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West Blue.

Augus Island.

In the middle of a street, Pirate Captain Rhodes with a huge machete on his shoulder looked at a box of treasures in front of him, and asked several of his pirates subordinates,

"Are the treasures here?"

"Almost everything"

"Good! Let's go!"

Rhodes nodded with satisfaction and told the pirate subordinate near him to move all the treasure to his ship and planned to leave the island.

But…

After only walking a few steps they suddenly found out that at the end of the street, without
them knowing, a young man with a leather cap had suddenly appeared.

A pistol was hung on his left waist and a short sword on his right waist.

He was holding a yellow paper in his hand. He had his head lowered as he was looking at it.

Rhodes gave a slight glimpse and thought: "Where did this brat come from?"

The civilians on this island have long been robbed by them. They were just too
scared of them to come out. The pirates did not know where this brat came from and dare to stand in their way, does he still want to live?

The pirate crew was left slightly surprised, but they all smiled. Someone shook their wrist and took out a gun and aimed directly at the young man at the end of the street.

"Hey! kid, if you don't want to die, then get lost!"

The young man who was at the receiving end of the gun looked up, not looking at the gun pointed at him but directly looking at Captain Rhodes standing next to his crew.

"A bounty of 16 million Berries, 'Machete' Rhodes?"

Rhodes was surprised and said, "Kid you sure have guts for casually saying my name, get lost before your father here gets angry!"
Rhodes raised his chin slightly showing a trace of arrogance. For the pirates, everything
depend upon the bounty placed on them, and the 16 million berries bounty placed on Rhodes is not low in this area of sea, this fact gives him his pride and that's where his arrogance comes from.

"It's good that I didn't get the wrong person."The young man nodded and gently dropped the paper in his hand and said: "Then 16 million berries Rhodes, your head is mine."

bang!bang!bang!!

As soon as his voice fell the young man violently pulled out the pistol at the waist and shot six bullets at Rhodes and other pirates.

The pirates apparently did not expect the young man would dare to take the initiative even when facing so many of them, but he did and the speed at which he shot was so fast that they didn't realize until after the shots were fired.

The young man fired six bullets and five pirates fell to the ground!

The only bullet that failed to hit was shot at Rhodes, which was stopped by Rhodes with the huge machete on his shoulder.

At this time the paper that was thrown away by the young man slowly fell to the ground, and it was a bounty reward order. The wanted character on the paper was the 'Machete' Rhodes!

At Rhodes position.

Although Rhodes blocked the bullet fired at him but he had no time to stop other bullets, he watched as his five men were all knocked down, his face turning red in anger.

"You… damn!!"

He screamed and waved his huge machete in his hand and rushed up against the youth. The huge machete slammed down and it was the wind produced from the swing that gave people a kind of feeling. The feeling of splitting in half.

However facing Rhodes attack, the youth did not panic. He hurriedly put away his pistol and then he put his hands directly in front of him to catch the machete.

"Courting death!"

Rhodes sneered at this sight in front of him. His machete was not only huge, but the
material that it was made from was very special. It was very hard and extremely heavy.
Most people couldn't hold his weapon even if they tried. To dare to catch his machete, he doesn't know if the young man in front of him wanted to live or die. The machete slams down
towards the young man.

But,

Almost as soon as the young man's palm touched the blade, Rhodes's face changed, because a strange force suddenly enveloped the entire machete.

Kacha! Kacha!!

The huge machete did not cut down the young man's palm and it is directly twisted continuously under the influence of that strange force turned into a twisted shape.

Then the strange force continued to spread and in front of Rhodes horrified eyes the force covered his hands completely.

Aaahhhh!

Rhodes made an earth-shattering scream as the machete that had been twisted into a twist,
accompanied by his blood and some distorted boneless meat spilled over the ground.

"You …… you ……"

Rhodes fell to the ground and looked at the young man in front of him in horror. "You are Pirate Hunter, Ghost Hand Ross!"

