Ross first glanced at the Battle Talent Department, then decided to switch the talent interface to the General Talent Department that has Physical Enhancement in it.
He quickly swept his eyes over, and something unexpected caught his eyes on top of the Battle Department's Talents Tree, a branch that he didn't know when but it changed from non-active gray to activatable green.
The name of the branch is… Observation Haki!
The activation conditions of the Observation Haki has been fulfilled, making Ross surprised, and he subconsciously looked towards the other two types of Haki as well.
However, the branch that indicates Armament Haki was still gray which means that Ross's current body is still not up to the standard of practicing and utilizing the Armament Haki.
"It seems that Observation Haki can be activated but Armament Haki can't. Is it because I activated Kami-e (Paper Drawing) and I already had some rudimentary knowledge about Observation Haki?"
Ross revealed a thinking expression.
Kami-e (Paper Drawing) in Marine's Rokushiki also has high dodging rate but this ability is used to dodge fists and swords.
But if someone wants to use Kami-e (Paper Drawing) to dodge rains of bullets, it will not be possible for even Admiral Kizaru with his Pika Pika no mi(Light-Light Fruit). It is only possible for someone proficient in Observation Haki.
"If it is because of Kami-e (Paper Drawing) that I reached the standard for activating the Observation Haki, then does that mean that if I put some proficiency point in Tekkai (Iron Body) I will be able to reach the standard for activating Armament Haki"
Ross looked at Tekkai (Iron Body) in Marine's Rokushiki, hesitating.
Ross has reached the standard for activating Tekkai (Iron Body) talent two months ago when he activated the Physical Enhancement of the General Talent Department and improved it, but he has not been willing to use his Free Talent Points to activate it because it is not really useful for him.
He now has only 1 Free Talent Point but he has three options.
First, activate Observation Haki.
Second, Tekkai (Iron Body) of Marine's Rokushiki to meet the criteria for activating Armament Haki.
Third, Geppō (Moonwalk)!
"It's better to raise some Physical Enhancements first and see if there is any changes afterwards."
Ross hesitated for a moment before he made his choice. He finally decided to upgrade his physical strength first. Anyway, the benefits of improving physical strength is much more at present and it will not be wasted.
Switching to the General Talent Interface, Ross put 50 proficiency points in Physical Enhancement and the Physical Enhancement's Talent Proficiency increased from 100 to 150.
Buzz!!
Ross felt a heat flow within his body starting from his heart and pouring down to his lower body before spreading to his entire body. This whole process only took a few seconds.
Ross looked at his arm, perceiving some changes in his body before muttering to himself: "Without a large degree of promotion, the effect of 50 proficiency points is not very obvious…"
He looked at the Battle Department Interface. He found that it was still the same as before. There was no special changes. Armament Haki was still gray color which means that it is inactive and Geppō (Moonwalk) in Marine's Rokushiki is also gray.
There are still 60 Talent Proficiency points left.
Ross thought in his heart that with 60 Talent Proficiency points, the abilities of the Distortion Fruit will be greatly increased and his body will be able to fully withstand the fruit improved power, so overall his abilities and power will be greatly improved.
On the other hand, the Physical Enhancement of the General Talent Department has reached 150 points in proficiency and with another 50 points he will be able to reach 'High Level Physical Enhancement', and his physical strength will definitely skyrocket.
In that case, without any doubt, Armament Haki and Geppō (Moonwalk) will enter an activatable state.
Improving the Battle power or improving the survivability and flexibility.
"With my current strength, in the West Blue, unless I encounter Don Chinjao or any high-level characters from the Grand Line, it will be easy to suppress anyone else."
"But even if I promote my strength a few time it will be very difficult for me to fight against Don Chinjao, a monster that has a 500 million bounty on his head, so…"
Ross analyzed and finally made a choice.
He put 10 Talent Proficiency points on the Distortion Fruit and another 50 proficiency points on the Physical Enhancement again.
Buzz!!
The progress bar of Physical Enhancement advanced from 150 to the position of the High Level Physical Enhancement threshold line, while below the characters 'High Level', there was a golden light flashing, changing from gray to gold colour.
At the same time, a massive amount of energy emerged from Ross's heart and spread toward his whole body, soaking every muscle, every cell in this rich energy.
At this moment.
Ross could even feel that every cell in his body transmitted eagerness. They were eager to absorb this strange energy.
After what seems like a long time the strange power within Ross's body began to subside but every cell in his body still desire this energy and they desperately swallowed the fading power.
Finally.
The Energy in his body completely subsided, the cells throughout Ross' entire body violently swayed for a while before gradually calming down.
