We were supposed to be following the daily life of anime, why is it the end of the world?

Although the giant hand itself is made of rock bricks, it displays amazing flexibility, sometimes clenching a fist and sometimes opening it as the girl's gestures change.

Afterwards, the rock bricks in the entire square seemed to lose their solid properties and began to slowly melt like hot wax, turning into a strange fluid texture.

With the location of everyone as the origin, the surrounding ground turned into fluid and began to surge and undulate, like waves on a lake stirred up by the wind.

Under the influence of this strange wave, the originally flat and orderly square instantly became distorted and deformed.

Those once fixed geometric patterns were reshaped wantonly by the fluid, gathering into vortex-shaped deep pits in some places and rising into hills in other places. The rock fluid was also mixed with fine stones and gravel, which rolled and collided in the fluid, making a rustling sound.

This change lasted for more than a minute before the ground in the square calmed down again under Ichika's manipulation, just like a beach after the tide receded, returning to tranquility.

The ground and the bricks returned to their original state, neat and orderly, as if nothing had happened.

Lin Moze, who had witnessed all the changes, immediately confirmed his guess:

Nakano Ichika has now become a person with special abilities!

Or in other words, she possessed the castle and became the user of the Castle Fruit together with the Lion Center Building that turned into a castle.

Because what she just did was exactly the same as the move of Capone Becky, the owner of the Fortress Fruit in the original work.

Only the person with the ability can control the castle structure in this way, and even turn the ground into a swamp-like state, in order to control and torture the target trapped in the body.

128 Reasons for Granting Favor

Why did Nakano Ichika undergo such a strange change?

Lin Moze thought about it carefully and soon understood the key.

Sheep spell!

In the original novel, the sheep spell contains a spell that represents the ability to project spirits.

In addition to the magical effect of protecting spirits from harm, the abilities that it can actively use are astral projection and dream transmission.

But in fact, there is another hidden ability based on the worldview:

That's possession!

In the original world view of the Sheep Talisman, spirits can possess a body without a soul. Correspondingly, after one's soul leaves the body, the body is also vulnerable to invasion by other souls.

Nakano Ichika's situation is rather special. When she was drawing rewards and suffered an explosion at the same time, she was directly merged with the magic power of the sheep talisman and transformed into a spirit.

Later, the soulless bodies she encountered in the doomsday were mostly corpses with miserable deaths. As a girl, it was naturally impossible for her to have any idea of ​​possession.

The Lion Center Building, which has been transformed into a castle by integrating the devil fruit, is a very special example.

A building cannot be considered a living thing, but the infusion of the power of the parahuman devil fruit has given it a special "activity".

The emergence of this activity happened to fit the definition of "shell" by the power of the sheep spell. By some coincidence, it led to the fusion of a flower and the castle, or possession.

In this case, the castle is actually equivalent to her body.

The reason why she was able to reshape her body was actually because she used the ability to "allow the user to enter the castle themselves."

As for why it was her human body that appeared in front of everyone instead of a mini castle, this probably has something to do with the influence of soul power.

In order to verify the above conjectures, Lin Moze said to Yihua: "You can try to see if you can still use the power of soul leaving the body now?"

"I'll try." Ichika said, closing her eyes.

After about a few seconds, the translucent spirit popped out from her physical body.

After losing the support of the spirit, her body quickly merged back into the ground and disappeared.

As expected, the castle that was fused with the devil fruit was only equivalent to providing Ichika with a body that could be perfectly possessed, rather than making her some kind of earthbound spirit.

Nakano Ichika, who had transformed back into a soul, floated in the air for a while, then came in front of Lin Moze and asked tentatively:

"Um... Mr. Lin, can I go back to the body of the castle and stay there for a while? Compared to the state of the soul, it is indeed easier to adapt to having a body."

Ichika Nakano was telling the truth.

Although the spirit form gave her a certain degree of security, it did not feel very good for her as she was once a human.

Putting aside the fact that she couldn't be seen by others and couldn't communicate with others easily, the change in her five senses alone made her very uncomfortable.

The spirit's sense of touch is very limited. It cannot feel the caress of the wind, nor the warmth of the sun. The only feeling it can have most of the time is a vague, cold sense of nothingness.

Only when encountering energy like ripples will you experience a little warmth, but it will soon turn into a burning pain.

As for the sense of smell and taste, there is no need to say more.

