One Piece: Honey Badger Speedruns the World

boom--!!!

This time, the lightning strike was no longer the previous purplish-black color, but a pure black that evoked despair.

"puff!"

Goss didn't even have time to scream before his entire body stiffened instantly.

The jet-black lightning bolt was like a sharp sword, shattering his skull, piercing his spine, and finally exploding from his tail, creating a charred crater in the floor beneath him.

[Possessed by a hungry ghost!]

The hungry ghosts within the body did not cease their existence due to the host's impending death; instead, they unleashed an even more terrifying will to survive in the face of annihilation.

It frantically drained every last bit of energy from Gos's body to repair the shattered shell.

sizzle...

Visibly, Goss's muscles, which had just swelled up from eating, shrank instantly.

The fat was burned off, the muscles dissolved, and even the bone marrow was drained to serve as fuel to replenish life.

In the blink of an eye.

The once incredibly robust Goss has instantly transformed into a black, dried-up corpse covered only in skin and bones!

His mouth was wide open, his eyes were sunken, and he looked like a mummy that had been dead for thousands of years, still frozen in a biting position.

"The ship, Captain!" Thornton was so frightened that he dropped the meat in his hand, and his vertical pupils shrank to slits.

"Brother!!" Mia let out a heart-wrenching scream.

"Quick! Stuff him with meat! He's not dead yet!!"

Although Mia was terrified, she remembered what her brother had just said—as long as there was meat, she could live.

She frantically grabbed every piece of meat she could get her hands on.

Thornton also realized what was happening, and even picked up the whole wild boar that had just been roasted and weighed a full two hundred pounds. Without thinking twice, and without even bothering to cut it into pieces, he just shoved it into Goss's wide-open mouth.

"Eat! Captain, please eat! I'm begging you!"

However, Goss's throat was dry and sticky, making it impossible for him to swallow.

At this critical moment.

Tick.

Because of the extremely high energy of that lightning bolt, coupled with the prolonged current overload.

The "ancient coil" that Goss was holding tightly in his mouth had its gelatinous part melt.

A drop of golden, honey-like, viscous substance, exuding a chilling, ancient marine aroma, flowed down the bone fragments.

It slid over Goss's charred teeth, dripped onto his dry tongue, and then slid down his throat.

boom!

The body, which was already on the verge of exhaustion, began to greedily devour the energy the moment it came into contact with the drop of golden gel.

Glug glug...

As Soton and Mia frantically stuffed in the roasted meat as a base, the drop of golden liquid rapidly spread throughout Goss's body.

A miraculous scene unfolded.

Goss's throat, the part that was originally used for speaking and swallowing.

Enveloped in golden energy, it began to wriggle, proliferate, and reorganize violently.

Muscle fibers were torn apart, and a completely new, pale blue glandular tissue, never before seen in the honey badger species, was forming deep in his throat through rapid division.

It was a pouch.

A special organ filled with complex bioelectric circuits, capable of autonomously producing, storing, and compressing high-voltage charges, much like that ancient sea monster.

[The Fruits of the Six Paths: Animal Path - The Furnace of Myriad Forms]

Form is inherently uncertain; appearance arises from the mind.

[Remove the dragon's horns to mend the worm's flaws.]

[Extract the marrow of a phoenix, and replace it with the blood of a human.]

All things in heaven and earth are the elixir of immortality.

All living beings are but shells, ultimately existing outside my own body.

"Cough...cough cough!!!"

Goss, who looked like a dried-up corpse, suddenly started coughing violently.

Along with the cough, a blinding blue spark of electricity shot out from deep within his throat, instantly turning a piece of roasted meat in front of him into charcoal.

"He's alive! He's alive!!"

Thornton wept with joy, his crocodile tears splattering onto the floor.

Goss's body began to refill at a visible rate.

But this time, the energy came not only from the muscles, but also from that hot new organ in the throat.

He slowly opened his eyes.

Deep within his pupils, a faint blue electric pattern appeared.

Goss touched his neck, which was thicker than before, and if you touched it carefully, you could feel a slightly pulsating lump under the skin, which seemed to contain violent thunder.

"cough……"

He opened his mouth, intending to speak, but involuntarily emitted a low-frequency buzzing sound similar to an electric current.

sizzle...

Countless tiny electric arcs no longer came from the outside, but instead flowed out autonomously from the sac in his throat, winding around his teeth in his mouth.

Goss was stunned for a moment, then felt the effects of the new organ. His lips gradually parted, revealing a wildly ecstatic, almost ferocious smile.

Ordinary fur-bearers can only generate external electricity through body friction. But I...

He picked up the remaining bone fragments, which had no lightning power whatsoever, and looked at the completely disappeared binding gel.

Then, in a muffled but powerful voice, carrying the pressure of the deep sea, he said:

"Soton, Mia..."

"I think I might have evolved something... incredible."

He opened his mouth, aiming at a huge, uneaten leg bone beside him. The "thunder sac" in his throat suddenly contracted.

"roar!!"

It wasn't a roar. Instead, a burst of high-voltage lightning bolts erupted from his mouth, instantly turning the leg bone into charred remains.

Goss lowered his head and looked at his hands.

His black and white honey badger fur was now standing upright, defying gravity.

Tiny blue arcs of electricity danced at the tip of each hair.

He looked like a bristling hedgehog, and the air reeked of burning.

With the slightest movement, static electricity crackles and pops from his body; if anyone dares to touch him now, they'll definitely get a severe shock.

"call……"

Goss tried to channel the electrical current in his body into his fist, just as Roddy had taught him, to create a swirling strike.

*Splat*

A faint, pitiful blue halo flickered on his fist, then went out like a faulty light bulb.

Goss frowned, a hint of displeasure flashing in his eyes.

"That's not enough?"

Although that "thunder breath" looked intimidating, directly carbonizing the leg bone, it seemed to be the new organ's instinctive reaction to release excess energy.

He only discovered the problem when he tried to actively control this power for precise combat.

The normal voltage he is currently releasing is pitifully weak.

Not to mention comparing him to top-tier experts like Captain Pedro, who can wrap lightning around a blade without diminishing its power, he's far inferior even to Roddy, that big water buffalo.

If Pedro's static electricity was a rushing river, then his current static electricity is at best a leaky faucet.

"No...that's not right."

Goss closed his eyes, carefully feeling the sensation of the electric current flowing through the newly formed nerve circuits in his body.

This kind of lightning is fundamentally different from the natural static electricity generated by fur-bearing tribes through rubbing their fur.

Static electricity in fur-bearing animals is a gentle form of external energy.

His power, however, was entirely derived from the life energy within his body.

It was more like a surge of lightning-attribute energy coursing through his body before finally returning to his lightning sac.

Goss vaguely felt that both the power and the amount of lightning stored could be improved through training.

If we can control it, we'll have another trump card in tomorrow's friendly match.

Goss looked up at the setting sun outside the window, and a sense of urgency he had never felt before welled up in his heart.

Tomorrow morning at six o'clock, the time of day and night transition, the shift change between the Knights and the Musketeers, and the "Newcomer Friendship Match" will officially begin at that time.

Goss clenched his fist, which was still crackling with electricity, feeling the unruly thunder within him, his eyes fierce.

"I only have less than twelve hours left..."