Drum Kingdom,
Rocks stood with Wapol's body on his feet, while holding a round Devil Fruit in his hand. This Devil Fruit looked like a closed mouth; it was Wapol's Munch-Munch Fruit.
A tidal wave of darkness surged beneath Rocks' feet. He grinned as he looked at the Devil Fruit in his hand.
"Finally, we've found a decent replacement. This piece of jerky has really wasted it!"
With that, Rocks kicked Wapol's corpse aside like trash and stuffed the Munch-Munch Fruit into his mouth.
Fortunately, Blackbeard's neck was thick enough that Rocks swallowed it whole without chewing.
After eating the Munch-Munch Fruit, Rocks' mouth suddenly enlarged, almost reaching his ears. He smacked his lips and casually swallowed a gun lying on the ground.
Immediately afterwards, Rocks' right arm transformed into the shape of a gun, Rocks nodded in satisfaction upon seeing this.
Suddenly, a weak voice reached his ears.
"You bastard, you actually killed the king..."
"Um?"
Rocks turned to look and saw that it was Dalton, the so-called captain of the guard.
With a disdainful smile, Rocks raised his hand, intending to unleash his Power of Darkness. However, this time, only a few wisps of black smoke emerged from his palm, and the resulting gravitational pull was barely more than a gentle breeze.
Rocks's face immediately darkened. He stared at his palm and said resentfully,
"Damn it! Has the Power of Darkness finally run out?"
The reason he was able to use the Power of Darkness even after Senga took the Dark-Dark Fruit was because the original Rocks had almost perfected the Dark-Dark Fruit -Dark-Dark Fruit and had a high degree of fusion with it, so some Power of Darkness remained in his soul.
However, this Power of Darkness is ultimately non-renewable, and it was completely exhausted after absorbing Wapol's Munch-Munch Fruit.
Dalton seized the opportunity to get up from the ground. Several white wisps of gas came out of his nostrils, and then a pair of horns grew on his head, and his face was covered with brown and black hair.
He is Zoan Devil Fruit Ability User, specifically the Ox-Ox Fruit in its Bison form.
Rocks, who was upset about his depleted Power of Darkness, noticed Dalton's change and his eyes lit up.
It wasn't that he was interested in Dalton's fruit; in his view, it was just an ordinary Zoan- Zoan, practically useless except for slightly enhancing physical constitution.
However, it would be good to test another ability of the Munch-Munch Fruit: consuming other Devil Ability User and using their abilities!
Rocks let out a strange, cackling laugh, then flashed and instantly appeared in front of Dalton.
Such speed was beyond Dalton's reaction time; he was swallowed whole by Rocks with almost no resistance.
After swallowing Dalton, Rocks patted his stomach dramatically, as if he had just had a hearty meal.
Then, a pair of bull horns, exactly the same as Dalton's, sprouted from his head, and his hands turned into bull hooves.
However, given his size, if it weren't for the pair of bull horns on his head, he would look like a large black bear.
He stomped his foot hard on the ground, and a crack a hundred meters long spread out of the earth under his foot. An ordinary bison fruit was naturally incomparable to that of Dalton top-level powerhouse like Rocks.
As he reverted to his bison form, Rocks's expression became increasingly grotesque. He opened his arms and laughed loudly, throwing his head back.
"Hehehehe! Just as I expected, it can even do better than the Dark-Dark Fruit in terms of devouring!"
After laughing for a while, Rocks gradually stopped laughing. He lifted his foot to leave, but suddenly stopped in his tracks.
His Observation Haki fluctuated, indicating that someone was lurking nearby!
"Hmph, looks like there's still one fool who doesn't know his own limits!"
Rocks suddenly turned his head and looked in one direction, immediately spotting a small head peeking out from beside a large tree.
The small figure immediately panicked and tried to escape, but how could he possibly escape from Rocks's grasp?
He bumped into Rocks as soon as he turned around.
Rocks looked down at the little creature and noticed that it was wearing a large red hat with a pair of antler-like decorations on the sides. Its face was obscured by the hat.
It wasn't until the man slowly raised his head in fright that Rocks could see his face clearly.
He raised an eyebrow and almost blurted it out.
"Where did this raccoon dog come from!?"
The little guy immediately bristled when he heard Rocks call him a raccoon.
He even forgot the horrific scene that had just unfolded, and shouted...
"You... you bastard! You're the raccoon dog! I'm a reindeer! A reindeer!!!"
However, Rocks persisted in his opinion, frowning as he spoke.
"What?! It's a talking tanuki? What's your name?"
"I've already told you I'm not a tanuki! My name is Chopper!"
After a couple of defiant words, Chopper's inner fear returned, and he swallowed hard and became obedient.
Chopper only wanted to go out today to bring Doctor Kureha a newspaper, but he ended up seeing that tyrant Wapol fighting with someone, and then getting beaten up in just a few moves.
He was initially quite happy, because in his eyes Wapol was an absolute tyrant and a terrible person who had killed Hiruluk!
But seeing Rocks kill Wapol directly, the kind-hearted Chopper felt a pang of pity. However, something even more astonishing happened: the man who killed Wapol actually ate Chilton whole! This was completely beyond Chopper's comprehension, so much so that he froze on the spot, forgetting to run away, and was discovered by Rocks.
Now he really couldn't run away even if he wanted to. He could only stand in front of Rocks, trembling all over, afraid that Rocks would eat him up in the next second.
Rocks, chin in hand, looked down at Chopper with interest and asked,
"So why can you talk? And why can you stand up like a human?"
"I... I became like this after eating a strange fruit!"
"A strange fruit? Does it have spiral patterns on it and taste particularly bad?"
"Yes!"
Recalling that utterly disgusting smell, Chopper immediately nodded his little head vigorously.
Rocks's doubts were now resolved; Chopper must have eaten a Devil Fruit.
Thinking of Devil Fruit, a wicked smile immediately appeared on Rocks' face. He continued to ask,
"So besides being able to walk upright and talk, what other abilities do you have?"
Chopper was so frightened by Rocks' expression that his fur stood on end, and he replied tremblingly.
"No... that's all!"
That's it?
Rocks was taken aback, his brain racing as he tried to find Devil Fruit with a similar ability, and he actually thought of one.
Just thinking about the name of this fruit Rocks's expression become quite interesting.