One Piece Dragon King - Chapter 45

Time flew by quickly.

A year had passed.

Hals had learned all the level one elemental magic and had advanced to level two in water, wind, ice, and fire magic. He had reached level three in plant magic.

Plant magic primarily produced some surprisingly potent outputs.

With plant magic, one could achieve near-light magic healing effects while also applying dark magic negative buffs. Additionally, these magically grown plants were not particularly vulnerable to fire or cold, boasting both resilience and toughness.

However, they required a significant amount of nutrients.

That’s where magic came in.

In the world of One Piece, most areas were oceanic, making agriculture and animal husbandry challenging, but the fishing industry thrived.

Hals could use magic to increase food production, boosting both agricultural and livestock development.

Cows needed grass, chickens needed grain, and so on.

But it wasn’t just these two.

Books, the fishing industry, furniture, clothing—all these were connected.

Books required trees, fishing needed ships, furniture required wood, and clothes were not yet made from petroleum products.

So, if Hals could elevate plant magic to level five, he could become very wealthy.

However, Hals didn’t want to pursue that path.

He also trained in light and dark magic.

But only at the first level.

Using light magic required 50 soul power, and buying even the first level of this magic cost 500,000 negative emotions.

Quite a lot.

Level two elemental magic required 500,000 negative emotions, and level three required 1,000,000.

New potions appeared in the shop.

[Mind Potion] and [Holy Potion]

[Mind Potion] was sky blue, and [Holy Potion] was golden yellow.

[Mind Potion] had a brain symbol on the bottle, while [Holy Potion] depicted holy light descending from clouds.

They both looked nice, with a cartoonish style.

[Mind Potion] worked like [Power Potion], with the same price.

[Holy Potion] could remove all negative effects from a person, including special fruit abilities and diseases, without any limits. However, it was expensive, costing 100,000 negative emotions.

Additionally, Hals had mastered [Dragon Body Training Technique: Intermediate] and [Dragon Meditation Technique: Intermediate].

Training these techniques was extremely painful. The new body training technique was stronger but also more damaging. Before, it only caused bleeding and bone fractures; now, it could shatter bones into powder.

If not for Hals desperately using [Healing Potions], he wouldn’t have survived.

Meditation training now caused headaches.

Fortunately, it only weakened his soul without damaging it.

The methods for meditation and body training were fundamentally different.

He only needed to eat enough food to solve this problem.

It’s unclear why.

Meanwhile, Crocodile had also become much stronger, providing negative emotions that sometimes reached 10,000.

Hals was a bit scared.

So far, he had only published the first book, “The Overbearing Okama King Falls in Love with Me,” followed by “For Me, the Overbearing Okama King and Bartholomew Kuma’s Dispute,” and the third book, “The Overbearing Doflamingo Also Fell in Love with Me.”

The fourth book, “The Overbearing Trio’s Jealousy and Me,” was finished but not yet published.

Hals was already preparing other works.

For example, “Kaido of the Beasts and Big Mom’s Rocks Pirate Love Story,” which was overly explicit, faced heavy suppression from two Yonko but wasn’t banned.

However, it was rarely seen on the market, especially in the New World and the Grand Line, where it could only be found on the black market. Full-color editions could fetch up to 10 million beli.

Mihawk had even fought the two Yonko, ending in a draw.

Mihawk was furious with Hals but didn’t know the author’s identity; otherwise, he might have imitated Kaido and caused a ruckus at Marineford.

Mihawk wasn’t injured, but the two Yonko were too tough, hard to beat, and quite annoying.

Congratulations to Kaido for acquiring another scar.

The scar ran from his chest to the fourth ab muscle.

Hals later wrote “Big Mom and Chef’s Secret Love” and “Kaido of the Beasts and the Three Disasters.”

Indescribable.

Unfortunately, as soon as they were released, they were withdrawn.

Apparently, Morgans was threatened by the two Yonko.

However, the brain-dead Celestial Dragons highly praised these novels, each having a copy of every version—newspaper, novel, full-color illustrated novel, R15 manga, and explicit editions.

Sadly, Morgans didn’t dare publish the subsequent “Kaido of the Beasts and Shutenmaru” or “Kaido of the Beasts and Shogun Orochi.”

The albatross hadn’t requested updates from Hals since.

Kaido must be going crazy, right?

Still, Hals was happy.

Like a Luffy.

Every day brought a large influx of negative emotions, bringing joy.

The only downside was that most of these negative emotions were spent on potions.

The old potions were upgraded.

Still, the original versions were available for purchase.

[Healing Potion] cost 500 negative emotions.

The new [Large Healing Potion] was in a large bottle, unlike the old small test tube.

But the [Large Healing Potion] cost 50,000, with only ten times the effect.

The price increased a hundredfold! What a scam.

Jerk.

System: “…”

Hehe, revenge.

“Hals, Hals, Hals, look, look, look, ‘I Am Not Mihawk’ released a new book, check it out!”

Hals watched the blue-haired girl running toward him, feeling speechless.

Ain had become his friend over the past year, and their relationship had become very close. However, his relationship with Bins and Shuzo hadn’t improved much, though it wasn’t bad either.

All three entered the elite camp under Zephyr’s guidance.

Bins and Shuzo still couldn’t beat Hals. Initially, they thought it was because Zephyr trained Hals well, having produced three admirals and numerous vice admirals. Now, with Zephyr teaching them too, they believed they could defeat Hals, only to be easily beaten by him.

Their conclusion was that Zephyr was more serious when training Hals.

What nonsense?

Hals was speechless.

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