It would take us two days to reach Arabasta from Drum island. And in that time I had a… "unique" idea.
"No." Al said. Trying to shoot me down. His wispy limbs crossed in an X over what passed as his chest.
"Come on can't we just-"
"No Carter-boy! I will not let you stab me with that thing!" his shadowy form gestured to the stand arrow shard in my hand. "We have no idea what it will do to me!"
"You are a spiritual life form, very similar to a stand already. If we prick you with the arrow you might evolve into a more powerful form!" I argued.
"And if it fails, what happens? Oh right! I DIE!" Al retorted.
Seeing that this was going nowhere I relented. "Fine."
Al breathed a sigh of relief. "Thank you Carter-boy, for a second the I thought you would-"
"I'll stab the ring instead." and I quickly did so before Al could react.
"EHHH!? Carter you bastard!" Al shouted as a bright light shined from the point where the two objects collided. Al was sucked back into the ring, and then something unexpected happened.
I heard the system ding.
[Notice: Interaction between items: {Gluttonous Feeder Ring} and {Stand Arrow Shard} has resulted in {Incarnation Entity: Alikred}, to evolve into new existence: {Incarnation Stand: Alikred Derkila}.
System has detected that item: {Gluttonous Feeder Ring} can no longer properly house the entity: Alikred.
System requesting permission to assimilate Item: {Gluttonous Feeder Ring}, with Hoast's body.
Y/N]
Without hesitation I clicked Y. I was excited to see where this was going.
[assimilation confirmed.
Prosesesing…
Successful.
Host has acquired: {Incarnation Stand: Alikred Derkila}
Abilities: Can devour and store the haki and devil fruit effects of other individuals. Devoured haki will slowly be assimilated into user's until the user's true haki is of the same potency. Devoured devil fruit effects can be released as if they were the user's own attacks.
Unlike other stands {Incarnation Stand: Alikred Derkila} is a fully conscious creature that can be seen by others if the host so chooses, and can separate from the host for prolonged periods of time]
"Ha! Now that's what I'm talking about!" I shouted. Causing Justice to look at me like I was insane.
But before my excitement could settle, I felt an incredibly dark presence behind me.
"Caerter-boy." I heard a very regal and intimidating voice behind me.
I slowly craned my neck around to see the source of the voice.
Floating right next to me was a man I recognised from my memories. Demon King: Derkila. Or as I knew him: Alikerd.
He was wearing a false slime that sent shivers down my spine.
"A-al! Hi there buddy!" I tried to smile. "I like the new look?"
"Im going to hurt you now." he said before lunging at me.
— — —
After Al had his fill of trying to kill me (and getting Justice pissed off at him for throwing off her flight pattern), he retreated into my body since it was his new vessel after I absorbed the ring.
I was still feeling lucky. So like the senju that I am now, I decided to gamble and bought a tier 4 item box.
Item box:
[Opening item boxes…
- Eternal Pose to Punk Hazard
- SIQ: a chemical drug used to cause rapid and unpredictable evolution in animals and humans.
- Flower Eye Pendant: when worn increases observation haki +4 ]
'A decent haul.' I thought to myself as I inspected the items.
By far the best of these was the pose to Punk hazard. Punk hazard was currently quarantined due to Caesar Clown's gas explosion last year. So the marines were not handing out eternal poses to it.
Just like the hero water, I wanted to study the SIQ and I decided to give the Flower eye pendant to Vivi when I found her on Arabasta.
Other than that nothing happened on our journey to the desert kingdom.
— — —
We touched down just outside the town of Rainbase. Why were we here and not at Alubarna you ask?
I'm here to embrace the way of the Blood Ravens! Imma steal shit from Crocodile!
I dismounted from Justice and almost immediately she dove into the sand and buried herself in the golden grains.
"Ah, that's right. You're part sandwing." I said as I saw Justice settle in and start relaxing. "Well, I'll leave you to it. I'll be back in a few hours." There was nothing to worry about, sandwings coils survive blistering temperatures like it was nothing.
Justice made a sound that when translated likely meant "yeah yeah whatever" before passing out under the sand.
I chuckled and began walking towards the city. But before I made it very far I had an idea. I created a wood clone and had it disguise itself as someone no one in this world would recognise.
The water man himself, Lloyd Frontera. Of course I wasn't bringing water at the moment as Crocodile had not started his drought plan yet, that was still three years away.
