One Piece Talent System Chapter 350-352

"Mariejois?"

Hearing Robin's words, Ross was slightly surprised and said, "Are you sure?"

The place where Soul-Soul Fruit appeared turned out to be Mariejois. This is probably the worst place in the world. The problem is that his intelligence agency has not penetrated into the World Government. How did they know that Soul-Soul Fruit has appeared in Mariejois?

"It's the World Government's Devil Fruit collection channel."

Robin brought the Den Den Mushi over and put it on the coffee table.

The voice of Deputy Captain Kaku from the intelligence team came from the Den Den Mushi.

"The World Government has been collecting various types of Devil Fruits. The Soul-Soul Fruit is one of the fruits discovered and collected by the World Government. By the time we got the news, it was too late to rob it."

Devil Fruits are one of the fundamental forces in this world, especially those powerful Logia Devil Fruit, who can shape the top power in almost a short time.

For Devil Fruit.

The collection of World governments is undoubtedly more exaggerated than that of any single power.

Ross sometimes even wonders whether Doflamingo got the Flame-Flame Fruit through World Government channels in the original series. After all, as the original tenryubito, he has connections with Gorōsei (Five Elder Stars).

But all of this ended with Doflamingo's death, there is no longer an answer.

"World Government …"

Ross's eyes flashed.

The Soul-Soul Fruit was found by the World Government, and he was not surprised by it. No intelligence agency in the World can be compared to the World Government.

The World Government can even monitor the Yonkō (Four Emperors) forces and there are seagulls flying here and there all the time in Totto Land. Due to the high position, the space is too large to kill them and they are too many, so they can only ignore them.

"Can you be sure that it was sent to Mariejois?"

Ross asked in a deep voice.

Kaku said: "Maybe it's not at Mariejois yet, but it should be almost to the Red Line, and now it's too late for us to rob it halfway."

"I'm very sorry, Lord Ross, if our intelligence was a little faster …"

There was a hint of apology and blame in his tone.

If they had gotten this information half a day ahead of time, they would have the opportunity to snatch the Devil Fruit halfway, but the fact is that they don't even have half a day.

Once the Soul-Soul Fruit enters Holy Land Mariejois, it is equivalent to entering the forbidden area!

Although Fisher Tiger climbed the Red Line and created trouble in the Holy Land many years ago by releasing slaves, the place where the slaves were detained was in the most general outer area guarded by Mariejois forces.

Fisher Tiger just set a fire and opened some cages before fleeing.

Something like a Devil Fruit, especially the Soul-Soul Devil Fruit which belonged to a former Yonkō (Four Emperors), once it is acquired by the World Government, I am afraid that it will be immediately sent to the center of Holy Land Mariejois, to the most guarded treasure house!

There is not only the base camp of CP0 but also the presence of the Fleet Admiral "Steel Bone" Kong and Gorosei (Five Elder Stars)!

No one dared break into there.

Marine Headquarters has been violated and Impel Down has been attacked and broken out from, but only Holy Land Mariejois remained untouched, even Hundred Beast Kaido, has not broken in that place!

Once Hundred Beast Kaido tried to break into Mariejois, but before he could climb the Red Line, he was stopped by the Marine Admirals.

"You don't need to blame yourself."

Ross calmly said, "The government's intelligence agency is far superior to ours. For you to even get the news of Soul-Soul Fruit is a good thing, you have done a good job."

Robin stood with a somber expression on her face, knowing how dangerous Holy Land Mariejois was.

"What are you going to do?"

"It should be obvious by now … I will go to the Holy Land."

Ross sat up straight and took the teacup and took a sip, his eyes showed an unprecedented sharpness and he slowly opened his mouth.

He needs to get the Soul-Soul Fruit.

Even if the said fruit enters Holy Land or enters in the deepest parts of Hell, he will break into the hell and grab it from the devil's claw if he needs to!

It has been more than half a year since the war with Whitebeard. Except for his training, he has been idle for more than half a year.

He couldn't even loosen his bones against his fight with Ace.

This information came at the right time.

Let's see what secrets are hidden inside Holy Land Mariejois!

"You are being reckless."

Robin closed her eyes and spoke.

