Chapter 1
Pirates: I Loaded the Game Panel - Author: Eight Trigrams Sea
Carrying a game panel, he descended into the world of One Piece!
Using the Hollow-Hollow Fruit as a foundation, he achieved the status of the Soul Reapers!
If not for the system reminding him that the official game release would begin in three years, Adrian would have even thought this was a solo transmigration story!
In the year 1498 of the Sea Circle Calendar, Pirate King Gol D. Roger stepped down, and the Great Pirate Era arrived, accompanied by that legendary Fourth Calamity...
Wait a minute, why do these players not know the plot at all?
[1. Chapter One: Descent]
[System activated, game begins.]
Am I dreaming? Who is speaking?
Dozily, Ed wanted to turn over and cover his head with a pillow, but in the next instant, a violent pain pierced through his consciousness.
Hiss! So painful! My head hurts so much! Did I fall out of bed in the middle of the night, or did the back of my head hit the floor first?
Ed abruptly opened his eyes, and the familiar ceiling was gone, replaced by a completely unfamiliar sight.
Am I... still dreaming?
The spasms of pain coming from the back of his head again and again made Ed extremely irritable. He furrowed his brows tightly, propped his body up in one breath, and looked at his surroundings.
The dim yellow light barely illuminated the entire room. The walls were piled with stones, and on the right-hand side were two huge square windows. A breeze carrying a slightly salty and damp scent blew slowly from the windows, and the outside of the window was pitch black.
Where is this?
What time is it now?
Will I probably be late for work tomorrow?
Ed instinctively reached out to feel for his phone, and suddenly his body stiffened.
Gone, the phone was gone...
His head started hurting again, and a massive stream of information gushed out from the depths of his mind.
After a good while, Ed finally figured out the ins and outs.
"Grand Line, World Government, Red Line... I transmigrated to One Piece?"
Ed looked up at the ceiling, wearing a blank expression.
I can't go to work tomorrow, my attendance bonus...
To hell with the attendance bonus!
I've transmigrated!
Ed gently shook his head. The information in his memories seemed to have some omissions. He did not know the original body's specific experiences, remembering only some superficial common sense of the world.
Such as time, place, and people.
Year 1495 of the Sea Circle Calendar, an unnamed secret island under the command of the World Government, Adrian.
The original body was a war orphan adopted by the World Government. His past memories had many gaps. Aside from a little basic common sense, all that remained vaguely were some miserable childhood experiences, arduous training moments, and so on.
Around thirteen or fourteen years old, with fair skin, black hair, and black eyes, his appearance vaguely resembled his past life, roughly matching the average looks of genuine readers.
"Not bad, at least I didn't turn into some non-human species... Oh right, did I just seem to hear some sound?"
A line of semi-illusory blue glowing text suddenly popped up before his eyes.
[Open the game?]
"A system?!" Ed rejoiced inwardly. "Open it, check personal information first."
An empty, translucent blue light screen suddenly unfolded in front of his line of sight. While quite futuristic, it did not obstruct his vision at all.
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Name: Adrian (Ed)
Race: Human
Template: NPC (Countdown to the official release of Version 1.0: Three Years)
Level: 1
Experience: 0
Primary Profession: Commoner LV1 (0/50)
Secondary Profession: None
Personal Attributes: Strength 3, Agility 7, Stamina 4, Intelligence 6, Charm 5, Luck 1
(Note: The standard attributes of an adult male in the One Piece world are 5 points, and Luck is 1 point)
Free Attribute Points: 0
Skill Points: 0
Health: 20% (Brain trauma, starvation, severe weakness)
Stamina: 46% (Weakness Penalty) Energy: Not Unlocked Specialties: None Skills: None Legend: 0 Equipment: None
System panel, it looked like this was his golden finger.
Right when Adrian was carefully studying his personal information, he quickly discovered some unusual aspects.
NPC template? Version 1.0 public beta countdown?
Adrian knitted his brows, instantly spotting several important factors.
First, he most likely had not transmigrated into the Pirate World, but rather the Game Pirate World, though it remained unclear whether other people had also been digitized.
Second, he had transmigrated as an NPC and possessed a system panel, which was fantastic news; he could grow rapidly just like a players and did not need to worry about so-called racial shackles, power bottlenecks, or similar things. But correspondingly, NPCs were not players, and in the real world, everyone only had one life.
Third, the time corresponding to the public beta countdown was three years later, which was Sea Circle Calendar 1498.
Any fan of the pirates would be crystal clear about the events that would happen in that year: Pirate King Gol D. Roger would be executed by the Marines, and right before dying, he would shout ONE PIECE, officially kicking off the curtain of the Great Pirate Era.
Now it seemed that accompanying the arrival of the Great Pirate Era was that group of the "Fourth Calamity".
Players, original story...
Adrian fell into deep thought, several vague notions flashing through his mind at this instant, but constrained by his current situation, they could only remain at the stage of thoughts.
There were still three years until the public beta, meaning he had three years to prepare and develop before the players descended; this was the single piece of good news that made Adrian feel pleased.
Regarding the destructive power of players, Adrian was clearer about it than anyone else in this world: the Fourth Calamity, synonymous with chaos and madness...
"Clang!"
Right at that moment, the room door was suddenly pushed open, and several weird-looking fellows walked in from outside. Because the light was dim, their features were not very clear, but just from those twisted and eccentric silhouettes, one could feel that these fellows were definitely not ordinary humans.
"How is this brat's condition?" The long-haired woman at the head asked the people beside her, her shrill and hoarse voice sounding exceptionally uncomfortable.
