Noah leaves Turtle Island.
Piloting the Nautilus, we rapidly approached the Auckland Kingdom on the third route of the Paradise.
He traveled to this kingdom because the divination results for this month indicated that a Devil Fruit was located within the Auckland Kingdom.
Three days later.
The snow-covered Auckland Island.
Noah and his group, bundled up in down jackets, braved the Blizzard to ski towards a small town on Auckland Island.
Auckland Island, where the Auckland Kingdom is located, is a winter island. Except for the area near the western volcano, where crops can be grown for about six months each year, the rest of the year is covered in ice and snow.
Noah and the others landed in the uninhabited southeastern part of Auckland Island, about 46 kilometers from the Auckland City near the crater.
Just after the group passed through a coniferous forest.
They saw a cluster of wooden houses and sailboats moored in the bay.
Upon hearing Noah and his companions arrive, the owner of the cabin immediately pushed open the door and rushed out, glaring at Noah with hostility.
"Who are you? Are you pirates trying to steal the flag again?"
As soon as he finished speaking, the middle-aged man, whose body was as fat as a balloon, emitted a bright red heat from his entire body.
"Huh? This state..." Noah looked at the middle-aged man in surprise, but before he could continue speaking, the middle-aged man rushed over.
"Go, Dad!" A pair of twin youths cheered from a distance.
There was also a boy with a pointed chin and a girl with light purple hair, who were also shouting and yelling.
"Dad! Defeat these pirates..."
"Hehehe, I wonder if there's any treasure..."
Unfortunately, they will soon be disappointed.
Noah gently clenched his hands, and instantly the surrounding ice and snow transformed into terrifying, gigantic ice pythons that swarmed and attacked the middle-aged man.
"This ability?" The middle-aged man's expression changed.
Soon his body was surrounded by ice and snow, but he did not panic. As his body temperature soared, the surrounding ice and snow quickly melted into water vapor.
Boom! The water vapor expanded and exploded, blasting apart the surrounding ice.
But the next second, the ice and snow enveloped it again.
The two fought like this, each trying to take turns attacking the other, from noon until evening.
On the icy plain as the sun sets, the middle-aged man, who has once again melted the ice and snow, is covered in sweat, his chest heaving as he gasps for air.
Noah, however, showed no signs of fatigue whatsoever.
So what if your body temperature can reach 10,000 degrees Celsius? Devil Fruit abilities still require physical exertion, especially maintaining a high temperature state, which increases the physical exertion exponentially.
Noah's Float-Float Fruit ability consumes very little physical strength. At this pace, he could withstand fighting for ten days and ten nights.
The reason it took so long was because Noah was just messing around. Otherwise, a Conqueror's Haki attack combined with a series of Railgun shots could have instantly killed his opponent.
At this point, the middle-aged man finally realized that Noah was playing a trick on him, but he was powerless to resist.
"Hoo hoo... I won't give up..."
Suddenly, the middle-aged man sprinted forward, dashing towards his five children while shouting as he ran:
"Children... whoosh... run away..."
"What are you running away from?" Kuro was now standing behind the twins, asked, adjusting his glasses.
In an instant, the middle-aged man felt as if he had fallen into an icy abyss.
Soon, the middle-aged man, exhausted, was bound by Noah's ice python, while Kuro kindly "persuaded" the man's five children to stay.
Inside the wooden house.
Noah pressed the middle-aged man down into a chair.
"Can we sit down and have a proper talk now?"
"What?" The middle-aged man was stunned for a moment, then asked incredulously, "You beat me up for so long just to talk to me?"
"I don't like communicating with people who have a bad temper, so I'm trying to calm you down. You don't mind, do you?"
"Heh..." The middle-aged man's face twisted, his fists clenched. If he weren't outmatched, he would have loved to punch this bastard to pieces.
Noah wasn't going to put up with that, and threw a ball of seawater at him.
The middle-aged man, drenched in seawater, felt even weaker.
"Are you calmer now? Do you need to try to sober up a bit more?"
"No need, no need..." The middle-aged man now desperately wanted to be a hero.
The middle-aged man quickly revealed the entire situation of his family.
The middle-aged man's name is Don Accino, and he is Paramecia Devil Fruit User. To be precise, this fruit should be called the Hot Body Fruit, which is different from the Heat-Heat Fruit that Noah retrieved from Oven.
Oven's Heat-Heat Fruit be called the Heat Energy Fruit, because he can release the heat energy within his body.
Don Accino's Heat-Heat Fruit can only heat his own body, but he can regulate his body temperature between 1 and 10,000 degrees Celsius.
Both fruits have their own merits.
Accino's five children are: Don Campachino (22 years old), Don Brandi (22 years old), Don Hockey (15 years old), Don Alber (18 years old), and Don Lilo (10 years old).
They are a family of pirate flag hunters operating in the Paradise, belonging to a special type of bounty hunter.
Therefore, Noah did not kill him, but instead considered recruiting him.
In fact, at this time, 41-year-old Don Accino had good potential. With scientific training and the Noah Family's Origin Blood Potion, he could easily reach the level of an elite Elite Vice Admiral Admiral, if not a general.
His five children are also quite capable; if they were to acquire suitable Devil Fruit, their strength would increase dramatically.
After hesitating for a while, Accino accepted Noah's offer.
After all, the scene of Noah easily crushing him was still vivid in his mind. Even if he didn't consider himself, he should at least think about his children.
After Accino agreed to join, Noah revealed his true identity to him and asked Are to send Ray's five children to a training camp for a year.
Whether as a hostage or as part of Noah's sincere training, Accino knew he had no excuse to refuse.
Noah also asked Accino if he had ever found Devil Fruit on Auckland Island.
Accino shook his head. "Lord Noah, if I had discovered Devil Fruit, I would have given them to the children long ago. I also found my Heat-Heat Fruit on my hometown Whisky Island."
"Are you from Whisky Island?"
"Yeah, but I left there a few years ago because I found Crocodile around nearby and was worried the kids would get caught in the crossfire, so I left my hometown."
"I see."
The group rested for the night at the log cabin campsite.
Early the next morning.
Noah then led them on their continued journey to find the Devil Fruit.
Since it's an inhabited island, Noah can't just use the Float-Float Fruit's power to search for it; he has to rely on Observation Haki and electromagnetic wave scanning.
However, Observation Haki and electromagnetic wave sensing have limitations. For example, things hidden underground are difficult to detect.
Noah now only hopes that the fruit won't be buried underground.