Be it the aroma of food or the stench of rotting corpses, Ichika could not smell any of them, and things like tasting food were a luxury that she could never do.

But just now, when she appeared in the castle in physical form, the senses she had lost all came back, and she suddenly experienced the beauty of having a body.

At the same time, she also understood why in so many horror stories, souls and ghosts always want to occupy human bodies.

Although the posture of a spirit is relatively freer and safer, the cold feeling of nothingness is too torturous and can even drive people crazy over time.

Nakano Ichika experienced the real feeling of having a body again and found the feeling unbearable.

But at the same time, she also understood that the castle had become what it is today entirely thanks to the magical props provided by Lin Moze.

Although in theory this is the gathering place, in reality, it is Lin Moze's private property.

Once I possess the castle, I will inevitably gain control of the entire settlement. No matter how I think about it, I need to find a way to get the other party's permission.

But what Yihua didn't expect was that after hearing her request, Lin Moze didn't hesitate at all and gave a very direct answer:

"That's no problem, but in this case, I'll have to leave the castle to you from now on, Ichika."

Looking at the unreserved trust in Lin Moze's eyes, Nakano Ichika felt that something in her heart was suddenly touched.

However, she quickly returned to normal, glanced at Miku beside her inconspicuously, and then sank into the ground again, regaining her physical body.

Lin Moze had no idea of ​​the changes in the young girl's thoughts. The reason why he agreed so easily was actually very simple.

As a familiar anime heroine, there is no need to worry about Ichika's character and morality. What's more, she has two younger sisters around her, so there is no need to worry about betrayal.

After she merged with the castle, the entire castle was equivalent to having a complete life and soul, and Lin Moze could guide her to try to develop the ability of the Fortress Fruit.

The awakened state of the superhuman devil fruit can have a larger scale and wider range of impact on things other than the ability user himself.

In other words, once Nakano Ichika is able to develop the Fortress Fruit to the awakened state, what Lin Moze can gain is not just a simple living castle, but an assimilated city that can expand outward.

Potential! And future gains, this is the real reason why Lin Moze agreed so readily.

Even though Nakano Ichika didn't like being possessed by the castle, he was actually thinking about persuading the other party to take on the responsibility of controlling the castle and developing the "Fortress Fruit".

Now that Ichika had brought it up herself, he of course had to play the role of a good guy.

Look, Miku and Mayu beside me are looking at me with such moved eyes.

......

Soon, Ichika reappeared after integrating with the castle again.

Then, under her manipulation, the thick outer city walls softened rapidly, and several temporary holes appeared, allowing thousands of survivors who were still waiting outside to file in.

With her help, Lin Moze and others quickly began to familiarize themselves with this new base, which looked huge from the outside and even more vast and terrifying inside.

129 Outside the Gathering Place

With the integration of the Fruit of the Strong City and the Lion King Center Building, the Watchers' Gathering Place has once again ushered in a period of vigorous development.

In the apocalypse where monsters are everywhere, the sense of security that living in a building can bring is completely different from living in a castle with thick outer walls and a vast interior space.

With this sense of security, more hope will burn in your heart, and hope will be transformed into more upward motivation.

Of course, this only applies to members of the Watchers’ gathering place.

For other gathering places that are closer, a huge castle that rises abruptly from the ground is enough to arouse the curiosity of most people, or in other words, vigilance.

......

The north-facing area is a gathering place surrounded by a large number of tall earth walls.

This was originally a branch campus of Tokyo Metropolitan University of Agriculture and Technology. After the apocalypse, this gathering place was established under the leadership of several saviors, and gradually expanded to a scale of hundreds of people.

At this time, on the earth wall that was two or three meters thick, a young girl was standing on it, holding a shovel in her hand, carefully digging a small pit of moderate depth on the top of the earth wall.

Her movements were meticulous and focused, as if she was selecting a location and laying the foundation for a work of art.

After digging, a green seed appeared in her palm, which she carefully placed in the hole.

Then she filled the hole again, patting it with a small shovel, and took out a kettle from somewhere and started pouring water on it.

There are guards of the gathering area patrolling below the earth wall. Logically, this act of destroying fortifications should be stopped immediately.

But after seeing the girl, the patrolmen below did not have any intention of stopping them. Instead, their steps became lighter, as if they were afraid of disturbing her.

