Chương 12: World's Situation

As the morning sun slowly rose from the east and slowly chased away the dim mists of dawn, a young man who sitting cross legged in a cave slowly opened his eyes and stood on his feet.

"Finally, its morning!" the young man said.

This young man looked about 16 -17 years old and stood at about 1.8 meters tall wearing an open front white shirt, black trousers and black boots with an eyelet-studded black belt holding it together. This young man had deep black shoulder length hair with piercing ocean blue eyes.

There was no doubt that this young man was Alvin who had just spent his first night in the One Piece world!

After he had fled the scene of the Silver Tailed Leopard's murder, he quickly found his way to this cave located on the rocky parts of the beach. He had found this cave earlier when he arrived on this Island yesterday and earmarked it as his resting place.

Because he knew that this place was very dangerous, he never actually truly slept throughout the night but always stayed on alert in case of any danger. Even though like all other games, players could be reborn after dying, the penalty that came with it caused him to never want to experience it.

After dying, players would drop one level and lose three attribute points on each of their four basic attribute. Also they will only be allowed to be reborn after a whole week! This was a price that no one was willing to pay.

Sighing, Alvin came out of the cave and looked at the endless sea and was in a daze, then started the new day of exercise. This was a habit that he had inherited from his previous world to always keep his body in top shape.

Also, from his memories about this world of One Piece, one can live without political power or authority, you can have no Beri ($), but you cannot guarantee your safety without adequate strength. Only with enough strength can live freely in this dangerous world. From the memories of the previous owner of this body in the real world, Alvin also knew that this principle also applied in the world of Enhancers and Evolvers! That was why he had decided to always strive to get stronger and keep his body in shape.

The skill of exercising that he was using was very simple, nothing more than doing push-ups, increasing arm strength and waist strength. Leapfrogs and squats increase leg strength. All this while, he had taken out the two weights and fastened them onto his hands.

This adjustable weights were like bracelets that could be worn on the hands. The function of this device is to first record the body's weight and then help to increase the pressure or weight of the users whole body for training. The bracelet can be adjusted to exert the pressure of twice the weight of the user to twenty times the weight of the wearer of the bracelet. The bracelet is also designed in a way that would not interfere with the users daily activities.

Alvin leaned down and supported his body with his two hands on the ground while adjusting the bracelet to three times his weight. So the pressure he was feeling was very big!

"1, 2, 3, 4..." Alvin slowly began to count as he began his pushups.

According to what he knew about this world, the upper limit of human physical strength can be infinitely improved. As long as enough efforts are paid, there will be gains. The food here also contains so much high intensity energy that ordinary people cannot even imagine. The energy contained within is somewhat richer than even the world of Enhancers and Evolvers!

This is a world where Great swordsmen carrying sword can split Islands with a single swing, fearsome men who can create tsunamis with punches. To survive in this world and get adequate benefits from it, he must make sure that his physical fitness is the top of this world.

A few minutes later…

"150, 151, 152, 153, 154…" the sweat on Alvin's forehead dripped in the sandy beach as he slowly counted one hundred and fifty four pushups. The pressure of three times his weight made it more difficult for him to complete this much pushups with his weak body. Every pushup consumed a single point of stamina so after 154 pushups, he dropped down exhausted on the floor. This is the limit that his current body can bear. He was now left with only one stamina point. If he allows his stamina to be emptied out, his body will break down.

After lying on the floor and catching his breath for about thirty minutes, he slowly stood up. His original exhausted body had now recovered some strength at this time, and the breathing returned to a stable state.

After this, he did a couple of leapfrogs and squats increase leg strength. All these exercises lasted about one and a half hours.

After his morning exercise, Alvin began to prepare some firewood to light a fire to cook the meat and liver of the Silver Tailed Leopard but suddenly, he heard the cry of a seagull. Lifting his head, he saw a medium sized seagull that was wearing a white sailor hat and carrying bags over their shoulders with papers rolled into them.

Alvin immediately recognized this bird. This was a News Coo; a special type of sea gull that deliver newspapers and wanted papers across the world.

Alvin became very excited when he saw this bird. This was exactly what he needed now. A newspaper that could inform him the timeline in which he was placed and his current location.

But from the direction of this seagull, this island wasn't its final destination. If Alvin didn't do anything, this news coo will just fly over this island. With this in mind, he immediately started to run after the bird.

With a thought, a sea pebble appeared in his hands. The altitude that this bird was flying at wasn't very high so Alvin was very confident he could shoot it down. Aiming at the newspaper bag hanging around the bird's neck, Alvin arched his hands and shot the stone at the seagull.

'Bang!'

The stone accurately hit the rope tying the newspaper bag to the bird's neck bringing the newspaper bag tumbling down. The bird was startled by this sudden attack and flew to a higher altitude at a very fast pace away from the Island.

Alvin happily watched the newspaper falling into the sands of the beach. He immediately run and retrieved it. When he took the newspaper, the first thing he looked at was the date!

19th July 1512!

This was the date Alvin saw. He frowned when he saw this. Because it had been quite a while since he watched the One Piece show, he now realized that he couldn't remember most of the dates and timelines of various events. What he could remember was all tied to the protagonist, Monkey D. Luffy's adventure.

What he could be sure was that the protagonist hadn't began his adventure by this time.

To confirm whether some of his guesses were correct, he began to read the newspaper to find what was going on in the world.

The first part of the newspaper talked about the recent Reverie (literally translated as 'World Council') where the world government met with over 50 out of the 170 affiliated nations. Alvin wasn't familiar about any of the issues discussed in there except for the establishment of the Shichibukai (literally translated as 'Royal Seven Martial Seas') system!

The newspaper reported on the appointment of the most recent Shichibukai; Boa Hankook, and also, a lot of propaganda about how this system was going to balance the power struggle between the Navy and the recently crowned four emperors of the New World!

After reading these, Alvin could finally confirm his guess. He began to organize some events that would take place from this time until the protagonist begins his journey.

According to his memory, Monkey D. Luffy would begin his journey around 1522, so he had a lot of time to prepare to take advantage of the major events that would happen in this world.

He didn't know the kind of changes that the presence of the 'players' would bring to this world but he was confident the chances wouldn't be too big!

After reading the newspaper, he turned and began to look at the sea with a smile on his face. Among the newspapers that the news Coo had dropped, there was a letter that clearly informed him of his current location.

This made him very excited. The first point was that he knew he was currently in East Blue! Also the village where one of the major protagonists of the One Piece world trained was located at the other side of this Island. The name of this village is Shimotsuki Village!