"High-Level Physical Enhancement…"
This time, the promotion is extremely obvious for Ross. Although it is less than doubled, his overall power has increased by at least 60% to 70%.
If converted, High Level Physical Enhancement should improve the original body by five times and the Mid-Level Physical Enhancement should improve the original body by three times.
Coupled with the improvement brought about by his continuous practice over the past two months, he is now able to compete with Rear Admiral Bastille by only using his Physical strength.
After adapting to the changes in his body.
Ross took a breath and switched back to the Talent interface of the Battle department. This time, the talents of the Battle system has been completely renewed. Many talents that could not be activated before have all changed from gray to green.
Marine's Rokushiki all turned into emerald green, Observation Haki and Armament Haki also became green and even the Haoshoku Haki (Conqueror's Haki) became green meaning now all of them could be activated.
However, Ross turned his eyes and looked away. Compared to Haoshoku Haki (Conqueror's Haki), he cared more about the immediate usability of the selected talent, he will choose these powers later in the future when he has more free Talent Points
"Armament Haki…."
Ross looked at the Armament Haki. It is impossible to say that he is not eager for this power for it is a type of power that will enhance his powers even further.
But he eventually chose to activate Geppō (Moonwalk).
Now that his strength is enough to run amuck in West Blue freely, Armament Haki is not something that is practical for him right now as even with this, he will not be able to deal with the monster, that is, Don Chinjao.
But if he learns Geppō (Moonwalk), he will be able to cope with most of the situations on sea, land, and air, He can even encircle a Marine Battleship without fear with Geppō (Moonwalk) and can directly sink the Battleship!
"I have not hunted pirates above 50 million Berries Bounties, then the next goal is almost certain…"
After the activation of Geppō (Moonwalk), Ross took a breath.
When he gets the new ship, he will destroy the West Blue double sword pirates and get a Free Talent Point, then he will activate Armament Haki after which he will put the Grand Line on his agenda!
Since he selected Geppō (Moonwalk), Ross naturally wants to try it.
Although the abilities indicated in the Talent System are activated in two ways, directly implanting into his brain and body strengthening, Ross has "if he doesn't try, then he would feel uncomfortable" symptom.
He pushed the door open.
Ross arrived at guardrail in the cabin's corridor and lightly put pressure under his feet and jumped up, before landing on the top of the cabin.
Robin was sitting at a table in the direction of the deck and noticed Ross's movements. She turned her head and looked at him. When she saw that Ross has no new orders for her, she returned her gaze back.
However.
At this time, she saw that Ross suddenly leaped into the air almost reaching sentry post's position above the sail.
Then, Ross did not stop there, nor jumped to the Sentry post position, instead his feet tread in the air, as if stepping on solid air, he jumped once again.
Leap! Leap! Leap!
It seemed like Ross was stepping on an invisible staircase, climbing up into the sky. Although the distance of elevation is not very high after each step, after dozens of steps, he turned into a small black dot in the air.
"Is that… Geppō (Moonwalk)?"
Robin looked at Ross, who was treading in the air without any support and couldn't help but be slightly startled.
She knows that Ross can use Kami-e (Paper Drawing) and Soru in Marine's Rokushiki but this is the first time she has seen him using Geppō (Moonwalk).
She has never been clear about where Ross has learned Marine's Rokushiki techniques. Although most of the Marines from the Marine Headquarters recruiting camp can perform few techniques of Marine's Rokushiki, Geppō (Moonwalk) is still very rare because of the difficulty of learning which is much higher than Soru.
In the air.
Ross continued to use Geppō (Moonwalk) twenty times in a row and arrived thirty or forty meters from the boat in the sky, before feeling numbness in his legs and feet, so he stopped.
Geppō (Moonwalk) is not a move that helps with walking in the air. Instead, it uses powerful force and extremely fast speed to fiercely strike and pressing the air, causing the air to become something that can be stepped on.
Not only does it cost a lot of stamina, but it is also very difficult to control.
On the ground, he can cover more than 10 meters in a single step but by using Geppō (Moonwalk) in the air, it is difficult for him to even cover a one-meter distance.
If it was not for the Talent System ability to directly infuse all the process and experience directly into his brain and strengthening the body, then he may not even be able to do this much.
A short stay in the air nearly 50 meters from the sea, Ross is overlooking the sea below him, feeling the sea breeze blowing in his face, revealing a smile.
"That is Kano Country?"
At the height of almost 50 meters, looking out into the distance, Ross could vaguely see something in the shape of a small island at the far end of the horizon.