She is familiar with Ross's character and knows that Ross can't be stopped by anyone when he makes a decision.

"Don't Worry."

Ross touched her chin and raised it gently and said, "Mariejois won't be able to keep me and there's a need to learn more about the real power of the World Government, so we won't be caught by surprise when we go to war with them later."

The World Government knows almost everything about the Yonkō (Four Emperors) Pirates, including information about the Ghost Hand Pirates, but no one knows much about the World Government.

The Void Century.

The Empty Throne.

Im who is above Gorōsei (Five Elder Stars).

CP0 Chief of the previous generation and the current generation … and the previous Fleet Admiral "Steel Bone" Kong who is an Admiral Level Power House…

Everything is unknown and the center of Holy Land Mariejois is always shrouded in mist, like the abyss of hell, no one had dared to invade it and step on it for hundreds of years.

"Huu……"

Knowing that she couldn't stop Ross, Robin exhaled and said, "Wait a minute, I'll organize the World Government information."

Since she can't stop him, she will help Ross in reducing the crisis as much as possible and hand over all the intelligence about Holy Land Mariejois to Ross.

"Good."

Ross nodded.

He has absolute self-confidence in his current strength and ability, but there is no such thing as enough information about your enemy. He should read whatever they have collected so far otherwise he may find himself in a situation where he had entered the Holy Land but couldn't find where the Soul-Soul Fruit is placed.

Half an hour later, Robin returned while holding a few documents.

The document contains the distribution map of Holy Land's Mariejois building structure, as well as information about the Fleet Admiral "Steel Bone" Kong, and other government High-Level officials.

Mariejois's structure is not complicated.

The Red Line traverses the sea, dividing the Grand Line into the first half and the second half, while Mariejois is at the center of the junction.

In the front is the heavily guarded New World G1 branch base, and in the back is Marine Headquarters Marineford. This defensive force is enough to deter countless forces and they dare not invade the Holy Land.

Behind the G1 branch base and in front of Marineford, near the Red Line, there are two huge Red harbors.

Officials from World Government, as well as Marines, boarded the towering Red Line and stepped into Holy Land Mariejois through the special transportation of these harbors.

In front of Mariejois is a huge forest manor with artificial greenery. Deep down in the forest manor is the Pangaea Castle.

That is the core of the power of the World Government!

Gorōsei (Five Elder Stars) and the Chief Fleet Admiral "Steel Bone" Kong almost all stay in the Pangaea Castle, which is also the only place where Marines and government officials are allowed to enter.

Along the Pangaea Castle, it is the Dragon Gate, which leads to Tenryubito's residence. Except for Tenryubito and their slaves and attendants, no one is allowed to enter that place, including Marine Admirals!

"Steel Bone "Kong …"

Ross held the "Steel Bone" Kong information profile in his hands and was lost in thought.

The data shows the achievements of "Steel Bone" Kong. During his time as Marine Admiral, he defeated numerous well-known pirates with strong strength. However, he is now as old as Whitebeard.

"The information about Gorōsei (Five Elder Stars) is completely vacant."

Ross quickly flipped through the material and could not find the specifics of Gorōsei (Five Elder Stars), let alone 'Im'.

At present, I am afraid that there are not many people who know that 'Im' exists, and naturally it cannot appear in the data.

"Yes."

Robin nodded, saying: "Their information is completely unknown, but according to some clues, Gorōsei (Five Elder Stars) should not have any Battle power."

"It's possible," Ross nodded. "And even if they have some power, they're not young, how much they can they fight."

Even if the strength of Gorōsei (Five Elder Stars) has reached the level of a Marine Admiral, they are old now and their power will be inferior in some aspects, their power would be close to Marco and Katakuri.

For people like Marco and Katakuri, Ross can deal with them calmly and smoothly.

But.

All this is only based on the analysis and judgment of data.

The specific situation would only be known once he is inside the Holy Land in person to really confirm it.

Red Line.

Riding the bubble cable car, a group of World Government people were escorting a large number of items as arrived at Port 3 on the edge of Holy Land.

"Finally delivered … the Heavenly Tribute."

Some government officials were relieved to finally reach the harbor.

Escorting the Heavenly Tribute is not a perfectly safe job, although CP0 escorts it all the way but occasionally looting occurs.

