The Kingdom of Elias.
This country is very developed in its services and is one of the most famous hot spring countries in the world. Various hot springs can be seen everywhere and some world famous people often come here to experience high-grade hot spring baths.
In the independent corner of an upscale spa, there is a single spa room with a radius of about 45 meters. The facilities in the room are elegant and luxurious. Ross is lying quietly on the edge of the spa with his eyes closed.
There are also largely shared hot springs outside, but he prefers separate hot springs pools.
If Robin wants to come in, Ross will not mind.
Since he became a pirate, he has rarely enjoyed leisure. When he was a Pirate Hunter in West Blue, he used to relax between hunting pirates, but now he spends most of his time on his ship sailing at sea.
While Ross was relaxing and stretching, there was suddenly a depressed sound.
Puru Puru Puru…..
Ross opens his eyes and walks out of the water, he grabs a clean towel and wipes himself, then he goes towards his clothes and pulls out a Den Den Mushi from the pocket.
After the connection was established, Laffitte's voice came from Den Den Mushi.
"Captain, I've found something that might be very useful here."
"Oh? What is it?"
Ross asked as he dressed.
Laffitte hides in a corner and speaks into the Den Den Mushi in a slightly low voice. "A special Log Pose, with three Poses on it, it is said to be High-Level Log Pose from the second half of Grand Line, which can point to three islands at the same time."
Listening to Laffitte, Ross's eyes flickered slightly. He naturally knew about this kind of Log Pose, but he didn't expect to find one in the first half of the Grand Line.
The question is… can this Log Pose be used in the first half of the Grand Line?
But if you think about it carefully, the three-arrow Log Pose itself is an upgraded version of the ordinary Log Pose, which can be used in the New World, So it is very likely that it can be also used in the first half of the Grand Line.
"Where are you?"
Ross asked Laffitte after a little thought.
If the three-arrowed HIGH-Level Log Pose works in the first half of the Grand Line, he will not be confined to a single route, so that even if a Marine Admiral wants to come after him, he must first determine his exact location.
"Beth Street…"
Laffitte's voice was vividly imitated by the Den Den Mushi: "That Log Pose seems to have come from a private dark exchange and now there's fighting between at least three groups of Pirates.
Obviously, Ross is not the only one who wants the Hig- Level Log Pose. If it's available in the first half of the Grand Line then it's one of the best navigational equipment for most pirates.
"Watch it and wait for me."
Ross heard Laffitte's words and quickly put on his clothes, he pushed open the door and went out, He said to Robin in the lounge, "Let's go to Laffitte."
Robin put down the newspaper in her hand, looked blankly at the Captain who had recently invited her to soak in the hot spring, then stood up and followed.
Beth Street.
The screams and the sound of gunfire went together and a large number of people fled crazily. Some of them were well-dressed and some were only covered with bath towels, but nobody cared much about it at this time.
The streets have become a battlefield for several groups of forces, three of which were pirates and one was the local criminal organization, fighting in chaos.
"Captain, you are here."
Ross and Robin appeared at a roadway entrance and Laffitte emerged from the darkness at the right time, lifting his cane and pointing in one direction.
"The Pirates over there now owns the Log Pose and they are now under siege by three other groups. They tried to broke through twice but failed. Now they have retreated to the three-story building."
"I see."
Ross nodded, after looking at the building in the distance, he walked straight out of the lane and walked over to the three-story building.
By this time, the streets were already in a mess, smoke and rubble were spread everywhere. Everyone was looking for shelter from guns. Few people were huddled together. Ross swaggered out and immediately attracted a lot of attention from people in several directions.
"Captain, someone is coming!"
Hiding behind a bunker, a Pirate Captain looked at Ross at the street not far away, his eyes were shimmering with cold fury and he said, "He is not one of our men, kill him!"
Bang! Bang! Bang!
At his command, four or five pirates around him immediately opened fire on Ross, and a heavy shower of bullets hit Ross head-on.
Strangely enough, Ross just turned his head a little and shrank his shoulders in the rain of guns and walked safely through it without a bullet hitting him.
"Not hit?"
The Pirates were surprised.
The Pirate Captain's eye flashed and he murmured, "No, the bullets were evaded… This fellow is not an ordinary person. Be careful!"
