Dawn of Pirates

December.

Winter has entered in the North Sea.

The island where Payne and the others are currently located has long been covered with a thick layer of snow.

Orochimaru, who was a little unhappy with Payne before, had already been attracted by the mysterious chakra and had no time to pay attention to Payne.

As the development and research of chakra and ninjutsu deepens.

Payne and his team are becoming more and more powerful.

Take the battle currently going on.

"Water escapes, big water rushes into waves"

Kisame has a natural affinity for water-type chakra that no one can match, and his chakra volume far exceeds that of Pain and others.

Any water attribute ninjutsu is as simple as using his arms and fingers. You must know that water escape consumes the most chakra.

As Kisame completed his hand seals, the water vapor in the air was completely mobilized by Kisame.

The water flow, which was several meters high and wide, appeared out of thin air and rushed forward with great turbulence.

Moreover, Kisame's feet were wrapped in chakra, and he rushed forward as if he were surfing on the current.

Opposite him was Itachi dressed in black.

He watched Kisame charge towards him with a huge stream of water, and he didn't panic at all.

A few brief seals and knots, and then a slap on the ground.

"Lei Dun, go ground"

A large amount of electricity surged out from Itachi's palm, forming a grid that spread toward the water flow. Although the current is not much, it is very solid.

It can be seen that in just four months, although Itachi's chakra amount is not much, his control over chakra is also very good.

And if this move hits Kisame, even with the strong physique of the Kisame human race, his whole body will be paralyzed for a while.

So Kisame jumped up from the water decisively, and slashed hard at Itachi's head with the Samehada in his hand.

"just right"

Itachi shouted lowly and quickly formed seals on his hands again.

"Art fire escape ho fireball"

A huge fireball erupted from Itachi's mouth, covering all the directions Kisame could turn in the air.

"Brother Itachi, ninjutsu is ineffective against me. Don't you know this?"

However, Kisame didn't dodge and slashed directly at the fireball.

In the blink of an eye, the fireball had been absorbed by Samehada.

After completing this, Kisame lost Itachi's figure.

"behind"

Hearing the sudden sound of wind behind him, Kisame's body immediately twisted forcefully in the air.

Samehada was thrown heavily behind him.

"when"

The sound of the dagger and Samehada colliding was heard.

The two of them flew to both sides.

"The art of magic shackles."

Itachi's eyes turned red, and the two black magatama moved rapidly.

At this moment, Kisame suddenly felt as if his body was driven into his limbs by several huge nails. No matter how much he resisted, he still couldn't move at all.

But in the blink of an eye, Kisame felt his right hand go cold, and the feeling of being nailed all over disappeared.

When he came back to his senses, he realized that the Samehada in his hand was looking back at him worriedly. It turned out that it was the Samehada that was constantly transferring chakra to Kisame, which disrupted the genjutsu Itachi had exerted on Kisame.

"Thanks, Samehada." He patted Samehada gently to reassure him.

Kisame then turned to look at Itachi and gave him a big finger.

After spending the past few months together, Kisame was very optimistic about Itachi, a taciturn boy.

Talented and hardworking enough.

This is the passport to becoming strong.

"Awesome, Brother Itachi. Your abilities have become stronger again."

Kisame was talking about the ability Itachi used just now.

That was the ability Itachi gained from eating a Devil Fruit, which Orochimaru said was a cursed Devil Fruit.

A devil fruit that controls illusions.

Moreover, as Itachi mixed chakra into his abilities, his use of illusions became more satisfactory, and theoretically the intensity of illusions became more powerful.

However, the Samehada on Kisame's hand was too restrained to attack with this kind of energy situation.

"It's the same, you've become stronger, my abilities are of no use to you." Itachi refused to accept Kisame's compliments, and also acknowledged Kisame's strength out loud.

"Hahaha, thank you to Samehada for that. Without him, I wouldn't be able to resist your genjutsu." Kisame laughed and passed Itachi's praise on to Samehada.

Yes, Uchiha Itachi.

The only survivor of the Uchiha clan in Wano Country.