And.

The collection of Heavenly Tribute is not a thing that can be accomplished peacefully. Some countries and its people are going through poverty, they can not even afford to eat so it is even more impossible for them to pay the Heavenly Tribute. They are already on the edge of a cliff.

"It was a tough job for you."

A government official spoke to the CP0 member.

The CP0 member waved his hand and said, "It was nothing, now it will be delivered to the World Noble."

"Yes, let me escort you over."

The World Government officials will be returning to the Pangaea Castle and CP0 will perform the remaining transfer work.

Several CP0 people nodded, this is not the first time that they had escorted Heavenly Tribute.

And just then.

A CP0 Captain suddenly looked strangely in one direction.

"What happened?"

The person next to him asked.

CP0 Captain released his Observation Haki to feel everything in that direction but he could not feel anything and shook his head.

"It's nothing……"

Maybe it was a misconception.

Just after the Heavenly Tribute had departed, the Void Distortion suddenly appeared beside some red rock in the direction where that CP0 captain had looked. It was Ross.

He did not choose to invade directly from above Holy Land, because according to the intelligence he had learned, there was some kind of special equipment to monitor real-time situations above Mariejois to prevent anyone from trying to invade and pass from the sky.

Using Light Distortion and Sound Distortion, he moved from the bottom of the sea to the Red Line easily.

However.

He was nearly caught by the CP0's Captain and narrowly escaped detection. Light Distortion and Sound Distortion were unable to escape from Kenbonshoku Haki.

And the only way to avoid Kenbonshoku (Observation) Haki is the trick he just used … To hide inside the Space itself.

Utilizing the ability of Space Distortion to wrap the entire space around him, so that even the Observation Haki can only pass through the Distorted Space and cannot reach Ross' body.

Naturally.

This ability also has its flaws, that is, he also gets trapped in a single position and it is hard for him to move in any direction.

If he wants to move in this state, it is tantamount to maintaining the space that surrounds him like a quilt, while still moving the space ahead of him and around him to move.

Although Ross can do it, but the consumption of stamina is too large and the speed of movement is too slow, so this ability can only be regarded as simple and will only be used to escape detection.

"Heavenly Tribute …"

Ross stared at the direction in which the CP0 and the government officials leaving and there was no fluctuation in his eyes.

He has seen too much about the ugly side of the world, and he will not be moved by this.

Tenryubito has been doing these kinds of things for a long time now and nobody does anything to prevent it because they know that nothing will change.

But now that he is here, the person who will do something about this and more will not be the Revolutionary Army or the Pirate King, it will be him.

He took a step forward.

Ross followed the people who escorted the Heavenly Tribute and quickly passed the artificial green forest in the first half of Mariejois and reached the World Government's center, Pangaea Castle.

This building, which is not so tall gives people a majestic and grandeur feeling even when one looks at it from a distance.

Even MarineHeadquarters, which Ross had destroyed, was no match for the seemingly defenseless Pangaea Castle.

Because it represents the center of the World Government, the supreme power of the World Government stands here.

"Pangaea Castle …"

Ross glanced at the Pangaea Castle, his eyes shimmering slightly.

He did not use his Kenbonshoku (Observation) Haki to perceive the situation, because there is no shortage of strong people who are proficient in Kenbonshoku (Observation) Haki inside that palace. Once he uses Kenbonshoku (Observation) to perceive something, the other party can also discover his existence.

Just to say.

Ross is not afraid of Gorōsei (Five Elder Stars).

Because Gorōsei (Five Elder Stars) are just the top five people among tenryubito. As tenryubito, they possess a large political power, but they don't have much power themself and can only deploy powerhouses to do their bidding.

Will a Tenryubito go to Battle?

No, they won't.

They have no experience of any real fight and they aren't that strong to begin with anyway. Even if they use the government's intelligence department to collect the top Devil Fruit and eat them, they still won't be any stronger than a Marine Admiral.

What really made Ross hesitate was the person hiding behind the scenes.

Why would Doflamingo know that a Surgeon-Surgeon Fruit user can use Perpetual Youth Surgery? There is no doubt that someone must have used this operation in the past.

What happens if a person lives for hundreds of years?

