Sengoku and Garp persuaded him to stay. So he rarely returned to headquarters in recent years and has been wandering around. Sakazuki is too lazy to care about him and just acts as if the Navy doesn't have him.

Sengoku and Garp originally intended to bring him to North Sea to help them, but he said that he hadn't finished his work yet and would come to North Sea to meet them after he finished, so Sengoku wasn't in a hurry to bring him over.

Upon suddenly hearing Reina mention Aokiji, Sengoku immediately tensed up, fearing that Reina intended to harm Aokiji.

"Why are you so nervous? Is that kid on some secret mission? Come to think of it, it's been a while since we've heard from him!" Seeing Sengoku's nervous expression, Reina asked suspiciously.

Chapter 864 Reina's Purpose

"Nonsense, how could I not be nervous? Although we are bound by a treaty in the North Sea, Kuzan is not in the North Sea. What if you have any ill intentions towards him?" Sengoku rolled his eyes, trying to get away with it.

But Reina wasn't so easily fooled. He chuckled and said, "Looks like you do have a plan after all!"

"Speak up, what exactly do you want? Otherwise, I would never have told you where Kuzan is!" Sengoku said, simply giving up.

"It's nothing serious. I feel like I've made some breakthroughs lately, so I wanted to spar with him!" Reina said with a smile. "Don't worry, it's definitely not a conspiracy against him. I just want to spar with an ice-type ability user to verify my own conjecture!"

"All breakthroughs?" Sengoku's eyes narrowed as he looked at Reina and asked, "Just how strong have you become now? Even Newgate might not be a match for you, right?"