122 Strength Enhancing Medicine
"Wow! I never thought Luffy's devil fruit would be so awesome." Chopper's eyes sparkled as he looked at Luffy in admiration.
"Devil Fruit changes fate. Indeed! If you have a ridiculously powerful devil fruit, you can do whatever you want to do." Sanji nodded his head and spoke.
"You are wrong, stinky cook. Do you really think you can perform even close to that of Luffy if you had eaten this devil fruit?" Zoro sneered and turned to Chopper.
"So, where is the medicine?"
"Moss Head, don't forget I can electrocute you at any moment!" Sanji got furious as his body began to turn into lightning.
"Humph! My Haki is better. I can easily block your weak-ass attacks." Zoro snorted and stared back at Chopper.
Chopper turned his head at Liam, waiting for his response.
"Zoro, let's discuss the side effects and effects of the medicine before you take it. After all, its side effects are quite serious." Liam spoke.
Zoro paused and turned his head toward Liam. Although he was quite serious about taking the medicine right away, he wanted to listen to his vice-captain.
Others also listened seriously as Liam explained.
"First, this medicine can only increase your strength if your body can withstand the constant regeneration. You understand how body muscles work, right?"
"I got the effect of this firsthand when I tried to push my body to absolute limits. My strength increased a lot enough to catch up to you guys but I almost had to stop training for six months."
"That was a tradeoff and without my devil fruit, I wouldn't be successful in removing the side effects. Of course, this is not the same with the medicine but to tradeoff that side effect, Chopper had to take a different route in developing this medicine."
"So, what will happen is that instead of constantly getting your cells through a lot of regeneration, this medicine will pump so much energy into your cells that it will instantly increase its vitality and strength to an astonishing level."
"But, this increase will come with incredible pain since you are conditioning your cells to stay alive during this process, you will face an incredible pain. It's like trying to keep your eyes open when you just want to sleep."
"It's just that the discomfort will be replaced by pain. So, if you do collapse during this process, you will not receive any increase in strength instead you will only feel pain. Because the moment you collapse, your body cell will die without even going through an evolution."
Hearing his explanation, everyone's face turned pale especially girls like Nami, Robin, and Vivi.
They knew that they were weaker than the guys and they weren't feeling any discomfort because of that. But, right now, they never felt this bad.
Because they knew that their pain tolerance was extremely low compared to the guys especially the monsters like Luffy, Zoro, and Sanji.
Seeing their expressions, Liam suddenly smiled and said.
"I knew this would be a problem for the girls. Do you really think I wouldn't prepare for it?"
Hearing his tone, their eyes lit up.
Liam chuckled as he continued.
"I have asked Chopper to create three types of medicine. Type A, Type B, Type C. Type A can only be taken by the likes of Luffy, Zoro, and Sanji. Even I don't dare to take the Type A."
"While I did suffer a lot during my training, my suffering was linear. So, I was able to adapt to it and it wasn't like I was getting beaten by someone so I don't have a high pain tolerance."
"Chopper, Usopp, and I will take Type B. As for Nami, Robin, and Vivi, Type C is the best option. The difference in these types won't be just pain as you can already guess."
"The amount of increase in your strength will vary. That being said, there is one limit to this medicine."
"What limit?" Luffy curiously asked.
"You can't take this medicine more than once a year. Normally, it takes over six to eight months to properly recover but just in case, I set the time limit to one year." Liam spoke.
Hearing his words, Zoro frowned and asked.
"Can we still do the training during this time?"
Liam nodded his head.
"Of course, we can. As I said before, I didn't want the crew to face the same situation as mine so I changed the linear development to instant development and changed side effects to pain instead of recovery."
"We can endure the pain mentally but our body can't go through the same situation twice. So, it needs some time to rest and during this time, you can go through intense training."
"But, keep one thing in mind, either train or don't get injured."
"If that's the case, then it won't be a problem." Zoro nodded his head with satisfaction.
But, Sanji frowned.
"Liam, if we can achieve the same results with training, what's the point of taking the medicines?"
Liam smiled and shook his head.
"You forgot about our situation."
Suddenly, his smile disappeared as he spoke with a serious tone.
"Do you think Marines will let a crew like ours develop so easily?"
Robin's eyes drastically changed as she asked.
"Do you mean they will continue to send admiral?"
"Not admiral but admirals. They will only send more than one admiral in a situation where they need more than one admiral to completely take down a pirate crew."
"In normal situations, they need at least two admirals to fight against a Yonko Crew. And, they definitely need one admiral to just keep Yonko Crew at bay."
"At the same time, if they want to completely destroy a Yonko Crew, they need all three admirals in order to minimize the loss of the marines. In other words, they will definitely send two admirals to hunt us down."
Hearing his words, everyone frowned and Sanji asked.
"But, we are not Yonko crew, right? We are just Supernova at best. How is possible for them to send so much manpower to fight us?"
Liam nodded his head and explained.
"Of course, sending two admirals is unprecedented, but you have to understand who they want to take down and what their power level is."
"After our battle with Aokiji, Marine will definitely mark us as Two Emperor Crew. To destroy two Emperor Crew, either they have to send every powerful marine or cut them before they can grow."
"But, even so, sending two marine admirals seems quite an overkill, don't you think? If they send a lot of marines, they will still be able to take us down, right?" Robin asked.
"As I said before, you have to understand who they want to take down. It's our Captain. Did you forget his grandpa?" Liam smiled.
"Grandpa? Are they going to send Grandpa?" Luffy panicked as he asked. Naturally, he wasn't paying much attention to this so he didn't really care until he heard the word grandpa.
Everyone rolled their eyes when Luffy spoke.
Liam ignored Luffy and said.
"Sengoku, Tsuru, Aokiji, all of them have a close relationship with Garp. Kizaru might not have that much of a close relation but he still doesn't want to offend Garp, especially with his Nature."
"Unfortunately, Akainu isn't the same. In fact, if it was someone else with our potential, Sengoku might send Akainu alone since he is ruthless and strong enough to kill all of us."
"But, since it is Luffy, he probably will send Aokiji and Kizaru to take us down without killing Luffy. Because if Luffy dies, then in the best case scenario, Garp will leave Marine but in the worse case, he might do something really scary such as killing the admiral who killed Luffy."
"For Garp, Pirates are people that he can't spare but family is a different thing. So, they will take down Luffy and send him to the prison but they will definitely kill all of us."
Hearing his words, everyone turned their eyes at Luffy who was narrowly hiding his eyes with his Straw Hats.
Naturally, he doesn't like involving his grandpa in his life but right now, he found it extremely troublesome when Garp was the reason why he would be safe.
He clenched his fist and raised his head.
"Liam, we must defeat those marines. Whether they said the dog or that pheasant guy, we will kill their ass."
Hearing Luffy's words, everyone smiled and got motivated. Liam took out the medicine and said.
"So, let's get stronger!"
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