People who can avoid bullets are quick and agile. If he hadn't had a bounty of 50 million Berries and had seen the strongest people in all walks of life, he would have withdrawn decisively by this time.
Ross did not deal with the chaotic pirate and criminal organizations. His goal was to get the Log Pose first so that the pirates in the building would not jump into the wall and destroy the Log Pose and he gets nothing.
After several rounds of bullet fire, Ross approached the three-story building, where some people opened fire on Ross, but all were evaded by Ross.
"Damn it, why can't you get hit?!"
Because Ross did not show any overwhelming power, the pirates in the building were amazed, but they were not terrified enough to run away.
Finally.
Ross came to the bottom of the three-story building and went straight through the main door, he clapped his hands on both sides and a series of bullets fired in the front changed their trajectory and hit back in the opposite direction.
Two pirates fell to the ground in a splash of blood.
Whiz!
Ross no longer concealed his speed and in a flash, he was upon the last pirate in the lobby on the first floor, with his foot on the pirate's chest, he calmly asked: "Where is the Log Pose?"
"With… Captain…"
The pirate saw two of his companions die without resistance and then he responded with a trembling voice to Ross' eyes, which had no feelings for life.
"Where is your Captain?"
"Upstairs… third floor…"
Ross loosened his legs indifferently and walked over him, heading for the second floor.
When Pirate saw Ross walking past him, his unprepared back was facing him and his fear subsided slightly. Instead, he gritted his teeth and grabbed the guns on the ground.
Bang!
But before he could aim the guns at Ross, the floor on the first floor was suddenly overturned by some strange force. From the two sides to the middle, it was instantly closed together and everything in the middle was squashed together.
Ross did not look back, nor did he stop, and went up to the second floor.
Chapter 68 New world's Log Pose
There were five people on the second floor. Three guns and a portable cannon were all aimed at the stairway. At the moment Ross appeared, they fired at him.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
More than a dozen bullets, together with a fist-sized cannonball swept towards Ross, but strangely, all of them were fixed in the air at the moment they touched Ross.
"… is the ability!"
"Hell!"
Several pirates on the second floor were shocked when they saw this scene. One of them gritted his teeth and waved his sword and slammed into Ross.
Bang!
Ross raised his hand, his wrists leaving afterimage after them, he strokes the fixed bullets and cannonball and all the bullets and cannonballs were reflected back.
Before the man's sword hit Ross, more than ten bullets hit him leaving ten holes in his body. The sword in his hand was blown up by the cannonball and he was left there bleeding.
"This……"
When the remaining four pirates saw this scene, they were all shocked. Ross' strength was incredible. They were not his opponents at all!
Without waiting for the four pirates in front of him, Ross kept walking towards the stairway leading to the third floor. When he came to the stairway, the ceiling on the first floor surged under his feet, twisting violently and squeezing toward the center.
Puff!
The four pirates were wrapped up in it without any resistance and four popping sound was heard at the same time. Blood stained the walls and ceilings on the second floor.
Ross went towards the third floor.
"Captain, that guy is coming up!"
The third floor is already in chaos. Although there are many people here, they have to deal with the guns and cannons firing at them from outside and now they had listened to the terrible news from downstairs with shock and terror.
The leader of the Pirates, a man with a brown beard and a triangular cap, he calmly listened to the motions on the second floor. He took pulled an axe from behind him and said, "Don't panic."
Whiz!
Just as Ross walked up to the third floor, The pirate captain held the axe in his hands and tried his best to attack him. An axe slammed down towards Ross. Before the axe fell, a strong wind that seemed to tear the flesh of human beings and make their skin crawl appeared.
Nevertheless, in the face of this horrible axe, Ross had no intention of avoiding it at all. He just raised his hand and prepared to take the falling axe with one hand.
"Courting Death!"
The brown-bearded pirate saw that Ross has the intent to block his axe with his bare hands and his eyes flashed angrily, he pushed his axe with all of his strength and the axe slams down towards Ross planning to smash him into two pieces.
And the instant that the axe touched Ross' palm, the violent wind was stifled by a strange force between the axe and Ross' palm.
