118 the return

-Are you ready?-

'Yes, I have done everything I wanted here, let's start with this new trial.'

-Ok, I will use the kay now.-

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3 view POV:

As soon as Alex hears CS, the world around him starts to spin. Giving a last look at his girls, all present to see him off. He couldn't help but let the last smile tug on his face when he round belly of Hestia and Hephaistos, the small bundle in Andromeda, Apoline, and Cattleya arms.

A light tug and he vanished from his territory, leaving behind his three born daughters and the two others to come. Its was time for him to travel to his last world, conquers lands and bring prosperity to his race.

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Alex view POV

As the world around him stabilize, Alex takes in is surrounding. Immediately, memories assault him.

"It seems that we have returned to were everything had started." Say him softly.

The room he had an exit to enter the HP world was still the same, save from the layer of dust and the water licking his ankle.

"CS, I need a complete run down."

-On it... Here you go.-

He feels feel something wash over him, making shudder for a second when he feels the change operating in him.

'Status'

{[Name: Alexander D. Evans]

[Age: 17]

[Race: sacred Evans]

[STR: VIII --\u003e 569] [VIT: XXXI --\u003e 2] [DEX: IX --\u003e 956] [AGI: IX --\u003e 989]

"What happens to the Skill and what hare those news stats?"

-You are in One Piece now, skill can't be quantified, only feels, as for the news stats, here.-

{[STR: The amount of raw strength. The value equals the dry weight your ability to lift before starting to strain yourself. 2 points = 1 KG. 1000 point per each boundary.]

[VIT: The amount of lifeforce present in each living being. 100 points = 10 years. 1000 per boundaries.]

[DEX: Or how much you can use your body. The higher the DEX, the easier the body-related skill will be learned. 1000 point per boundaries.]

[AGI: Linked to DEX, the higher your AGI is, the easier would highly taxing exercise would be performed. Related to mental skill. 1000 point per boundaries.]

[STA: The amount of time you will be able to exercise highly strenuous activities. 1000 points = 1 hour. 1000 point per boundaries.]

[ENG: The amount of energy within you, for Evans, it means the numbers of tails to other their devil fruits. The higher the value, the longer and stronger would be your natural abilities could be used. 10,000 points = one tail. 1000 points per boundaries.]

[WIL: Perhaps one the more important stat in this world. The higher the value, the higher your chance to rise above others. 1000 points per boundaries.]

"Rather comprehensive stats..."

-Yes, better than the previous.-

"So, if I had correctly understood, swordman, Markman and the like are ruled by the second line, the stronger it is the higher they are in the food chain."

-Yep, for now, you are barely the bottom barrel of humanity. Physically speaking, you are just short of the average fisherman. Ability speaking, you are barely worth a sock. All you can do is to shower you, enemies, like a flame thrower with your fire. The grunt will be dealt with easily, but any decent fighter will be a torn in you side. It only due to your natural-born strength and abilities that you are the strongest in the weaker sea. The moment any decent Devil Fruit user appears, your out. OF course, that doesn't mean you will instantly lose but we have a lot of work to do.

You have reign supreme in another world, it over now. No magic anymore, no apparition, you transmutation power will help but not in high-speed combat, not for now. Runes are still a thing, the problem is that they will run on your power and ENG. Seeing the monster outside, any barrier will be burned in a single punch from some. My advice. Found any scrap metal you can, and recreate your riffle. Railgun is out, they will burn you out in second, but that doesn't mean you can't create a weapon that will overwhelm the one here. Forgot about strengthen ammo too.

If I were to evaluate you now. Morgan is not a problem, Kuro speed could pose a problem. Kreig is a clown, a single well placed blow and he is over. Baggy is another, if he is still his arrogant self, you could bring him down rapidly. Smoker is out of your reach, let alone Grandline.

You have utilized your free year of training here to pass time with the ladies, not a bad decision, but you will have to work hard to overcome what will happen.-

"It the first time hears you speak that much, but thanks, buddy. I have high vitality, training won't be a problem. Now that we are under One Piece world rules, my body isn't the same anymore.

Do you have any idea where we are actually?"

-Difficult to say. I have teleported you back to your next location, not a spatial one. As the corpse of the denden has been drifting apart from a complete year in those seas we could be anywhere. The lack of violent weather means we're either in the calm belt or one of the four seas.

