Devil Fruit

Devil Fruits、恶魔果实、悪魔の実

Devil Fruit (恶魔果实), a rare magical fruit that increases the power potential for Mozu. Chen grows them in his Galaxy Garden.

## Description

Chen Rui learned from Athena that the devil fruit was a very rare fruit that matured once in a few hundred years; it was highly toxic. However, it had an extraordinary significance for the demons. As everyone knew, although demons were powerful, they had far less potential than humans. Other than the best of the royal family, the remaining demons' room of improvement was greatly limited. For example, most of the centaurs remained at the level of Intermediate Demon and couldn't go further. If a Great Demon didn't have a mutated bloodline, there were basically no hope to break through the limit of Higher Demon. Even Athena, a Great Demon with mutated bloodline, it only increased the probability of breaking the limits to a certain extent. So, the difficulty was still insane.

The devil fruit not only could increase strength, but most importantly, it also had a special effect. That was to greatly enhance the potential of demons and multiply the probability of breaking through the bottleneck by several times. There was even a tiny chance to obtain additional special ability. The premise was that one must endure the deadly poison of the fruit. The stronger someone was, the stronger the poison and effect manifested by the fruit.

For demons, the devil fruit was equivalent to a priceless treasure to break through their limits. No wonder Athena was so moved. Even for the royal family, other than potential, the grow in strength and the additional special ability were also quite tempting.

## Story

Devil fruit was a rare fruit that matured only once in hundreds of years. It had extraordinary significance for demons outside the royal family. In addition to increasing power, it could also greatly increase one's potential which increased the possibility of breaking through the bottleneck by multiple times. Moreover, there was a very slim chance of obtaining extra special abilities.

Even for the royal family, in addition to the potential, the increase in power and that extra special ability were quite tempting.

In the history of the Demon Realm, the war of lords once happened for the devil fruit. If this auction was before the Dark Moon's war of lords, then the nearby estates might covet or even snatch the fruit, but the Dark Moon had defeated the combination of the 2 major estates now, the Blue Lava Estate and Red Spirit Estate. Therefore, it already had sufficient deterrence.

### First encounter

At that moment, there was a faint red light appeared at a place not far in front. The two approached carefully. It was a plant that was about one meter high; with barbs on the branches; the leaves were purple; there were a few round red fruits on the branches that were emitting a faint glow.

There were 5 or 6 fruits that looked like they were just ripened. For the demons other than the royal family, the values of these fruits almost couldn't be measured with magic crystal coins. In the history of demons, there was once a battle between lords for the devil fruit.

"Once I eat one, there will be a good chance for me to break through the limits of Higher Demon in the future, reaching Demon King, Great Demon King or even higher levels!"

Athena suppressed the excitement in her heart and didn't act rashly. Instead, she was carefully wary of her surroundings. Surprisingly, the "rumored" ghost dragon that wanted to devour the devil fruit was nowhere to be found. As she was about to approach, her hand was held back tightly by Chen Rui, "I sense something wrong. Don't rush!"

"Did you know? For the demons other than the royal family, no one can resist the temptations of the devil fruit. I must get it." Athena said while extending her hand, "If I don't take this chance, I'm afraid we'll all be in danger when the ghost dragon arrives."

After that, Athena carefully approached a few steps. After making sure there was no danger, she leaped toward the devil fruits.

"Wait!" When Athena first went forward, Chen Rui suddenly remembered something. At that moment, Athena was already in the air, trying to grab the devil fruit; it was already too late.

"Throw your sword toward it! Athena! Quick!"

Chen Rui's screams made Athena startled. Due to her trust on Chen Rui, she entered her Great Demon's battle form in the air, clenched her teeth and threw her greatsword at the devil fruit.

Poom! Poom! Poom! Exploding sounds could be heard one after another. The greatsword was blown away and torn apart. Athena's figure was blown back by the aftermath of the explosion, but she was caught by Chen Rui before she fell to the ground. She was heavily injured but luckily still in one piece.

There must be an inscription there; the meaning it represents is Mirror and Explosion (镜像并爆炸)! The devil fruit was just a mirror image as a bait. Its actual intention was an explosion trap!

Chen heals Athena and asks her to rest, while he treks forward.

Chen Rui had already guessed the approximate location of the actual fruit from the mirror image. Perhaps it noticed that the explosion trap was triggered, the scary roar began to sound again, seemingly to warn the approacher to stop getting closer.

