Makino said, "Does casting time magic consume a lot of stamina?"
Whitey Bay said, "Generally speaking, the stronger an ability is, the more stamina it consumes. It's only natural that Ain would be worried about that."
Kalifa said, "Some people need a long cooldown period after using a powerful technique."
Stussy said, "But judging by Ultear Milkovich, she seems to be casting time magic very easily."
Yamato said, "Could it be because time magic is actually 'zero four zero' and doesn't consume much stamina?"
Kozuki Hiyori said, "But is that possible? When Mother used her time-related ability, it always consumed a great deal of energy, and she could only use it a few times in her entire life. After using it once, she had to wait a very long time before she could gather enough strength to use it again."
Hina said, "Could it be that Ultear Milkovich herself has incredible stamina… or perhaps magic power, which is why she can cast time magic so easily and continuously?"
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"Arton, am I going to burn through all my stamina just by using even a little bit of time magic?"
Ain raised her head, looking worried.
"It's normal for you to think that way, Ain."
"The time magic Ultear Milkovich uses, Arc of Time, is a type of Lost Magic."
"Using this kind of magic doesn't only require talent. Naturally, it also requires a large reserve of magic power."
"In your terms, that means you'd need enough stamina to sustain it."
Arton continued, "That's right."
Ain pursed her lips, feeling even more worried.
"But you don't have to worry too much."
"One of Ultear Milkovich's major traits is that she possesses powerful magic reserves."
"When she was little, she even became gravely ill because she couldn't control the enormous magic power she was born with."
"If Ultear Milkovich's quantified template integrates into your body, I think it should directly provide you with a significant boost in stamina as well."
Arton said this with a smile.
All joking aside, magic reserves were a major trait of Ultear Milkovich.
Arton didn't believe that after she was converted into a template, the template wouldn't include that characteristic.
Based on Arton's understanding of his own system, any trait a template's original possessed would either be sealed intact inside the template or slightly modified to better fit the world of sailing, then handed over to Arton so he could pass it on to the person suited for that template.
If Ultear Milkovich's template didn't include the trait of giving its user enough magic power…
Arton would really have to start wondering whether there was something wrong with his system, causing that sort of situation to happen every now and then.
"There's actually something like that!"
Ain's eyes lit up as she looked at Arton in surprise.
Only after seeing Arton nod again did she finally relax.
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Hina said, "Ain's luck is really good. I didn't expect Ultear Milkovich to have that kind of trait too."
Smoothie said, "In that case, after Ain obtains Ultear Milkovich's template, she won't have to worry too much about the consumption problem when using time magic, right?"
Kujaku said, "How awful. I'm getting more and more jealous of the people around Arton. Why won't Arton join the Marines? If he were willing to join the Marines, letting him have a little taste of my tofu wouldn't be out of the question."
Gion sighed. "Ugh, why didn't we keep Arton back then? If I'd just had a relationship with him myself, would he have been willing to join the Marines?"
Doll said, "With Arton's personality, even if one of us had directly gotten a little too intimate with him, there's no way we could have truly invited him into the Marines. After all, that man hates the World Nobles to the bone."
Domino said, "If you're going to blame anyone, blame that World Noble who fired on Arton back then."
Chapter 681 – Ain Needs to Recognize the Template's Weaknesses
"That's wonderful."
Ain patted her own chest and murmured to herself.
She truly hadn't expected that, aside from magic that controlled and created ice and magic that controlled time, Ultear also possessed a constitution with powerful magic reserves.
And once that constitution merged into her body along with the template, it might even give her more stamina.
It was practically tailor-made for her.
After all, she had joined Arton's pirate crew just a little later than the others.
Even though she was already working very hard now, compared to people like Nami and Carina, who had joined the Arton Pirates early on, the gap was still far, far too great.
And even Nami, Carina, and the others still couldn't truly stand on their own and clash head-on with an admiral-level powerhouse.
If even Nami and Carina couldn't do it, then there was even less need to mention Ain herself.
Ain knew very well that if she wanted to help Zephyr-sensei in the future, she wouldn't be strong enough without power on the level of a Marine admiral.
In fact, even having power on par with an admiral might still not be enough.
After all, Zephyr-sensei planned to make an enemy of the entire Marine Headquarters in the future.
And not just the Marines. If the Four Emperors found out that Zephyr-sensei intended to use Dyna Stones to destroy the entire New World, they would definitely regard him as an enemy too.
With that possibility in mind, how could Ain not worry about Zephyr-sensei's future? How could she not want to obtain even greater power?
Now that Ultear could directly provide her with powerful stamina, how could Ain possibly not be happy?
Ain clearly remembered that one of the traits of Tsunade's template was her extremely broad bosom.
Since Kaya had inherited Tsunade's template and, along with its power, had inherited Tsunade's generous chest as well…
Then surely Ain could inherit Ultear's template and, along with it, inherit Ultear's trait of having enormous magic reserves.
Thinking of that, Ain couldn't help excitedly saying to Arton in front of her, "Captain, I'm ready. Please let me have Miss Ultear's power right now."
Hearing that, Arton smiled and patted Ain's little head, stroking her soft, smooth hair.
"Ain, I know you're in a hurry, but don't get ahead of yourself."
"Ultear's power demonstration still isn't over."
"Before you inherit this power, why don't you take a proper look at all of its traits?"
Faced with Arton's smile, Ain nodded a little sheepishly.
That was right. Arton still hadn't fully finished showing off Ultear's power yet, so how could she be so anxious and ask him to hand Ultear's template over to her?
Realizing she'd made a fool of herself, Ain's face instantly turned bright red.
Arton had no intention of laughing at Ain. He understood the appeal of his templates, and he also knew just how badly Ain wanted to possess one.
Ain acting like this now was still within Arton's expectations.
Arton looked toward the place where Ultear and her junior fellow disciple were facing off, then murmured inwardly:
"Ultear's time magic may be powerful, but it still has weaknesses."
"And I need to make sure Ain fully understands those weaknesses."
"Otherwise, if she runs into trouble later because she doesn't know them when facing an enemy, that would be bad."
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