Since the corpse hadn't sunk, it hadn't been eaten by monsters, so our best guess is one of the four blue.-

"*sight* let see if we can still salvage something from this sinking wreck before it's sunk."

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Alex POV

Looking down on the bed, I could still see the year-old news-coo, the knives from the kitchen, the half mould clothes and few coins of different values. Counting the coins, I had mostly 10 and hundred one, a handful of ones and some of 500.

"Six 500, twenty 100, fifteen 10, and forty-seven 1. 5,197 berries, not something to be proud off, but it should amount of something."

-If I were to base it on your knowledge, it should be enough for a few meals, but not yours. Clothes are overpriced here, better buy fabric and made them yourself.-

CS, is right, in the sea, that amount is pitiful. Looking around, I couldn't see much more than the bed, closet and small desk, all made of wood. Transmuting everything inside is store it all, before doing the same with all the room inside.

One in the once kitchen, I could see that all veggies are nothing more than rotten goo, like most of the meats. Only preserved ones are still in somewhat good condition, was stored. Any appliance was transmuted into ingot on steel and equally stored.

While I roam the corridors, I could see that the stone was cracked and water was slowly seeping in. just for that I know that the once building who was at least tens of meters in the air was starting to touch water, it won't be long before it completely sinks.

the floors above were in better condition, I gain quite a few large blocks of woods for them and, thankfully more money. As it was pieces of money and in the corner, it either changes or lost money.

If there were bills, they had been sweep from the winds or destroyed by the weather. Returning into the few still relatively intact culture room, I extract the glasses shard and metal frame of the machinery.

-Alex, look! At your right!-

Following CS, I saw something I didn't remember from last time, indamaged and perfectly sealed pods full of liquid. Those are a priceless treasure.

"The liquid inside had high nutritious proprieties, if I were able to replicate it I should be able to make something akin to the healing pods of DBZ, injuries could be healed faster!"

I immediately store them in the storage, making sure to not damage any of them.

-If you are still able to enlist chopper, he should be able to do something with them.-

"Hmm"

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3 view POV

Sweeping the crumbling, sinking wrecked structure had needed him a few hours. After learning that he arrive around dawn, he had transmuted nearly all the stone around and store it. While it won't serve him, by greatly lowering the weight on the corpse, he would slow it sinking.

By the time the sun was high in the sky, all was left was the strongly smelling rotting carcass of the large denden drifting in the waters. The large shell and the encased metallic platform still present was protecting him off the decaying smell for now but it won't be long before he needs to found a more secure ride.

Taking the larges blocks of wood from his storage, Alex starts to work on his ship.

-What will you do?-

"For now a small ship his enough, all I need is a sturdy boat able to navigate the waters. IF we are indeed in the blues, I need to found an island rapidly, a map and were exactly we are."

Transmuting the blocks, he creates a flat-bottomed, rectangular ship. Constructed in a single piece of wood, it would allow him to sail even in shallow waters. Layering the bottom with steel for more protection, he jumps inside the empty structure.

Being ten meters profound, forty-four meters long and fifteen large, he was left with a decent ship for starting. Adding pillar every two meters for support, he layers the walls, floors and base of pillars with steel.

While he wasn't again leaving the exterior look like any other ship, he wasn't about to leave the interior as an easy target. He could perfectly remember the state of their ship as they exit Alabasta, Hina' harpoons had wrecked it, the flight to the sky islands being the last blow.

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Putting the flooring on the pillars, he exits the now finished boat hold by a wooden staircase. He constructs eleven meters wide, twenty-three meters long, with two stories, of four meters high each, building on, leaving a two meters large pathway all around the ship.

Leaving the last third of the deck free for future use, he enters the building, integrating window with double glazing to temper the external sound once in. Looking around, he rises a wall in the back of the large room. The back third would be left as food storage.

Immediately on the wall and around, he creates a kitchen with all possible appliance, and a table large enough for eight, with a fixed stool on the floor.

He separates the room by erecting a large aquarium, forming an arc, enclosing near all the wide of the room. Creating seat and couches with the few available materials, he left coffee table around.

Shelves for future book lined the two walls in between the windows, that flood the room with light. With a staircase construct, he climbs to the second floor.

