Chapter 60: Realism is Pointless for Jedi

Chapter 60 Realism is Pointless for Jedi

Rayleigh sat on a pier on the docks of Karate Island’s northern port, ready for the departure of a ship that would take him off this island. Though the cash he had was sufficient for passage on a service provider ship, it wasn’t sufficient for meals on the voyage, so he wanted to purchase some imperishables for the journey.

Rayleigh discovered a lot from talking with Pirate Gamers on the Lodge the place he taught them Nen, and the largest factor he discovered about this world was that journey was ridiculous. First, there was little to no tourism since in all places sucked whenever you have been weak and nobody had any purpose to go anyplace. Due to this, there have been no customary technique of journey. Subsequent, because the title of the world suggests, Pirates have been a big situation right here. Two dozen males with single shot pistols and swords can be sufficient to rob tens of 1000’s of berries price of cargo from a service provider ship if the latter did not have sufficient manpower to battle again.

Rayleigh questioned why there have been no sizzling air balloons or planes, however apparently, there have been unusual issues within the sky and such modes of journey by no means caught on among the many survivors. Rayleigh guessed if there was such a way of journey, the World Authorities had monopolized it, stopping anybody else from rising above them.

That left journey by ship as the one technique of getting round till Rayleigh found out the way to use Moon Stroll for lengthy distances. Oddly sufficient, Moon Stroll did not work that nice with lateral motion. Transferring upward was alright and utilizing it to interrupt your fall was superb, however it might by no means let you run ahead via the air at an appropriate stage. Rayleigh had been engaged on an alternate that mixed Moon Stroll, Shave, Pressure: Increase, Pressure: Program, and Enhancement Nen, however it was a piece in progress and the timing was nonetheless off.

If Rayleigh wanted to get anyplace in his present area of the South Blue, it would not be too laborious since he simply wanted to discover a service provider ship that may head there to refill or promote provides and catch a journey. The issue was that his vacation spot was not the South Blue, however the location the opposite Gamers have been messing round, an space of the ocean referred to as the Grand Line. Every little thing about that place would give vacationers a headache.

First, coming into the Grand Line needed to be executed via a harmful location referred to as Reverse Mountain. Subsequent, when you entered the Grand Line, you may not select your vacation spot forward of time with out particular instruments. You might solely journey alongside a selected route, so when you have been on the lookout for somebody, you needed to hope they have been on that path too. Subsequent, the climate between islands was unpredictable, so fleet destroying storms weren’t unusual. And at last, you may not depart an island instantly when you arrived. The device that allow you to discover islands alongside the trail on the Grand Line needed to cost on the island and would not present you the best way to the subsequent one with out being charged.

It was this final situation that posed the best drawback. Rayleigh needed to come across the Gamers within the Grand Line, however since that they had began touring lengthy earlier than he did, he would by no means catch as much as them until one thing on an island held their curiosity lengthy sufficient for him to reach earlier than they left.

And but, all of these have been issues that appeared unlikely to even attain within the first place. The very first step of arriving at Reverse Mountain already appeared not possible. The Grand Line was the haven for Pirates, so there have been no ships that routinely took others from the South Blue into the Grand Line. The one strategy to go to the Grand Line can be to attend on the island closest to the Grand Line, look ahead to a pirate ship to come back alongside, and get on.

There was no strategy to head to the Grand Line on his personal. If the space between islands was greater than 100 kilometers, he didn’t assume he might use Moon Stroll to journey since that talent used quite a lot of vitality. He wanted a ship. However a small ship can be torn up within the climate of the Grand Line, so he wanted a giant ship and a navigator. If the ship was broken, it might sink in the course of the ocean, so he wanted somebody who might repair the ship too. After which he’d want the ship to retailer all of the meals for 3 individuals.

It wasn’t like he might simply purchase a ship both. The simplest choice can be to liberate one from a pirate, however a traditional pirate ship may not even survive its first storm within the Grand Line. Then even when he obtained a ship, he’d have to search out some guys loopy sufficient to sail with him.

All of that was the minimal requirement simply to begin step one of this journey. Or, at the very least, it ought to have been.

