"Gura la la.... you're being too polite by talking about money, El, these three Devil Fruits are also useless to me, since you want them, you can have them."
Whitebeard laughed loudly upon hearing this.
"Is that so? Then I won't be polite, thank you Edward."
He had to say, Whitebeard was a very good, and loyal man.
Although El and Whitebeard, weren't clearly friends.
But they were drinking buddies.
Now, Whitebeard's generosity, had also made El have a lot of goodwill towards him.
"Just treat me to a drink another day and it'll be fine." Whitebeard patted his shoulder and smiled.
"Alright." El nodded.
Just treating Whitebeard to a drink once, and he could obtain three Devil Fruits.
El naturally wouldn't refuse this kind of deal.
"El, tomorrow is when you and Captain Rocks will fight, what are you collecting Devil Fruits for?" Shiki asked El with some doubt.
Collecting Devil Fruits, didn't seem to have a trace of connection with tomorrow's battle, right.
"That's not something I can tell you." El spread his hands.
"You guy, you're burying quite a few secrets on your body, huh." Charlotte Linlin's eyes flashed with a gleam of light, and she said with a smile on her face.
Even though they had been with El for a long time, they still didn't know what El's Devil Fruit was.
It could be said that El was the one who hid the deepest in the entire Rocks Pirates!
Shiki stared straight at El's pupils and was silent for a few seconds, and then said: "I have four Devil Fruits in my hand, I'll sell them to you for fifteen billion Berries, how about it, El?"
Although Shiki didn't know, what El wanted to do specifically by collecting Devil Fruits.
But seeing that El intended to spend one billion Berries, to buy Whitebeard's three Devil Fruits.
He also wanted to raise the price, and sell the four Devil Fruits in his hand for a price of fifteen billion!
After all, the market price of a Devil Fruit was one hundred million Berries.
Even if someone hyped up the market price, they could at most sell it for two hundred million Berries.
That is to say, the four Devil Fruits in his hand, could at most sell for eight hundred million Berries.
Now, he had raised the price to fifteen billion Berries, and sold them to El, he wouldn't lose out at all.
Shiki could be said to be unusually short on money now, after all, he had been secretly recruiting troops.
"Fifteen billion Berries? You're too greedy, Shiki, twelve billion Berries at most."
Although El currently had a lot of money on him, he didn't want to be scammed by Shiki.
Spending twelve billion Berries, to purchase four Devil Fruits, he could accept that.
After all, Devil Fruits had always been in short supply since ancient times.
If Devil Fruits always had a market, El would have spent all of his money on purchasing Devil Fruits long ago.
Shiki was silent for a few seconds and then grinned and smiled.
"Deal!" For a force like Shiki, who was developing secretly.
The value of twelve billion Berries, was more important than four Devil Fruits!
Seeing that El's offer wasn't low, Charlotte Linlin was also somewhat tempted and said: "Mamamama..... I have six Devil Fruits in my hand, do you want to buy them, El?"
Charlotte Linlin's future goal, was to create Totto Land.
So, she had collected all of the Devil Fruits she had obtained in the Rocks Pirates.
Now, she had a full six Devil Fruits in her hand.
However, compared to six Devil Fruits, she needed a lot of funds even more now.
After all, if she didn't have enough funds to use to establish Totto Land and replenish warships.
Even if she had Devil Fruits in her hand, it would be useless.
"Six Devil Fruits, huh? You guy, have collected quite a few." Shiki glanced at Charlotte Linlin with some surprise.
He had joined the Rocks Pirates, for so many years, and had only collected four Devil Fruits.
But Charlotte Linlin, had actually collected six of them.
"That's none of your business, Shiki." Charlotte Linlin faintly glanced at Shiki.
"Jie hahaha..... Linlin, it seems that you've also done a lot of small actions behind Captain Rocks' back, huh." Shiki laughed loudly upon hearing this.
Since Charlotte Linlin, would take out six Devil Fruits to sell.
Then that also meant that, she was also short on money, and needed to develop her own force.
"Saying this kind of misleading words on the ship, you're really not afraid of being heard by Captain Rocks, huh Shiki."
Hearing this, Shiki only smiled faintly and didn't say much.
Because he knew very well, that his small actions, had long since been known by Rocks.
However, Rocks didn't care.
"Six, huh? What price do you want to offer?" El asked.
"Twenty billion Berries." Charlotte Linlin offered.
"Eighteen billion Berries at most."
El only intended to spend three hundred million Berries to purchase a Devil Fruit.
With six, it would be eighteen billion Berries at most.
"Deal!" Charlotte Linlin didn't haggle, and nodded.
El returned to his room.
Afterwards, he took out thirty billion Berries in Kurama's space.
And exchanged Devil Fruits with Shiki, and Charlotte Linlin.
Plus the three Devil Fruits that Whitebeard had given.
And the five Devil Fruits in Kurama's mental space, the current El had a total of eighteen Devil Fruits!
After completing the exchange, and chatting with Whitebeard and others for a few sentences, El went to find John to demand the one billion Berries.
After obtaining the one billion Berries that John had given, El went to the ship to trade with the other executives, wanting to purchase some more Devil Fruits.
However, Devil Fruits, were after all one of the great treasures of this sea.
Apart from this group of people like Shiki, the other executives didn't have Devil Fruits.
Helpless, El returned to his room again.
Afterwards, he took out all eighteen Devil Fruits.
"Ding, it has been detected that the host has Devil Fruits in his hand, do you want to use them to unlock the Three-Tails?"
"Confirm!"
"Ding, congratulations to the host, for consuming five Devil Fruits, and unlocking the chakra power of the Three-Tails!"
"Ding, congratulations to the host, for consuming six Devil Fruits, and unlocking the chakra power of the Four-Tails!"
"Ding, congratulations to the host, for consuming seven Devil Fruits, and unlocking the chakra power of the Five-Tails!"
The system's voice, was transmitted in El's mind.
As El had expected.
Each time he wanted to unlock the chakra power of a later Tailed Beast, he would need to consume one more Devil Fruit.
Currently, El had unlocked the power of the Five-Tails' chakra, and had consumed a full seven Devil Fruits!
In the future, it would probably be eight, nine, ten!
"Wanting to unlock the power of the Ten-Tails' chakra, it really still needs a period of time." El clicked his tongue upon hearing the system's prompt.
Although, he was currently only missing the Six-Tails, Seven-Tails, Eight-Tails that hadn't been unlocked yet.
But.... wanting to unlock these three Tails, he would need to consume a full twenty-seven Devil Fruits at the very least!!!
A special energy, surged into El's body, and fused with Kurama in his mental world.
Now Kurama, had already obtained the chakra power of the One-Tail, Two-Tails, Three-Tails, Four-Tails, Five-Tails!
Its overall strength, had improved a lot.
Now when El released Kurama's power, he could also display a power that was even more powerful than usual!!!
Time flew by, and it came to the next day.
Which was the day that El and Rocks would exchange blows.
And on this day, the executives who had gone out, Silver Axe and Ochoku, had also returned to the Rocks Pirates.
Because the Poneglyph had already been found, so they naturally didn't have to stay outside to search anymore.
And on this day of the decisive battle.
In order to not cause damage to the ship, Rocks ordered the ship to be steered to a deserted island in the New World.
The two people also came to an open space, and prepared to fight.
All of the members on the ship, came to the island, and prepared to witness this battle of the century.
Whitebeard, Shiki, Charlotte Linlin, John, Kyo, Ochoku, Kaido and the many other executives, naturally wouldn't miss this good show, and were also watching nearby.
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