"You guessed it correctly, unfortunately, there is no prize for you."

Ross smiled and pulled out the short sword hanging from his waist. Stepping forward a sword swept out and a head flew up into the sky with blood.

At the same time, there was a crisp electronic sound in the ear of Ross.

"The bounty of 16 million Berries, 'Machete' Rhodes has been hunted, received rewards; 45 Talent Proficiency, 1 Free Talent Point."

Hearing the electronic sound in his ear, Ross showed a touch of joy on his face.

"This is the first time that I had killed a pirate with a bounty of 16 million berries, the reward is really rich and I even got a free talent point."

He used to be an intern in another world. One year ago, he came to One Piece World inexplicably. He also had a Talent System in his mind and he was able to get Talent Proficiency points and Free Talent Points by hunting the pirates with a bounty on their head.

With this Talent System, he has been able to power up in the past year and now, he could easily deal with even pirates with the bounty of 16 million Berries.

Ross thought about his system interface and three translucent singular trees that only he could see appeared in front of him.
The top of the canopy had three names, Living, General, and Battle.

Living-type talent, which is a variety of messy talents such as sailing, cooking, music, etc. Ross only has a navigation talent from this.

The general type of talent has three main talents of strength enhancement, agility
enhancement, and physical enhancement, plus some minor talents like running, jumping, and flexibility and others.

To activate a minor talent, he needs a one Free Talent Points.

To activate a major talent, he needs two Free Talent Points.

Ross currently only activates one major talent of Agility Enhancement.

The final battle type talent has always been Ross's current specialization direction.

After opening the battle type talent the translucent tree was enlarged and the trunk above became a branch. Most of them were gray and dark, and only a small part was golden.

The golden color is for the activated talents.

And the gray color is for talents that have not been activated yet.

At present, Ross has only three battle talents, Firearms Shooting, Close-Combat Fighting and Distortion Fruit, which are labeled with the proficiency of these three talents.

Firearms Shooting: 50

Close-Combat Fighting: 80

Distortion Fruit: 50

Among them, Firearms Shooting and Close-Combat Fighting are two talents with 50 points in Proficiency level,100 points for Control Level and Maximum Value of 200 points.

"Firearms Shooting doesn't need to be raised anymore for now as the Proficiency level is enough. Let's put points in the Close-Combat Fighting and raise it to the Control Level."

Ross looked at his two talents: Firearms Shooting and Close-Combat Fighting, and quickly made the decision. He looked towards his newly acquired 45-point in the proficiency and decided to put 20 points on Close-Combat Fighting talent.

 

Whoosh!

When the proficiency of Close-Combat Fighting talent reached 100 points, a golden light flashed and the label on the right side of the tree changed from Proficiency level to Control Level.

At the same time, Ross felt that his body suddenly became a lot more flexible and a lot of fighting skills seemed to directly brand themselves into his brains.

"The remaining 25 points can be put into the Distortion Fruit."

Ross looked at his third talent Distortion Fruit while pondering.

Distortion Fruit is not the ability activated by the Talent System but he accidentally got it in an extremely dangerous encounter. Due to the crisis at that time he could only gamble and eat it, without knowing what type of devil fruit it was.

But after eating the said fruit, the Talent System activated and the battle type talent tree got a huge branch labeled as 'Distortion Fruit'.

The basic ability of this devil fruit is to distort everything that the owner's body touches. Even materials as hard as steel can be easily twisted into a fried dough twist.

It seems to be ordinary at first but in the Talent System, it has an extremely powerful evolutionary direction!

On this huge branch, there are multiple smaller branches which are the evolutionary direction of the devil fruit such as Light Distortion, Gravity Distortion, and Space distortion. Even with all these cheat abilities, there is also an extremely powerful ability, Time Distortion!

To fully fill the Distortion Fruit talent, it requires a lot of proficiency points.

