Chapter 1: Superheavy Phoenix
"I am alive?"
After he regained consciousness, Robert Cooper tried to look around.
'Saltwater?' Robert muttered as he tasted the lingering taste in his mouth while he was still disoriented after waking up.
A peculiar look came over his handsome face as Robert managed to see that the salty water taste was actually seawater.
'Where am I?' The thought of being dead and being in a place that all humans theorized and believed existed came to mind.
But is it really heaven? It was a recurring doubt that he had in the last few seconds.
Robert didn't know if this was all an illusion, but at this moment, when he looked at the sky, he particularly thought that it was exceptionally blue compared to the Earth's sky.
'Am I really in the kingdom of God?'
White clouds were long and the blue sky was bright.
'I couldn't escape death...' Robert muttered in his heart.
He wasn't very afraid of death. The scariest thing for him was never death, but feeling pain even after dying.
Something that scared him since he was a child was the possibility of the existence of hell, where it is said that whoever goes to hell will be tortured for eternity...
At least where he was, it didn't feel like hell, and although he didn't feel particularly good, it wasn't that bad. Privately, he even felt fine.
However, why was he in the ocean?
Furthermore, he couldn't even see solid land in his peripheral vision, even when he turned and looked in all directions while floating in the water.
A little desolate to be in this situation, since if he runs out of strength after swimming without finding solid ground, would he die even though he's in the kingdom of God?
Just when Robert was starting to feel desperate as he imagined the pain of drowning, a voice suddenly echoed in his mind.
[Congratulations! Among so many people, you had the recognition of the Super Pirate Ship system! System recognition will bring the host many benefits!]
Just how much Robert was wondering what the hell this was!
A dazzling light suddenly erupted from underneath him. When Robert couldn't open his eyes in the light, that's when he felt shocked as he felt a sensation of stepping on the 'ground' in the soles of his feet.
As the sensation grew stronger, Robert already knew that it was not solid ground, but something made of wood, and before he could familiarize himself with this sensation of stepping, he felt a kind of blow on his forehead...
The instant he felt the blow, Robert had a lot of information injected into his brain.
"Is that the system's pirate ship?" Robert muttered under his breath.
It was too much information for him to digest all at once.
Until a few minutes ago he thought he was in the kingdom of God, but hell, he couldn't be more wrong after looking through the information he received.
Although now he knew that he was no longer on Earth, on another strange planet with supernatural powers and monsters that only existed in mythologies on Earth.
Among the information, he learned that this Super Pirate Ship was a super advanced technology from a Planet called Krypton.
In the information, a super genius from Krypton created this system that was able to create an object that had the most chance of helping the lucky user that was compatible with the system and created something that he believed to be ideal to help the user, using the energy of the Sun and evolving.
This planet in question, was in the Age of Pirates, something that Robert Cooper found hard to believe since he knew that someone made a manga that soon became a very well-known Anime on Earth.
One Piece!
How could he not be surprised when he discovered he was inside a story told by someone else?
However, he never believed in something like destiny, he believed in free will faithfully.
He has several reasons to believe that humans are free and nothing is destined, one of the reasons was when he was walking down the street, and decided to stop to tie his shoelaces, when he did, right before his eyes, a truck it entered the sidewalk, dragging a biker, crashing hard into the hill, completely crushing the bike and the biker.
If he hadn't stopped, besides the bike and the biker, he would have been hit.
It may seem irrelevant, but he believed that every action has a reaction, that is, if he didn't seek death, he would hardly die, that's why, in his almost 30 years of life, he never had an accident that made him go to the hospital, or suffered a serious injury.
The most he's ever been hurt was once when he cut his heel on the bicycle ratchet when he was young.
Having said all this, Robert did not worry that his existence in this world might create a butterfly effect, thus creating the destruction of "X" things, etc.
After considering everything, his mind returned to normal, and Robert began to survey his surroundings.
It was indeed a ship. The ship he was on was the Super Pirate Ship which the system had injected into his brain.
Carefully recalling the information injected into his brain, he discovers that this ship is up for promotion. Something like in ship games where it's upgraded to get stronger, faster, etc.
However, at the current moment, he knew that the Super Pirate Ship was just in a normal state, almost like any ordinary pirate ship.
If he wants to upgrade Super Pirate Ship, there are some conditions to promote to Super Pirate Ship - Tier 1.
It took ten tons of high-quality wood, upon reaching this goal, he will be able to upgrade the Super Pirate Ship to Tier 1.
