East Blue.
Somewhere in the sea.
Ron and Nami are on the ship.
After receiving the award for Arlong's head, Ron's total wealth still reached three hundred million belli. Achievement "All that lies bad" was received, the award was 2 OD.
After adding OD to the spirit characteristic, it reached 49 units, one step to 50 units.
Now Ron was focused on meditation, developing spiritual strength. He also considered other East Blue pirates with a reward of more than ten million bellies.
The wealth and rewards of these pirates are not interested in Ron, why then he is aimed at them? Because there's an achievement on the list of "Defeat of the East Blue."
His condition is that five pirates must behead with a reward of more than ten million bellies.
Now Ron has already killed three pirates in charge of the condition, there are two more, for Ron it is not a problem.
With its current strength, it is free to move around the East Blue and meet the necessary conditions for achievement, but it will take time. It is this time Ron uses to develop spiritual power.
At this point.
Ron sits on the stern of the ship, his eyes closed. The magic wand floats quietly over his knees and lowers the soft glow.
In Ron's spiritual world, there is absolute silence. No thoughts arise. No distractions. It's like a dead universe.
This is a normal state during meditation. The spiritual space is slowly expanding. The rate of expansion is extremely low, but it happens.
Ron doesn't know why meditation has such an effect.
All he knows is that during meditation his spiritual strength grows slowly and steadily. He cannot understand where this additional part comes from, perhaps the energy is drawn from the outside world or it is the growth arising from internal processes and changes in the spirit.
If the first, it can be called the absorption and preservation of energy. But if this is the second, it means that in the spirit there is a creation of energy.
As for the answer to this question, Ron leans more towards the second.
The process of forming magic is the union of rune with spiritual power, then there is the formation of an element and release. Magic does not emerge from nothing, it is formed by converting intangible spiritual energy into material. But the very existence of runes, which serve as the basis of this transformation, defies reasonable explanation.
Perhaps the essence of the world is that matter forms the spirit, theoretically any matter and energy can be a product of the transformation of the spirit.
The stronger his spirit becomes, the more Ron feels it.
He may realize this because the existence of his spirit is becoming more and more real. It seems that he is gradually becoming a creature beyond matter and can gradually look deeper and deeper into the essence of the world.
In the moment of these reflections.
Zing.
An incredibly clear sound sounded deep in Ron's mind.
As if he had broken the shackles of his spirit, his body began to feel incredibly light. He began to soar and rose into the air.
"It turns out..."
Ron's calmness was broken, his thoughts began to waver. He is stunned and surprised looking down. It turns out his body did not take off, but the spirit left the flesh.
The spirit hovers in the air. He can see his flesh sitting on his lap. He can see his magic wand.
Ron focused on the magic wand, his look as if pulled her handle. Its material is amazing, incredibly dense and homogeneous structure of the tree. This material seems to be part of the truth that shapes the world. Just glancing Ron completely drowned in a magic wand.
But before Ron could see more, he suddenly felt a tremor in his soul. There was a lot of pain in my head.
Next point.
Ron's spirit forcibly returned to the body, he coughed heavily, blood driped from his nose.
"Cough!"
Ron covered his nose with his hand, the other hand clung to the temple. Before his eyes everything began to darken and he fell on his side.
It took about ten minutes, Ron came to his senses and rubbing whiskey slowly sat down. My head was still aching.
Although the spirit is in a precarious state, Ron has already vaguely realized what is happening.
At that moment his characterization of the spirit reached 50 units!
When this happened, his spirit left the flesh and looked at the world from a normally inaccessible perspective. At that moment he was able to look into the handle of a magic wand, in a branch of the world tree, it was tantamount to looking into the essence of the world and seeing its secrets.
The thing associated with the essence of the world is not something he can touch now. Even if it is just a branch of the world tree, there is no more branch branch, its spirit instantly suffered and was returned back to the body.
"Feeling... unusual..."
The world before Ron gradually normalizes and no longer darkens.
Although there was no longer a sense of separation of the spirit from the physical body, but at this time it still felt completely different than before, it is impossible to describe in words.
His eyes showed a sense of insecurity. He stood up slowly, looked at the sea in front of him, climbed the railing, and took a step forward.
Didn't fall down.
Ron just hangs in the air, hovering over the sea.
"It's..."
During the levitation, Ron looked down at the sea and the uncertainty in his eyes disappeared, instead there was surprise and excitement.
Not the flesh gained the ability to fly. His spirit has become something material, he can wrap his body and make him soar in the air!
"It means..."
Ron took a deep breath, turned to the railing, and his eyes flashed for a moment.
Bach!
Nothing happened, but there was a crack on the railings.
Seeing the crack, Ron smiled. He made no mistake, this feeling, the spiritual power really becomes material!
After reaching 50 units, the spirit is no longer imaginary as before, now it is capable of direct intervention in matter!
"But consumption is high."
Ron returned to the board and touched the crack on the railing.
By creating it, he lost almost a tenth of his body of spiritual strength. To be clear, even without relying on a magic wand, this spiritual power is enough to release the reinforced magic of the wind of the 1st order multiple blade of the wind!
Simply roughly grouping spiritual power and attacking, it is impossible to compare with the action of the rune, which converts spiritual energy with maximum efficiency.
The difference between them is similar to the difference between a fist and a machine gun.
The first way is simply the rough use of energy, and the latest product of science and deep research.
"While it's not appropriate for a direct attack, but at least I can solve the mobility problem, flying doesn't require so much energy."
Ron calculated the advantages, took off again and flew around the ship.
In the ship's cabin. Nami sits at the table, looks out the window humming a light melody ... suddenly in the window there was a flying figure of Ron.
"What?"
We jumped up, she could not realize what was happening and rubbed her eyes.
I looked out the window again, Ron was still flying there, his eyes widened even more.
"What??!!"