This clone had one purpose. To create a merchant persona to answer the navy's questions about where I acquire all the cool shit I have.
"Go make yourself known as a merchant while I'm "strategically transferring equipment to the alternative location." I told the clone and he nodded and began to walk to the city.
I used the mayfly technique to directly burrow towards Crocodile's casino. I made the conscious decision to bypass the casino itself entirely and go straight to the underground base. I did not trust my newly confirmed affinity for gambling anywhere near a casino, especially one run by Crocodile.
Emerging from the wall of Crocodile's base, I scanned the general area. I wanted to take crocodile's stuff, find robin and get the hell out, so I needed to know exactly where the stuff I wanted was. And the best was to find hidden things with invisible helpers.
"Alkired," I summoned my new-old-new stand.
"What do you want, Carter-boy?" Al asked with a huff. Guess he still isn't over what happened on the way here.
"I need you to search for crocodile's vaults, once you find them come back and let me know." I said as I weaved the hand seals for the transformation jutsu. A puff of smoke later and my form was replaced by a small stone, hard to see in the shady corner of the hallway I had picked.
For those of you wondering, yes. I can use normal chakra techniques, not just wood release. I can also use water, earth, fire, yin, and yang release. Yin and fire release coming from the Uchiha lineage and the others coming from Hashirama's lineage. Why didn't I use all these abilities when I can perfectly recall every jutsu and technique shown in the anime and manga thanks to my perfect memory seal? Because I don't know how to properly use them.
Wood release and genjutsu I can use without issue because they are the primary abilities I inherited from merging myself with hashirama's cells and the sharingan, so the system gives me a hand. Using the other natures? I get no help from the system. I'll have to figure everything else out on my own. The transformation jutsu had taken me a few weeks to get down other than that I could only do basic chakra control stuff. I couldn't even water walk yet. Wall walking was the best I had. And don't even get me started on when I tried to use sealess jutsu.
Rasengan? Rotation nearly tore my fingers off. Chakra scalpel? Couldn't even slice a piece of bread. Mystical palm? Slightly better but not much.
A while later Al returned. "I found the vault, and it has some serious goodies." he said, beckoning me to follow him. I undid the transformation jutsu and walked up the wall to the ceiling, then I followed Al to the vault.
Entering the vault was child's play with my devil fruit. After entering the small room, my eyes widened as I was greeted by the sight of treasures piled high, equipment gleaming and materials galore.
I snatched up everything. Gold and silver bars piled high, Cases and cases or berri, just over a billion's worth.
The skillful grade blade: Kashu, eight sets of sea stone cuffs and the entire seastone cage used to trap Luffy in the original timeline.
Two whole Branches of Adam wood! A few kilos of Kuuigosu wood. Massive Crates of dance powder, and the best part of the entire lot: two devil fruits! The Inu Inu no mi model: Dachshund, and the Bomu Bo mu no mi.
The Dachshund fruit was alright but the Bomu Bomu no mi was a true treasure in my eyes. It was yet another devil fruit victim of just having bad users.
Ganzui and Gem were both disgusting, using their own boogers and body filth when they could just as easily use their breath as attacks. But now it was mine and thus I'd find the perfect wielder for it.
With all of Crocodile's treasures plundered, I quickly left the underground base and met back up with my wood clone outside the cassino.
"So, what did you do while I was gone?" I asked Lloyd, who was looking quite proud of himself.
"I fenced all the jewelry we got from Arlong and Eldorago," he said. "Got us a good hundred and fifty million for it."
"Good job, keep making a name for yourself." I told the clone. "Ive got one last thing to do here before I head to the capital"
Lloyd nodded and rushed off to keep making deals. I however turned back to the casino behind me.
'Time we had a chat Miss All Sunday, manager of Rain Dinners cassino.'