Rayleigh knew all of this earlier than heading out, but did not pay a single Mission Level for an id that would have any of this. Why? He did not want it.

The state of affairs the place you discovered your self stranded on an unfamiliar land with out assets, with no map, with none connections, and with no clue on the way to discover what you have been on the lookout for was a nightmare for most individuals, however for a Jedi, this was a Tuesday.

Permitting the Pressure to information him, Rayleigh paid for transport on a ship heading for an additional island. Not one nearer to Reverse Mountain, however additional away. One would assume this may be going backward, however touring utilizing the Pressure as a GPS did not take care of logic. So long as a Jedi with a robust sufficient connection to the Pressure allowed it to information him, he might journey to his vacation spot from the other finish of a planet he’d by no means been on, via a maze, within the shortest attainable time. Even when that meant touring via the core of a planet.

So long as he traveled whereas guided by the Pressure, he wouldn’t encounter horrible storms. His ship wouldn’t sink. They’d not get misplaced. And they might make nice time getting there. All of the lifelike elements of journey that the actual world possessed have been discarded and laughed at by those that traveled utilizing the Pressure to information them. If somebody who wasn’t used to having their journey handed to them on a silver platter traveled with a Pressure Consumer, they’d be disgusted by how simply journey got here to them.

The ship Rayleigh paid for passage on did not stand out in any method from another ship. Like all service provider ship, it docked at a port, bought its cargo, then used that cash to purchase one thing else it might then take elsewhere and promote for greater than what was spent to buy it.

Karate Island was not a crafting or manufacturing island, however it was a spot full of robust males and had quite a lot of warehouses. Even with out manufacturing something, businessmen of the island might merely buy issues they did not want from service provider ships, retailer them, after which promote them to different service provider ships. It was like a financial institution. Banks didn’t give others cash, however the presence of a financial institution made it simpler to generate profits. And on this world, banks have been a luxurious of the robust.

The ship Rayleigh was boarding had simply bought off tons of of rolls of low cost cloth. The corporate that purchased it might then promote it later to clothes manufacturing corporations. The explanation this ship didn’t promote to such corporations straight was that the space was too far and the hazard too excessive. A smaller, however dependable revenue was higher than the next however unsustainable revenue, at the very least to an clever service provider. Proper now, this ship was being loaded with coal. The identical cargo maintain that saved a budget material dry on the journey was additionally splendid to do the identical with coal. What Rayleigh paid would let him keep on the ship for the three day voyage to a different island the place this ship would promote all of the coal and purchase one thing else.

Rayleigh shook his head. It wasn’t the Marines, Pirates, or World Authorities that really dominated this world. It was Capitalism.

After utilizing the remaining berries in his possession to purchase a sack and stuff it with meals, he boarded the ship which lowered its sails, and left the dock. Rayleigh half-expected some goons to search out him on the pier so he might punch them to the horizon, however he wasn’t this world’s protagonist, in order that sort of factor would not occur each time he left the port.

The service provider ship’s crew had a dozen laborers, two cooks, a helmsman, a navigator, and 5 others like himself that paid for passage to a different island. Among the laborers had knives and seemed cumbersome, however apart from the captain’s pistol and sword, the remainder of the service provider ship’s crew seemed unarmed.

Rayleigh contemplated on which clich he’d encounter. Pirates? Sea Monster? Alien Invasion? He doubted the Pressure would have directed him to take this ship if issues have been so easy.

Then once more, he was fairly certain the explanation he was right here had nothing to do with the ship or the cargo. One of many 5 others who purchased passage on this ship smelled of concern and nervousness. The one factor that stood out extra was the nicely hidden killing intent of the man gazing him.

The nervous man seemed skinny and feeble. Most likely about mid-twenties with messy brown hair that hid a big brow, sq. body glasses, and a dusty gray traveler’s cloak.

The one who appeared to assume the wimp ate his final doughnut or one thing was cumbersome, with broad shoulders, bulging arms, oddly skinny legs, and lengthy hair tied again in a ponytail. He wore an open blue vest with bandages protecting his uncovered midsection, as if he’d been in a battle considerably lately. Or at the very least that is how he tried to make it look. The bandages simply barely hid a bulge that seemed like a pistol the man had wrapped up at his aspect.

