Butler Brian's Style!

With Raymond's matter temporarily settled, Vidal looked at his butler, Brian.

"It's been several months since I last left. How's your physical training, and how's your Devil Fruit ability going?"

With the disappearance, or rather the sacrifice, of Woonan and others, there are now only twelve retainers left in the Forest Palace, including Brian and Raymond.

Previously, he had taught these people the methods of Konoha Style Body Technique, the Six Powers, and Armament Haki. Brian, as their butler, had also specially given them a Paramecia Shove-Shove Fruit, with the aim of cultivating the strength of these first batch of veteran retainers.

"Reporting to the clan head, the physical strength required for the Six Powers is too high, and no one has yet mastered it. At this stage, everyone's main focus is on the Konoha Style Body Technique and swordsmanship."

Brian respectfully answered in detail, "I don't seem to have much talent in physical combat, so I'm more inclined to develop my Devil Fruit abilities."

Vidal nodded, not surprised by the situation. After all, they were just a group of pirates who had only recently entered the Grand Line, so it was normal that they couldn't master the Six Powers in a short time.

"Then let me see your results."

As soon as he finished speaking, without any visible movement from the man sitting on the wide chair, a bright green light suddenly emanated from the thick chair back behind him. Then, one green plant after another sprouted from the floor of the hall, and in the blink of an eye, twenty Peashooter with their big heads shaking appeared around Brian.

Brian's face twitched in shock at the sight. Just as he opened his mouth to say something, the Peashooters, whom he saw almost every day, launched a fierce attack without saying a word.

Bullet-sized round peas shot out from their mouths, turning into pale green afterimages in mid-air, striking his body from all directions.

"Grow! Grow! Grow!"

At the same time, Brian quickly uttered a few words, and soon, dense vines sprouted wildly from the floor within three meters of him. These vines, like green tree pythons eager to reproduce, Coating with each other at an extremely fast speed to form a large 'snake ball', completely enveloping him inside, while slowly surging to block all the pea attacks that came at him.

Having secured his own safety, Brian immediately launched his counterattack, unleashing long, thin vines from the trypophobia-inducing 'snake ball' that bound all the Peashooters almost instantly.

For a moment, from Vidal's perspective, it looked as if a giant spider web had appeared in the hall, centered on that 'green ball' and extending out with twenty threads.

"That's interesting."

A slight smile played on his lips as his interest was piqued. The chair behind him lit up again, and a large number of green plants sprouted from the ground around him once more. This time, however, they were golden Sunflower.

[Beep! Beep! Beep!]

These seemingly friendly Sunflowers suddenly emitted golden light from their entire flower heads as soon as they appeared, then transformed into beams of laser light that bombarded various parts of the 'green sphere'.

With its astonishing rate of fire and scorching heat, the entire 'Green Sphere' was visibly breaking apart. However, Brian was also using his abilities to generate more vines to continuously repair the 'Green Sphere's' integrity.

He then used the same trick again, sending out long, thin vines that 'bite' at the Sunflower like green snakes.

This time, however, the Sunflowers were prepared. They pulled out their roots that were originally hidden in the floor, and then transformed them into tiny 'legs' that shot out, nimbly dodging the attacks of the vines.

Moreover, they would even use the long pillars in the hall to jump back and forth, releasing lasers during their leaps to cut off approaching vines, making them look like agile but overly simplistic ninjas.

Now, the battle in the entire hall became even more intense and tense. Golden lasers and green afterimages flashed at high speed, chased, collided, or fell from the sky, breaking and snapping.

No matter how many Sunflowers are destroyed, new green plants always appear around the ground, and the types that appear are no longer just Peashooter and Sunflowers, but also aggressive Boxing Cabbages.

It was practically an army made entirely of plants besieging Brian and those serpentine vines.

Fortunately, the entire Forest Palace was created by Vidal's abilities, so even if it was damaged by an attack, it could be quickly restored; otherwise, he would never have chosen this place as the battlefield.

How long can you hold out?

Vidal sat firmly on the Natural Throne, silently watching Brian was still struggling to resist.

He hoped the other person could bring him an even bigger surprise.

Brian, seemingly telepathically connected with Vidal, reached into the pocket of his butler's uniform, then flung the contents out through a deliberately exposed opening.

"Hmm?" Vidal raised an eyebrow; those looked like seeds.

"Grow! Grow! Grow!"

A few more words, like a magic spell, and the seeds that Brian had thrown out sprouted from their shells at an astonishingly fast growth rate as soon as they landed, quickly transforming into plump tomatoes.

However, the tomatoes, with their bright red surface dotted with green spots, looked a bit eerie.

Just as a Sunflower dodged a vine's whip and landed, it stomped on a newly formed tomato, causing it to explode with a muffled thud.

Immediately afterwards, a thick stream of red and green sap exploded in all directions, and the Sunflower that was hit first was instantly corroded into a disgusting pile of plant debris.

Next, tomatoes exploded one by one, spraying juice everywhere, scattering it all over the ground, and even the wooden planks on the ground were smoking and corroding, turning into ugly pits.

The Sunflowers that were jumping around in mid-air eventually had to fall back to the ground, but the ground was covered with red and green sap that looked like sulfuric acid. Upon landing, they would have their legs broken, and then their whole bodies would fall down and turn into rotting pieces.

Before long, Sunflowers, Peashooter, and Boxing Cabbages were almost all wiped out, and even those that grew later could hardly survive in this sap-filled environment.

"This is."

Vidal stared blankly, this technique seemed familiar. He seemed to have used it before, but he used his abilities to create poisonous mushrooms, while Brian's seemed to be growing strange tomatoes from seeds.

"Where did you get these seeds?"

"Huff--Huff-- Reporting to the clan master, with the establishment of the Konoha Wharf, merchants have been coming to Forest City recently. These seeds called Potty Head Red Fruits were purchased from a merchant, and they are said to come from the 'New World'."

Seeing that the remaining plant soldiers had ceased their attacks, Brian spread out his vines in defense and answered breathlessly.

"This is the only plant among the many seeds brought by that merchant that can be used in combat."

"I see."

Vidal understood that Brian's Shove-Shove Fruit had a clear limitation: it could only be used when there were plants around it. If it was just a simple plank, it could only produce a single vine for manipulation.

Therefore, the best way to increase one's combat capabilities or just in case is to carry seeds with one at all times.

Interestingly, the Shove-Shove Fruit and Colonel Noel's Wood-Wood Fruit represent abilities in two different directions. The former primarily promotes plant growth, while the latter mainly manipulates wood, and both are inferior fruits of the Woods-Woods Fruit.

"I'll regularly give you other seeds you can use for battle, including these Sunflowers, Peashooter, and Boxing Cabbages."

Vidal decided to train the other party in the direction of a plant summoner, so that he could truly create an army from beans, that is, one person can form an army, while keeping the 'suppliers' firmly in his own hands.