The back of the building was left for the bathroom, five meters deep and running on all the length of the wall, he creates a changing, shower and bath area, adding windows near the roof for light.

the rest of the floor was used to create rooms. While he had nothing against bunking with others, he prefers having a personal room. It would be a hypocrite of him to be the only one so each member joining him would also have one. He could always bring a wall down if some wanted to be together.

From the space left, he creates a central T shaped corridor. Five rooms of 4*5 on each side and all separated from the other by a meter large corridor, with a window at its end.

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In the middle of the leftover deck, he rises a three stories high tower. The first floor was left as an infirmary, the second floor as a library and the thrid an observatory as well as the room were the steering well was put.

Furbishing all room with basic furniture, he starts to work on the sails and steering system. Keeping the last simple with long steel bars and gears, he constructs six large masts. Four of them were put on the corner of the building, fused in the structure and the last two at the front of the deck, just before the pathway and after the tower.

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Done with his future boat, for now, has he didn't have the rest of the materials, he creates another one, a small dingy five meters long and two large, with a small cabin on.

He would use this one for the moment to roam the seas. Is only hope was that he was in east blue. It would make it easier for him to start his journey there.

Thinking it was time from him to go, he stands on his dingy, before putting a hand on the metallic surface.

As the denden Mushi, his shell and the metallic platform was fixed together, it counts as a single structure for him. When it vanished from the sea, his dingy stay a second in the air before falling into the sea, creating a large splash, and rocking him.

When everything calms down, he takes to let the current take him.

As his boat starts to slowly drift in the same direction that the large deceased animal had drifted on, he takes a slab of stone and different ingots of metal retrieved from the machinery.

Even as scraped metals, it still had a great value for him. Making a hole in the centre of his piece of rock, he put the ingot in. Before starting to pour fire on they, he craves few runes to let it bear higher temperatures and redirect all the lost heat in the rock into the bowl. It will help raise the temperatures of the metals higher, keep they liquid long and will not scorch the floor of his dingy and sink it.

letting a small but focused stream of blue fire, it didn't take long for the metal to bubble under the intense heat and melt. Impurities rapidly form a layer on the surface of the metal, before being scooped out.

Crushing dried coals, formed when the attack at lit the structure aflame, he let the powder sink into the brightly glowing sludge. Stirring it with an enchanted stone rod, he drains a part of the heat in the metal into the stone bowl.

Lightly tapping the cooler alloy with a claw, he transmutes it into three-part, two of them change into large knives, keeping the same shape as his previous one, while the third was shaped into a riffle canon.

Using tongs, he put each piece into a small tank of oil he had taken from the machinery, tampering the steel into stainless.

He rapidly fastens the wooden handle for the knives and the rifle' stock. As he would now have to sustain the craved runes directly, he only had sharpness and unbreakable on the knives.

Unlike the last time, he entirely recreates the riffle and inner working. Only, in the stock, two space were created, the first for cartridge clip, the second for the empty shell and cartridges.

He applies a switching rune, linked to the cartridge expanded space, to the side, easily accessible with a finger. An automatic rune on the extractor and cleaning and self-repair runes were the only others put on the weapon.

It was one of his less costly enchantment since long but he couldn't afford heavily coasting runes cluster on a weapon now.

Being in an ex laboratory, he was able to loot a few usable chemicals and produce gunpowder, enough to create eight-five rounds. Making eight full clips, he stores the rest of the bullets and then the rifle.

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With a pair of enchanted binocular, he searches for any ship or island on the surrounding, obtaining nothing for the following two hours, before taking a small nap inside.

The sound of blasting cannon in the distance rapidly woke him. Hastily exiting his cabin, he looked at the direction, seeing a docked pink ship not too far from an island cost, a cannon still smoking from the shooted cannonball, and a large gerb of water rising from the sea, wood splinter blasted all around.

-Isn't that...?-

"Yep, Alvida ship and that signifies two things, Were in East blue and not far from the cannon, perhaps before Luffy appears! If were rapid enough we will be able to loot the ship and sheds before the morons destroy everything!"

Taking paddle out, he starts to strongly row. Not too long after, he feels that his boat has hit something, hearing a slight crack. Dismissing them as he wasn't too far, he let go of the paddle, the boat still moving forward, and take his rifle, aiming a the nearest pirates at the cannon.