Chen Rui felt that the sound was getting closer and closer; he knew that he was in the right direction. He was just worried that he would be noticed by this powerful ghost dragon, so he had been careful; he didn't dare to make too much noise.

Passing a series of traps, then bypassing an inscription of <Hidden and Teleportation>, finally, a relatively open stone pile appeared in front of his eyes. Underneath a pile of stones, there was a plant identical to the mirror image. It was the devil fruit. However, the most eye-catching thing wasn't the devil fruit with a faint red light, but the huge figure that was entrenched next to the fruit.

The best solution was to use a series of Teleportation Inscription (传送铭文) to instantly transfer the ghost dragon to another place, then he could quickly evacuate with Athena.

They meet a ghost dragon.

## Poison

"Chen Rui, I don't want to eat the devil fruit anymore." Athena regained her consciousness. She said while clenching her teeth.

The slime was overjoyed when he heard that. As he was about to ask his master for it, but Athena's next sentence unexpectedly frightened him, "I want to eat this slime!"

Chen Rui went along with her words, "Dodo ate so many devil fruits. If you eat it, it might be more useful than eating devil fruit. It just happened that I brought along a lot of condiments for barbecue. I'll make sure that you'll be satisfied."

Seeing even the master said so, the slime scared out of its soul, and he started pleading, "My beautiful and brave mistress (女主人), please don't eat your most loyal slave! I'm hard and smelly. I don't taste good at all!"

The word "mistress" made Athena blushed, then she quickly glanced at Chen Rui. However, the human didn't realize at that time as he was looking at Dodo in amusement.

Except for Royce, how would it look like when my three servants, Dodo, Slee, and the old dwarf Didi meet each other?

The gang decides to rest where Chen found the ghost dragon.

Athena took out a diamond-shaped crystal from her space bracelet and gave it to Chen Rui.

"After my injuries are recovered, I'll eat the devil fruit." Athena lowered her head. She didn't look directly at Chen Rui, "This fruit has a special attribute where the stronger the user is, the greater the poison will be. Countless people have died in the history. Even an antidote can't do anything."

"If I can't stand the fruit's poison..." Athena paused and said firmly, "You must never go to Xilang Mountain to die. And don't go back to Dark Moon Estate. Take the wyvern all the way to the west and take this ice crystal (冰晶、冰冷的晶体) to the Shadow Empire capital city to look for a woman named Delia. She owed me a huge favor three years ago. With your ability and Delia's help, you should be able to be accommodated in the Shadow Empire. Do you understand?"

But Chen Rui solves this by using the Jade Pearl.

## Effects

This precious fruit that could wage war was indeed worthy of its reputation. Athena's strength was originally at the early stage of Higher Demon, but she instantly promoted to the middle stage. That was merely a superficial effect. The invisible potential index was more important. In the future, the probability for her to break through the limit of Higher Demon to become Demon King was greatly increased. Even the further Great Demon King and Demon Emperor level were no longer an impossible fantasy.

With the example of Dodo and Chen Rui's strong persistence, Athena ate another fruit. As a result, it only made her strength stabler. The tiny possibility of additional ability still didn't appear. However, this special ability might not necessarily be immediate. It could very likely be obtained in the years of future practice.

As for Dodo's changes, it might not only be the devil fruit's effect, but it was most probably also related to the swallowing of dragon's flesh.

Chen Rui secretly ate a devil fruit, but his power didn't grow at all. He only increased some aura due to the toxicity, so it was really not worthy. However, with a magical thing like galaxy garden, he could harvest again in 2 months. In the future, it wasn't impossible to eat them as snacks like Dodo did.

## Trivia

* The first devil fruit eaten gives the most power. Subsequent devil fruits have little effect on the surface, but may later lead to a secret dormant effect or ability that takes time to activate.
* It cannot be converted to aura via Aura Conversion.
* It is 'lychee sized'
* Although the devil fruit wasn't effective for the royal family, it was no less precious than some royal treasures
* It is ineffective on dragons.
* Devil fruits are a cross-over from the anime One Piece. Monkey D. Luffy eats a devil fruit and becomes a rubber man, gaining super stretching powers.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Chapter 82 (Steambun)
2. ↑ Chapter 396 (Steambun)
3. ↑ Chapter 83 (Steambun)
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Chapter 86 (Steambun)
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Chapter 182 (Steambun)
6. ↑ Chapter 138 (Steambun)