Written by Morgan, one of the emperors of the Dark World and fueled by numerous forces, including revolutionaries, a large number of newspapers were spread all over the world. Even though the Marine and the government responded quickly and collected and destroyed the newspaper in an all-around way, it still caused a huge wave all over the world.

Even if only a few people saw the newspaper,  in the case of word-of-mouth transmission, it spread all over the world. For a time, the name of the Ghost-Hand Pirates has earned the focus of the world.

The government made every effort to cover up and published newspapers in succession, stating that the story about Ghost Hand Ross was tactics of some wicked forces had secretly discredited Marine, but it was still difficult to completely eliminate the impact.

World Government and Marine Headquarters were all overwhelmed.

Marine.

The anger of the government poured down and Doberman was almost dismissed directly. Sengoku and Akainu came forward to retain Doberman's Vice-Admiral position, but still removed most of his power.

This unexpected newspaper pushed Ross to the top of the storm!

"Fufurfurfur, hunting pirate? Confronting Marine? It's a crazy fellow, but I'm afraid that's the end of it as he had completely angered the government and Marine.."

On the deck of the Donquixote Family Pirate s.h.i.+p, Doflamingo lay on a lounge chair and looked at the newspaper in his hand, laughing strangely.

"Just entering Grand Line and he is pushed to the top of the wind and waves. It will be hard for him to survive, but if he can survive…"

Somewhere on the sea, Hawkeye looked at the newspaper in his hand and took a sip of red wine.

East Blue, Foosha village.

"Boss, read this newspaper. The news on it is very interesting."

Lucky Roo, who held a piece of meat in one hand and a newspaper in his other hand, came to Shanks and handed it over.

Shanks smiled and took it. After looking at it, he was surprised and said, "This kind of news…  the government and Marine must be busy.

Beckman sat next to Shanks, with a newspaper in his hand and a cigar in his mouth and a slight discoloration in his eyes. This kind of newspaper can't appear in the sea. The author is really bold. I'm afraid there is a force like the Revolutionary Army behind the scenes.

Ghost Hand Pirates, Ghost Hand Ross… This name is also somewhat familiar.

Looking at the pirate flag in the newspaper, Beckman quickly remembered the encounter in West Blue, It was the same pirate flag pattern.

"It's not an ordinary fellow, but the government should have labeled him as a must-kill person. Marines and the government will only be able to solve this problem and free up their hands by killing him. There's still a long way to go for him to see us in the New World."

Beckman dropped the newspaper and glanced at the Shanks next to him. He shook his head and laughed, feeling that this kind of thing was still too illusory.

For the chaos caused by the Ghost Hand Pirates, the world's major forces have all cast their eyes, some gloating, some ridicule the government and Marine and some have noticed Ghost Hand Ross.

However, most people hold a negative att.i.tude towards the development of the Ghost Hand Pirates, because the government and Marine are undoubtedly thoroughly enraged by them.

How terrible will the government and Marine, who are outraged, be?

n.o.body knows.

Because the people who know it have long been hidden in the dust of history.

On the sh.o.r.e of Elias Kingdom.

Ross has returned to the Ghost Shadow s.h.i.+p, Laffitte continues to stay on the island and waits for the magnetic storage to be full, while Robin re-enters the island after Ross returns and enters the underground world of Elias to collect more intelligence. The intelligence of the Grand, especially for the pirates who have a bounty of over 100 million berries.

Ross was sitting on the sofa in a wide lounge on the Ghost Shadow s.h.i.+p, his eyes were closed when a knock came at the door and Ross opened them.

"Come in."

Robin, wearing a lavender-colored jacket and shorts, came in through the door. Her figure was almost the same as that in the original series, but she looked younger.

Ross sat up straight and smiled at Robin, saying: "Coming back so soon, I thought that you would be slower than Laffitte's."

"After the Marines were defeated by you, the dark forces of the Elias Kingdom became afraid of us and it became much easier to collect all the information."

Robin walked over to Ross and said: "In the first half of Grand Line, counting Captain, there are seven pirates with over 100 million bounties on their head. I have collected Information about some of them…"

"Counting me?"

Ross captured the extra content of Robin's words.

Robin tilted her head and gently smiled. She placed two bounty orders on the coffee table in front of Ross. One of them was Ross's bounty order, which had a bounty of 200 million Berries on it.

In addition, another is Laffitte's bounty order, which amounts to 80 million Berries.

"My bounty hasn't changed much, but with Captain and navigator, our overall bounty has reached 359 million Berries."

"If you improve your strength and fight some famous opponents, your bounty will increase too. However, as an intelligence member, you can try to not partic.i.p.ate in Battles."