— — —
[-Name: Carter Davil
System interface name: N/A
Race: Human
Secondary race: Ancient Giant, Three Eye Tribe,
Secondary bloodlines: Senju, Uchiha,
Age: 15
Occupation: Marine cadet
Title: Kin of Devils
{stats} {inventory} {shop}
Physique: 92.3 / 500 [sage body]
Devil Fruit: Yugo Yugo no mi
Devil Fruit mastery: 24.0 / 100
Haki: 31.6 / 500 [+10]
Free attribute points: 19.3
Shop points: 535,
System skills: Analyze, Bloodline shift, Perfect memory
One Piece: Skills: Devil fruit infusion, Poneglyph reading, Devil fruit identification, Voice of all things, life return,
Otherworldly skills: Sage body, Wood release, Sharingan, Black garnet connection, Cap'n Jack's Luck o' the Sea, Stands: Tungsten Sorcerer, Alikred Derkila,
{stats} {inventory} {shop}
—Weapons—
-Swords: Akuma-Ketsujin, Yoriichi, Keyblade, Kubikiribocho, Shichiseiken, Yamaoroshi, Kiribachi, Sandai-Kitetsu, Yubashiri, Kashu,
-Armor:
Seastone Gauntlet, Vanta Shades, Ring of Wrath, Conqueror's Brooch, Starlight Gem Necklace Flower, Eye Pendant
—Useful items—
5x Feathers of the angel, Shark scale, Key to the locker, silver conch shell, Infinite Sake Gourd, Devil Fruit purification Elixir, Ability thief token,
—Otherworldly items—
Dive's Pokeball, Sukuna finger, Cybertronian protoform, Hashirama's cells (½ original amount), Black garnet shard, Stand arrow shard, Stone of Gelel, Katana Devil Heart,
—Devil Fruit—
Tokage-Tokage no mi model: Drake, Ika-Ika no mi, Kama-Kama no mi, Kopi-Kopi no mi, Ame-Ame no mi, Goe-Goe no mi, Maji-Maji no mi, Yagi-Yagi no mi, Kachi-Kachi no mi, Noko Noko no mi, Baku Baku no mi, Inu Inu no mi model: Dachshund, Bomu Bomu no mi,
—Devil fruit Infusions—
Fast ring(Hayai-hayai no mi),
—Treasure—
1.7 Billion berries, 246x Gold ingot, 73x silver ingot, Diamond clock, Large diamond, 2x Wapometal ingot, Adamantite ingot, Mythril ingot, Magisteel ingot, 37x Chakra metal ingot
—Other Items—
Impact dial, Reject dial, Eisen dial, Journal of Erik Gunhild, Fossilized Tooth, Yuda fang, 3x Adam wood, Kuuigosu wood, Carter Davil's vivre card, Hero water, SIQ, sea stone chunk, sea stone cage, 8x sea stone cuffs, Small dyna stone, Painter, Dance Powder, Eternal pose to the Island of promises, Turtle pose, Eternal Pose to Punk Hazard, Hot tub, King cannon, Royal Drum Crown 7-Shot Bliking Cannon, Titan-like 15 meter wood human golem,
—Ships—
The Salamander, The Shark Superb, Black Pearl
—DNA samples—
3 eye tribe DNA sample, Various fishmen DNA samples, Giant DNA samples, Monkey D. family DNA sample , Gol D./Portgas D. DNA sample, Dinosaur DNA Samples, Prehistoric Animal DNA samples, Chopper DNA Sample,
—Living beings—
Den-Den mushi, Amber Bottle o' Honey Queen, Ammonite,
—Shared equipment—
Plesiosaur armor (equipped to Dive)
Ring of the rock (equipped to Nijiko)
Binding ribbon (equipped to Nami)
Dagger necklace (equipped to Zoro)
Bracelet of essence (equipped to Sanji)
Gazing glass (equipped to Usopp)
Silver knuckles (equipped to Luffy)
Gold Bolt (equipped to Chopper)
—Bounties— (their heads at least)
Rush pirates: 135.5 million (Rush), 110 million (Largo), 93 million (Peirce)
Dero: 42 million
Chameleone: 300 million
Gasparde pirates : 95 million (Gasparde), 57 million (Needless)
Ganzack: 8 million
Eldorago pirates: 10 million (Eldorago), 8 million (Golass)
Shupeal: 3.5 million
Gally: 5 million
Goat head pirates: 12 million (Rally), 6 million (Letsin), 3 million (Tan), 3 million (Malt)
Billy: 3 million
Card pirates: 11.6 million (Bear king), 7.8 million (Honey queen {false}), 9.9 million (Pin joker), 3.2 million (Boo Jack), 6 million (skunk one)
Arlong pirates: 20 million (Arlong), 9 million (Kuroobi), 5.5 million (Chew)
Yurikah: 2.1 million
Seed: 2 million
—Marine supplies—
Eternal log pose to Marineford, Eternal log pose to Impel down, Eternal log pose to Enies lobby, Maps, Log pose, Bounty book,]