Light Distortion: 100

Gravity Distortion: 300

Space Distortion: 600

 

Time Distortion: 1000

Unlike Firearms Shooting and Close-Combat Fighting these extended abilities are additional branches in the tree so, in order to activate them, it not only requires sufficient proficiency points but also free Talent points.

Because of this situation, he was surprised to get a Free Talent Point after hunting Rhodes.

Counting the 1 Free Talent Point that he didn't use for a long time and now 1 point for hunting Rhodes, Ross now has 2 Free Talent Points.

Ross still had 25 proficiency points and he quickly used them on the Distortion Fruit. For the promotion of any talent on the talent tree will require proficiency points and if any talent managed to reach up to 50 or 100 points, then his overall strength will be greatly improved.

"After hunting a pirate of this level I can finally put a point in the first talent branch of Distortion Fruit."

After putting proficiency points in his fruit he felt that his control over the devil's fruit has improved a lot. Ross nodded and there was a hint of anticipation in his eyes.

Light Distortion.

This branch of talent seems to be useless but it has great growth features such as Light Distortion to create an illusionary image, doppelgangers and so on. It can even distort light and directly deprive any enemy of his vision making it a very strong and useful talent.

Unless someone has mastered the Observation Haki, they will be greatly constrained and limited under Light Distortion ability.

"Observation Haki…."

As soon as he thought of the Observation Haki Ross couldn't help but look up.

At the top of the talent tree, there were three talents: Observation Haki (Kenbunshoku Haki), Armament Haki (Busoshoku Haki) and Conqueror's Haki (Haoshoku Haki)

But these three talents were now grayed out, indicating that he has not yet reached the conditions to activate these talents and what those conditions are he doesn't know, it may be that his Free Talent Points are not enough, it may be that his physical strength is still not up to the level of practicing all three types of Haki.

"Eh?"

Just as Ross' eyes glanced at the talent tree and planned to go out, he accidentally discovered that there was a region in which a talent changed from gray to green.

Green color means that a talent can be activated.

"Marine's Rokushiki… Is this talent unlocked?"

There are six talents in this area of Marine's Rokushiki which are Shave(Soru), Moon Steps(Geppou), Strom Leg(Rankyaku), Iron Blocks(Tekkai), Paper Drawing(Kami-e) and Finger gun(Shigan).

Among them, Paper Arts(Kami-e) and Shave(Soru) have become emerald green and other talents Moon Steps(Geppou), Strom Leg(Rankyaku), Iron Blocks(Tekkai), and Finger gun(Shigan) were still gray.

"Should I raise the points of Closed-Combat Fighting to the Control Level which will satisfy the activation conditions for Paper Drawing(Kami-e) and Shave(Soru). It seems like my speculation was correct, I will need to have certain physical strength to meet certain conditions or activate certain specific talents to unlock Other talents."

Ross secretly nodded and looked at the Paper Drawing(Kami-e) and Shave(Soru) while thinking.

To activate Paper Drawing(Kami-e) and Shave(Soru), I will need 1 Free Talent Point.

He now has two Free Talent Points and can activate both talents at the same time.

The problem is that the Free Talent Points are not something that can be obtained by hunting pirates. He had hunted four or five Pirates who had a bounty of about 10 million berries in half a year before he got 2 Free Talent Points.

Finally, Ross decided to activate the ability 'Shave(Soru)', one of the six-technique of Marine's Rokushiki.

Shave(Soru) is a kind of high-speed moving body technique whereas Paper Drawing(Kami-e) is a kind of dodging technique. If a situation is really dangerous he can escape with Shave(Soru). It is impossible to activate Paper Drawing(Kami-e) in the process of running away.

He has left behind a Free Talent Point as a reserve so that if the Distortion Fruit's proficiency ever reaches the limit, and if he isn't able to activate Light Distortion ability, it would be a very embarrassing situation.

Whoosh!

After adding one Free Talent Point to the emerald green colored branches of Shave(Soru), the branch quickly flashed and suddenly turned into a golden color while at the same time a force was quickly poured into Ross's body.

