290- Challenge

Ethan laughed lightly upon seeing Emma happy upon hearing that she could swim again, "Emma, ​​don't you want to see my other abilities?"

"is there more?" Emma couldn't help but be shocked.

"My devil fruit abilities have evolved after awakening." Ethan smiled, then looked into the woods and whistled loudly.

Moments later, dust begins to rise on the island as all kinds of animals rush towards Ethan's place.

All the animals stood in unison before Ethan and Emma, ​​whether the animal was a little mouse or a big bear, they all looked at Ethan obediently.

"Before I could only talk to the animals, but now I can control them." Actually it is not control but Ethan is giving orders and all the animals will carry it out due to the aura of the dragon god.

But it can be considered as control because no animal will refuse him a command, even if he orders them to starve to death, they will do so and will not put anything in their mouth until death.

He can control even sea kings.

Ethan went on to explain the other abilities.

His ability to breathe underwater has evolved and he can breathe in all environments even in the space. Although space has no oxygen.

His regeneration ability has developed and now he can recover from injuries very quickly without the need for life energy.

Even if one of his limbs is cut off, if Ethan puts it back in place, he will recover and get his limb back.

Emma looked at Ethan with her mouth wide open and was speechless for a moment, "Your devil fruit shouldn't belong to this world at all."

Ethan ordered the animals to go back to their places and continue to live their normal lives. Then Ethan and Emma kept talking for a while until a little girl came rushing towards them.

Ethan wanted to show off his dragon look, but the girl's appearance prevented him from doing so.

This girl is nine years old with short black hair, with two tufts pointing upwards.

"Shakky, what are you doing in the woods, it's too dangerous." Ethan leaned over and patted the little girl's head.

"No animal can defeat me, I'm so strong." Shakky puffed out one cheek nicely and then as if she remembered something she gave the newspaper in her hand to Ethan and said anxiously, "Arthur-sama, are you alright this newspaper is talking about you."

Ethan raised an eyebrow, took the newspaper from her, and began reading it to Emma.

The summary of this newspaper is that the leader of the Mercenary Guild had a very serious illness and did not know what had happened to him because he had disappeared for two months.

But others thought it was just a hoax and lies, and the leader of the Mercenary Guild was trying to evade the challenge issued by one of the Four Emperors.

"Arthur-sama, are you okay? The newspaper says you have a serious illness." Shakky worries about him which makes her look cute in Ethan's eyes.

"Yes, I'm perfectly fine and I don't have a serious illness." Ethan laughed as he picked up the little girl and made her sit on his shoulder and started walking toward town, "Actually I'm the one who spread the rumors about my illness."

"Why?!" Both Emma and Shakky asked Ethan at the same time.

"Do you remember when I told you that I drank the poison that the Five Elders gave me?" Ethan looked at Emma walking by and when he saw her he nodded he continued, "I plan to use that to fake my death before I go back to the future."

Shakky was confused and didn't understand what was going on, 'Poison? Five Elders? Back to the future?'

After speaking for a while, Emma remembered something, "Were you not planning to use poison to strengthen your body? Did it work?"

Ethan sighed and then smiled bitterly, "The result is disappointing and I got nothing but immunity to poison."

"I didn't feel any increase in strength while practicing the cultivation technique for two months, even my internal organs didn't get stronger as I imagined." He was supposed to get stronger because of the poisons according to the cultivation technique, but Ethan felt that he was being deceived. "Maybe because I'm not in a cultivation realm so this doesn't work or maybe the system tricked me."

[Dear host, you are falsely accusing the system. It's just that your physical strength is already too great to be strengthened by a single type of poison and you have to use a thousand poisons to make this cultivation method work.]

Annoyance appeared on Ethan's face as he recalled his early days in the world of One Piece and how the system always gave him incomplete information.

Emma noticed the annoyance on Ethan's face so she asked in confusion, "What happened?"

Ethan clicked his tongue and then explained to Emma what had happened. "Tch! The system wrote in describing the cultivation technique that it can be used to strengthen the body and didn't mention anything else, I thought that I could easily become stronger through poison."

Shakky looked at Emma and Ethan in bewilderment and didn't know what they were talking about but she didn't get involved and didn't ask anyway.

[The system is innocent. The host didn't ask about this cultivation technique, The host just read the description and then bought it.]

"Anyway, remove the poison, there's no point in having it in my body anymore." There was no longer any point in using that cultivation method if it didn't make him stronger.

[The poison has been removed.]

Ethan didn't feel any difference even after the poison was removed because the poison didn't affect him in the first place.

After examining his body, he looked at Emma, ​​"Do you have another question?"

"So what about the emperor who challenged you, are they also rumors to ruin your reputation?" Emma grabbed her chin while thinking.

"I don't know about this, but he might have challenged me before rumors spread that I was ill. After all, we have been here for two months and we have not communicated with the union during that time." Ethan was sure that the emperor defied him before his followers spread rumors that he was ill, so people thought he was a coward or something and that he was making excuses to avoid confrontation.

"It seems that this emperor is wishing for death." Emma sneered, certain Ethan's victory easily, "but who is this emperor?"

Ethan looked at the newspaper and read it again and then smiled, "He's the strongest swordsman of this era."

"The strongest swordsman in the world against the strongest man in the world!"

"It seems that he is trying to prove that the path of the sword is the strongest."