Birth

The moment Ye Mu spoke, John froze.

Having only just obtained a Devil Fruit, he did not know much about things like the limits of Devil Fruit abilities. But his years of experience at sea still made him think of something.

"You mean Devil Fruit awakening?"

"Awakening? That works too! Awakening is, in a sense, the limit of a Devil Fruit. But unfortunately, that is not what I mean."

John could not understand at all, but fortunately, Ye Mu did not keep him in suspense.

He raised his flame-covered right arm and said,

"The first Devil Fruit I ate was the Flame-Flame Fruit, a power that could turn a person into fire. Ever since I ate it, one question had troubled me. Fire, in every theory of how the world was created, was one of the strongest existences, one of the most fundamental powers that made up the world. Whether it was the theory of four elements—earth, water, wind, and fire—or the five elements of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth, even in myths and legends, the god of fire was one of the strongest deities. Yet such a powerful ability was actually inferior to mere magma. That confused me greatly. So I kept trying to develop this fruit's power, hoping to surpass magma and prove that the so-called hierarchy of Devil Fruits was complete nonsense."

At this point, John seemed to understand something. As a pirate, he had dealt with that Marine with the Magma-Magma Fruit before.

"And now, after possessing the Flame-Flame Fruit for ten years, I think I have developed its power to the point where it surpasses the Magma-Magma Fruit. Yet I still discovered that the flames of the Flame-Flame Fruit seemed different from what I understood."

"Logically, the essence of fire in nature should be