Ross closed his eyes and his eyeballs continued to rotate. Only a few seconds have passed but for Ross, it seemed like he had trained continuously for three whole months.

When he opened his eyes, Soru's Steps were already deeply imprinted into his bones and memories.

Ross breathed a sigh of relief and immediately tried it.

"Soru!"

Ross's entire body seems to disappear suddenly. With very fast and outrageous speed, he rushed out. He was so fast that ordinary people can't even see him!

After practicing Shave(Soru) for a few more times, Ross returned to his original position while breathing slightly harder and in his eyes, there was a little hesitation.

'While in the state of Shave(Soru), the speed at which I can move is at least two or three times more than my normal speed, but the physical exertion required is also several times more than then in his normal speed."

But the overall performance is quite good and satisfying.

In Agility Enhancement in the General type talent point, his speed is very fast. With the help of Shave(Soru), pirates with less than 20 million bounty would not be able to do anything to him, they could wait to be killed, and would not know how to respond to his speed.

"I guess, it's time to go now."

Ross breath became steady and he grabbed Rhodes head which is worth 16 million Berries, left the street and soon came to the shore.

Two boats were docked on the shore. One was slightly larger, with a pirate flag hanging, and the other was a little smaller. It was Ross's boat.

The pirate ship was naturally the ship of the Machete Pirates. There were two pirates left from the original crew on the ship but Ross had already cleaned them up when he arrived.

Paa!

Ross threw Rhodes's head on his boat, jumped on it with a light leap. He then skillfully untied the rope, hoisted up the sail and paddled away.

In the Living type talent branch, the only thing he has is sailing. After all, this is the world of One Piece, he would in a very difficult situation if he doesn't know sailing.

Ross was located in Ookisa sea area. The islands here were much more densely distributed. It was one of the five biggest sea areas of West Blue. Although it's only a sea area of ​​West Blue, the pirates in this area were much stronger than East Blue.

 

The bounty of the strongest pirates in this part of the sea can go up 35 million Berries and there are many pirates with the bounty of 20 million berries.

However.

So far only four pirates, whose bounty exceeds 10 million berries were killed by him.

The present age is the Great Age of Pirates that started ten years ago. Although Yonkō (Four Emperors) have already formed their own territories, the Seven Warlords of the Sea were still scattered and has not yet formed social order.

For Ross who want to punch Yonkō (Four Emperors) and Shichibukai and kick the Marine Gorōsei (Five Elder Stars), he still has a long way to go.

After half a day.

Ross came to an island closest to him with a Marine base division on it. The island was not very big. There is only one small town on the island which is where he often spends his time.

"That is… Ghost Hand Ross!"

Residents in the town saw Ross walking into the town from the shore and they all showed a frightened expression. Some people took their children back home and some people closed their door tightly.

Pirate Hunter job that involves hunting pirates is not a very glamorous job compared to being a Marine. After all most of the Pirate Hunters are in this business to acquire some money.

Ross didn't care about it. He didn't like pirates, and he didn't like Marine. The pirates had no place to go. They were running on the sea chased by Marine. Marine had to obey orders and their orders restricted them everywhere. There are some people in the Marine whose very being is more disgusting than the pirates.

In comparison, Pirate Hunter is a much more relaxed career.

"It's Ghost Hand Ross!"

"Why has he come here again? It seems like it has only been less than half a month since he was here!"

Ross's arrival made the Marine division appear chaotic and countless Marines were alarmed. Many recruits and military sergeants saw the head in Ross's hand and their faces showed a bit of fear. Their forehead had beads of sweat on them and they swallowed their saliva from time to time.

Not long after he came to the base, the highest chief of the Marine Division, Colonel Moby came to the hall wearing a Marine cloak with the word justice.

"Who is it this time?"

Colonel Moby calmed down, but his expression didn't look so good.