"It looks like he has already passed the danger period; I originally thought he was a goner." A middle-aged doctor dressed in a white lab coat replied. He looked at Adrian, his up-and-down measuring gaze carrying obvious astonishment.
Enduring the dryness in his throat, Adrian asked in a hoarse voice, "Who are you?"
"Hm? Is there a problem with his memory?" The long-haired woman asked in surprise.
"That can be considered normal," the middle-aged doctor walked over and checked Adrian's condition. "After all, he hit his brain, and moreover such a vulnerable part as the back of his head. Not turning into a fool is already a favorable result."
"Forget it, as long as he's not dead." The long-haired woman stopped dwelling on it. She walked quickly to Adrian's front, looking down at him from above, "Brat, I am Kumadori Yamamba, a member of CP9, the secret intelligence agency directly under the World Government. Currently, on this small island, I am responsible for the training tasks of brats like you..."
Taking this opportunity, Adrian saw the woman's appearance clearly.
In her thirties, with a head of light pink hair reaching her waist, she wore a black ladies' suit, her mature and fiery figure looking as though it would burst the clothes right off and pop out. What was deeply impressive was that her temperament was icy cold, resembling a dangerous and predatory beautiful water snake.
After Adrian slightly expressed his respect, he immediately plunged into deep thought.
Kumadori Yamamba, wasn't this the mother of that comical kabuki performer Kumadori who appeared in the Water 7 arc? She actually looked like this iconic model when she was young?
Right, this person also seemed to be a super assassin! She had safely survived all the way until Luffy went out to sea...
Recalling what Kumadori Yamamba looked like in her old age, Adrian could not help shivering.
To be fair, Oda's attitude toward old women was really a bit too harsh!
However, speaking of which, such a good-looking woman, what a pity she grew a mouth...
Kumadori Yamamba did not know Adrian's inner thoughts, and continued with her shrill, hoarse, and unpleasant voice, "You failed in the previous beast training, and originally I thought that would eliminate one useless burden, but unexpectedly you managed to pull through. Now I'll give you three days to recover, and training will resume in three days!"
Three days?
And training on the level of CP9?
He was just a pink and tender Level 1 newbie!
Regaining his wits, Adrian smiled bitterly to himself. His current survival environment was truly quite harsh!
[Chapter 2: Unexpected Surprise]
After Kumadori Yamamba and the others left, the room fell back into a quiet state.
Adrian sat up straight, leaning against the head of the bed, quietly pondering his future plans while deeply studying the attribute information on the system panel.
There was nothing much to say about race and the NPC template; Adrian was quite satisfied with both of these items.
Classes were divided into main classes and secondary classes. According to the system prompts, once a person's main class was determined, it could no longer be changed, whereas secondary classes were diverse and basically had no requirements.
Adrian's current class was only a single one, which was [Commoner].
Logically speaking, he should have also possessed an [Agent] class, seeing as he had already accepted agent training for so long, but for some reason he did not.
However, even if he had the [Agent] class, Adrian was not prepared to take it as his main class.
The main storyline of the "Pirate King" world was the confrontation between Marines and pirates, interspersed with a series of hidden plots involving Celestial Dragons, the World Government, the Revolutionary Army, independent kingdoms, and so on; it was the stage for monsters and ability users.
The Commoner profession was not worth investing much attention in; it could at best be considered a symbol of status.
Adrian transferred it without a second thought to the secondary profession column. His main profession was currently vacant.
Next was regarding character stats.
Strength, agility, stamina, intelligence, charm, and luck made up the six-dimensional attributes.
Relevant introductions could be found in any online gaming novel, or even system-attribute novels, corresponding to descriptions that readers would subconsciously skip over as filler text. Therefore, no ink would be wasted describing them here.
Suffice to say, literal meanings applied—those who understood, understood.
From a data perspective, Adrian's most prominent attribute at present was Intelligence, which likely stemmed from his transmigration. Following that was Agility; although only two points higher than that of an ordinary person, it was still considered quite good. In terms of Strength and Stamina, because his body had not fully developed yet, they had not yet reached the average baseline of an adult despite having undergone a certain amount of training. There was still a vast room for improvement in the future. As for Charm and Luck, as expected, just enough to get by.
Both Health and Energy were described in percentage terms. Adrian quickly accepted this point; in his understanding, these two items belonged to the category of things that could not be completely datafied.
After all, in a completely real world, the operation of "I hit you once, forcibly deducting one drop of blood" looked strange no matter how one looked at it.
As for the Stamina, which had not yet been unlocked, Adrian guessed it might be related to Haki.
However, for Adrian at present, mastering Haki and things of that sort was still far too distant, or at least something he did not need to consider in the short term.
Specialties, skills, Legend Points, and equipment were all completely blank, which was understandable.
Finally, the things that needed to be emphasized were Level and Experience.
According to the system prompts, the total level of a character's main profession was equivalent to the total character level. The level cap was 120, and every 20 levels constituted a bottleneck that required completing an advancement quest to continue leveling up.
The secondary profession level cap was 10. It could enhance character stats, but it had no real impact on character level.
According to Adrian's understanding, a total level of 1–20 roughly equated to activities within the Four Blues; 21–40 was between the Four Blues; 41–60 was the Paradise stage of the Grand Line; 61–80 was the level of the second half, the New World; 81–100 was the level of admiral candidates, ordinary Shichibukai, All-Stars, Sweet Commanders, and so on; while 100–120 was the level of admirals, Four Emperors, and legends of the seas.
It must be emphasized that level did not represent everything.
After all, even a Mountain Bandit King under level 20 might have killed fifty-six Emperor-level pirates of over Level 100—