“Rear Admiral Strawberry, the slaves who escaped from Mary Geoise have entered Bone Island.
Should we continue the pursuit?”
On a massive Marine warship, a Marine asked for instructions from an officer with an unusually long skull.
Bone Island was a strange island, half located in the Calm Belt and half in the Grand Line.
It had not originally been called by that name.
It was only over the past few short years that the island had become covered in piles upon piles of white bones.
Among those bones were the skeletons of enormous beasts, but even more of them came from Sea Kings out in the ocean.
Sea Kings were already overlords of the sea, yet so many of them had died on this island.
Worse still, the amount of white bone grew day by day.
A great pirate with a bounty as high as one hundred million Berries had once explored Bone Island.
Afterward, he and his crew never came out again.
From then on, Bone Island was regarded as a forbidden land by bounty hunters and pirates alike.
That was also the reason these Marines were hesitating to advance.
“We are Marines.
What exactly do we have to fear?”
Strawberry looked coldly at the Marine and spoke in an icy voice.
“Understood, Rear Admiral Strawberry!”
The Marine saluted him.
Soon after, the Marine warship sailed straight toward Bone Island.
“Sister Hancock, the Marines have caught up.
What should we do?”
On a small boat, three girls in ragged clothes huddled tightly together.
“We go ashore.
Only by reaching the island do we have a chance to shake off those Marines!”
“I never want to go back to a hell like Mary Geoise again!”
Boa Hancock glanced at the Marine warship drawing closer and closer, then led her two younger sisters onto the island.
“It’s actually the three Boa sisters!”
The moment Boa Hancock stepped onto the island, on the other side of the island, Morin slowly opened his eyes.
Morin was not from this world.
He was a transmigrator.
Unlike other transmigrators blessed with absurd luck, he had arrived on this island the very moment he crossed over.
Because this place was far from the main sea routes, Morin had accidentally eaten a fruit covered in strange patterns.
Just like that, he became a Devil Fruit user.
It was also through this that he confirmed he had transmigrated into the world of One Piece.
After testing it many times himself, Morin discovered that the Devil Fruit he had eaten was actually an extremely powerful Mythical Zoan Devil Fruit.
The name of the Devil Fruit Morin had eaten was the Zoan-Type Bug-Bug Fruit, Mythical Zoan, Model: Meruem.
This was the name Morin had given the fruit himself, because he found that its abilities were extremely similar to those of the Ant King Meruem from Hunter x Hunter, which he had watched before transmigrating.
This fruit had not only transformed Morin’s physique from the ground up, but as long as Morin ate the flesh and blood of animals, he could enhance his own abilities.
He could even obtain the unique talents of certain animals.
After Morin hunted and devoured the birds on this island, he actually evolved the ability to fly.
After Morin ate animals like rhinoceroses and pangolins on the island, he obtained a body as tough as steel and iron, just like Big Mom.
Furthermore, if Morin needed to, parts of his body could also transform into the abilities of a certain animal he had eaten.
After finishing off the ordinary beasts on the island, Morin set his sights on the Sea Kings in the ocean.
This place was located in the Calm Belt, where Sea Kings were everywhere.
Sea Kings were creatures no sailor wanted to encounter.
There was even a Sea King near Windmill Village in the East Blue known as the Lord of the Coast.
Although Morin was now a Devil Fruit user, the Meruem Fruit had an incredibly overpowered ability: Phagogenesis.
Chimera Ants could eat other organisms and then give birth to Chimera Ant offspring possessing the traits of those organisms.
In other words, the more diverse the food consumed, the more diverse the genes of the offspring.
Using the flesh and blood of the powerful animals in the One Piece world, Morin created many different kinds of Chimera Ants.
Sea Kings were overlords of the sea, but before Morin’s Chimera Ant army, they were nothing more than a dish served on a plate.
The Chimera Ant army hunted large numbers of Sea Kings for Morin.
This was also the reason the island had become covered in white bones.
With an abundant supply of food, Morin’s physique underwent another qualitative leap.
At the same time, Morin used the flesh and blood of Sea Kings to create even stronger Chimera Ants.
As his body strengthened, he actually awakened Armament Haki and Observation Haki on his own without realizing it.
The reason Morin was able to discover the three Hancock sisters so quickly was also because of his Observation Haki.
At this point, aside from not knowing martial arts or swordsmanship, if one spoke purely in terms of physique, perhaps the current Morin was the strongest creature in the world.
“Looks like this is right after Boa Hancock escaped from Mary Geoise.”
“In other words, the current year is 1506 in the Sea Circle Calendar!”
A smile appeared at the corner of Morin’s mouth.
This was the first time he had encountered characters from the plot of the One Piece world.