One Piece: The Power System

Rein picked up the Devil Fruit and got a good look at it. The fruit had the typical swirls on it and had a stem that looked like a T but was bent in a way of ^. The fruit was very colorful, with the colors being faded red, blue and yellow on it.

"System, scan this Devil Fruit for me!" The system began to scan the fruit and within 5 seconds, it was done.

[Ding! Aura-Aura Fruit! (Paramecia)]

"Wow, it seems like a treasure, what can it do?" The Aura-Aura fruit was a fruit that could form and allow the user to create Aura. This Aura would allow someone to create an Aura shield over their bodies, create weapons of any sort. It would also increase all the physical capabilities of the user in close combat.

The ability to manipulate and form Aura was pretty good. If one was especially capable, they may be able to form wings. Rein s.u.c.k.e.d up the rest of the treasures and went to the other sh.i.p.s to do the same. He gave a lot of treasure to Vindicate for his help and with the fact that he himself was already rolling in dough at this point.

"Erica, Burn down those other two sh.i.p.s!" After Rein drained the resources from the sh.i.p.s, he ordered the destruction of the two extra sh.i.p.s. He also took this time to burn the jolly roger on this ship to keep it as his for the time being.

"Geppo!" Erica jumped into the air and started to climb it like stairs, then!

"Flame Fist!"

Black Flames shot out from each of her hands towards both sh.i.p.s. With an ear-shattering explosion, the sh.i.p.s were set ablaze and began to sink.

"Gasp!" Vindicate gasped, what kind of power was this, how was she kicking off-air like that!? Once that was done, she landed back on the deck of the ship. Vindicate didn't have to think about it, he took control of the ship and started to steer it away from shore.

They were taking the ship to dock it elsewhere, the ship now officially belonged to Rein without him spending a dime. Rein sat on the deck and looked at his status, he had a decent amount of system points and skill points he wanted to use.

System Points: 389,850

Skill Points: 40

Attribute Points: 31

Once he was on the System Menu, he decided to buy Rankyaku for 70,000 System Points! In terms of stats and Rokushiki, he was weaker than Rob Lucci. Rein's Devil Fruit completely made up for this weakness, this was definitely so if he went all out in full form. Rein nearly passed the guy after training by himself for 9 years but Lucci as a 28-year-old trained since he was young by masters. Rein nearly surpassed him already. Rein was confident that by the time he met Lucci, he wouldn't be a problem for him.

Luffy could be said to have won from his sheer will alone, but Rein wouldn't win by the skin of his teeth like his brother. With his Haki and other techniques, he should be able to force Lucci to use his Devil Fruit right away, Rein wouldn't be a joke to Lucci if they met by then.

Rein started to put his Skill Points in Rankyaku.

F=1

FF=3

FFF=5

E=10

Rein was now an E-Rank Rankyaku user, he then started to dump his skill points into Swordsmanship afterward. He used 15 Skill Points to reach E-Rank for Swordsmanship. It was now time to level up his attributes, he had quite a lot of them saved up.

Rein had to put points into his stat fast before leveling up anymore, he was at a cap because his stats were too low. He immediately put 20 points into agility, he found that his Soru was too high but his agility was too low to keep up with it. This was why a weak pirate like Kalibak was able to see and block Rein, Rein had stumbled mid-attack during his quick movements.

Rein inserted the last of his points into Stamina with him ending up with a total of 0 Points. Rein found early on that he couldn't level his will up and it was one of those stats that leveled itself as time went on.

"I'll level my Armament Haki up later but for now, I'll just level my Rokushiki." Rein didn't feel a need to level it up for now since he would barely run into Haki user for now, but the next he would surely do it. He just needed to make sure he had all the Rokushiki techniques before working on other things.

Time passed and Vindicate steered the ship to the shore near Bulwark City. There were other sh.i.p.s here so they weren't suspicious at all. "With this ship, I can hunt pirates off this island." Sadly, Rein had received information that they didn't sell any Adams Wood here, so he would have to look elsewhere.

After docking, they left the ship towards the A gate, which was the main gate of this city and closes to the docking station. Rein wanted to ask if Vindicate was interested in joining his pirate's crew but stopped after remembering his story with them, it was a dead end.

Once they made it through the gate, they went directly to the marine building to drop off the pirates they caught, including Kalibak himself. The marines said to themselves that they were done being surprised by Rein but it was too hard for them not to be!

They soon left the building, Rein asked Vindicate if he wanted to hunt more pirates. Vindicate said he was done for today and wanted to rest up at home. With that they parted ways, Rein and Erica quickly made their way back to their Hotel. He only wanted to grab the bounty poster and head back to his new ship.

