One Piece Talent System Chapter 47-48

The shipbuilding area is not far from the coast.

After the ship was completed and Ross and Robin saw it, Old Fitz commanded several other Shipwrights to pull the long and thick ropes towards the coast.

Ross watched as they struggled to pull the ropes and shook his head and walked to the stern position, pressing one hand on the stern and pushing forward.

Buzz!!

Originally a large group of Shipwrights pulled the ship desperately to move it forward bit by bit. The same ship is now being pushed forward by Ross with one hand and the ship glided forward on the sand.

“Wow, wow!”

“It's moving!”

Many Shipwrights and porters pulling the ship in front noticed that something was wrong. Looking back, they found that the whole ship was moving forward and they could not help but scream as they moved to both sides.

When many Shipwrights and porters saw that it was Ross who is propping up the stern of the ship with only one hand, driving the whole ship forward, they could not help but stare at the old man.

“This guy… Is he still human?!”

“A single man is pushing the entire ship forward. What kind of strength it is? Only the Giants are able to do that!”

A short time ago, a naval battle took place near the North coast. Although the Shipwrights and porters knew about it, they did not know the exact details. They always thought that it was a group of pirates and Marines who exchanged fire and the Pirates finally killed the Marines.

Crash!

Ross pushed the ship to move fast. After a moment, he pressed his hands on the stern of the ship and pushed it even harder. The whole boat slammed forward, cut open the waves and went into the sea.

After the ship entered the sea, Old Fitz boarded the ship again and went to the bottom of the ship to inspect it. After finding that there was no problem, he returned to the shore.

The porters on the shore and the handymen on the Ross' ship are rushing to carry all kinds of goods, most of which are fresh water and food, as well as other materials from the old ship.

By noon, everything was finally settled.

“Bon Voyage!”

Old Fitz stood on the dock, waiving at the Ghost Shadow Ship which was gradually moving away with the wind.

There was a glimmer of light in his muddy eyes and as he thought this should be the last ship he built which is heading out into the sea.

Ross looked at Old Fitz on the shore, smiled as he looked at the shrinking harbor, he turned around and looked at the boundless sea in front of him.

“So.”

“The world's fastest sailing ship is here, The World Government and Marines treat me as someone who can be easily eliminated by them, I don't know if you are ready…”

……

Half a month later.

West Blue, Somewhere on the western edge of an island.

Nico Robin came to the edge of the cliff and looked at the Ghost Shadow Ship, which was parked not far below, and jumped forward. Countless arms flew out of her arms and combined into a small wing that fanned as she fell.

With a slight impact, Robin fell lightly onto the deck.

“You Came back so soon.”

Ross was sitting in front of a set of tables and chairs on the deck, watching Robin fall lightly on the deck and he leaned back on his chair and relax his leg muscles again.

“Thanks to my good luck. I have acquired information on both matters.” Robin came over with a smile on his face.

“There is a reward for meritorious service.” Ross sat up straight and chuckled.

Robin smiled at him and said, “What's the reward?”

“Next time you come ashore, fill up all the shelves in your study.” Ross snapped his finger.

“Then I would have to thank Captain first.”

Robin slightly smiled and regained her serious expression and said to Ross, “As for the Double-Sword Pirates, just yesterday, a great event happened in Yate Sea Area. The Double-Sword Pirates defeated the Marine Fleet of T6 base.”

“Oh?”

Ross' eyes flashed slightly and he said: “These Double-Sword Pirates are good enough to defeat a Marine base Fleet of West Blue.”

Currently, in the West Blue, There are not many pirates who have a bounty of more than 30 million berries and because Ross has killed many of them and he even killed pirates who had a bounty of 20 million berries, the pirate force has entered a state of recession.

And now in this period, the Double Sword Pirates defeated an entire Marine fleet, which is undoubtedly once again inspiring West Blue's evil forces.

“No, it's not just about strength.”

Robin shook her head and said with slight solemnity: “It took only three years for the Double-Sword Pirates to rise up and cross the West Sea. When they defeated an entire naval fleet, it also revealed a piece of important information.”

“What kind of information?” Ross asked.

Robin responded: “Double Sword who is the Captain of the Double Sword Pirates has a bounty of 59 million Berries' but he is not the real Captain of the Double Sword Pirates, There is a hidden existence in the Double Sword Pirates.”

