A strangely shaped seabird was circling above the sea. Suddenly, it noticed the originally clear sky darkening rapidly.
It raised its small head in confusion, only to see endless dark clouds surging from all directions like a rolling ink tide, as if a giant palm was slowly closing, enveloping it within.
Only then did the seabird discover in terror that a giant waterspout of astonishing diameter, connecting the sea and the sky, had appeared at the end of its vision, stirring the ocean and the heavens in a destructive manner.
In the next second, the violent airflow instantly tore apart and swallowed its tiny figure... On the deck of the st. freya.
Charlotte Linlin looked solemnly at the calm sea below. Suddenly, a float drifting on the surface of the water within her line of sight jerked downward!
A hint of joy flashed in her eyes. Her arms exerted force instantly, and the fishing rod drew a full arc as a "prey" was successfully dragged out of the water by her—
—It was an old leather boot covered in seaweed with a hole in the bottom.
Ripley, who had just finished her morning training nearby, was attracted by her movements. She walked over and asked curiously:
"How is it, our Captain? How's the harvest today?"
A few days ago, Charlotte Linlin, having nothing to do, started an entertainment activity she had only seen but never done in her past life—sea fishing. As for the results... Charlotte Linlin stared at the broken boot on the hook, then looked at the treacherous surface of the sea, and said with an extremely solemn tone:
"My luck is bad today! There's definitely something wrong with this area of the sea!"
After saying that, a thin black electric arc shot out from the fishing rod in her hand, and the poor boot was instantly annihilated without a trace.
"Sea area problem?" Ripley glanced at the water tank next to Charlotte Linlin, which was prepared for the fish.
Ripley raised an eyebrow and glanced at the huge water tank specifically prepared for Charlotte Linlin by her feet. Well, it was empty.
With a hint of playfulness in her tone, "Maybe... well, it really is just a regional problem."
With a smile in her eyes, she looked at her Captain meaningfully.
"What's with that look!" Charlotte Linlin felt uncomfortable under Ripley's gaze and argued with a stiff neck,
"It's definitely a regional problem! On the first day, I caught a full forty big fish!
I let everyone on the ship have a wonderful fish feast! That's enough to prove my strength! The sea here today is definitely not right!"
"Is that so?" Ripley suppressed a smile and deliberately counted on her fingers,
"Let me calculate... Today is the sixth day you've been fishing, right? So, respected Captain, what is your total 'record' now?"
"What do you care about my total record! Anyway, my brilliant record on the first day was forty fish! I'm definitely better than you!"
Charlotte Linlin tried to cover her lack of confidence with her volume.
"I know! I know!" Gölz, who had also finished her training and came jumping onto the deck, immediately raised her hand and excitedly exposed her,
"Linlin's total record now is forty-four fish! Except for the forty fish that exploded on the first day, the following four days only added up to four fish! That's an average of one fish a day!"
"Nonsense, today isn't over yet, at least two!" Charlotte Linlin argued.
Watching Charlotte Linlin's effort to argue, Ripley suppressed a smile and advised:
"Linlin, although I don't know what happened on the first day, maybe... you really don't have a talent for fishing?"
"Nonsense! Just watch, today I will catch at least two, no, ten!" Charlotte Linlin said unconvinced.
"Hmm? That direction..." Gölz, who was smiling at Charlotte Linlin, suddenly looked in a certain direction.
Noticing the change in Gölz, Charlotte Linlin quickly asked: "What's wrong, Gölz?"
It definitely wasn't because she wanted to escape the previous question, definitely not!
"A Homies seabird I sent out to scout the nearby sea just died. Did something happen in that area of the sea?"
As a Soul-Soul Fruit user, under Charlotte Linlin's careful guidance, Gölz had now created hundreds of Homies seabirds with simple consciousness for reconnaissance.
Although she couldn't share their vision in real-time, she could clearly sense their "life and death."
"Vina, the sea directly ahead, scout it carefully."
Charlotte Linlin immediately put away her joking mood, neatly retracted the fishing line wrapped around the blade of her saber "Wu," and gave an order to Vina on the lookout tower.
Although Vina had eaten the glare-glare fruit and gained ultra-long-range vision, using the Devil Fruit ability itself would continuously consume stamina. Even for a Paramecia-type with relatively low consumption, she couldn't maintain the ability around the clock.
Therefore, the Homies seabirds created by Gölz became the first choice for daily pathfinding.
Furthermore, the appearance of the Homies seabirds was very similar to Seagulls on the sea, making it difficult to distinguish them without careful observation.
On the lookout tower, Vina put down the navigation book in her hand upon hearing the command and made a unique focusing gesture with her hands in front of her eyes.
Instantly, her vision stretched to its limit, and a strange sight appeared "before her eyes"—in the distance, a giant waterspout with long, thin lower limbs deeply rooted in the ocean and a very large upper part stirring thousands of meters of clouds was raging wildly.
"I see it, Captain! In the sea directly ahead, about three thousand miles away, a giant waterspout has appeared! The scale is enormous! Do we need to change course immediately?" Vina's voice carried a hint of shock.
"No, maintain course and keep moving forward." Charlotte Linlin rubbed her chin. Instead of fear, a glimmer of eagerness flashed in her eyes.
"A sea tornado... maybe I can start trying out that idea."
"Understood, Captain!"
The huge st. freya continued to forge ahead through the waves. Before long, even without using abilities, everyone on the deck could see that terrifying tornado connecting the sky and the earth with their naked eyes.
It was like a violent transparent giant python, twisting its body crazily and swallowing everything around it. Even something as massive as the st. freya seemed as tiny as an ant before this power of heaven and earth.
"You all stay on the ship, we'll be right back." Charlotte Linlin instructed Gloriosa and the others who looked worried behind her.
Immediately, a flash of light appeared around her, and she instantly transformed into a thousand-meter White Giant Dragon with grim scales and an extraordinary appearance!
She signaled Gölz to leap onto the dragon's back, then flapped her wings and rose, carrying a gust of wind as she flew straight toward that destructive waterspout.
Riding on Charlotte Linlin, Gölz tightly hugged the cold and solid dragon scales with one hand and shielded her eyes from the increasingly strong wind pressure with the other. Looking at the giant waterspout ahead like a funnel between heaven and earth, her voice trembled slightly:
"Linlin, is it... is it really okay? There's a lot of seawater mixed in down there!"
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