What he ate was the devil fruit passed down from generation to generation by the Uchiha clan, the superhuman Sharingan fruit.

This devil fruit will appear in the hands of the next generation of family members only after the death of the previous generation of the Uchiha family.

And now, with the addition of chakra, Itachi's illusion ability will definitely far exceed that of the ancestors of the Uchiha clan.

At this time, Orochimaru, Pain and Konan who were watching the battle came over.

"Very good, Pain-kun. Although chakra is difficult to cultivate, the reputation of you chosen by it will definitely resound throughout the sea." Orochimaru made a concluding speech.

During this time, Pain and Orochimaru gave up their hiatus and continued to research, develop and experiment with chakra.

Orochimaru is a genius. In just a few months, he was able to figure out the sealing methods and chakra operation rules of some advanced ninjutsu from Payne's brief and vague description.

This is also the reason why Kisame can use advanced ninjutsu such as large water waves.

Moreover, Orochimaru also conducted several experiments.

In just three months, Pain and Orochimaru captured more than a dozen named pirates with Devil Fruit abilities in the North Sea.

This made the pirates in the entire North Sea panic, fearing that they might accidentally encounter Payne and the others.

And these Devil Fruit ability users have all become experimental materials in Orochimaru's laboratory.

He discovered that only people who ate Superman-type Devil Fruits and people like Orochimaru who ate animal-type Phantom Beast Devil Fruits had the capital to practice chakra. Of course, due to the scarcity of natural materials, they could not find them, so they put them on hold for the time being.

Moreover, the efficiency of most guys in refining chakra is extremely low.

It's so low that even if they practice chakra for several years, they still can't use a complete ninjutsu.

And a small number, like Pain and the others, can refine chakra extremely quickly.

That's the difference in talent.

In addition, the two of them discussed not to pass on the ninjutsu to others rashly.

Unless Pain or Orochimaru are prepared to put their lives on the line.

In addition, Orochimaru is also studying the use of waste to inject the platinum-lead disease virus into those experimental subjects.

It was later discovered that those with animal fruit abilities would accelerate the reproduction rate of this virus, thus greatly speeding up the onset of platinum lead disease.

Among the superhuman type fruit power users, there is a special form of power user that can separate the body like a natural type. However, he can directly separate and discard most viruses through his power.

And it was only a few days after Orochimaru discovered this phenomenon.

Letters came again from the Don Quixote family.

Seeing that everyone's mood didn't change much, Orochimaru continued: "So, I'm ready to leave."

"Aren't you going to come together?" Itachi asked aloud.

"No, my dream now is to find the truth about chakra. I have no interest in other things now.

But you are different, Mr. Itachi, you have the talent to become a strong person, but the prerequisite is that you have to keep fighting. Follow Pain-kun and the others, I look forward to the time when your fame will resound throughout the sea. "Hehehehe" Orochimaru laughed and patted Itachi on the shoulder.

Then he looked at Payne and the others and smiled softly.

Finally, Orochimaru took out a piece of white paper, tore off half of it and handed it to Pain.

"Penn-kun, this is my life paper. If you make new progress in the development of chakra in the future, you can follow its instructions and come to me."

"Okay, I understand." Payne nodded calmly. He had talked with Orochimaru a few days ago. Orochimaru said that after losing his hands, he no longer had the ability to fight, and now he could only explore the truth of the world.

The study of mysterious chakra is the first step to explore the world.

And Payne also agreed. In the past few months, Payne has seen how enthusiastic Orochimaru is about chakra research, and what a genius he is at the same time, so Payne is happy to interact with Orochimaru when he has the opportunity. Confirms the theories about chakra and ninjutsu.

"Sa, gentlemen, see you later."

Orochimaru jumped up and disappeared from everyone's sight.

Before leaving, Orochimaru left a message: "Xonan, you must read the books I gave you carefully. It will definitely be good for your physical recovery in the future."

"Mr. Orochimaru, thank you."

Konan thanked loudly in the direction where Orochimaru disappeared.