And the huge axe blade was directly frozen in the air as it was grasped by Ross with one hand, the axe couldn't even move forward by a single centimeter. The power contained in it was rigidly blocked down!
"This is impossible!"
The brown-bearded pirate pupil violently contracted and his face showed a look of horror and incredulity. He had used his full power which was enough to cut solid iron plates. He could even cut a solid wall with his axe, but the man in front of him actually blocked his axe bare-handed!
Without waiting for him to do anything again, Ross slightly pressed his five fingers and the axe suddenly twisted under the power of distortion, the power of distortion spread all the way down to the axe handle in the blink of an eye, Turing the entire axe into scrap iron.
Clang!
Ross casually threw the scrap iron on the ground and under the horrified gaze of the Pirate Captain, he stepped forward and lunged at his wrist with his fingers, taking away the Log Pose on it.
"… Damn it! "
Seeing that he had been robbed by Ross and his crew has suffered heavy losses by Ross' hand, The Pirate Captain was angry and resentful as he said. "So what if you steal it, you are also trapped here and you can't get away!"
"You don't need to bother about that, you are already useless to me."
Ross looked at the three-arrowed Log Pose in his hand and gently put it in his pocket and then indifferently glanced at the Pirate Captain and his crew in front of him, lifting his foot.
Buzz!!
The power of distortion erupted from Ross' foot and spread in all directions. It expanded from the third floor to the first floor, covering the whole building in an instant.
Then Ross raised his hand and suddenly clenched his fist in the void.
Bang!
Under the horror and fear filled eyes of the pirates, the walls, ceilings, and everything were all twisted in a weird spiral and the whole building suddenly twisted and squeezed toward the center.
In the eyes of the other three forces outside who surrounded the building. They felt as if the building was suddenly grabbed by an invisible giant, with one of his hand holding the upper part of the building while the other hand holding the lower part and twisting the entire building. The whole building was squeezed into a ball-shaped structure!
"This… what happened?!"
Looking at this scene, almost everyone's face showed a bit of horror, even the pirates with 45 million berries bounties on their head were scared as they watched a three-story building twisted and squeezed into itself.
When the building was completely twisted into a ball, it remains suspended for a half second before it suddenly exploded, turning into countless gravel splashing in all directions.
Boom… Bang…
Most of the buildings around the rubble collapsed and two Pirates and many members of the local criminal organization were smashed into a mess. The surroundings were destroyed almost instantaneously.
It was when the building was completely destroyed that Ross emerged from it, without any blood or even any damage to his clothes and landed on the ground in the middle of the street that had been destroyed and he was almost completely exposed to the members of pirates and criminal organization.
Looking at the figure in clean shirt and autumn cloak, with slightly wet hair and calm and indifferent eyes, everyone could not help but swallow their saliva and stare at each other.
Without a doubt.
It was this man who twisted the building into a mass of ruins. Although they did not know how he did it, the scene just now has shocked everyone.
"It seems that Captain has already succeeded."
On the roof of a building not far away, Laffitte laughed as he avoided the splashing stones. Laffitte and Robin saw Ross in the middle of the street.
The atmosphere in the field stagnant for a few seconds.
Neither the members of the criminal organization nor the other two Pirates did anything about it. Obviously, the scene just happened was too horrible for them to know whether to fight or retreat.
But them not moving didn't mean that Ross would stand still. Just a few seconds later, Ross glanced calmly across the crowd and stepped forward.
Bang!
The power of distortion was poured into the earth and the ground suddenly surged like a wave, spreading in all direction. The terrifying momentum shook the entire street.
Hard rocks are much more difficult to twist and manipulate than sand, but Ross' current power of distortion still covers an area of tens of meters in a circle.
"What…hell…"
"What power is this…"
The remaining two Pirate crew and the criminal organization members were hit hard and all the surviving people were horrified and they didn't think much before fleeing in in all direction.
The audience was shocked!
Even Laffitte and Robin could not keep their faces calm watching the streets within tens of meters surge like waves. Watching the near-destroyed scene the ordinary people and nobles fled to distant places.
After a long time.
It was not until the countless rocks that had been raised in the street fell back that everything was quiet and Laffitte breathed softly and said.
"It seems that following Captain Ross was the correct choice."