The Forgotten Ship

The people of Weatheria were extremely hospitable to Ryan and his companions, telling them that no outsiders had visited Weatheria in over ten years.

Ryan and the locals had some very pleasant conversations and asked many questions. Given that everyone in Weatheria was a meteorological scientist with vast knowledge, Ryan gained a general understanding from them of the reasons why the entire island was able to float and fly.

Weatheria was propelled by wind power; windmills could be found almost everywhere on this small island, and the bubble balls at the bottom were the most crucial elements.

They were the reason the entire island could float. According to Haredas, the bubble balls contained a mysterious gas, and it was precisely because of this gas that the entire island could be kept aloft.

Ryan strongly suspected that he knew what this mysterious gas mentioned by Haredas was, but since it was somebody else's secret, Ryan did not press for details.

Over the past two days, Ryan truly witnessed what the terror of nature was like; the changes in Weatheria's meteorology were simply outrageous. It was fair to say that here, one could experience the weather changes of all four seasons in a single day. No wonder meteorological scientists all gathered here.

Aside from touring Weatheria, Ryan was also pondering his next direction.

Currently, Ryan had a whopping 430,000 Attribute Points on hand, among which Hawkeye contributed 40,000 experience points, Flower Sword Vista contributed 90,000 Attribute Points, the middle-aged man of the Three Sword Style contributed 80,000, the young man of the quick-draw technique contributed 7,000, Crocodile contributed 60,000, and the remaining people added up to a little over 90,000.

Host: Portgas D. Ryan

Current Host Attribute Points: 438888

Host: Portgas D. Ryan

Physique: 99999/100000 Advanced

Physical Technique: 32214/100000 Advanced

Swordsmanship: 125200/1000000 Great Swordsman

Conqueror's Haki: 20900/100000 Advanced

Armament Haki: 44882/100000 Advanced

Observation Haki: 99999/100000 Advanced

Fruit Ability: None

Skills: Kamusari, One Sword Style. Iai, One-Sword Immortal Kneels, Two-Sleeved Green Snake.

Weapons: Supreme Grade Sword Ace, Famous Sword Mubanniu,

Mission: Bounty reaches 500 million Beli [Unfinished]

Looking at the physical technique, Conqueror's Haki, and Armament Haki categories, Ryan simply could not hold back and maxed them all out directly.

After finishing, Ryan looked at the remaining 200,000 Attribute Points, hardened his heart, and poured all of the remaining Attribute Points directly into swordsmanship.

Then Ryan's attribute panel changed to this.

Host: Portgas D. Ryan

Current Host Attribute Points: 0

Host: Portgas D. Ryan

Physique: 99999/100000 Advanced

Physical Technique: 99999/100000 Advanced

Swordsmanship: 325204/1000000 Great Swordsman

Conqueror's Haki: 99999/100000 Advanced

Armament Haki: 99999/100000 Advanced

Observation Haki: 99999/100000 Advanced

Fruit Ability: None

Skills: Kamusari, One Sword Style. Iai, One-Sword Immortal Kneels, Two-Sleeved Green Snake.

Weapons: Supreme Grade Sword Ace, Famous Sword Mubanniu,

Mission: Bounty reaches 500 million Beli [Unfinished]

Upon seeing his new attribute panel, Ryan felt that he was invincible in the world, though this illusion lasted only for a fraction of a second. That was because Ryan discovered that his mastery over his power had dropped once again.

If Ryan's control over his power in Alabasta had been less than seven tenths, then the current Ryan was probably down to around five tenths. If others were to find out that Ryan could not control his own power because it had increased too fast, they would probably beat him to death.

Ryan was very much looking forward to the look of utter astonishment on Hawkeye's face when they met next time upon seeing his strength. By now, Ryan had already regarded Hawkeye as his lucky star.

The first time he met Hawkeye, he broke through to Great Swordsman; the second time resulted in a bumper harvest of Attribute Points. What about the third time? As Ryan thought about it, he could not help laughing out loud.

Beli, who was exercising nearby, saw Ryan laughing foolishly here and asked curiously, "What's wrong?"

"Thinking of Mihawk."

Hearing this, Beli silently ran off to another spot to continue his unremitting daily exercise.

Seeing Beli walk aside, Ryan did not mind. He still needed to continue pondering his path to becoming stronger. First of all, the two most important matters at present were, one, to quickly familiarize himself with and master his own strength—this required time to hone or improvement through continuous battle.

Second, what should he do about breaking through? His swordsmanship had already broken through to become a Great Swordsman. Aside from Observation Haki, where Ryan had some direction, he truly had zero direction for anything else.

