In the distance,
Capone Bege felt that it was not looking good as he directed his subordinates to clean up the mess while watching the fight between Bastille and Ross.
“Even a Rear Admiral of T4 base can’t deal with Ghost Hand Ross? This group of Marines are too useless…”
Especially when he looked at the Marine snipers trying to snipe Ross from far away, he couldn’t help but bit the cigar in his mouth hard as his eyes became even more gloomy.
Bang! Bang!
Two gunshots sounded. Finding a opening, two snipers aimed at Ross and fired. And as expected, the instant the bullets touched Ross’ body, their direction got reversed.
Seastone bullets are extremely hard to manufacture and extremely expensive, so it is naturally impossible for the Marines of West Blue to gather these bullets in large quantities.
“What!”
“Damn!”
The bullet reversed their course and shot towards the two Marine Lieutenant Commanders who had attacked Ross. Holes appeared on their bodies, knocking them down directly.
“Don’t shoot!”
“Bullets are useless against this guy!” Bastille saw the situation and hurriedly gave the order to the Marines.
And at this time, Ross moved.
Under the siege of more than ten marine officers, Ross had no hesitation or intention to stop as he threw a punch directly converting three steel swords into scrap iron balls, followed by two Lieutenant Colonel who flew backward with a bang sound, not knowing whether they are alive or dead.
Bang! Bang!
Ross’s speed was too fast compared to those Lieutenant Commander and Commander, even if they could also use Soru. Compared to Ross, their speed was a lot worse. They couldn’t resist Ross’s attack and they all got beaten down with blood and broken bones flying out.
Even Marine Captain who could react to his speed were helpless against him. The swords in their hands would turn into a scrap iron the moment they attacked and even their arms and bodies weren’t safe as they would be directly twisted into a dough twist if they were touched by Ross.
“Damn!” Bastille cursed angrily.
If Bastille, carrying the half-broken Shark Cutter, was not constantly attacking Ross, then the several Captains colonels would have long ago gotten defeated because their huge-crowd tactics did not have any effect on Ross.
The power of Distortion Fruit can forcibly distort all the things touched by the user’s body. Although it is impossible for it to attack at a long range, in close combat, its powers are very similar to Tremor-Tremor Fruit (Gura Gura no Mi).
Unless someone hold a weapon made out of Seastone or have the strength that reached a level where they can use Armament Haki to resist the power of Distortion Fruit. Otherwise, they will be defeated and killed when they encounter it!
Blood and broken bones splashed out in all directions.
Ross stepped on the rubble and rotten meat and fought against Bastille and other Marines. His expression remained unchanged from beginning to end. He was still so calm. There was no frown on his face seeing the blood or bones around him. This calmness was palpitating and frightening to Marines.
“This guy……”
“Devil… He is a Devil!”
The Several Marine Captains besieging Ross had fear spreading in their hearts.
Crazy and lunatics guys are nothing new for these battle-hardened Marines, but someone like Ross who held the absolute indifference to life and death is the most terrifying person they have ever encountered.
A calm madman is the most dangerous.
“It’s time to withdraw.”
Not far away, when Capone Bege saw the situation, his heart sank gradually and he finally could not hold back and gave orders to his remaining subordinates to withdraw.
Almost at the time he gave his orders and was about to take off with his men, several Marine Captains who were struggling to support Bastille in holding back Ross finally collapsed.
Kāchā!
After a few more hits, Ross finally turned Bastille shark blade into a scrape of iron and the weapon became completely useless.
Bastille lost his weapon and couldn’t attack Ross any longer. Several Marine Captains who were barely breathing were killed by Ross on the spot!
“…”
Bastille looked at the broken bones and bodies of his subordinates before looking at Ross who was slowly walking towards him, he clenched his teeth and became angry and panicked.
“Rear Admiral Bastille !”
“Open fire!”
In the distance, many Marines panicked and opened fired on Ross, but all the shots fired towards Ross became useless, without exception, in front of his distortion power.
Ross’s right-hand clenched into a fist as he slammed it towards Bastille.
"Tekkai (Iron Body)!"
Bastille did not hesitate to show Marine's Rokushiki’s Tekkai (Iron Body), trying to defend against Ross’s attack but under Ross’s fist, his defense which could withstand bullets was broken!
His muscles which are comparable to the hardness of steel were distorted and his inside gave kacha kacha sound under the influence of the power of distortion.
Bang!
