Lucas sat quietly on the deck of a massive Marine warship, gazing silently at the boundless sea.
He was a transmigrator who had ended up in the body of a guy named Saris Lucas.
At that time, Lucas was only eight years old.
His parents had been killed by pirates when he was young, and he had grown up relying on the kindness of others.
After Lucas transmigrated, he saw a newspaper one day.
It was a report about the World Government issuing a Buster Call, with news about Nico Robin’s wanted poster from when she was a child on the back.
It was then that he realized he had actually transmigrated into the world of One Piece.
At that time, eight-year-old Lucas dreamed that one day he could be like Luffy and become a glorious pirate.
He wanted to see Whitebeard, Edward Newgate, the man titled the World’s Strongest Man, with his own eyes.
He also wanted to challenge Kaido of the Beasts and, even more, test his mettle against the black blade of the World’s Greatest Swordsman, Dracule Mihawk.
He wanted to take his crew to see the scenery of the four seas, then set foot on the Grand Line and reach the end of the world, Laugh Tale.
Of course, he also wanted Nami, Robin, and Hancock by his side!!!
Carrying this dream, Lucas began to train his body intentionally or otherwise, fantasizing that one day he would unlock a golden finger and soar to success.
However, four years later, the golden finger hadn’t opened, but pirates had arrived.
This goddamn pirate attack shattered Lucas’s beautiful dream.
It was then that Lucas finally woke up to reality.
Perhaps for pirates, Roger was an idol, but for commoners, Roger was a devil.
He personally started the Great Pirate Era, causing countless pirates to swarm into existence.
The village where Lucas lived was wiped out in that pirate attack.
Only a dozen or so children were captured by the pirates and sold to a slave ship, and Lucas was among them.
There were many people sold onto the slave ship, most of them children.
Because Lucas was sensible, didn’t cry, and didn’t make a fuss, he was kept on the slave ship to do odd jobs, while everyone else from his village was sold off to other places.
For two years, it could be said that Lucas saw too much darkness, which made his personality increasingly gloomy.
Until, two years later, the slave ship got into a battle with pirates, and Lucas was blown into the sea, eventually drifting onto a small island.
When he woke up, he discovered an emerald-green fruit with swirling patterns under a tree not far away.
At a single glance, Lucas knew it was a Devil Fruit.
Lucas hesitated about this Devil Fruit because he had never seen this fruit in One Piece.
However, more than six years after transmigrating, Lucas had slowly forgotten some of the One Piece plot because he had to think about how to survive every day.
“Survive, then take revenge.
Devil Fruits are rare, yet I encountered one; perhaps this is fate.”
Muttering to himself, Lucas took a bite of that poop-flavored Devil Fruit.
The unbelievable taste made Lucas roll his eyes, but he still forced himself to swallow it.
[Energy replenished, system initializing]
[Name: Saris Lucas]
[Age: 15]
[Height: 165]
[Physical Strength: ☆]
[Swordsmanship: ☆]
[Devil Fruit Ability: Plant Manipulation (☆)]
[Note: To manipulate or accelerate the growth of a certain plant, you must first touch that variety of plant to acquire its characteristics.
You only need to touch a type of plant once.]
[Haki: None]
[Skills: Basic Swordsmanship (Novice)]
[Reputation: Unknown (You are just a small shrimp on the sea.
No, you’re not even a shrimp!)]
[Current Combat Power: F- (Next level: E)]
[Note 1: Every time the host increases their overall strength, you will receive one lottery chance, so please work hard to improve your strength.]
[Note 2: If the host kills an opponent of the same level or higher, you will receive a portion of the opponent’s insights.
Martial arts experts increase physical ability, Fruit users increase fruit insight, and swordsmanship experts increase swordsmanship insight!]
[System initialized, granting the host one free lottery chance.]
The moment he saw the system, Lucas actually had the urge to cry.
So he did have a golden finger, but wasn’t it a bit too late?
F***ing bastard.
“Lottery!”
Following Lucas’s words, countless skill icons flashed rapidly, finally stopping on a sword.
[Congratulations to the host for obtaining Gale Swordsmanship!]
Instantly, knowledge regarding Gale Swordsmanship flooded Lucas’s mind.
Over the next few days, Lucas spent his time familiarizing himself with Gale Swordsmanship and the Forest-Forest Fruit.
Gale Swordsmanship has six skills in total, two of which are passives:
[Indomitable (Passive)]: The more difficult the battle and the more stamina consumed, the higher the damage of the sword strikes.
[Born from Death (Passive)]: In team battles, when stamina consumption exceeds 80%, “Born from Death” is triggered.
Each kill restores a small amount of stamina.
[Steel Tempest]: Swing the sword forward to unleash a strike or a flying slash!
[Wind Wall]: Two modes.
One is unleashing a wind barrier to block frontal attacks; the other is a variant where the wind barrier transforms into a tornado to attack enemies.
(Different from the game, slightly modified.)
[Sweeping Blade]: Quickly dash towards the enemy and strike.
[Last Breath]: Accumulate sword intent to unleash an extremely powerful strike.
However, Lucas could not use these skills yet.
His foundation in swordsmanship was too poor and needed to be trained from scratch, as he had never specialized in it before.
As for the Forest-Forest Fruit, Lucas discovered that after touching a type of plant, he could accelerate its growth, and it would grow at an extremely fast speed.
Just after figuring this out, Lucas encountered a Marine warship and was rescued onto the ship.
Once on board, he realized that he had encountered the famous Vice Admiral Tsuru.
…
“Kid, why aren’t you training?”
Just as Lucas was sitting on the deck in a daze, a voice came from behind him.
Lucas turned his head and saw a tall female Marine wearing a peach-colored tight miniskirt, her long legs in high heels, displaying her proud figure to the fullest.
Gion, currently a Rear Admiral at Marineford, future Admiral candidate Momousagi, the Marine’s number one female swordsman, known as the female version of Hawkeye.
“Sister Gion, I was wondering if I could join the Marines?” Lucas asked.
Perhaps Lucas’s dream used to be to become a pirate like Luffy, but that was no longer the case.
Two years of slavery had changed his thinking.
The evil of pirates was beyond imagination.
Lucas wanted to become stronger; he wanted to define his own justice.
Without any foundation, even with the system, he had to build a solid physical foundation, and the Marines were the best choice.