"Woah…-" I shouted, dodging out of the way of the blade. "That's a big ass knife." I tried approaching him but he took out a revolver with the opposite hand and tried blasting my guts to shreds, shooting three times.
I managed to dash to the side to throw off his aim, the bullets only struck dirt at where I was but I still needed to deal with the big cutlass he was sending my way.
It was coming at me horizontally, it looked like it was trying to cleave me in half, I leaped off the floor in order to evade it. As I was in the air I charged two beats in each of my fists. I landed on the guy and since the first beat had arrived on my left fist, I sent a Strong Punch to the dome with my left. At that point the other beat reached my right hand and I crashed that fist down onto his forehead.
"Ngaah!" He screamed, gripping my shirt and throwing me to the ground.
-20 HP
-100 HP
I rolled back onto my feet as fast as possible and managed to avoid another bullet by the skin of my teeth. I zigzagged over to the man and started humming, charging two beats into only one arm.
He kept me at distance with wild slashes with his cutlass, it grazed me a few times but Sprint always managed to help me out when I needed to avoid things such as these. He kept backing up and I was always dashing backwards out of the way so I tried to force his back against a wall, and there were quite a few cabins around this area so I should be able to do that.
"Take this! And that! And this!" He shouted, swinging his big cutlass at me, I was able to dodge and weave out of the way of the slashes but I wasn't able to keep it up for long, I had tripped over my feet which meant now was the perfect time to cut me into pieces.
I turned mid fall and saw the cutlass crashing down on me, I didn't have much opportunity to defend against this but I still needed to do something lest I get fucking murdered.
I held both of my hands up, one on top of the other, the hand with two beats being the one on top.
I expelled the first beat just as the blade collided, the captain was pushing hard against the tiny vibration shield. The captain managed to push through that first line of defence and dig his cutlass into my palm but I then expelled the second beat which gave me some time to push the sword away and get back up to my feet.
-40 HP
My hand was leaking blood profusely and the top half of my palm was hanging by some muscle and skin.
"I will avenge them, you fuckin' bastard!" He screamed.
"BLOOD BLAST!" I said, holding my palm open like a halfway cut open baguette. I channelled two beats of hasshoken down my arm.
Splat
Splat
As the vibrations expelled from the opening of my palm, blood spurted out at high speeds towards the captain's face and most importantly his eyes, blinding him.
The man started blindly slashing and walking back, I managed to activate sprint and started running as fast as I could behind the fella.
Charging up Hasshoken in my non-split-in-half fist, I jumped up into the air and crashed my fist down onto the back of his neck, expelling one beat, his knees buckled but he hadn't fallen yet, but that was when I expelled another beat while my hand was still connected with the back of his head.
The big man collapsed.
"AAGH! FUCK!" I said as I held my hand, it had split open even more due to the blood blasts, the fight had recently ended and I was cooling down, and I only just realised the pain. I also had a massive headache because of how concentrated you needed to be to even use Hasshoken.
"God… I need to make sure this guy is dead." I said, taking my machete from the inventory and slamming it down his skull.
"That should do it." I said, huffing and puffing, trying to get my breath back.
I can't be arsed to Meditate, I'm just gonna take a nap while I heal, I don't even know what I should Meditate on.
I woke up I'd say an hour later, I got up and I was met with some notifications.
+7500 EXP for defeating Pirate Captain
You have levelled up
You have 6 stat points to allocate
Hasshoken (10/150)
+200 EXP for upgrading a skill via natural means
Quest complete:
Rewards:
Seafarer's slot (Uncommon)
5,000,000 Beri
+2 Agility
Through training or extensive use you have increased Constitution by 1
+500 EXP for upgrading a stat via natural means
Through training or extensive use you have increased Strength by 1
+500 EXP for upgrading a stat via natural means
I was used to the barrage of notifications I got every once in a while, at first it was a little disorienting but now it is a welcome addition to my life because it always brought along goodies like being able to do more push ups, I hated pushups but that's besides the point.
Let's see here, first order of action: Open my Seafarers slot.
A slot machine appeared in front of me, I pulled the lever, a bunch of various miscellaneous items and provisions, before finally ending up on..:
Some rations, a fishing rod, some bait and a thermos full of water, decent. I did rob every pirate I came across because they had taken what they liked from a big chest of treasure, and that had totalled up to 5 million which definitely was a decent amount, I'm considering coming back to the old island to hire Zeff but I'd have to consult with Ben and see if he's healthy enough to fight.
Hmm, I've increased my Hasshoken quite a bit in my time on this island, what happens if I-
"BEN, COME HERE!"
