Chapter 11: Arrival
Although Pika didn’t know the sea route, through preliminary negotiations with Pika, Su Xiao officially joined the Don Quixote Family.
[You have successfully joined the Don Quixote Family.]
[Promotion/Main Mission (Quarter) completed.]
[You have received 10,000 Paradise Coins.]
[You have activated the second ring of the Promotion/Main Mission.]
[Promotion/Main Mission: Dressrosa (Second Ring).]
Difficulty Level: Lv.15
Mission Briefing: Arrive at Dressrosa
Mission Time Limit: 5 natural days.
Mission Reward: 1 True Attribute Point.
Mission Penalty: Forced Execution.
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Seeing the second ring of the mission, Su Xiao vaguely sensed that things were not good. The missions were getting simpler, and that was definitely not a good sign.
One had to know, this was a combination of Su Xiao’s main mission and promotion mission in an open world. How dangerous the New World region was was obvious to all. If the first two rings of the mission were this simple, then the difficulty of the last two rings would be extremely exaggerated.
Under normal circumstances, the second ring mission wasn’t difficult. That could be seen from the Lv.15 mission difficulty. But for Su Xiao in his current state, this mission relied somewhat on luck.
First, most pointer-type items were ineffective in the New World. To discern direction here, a pointer needed to be at least Dark Purple, or even above Light Gold.
Without a unique pointer for the New World, it meant Su Xiao was lost at sea. Pika, whom he had high hopes for, was also equally lost at sea. This showed how important a navigator was.
Realizing they were lost, Pika sat cross-legged on the ice layer to conserve his strength.
“No problem. I’ve gotten lost at sea twice before.”
Pika chewed on compressed food, his tone calm, his attitude noticeably more relaxed. He even started chatting with Su Xiao.
“Oh? How did you solve it?”
“I can endure hunger for a long time.”
“...”
Su Xiao made no comment on Pika’s method of dealing with being lost at sea. He didn’t have time to waste. If he couldn’t reach Dressrosa in five days, his journey in the One Piece world would end.
Su Xiao still had one main mission failure immunity, so even if the mission failed, he wouldn’t face the punishment of execution.
But Su Xiao didn’t want to miss this opportunity to enter the One Piece world. The One Piece world had many famous swords, physical techniques, and Devil Fruits were also very valuable items. Moreover, he was very interested in both Armament Haki and Observation Haki.
With Su Xiao’s current strength, obtaining the two types of Haki wasn’t simple, but it wasn’t impossible either.
He was very optimistic about the defensive and offensive power of Armament Haki. As for Observation Haki, he could integrate it into his Instinct ability.
The strongest point of the Instinct ability was that it could incorporate various perception skills. Sha, who taught Su Xiao the Instinct ability, had integrated many perception-type abilities into it.
After other perception abilities were integrated into the Instinct ability, the Instinct ability wouldn’t undergo a fundamental change, but would be greatly enhanced. If he could fuse Observation Haki, the improvement to the Instinct ability would definitely be significant.
The ice layer drifted with the wind on the sea. Su Xiao certainly wasn’t going to wait for a ship to pass by or drift to some island, as Pika suggested.
Rather than waiting idly, Su Xiao preferred to take the initiative. What was most abundant in the New World’s seas? The answer was roving pirates.
Su Xiao took an arm-thick iron pipe from his exclusive room and fixed it to the ice layer. He pressed the button on top.
With a bang, a red smoke ball shot out from the iron pipe. After flying to three hundred meters in the air, it exploded with a boom, forming a large cloud of red mist.
This red mist was a special chemical material that wouldn’t dissipate for a short time.
Seeing the red mist above, Pika’s eyes seemed to light up. He guessed what Su Xiao was going to do.
Five full hours passed. The ice layer was very quiet. Pika sat cross-legged on the ice like an old monk in meditation. Su Xiao, on the other hand, took out another iron pipe and continued launching large signal flares. This was a homemade signal flare, inspired by his previous Primordial World experience.
With a bang, a cloud of yellow mist exploded high in the air. Red, orange, yellow, green—Su Xiao tried various colors, but not a single ship appeared in the surrounding sea area.
Although he hadn’t attracted any pirates, Su Xiao didn’t give up. He didn’t believe those pirates could all suppress their curiosity. Pirates yearned for freedom and to explore the unknown. The ‘colorful auspicious clouds’ in the sky were definitely a rare sight.
Just as Su Xiao was preparing to launch a new signal flare, a black dot appeared in the distance. It was a ship!
Seeing this ship, Su Xiao leaped into the sea and quickly disappeared from Pika’s sight.
Half a kilometer from the ice layer, a medium-sized sailing ship was traveling on the sea. It was a merchant ship, transporting grain, alcohol, and the like.
Daring to transport grain and alcohol in the New World’s waters was basically suicide for this merchant ship. But the sail of this ship was imprinted with a skull, behind which were two crossed bones. Moreover, the skull was grinning, and its most notable feature should be the crescent-shaped white mustache on the skull.
This merchant ship wasn’t attracted by the signal flare; this was their original course. They just happened to pass by here.
“Captain, there’s an abnormal situation ahead!”
A sailor with a flintlock pistol tucked into his waist shouted, quickly running towards the merchant ship’s captain.
The captain was a middle-aged man with one eye. He pulled out a monocular telescope from his waist and looked into the distance.
“That’s... an ice layer?”
Seeing the ice layer on the sea in the distance, the one-eyed captain instinctively felt something was wrong.
Ding!
Wood chips flew. A grappling hook embedded itself into the ship’s main mast. The sound of water breaking came from one side of the hull. Before the one-eyed captain and the many sailors could react, a figure, completely drenched, was already standing on the deck.
“Who are you!”
A young sailor shouted. Perhaps due to nervousness, his voice was a bit distorted.
“Whitebeard’s ship.”
Su Xiao had seen the symbol on the sail while he was in the water. This thing had immense deterrent power in the New World.
“That’s right.”
The one-eyed captain almost instinctively puffed out his chest and raised his hand to signal the sailors not to act rashly.
“How far is it to Dressrosa?”
Su Xiao retracted the Realm Severing Thread. He hadn’t intended to loot this ship in the first place, so he didn’t care whose fleet it belonged to. Merchant ship or pirate ship, Su Xiao just needed a ship and a group of people who knew navigation to take him to Dressrosa Island.
“About a few hours’ voyage.”
The one-eyed captain breathed a sigh of relief in his heart. Based on his many years of sailing experience, he had already judged the situation.
“Take me to Dressrosa. Name your price.”
“No need to name a price. We happen to be passing through the waters near Dressrosa anyway.”
The one-eyed captain could tell Su Xiao was not to be trifled with, so he just wanted to resolve the matter as quickly as possible. Facing a few hours of voyage versus a bloody incident, the one-eyed captain decisively chose the former.
A few minutes later, the merchant ship sailed to the ice layer. Bubu Wang, Amu, and Pika all boarded.
Seeing Pika, the one-eyed captain’s expression turned bitter. He had guessed Su Xiao and the others were pirates, but he didn’t expect them to be a group of shipwrecked great pirates.
The one-eyed captain was extremely experienced in handling matters. He didn’t interact much with Su Xiao and the others, simply ordering his subordinates to sail straight for Dressrosa.
About four hours later, an island surrounded by huge rocks appeared in Su Xiao’s sight. Dressrosa had arrived.