Grand Line

"Ha ha, Kuina. Congratulations on defeating the newbie village's gatekeeper boss," Lin Feng said with a smile.

"Thank you." Though Kuina did not understand, she grasped the general meaning.

"Do you still want to play? If not, shall we head out to sea?" Richard asked.

"Let's go. There's nothing fun left in Loguetown anyway. I've already explored it enough," Xia Mi said.

"Then let's go. Do you need to say goodbye to your sister from another father and mother?" Lin Feng asked Kuina.

"No need. Don't disturb her; she has her own life.

But I want to stock up on food and water. Do you want to come with me?" Kuina said.

"Then we'll go together," Lin Feng said. His Space Ring was still so empty; it would be good to fill it with supplies.

The group then restocked some daily necessities and put them into the Space Ring.

"Hehe, let's go!" Fenrir rubbed his hands together. He could race again.

The group arrived at the shore, and Fenrir quickly took out a jet ski. The others followed suit and released their own jet skis.

"Stop! I've had my eye on you for a long time. Hand over those weird-looking boats!"

After the shout, dozens—perhaps over a hundred—people surrounded them.

Fine, they were probably the people who had targeted them when they came ashore.

"Who wants to deal with them?" Richard asked.

"Me! I want to fight too," Fenrir said, raising his hand. His younger sister usually kept him on a tight leash, forbidding this and that. Now that he had finally been let out, he naturally wanted to have as much fun as possible.

"Fine, I'll allow it this time." Xia Mi tossed out a massive Zanbato, over two meters long in total. One look was enough to tell it was a battlefield weapon.

Fenrir caught it easily. As the Dragon King who wielded strength, he handled such a heavy weapon as naturally as an extension of his arm.

"Then I'll warm up too?" Lin Feng said.

"Kuina will fight too." Kuina drew her sword.

The remaining three did not move. Three people were more than enough to beat this group until they cried for their fathers and mothers.

In fact, the battle ended in less than two minutes. If they were not quick enough, they would not even get a kill.

Fenrir did not know the meaning of restraint. Wielding the huge Zanbato, he charged in and out, cutting them down until they were sprawled everywhere. He rampaged through the crowd, immensely strong yet incredibly fast and agile.

Given his physical defenses, even if he stood still and let those pirates hack at him, they would not be able to break through his defenses. Yet he did not let them hit him even once.

Kuina and Lin Feng only managed to snatch a few scattered kills. Fenrir cut down everyone else.

The East Blue truly deserved its title as the weakest sea. Let alone anyone impressive, there was not even a single pirate among them who could be called an elite. They were merely a rabble gathered together.

"Brother, don't be so violent. Look how dirty you are," Xia Mi said unhappily, waving her hand to clean the blood from Fenrir's body.

Fenrir merely stood there with a foolish grin, letting his sister clean him without arguing. He raised his hand and stored the Zanbato in his own Space Ring. He liked this weapon and had to save it for next time.

Xia Mi pretended not to notice his little move.

Richard took out a yacht and stepped aboard. "Those who haven't had enough can keep riding the jet skis. Those who are done can come rest on the yacht."

"Then I'll take the yacht," Xia Mi said.

"I'll take the yacht too." Lin Feng hurried after her. After riding a jet ski for half the day, his butt hurt.

The remaining three all said that jet skis were great.

Thus, three jet skis led the way across the sea, with a yacht following behind.

The yacht was also a special model Richard had modified. Its top speed was only slightly slower than the jet skis.

It just required Richard to operate it manually.

In Loguetown, Smoker waved a hand, and the Marine soldiers under his command escorted away the surviving pirates.

Watching the yacht gradually disappear in the distance, he felt that a great storm was about to rise on the Grand Line.

With such an unruly and lawless group entering it, he could only hope they would not clash with the Marines.

Another three or four hours later, Fenrir and the others had played enough and obediently put away their jet skis before entering the yacht.

By then, Reverse Mountain was already in sight.

Twin Capes lay at the base of Reverse Mountain. It was the only passage from the Four Blues into the Grand Line, where five ocean currents converged.

A small yacht could not even make a splash after entering it. Ahead of the yacht, a steep slope suddenly appeared. One careless mistake meant shipwreck and death.

From time to time, pirate ships from other seas sailed in as well.

Proper merchant ships never took this route. They traveled directly across the Red Line, then switched ships and continued their voyage.

Only pirates, lacking legitimate identities, could come here and gamble their lives on the passage.

Kuina sent out a flying slash, splitting apart the pirate ship ahead and clearing the obstacle from their route.

As they passed the rear side, they went by a lighthouse. That should have been the lighthouse where Crocus, the ship's doctor of One Piece, lived in seclusion.

Unfortunately, they did not happen to encounter the Island Whale that rammed into the Red Line. Otherwise, they could have seen just how enormous the legendary Island Whale was.

The yacht safely descended and entered the Grand Line. Then it was taught a harsh lesson by the Grand Line's sudden shifts in weather.

One moment, the sky was clear for miles; the next, dark clouds could gather, followed by fierce winds and torrential rain.

Richard would not let such weather ruin the mood. He nudged Xia Mi with his foot. "Go. Get to work."

"Can't you be a little more polite?" Xia Mi said unhappily.

"I'm busy too. Aren't you embarrassed to just sit around?" Richard patted the helm.

"Fine, I'll go." Xia Mi walked outside irritably. Before long, the fierce wind and rain stopped, the dark clouds dispersed, and the sun reappeared.

Richard nodded in satisfaction. That was more like it.

"Impressive. As expected of a Dragon King with Authority maxed out. I hereby declare you the Kami of the New World," Lin Feng flattered her.

There were seven routes in the first half of the Grand Line. The magnetic fields here were chaotic, and a compass alone could not find the way. Only a Log Pose could locate the islands along the routes accurately.

All seven routes led to one shared destination—the Sabaody Archipelago. It was the endpoint of the first half of the Grand Line.

To reach the second half of the Grand Line from there, one either had to cross the Red Line or dive ten thousand meters into the deep sea, pass through Fish-Man Island, and sail underwater to the latter half. For pirates, the latter was the only option.

Richard and the others did not have a Log Pose for any of the seven routes. They could only rely on Richard to point them in the right direction.

Naturally, Richard chose Alabasta. Since they had come to the world of One Piece, they had to visit this desert kingdom.

It was one of the foremost great nations in the entire world of One Piece, with a population exceeding ten million. That would be nothing remarkable in other worlds, but in the world of One Piece, where the ocean occupied most of the land and land itself was scarce, it could already be considered a rare continent.

After asking for everyone's opinion, they quickly reached an agreement. The others also wanted to visit Alabasta and see what the legendary money-burning dens of casinos were really like.