Since it can already be seen, it means that the distance is not very far.
After taking a look, Ross took his gaze back and crashed towards the boat below, eventually falling back on top of the cabin.
However, because he didn't control his strength and point of descent, he broke the top of the cabin and almost got stuck in it.
Ross slightly tilted up the corners of mouth and glanced to the left, and happen to see Robin looking at him in surprise from not far away.
However, Robin just looked for a moment before she took back her gaze and continued to read her book with a calm expression as if she didn't see anything.
Ross came down from the top of the cabin, commanded the handyman on the ship to repair the cabin and came to the deck. After two breaths, he again used Geppō (Moonwalk).
Geppō (Moonwalk) is a very good training method to temper his body for the current him.
Carrying a heavy load or what not, with his current physique is already very average. If the weight is too heavy, his boat will not be able to bear, and if it is too light, it will not be effective.
But Geppō (Moonwalk), which does not require any heavy load, is still very stamina consuming exercises and it would be better to train it. When the numerous handymen saw that Ross was able to go towards the sky, they were even more awed by Ross. They did not dare to be lazy, and quickly hammered the ship to repair the cabin.
Kano Country.
This is a country of pirates. Because the king is qualified to participate in the World Council, Marines rarely comes to visit the country, resulting in a large number of pirates frequently gathering in the country.
However, the pirate gathered here at most will have a small skirmish between them and would not dare to disturb the order of Kano Country.
Chinjao the Drill of Happy Navy with the bounty of 500 million berries is not someone one can mess around with, he was once a powerful existence within the Grand Line, even with his head becoming flat due to Garp's fist and losing his drill he is still someone to be feared.
And it's not just Don Chinjao, there are many pirates in this country and the Happo Navy which has once sailed on the Grand Line has over thousand pirates. These pirates are not as strong as Don Chinjao but they are still to be feared as the core members of this pirate group had trained in Hasshoken which is a technique by which they can manipulate vibration. All of them are pirates that were known in the Grand Line and not something that West Blue pirates can defeat.
Ross' pirate Ship is getting closer to the harbor of Kano Country.
"Sure enough it is a country of pirates, so many Pirate Ships, so blatantly anchored at the harbor."
Looking at the port of Kano Country, where large number of pirate ships with pirate flags hanging onto them were anchored, Robin looked calm on the outside but she is still a little surprised.
Ross stood next to her and looked at the harbor in the distance and smiled. "Maybe it's rare in West Blue, but on the Grand Line, such countries are everywhere."
"Has Captain ever been to the Grand Line?"
Robin was slightly surprised as she turned to look at Ross. She could keenly sense Ross' tone. This level of understanding of the Grand Line was as if he had seen it with his own eyes.
Ross touched his chin and said, "You can say that."
As his boat slowly move towards the dock of the harbour, it caused stir on the dock. The Ghost Hand Pirates are famous in West Blue sea.
The pirates on lot of pirate ships, as well as the workers on the dock, looked at the pirate ship that was coming in, and they all looked shocked.
"It's the Ghost Hand Pirates!"
"I heard that Ghost Hand Ross had killed a Marine Rear Admiral and his bounty got higher, he now has 64 million Berries Bounty on his head, which is 5 million more than the double sword pirate group!"
A lot of pirates whispered as they looked at the Ghost Hand Pirates ship.
What the World Government has published in the newspaper, that Ghost Hand Ross ambushed the Marines that were in the process of pursuing another pirate group, was for the purpose of deceiving ordinary people, which pirate would be so idle to voluntarily attack Marines?!
There is no doubt that Marines must have taken the initiative to pursue Ross. However, Ross' strength was beyond their expectations, and even a Marine Rear Admiral could't deal with him and got killed on the spot!
The increase of bounty to 64 million Berries is not something casually done.
Naturally.
There are many people who are not afraid of the Ghost Hand Pirates entering the dock. A guy with a plain face was looking at them, he was a sailor to others but in the dark, he is one of the official members of the Happo Navy of the Kano Country.
"Ghost hand pirates…"
"A heavyweight guy came today."
The people of the Happo Navy watched the Ghost Hand Pirates enter the harbor, chatting and laughing with each other with cigarettes and wine, without worrying about any trouble.
Even if pirates came from the Grand Line with bounty as high as 80 million or even hundreds of millions of berries. They would not dare to cause any trouble in the Kano Country, saying nothing of the Ghost Hand Pirates who have never been to the Grand Line.
To provoke the Happo Navy pirates, it will be useless for the troublemaker to even hide on the Grand Line as they would be found and killed!