Ross stepped on the defeated Bastille. Although he couldn’t see his expression under the mask, he thought it would be a panic and fear.
“A Marine Rear Admiral’s head, I don’t know if I can make some High-level Marines feel a little regret? No, maybe it will only make them angry.”
Ross suddenly smiled and put a little force into his feet.
Like a rotten watermelon, the flesh and bones burst open in all directions.
All the remaining Marines who tried to shoot and come forward to support Bastille stopped and looked at the hellish scene, their hearts stopped beating and their breathing stopped.
Their bodies petrified, their muscles are stiff and their brain seems to be unable to think. Whether it is turning around and running away or fighting desperately, they could not decide on any action. This is the state where after suffering from deepest fear, their brain seemed to have stopped.
“But this is just the beginning.”
Ross slowly retracted his foot and his face returned to his usual calm expression.
The fight was over and there was not a drop of blood on him and his clothes.
Although his clothes were slightly damaged and tattered, they were still clean which is very different from the bloody hell around him.
After killing Bastille, Ross’s ear rang with a clear and familiar system sound.
"West BlueT4 branch base Marines and Rear Admiral Bastille have been completely defeated and the award obtained is, 80 Talent Proficiency points and 1 Free Talent Point."
The reward is not low.
Ross slightly smiled and turned his head and looked in Capone Bege’s direction who was trying to escape. “Now, there is only one last thing left…”
With one step, he had already crossed over dozens of meters and with another step he crossed the same distance.
After continuing running for two streets in succession, Ross took one step and leaped in mid-air, lightly falling in front of Capone Bege, who was fleeing.
Looking at the extremly ugly visage of Capone Bege, Ross’s calmly said.
“Game Over.”
……
Two days later.
The latest news, along with newspaper spread throughout West Blue.
“Ghost Hand Pirates, Captain Ghost Hand Ross, in the Kingdom of Smale, recklessly fought Capone Family criminal organization, and killed the criminal organization's godfather Capone Bege with utter disregard to order, causing great damage to the peace of the Kingdom of Smale.”
“West BlueT4 branch base, base chief Bastille led Marine to attack the White Blade Pirate Group and in the process of killing White Blade pirate group they were ambushed by Ghost Hand Ross and were unfortunately killed, all accompanied soldiers and officials died.”
“Ghost Hand Ross is cruel and sinister monster. Marine Headquarters will send a Headquarter Rear Admiral to take care of Ghost Hand Ross!”
Other than that.
Ghost Hand Ross’s bounty has been upgraded by the Marine to 64 million Berries, surpassing the original West Blue’s highest bounty of Double Sword Dillo, Captain of the Double Sword Pirate group, making his bounty highest in the West Blue.
The news spread fast and the West Blue trembled!
On the sea..
The ship with a pirate flag was rapidly moving through the sea.
In the top cabin of the ship, Ross was sweating as he was doing the most basic push-ups on the reinforced floor.
On his shoulders, he is carrying two huge steel dumbbells; this weight was enough for him to exercise.
"Nine hundred and ninety-three, nine hundred and ninety-four…"
Ross constantly lifts up his body and the muscles on his arms were completely taut. The torso that seemed to be no different from any average person had enough power to smash any pirate with the bounty of 50 million berries.
"Nine hundred ninety-nine, one thousand!"
The counting of numbers continues.
When the number reached one thousand, Ross finally stopped. Putting the weights on his shoulders down to relieve the tension on his shoulders, he lied down on the floor to rest, breathing heavily.
Sweat continually flows out of his body, soaking the floor.
Thump!
There was a knock on the door outside.
Ross lay there, too lazy to get up and open the door, so he directly said in a lazy voice:
"Come in."
"Here is your Lemon tea."
Robin walked in with a plate and there was a teacup on it. She saw Ross lying there without any care and smiled slightly at him before placing the plate on the table next to him.
Ross rested for a few more seconds before he got up and took the cup from the table and drank it in on go.
"Where are we now?"
"According to Captain's calculation yesterday, we should have arrived near the Kano Country," Robin whispered.
Although she was not very proficient in navigation, she has asked Ross to teach her and she has also learned quickly while on the sea, so right now she has learned more than enough to be a navigator of a regular ship.
Naturally.
Whether it's Ross or Robin, their navigation techniques are not enough to sail the Grand Line, after all, the climate on the Grand Line is really weird and unpredictable.