Ross took the bounty poster and looked at it and Robin smiled faintly, the more hidden the intelligence members are, the less they are concerned and they are safer that way. And Ross didn't say that to protect the only eye-catching girl on board.

Robin nodded slightly and put a few bits of information on the table, along with a bunch of bounty posters. This is the first half of the Grand Line, except Ross, there are six pirates who had bounties over 100 million berries.

Naturally.

Some of these data are detailed while others are missing a lot. Two Pirates have no specific location in intelligence. In the other four Pirates, only two have confirmed location.

Ross picked up the data and examined it carefully. He put aside the four missing and inaccurate locations of Intelligence and continued to look at the remaining two.

"Bounty of 230 million Berries, Blood Wolf Pirate Captain, Blood Wolf Rennes, appeared in Water Seven half a month ago… This distance is a little too far."

Ross shook his head when he saw it. He had just arrived at the second island on the Grand Line and Water Seven was close to the Sabaody Archipelago.

Putting this information aside, Ross looks at the last piece of information.

"Bounty of 180 million Berries, Iron Wall Pirates appeared at the port of Elfa seven days ago, the port of Elfa…"

Ross's eyes glimmered with thought, and if he remembered correctly, the place should be on their route and not very far from the Elias Kingdom.

Although the Log Pose on Grand Line is a fixed channel, if there is an Eternal Pose pointing to other islands, one can easily change their route or retrograde. Ross also collected an Eternal Pose pointing to the Kingdom of Elias, one can never have too many Eternal Poses.

Among the information collected by Robin, even the Captain of the Iron Wall Pirates, Iron Wall Ravarro have some special abilities, He has eaten a Paramecia Devil Fruit Barrier-Barrier Fruit.

If he remembers it correctly then this Devil Fruit will belong to a newcomer after ten years, that is to say, even if he does not kill Ravarro, he will not survive for long.

"Captain."

"Compared to the information of other Pirates, I think you need to look at this newspaper."

Just as Ross confirmed that the Iron Wall Pirates will be his next target, Robin suddenly interrupted his thoughts and put a newspaper in front of him.

"Huh?"

Ross took a look at the newspaper and his eyes changed dramatically. "This… it's really something that I didn't expect."

"This newspaper will push us in an unpredictable direction." Robin's tone was a little heavy. "The government and Marines will be totally enraged and once they suppress this matter, we will be treated with a b.l.o.o.d.y pursuit."

Ross stared at the newspaper for a moment, put it aside, and suddenly gave a light laugh.

"But isn't it pleasant? Such news has been distributed to the sea, The Marine and the government are probably in a mess now.

Although the report will lead the situation into an uncontrollable direction, there is no doubt that it is as refres.h.i.+ng as the appearance of a public toilet in front of you when you have an upset stomach.

"Captain…"

Robin's eyes flashed a trace of anxiety and she sighed softly in her heart. It was pleasant that the truth was revealed, but the situation that followed might become extremely difficult for us. The situation of originally defeating the G8 base to had a firm foothold on Grand Line would be completely destroyed.

Marine and the government are bound to do something next and once they strike, they are bound to wipe out The Ghost Hand Pirates completely.

Two days later.

Log Pose's magnetic force was finally full and Laffitte returned to the s.h.i.+p.

One of the directions pointed by the single arrow Log Pose is same as one of the directions pointed by the three arrows Log Pose, which is undoubtedly good news for Ross, The previous robbery was not in vain, and the future routes will become flexible.

"Lets first go to Elfa Port."

Ross gave his instructions to Laffitte.

It's very difficult to lock a pirate in West Blue, but on the Grand Line, every pirate needs to stay on the island to record and store the magnetic force and their route is limited to a large part. With the speed of Ghost Shadow s.h.i.+p, it's much easier to catch up with a Pirate s.h.i.+p.

"Okay, Captain."

Laffitte responded by putting the old single arrow Log Pose in his pocket and looking at the three arrows Log Pose and sea map to navigate the Ghost Shadow s.h.i.+p.

Seven days later, Ghost Shadow s.h.i.+p arrived at the next island. It took only two days to store the magnetic force and then they set sail again. It took them five days to reach another island.

Ghost Shadow s.h.i.+p's speed advantage combined with Laffitte, a navigator, was fully utilized. It took only 20 days to cross three islands and arrive at Port Elfa.

Ghost Shadow s.h.i.+p practice room.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Continuous Bang sound was heard, Ross's hands are clenched into fists, as if wearing thin black gloves, punching one punch after another on a piece of square steel, dents continuously appeared on the steel.

In his fight with Dalmatian, although he did not use Armament Haki, he was always observing Dalmatian's Armament Haki until the end of Battle.

Fights have always been the most effective way to develop human potential in this world. After only a few days with Dalmatian's Battle, Ross completely mastered Armament Haki hardening.