However, although the current Super Pirate Ship is like that, it is also very strong. The Super Pirate Ship is eight meters long and three meters wide and is a small sailboat.
Not only that, the pirate Super Pirate Ship is equipped with radar, which can search for fish within 100 meters and catch them, and the ship also has a space of 3m*3m*3m.
As Robert looked around the ship, he saw the five cubic power boxes of 1 liter each.
That was the current power source of the Super Pirate Ship. At the current time, it was only possible to navigate using this energy in a calm state.
For example: Even if Robert wants to make the Super Pirate Ship go at full speed, one hour will take a box of energy and the speed is about 20 kilometers per hour, and even with the help of the wind, it can reach 30 kilometers per hour.
Another thing, power boxes are also related to fishing. For example, when casting a net of 100 meters, 1 box of energy is used.
Another matter, every time the Super Pirate Ship is promoted, Robert gets some benefits. One of them is related to the cabin he entered just now, inside there is a box like a gift box.
This box is a reward.
He didn't know why this Kryptonian super genius would do something like that, but this wasn't the time to think about it now.
Knowing the dangers he could face if this was like the story described by Eiichiro Oda, Robert was hopeful that something good might come along.
Unsurprisingly, Robert's hands shook a little with anticipation as he touched the gift box with the intention of opening it.
When the gift box was half-opened, dazzling golden light erupted from the gift box.
After the golden light faded, Robert was able to see clearly by opening his eyes slightly.
There were four things that replaced the gift box.
It was a fruit, a book with three characters making hand seal gestures.
While the first two things were unpredictable, the other two things seemed to be more reliable.
A pirate uniform perhaps? The uniform consisted of a suit and pants that resembled the suit of 15th-century Earth pirates.
The shoulders with pirate skull and crossbones patterns, and a type of belt that should go from the shoulder to the waist area with two antique pistols definitely models from centuries ago.
Another was a brace that goes around the waist, and there was a Western-style sword.
Robert stopped looking at the clothes and looked at the last item.
It was a chest similar to a treasure chest, being gilded with gold and various jewels embedded in it.
"..."
Robert didn't open his chest, he looked at the fruit from before. Right now, he was hungry, now that he was relatively calm, the hunger only grew stronger.
As soon as Robert touched the fruit with his left hand, amazingly he knew what it was.
"Devil's fruit!" He screamed in shock.
The instant he touched the fruit, the name of the Akuma no Mi appeared in his mind.
The fruit's name is: Tori Tori no Mi, Model: Superheavy Phoenix: it is a Mythical Zoan that allows the user to transform into a hybrid or full phoenix at will and that allows the user to increase their weight and float, becoming a Superheavy Phoenix.
"Ah...!"
Robert forgot to breathe.
Panting, his hand shook as he held the Akuma no Mi.
Right now, Robert didn't think about the disadvantages that a Devil Fruit has in the sea, or anything like that.
He felt that if he didn't eat this Akuma no Mi, he would be a fool.
Taking a deep breath, he picked up the fruit and brought it to his mouth.
"Tastes rotten and smelly!"
Although he already expected this, since he saw that in the anime it was portrayed as something with horrible taste, he still almost spit it out, but he obviously didn't.
After eating, Robert felt something different in his body.
He wasn't even thinking about how hungry he felt initially.
His body begins to threaten to change shape as he senses that the ship below him is shaking, threatening to sink into the ocean.
Robert realizes that the ship went down a lot, he already knew it was his fault, and quickly tries to take the weight of the ship, however, although he managed, in the next instant, he starts to float while starting to change shape.
His arms become wings golden and red like sunlight, his legs become talons similar to a hawk's, only engulfed in flames.
At this point, he was already flying just above the ship and he didn't know if he became too big or if the ship was the fact that he had moved away from the ship, but it was as if he was looking at a fishing sailboat. small instead of a pirate ship.
One thing is for sure, he became several times larger than an ordinary human, as he saw the giant shadow of a phoenix reflecting in the sea.
But, that didn't matter now, his heart was now beating furiously as it filled with emotions, after all, he was flying!
Hells! Who hasn't dreamed of flying before at least once?
Even if he had already flown in a plane, this liberating feeling is on another level!
"ROAR!"
When he wanted to scream with emotion, overflowing with joy, a cry of a mythological beast came out.
With a cry that was more like a roar, sound waves crashed into the sea, until the Super Pirate Ship was pushed back a little.
Realizing this, Robert panicked!
He hadn't learned to control the power of the Akuma no Mi, so he was at a loss for how to return to normal, as well as how to fly freely.