Their Marine base has not been able to catch any pirates with a bounty of more than 10 million berries for two or three months. On the other hand, Ross, a Pirate Hunter, had completed three such bounties in just two months. He had done what thousands of marines couldn't do.

Although the murderous pirates being killed is a good thing but this kind of thing often symbolizes their incompetence as a Marine that they actually need to rely on a Pirate Hunter to kill the pirates.

"Machete Rhodes bounty of 16 million Berries."

Ross took the head from his arms and gently pressed it on the table, and hinted for Colonel Moby to come over and compared it to the wanted poster.

Colonel Moby heard his words and looked a little surprised.

"Rhodes was killed by you?"

He had once led the Marines to hunt down Rhodes but he escaped before they could capture him. He didn't expect that only a month after that incident Rhodes was killed by Ross.

He only had to look at the head on the table once and he knew that it did belong to the pirate machete Rhodes.

"You will have to wait, I need to report this to higher authorities."

Colonel Moby stared at Rhodes's head for a few seconds then looked at Ross deeply and turned and walked back into his office.

Not long after that Colonel Moby came to the hall again, saying: "It has been confirmed, the posted bounty will be sent soon."

Colonel Moby said, and then his next sentence was a little unpleasant: "Marines are presently recruiting new recruits. Headquarters asked me if you would like to join Marine. If you like to join you will be directly given military rank of Marine Lieutenant Commander."

"Join Marine?"

Ross touched his chin and said, "Forget about it. I have no such ambitions. Catching bounties is enough to survive daily."

Moby snorted. He didn't want to see Ross join Marine. It was Headquarters who asked him to come over and ask him. Now, Ross has refused which is good.

A few hours later.

Rhodes 16 million bounty was sent over in a backpack. Ross opened his eyes and as he was too lazy to count he got up and left the base with the money.

"Colonel, are we going to do nothing?"

Lieutenant Colonel Leica stood next to Moby and watched Ross's departing back with clenched teeth and a cold expression in his eyes.

"What? What do you want to do?"

Moby glanced at Leica and snorted heavily. "If you want to recover your lost prestige, go and do your work! Arrest all the pirates who are running rampant everywhere!"

Leica was berated by Moby. The muscles on his face twitched and he lowered his head, but nobody realized that when he lowered his head, his expression was extremely icy.

After leaving the Marine base, it was already close to midnight.

Ross was not afraid of someone robbing him in the middle of the night and he carried the backpack of money to the coast then sat on his own boat and after driving the boat, he returned to where he lives. This is a medium level island.

There are seven or eight towns on this island and there is a bustling city in the center. The place where Ross lives is one of the towns.

When he came back it was already the next morning.

"Eh, Ross, you are back."

"Did your trip went smoothly? Are there any injuries?"

"Did you eat something? We just cooked, come over and eat?"

The residents of this town were very enthusiastic about Ross because a few months ago the pirates patronized the town and it was Ross who stood up. He defeated many pirates and saved the people of the town.

Ross smiled and greeted everyone in the town and returned to the small house where he lived. He threw the backpack with money on the bed and lay down on the bed to rest.

He slept the entire day right until the afternoon.

After waking up Ross counted the money he currently has.

"There is more than 40 million Berries here. It is enough for me to buy a big ship but the crew is a problem…"

Ross's face held a little hesitation.

Nico Robin is on this small island hiding in the underground dark intelligence agency in the central city. Ross wants to recruit her as a crew member but once she gets on the boat he along with her will be wanted by the Marine and she and he can only become pirates of the sea.

"In the end, it is still about strength, I am still not strong enough. If I had enough strength then whether it is a pirate or a Marine no one would dare to provoke me even if our identities are exposed."

Ross shook his head and left the house. He planned to go out to eat something. After he comes back, he will work hard to increase his strength.

Although physical training will not improve his Talent Proficiency, this improvement is independent of Talent System. His current physique is not strong, so there is a huge room for improvement.

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