The attainable wannabe murderer wasn’t precisely refined, and the wimp wasn’t precisely defenseless. At his aspect have been two others, each swordsmen, who saved a watch on the man. Effectively, one saved a watch on him, whereas the opposite, the swordsman with partially graying hair, truly saved Rayleigh on the nook of his eye.

All three, the cumbersome brute and each bodyguards have been stronger than the common martial artist on Karate Island, and their customary was fairly excessive, so none of them might be thought of weak within the South Blue. From his senses although, each guards have been stronger than the brute, so there should not be a purpose for him to intrude.

Rayleigh was curious concerning the id of the wimpy fellow, however he doubted the bodyguards would admire him strolling up and having a chat.

Instances like this, he might solely open the Basic Chat Room and chat about random nonsense. He could not enter the Pirate Chat Room since that may give away his presence right here, and he needed that to stay a shock.

The solar fell previous the horizon and bathed the house between the ocean and sky in a myriad of colours. The final time he was on a ship, he disembarked earlier than the sundown, so he wasn’t capable of get pleasure from this view. The remainder on the ship stared at him oddly. They’d been spoiled with such scenes for therefore lengthy, they’d misplaced appreciation for them. A pity, actually.

Rayleigh stayed on the ship’s bow, overlooking the ocean because the solar’s final lights danced over the horizon and the sky reworked into an immeasurable jewel. Once more, he acquired appears to be like. Appreciating a sundown was one factor, however appreciating the evening sky was simply bizarre. He did not care concerning the appears to be like. This was the primary time in any life he’d seen a sky with so many stars. On Tython, the Ashla and Bogan outshined the celebs and have been considerably tidally locked within the sense that it was uncommon to see a sky with out one or each of them. When such skies did seem, they have been normally lined with clouds. The sky of the Hunter World didn’t have stars that shined accurately. Rayleigh guessed it was a aspect impact of being in a fishbowl, or that the Hunter World’s environment was too dense, affecting or diminishing the starlight that reached the floor. And naturally, each evening he’d spent within the MCU was surrounded by circus lights or on the highway, so there was by no means a sky with out gentle air pollution.

Whereas he drank within the sights, one other passenger appeared on deck. The wimp and his bodyguards have been under deck as that they had paid additional for a room whereas the others needed to huddle collectively within the storage shed. Rayleigh determined simply to stay on deck all through the voyage, so he would not hassle happening to verify the bed-less space he paid to remain in. The person who got here up was none apart from the brutish fellow from earlier than. He stepped onto the deck and seemed round suspiciously for a bit earlier than unwrapping the fabric at his waist.

As soon as it was free sufficient, Mr. Positively Skips Leg Day pulled out a pistol trying gun from beneath the wrappings. A look from the aspect although confirmed it was not truly a pistol. Stated man pointed it skyward and pulled the set off. He wasn’t aiming for the ship’s sail or mast, however the open sky. The fired projectile turned blindingly vivid and soared excessive into the air the place it stayed for some time, shining vivid sufficient to be seen for tens of kilometers.

“Hey! It is a Pirate! We have been marked! Take him down!”

Three of the patrolling laborers shouted as loudly as they may, waking the remainder of the crew. The ocean wasn’t a spot most might sleep deeply, so it did not take lengthy for everybody to rise up. The laborers obtained out their weapons and surrounded the brute. Rayleigh would guess on the latter in a battle, however he did not resist, permitting himself to be tied up with a vicious smile.

Quickly, the captain got here out and straight requested the sure man, “Who’re you working for? What would you like?”

The crew made a a lot bigger circle round Rayleigh and their captain. The pirates Rayleigh had taken out have been dragged out of the encirclement so they would not be in the best way.

The captain raised his gold gilded gauntlets and began scraping them collectively to make sparks whereas the pirates round them seemed on with sinister glee.

