The Eve of the Summit War?

The only thing he needed to worry about was the bizarre assortment of Devil Fruits in the pirate world.

Some rule-based Fruits were truly difficult to deal with.

For example, Perona, the Ghost Princess under Gecko Moria, had eaten the [Hollow-Hollow Fruit]. She could summon [Negative Hollows], instantly making people utterly despondent and stripping them of their will to fight.

Then there was Sugar under Doflamingo. Her [Hobby-Hobby Fruit] could directly turn people into toys.

And the woman under Gild Tesoro who possessed the [Lucky-Lucky Fruit] could drain others' luck and make her opponents incredibly unlucky.

However, danger also represented opportunity.

Devil Fruits were certainly dangerous, but he could eat one too!

If he could find a Paramecia or Mythical Zoan Devil Fruit to eat, it could likewise grant him a tremendous boost in combat power.

But when it came to the most ideal Devil Fruit...

A name quickly surfaced in Zhu Mang's mind.

The Press-Press Fruit!

The one Fujitora ate in the original story!

Anyone who had watched Dragon Ball knew that Saiyans had two most important cheats.

The first was the Dragon Balls.

The second was the Gravity Chamber.

However, Son Goku and the others generally would not use the Dragon Balls to enhance their strength like transmigrators in fanfiction did.

Therefore, their power mainly came from training with the Gravity Chamber.

If he had the Press-Press Fruit, he could keep himself under conditions of multiplied gravity anytime, anywhere.

Kakarot had been a low-class warrior with a battle power of only 2 at birth and merely a few hundred as an adult. (This referred to before Raditz went to Earth; Son Goku was already an adult when Gohan was born.) Yet he had ultimately used this method to become a Super Saiyan, even a Super Saiyan God!

He himself would at least have a battle power of one thousand as an adult. Becoming a Super Saiyan should be no problem, right?

Still, in the One Piece World, it seemed his current strength was already more than enough?

Of course, Devil Fruits' weakness to water was also a problem.

But he remembered that Vegapunk, the so-called "greatest brain" in the One Piece World, possessed the technology to make objects eat Devil Fruits.

Perhaps he could transfer a Devil Fruit's effects onto an object, such as a gravity bracelet or gravity necklace that could freely control the multiplier.

He would see when the time came.

He just did not know what point in the One Piece timeline this was.

"Do you have any recent newspapers?"

Everything he had considered had happened in an instant.

After sorting out his thoughts, Zhu Mang looked up at the News Coo.

He knew these News Coos possessed considerable intelligence and could communicate.

"Hmph!" The News Coo haughtily turned its head away.

As a subordinate of Big News Morgans, it had roamed the seas for so long. Even the most vicious pirate captains would voluntarily give it 50 Beli when they saw it.

Yet this guy had actually grabbed it by the neck and forcibly taken things from its mailbag!

And now he wanted its help?

Dream on!

"Not talking? Fine. Then I'll use you for a snack. After I fill my stomach, I'll go find it myself," Zhu Mang said, baring a mouthful of gleaming white teeth.

"Caw? Caw!" The News Coo froze upon hearing that.

What the hell?!

He wanted to eat a bird?!

Seeing the undisguised eagerness in Zhu Mang's eyes, it hurriedly stretched out a wing and vigorously pointed at a stack of papers in another pocket of its mailbag.

Zhu Mang tossed the wanted posters aside and pulled out the stack of papers.

So these were the newspapers.

When he opened the paper, the front-page headline taking up the largest space immediately came into view.

In the photograph was a young man with messy hair and a few freckles on his face. Sea-Prism Stone shackles bound his hands, and his expression was indifferent, as though he had accepted the fate awaiting him.

Below it were listed the young man's identity and several related reports.

He was a "heinous" pirate.

The commander of the second division of one of the world's strongest pirate crews—the Whitebeard Pirates.

"Fire Fist Ace?!"

Although his real appearance differed somewhat from the anime, Zhu Mang quickly matched him with the character in his memory after reading the report.

Along with it came memories concerning the current point in time.

If the plot had not gone off track, then this was the eve of the "Summit War."

The so-called Summit War began after the Marines obtained Fire Fist Ace from Blackbeard. In order to crush the pirates' rampant arrogance, they decided to publicly execute Fire Fist Ace at Marine Headquarters, Marineford. As a result, they drew the Whitebeard Pirates into an unprecedented war against the Marines.

For this battle, the Marines had gathered nearly a hundred thousand elite soldiers from all over the world and summoned the Shichibukai.

Besides their own sixteen division commanders and crew members, the Whitebeard Pirates had also assembled forty-three other pirate crews affiliated with them, bringing their total force to roughly fifty to one hundred thousand.

In other words, the two sides had between one hundred and fifty to two hundred thousand combatants combined!

Whether in the manga storyline of his previous life or in this real One Piece World, this war was an undisputed pinnacle!

It was an absolute spectacle!

He had to go watch!

How could he miss the chance to watch an anime live on-site?

Zhu Mang's blood instantly began to boil.

"Hey, one last question." Having obtained the information he wanted, Zhu Mang slipped the newspaper back into the News Coo's mailbag.

"Caw?" The News Coo silently cursed this shameless freeloading behavior. How was this any different from reading a book without voting for it?

But it also knew that circumstances were stronger than individuals, so it could only obediently submit.

"How do I get to Marine Headquarters?"

"Caw?"

"Hm?"

"Caw caw caw!"

The News Coo hurriedly pointed in a direction with its wing.

As special creatures that flew across the sea without needing so-called Log Poses, News Coos indeed had their own way of identifying directions.

At the very least, it could remember its own location, the nearby islands, and the positions of several important islands.

Otherwise, how could it collect the latest news from its boss and sell newspapers all over the sea?

"That way, huh? Fine, you can go." Zhu Mang bent down and picked up the stack of wanted posters from the ground.

"Caw?" The News Coo tilted its head at him, seemingly asking why he was not returning the wanted posters.

"I'm borrowing them for now," Zhu Mang said with a grin.

The News Coo rolled its eyes. He called it borrowing, but the deadline was probably permanent.

Damned human!

It did not dare say anything. Having barely escaped the fate of becoming roast bird, it hurriedly flapped its wings and flew away.

After the News Coo left, Zhu Mang looked down at the thick stack of wanted posters in his hands and patted them with satisfaction.

To him, these were not wanted posters at all. They were clearly bankbooks, one after another.

All he had to do next was run into pirates, capture them, and bring them to Marine Headquarters to cash in those bankbooks!

As for joining the Marines or becoming a pirate... he had no such plans for the time being.

Well, unless there was profit to be made.

After all, from what he could tell, he had the ability to say, "I don't eat beef," in the One Piece World. He only needed to guard against those bizarre rule-based Fruits.

Still, the One Piece World was so vast, and there were not that many such strange Fruits. He might not even encounter any.

So this time...

I'm invincible. Do whatever you want.

Well, I'll do whatever I want too.

I'll go wherever I want~