“Interesting.”

Ross had an interesting look on his face.

Robin took a deep breath and looked solemnly: “The existence behind the scene is the Captain of the ‘Ghost Sword Pirates' on the Grand Line… Ghost Sword!”

“Three years ago, The Ghost Sword Pirates were ambushed and defeated by Marines in the Grand Line. Marines claimed that The Ghost Sword Pirates had been destroyed by their whole army. But the Captain of The Ghost Sword Pirates did not die, but fled the Grand Line and returned to the West Blue. As a behind-the-scenes presence, he created The Double Sword Pirates.”

“His former bounty is… 98 million Berries!”

At this point, Robin looked seriously at Ross and said, “Shall we change our plan and not collide head-on with The Double-Sword Pirates?”

She knew that Ross was eyeing the Double-Sword Pirates, but The Double-Sword Pirates were obviously a big problem. Their Captain could escape to the West Blue under the Marine encirclement and then he supported ‘West Blue's Top Pirate Group'. His mind and strength are obviously not to be underestimated.

“No, We are still going ahead according to the original plan.”

Ross chuckled and said, “If we are going to change our plans because of someone who got defeated on the Grand Line, then how can we go to the Grand Line?”

Robin knew that she could not possibly change Ross' decision, She did not reveal any unexpected expression. Instead, She smiled and said:

“Then there's the second information, about Demon Sherrif Laffitte, a former security officer who was deported by the state because of abuse of his authority…”

“Coincidentally, this former Sheriff and the position of the Double Sword Pirates are on the same sea.”

“Isn't that just right?”

Ross stood up and took out the sea map: “It's better to accomplish two goals at once. Where are they?”

“Water Gold sea,” Robin responded softly.

Ross nodded and looked at the sea map, he took out the compass and judged their position. He said, “It's not far. At the speed of Ghost Shadow Ship, if we go at full speed, we can reach that sea in about five days.”

“So… turn the rudder, hang the sails, let's go to the Water Gold sea!”

“Damn!”

“Why bother appearing again and again in West Blue!”

In Vice-Admiral's office in Marine Headquarters, Doberman looked at a document on his desk, listened to the reports from his subordinates and couldn't help but yell at it.

Previously, because of Ghost Hand Ross, he was reprimanded by Akainu and was almost driven out of Marine Headquarters to pursue Ross himself. Now, only half a month after Ross' incident,  Double-Sword Pirates emerged.

“To replace the Captain with a fake, that bunch of bastards from the G8 branch base!”

After reading the report carefully, Doberman could not help but shout angrily at the G8 base on Grand Line.

Apparently, the G8 branch base defeated Ghost Sword Pirates but failed to capture the Captain Ghost Sword. Someone grabbed a fake one to replace the original for military merits. Now that things have been revealed, the other side has directly put forward the push-off method, indicating that they do not know anything.

Under such circumstances, it is impossible to directly dismiss the responsible Marines from their posts and prosecute them and at the worst, they would be criticized for being tricked by pirates and some of their military merits are going to be deducted.

Vice Admiral Doberman, what should we do? Unless a base commander on the Grand Line leads the team, the problem known as The Ghost-Hand Pirates will not be solved at all. The Double-Sword Pirates are also difficult for anyone in the West Blue to deal with.

A Rear Admiral, who oversees the West Blue, asks a question.

“It is impossible to dispatch a Grand Line's Vice-Admiral to the West Blue, which will cause problems in the deployment of the Grand Line forces and the Admirals will not agree with it.”

Doberman's hand slammed on his forehead. On one hand, is The Double Sword Pirates, and on another is much more troublesome pirates which are The Ghost Hand Pirates. He never thought that the West Blue would be so difficult to deal with.

Just then, a Rear Admiral next to him suddenly thought of something and whispered, “Vice Admiral Doberman, after The Ghost Hand Pirates replaced their ship in the Shipwright town, their latest course seemed to coincide strangely with that of Double Sword Pirates…”

“Oh?”

Doberman was slightly shocked, thinking about Ross' whereabouts. He knew that Ross targets both Marine and Pirate, which made him think a little.

