Red-Eyed Rodney?

Krieg was incredibly strong. Among ordinary people in the East Blue, he already counted as powerful. He swung the one-ton Great War Spear with such force that it howled through the air, without showing the slightest sign of fatigue.

His attacks were powerful and heavy, and every collision carried an explosion. No one could figure out how it worked.

Rodney had high attack power but low health, so he didn't dare clash with Krieg head-on. He could only fight while retreating, while the cannon fodder didn't dare step forward to join the battle.

After everything that had just happened, they had seen Krieg's cold-blooded style clearly. It was impossible for them to go up and throw their lives away again. If the guy casually killed them, they wouldn't even have a place to cry.

Staying alive was the most important thing.

"Bastard! If you've got the guts, stop dodging!"

Krieg was so furious at his inability to catch Rodney that he scratched his ears and cheeks, yet he could do nothing about it. Rodney leaped up and down like a monkey. Not only had Krieg failed to catch him, but the deck of the ship was already riddled with holes. If this continued, it would probably be destroyed.

"Sure!" Rodney threw out a kunai, once again with an Explosive Tag attached.

Krieg had learned his lesson this time. He swung the Great War Spear directly at the kunai, but unfortunately, a Shuriken arrived first and struck the kunai, deflecting its trajectory and causing it to land precisely beside Krieg's feet.

Boom!

Once again, Krieg was blasted into the air. The Great War Spear flew from his hand and shot straight off the pirate ship, plunging into the sea. It raised a spray of waves, then disappeared without a ripple.

"Krieg, it's over!"

Rodney used the fastest method available to cut off Krieg's head, leaving a headless corpse behind. He put the head into his waist pouch, then looked around at the pirates. After thinking for a moment, he attached an Explosive Tag to a nearby mast.

He waved at the group and said with a smile, "Bye-bye! Whether you can survive depends on your own luck." He flipped backward, leaped off the deck, landed on the sea, and left while casually stepping across the waves.

"Quick, quick, quick! That plague god has left! Get up there!"

"Get up there! You people above, throw down the rope!" This was the last ship, and the only hope for the more than one thousand people. If something happened to this ship, they would have no way to survive.

However, Rodney was rather ruthless when he did things...

Boom!

With an explosion, the towering mast was blown apart. That blast seemed to trigger a chain reaction, and explosions began erupting across the ship one after another. The Drill Dagger Saber was destroyed just like that by the Multiplying Explosive Tags.

Rodney cut off every last hope those pirates had.

As the saying went, becoming a pirate meant being prepared to be buried at sea. It was practically impossible for him to spare them. If they committed evil, they had to pay the price.

On the sea, human lives were both the most worthless and the most valuable things. The valuable ones were the lives of those outstanding pirates. As for everyone else, they were merely cannon fodder.

Ignoring the group's wails, Rodney completed his mission, and the rewards were officially issued.

Mission: Exterminate Krieg

Mission Rank: C

Status: Completed

Reward: 500 Mission Points, one Eternal Chakra Fruit, Shadow Clone Technique, Taijutsu: Leaf Dragon God.

After eating the Eternal Chakra Fruit, part of the Chakra he had expended immediately recovered, and his reserves increased as well.

Then he pressed his index and middle fingers together, crossed both hands into a cross, formed the Ram Seal, and shouted softly, "Shadow Clone Technique!"

Poof!

Someone exactly identical to him suddenly appeared beside him. He sent the clone to another location, and the two of them ran in opposite directions. Before long, the Shadow Clone dispersed, and its memories came flooding back.

It was a very strange sensation, but it was indeed a cheating method specifically for farming experience.

As expected of a technique developed by the Second Hokage, it was truly practical.

"Leaf Dragon God!"

His body spun at high speed, condensing a huge dragon-shaped whirlwind. It swept up a massive amount of seawater, and a waterspout appeared out of nowhere on the sea.

The waterspout dispersed, revealing Rodney. As expected of a Taijutsu technique invented by the ninja who had once been known as the "strongest Taijutsu ninja in Konoha," it was pretty good.

This technique had been invented by a Konoha ninja. Although it was an anime-original technique, it had still been included in the system. There were also quite a few techniques that had never appeared before, waiting for Rodney to exchange for and use.

