One Piece: Starting with Coercing and Enticing 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, inhaling the venomous mist with his powerful lung capacity.

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 in his vision gradually subsided.

Karina stepped forward and asked worriedly:

"Are you OK?"

He shook his head, then loudly warned them, "Be careful, the creatures living here are very troublesome."

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

The latter nodded quickly.

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

Soon, a look of surprise appeared in Tot's eyes. "The detoxification effect is stronger than my special antidote, and it can also enhance physical strength after taking it?"

Sensing a subtle heat flowing through his body, and feeling a slight tingling and strange comfort in his muscles and bones, Thoth's eyes immediately burned with desire. He signaled to stop.

"Kalina, help me gather herbs."

Karina was an amazing learner, and quickly learned under Tote's guidance how to harvest herbs without damaging them.

A moment later, the group continued deeper into the area.

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

Various rare and ancient herbs with unique toxicity or medicinal properties.

boom!

Nami's entire body was covered in platinum wind armor, and she gripped the platinum wind staff, slamming it down on the head of a wild boar with tusks that grew protruding rock spikes on 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 unusual abilities they had encountered, which was very abnormal.

The creatures living here seem to have undergone a kind of abnormal evolution; even those without abnormal abilities possess incredibly strong physical attributes.

As they entered the heart of the island, the scene before them silenced Toth and his companions.

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

In some parts of the lake, one 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 giant tree's bark was gnarled and covered with dense, rough scale-like patterns.

Among the dark green branches and leaves, clusters of purplish-black flowers, each the size of a soccer ball, bloom in profusion.

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

Through Thoth's emotional resonance, 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 did not 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, hundreds of meters in diameter, its branches and leaves swaying gently in the breeze.

A picture of peaceful and serene life.

However, in the resonance of perception and feeling, a subtle greed was emanating from the giant tree in the distance.

"Wow! It's so thick and big, bluish-black, and has 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 talk about trees.

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

"Ouch! That hurts!" Karina suddenly cried out in pain. Nami grabbed the back of her neck, a gust of air whistling as it wrapped around her body, and a mocking, angry voice rang out:

"Tell me, if I blow you over, won't it be overjoyed and bind you 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 'borderline' or 'borderline'? Don't people know that?"

Then, looking at Thoth with a pitiful expression, she said, "Look at Nami, she's so violent, she bullied me again."

Nami's temples bulged with veins; that shrewish vixen! Meanwhile, Nojiko smiled slightly.

"Stop being naughty."

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

It amplifies these emotions.

A few seconds later, the rhinoceros became agitated, let out a long bellow, stood up and stomped the ground, then charged towards the lake.

With a splash, water sprayed up.

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

Splash!

Several thick, gnarled roots burst forth from the lakebed, piercing, wrapping, and tightening around the rhinoceros. The rhinoceros howled and screamed 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 Toth and the others, the rhinoceros quickly turned into a dried-up 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."

Nochi 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.

Splash! Splash! Splash!

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

"Hiss!" Nojiko, Johnny and the others 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 utter 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 forest 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.

Thoth's calm and peaceful mood resonated with Nokigo and the others, preventing them from being corrupted by the strange effects of the fragrance.

Thoth also deduced from the fragrance that it would not cause 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 other 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 of this, and a hint of anticipation also appeared in his eyes.

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 this offering.

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 in the lake quickly stirred the water, and the fruits were carried by the current to 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 wind and soaring into the sky.

Gusts of wind swept across the lake.

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

But then, a series of angry roars came from the shore, as the strange beasts on the bank roared in despair, their bloodshot eyes glaring at them.

Immediately afterwards, more than twenty ferocious beasts charged over.

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

Upon receiving the command, they burst forth with explosive force, and Nojiko closed in on a six-meter-long giant wolf, knocking 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 fiery red, and screams and roars of agony echoed as he was struck by the high-temperature punches.

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 filled with a strange expression:

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

Tote 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 life force pulsed in his consciousness.