Sometime later, they were back on the ship. Much to Rein's surprise, the ship was actually clean and tidy. Rein split the reward with Vindicate and took the rest for himself. This included the ship and the Devil Fruit he told no one about.

Rein and Erica began to tidy up the ship more to their liking before handling any further business. It took them two hours to create things in their own image. Once he was done, he sat down and began to look at more bounties, this time it was bounties off-island.

Rein sat down on top of the ship since it was a nice sunny day today, unlike the usual rainy weather that seemed to be common on the outskirts of this islands. Erica took a seat in front of him on the chair across from him with a freshly made tea, was she addicted to the stuff?

Rein skimmed through the bounties, these bounties all had notes attached to them, so Rein knew where to find them. Excuse me, Erica knew where to find them, haha! Rein saw some familiar people on some bounty posters, he even saw certain clown man as well.

After skimming through the bounties for about 3 minutes, he stopped a very familiar person. "Well, well, who would have thought that I would get my hands on your bounty poster?" Rein smirked slightly and picked up the poster.

"This will be our next target, let's go capture him immediately!" Erica looked at the poster, to her, the bounty was too low to hunt such a pirate. "A bounty of 20 million isn't bad but still too low for our standards, right?" Erica felt that it was strange for Rein to want to hunt such a weak pirate.

"This one is not without cause since we may get a crew member out of it." If you haven't guessed it, the target was Arlong, a Fishman who tormented and terrorized the people of Cocoyasi Village. Arlong originally had the highest bounty in the east blue but Rein and Erica had already defeated the most wanted in the east blue. Now, Arlong, who had the highest bounty from the series, was back on the map as the highest. This was a year before the original series, so many things could have changed since then.

"The location says he is located on the island known as Conomi Islands, this island is about 5 hours away." Erica sipped her tea and said, it was a good thing that they had a ship instead of a boat or that could be troublesome and boring.

"Okay, let's head out!" Rein smiled and stood up and so did Erica. She was going to have to navigate as best as he could. She had a map, so she shouldn't have any problem finding the island or getting lost.

Back at the docking area where the Rein and Kailbak's fight had recently taken place, an elegant white and red ferry ship appeared. "Sir Marth, there appears to be reminisce of a battle that took place here not too long ago. I think the Mighty Pirates had a mishap." The man dressed in a battle butler outfit said.

"What!? Are you telling I won't be getting my contraband from the mighty Pirates!?" This man was a nobleman of Rosefett Family, this was one of the noble families of Bulwark City!

"Sir, I'm afraid that is the case. It seems the sh.i.p.s were burned to nothing and all that remains are floating wooden planks and smoke." The butler explained calmly

"Damn it, those useless low life pirates, you can't count on peasants for anything! You give them a chance and they still can't do anything right, truly imperfect low borns!" Marth didn't care about the pirate's destruction, he had an important item he wanted on that ship but now it was destroyed!

"Malek, I want you to find out who is responsible for the destruction of the Mighty Pirates! No one meddles in my business, we'll see who dare goes against me!" Marth's eyes turned sinister, he had many ways to get rid of anyone who offended him.

"Sir, where do I start?" The bowed and asked

"You moron, you obviously would start in the Bulwark City, ask around for information about their defeat and the people who did it!" Marth was growing impatient and wanted to know who the culprits were asap.

"Ah, yes, right away, sir! I'll instruct some men to find out who is responsible, I'll even ask around myself!" The Bulter hurriedly left Marth's presence as to not anger him any further.

As soon as he left, Marth gripped his chair. "Dare to steal my miraculous fruit from me, really seeking death!" Marth's eyes were cold and cruel but he already had a scheme concocted as he grinned to himself.

Back on the ship, Rein was in a quiet room training to himself while Erica was on the deck navigating the ship. Erica also learned Rokushiki, the only thing she wasn't aware of was Haki which Rein had yet to tell her about.

She knew Shigan, Soru and her favorite, Geppo. This was mainly because she could take to the air, Rein wondered if he should have given her a Zoan instead of a Logia type Devil Fruit. "Maybe there is a way to fuse the Phoenix Devil Fruit with her Devil Fruit." Rein looked at the system for information, he didn't own such a devil fruit since it cost so much but maybe in the future.

Reading through the system, he found that it was indeed possible but he needed a certain tool to make it happen. "I better stop window shopping and earn more points so I can actually purchase them later when I can afford them." Rein smiled bitterly and continued his exercises.

At this point, they had already been on the sea for three hours or so but suddenly, Rein heard cannon going off!

Boom!

The ship was hit by a cannon!