“If the Ghost-Hand Pirates and the Double-Sword Pirates encounter each other, they may fight to kill each other and it is likely that both of them will be injured, then there may be a slight chance for us… Let the nearest West Blue branch be ready to monitor their actions and always supervise their actions, Let the orders be clear that no one is going to act without authorization!”

  “Yes!”

The Rear Admiral replied.

……

Ghost Shadow Ship, practice room.

More than ten heavy sandbags of different sizes were hanging there and swinging constantly. Ross had his eyes closed, but as if he could see in all directions, he avoided every sandbag with great precision.

More than half a month has passed since Ghost Shadow Ship was built and Ross' Observation Haki has been thoroughly mastered. In The Talent System's Interface, Observation Haki's branches have become activated gold.

Today, he alternates between ten or more sandbags, which is as simple as eating and drinking water for him. Even if it is bullets, He can easily avoid them by using Observation Haki.

Other than that.

Ross has not put down his Physical Strength Strengthening exercise and the Devil Fruit ability exercise, Distortion Fruit and Physical fitness have slightly improved, His power of distortion range has become a little larger.

Distribution Fruit, a Devil Fruit, seems to have innumerable development capabilities in The Talents Tree of The Talent System, but it is not so simple to operate in practice.

Ross tried to develop the Gravity Distortion ability without the systematic upgrade of the system but he ultimately failed. His Power of Distortion could not even touch the imaginary gravity.

Obviously, it is very difficult to shift from the material distortion to distorting illusory forces. Without The Talent System, it would probably be impossible to do it at all, just like Whitebear's Tremor-Tremor Fruit (Gura Gura no Mi), no matter how powerful it is, it will not shatter the real space and time. It will only shatter the atmosphere.

But Ross was able to Distort the direction of the sound. Ross has made a little progress. The doppelgänger phantom has become much more confusing. Compared with gravity, the sound is still more traceable.

“Almost there.”

Ross exercised for a while in the practice room with constantly swaying sandbags, then he walked out of it and came to the corner of the room, with several extremely heavy loads on his back and started to do simple push-ups and squats.

He had previously thought about using Seastone to exercise, but when he killed Capone Bege, he forgot to collect Seastone poles and bullets. Later, it became very troublesome to buy them again. After several islands, they could not even be bought on the underground black market.

Hu! Hu!

In the constant ups and downs, Ross, who was naked in the upper body, began to sweat which dripped constantly on the cold floor.

The weight he carries is a very special mineral material in the world. It is very sturdy, but its weight is higher than that of steel. A small piece of this material weight similar to a large piece of steel.

With his current physical ability, carrying a large load of this weight on him is also a very effective method to exercise.

“One hundred and thirty-one, one hundred and thirty-two…”

Ross kept counting in his mind.

Half an hour later.

After a thousand push-ups, Ross got up and drank some water. After ten minutes of rest, he started another thousand practice squats. His training for physical fitness was one group at a single time and one thousand of it.

When a thousand squats were done, even with his physical strength, he was breathless, so after a little rest, he took a shower and suspended practicing.

Leaving the practice room, Ross arrived on the upper deck.

Robin was sitting on one side of the deck reading elegantly, while the ship's handyman was busy cleaning the deck, afraid to become lazy.

"We will reach The Gold Water sea in one day."

Ross came to the place where Robin was sitting, took out the compass and the sea map and put it on the table. After measuring it for a while, he judged their current position and asked Robin:

"What about the islands there?"

“According to the collective intelligence, Water Gold sea is a chaotic sea. There are no countries. There are twenty-one islands, one of which is a large island, six medium-sized islands, and the other fourteen are small islands.”

Robin made a statement about the information on the Water Gold sea, which she had collected before and combined with Ross' sea map judgment, she quickly determined the location of each island.

Ross bypassed a small island in front of him and pointed to a medium-sized Island Island in the rear. “This small island only has one small town so we don't need to go there…” This is a chaotic sea without a country, here the forces of Underground are complex and any kind of information can be easily obtained.

Robin nodded.

Two days later, Ghost Shadow Ship arrived at the designated Island and anchored near a remote cliff. Ross and Robin went towards the island to collect more information.

The collection of information was easier than he imagined, Although neither of them had gathered any information about the exact location of Demon Sherrif Laffitte, the location of the Double-Sword Pirates was determined.

Chapter end