Chapter 1 The starting point of the great route is the East China Sea!
Above the blue ocean, the morning mist had just begun to appear, seeming a little loose and a little misty.
With the breeze blowing on my face, the slightly invisible clouds in the sky were slowly moving, gradually revealing the rising sun with red rays of light.
The fog accumulated under the night, the haze gathered due to the cold, reluctantly disappeared under the urging of the sun.
On the deck of a medium-sized old sailboat, which smelled slightly of blood, lay an extremely tired-looking young man.
William, this is the boy's name.
Some of the blood flowing on the deck belonged to him, and some belonged to a few middle-aged men lying in the corner with ferocious faces.
"Master, are you sure this Devil Fruit can be replaced with the skills that will transform me?"
When the midday sun shone on William's cheeks, he climbed up from the deck with a slight trembling, and then looked at the green fruit in his hand with disgust.
Devil Fruit, the treasure on the sea, is also known as the power given by the devil.
William, who has memories of another life and knows something about the future of this world, knows that people who eat Devil Fruits can gain some unimaginable superpowers, but they will also become a landlubber who cannot swim in the sea, and
It will also be restrained by Sea Tower Stone.
However, this does not prevent Devil Fruit from becoming the most popular thing in the entire sea.
However, if possible, William does not want to eat this Devil Fruit, not because he likes swimming or is afraid of sea rocks, but simply because...
[Ding, the animal type, insect fruit, and rhinoceros form has been detected. Do you want to start the replacement? 】
The Skill Master System is what William brought from his mother's womb, and it is also the basis for his hope to gain a foothold in this world that eats people without spitting out their bones.
Finding that the system did not respond to his words at all, William sighed slightly. He looked at the body lying in the corner of the deck again, the hatred in his eyes was clearly visible.
Born on a barren island in the East China Sea, he lived a relatively peaceful life, although because the island was not rich in materials, he had not been able to completely activate the system in the past fifteen years.
However, this does not prevent William from having a strong heart.
He worked hard day after day in order to wait until the day when he became an adult to sail out to sea and create a world of his own.
However, all these illusions were shattered a month ago.
[Axe Pirates], the captain is the pirate [Axe] Teson who has a bounty of 3.7 million, and he brought his pirate group to the island where William is.
In an instant, the village was covered in fire and sword light.
With the sound of gunfire, wails, and grins, everything William knew in the past was annihilated by the fire.
After ransacking the village and finding that the harvest was not huge, Tessen showed a ferocious smile, and then he took away the surviving survivors in the village, and William was one of them.
In this way, William became a servant of the Ax Pirates. On the first day, he was severely beaten and locked up in the cabin without being able to drink any rice or water.
The next day, the hungry William was released to clean the deck, but when he saw the blood on the deck that could not be wiped off, William couldn't help but vomited, and then he was beaten again.
On the third day, William, who was dying, was taken to the back kitchen by the ship's cook to help him. He swallowed several fruits one after another, and his face turned a little bloody.
The fourth day, the fifth day...
William secretly calculated in his heart every day. Until three days ago, except for him, all the survivors brought out of the village by Teson had died in battles with other pirate groups or invading island villages.
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It was exactly three days ago that Captain Teson was seriously injured in a battle with the captain of another pirate group, and died before being treated by the ship's doctor.
Logically speaking, it is normal for the captain to die and continue sailing on top of the vice-captain. However, when collecting supplies from another pirate group, the vice-captain and several combatants on the ship were surprised to find a demon.
fruit!
Although I don’t understand why the captain of the pirate group didn’t eat it, wealth is very attractive, not to mention the devil fruit that can give people the power to change their fate!
The vice-captain wanted to swallow the Devil Fruit for himself, but several combatants joined forces to restrain the vice-captain.
In the next three days, internal strife continued. Everyone wanted the Devil Fruit. Even William's boss, the only chef of the Ax Pirates, couldn't help but poison the food.
If William hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he wouldn't have believed that that fat, pig-like guy could move so quickly.
Maybe it's because the chef has never expressed his ambition in the past, or maybe it's because he's arrogant, and no one is on guard against the fact that the chef might do something secretly.
Therefore, William saw with his own eyes that all the combatants, including the deputy captain, were poisoned after eating the food and were stabbed to death one by one by the chef.
When the chef raised the devil fruit and showed that crazy smile under the night, the gun hidden in William's arms also went off!
A blood puddle appeared between the chef's brows. He fell forward with a look of disbelief on his face. William, who was standing less than two meters away from him, had his arms trembling slightly, and he also dropped the single-shot fire system on the ground.
This was something William secretly hid when he was cleaning the battlefield three days ago, in order to find a chance to escape from this pirate group one day.
But now it looks like he may be getting his first batch of trophies!
After cleaning the deck all night and giving everyone a fresh blow, William finally made up his mind out of fatigue.
He looked at the green Devil Fruit in his hand and still couldn't decide to swallow it.
There are no useless Devil Fruits, only useless abilities. This saying has been circulating in the ocean for countless years.
But William knows that if he eats this Bug Fruit, he will never be the opponent of the three generals or the four emperors in the future.
The East China Sea is just the most peaceful sea among the four seas. Above the four seas there is the great sea route known as the Sea of Death, and above the great sea route there is an even more terrifying new world.
Ordinary Bug Fruit cannot allow him to rush into the new world!