"What the hell! We're under attack by someone?" Rein stopped what he was doing and immediately rushed to the deck.

"What is going on, who's attacking us?" Rein looked toward the sea and saw two pirate sh.i.p.s firing cannon from afar.

"These pirates just came out of nowhere and started attacking us for no reason!" Erica looked towards the ship with some anger but calmed down shortly after.

"Do pirates really need a reason to do anything, they're pirates so they're always looking for trouble if they can find it!" Rein looked at the ship, the jolly roger was a skeleton with knives at the throat of the skull. Rein was running through the bounties earlier and recognized these pirates.

The Cutthroat Pirates!

"Haha, prepare for battle, Erica!" Rein jumped into the sea and it started to freeze over, he didn't have cannons on this ship so he could only get close and in person. The cannons from before had fallen into the water and sunk into the ocean. Rein could just fly over to the ship but he wanted to hold the sh.i.p.s together in place.

The frozen sea spread like wildfire, and the sh.i.p.s were frozen on the ice with no ability to move. Erica laughed in amazement and jumped onto the ice and dashed to the two sh.i.p.s.

"Impossible! How can the sea freeze like that!?" Captain Cutthroat was dumbfounded, then saw Erica and Rein rushing them. "Shoot them dead, we'll loot their sh.i.p.s clean and kill any survivors!"

Everyone on the ship came out of their daze after the surprise of the frozen sea and took out their pistol to shoot the incoming threat!

Bang!

Bang!

Bullets rained like water toward Erica and Rein but they dodged them for kicks. "Erica, don't destroy the ship, we can loot this sucker clean!" Hearing Rein, Erica grinned and jumped into the air, she then Soru and disappeared and reappeared on the ship.

"What the shit! Kill her!" The men pulled out their sword since they had to load their weapons.

Suddenly an orange firebolt impaled several figures on the ship!

Sizzle!

"AH!!" They screamed and tried to take the fire-like spear out but it was too hot to even touch! Erica kicked the men off the ship toward the ice where they all fell unconscious!

"Unbelievable! This is a dream, no one can do wild shit like that!" Captain Cutthroat was shocked to the extreme, he had spent most of his career in the east blue causing trouble but he'd never seen anything like this!

"Pfft! Haha! Let me show you that you aren't dreaming!" Erica shaped her hands like pistols, just like Ace did in his fight with Blackbeard and started shooting people with small firebullets off the ship.

"Oh my god, she's a magician, she can shoot actual fire from her hands! Why is it black!?" One man was going insane from fear, was this a human, they can't shoot fire!

"AH!!"

"Save me!!"

"Hot Hot!!"

Screams of horror could be heard with each shot she took. Most people died from one shot while others suffered 3rd-degree burns.

"No!"

Cutthroat turned to run, he jumped off his ship but was caught by Rein as his feet were frozen over. What was he going to do, swim for it!?

"Wait! Don't kill me! I got money, weapons, food, you name it, I even know a place where the s.e.xiest chicks ar.." He didn't get to finish and was kicked in the stomach by Rein. He fell to his knees and began to vomit his recent meal.

"Blarg!!"

"This is a bad day for you, you actually attacked my ship, you wanted to get caught that badly?" Rein laughed and looked at Cutthroat like he was an idiot. If they had been a regular crew, they would have surely been wiped out but he was unfortunate to have met Rein.

"Wait, I was just heading to the rumored island for some great treasure, please, don't kill me!" Cutthroat put his hand up in surrender. Rein eyebrow rose with interest, a place with some treasure, why not?

"Oh, and what place is this?" Rein asked with a smile

Cutthroat shook and said "An island, have you heard of Myriad Island, it is home to many treasures. I heard a lot of infamous pirates are going there to seek some treasure!" Rein was silent, he made it seem like he didn't believe Cutthroat.

Cutthroat forehead began to sweat "Look, I have a map to the island, it's the truth!" Cutthroat took a map out of his coat and raised it for Rein to see. Rein simply snatched it and confirmed that what he was saying was true.

"Ah, good, I usually don't kill people, so you're fortunate today!" Hearing what Rein said, he looked over at his crisp and cooked well-done companions with a questioning look.

"That wasn't me, so I can't be blamed. It was her, she still needs a little bit more control of her power!" Rein said, "Oh, look, it's a treasure island over there, my gosh!" Cutthroat's eyes sparkled and looked behind him, only to receive a neck chop which knocked him out.

"What an idiot, hahaha!" Erica was watching from the ship and burst into laughter seeing what Rein did.

"Well, it looked like we found a new place to explore, hehe!" Rein was all smiles looking at the map, then suddenly!

Ding! Mission unlocked!