Chapter 40

When Ryan came to Visalia with the Golden Lion, everyone was petrified. It seemed that

"Captain, is this the Golden Lion from before?" Kidd asked in surprise.

The Golden Lion now looked completely different from before, not to mention the blood on his face. The main thing was that the iconic rudder was gone. If it weren't for the Sakura Ten that replaced his legs and the dead tree, no one would have recognized him.

"Yes! I'll tell you later."

Ryan turned around and said to Indigo, "Treat him now and save his life first." Then he carried the Golden Lion to his room.

Indigo couldn't wait any longer and hurriedly followed Ryan. Only Bailey and the others were left in the wind.

Looking at Ryan's back as he left, Kidd said thoughtfully, "The Captain seems to like saving his opponents!"

"Now that you mention it, it seems like it was Mihawk last time and the Golden Lion this time." Kira also echoed on the side.

Kidd asked suspiciously: "Do you think the captain has any special hobbies, such as beating others severely and then making friends!"

Bailey snorted coldly: "Do you want to be beaten? You dare to say bad things about Ryan behind his back." After saying that, he rubbed his hands.

Seeing Bailey's posture, Kidd and Killer shut their mouths instantly.

Bailey didn't really want to beat them. Seeing that the two of them shut up, he didn't care about them. He took the equipment and went to practice daily.

Since being in Alabasta, Bailey has discovered a problem. As Ryan's strength continues to grow, the enemies he faces will also become stronger.

But strength will not be formed in one go. So Bailey can only make himself stronger a little faster by practicing more crazily.

When Ryan and Golden Lion were fighting thousands of miles high in the sky, a meeting was held in the holy land of Marijoa against Ryan!

It turned out that Aokiji and Garp had completed their mission and left Alabasta.

Garp and Aokiji, who returned to the Navy Headquarters - Marineford, reported what they saw and heard in Alabasta. Of course, there were some things that were not said.

The most talked about was Ryan's situation, because it involved the news of the ancient weapon Pluto. Navy Admiral Steel Bone Sora directly reported Ryan's information to the Five Elders.

Holy Land - Marijoa.

Five old men were discussing something about a bounty on the wall.

"What a man with a lot of topics! Bloody Swordsman - Ryan." An old man wearing a black suit, white curly hair, and a scar on his left face pointed at the bounty on the wall with a cane and said.

"Yeah! It was okay to make a fuss in the South China Sea before, but now it has started to stir up waves in the Grand Line!" An old man with two eight-shaped beards and a birthmark on his forehead said lightly.

"People from the D family are troublesome, not to mention that his last name is Portgas." The old man with a long white beard on the side echoed.

"Portgas, I haven't heard this surname for a long time." The blond old man sitting on the chair recalled.

"Now the news that he has Pluto in his hand is spreading on the sea!"

"We can't let the world chase the traces of ancient weapons, it will be very troublesome."

"Then let the navy solve this problem quickly. Alabasta did a good job this time."

"The bounty needs to be reset. A bounty of 200 million is no longer appropriate!"

"Set it at 1 billion, and then let the navy send a general-level combat force to capture him and publicly execute him, so as to deter the group of pirates who covet ancient weapons!" A man wearing a white Taoist robe and holding a samurai sword made the final decision.

"Second."

"Second."

"........"

Soon, the Navy Marshal Kong in Marinford received a reply from the Five Elders. When he heard the bounty, even the usually steady Kong was shocked.

You should know that a bounty of 1 billion is only available to the world-famous pirates in the New World. The bounty now is not as inflated as in the future.

Even Whitebeard, who is now known as the strongest man in the world, has a bounty of only 3.5 billion. Now the Five Elders have issued such a bounty to Ryan, a newcomer who has not yet entered the new century.

However, since it was an order issued by the Five Elders themselves, Steel Bone Kong would naturally not disobey it for a long time and issued this order.

