Boat Racing

"We don't have a ship. How are we supposed to put out to sea?" When they reached the shore, Kuina was dumbfounded.

She had originally prepared a small wooden boat, but there was no way so many people could sail out in it, right? And they did not have enough food, either.

Yet none of the others seemed troubled in the slightest.

"Isn't this easy? Richard, get to work," Xia Mi said.

"Why don't you do it? With your mastery of Alchemy, wouldn't making a boat be simple?" Richard complained, but his hands never stopped moving.

With a casual motion, he molded several jet skis out of dirt, followed by a yacht and a submarine.

Incidentally, none of them ran on fuel. Richard used Magic Crystal Cores as power sources and engraved Magic Arrays onto them, turning them into magically powered mechanical technology.

Richard took out several rings. They were Space Rings he had crafted himself. Their capacity was not particularly large, only around ten or twenty cubic meters each, and he handed them out one by one. Everyone could store their own jet ski.

"Oh, how generous. Back then, you wouldn't give me extra ones no matter how much I asked," Xia Mi teased. She had long since gotten one from Richard, and hers was fairly spacious.

"I couldn't make them back then. Space Rings were precious to me at the time too, okay? Before I became a god, my entire family only had a few Space Rings." Richard spoke irritably. He had only recently learned how to make them.

No one knew where the Space Rings in the Coiling Dragon World came from. In any case, Richard had been a god for so long and still had not discovered their method of creation.

He had constructed these Space Rings directly with the Rinnegan's ocular technique, then fixed that ability into the formation engraved on the rings.

Afterward, he put away the yacht and submarine, intending to have some fun racing jet skis first.

Everyone fiddled with their Space Rings. Lin Feng was especially exaggerated, stroking his ring like it was a treasure.

As he did so, he said, "This is standard protagonist equipment. I've been transmigrated for so long, and I finally get some protagonist treatment."

"We still don't have enough food. Did you prepare enough? Shouldn't we stock some food and fresh water in the Space Rings?" Kuina asked.

"Relax. You won't starve to death. Just follow us." Xia Mi took her toward a jet ski.

"Jet skis? Interesting. I never had the chance to try one in my previous life, but now that I've transmigrated, I actually get to play with one." Lin Feng eagerly picked one out as well.

"I want to play too." Fenrir walked toward one.

Nearly two years had passed in Xia Mi's world since Richard had left it.

Under Xia Mi's guidance, Fenrir and Erii's intelligence had improved tremendously, and they had acquired plenty of common sense about life. By now, they were no different from ordinary teenagers.

Naturally, both of them were interested in jet skis too.

Thus, aside from Kuina, who did not know how to ride one yet and followed Xia Mi, everyone else took a jet ski and began racing across the vast waters of the East Blue.

Richard's specially modified jet skis could reach speeds of more than two hundred kilometers per hour. For ordinary people, that speed was practically suicide.

But given their current strength, even crashing would not be much of a problem.

Before long, Kuina became interested too and wanted to ride a jet ski herself.

And so, another jet ski appeared on the vast sea.

"Do you know where we're going?" Kuina asked timidly.

"Just follow Richard." Xia Mi knew how vast the range of that guy's spiritual scan was. For all she knew, the entire planet beneath their feet was within his scanning range.

The group sped past one merchant ship after another on their jet skis. They even encountered two pirate ships along the way, drawing wave after wave of astonished cries and envious, jealous stares. The local natives had never seen such fast watercraft before.

If they could, forget the pirate ships—even those merchant vessels would have transformed into pirates to steal their jet skis. Unfortunately, they could not catch up. They could only watch as Richard's group rapidly approached, then left them far behind.

The two pirate ships fired several cannon shots in frustration, only for Xia Mi to turn around, pull out an RPG, and blast them into the sky with a single shot.

She carried an entire arsenal with her. Forget RPGs—she could even pull out nuclear bombs. She had robbed countless military bases and private armed organizations.

In less than a few hours, they arrived at Loguetown.

A journey that should have taken ten days to half a month had taken them only half a day.

After racing for several hours, their initial excitement gradually faded, so they decided to rest in Loguetown for a while.

Once ashore, everyone stored away their jet ski. Richard gave the others some gold coins, and they dispersed to have fun on their own.

"What about mine?" Xia Mi was displeased. Everyone else got some, so why was she the only one left out?

"Do you even need this little bit?" Richard was speechless. She was already filthy rich, yet she still wanted this much. Besides, her Alchemy was so powerful that if all else failed, she could grab a handful of dirt and turn stone into gold.

"What I have is mine, but that doesn't mean you can refuse to give me any," Xia Mi declared righteously.

"Fine." Richard tossed out a pile of gold coins.

Loguetown, the place where dreams began. The place where One Piece ended. It was a necessary stop for traveling from the East Blue to the Grand Line, as well as the final supply point before entering the Grand Line. From here, one only needed to continue onward and cross Twin Capes to enter the Grand Line.

Every year, an unknown number of pirates set sail from here for the Grand Line, carrying hope and dreams in their hearts.

But dreams were beautiful, while reality was cruel. More than half would suffer shipwreck and death at Twin Capes, while the rest would be taught a harsh lesson by the Grand Line's brutal natural conditions and the savage strength of other people. Very few ever made a name for themselves.

That was why the Marines rarely bothered stopping pirates from the Four Blues from entering the Grand Line. Rather than letting them cause trouble in the Four Blues, it was better to let reality beat them down on the Grand Line.

Only those who managed to make something of themselves on the Grand Line received the Marines' special attention.

They called it free action, but in reality, they still moved together. As they put it, it was livelier when everyone went together. What was fun about wandering around alone?

As a bustling commercial town, Loguetown had all kinds of shops.

When Kuina saw the various exquisite blades hanging in a weapon shop, she could barely move on. Although she had long since received her graduation weapon from her old man—a Great Grade Sword, Wado Ichimonji—and had even begun using Armament Haki to nurture her own black blade, what swordsman did not love swords?

"If you like them, go in and take a look. It's not like we're in a hurry," Xia Mi said.

Like a child who had received an adult's permission, Kuina cheered and ran into the shop.

Erii followed closely behind. She was interested too. Although she already had the Kusanagi Sword Richard had given her, she could still go in and admire the others.

Lin Feng could not appreciate these Japanese-style swords. His sword was a traditional ancient sword, which he had forged himself out of boredom after becoming invincible.

He had used the Frost Moon Sword-Forging Method Kuina uploaded along with Alchemy, making it a divine weapon and sharp blade. Even in the One Piece world, it would be no inferior to a Great Grade Sword or the like.