I had stored two beats near my throat and shot em' out my mouth as I shouted, amplifying the volume of my shout by 3x, or somewhere around that ballpark. It seemed to work since my own ears were slightly ringing from that.
Not too long after I had shouted, Ben arrived and looked a little confused.
"Howd'ya scream that loud? Jesus, I can hear you from the other side of the island." He asked.
"Small island." I simply said, shrugging it off.
"Oh, right, still, what do ya need?" He asked.
Well, fuck, I can't exactly pop 5 million Beri from my inventory, no, I needed to make an excuse.
Well, what's the point in keeping it a secret, I trust this guy, he won't rattle me out.
"Y'know those slots?" I asked.
"Yeah…" He said, a little confused.
"Well, I have more powers…" I declared.
"What do you mean- Oh fuck that's a lot of cash!" He said as I expelled all the money from my inventory onto the floor.
"I've wanted to keep my shit a secret, but as long as you won't tell then I'd say we're fine." I explained.
"You can create money!?" He shouted. "The fuck was you keeping that under wraps for-"
"No! Otherwise I would've gotten the gym repaired already, I stole their cash and I can hide it from reality, look." I grabbed a diamond ring and slipped it into my inventory.
"Wow." He said.
And then I took the ring out of my inventory with the opposite hand. "See, so I can store a buncha money without any hassle."
"How much do we have then?" He said as I was slurping the rest of the cash and gems back into my inventory.
"Around 5 million total, I'm thinking we sneak back on the island, buy off zeff and kick that Golden AK-47 wielding son of a bitch's ass into next week." Ben didn't look all too amused when I said that.
"No, Alister is too strong, it might just be some stories n' rumours he put out, but I don't want to risk it, I think we should aim for the capos." He said.
"Franco Vicci, the guy I was fighting, can probably beat me, with Zeff and I though, I think we can pull it off, you should try whittle down the amount of fodder they have at their disposal, if you can do that then it'll just be us three versus the Capo and Consigliere."
I nodded in agreement, I think his plan was the best course of action but I still had something I wanted to try out.
"Let's spar, I've got some new techniques." I said as I charged a beat into each of my hands.
"I'm not gonna hold back." He grinned.
"No, wait, please hold back, just hold back less than you were doing when I was a complete beginner." I requested, holding my hands up and entering my stance.
"Alright then." He said, running towards me at a terrifying pace, I activated Sprint, Flurry of Blows and just barely dashed out of the way of his charge, he quickly changed his direction and sent a fist flying towards my direction, hitting my sternum square
-24 HP
I threw a quick jab at the arm that just punched me, expelling my Hasshoken in order to try to knock his guard off.
It wasn't too successful but it did create a small opening for me to send a right straight to his face, he got sent back a few feet but he only had some small abrasions on his face. I was considering making that punch into a Strong Punch but it would've been too slow to connect.
"You've certainly improved." He smirked, running towards me.
"I certainly have." I said, charging up some more beats of Hasshoken into my fists.
He rushed over and I threw a hook to his jaw, he ducked and I followed through with an uppercut which he had slipped, he sent a powerful punch into my ribs and followed through with a jab to the nose, sending me flying back a few metres.
-30 HP
-20 HP
I quickly rolled onto my feet and moved the beat on my left hand over to the right before approaching Ben. He tried running over to me and threw a wide overhand, but I managed to just barely react by ducking and throwing a clean right straight to the gut, pumping two beats in order to maximise damage.
"Ooh, that'll bruise." He said, grinning."
Thunk
-50 HP
He slammed his fist down on the top of my head, I slammed down onto the ground and groaned in pain.
"Ngah, fuck, stop, I think we're done, I just needed to test myself, next time though, I'm gonna beat the shit outta you." I said, pleading.
"Oh, is that right?" He said
"Yep, now let's get back on the raft." I said
"Wait, if there were pirates here, wouldn't that mean they would have a pirate ship?" He asked
"Yeah, maybe, but fuck if I know how to operate a galleon or whatever they have around here." I retorted.
"Meh." He shrugged as we made our way back to our boat. "By the way, do you know the way back?" He questioned.
I reviewed my map and sure as shit, there was a path cleaved out of the fog of war from this island to the other.
"Yep, certain, it's one of my powers, I know where places I've been are." I said.
"That's weird but alright."
"WHEY HEY AND UP SHE'S RISING, WHEY HEY AND UP SHE'S RISING EARLAY IN THE MORNIN'" We shouted into the as we rowed.
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