On the earth wall, the girl who had finished planting stood up, took a step back, examined the results of her labor, and a satisfied smile appeared on the corner of her mouth.

At the same time, the place where she planted the seeds began to tremble slightly, as if some life was eager to break out of the soil.

In less than a few seconds, a vigorous vitality gushed out from deep in the soil. With a slight "crackling" sound, a plant more than half a person's height quickly rose from the ground.

The stem of the plant is emerald green, and the leaves are full and smooth, like a carefully carved emerald heart, and the two leaves sway gently in the wind.

At the top of the stem is a pod structure shaped like a cannon muzzle, swaying back and forth regularly in the breeze.

There is a pair of deep green eyes on the top of the "muzzle", scanning the bottom of the wall vigilantly.

Looking around, similar plants have been planted in a large area on the earth wall, and are spreading to both sides along the wall.

There are also many similar plants in the distant periphery.

The girl's name is Yamada Yui. She used to be a college student in this school, and now she can be regarded as the leader of this gathering place, or it would be more appropriate to say that she is the core.

The reason for saying this is that as a savior, the initial reward that Yui Yamada received is really special.

The reward she drew from the novice gift pack was called "Crazy Dave's Mobile Shop", which could summon a dilapidated car, and the owner of the car was a short and fat uncle with an iron pot on his head.

The other party's name is Crazy Dave. Yamada Yui can buy many seeds of magical plants from him and use these magical plants to fight monsters.

That’s right, Yui Yamada’s reward actually came from Lin Moze’s previous life’s game called “Plants vs. Zombies”.

To some extent, this mobile store's reward model is actually a special form of system.

The only difference is that the currency that Yui Yamada uses to purchase various props and plants is no longer gold coins, silver coins, diamonds, etc., but points converted from monsters.

Of course, if this girl could only buy plants, it would be difficult for her to have such a high status in the gathering place.

The reason why she became the undisputed core was because of a special talent she awakened after the end of the world.

Blessing·Plant affinity.

This ability allows her to stimulate the growth of plants faster than ordinary people, and will make all magical plants spontaneously protect her.

There was once someone with bad intentions who tried to imprison Yui Yamada, using her as a mere channel for producing special plants. But then she was beaten into a bloody mosaic by the Pea Shooters she had planted.

Don't doubt it, the pea shooter in the game that looks so cute is so powerful.

Just like now, a hideous, staggering zombie discovered Yamada Yui on the earth wall and began to slowly approach the camp.

At this time, at the outermost edge of the gathering place's defense line, all the plants had been upgraded into double-shot pea shooters, and the moment the zombies stepped into the opponent's shooting range, the muzzles of the double-shooters suddenly emitted a faint green light.

The next second, the muzzle opened slightly, and two plump green pea shells instantly broke away from the pea pod barrel under the action of powerful thrust, shooting out with a sharp whistling sound.

The first pea shell drew a green trajectory in the night sky and headed straight for the zombie's chest with great precision.

At the moment of impact, the emerald green shell released a huge impact force, knocking the zombies back several steps.

Its rotten flesh was instantly pierced, leaving a hole with green viscous liquid splashing out, emitting a strange fluorescent light.

Immediately afterwards, the second pea-like shell hit, penetrated the opponent's rotten cheek, and instantly erupted with an even stronger shock wave.

There was a loud "bang" and the zombie's head shattered instantly under the violent impact, turning into a ball of green sticky liquid that splashed everywhere. The headless body fell heavily to the ground and could no longer get up.

At this moment, a loud and penetrating bird cry came from afar, attracting Yamada Yui's attention, and the girl's eyes involuntarily followed the source of the sound into the distance.

I saw a bird that looked like an eagle flying rapidly across the sky, its wings spread out like a fan, and its wing tips left clear cyclone traces as they passed through the air.

The opponent quickly came close, drew a graceful arc in the air, and landed on the ground accurately with smooth and powerful movements.

However, the moment its claws touched the ground, a strange energy wave instantly spread out, spreading around like ripples.

The great bird's body began to twist and fuse in strange ways, its feathers gradually fading away, replaced by brightly colored sportswear fabric.

In just a few seconds, the soaring falcon magically transformed into a girl in sportswear.

"Hey, Yui, I'm back!"

The girl in sportswear stopped on the earth wall and greeted Yamada Yui.

130 Meeting Invitation