The Special Logia Woods-Woods Fruit!

A pale, fish-belly-like light appeared on the eastern horizon, gradually brightening as the thick, dark clouds over the island began to disperse.

First, a blue canopy peeked through the crack, and as time passed, it grew larger and larger, like a veil being torn apart.

Finally, the wind stopped, the rain ceased, and the golden sun shone brightly once more.

Having fully regained his senses, Woonan looked at Vidal, who seemed to be resting with his eyes closed, with a complicated expression. The events from before had no impact on his memory; Lily's role was merely to aggravate his negative emotions, causing him to fall into a state of losing his composure and rationality.

To be honest, he didn't know how the other party would treat him. After all, no matter what, this was a kind of betrayal, even though he had no choice in the matter.

However, apart from that, I didn't have any dangerous thoughts.

Firstly, he is currently only one-tenth of his original strength, so he can only maintain normal movement. His Haki, stamina, and Devil Fruit ability are simply insufficient to support him in continuing the fight.

He needs a long time to recover, but that monster Lily won't care about anything. The fierce battle just now actually drained a lot of his mental and physical strength.

Even so, facing the patriarch before them, they were completely crushed, like an egg hitting a rock, without any power to resist. This is the second reason.

Woonan was completely convinced of Vidal, and even if the latter were to take his life, he would likely not resist, or rather, he would be unable to resist.

Thinking of all this, he gave a bitter smile, turned his back to Vidal, and kept watch for any movement around them.

"Hey, this guy's alright. I was thinking of just crippling him and taking him to Sleep Ancient Town to extract the Luck-Luck Fruit."

Although Vidal's eyes were closed as if he were asleep, his perception of the outside world remained sharp due to his Observation Haki.

However, most of the attention was focused on himself, or rather, on the changes in the Woods-Woods Fruit's power.

His premonition was correct Lily Carnation's true form, the Woods-Woods Fruit underwent a massive, mutation-like evolution within his body, and a flood of information rushed into his mind.

In that instant, he even 'saw' a green halo deep in his consciousness, within which countless herbs, plants, flowers, birds, fish, and insects shimmered—a fantastical scene of Shinra Myriad Phenomena.

As he continued to absorb the inexplicably surging information, Vidal finally realized that he had Awakening.

The power of the Woods-Woods Fruit Awakening!

This filled him with immense surprise, joy, and excitement.

At the same time, I gained a truly comprehensive understanding of the Woods-Woods Fruit. Although it was incredible, the information that came out was actually a 'product manual' and 'user manual', only the amount of information was a bit too much.

This made him increasingly suspicious that Devil Fruits might actually be ancient artificial creations!

First, regarding the classification of the Woods-Woods Fruit, he was previously unsure whether it was Logia or a special Paramecia, but now he has the answer.

It's Logia!

Upon closer examination, there are indeed clear differences between the Woods-Woods Fruit, the Mochi-Mochi Fruit, and the Gummy-Gummy Fruit. The former consists of herbs and plants that are naturally occurring, while the latter are entirely processed products by humans.

Now that Awakening, my first basic Awakening ability is that while creating and nurturing various plants, I also assimilate the surrounding landscape into the most suitable soil environment for their growth.

Before Awakening, although he could force plants to grow in unsuitable places using the extraordinary power of the Woods-Woods Fruit, this was only temporary. They would wither and lose their vitality soon after he left.

For example, extreme terrain environments such as deserts, swamps, hills, and rocky terrain.

"Wait, something's not right. What's going on with this ability?" Vidal was shocked, because a second ability had appeared during this Awakening beneath the tower.

He can now transform other objects into plants!

This caused him to open his eyes immediately. Under Woonan's surprised gaze, he picked up a long sword that had fallen to the ground and then activated his Awakening ability.

The next second, Vidal's hand, which was gripping the hilt of the knife, emitted a pale green light. Then, starting from the hilt, the light began to change color, turning white and then green, before spreading rapidly upwards at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Before long, the steel knife in his hand transformed into a long, white-green scallion!

[Smack!]

Vidal broke it in half, and sure enough, the original steel blade had completely turned into the shape of a scallion, which surprised him.

Because he knew that he could transform not only scallions, but also long knives into Bokken, willow branches, Cactus, flowers, or any plant or tree he knew.

"This is somewhat like the Awakening power of Paramecia Fruit user. However, I remember that whether it was Doflamingo in the future or Katakuri's Awakening, they only temporarily transformed the surrounding matter. But it seems that mine can be maintained indefinitely."

Paramecia beings' material assimilation combined with Paramecia permanent transformations?

Woonan standing nearby, also witnessed this scene. He was shocked and puzzled to see the blade turn into a green onion.

He is currently unaware of the Awakening of his Devil Fruit abilities, since he has been living in the first half of the Grand Line, where there are very few Awakening individuals, and no one would tell him about it.

Vidal discovered two additional new abilities besides the first two, but they clearly originated from Lily Carnation and, strictly speaking, were not Awakening abilities.

"It seems that Lily not only triggered my ability Awakening, but also caused some impact. My Woods-Woods Fruit can no longer be considered an ordinary Logia."

"Hmm, Special Logia?"

Just as Vidal was getting excited about his Awakening, a red light flashed in his eyes the next second. Then, his pupils glanced to the right, and a black arrow falling from the sky came into view.

The arrow was extremely fast and made no sound as it approached silently to within a hundred meters before being detected by his Observation Haki.

Vidal instinctively turned to the side, letting the black arrow whiz past him.

[Pfft!]

Woonan slowly lowered his head, watching the arrow that had pierced his chest slowly fall to the ground, its jet-black color rapidly disappearing, turning into an ordinary white-feathered arrow.

At that moment, Vidal appeared beside him instantly, frowning as he checked on Woonan's condition. The latter's pale face showed a hint of bitterness and helplessness.

"I never imagined that I would ultimately not escape death."

"Die?"

Vidal raised an eyebrow. "You are my retainer. You won't die so easily in front of me."

"Ahh!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he forcefully pulled the arrow out with his right hand, and a large amount of blood spurted from the wound. The intense pain caused Woonan to scream, but Vidal didn't care. He flipped his left hand and produced Green Bean the size of a bull's eye, which he put into the latter's mouth.

"Eat this. I don't have time to treat you slowly right now. Once your wounds have healed a bit, we'll find a place to hide!"

Woonan was, after all, a renowned pirate who had traversed the East Blue and the first half of the Grand Line. Knowing the urgency of the situation, he quickly bit into a specially made large-sized Green Bean and swallowed it.

As the Green Bean entered his body, his entire body emitted a bright green light, and the wound on his abdomen began to heal rapidly. Meanwhile, Vidal stood up and looked at the sky from which the black arrow was flying.

Sure enough, a distinct dark shape appeared there, and it appeared to be quite large, at least much larger than the main warship.

"Hmm, what is that?"