After returning to the merchant ship, Rodney went back to his room while the ship continued sailing across the sea. He opened the system.

Host: Jotaro J. Rodney

Race: Human

Level: Genin

Attributes: Wind, Fire, Water, Lightning, Earth, Yin, Yang

Ninjutsu: Great Fireball, Phoenix Sage Fire, Water Clone...

Taijutsu: Uchiha Shurikenjutsu, Shadow Leaf Dance, Konoha Whirlwind...

Kekkei Genkai: None

Mission Points: 760

He had raised his Mission Points this high by completing missions over the past few days. It was time to exchange for some techniques.

Heh heh, my strength can increase again!

"Lightning Release: Gratitude Wave 250, Fire Release: Dragon Fire Technique 200, Water Release: Wave Riding Strike 300."

After working so hard for so long, he directly spent all his savings.

Lightning Release: Gratitude Wave could be combined with Water Release to deal double damage. Of course, that was assuming he remembered to do it at the time...

Fire Release: Dragon Fire Technique was a straight-line attack, but both its speed and power were top-notch.

As for Water Release: Wave Riding Strike, it was a Water Release technique invented by the Second Hokage. It was also known as "Instant Water" and "Clear Water Wave." It created a watery environment with Water Release, then used the surface to slide rapidly. It could also be used to move at high speed underwater.

They were all highly practical techniques.

With the destruction of the Krieg Pirates, the largest pirate crew in the East Blue by number, Rodney's name spread throughout the East Blue overnight. One man had taken down a fleet of more than a thousand people by himself, and the three strongest members of the Krieg Pirates had all died at his hands. He possessed an unknown Devil Fruit ability and had astonishing combat power.

The strange red eyes he possessed became a symbol akin to a demon in the mouths of the surviving pirates.

From then on, the name Red-Eyed Rodney spread throughout the East Blue.

Rodney: "..."

Looking at the newspaper filled with reports about him, Rodney tore it to pieces.

What the hell is Red-Eyed Rodney? What kind of ridiculous nickname is that?

Couldn't the East Blue newspaper learn from the World Economic Report's style of writing?

Couldn't they write something positive for once? He was an upright hero, too, all right?

What's with the red eyes?

He had finally found somewhere to take a vacation, and this newspaper had completely ruined his mood. The guy had gone entirely off track. Instead of caring about his reputation, he had started worrying about the nickname those people had given him.

That was true. If he didn't deal with it properly, this thing would follow him for the rest of his life. He couldn't let that group ruin him.

He had to think of a way to correct this title. What should he write?

How about... Fifty-Fifty?

No, no. He wasn't Konoha's Number One Technician. How could he use that name?

"Fate Weaver Rodney. That name sounds incredibly impressive. Yes, I'll do it."

He took out paper and a pen and immediately began writing furiously. With a grand flourish, an excellent article appeared on the page. He then found the nearest East Blue newspaper office and submitted it, slipping in several large-denomination Beli notes as well. It was nothing—he had merely put them there casually.

On the third day, the article he had written appeared in the most prominent position in the East Blue newspaper.

"...Blooming amid slaughter, just like a flower at dawn, Jotaro J. Rodney, a man who dared toy even with fate..." Several thousand words followed, primarily analyzing the origins of his nickname and praising him... Ahem, reporting the facts truthfully.

The name Fate Weaver quickly spread. Compared to the nickname "Red Eye," it was incomparably better.

Rodney easily resolved his nickname crisis.

He had only lost several bills in the process...

It wasn't as if he lacked money.

Afterward, he went to collect Krieg's bounty and discovered that the man's price had not reached the tens of millions it would later become. Even though he possessed the largest fleet in the East Blue, his bounty had not risen that high. Perhaps Smoker and the others also knew that he had merely gathered a group of assorted rabble?

Because Krieg was too cunning, they hadn't managed to apprehend him in time.

Then Rodney had wiped out the entire group in one go. As for how many of that rabble survived, it wasn't something he needed to worry about.

He continued his daily routine of farming missions. Then, one day, he followed a merchant ship to a stop in front of a restaurant on the sea.

The sea restaurant, Baratie!