Rayleigh rolled his eyes and did a half step and bend to dodge the fireplace of the pistol that one other pirate had aimed toward his again. The person was in a roundabout way behind him so the shot did not hit the captain, however it did hit one other pirate close to the captain to the dumbfounded appears to be like of the remainder of the pirates who questioned if Rayleigh had eyes behind his head.

The captain distracting the goal along with his claws in a ‘duel’ whereas somebody shot the person within the again was a time honored basic method of killing robust fighters, and nearly each bounty hunter had fallen for it. Certain, they claimed that the captain defeated the blokes in honorable fights with nice expertise, however all of them knew the reality. Not that they cared. They have been pirates in any case, that is how they have been alleged to battle.

Rayleigh determined to not play their sport any longer and went again to slicing down pirates along with his aura bladed finger. The captain and crew have been shocked that Rayleigh hadn’t even bothered to battle their captain and went again to attacking them. None of them noticed or appreciated the irony of the state of affairs.

Nonetheless, the captain was the captain, he charged ahead and tried to slice via Rayleigh’s backbone. Rayleigh ducked and dodged whereas spraying the blood of the person’s crew all around the ship. Some tried to battle however Rayleigh moved just like the wind and appeared not possible to hit, so one after the other, every pirate both fell to Rayleigh’s invisible blade or ran under deck.

All besides the captain, who had virtually misplaced his marbles at this level. “Cease transferring round and battle me you simpering bastard!”

Rayleigh tilted his head, ducked, turned to the aspect, did a lightweight soar, after which did a entrance flip over the captain, making the captain’s livid flurry of blows seem like a toddler’s sport.

It was then that the captain’s grimace turned into a victorious sneer. “You assume you are sizzling stuff huh? Effectively, your finish is close to.”

Rayleigh figured the person was referring to the guy that had simply emerged onto the deck. His wrists and ankles have been ivory white whereas he had a tan, implying that he had seemingly been chained up till this level.

The captain shouted, “Gordan! Kill this man and I am going to allow you to kill as many as you need on our subsequent island!”

Gordon was abnormally tall, nearing seven toes in peak even slouched over. He seemed over at Rayleigh with manic eyes and made a fist. That fist then bulged out and formed itself into one thing resembling the pinnacle of a sledgehammer earlier than he introduced it down on Rayleigh.

Rayleigh dodged and slashed out with an aura blade, however the invisible assault solely precipitated sparks off the person’s chest.

The pirate captain laughed and shouted, “You fool! Gordan right here has eaten the Hammer Hammer Fruit, making him a Hammer Man! His physique is like cast-iron and nothing can cease him however the sight of blood! He’ll crush you to items!”

Rayleigh turned away from the newcomer and gave the captain of the Six Claw Pirates his flattest deadpan stare.

With out even trying on the incoming assault, Rayleigh swatted the person along with his hand whereas utilizing telekinesis to toss the person overboard and into the ocean.

For apparent causes, this precipitated the captain to freeze up. Sweat dripped closely from his forehead. He then flippantly requested, “Had been you continue to prepared to barter our give up?”

Three minutes later, Rayleigh jumped again onto the service provider ship and stated, “I’ve taken care of all the things. We’ll sail to the Marine Outpost first and I am going to flip within the bounties. Have a pleasant day.”

One of many bodyguards tried to name out for Rayleigh as he jumped again to the pirate ship, however Rayleigh did not really feel the time was proper, so he ignored the request. On the Six Claw Pirate’s ship, there have been sufficient pirates remaining to sail the ship. This ship was a lot quicker than the service provider ship, so it might make it to the island by the tip of the day. The ship’s wounded wouldn’t get well with out medical assist and Rayleigh would not allow them to return to their hideout, so that they had no selection however to go to the Marine Base, flip themselves in, and obtain care or find yourself crippled.

Rayleigh might have lied to them and stated he knew the route just like the again of his hand, so in the event that they tried to go elsewhere, he’d kill all of them.

This resolution did have the unlucky impact of requiring Rayleigh to remain on the smelly ship for a day, however it was price it since they made it to the marine base earlier than sundown.

It was humorous too, the Marines noticed them on the best way and despatched a ship to intercept, solely to board and discover that your complete crew had been taken out by a swordsman with no sword.

