"Shane."
The Heaven-Reaching Tree was still continuing what it had been saying.
It seemed unable to understand why Shane, a human, could unleash so many different powers.
The key was just how many layers Devil Fruits had, and how, in Shane's hands, they could display these unprecedented abilities.
The Heaven-Reaching Tree was puzzled. After all, it had absorbed all the negative power in this world and should, in theory, have surpassed the limits of what any Devil Fruit could hold. How could Shane gain power beyond its own with just a few Devil Fruits?
In reality, however, these pure powers gave the Heaven-Reaching Tree its strength as the Devil Tree, granting it many abilities, but without a central entity like Shane, it could not push the power of Devil Fruits any further.
Imagination!
The Heaven-Reaching Tree's greatest mistake had been devouring Imu, letting itself unleash power indiscriminately. It seemed to have won, but had actually put itself at a disadvantage. It had lost a brain capable of thought, leaving it with nothing but simple, overwhelming power.
Meanwhile.
Uranus had also lost its operator. Its original master, Imu, had fallen because the Heaven-Reaching Tree believed neither Uranus nor Imu was of any use in attacking Shane.
As a result, Uranus's connection had also been severed, and it had become Shane's power in an instant.
In the Heaven-Reaching Tree's judgment, Shane posed no threat to it even with Uranus's power. That thing could not harm either of them.
Absolutely rational and operating only for battle and survival, the Heaven-Reaching Tree now lacked its most important component. It had become a great tree with nothing but power, a mindless beast before Shane that would sooner or later be slaughtered.
This flesh and blood was the most extraordinary thing in the world. Once Shane