Ross doesn't want to waste any Talent Proficiency points on the Navigation talent, not to mention that he was often too lazy to measure the wind direction of sea maps himself.
That will waste too much practice time.
So no matter what, this ship still needs a professional-level navigator but this is West Blue, If it was the East Blue, Ross would not mind abducting the Loli version of Nami.
"Have we already arrived in Kano Country?"
Ross gradually calmed down the feeling of weakness and fatigue from his body while hearing Robin's report and put the cup down: "If the information is correct, we should be able to find Polar Bear pirates in Kano Country which has 45 million Berries bounty on them."
Robin nodded: "There should be no problem with the information, but this Kano Country… is not a friendly country."
"I know."
Ross smiled.
Kano Country controls a huge official pirate force, the most powerful of which is the Happo Navy. The leader is Don Chinjao, who once sailed on the Grand Line, with the bounty of 500 million Berries and later has his head flattened by Garp's fist damaging his strength greatly.
"Kano Country's influence is strongest in the Grand Line, West Blue's side only has some reserve force, except for maybe Leader Don Chinjao who is enjoying life here in retirement, but it is unlikely that we will encounter him."
"Captain seems to know Kano Country very well."
Robin looked at Ross in surprise as she was going to report to Ross what she knew about Kano Country.
"Only know some things."
Ross shrugged and said: "In addition to the Polar Bear pirates, the keel and trunk materials of our new ship are also in the Kano Country and after acquiring them we can then go directly to Shipwright Town to find a shipwright to build us a new ship, otherwise we have to go far away to get the materials."
Robin stood by and listened quietly, without interfering with Ross's decision.
Ross is not the strongest person she has ever seen, but he is the calmest and confident person among the people she has ever seen.
Yes, it is self-confidence.
This kind of emotion is not something that he wears on his face but it's a kind of emotion that is hidden in the depths of his eyes and only occasionally he reveals this emotion. Because she has been observing Ross keenly, she has captured this several times.
This kind of self-confidence makes it difficult for her to describe it and some of it is incomprehensible. It is like an inexplicable calmness of the world.
In addition to self-confidence.
Ross's calmness and determination are what she has encountered so far and neither the leader of the Underground organization or the pirate leaders can compare to it.
Even if his strength is enough to cross the West Blue unhindered, he still insists on doing a lot of exercise and practice every day, although many times he also loves to enjoy shoulder massage and the like…
"Since Captain has already considered it, I will withdraw firstd."
The thoughts on Robin's mind were fleeting. She smiled at Ross and said.
Ross nodded and she left the room.
"Hu!"
Seeing Robin close the door, Ross grabbed the towel and wiped the sweat remaining on his face and shoulders and planned to do another exercise.
Talent System gifted talents, especially the Physical Enhancement and Agility Enhancement of the General Department, are based entirely on his own strength.
Simply put.
If his own strength is 100 pounds, after the Basic Level Strength Enhancement is done, it will be raised to 150 pounds.
And if his own strength is 1000 pounds, then after the Basic Level Strength Enhancement it will be raised to 1,500 pounds instead of 1050 pounds!
The General talents are not fixed upgrades.
His current Physical Enhancement proficiency is at 100 points, bringing about three times his own self-based improvement and his training exercise will also bring about three times as much improvement as anyone else who does not have the gift of Physical Enhancement.
In this sea.
Most people, even if they try their best to practice, it will be difficult for them to reach the level of Garp and Whitebeard in their lifetime, even half of their level is hard to reach.
For Ross, he only needs to exercise his body to a one-third level of Garp and under the blessing of Physical Enhancement, he will be directly promoted to Garp level!
Although it is difficult to exercise to one-third of Garp's level.
Ross is not a mathematician and can't figure out anything precise, but he just needs to know that his training is more effective than others.
"Speaking of proficiency, I have not used the Proficiency Points I got from killing Bastille and the guy who had 34 million Berries bounty."
Ross did not hesitate and called the Talent System out.
It has been two months since he killed the Marine Rear Admiral Bastille. In the past two months, he only killed a pirate with 34 million Berries bounty but his accumulated money has already reached 90 million Berries.
That's why he came to Kano Country, he will chase the Captain of the Polar Bear pirate group who has the bounty of 45 million Berries and purchases the main material for a new ship.
Talent System Interface.
At the bottom, there are Ross's remaining Talent Proficiency and Free Talent Points, which are 1 point for Free Talent Points and 110 points for Talent Proficiency.
Chapter 26 Kano Country