Harvest, Mini Fruit!

The Fleet Admirals have been repelled, and now it's time to deal with those CP0 agents who kidnapped the children.

"Your Majesty Harald, leave this matter to me!"

Carmel stepped forward and said in a deep voice.

"I will definitely bring them back safely."

The Giants were still unaware of who had abducted the two Giant children. However, upon waking and finding the letter left at the gate, Carmel realized that this operation was not targeting the Giant race, nor Magnus, but her.

"No!"

But Giant King Harald refused without a second thought.

"Resisting invaders was originally our duty. Asking our friends for help is already a disgrace. Now, we will wash away that disgrace!"

The Fleet Admirals left, and they hadn't attacked Elbaf until the very end, which indicated that the Marines' target was not Elbaf.

However, it was a fact that someone had taken advantage of the Fleet Admirals' invasion to abduct their Giant children.

To the Giant warriors of Elbaf, such an event was undoubtedly a provocation.

"If I don't kill those scoundrels, I won't have the right to thank the sun!"

"This is a disgrace to our Elbaf!"

"It's time to remind those scoundrels of the fear of being dominated by us Giants!"

"..."

The Giants were in high spirits. At this point, even if Carmel stepped forward and said that the ones who kidnapped the children were the World Government's CP, the Giants wouldn't listen.

They didn't know who their enemy was; they only knew that someone had abducted their Giant children.

"Those foolish people think they can escape our pursuit, but don't forget, this is Elbaf, the homeland of the Giants!"

"Batian!"

As Giant King Harald's voice rang out, a Giant with his head bowed low and a hoarse voice appeared before everyone.

As soon as he appeared, feathers began to grow on his hands and cheeks. Finally, he leaped down from the edge of the sunlit world and reappeared as a white eagle with a wingspan of over fifty meters, looking benevolent.

"Zoan Fruit user..."

Rocks muttered to himself. In the past six months, he had not only been training but also catching up on a lot of maritime knowledge he hadn't known before.

For example, Devil Fruits.

The white eagle before him should have transformed after eating one of the three great Devil Fruits, a Zoan Fruit. Rocks had initially thought that Giants like Ripley couldn't use Devil Fruits.

But now, it seemed his assumption was completely wrong.

"Your Majesty, I've found them."

After circling Elbaf for a little less than half a lap, the Giant transformed into a white eagle found a small boat that had just sailed a short distance away from Elbaf.

On the small boat, Gulz and Haierdin, being too large to fit into the cabin, lay on the deck, making them particularly conspicuous.

"Alright, then we..."

"Harald, how about you listen to my suggestion?"

Hearing Magnus's voice, Harald looked up. While the Giants were still talking, Magnus had used Moonwalk to return from the underworld to the sunlit world.

Although he was covered in injuries, none of the surrounding Giants dared to underestimate the old man before them.

"Magnus, this is a matter for our Giant race!"

It was already humiliating enough to have Magnus help repel the Fleet Admirals. If he were to help find the children as well, where would the Giant race's pride go?

"Haha, I didn't say I was going to take action."

Magnus, sitting on the ground with his upper body bare, laughed heartily.

"But Harald, you can't deny that if you pursue them too fiercely, there's a possibility those 'thieves' might become desperate, right?"

"...So you have a way?"

"Of course, I do."

Magnus grinned and took out a fruit from behind him. Upon seeing this fruit, Harald's expression sharpened, and he blurted out.

"A Devil Fruit?"

"That's right, and it's the Paramecia-type Mini Fruit. It can not only make you Giants shrink to the size of ordinary people but even smaller. What do you think, it's quite suitable for you Giants, isn't it?"

This was a system reward that Magnus discovered after his fight with Rona. It wasn't a reward for fighting Rona, but for dealing with CP0.

[Marineford Calendar Year 1460, December 7th. Having stayed in the Land of Giants for half a year, you have gradually mastered the use of Haki. However, good times don't last. You accidentally discovered several CP Organization members who had snuck into Elbaf and realized they were CP0, the shield of the Celestial Dragons.

As the world's strongest intelligence agency, every member of CP0 has the strength to defeat an adult Giant with ease, being worth a thousand men.

With your recently acquired Haki, victory is impossible.]

[Mission: Awaken the Giants and assist them in repelling the CP Organization members. (Completed)]

[Mission Reward: Paramecia-type · Mini Fruit.]

Magnus hadn't expected that he had only killed one CP0 agent, and the remaining CP0 agents had fled without his further involvement in the battle.

After the mission settlement, it was actually considered completed by him?

And the Fleet Admirals, who were clearly more dangerous, not only didn't trigger a mission, but the system heavily mocked him after he repelled Rona.

[Marineford Calendar Year 1480, December 7th, you, who commit all evils, beat up a retired old lady. The old lady vowed that she would definitely find someone to get her revenge.]

Now Magnus understood why the system didn't trigger a mission.

It turned out that in the system's eyes, Rona was no threat at all.

However, after more than half a year of interacting with the system, Magnus had gotten used to its idiotic level. If the system reward for repelling CP0 was changed to repelling an Fleet Admiral, wouldn't that be more reasonable?

Magnus felt a bit regretful. If he hadn't just killed one CP0, but had kept all those CP0 alive, the system's reward might have changed from a Paramecia-type Devil Fruit to a Logia-type or a Mythical Zoan-type.

At least it would definitely be rarer.

After all, Paramecia-type Devil Fruits all had the problem of difficult development, and most Paramecia-type Devil Fruits didn't have a high ceiling.

Logia-types and Mythical Zoans were different.

Logia-types were outstanding for their stability. Unless Haki or Seastone were used, or ways were found to specifically counter the Logia element, there was no way to harm the user of a Logia-type Devil Fruit.

It could be said that their lower limit was extremely high.

As for Mythical Zoan-type Devil Fruits, looking at Magnus as an example, they could raise a person's growth ceiling, even touching the threshold of that legend.

But this was only for ordinary people.

For the Giant race, the Paramecia-type Mini Fruit was definitely one of the most practical fruits. Besides the disadvantage of not being able to swim, the Mini Fruit could perfectly leverage the Giants' advantage of great strength and avoid their disadvantage of large size.

Seeing the Devil Fruit in Magnus's hand, Harald was silent for a long time before reaching out.

"Thanks, our Giant race will remember this."

"Wait!"

Seeing Harald reach out, Magnus quickly retracted the hand holding the fruit.

"Who said this fruit was for you?"

"Then you..."

"This fruit, of course, is for my most important crewmate!"

Magnus glared at Harald, then placed the Mini Fruit into Ripley's hand.

"Although Ripley is my crewmate, she is also a part of your Elbaf. With Ripley's help to rescue those two kids, there shouldn't be a problem, right?"

The three CP0 agents who infiltrated the Giant village were not weak, but after continuous pursuit, and then facing the Giants' chase for half a day, they had also clashed with several Giants and sustained not minor injuries.

Now their strength couldn't even be half of their usual.

If Ripley, after eating the Mini Fruit, could sneak in and catch them off guard, she would have a chance to deal with the three CP0 agents without harming the two children.

And this was also a training opportunity that Magnus was creating for Ripley.

Ripley, who had always lived in Elbaf, although she had been trained by the Giants, lacked real combat experience.

What Magnus wanted were companions who could fight alongside him, not delicate flowers that he had to worry about all the time.

"Ripley, can you do it?"

Looking at the fruit in Magnus's hand and feeling his trust in her, Ripley nodded heavily.

"Yes!"

"I will definitely bring Gulz and Haierdin back safely!"