The critical point for an Observation Haki breakthrough lay in the breathing technique, because Ryan discovered that Observation Haki and breathing techniques could fuse with each other. Ryan probing other people's auras was a little trick he had developed by using these two.

Ryan believed that as long as he continued to fuse Observation Haki and breathing techniques, breaking through to advanced Observation Haki should not be a difficult task.

As for the rest, however, Ryan pondered for a long time without coming up with a method, so he simply gave up on thinking about it. Staring blankly at the clouds on the horizon, Ryan suddenly thought of a very important matter.

The meteorological island beneath Ryan's feet had all along been moving in the sky, and under normal circumstances with no one steering the direction, it drifted randomly with the wind without any direction at all.

Ryan hurriedly ran to find Lory, although over the past two days Lory had been deliberately avoiding Ryan due to certain special reasons.

Ryan also understood Lory's internal conflict, so he had not gone to disturb her, giving her time to think by herself. Besides, Lory had never officially joined Ryan's pirate crew.

It was only because Lory knew navigation at the time and Ryan was not very familiar with conditions in the Grand Line that he had agreed to send Lory home. Now that Lory had returned to her home, they should part ways right here, right?

Both of them tacitly avoided bringing this up. After spending so many days together, Ryan had already treated Lory as his companion.

Using Observation Haki, Ryan found the dazed Lory on an observation tower before long.

"Lory!"

Seeing Ryan running over hurriedly, Lory thought Ryan had something important to say to her. As it turned out...

"Lory, can we still find our ship?"

"The ship?"

Dazed for a moment, Lory finally remembered that her and the others' ship was still down there upon that vast ocean. For the past two days, because Lory had returned to her home, her mind had been in total chaos; how could she possibly remember the matter of the ship?

"I'll go ask Grandpa Haredas. I don't know where we are right now either."

Lory ran off to find Haredas, and Ryan simultaneously summoned all the crew members to discuss this matter. Upon hearing this news, everyone's reactions were completely different.

Seeing everyone's reactions, Ryan's temper flared up, and he stared at everyone present with a murderous gaze.

Killer was the first who could not withstand the pressure and spoke up, "I forgot, Master Ryan." Kid hurriedly chimed in, "Me too."

Ryan did not say anything either since he had forgotten himself.

Before Ryan could call out anyone else by name, Beli directly stated, "Me too!"

"Is that how you use what I taught you?" Ryan scolded, feeling exasperated that they would not live up to expectations. Beli, however, turned his head away unconcernedly.

"Robin, what about you? You wouldn't have forgotten too, would you?"

"No, I just assumed you, Captain, didn't care," Robin said calmly.

Ryan's heart was bleeding; all that wine, money, and the Log Pose on the ship were gone. He actually really wanted to tell Robin that he cared very much. In the end, though, he did not say anything out loud and just let out a calm "Oh."

Seeing Fujitora about to speak while he was already burning with anger, Ryan barked, "Shut up!"

Ryan knew all too well what Fujitora was going to say next.

While Ryan and the others were heartbroken over their ship, Buggy, accompanied by Dazhen, still happened to run into Ryan's pirate ship out on the sea.

Buggy caught sight of the pirate flag on the ship at a glance and blurted out in a rush, "Hurry and go, that's the pirate ship of the Bloody Swordsman Ryan."

"Captain, since your strength is so high, what are there to be afraid of!" Having said that, Dazhen leaped up and jumped onto the ship, and Buggy had no choice but to follow along, bringing his head across as well.

"Looks like no one is here?" Buggy looked at the Kong-empty deck. Then he cautiously walked over and drifted across.

After the two of them searched every single room, they said in astonishment, "It really seems like nobody is here."

"Captain Buggy, let's move these treasures away!"

After hesitating for a long time, Buggy was ultimately persuaded by those boxes upon boxes of Beli on the sea. Before long, they cleaned out the treasures on the ship, leaving not even a single strand of hair for Ryan.

"Hurry up and leave!" Looking at the mountains of wealth before his eyes, Buggy urged anxiously.

Just like that, Ryan was robbed by Buggy!

At that moment, Lory also brought back the news that they were currently in the Kong above the skies near Long Ring Long Land. This news directly pronounced a death sentence.

PS: Long Ring Long Land is the place where Luffy met Silver Fox Foxy.

Right at this moment, Fujitora suddenly said, "There is a small island approaching our direction!"

Hearing Fujitora say this, Ryan also began to sense it carefully through Observation Haki. There was indeed an object coming toward this side around the 4,000-meter mark nearby.

Ryan led everyone outside in succession, and not long after, they indeed saw a behemoth faintly advancing toward this side from afar!