There may be limits to physical fitness and the like, but things like Kenbonshoku (Observation) Haki and Armament Haki will probably reach a terrifying level.

At least Ross is pretty sure that if he lived for a few hundred years, he would be able to handle his current self with on hand tied behind his back.

Naturally.

It doesn't mean that he is afraid.

Today he … is recognized as the strongest person in the world!

Since a long time ago, he has never had any fear of World Government, and now he is the strongest person in the world, it is even more impossible for him to fear the World Government!

"The Soul-Soul Fruit should be placed in the core warehouse, but it still needs to be confirmed."

Ross murmured.

Holy Land Mariejois has a huge warehouse that stores all kinds of weapons, contraband and the like.

In addition to the warehouse on the side, there is a core warehouse, which stores extremely valuable things. Even Tenryubitos are prohibited from taking anything from the core warehouse without the permission of Gorōsei (Five Elder Stars).

For the location of the core warehouse, Ross has learned it from the intelligence, which is a favorable situation for him.

Whoosh!

Ross used Light Distortion to reflect the image of a government official in his memory onto himself, replacing his appearance.

Looking at the Pangaea Castle in front of him, Ross walked forward.

He doesn't need to worry about being spotted.

Except for the top practitioner of Kenbonshoku (Observation) Haki, the general Kenbonshoku (Observation) users would only be able to sense human movements and not his figure.

Therefore, the external image produced by Light Distortion can still confuse most people.

Quickly.

Ross walked to the main gate of the Pangaea Castle and the guards outside Pangaea Castle saw Ross and saluted at Ross and let him enter the palace without any obstruction.

After entering the Pangaea Castle, Ross walked around naturally. After going around, he began to look for the accurate news of Soul-Soul Fruit.

Although he hasn't done intelligence collection for a long time, he would still be able to do this.

Not long after.

Ross got accurate intelligence. The Soul-Soul Fruit was sent to Holy Land Mariejois one day ago and was logged into the warehouse. It was indeed included in the core warehouse.

Chapter 351 Arrives in Holy Land

"Core warehouse."

Ross's eyes flickered and he soon came to the underground area of the Holy Land Mariejois.

Both the open warehouse and the core warehouse are located in Mariejois' Underground area, except that the location of the core warehouse is more hidden and it has more defenses.

Mariejois's Underground.

What emerges here is the very ugly side of the so-called Holy Land, those so-called 'Self-Walking Trails' are all pulled by humans.

Ross knows that the World rulers are an existence that wants to express the darkness hidden under the light, but in this world, it is a real thing.

For World Government, it is not difficult for Vegapunk to study a mechanically-powered self-propelled trail, but they are willing to use an artificial pully system using humans because it looks more interesting to the Tenryubitos, and it also gives the untouchables something to survive upon.

Silence.

Ross' body slipped into the darkness.

After using Light Distortion, he became completely invisible. No one would be able to capture his existence unless his location was swept by Observation Haki.

Mariejois' Underground area consists of a huge space, but Ross already has intelligence on the map, and soon found the huge warehouse.

There were four guards at the gate of this warehouse, and two guards were patrolling back and forth, but they didn't find Ross.

Ross came to a wall of the warehouse.

Gou!

Ross reaches out and presses his palm against the wall and used a little of his Space Distortion power upon it. The wall grunted like mud and became embedded upon itself, and Ross crossed the wall in this step.

After Ross entered, the wall was restored to its original state. Obviously, it was not the wall but the space that was distorted.

Inside the warehouse.

There was a dim light and a magnificent and wide scene presented itself to him, numerous standard swords and guns were neatly arranged here and they went on until his eyes can see.

Although Marine Headquarters also has an arsenal, it is far from being comparable to the World Government. Whenever there is a lack of firearms on the Marine side, the government will move some of this stuff to fill the vacancy.

Step, step, step.

Ross was walking in the warehouse. Although he knew that there was monitoring in the warehouse, he didn't care. After using Light Distortion, the monitoring Den Den Mushi wouldn't ve able to capture his figure.

Each step fell with a flash, and about a minute later Ross crossed the huge hall in front of the warehouse and went to the rear.

It's here.

There is a house like structure built by Seastone.