"Distortion… fist!"

In the constant swing of his fist, Ross's eyes suddenly flashed and his heart raced, He suddenly stimulated the power of distortion, pouring it into his fist and gave a fierce blow.

Bang!

Under Ross's fist, the front of the square steel showed a spiral Distortion crack. If Ross had not withdrawn his ability quickly, the whole steel might have broken up.

Looking at the square steel, Ross's brow slightly wrinkled. He looked down at his fist and saw that the Armament Haki attached to his fist had collapsed.

"Can't Haki be perfectly integrated with fruit power…"

After mastering Armament Haki hardening, Ross's next practice direction is to combine Armament Haki with his Devil Fruit power.

Devil Fruit's ability and Armament Haki are not two conflicting abilities, they can be perfectly integrated with each other through control.

Doflamingo's line, Luffy's rubber, which can be directly attached to Armament Haki, Whitebear's Tremor-Tremor Fruit (Gura Gura no Mi) can hit Akainu with one blow, apparently with Armament Haki in it.

Otherwise.

Logia user can use elementalization to filter out the damage from the shock and only accepts the ordinary punch of Armament Haki, which is not serious enough to vomit blood on the ground.

However, Devil Fruit such as Distortion and Earthquake is obviously different from the solid Paramecia such as wire and rubber.

The two Devil Fruit abilities of wire and rubber can be almost perfectly superimposed with Armament Haki and have strong attack power.

Distortion and Tremor-Tremor Fruit (Gura Gura no Mi) are already very aggressive and both of these abilities belong to non-physical abilities, so Armament Haki is only used as an auxiliary effect and is mixed into the ability.

The first two can be called a combination, while the latter two are additional.

It's almost impossible for Logia and Paramecia to avoid Armament Haki attacks. if the power of distortion can be attached to the characteristics of Armament Haki, then it will be something different.

Because of this, the combination of earthquake and Haki or Distortion and Haki is obviously much more difficult than wire or rubber Haki combination. Ross has been trying for more than ten days, but he can not attach Armament Haki to his Distortion Fruit capability.

Even to that extent.

When Ross exploded out with the power of distortions, the Armament Haki hardening on his fist could not be maintained as it would be affected by the power of distortions and collapse.

"Whitebeard is able to attach Haki to his vibration, which means that there is a way to attach Haki to his Devil Fruit abilities…"

Ross looked at his fist and his eyes glittered. Now that someone could do it, it showed that the road was feasible. He couldn't do it now because his Armament Haki was not strong enough and his control of Armament Haki and fruit ability is slightly inadequate.

Maybe his control and development of Distortion Fruit will surpa.s.s Whitebeard in the future, but now he is still far from Whitebeard, who stands at the top of this world.

Just as Ross was about to continue his exercise, a knock on the door came from outside, followed by Robin's voice.

"Captain Ross, We have reached Elfa Port."

"I see."

After the Ghost Shadow s.h.i.+p docked in Port Elfa, Robin and Ross went to the island and split up to collect information about the Ironwall Pirates.

At the same time, in the corner that n.o.body noticed, a World Government intelligence member in plain clothes took out a Den Den Mus.h.i.+ and reported solemnly to the other side.

"Reporting, the Ghost Hand Pirates have appeared on Port Elfa!"

"Continue monitoring."

On the other side, the chief of the Intelligence Department, after hearing reports from his subordinate, silently ordered him to continue monitoring and quickly transferred the intelligence to the top.

At the same time, this intelligence was also handed over to the Marine Headquarters.

As a result of the extremely wicked impact of the Ross incident, not only Marine Headquarters but also the top management of the World Government have been eyeing the Ghost-Hand Pirates.

Ordinary Marine branches obviously can't deal with Ross and the Ghost-Hand Pirates. At least, a Headquarters Vice-Admiral must sit on the island that they are arriving. And to be safe, two Headquarters Vice-Admiral should be dispatched and more than three Battles.h.i.+ps should be led.

"Should Headquarters send Battles.h.i.+ps and Vice-Admiral?"

"No, I suggest leaving it to CP9 to deal with secretly."

"Port of Elfa… If I remember correctly, there are two more islands on this route, which is Crocodile's territory.

"Is that right? In that case, it would be possible to postpone the deployment of troops."

It would be a better choice for Crocodile who had just signed the s.h.i.+chibukai Treaty, to deal with the Ghost-Hand Pirates than for Marine to send out heavy troops to encircle and suppress the Ghost-Hand Pirates.

If the Crocodile can kill the Pirates, then his s.h.i.+chibukai's position will remain fixed. If Crocodile is killed, then his position on s.h.i.+chibukai is obviously not enough to balance the Grand Line, they can just change the members to avoid big trouble in the future.