The Lieutenant in cost, a nicely fed man with manicured fingers and styled hair, requested, “How did you’re taking all these pirates out your self?”

Rayleigh answered confidently, “I am excellent.”

Seeing the pirates flinch in ache after they noticed him implied that Rayleigh was not merely joking. Relying on the circumstances, an formidable Lieutenant may declare the bounty for himself, however Rayleigh’s feat was too extraordinary and the nicely fed marine was not silly sufficient to blind himself to the chance that Rayleigh was in reality that good. These previous few years, children like Rayleigh had been sprouting up like weeds, and if this marine needed to stay nicely fed and in cost, he knew there have been sure strains that he couldn’t cross.

The Lieutenant nodded and stated, “Very nicely. We will have the bounties for these pirates gathered by tomorrow. It is not going to be one berry lower than its full worth because you not solely hand delivered all of them, however you delivered them alive.” Their base didn’t have that a lot liquid funds, however the Marine HQ was excellent on the speedy supply of bounty monies to encourage bounty looking.

Rayleigh thought again to Hammer boy and questioned if the Marines did not find out about him. Which may have been the case. A pirate crew with a satan fruit consumer was much more noticeable and should have been focused by the Marines. That meant any prior witnesses of hammer boy have been in all probability useless.

As for the truth that Rayleigh killed him, the Pressure did not care. Why? As a result of Rayleigh did not care. Rayleigh’s connection to the Pressure over these previous couple of years had strengthened enormously. Beforehand, if he did one thing the Pressure did not like, the Pressure would retreat from him, weakening his connection to it. As for now, it was a bit extra variable. Hammer boy was somebody even pirates locked up, he was not an extraordinary killer, however nearer to a monster. Rayleigh did not really feel something about ending somebody like that, so neither did the Pressure.

Finally, the entire restrictions the Pressure positioned on him can be eliminated and he’d be capable to use the total energy of the Pressure on no matter he felt like.

Rayleigh requested, “Would of a great Inn with an appropriate tub on the island? As you’ll be able to inform, I might reasonably wash myself of the stench of this ship.”

The corpulent Lieutenant nodded and seemed across the captured ship with a sneer on the foul odor. It was causes like this that he didn’t take into account pirates to be human. How might civilized people stay in such filth? They have been clearly beasts.

“In fact. In truth, for such a grand show as this, it’s possible you’ll spend the evening in our base.” Though he would not get something from the bounty, if he might show sufficient friendliness to get Rayleigh to show in a couple of extra bounties at his base, he’d be capable to declare it was because of him and get some benefit from that.

Rayleigh accepted the provide and spent the evening. The Lieutenant even supplied his personal lavatory, however Rayleigh declined since that may simply be too bizarre.

The next day, Rayleigh’s cash arrived by way of seabird supply. It wasn’t a big sack of gold cash, however a wad of huge denomination payments that the World Authorities used when paying excessive worth bounties. These weren’t saved in weaker Marine Outposts since that invited greed.

After gathering the bounty, Rayleigh headed off, however upon exiting the Marine base, he noticed a well-recognized face. It was the wimpy man from earlier and his two bodyguards. Stated wimpy man had stars in his eyes when he noticed Rayleigh and walked as much as him like he was assembly a well-known tremendous star. He stated, “You have been wonderful sir! Please, I have to ask. Would you be prepared to be my bodyguard? You see, my father is sending me to the Grand Line for some essential enterprise, and you have confirmed that no pirate can stand as much as you. Please? I am going to pay no matter it takes.”

Rayleigh smiled. Yeah, Pressure Guided GPS was method overpowered.

*Creator’s Notice*

If Qui Gon can pilot a submarine he is by no means used earlier than from one finish of the planet he is by no means been on, via the monster infested core, to the opposite finish of the planet, with out getting misplaced or working out of gasoline, then you’ll be able to clearly inform how overpowered Pressure Steerage is. It additionally reveals how suitable the Pressure is for tales in worlds like One Piece, so I hope this chapter conjures up some Star Wars One Piece Crossovers.