The house is not large. Compared to the outer warehouse where the standard swords and guns are placed, it is much too small. This is undoubtedly the core warehouse.

"Seastone …"

Ross frowned and reached the outside area of the core warehouse.

This core warehouse is surprisingly thick in thickness and is likely to be made of a layer of Seastone, a layer of high-strength steel, and so on.

Because the outer wall of the Impel Down is made in the same way as the core warehouse, it is not worse than the huge Impel Down in terms of defense.

Although this kind of outer wall is not unbreakable like Pognlyph stele, it is not easy to break it either, because it is too thick and it is also divided into multiple layers, which can bear the force uniformly as a whole.

"Perhaps I can get inside using my abilities."

Ross watched the outer wall of the core warehouse groan slightly.

Although the inside and the outside are completely isolated, the power of space should be able to connect the inside to the outside, and he can directly penetrate into it in a way that crosses the space?

Ross tried to use Space Distortion.

However.

This is the core warehouse, which is completely enclosed from inside and outside by Seastone and it is not so easy to cross. Seastone is like a magnetic field, which interferes with the radar's position scan.

And Ross 's space movement has always shortened the long-distance space to a short distance, which is similar to the ability of walking thousands of miles in a single step. One step is equivalent to a long walk.

This ability is not teleportation.

It is fundamentally different from Law's Surgeon-Surgeon Fruit ability 'Shambles ' which does teleport things in the space.

Ross has also been working on how to teleport himself directly from one space point to another but he has not been successful so far.

"Can't do it."

The Distorted space in front of him finally recovered.

"That being the case …"

There was a flash of coldness in his eyes, and he walked towards the thick wall. He clenched his fist and punched the wall.

Bang!

This punch is incredible.

This is the punch that Ross as Yonkō (Four Emperors) and as the world's strongest man, went all out to make and in terms of the positive attack power, it can rival Whitebeard at his peak!

Bang Long!

The tremor of this punch shocked the Underground warehouse like an earthquake, sending weapons crashing down.

The guards outside the warehouse also became unstable, their figures were shaking and swaying and they almost fell down.

"What … what happened!"

"Is this an earthquake ?!"

The guards managed to steady themselves and looked at each other in some kind of shock. They had never heard of an earthquake on the Red Line.

Just when they were in doubt.

Bang!

There was another bang that shook the earth.

This time it wasn't just the Underground, it was the Red Line on the ground, too, and there was the sound of crashing teacups inside the Pangaea Castle.

"What is happening!"

Fleet Admiral "Steel Bone" Kong stood up and shouted.

Gorōsei (Five Elder Stars), located in the middle of the highest level of power, also nearly toppled along with the sofa and stood awkwardly looking at the broken teacups on the ground.

All of them were stunned.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Just as their expressions changed, a continuous stream of Bangs started to sound out and the entire Holy Land Mariejois shook with it!

In the tenryubito residence behind the Dragon Gate, countless tenryubito screamed in horror and ran out in chaos. Some people were riding the slaves, and they screamed the slaves to climb quickly. As a result, they fell off the slave's back and were directly hit in the face by the overturned table.

The whole Holy Land looked like it was full of chickens and dogs as the 'highest humans' behaved like them.

At the same time, on the outside of the Underground core warehouse, Ross was punching the wall, he punched again and again without holding anything back, hitting the outer wall of the core warehouse.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Under Ross's continuous punch, the outer walls of the core warehouse were already visibly deformed and cracked, with steel layers barely visible inside.

Under successive punches, the steel layer also shattered,  revealing a special layer of ore further down.

I don't know how thick the walls of the core warehouse is, how many floors it has, and what kind of relief frame it was designed with, but there is no doubt that it is not as hard as the Poneglyph stone.

Seastone's outer wall had little effect on Ross.

Now, even if Ross doesn't use his Devil Fruit powers, he can literally shatter the average Seastone with one punch formed by Armament Haki alone.

Seastone layer, steel layer, cotton black ore layer …

Layers of outer walls, hammered by Ross's fists, crack one after another and spread deeper.

No one knows how long it has been.

Bang!

A loud Bang sounded and the entire outer wall was completely smashed, and Ross smashed a big three-foot hole in the wall!

Chapter end