Chapter 135: The Particularity of the Pirate World

"The Pirate World is very special."

Fang Yi picked up the Debt Bond signed with Koby's name and tossed it onto the shelf.

Unlike the ninja world,

the origin of the Pirate World is mostly condensed within Devil Fruits; aside from Devil Fruits, it is inherently condensed within these living beings who possess decent Soul Potential.

It is not like the ninja world, where at the birth of a life, unless a Kekkei Genkai clan naturally possesses this portion of origin power, the remaining ninjas are born without origin and must constantly train, learn Ninjutsu, and so on, only strengthening their origin after mastering these Ninjutsu.

In the Pirate World, however, life carries origin at birth, and this origin determines whether or not you can become a powerhouse.

Take Koby, for example,

who is clearly very weak and is still a chore boy for the Alvida Pirates at this time, yet he already possesses the origin within his body for the abilities he will awaken in the future, such as Observation Haki, the Six Powers, and Fist Bone techniques.

The origin is like something locked in a box, which will emerge as Koby continues to train.

Take Kuina of Shimotsuki Village, for another example,

who clearly had astonishing talent for Jiangdian and could steadily suppress a young Zoro, yet died after tripping on stairs in a Pirate World where everyone is a meat shield.

Simply because there was not enough origin within her body.

If one were to say the ninja world is tainted with some fatalism,

then the Pirate World is fatalism through and through!

Sensing the Reward Points dropping crazily, A Fu asked in confusion, "Master."

"So that's how it is."

After a long while, Fang Yi, having finished probing the core of the Pirate World, opened his eyes and smiled, "What an absurd world indeed."

A Fu asked, puzzled, "Absurd?"

Fang Yi wore a strange smile and said, "Have you heard of the ladder rankings in competitive games? The winners plunder points from the losers, thereby climbing to higher positions."

The unsophisticated A Fu shook his head repeatedly.

"In the Pirate World, every time there is a life-and-death battle, the origin on the loser is snatched away by the winner."

"That is why there is the Grand Line and the New World, and why there are several shipping lanes, letting Pirates slaughter each other like beasts in a Colosseum, finally competing to produce the Supernova who stands out."

"Gecko Moria lost to Kaido and ended up in the Florian Triangle..."

It was indeed a plot-mandated death.

It is just like a script directed by the Pirate World.

Origin is the fuel they need to become stronger; losing their origin means losing the chance to compete for the championship trophy, unless they continue to burn, kill, and plunder, snatching the origin of others.

It is just like raising Gu insects, ultimately cultivating the Gu King with the strongest and highest-quality origin.

Sun God Nika?

Fang Yi smiled; this was the reason he was willing to lend to Koby.

As long as the Contract is signed, even if Koby dies, the origin locked within his body will not be reclaimed by the consciousness of the Pirate World, but will instead be drawn by the Contract and flow into the Samsara Game.

"It seems the consciousness of the Pirate World is not at peace..."

"The arrival of the Samsara Game will eventually tear apart this grand stage play, and all Pirates who become players will once again have the chance to control their own destiny."

"Let's start from the East Blue."

"Run... run away!"

"Useless wretches, hurry up and sail the ship!"

Over a dozen giant pirate ships, with masts broken and thick sails torn, swayed arduously on the sea.

Krieg hid wretchedly behind his crew members, trying his best to lower his presence.

It was hard to imagine that he, known by countless Pirates as the hegemon of the East Blue, would encounter a monster capable of destroying his grand fleet the moment he entered the Grand Line.

Seven days.

Is this the terror of the Grand Line?

Not far away,

a single-person boat resembling a coffin followed unhurriedly behind the giant pirate ships.

The Gothic-patterned mast, which looked like a cross, the black canvas, and two candles burning with eerie green flames gave off a gloomy and Weirdness atmosphere.

A man draped in a black trench coat and wearing a white-furred top hat sat on the boat, bored.

A pair of pupils as sharp as an eagle's gaze landed on the pirate ships ahead.

"East Blue Pirates, is this all there is to them?"

Hawkeye withdrew his gaze, feeling a trace of disappointment and boredom.

He had happened to see the Krieg Pirates from the East Blue and wanted to test the abilities of the new generation of Pirates, but he was greatly disappointed.

Suddenly,

a fruit floating along the ocean current bobbed up and down, finally rolling onto the Coffin Ship.

"A Devil Fruit?"

Hawkeye was surprised and picked up the strangely shaped fruit.

As a world-class Great Swordsman, he had naturally seen countless Devil Fruits.

But most were commodities appearing in auction houses, prizes in a Colosseum, or treasures in a pirate crew's warehouse; this was the first time he had encountered an ownerless fruit drifting along the ocean like this.

Interesting.

Compared to the Krieg Pirates, who were scared out of their wits and fleeing in panic, Hawkeye felt this Devil Fruit was more interesting.

"Paramecia, Logia, or Zoan?"

Hawkeye was intrigued, fiddling with this Devil Fruit that looked somewhat strange.

Although it had dense patterns, it was different from ordinary Devil Fruits; the patterns looked like a rather special kind of script.

The next second,

The patterns on the surface of the fruit, which resembled text, twisted and writhed as if they had come to life; a crack appeared on the fruit, tearing open from the center to transform into a strange scroll.

【Contract Task (1/5)】

Task objective: Destroy one of the secondary ships of the Krieg Pirates.

Task reward: Lv. 1 Novice Iron Sword (White)

Hint: Complete five bounty tasks to become a novice player of the Samsara Game.

A segment of memory suddenly appeared in his mind, like a past event suddenly recalled after being sealed away for a long time.

Devil Contract,

Completing the task allows one to become a player of the Samsara Game; wealth, power, fame, everything can be obtained, and anything can be exchanged for as long as one possesses enough Reward Points.

"What a strange Devil Fruit ability."

Mihawk simply regarded it as a rather strange Devil Fruit ability.

After all, the Pirate World has countless Devil Fruits, and likewise, countless Weirdness abilities; some fruit abilities can even ignore Haki.

Just like now,

Boom.

A terrifying aura suddenly erupted from Mihawk's entire body, causing even the ocean waves to rise several zhang high.

The Contract scroll remained completely undamaged.

"Truly interesting."

Mihawk reached out to draw the small knife from his pendant, used the hilt to gently lift his hat, and revealed eyes that flickered with a hint of curiosity.

It was meant to pass the time out of boredom anyway.

The Krieg Pirates failed to satisfy him, but he hoped the mysterious person who dared to use an ability to interfere with him could bring him a surprise.

He raised his arm, then swung the blade.

A shockwave, swung out casually, directly cleaved a deep mark into the sea and slammed into that fleeing secondary ship.

Crack.

The sturdy ship, specially built by Krieg to sail the Grand Line, was split into two by the Jiangji swung from a palm-wide small knife.

It slowly sank.

【Task completed, reward has been issued】

Mihawk remained expressionless, still maintaining the posture of his swing, as simple as if he had casually sliced a piece of fruit.

A sword of ordinary design appeared out of thin air and landed on his Coffin Ship.

"No... aura?"

The Observation Haki of the world's greatest Great Swordsman had actually failed to perceive how this iron sword appeared?

Mihawk picked up the iron sword, his gaze revealing a rare trace of solemnity.

(End of chapter)