The next morning, the headline of the World News reported Ryan's deeds, and attached Ryan's bounty of up to 1 billion.

The whole world was shocked.

A man with horns on his head in the New World, when he saw Ryan's bounty order, drunkenly cursed: "The navy now has a broken brain, such a skinny kid is worthy of the whole navy.A bounty!"

"When he comes to the New Century, I would like to meet him, the bloody swordsman Ryan, who is known as the strongest supernova in history." A man wearing a mask, a long sword on his waist, and a pair of black wings on his back said lightly.

"Oh, Jin, are you interested in him? Interesting."

The man called Jin did not answer, but just looked at the bounty on the table again.

East China Sea-Goa Kingdom-Windmill Village.

A blond boy wearing a top hat with goggles on his head and a missing tooth on his mouth was running towards a small room while holding a newspaper in his hand and shouting.

"Ace, come out quickly and see what I see!"

At this time, a black-haired boy with pockmarks on his face came out of the room sleepily. It was Ace mentioned by the blond boy.

The blond boy handed the newspaper to Ace and said excitedly: "Ace, look, this person's name is very similar to yours, and even the pockmarks on his face are similar! "

Ace wiped his eyes and took the newspaper, then the sleepiness on his face immediately disappeared, and he stared at the newspaper.

"The supernova from the South China Sea, the bloody swordsman-Portgas D. Ryan, is offered a reward of 1 billion berries by the World Government!" The big headline on the newspaper instantly made Ace's eyes unable to leave it.

"Ace! Are you okay?"

After recovering from his shock, Ace said to the blond boy: "Sabo, I'm fine."

"Do you know the big pirate Portgas D. Ryan in the newspaper?" Sabo asked.

"I don't know, but I feel like he has something to do with me." Ace said confusedly: "He has the same last name as me, and he is from the South China Sea, but I really don't know him."

Ace covered his head and tried hard to recall his memory of Ryan, but he couldn't remember anything at all.

Seeing Ace's painful look, Sabo smiled and comforted him: "You can ask him and you will know."

"Yes! I can go out to sea and ask him in person."

Sabo's words seemed to help Ace find his direction, and he was no longer as confused as before.

"Ace, let's go together!"

"Yeah, let's go together!"

Ryan's news gave the two good brothers another reason to go out to sea.

At this time, a rear admiral in the Navy Headquarters-Marinford was staring at Ryan's bounty order with a trembling body and muttered: "How can Portgas still be alive!"

Ryan, who was far away in Sky Island, didn't know these, but Ryan heard a pleasant voice.

"Ding! Congratulations to the host for completing the task and reaching a bounty of 500 million. "

"Now issue the reward, reward a devil fruit that matches the host, and the matching devil fruit will have no side effects!"

"Matching in progress."

"Ding, matching successful, reward the host with a Kongkong fruit. "

Then a watermelon-like fruit appeared in Ryan's hand. Ryan carefully looked at the devil fruit in his hand. This was the first time Ryan saw a devil fruit.

While Ryan looked at it, he thought: "Empty Fruit, is this a spatial ability? Just now the system said it matched mine. Is it because I traveled through time that it matched this fruit?"

And Ryan carefully recalled that it seemed that the Empty Fruit had never appeared in the Pirate World, which meant that this was a devil fruit that had never appeared in the Pirate World and had no side effects.

Thinking of this, Ryan ate it without hesitation, and then Ryan was disgusted by the taste.

"It's really unpalatable." Ryan complained. Then he carefully felt the changes in his body. He found that it seemed to be the same as not eating anything.

"Did I eat too little, but I remember that I only need to eat one bite!" But Ryan thought that he had already eaten one bite, so what if he ate another bite.

"Fight! "Ryan ate all the devil fruits in one breath.

Ryan found in despair that there was still no change, and no strength surged in his body.

Ryan drew out his sword angrily and chopped at a cloud in the sky. Then Ryan saw that the cloud in the sky was cut in half in an instant, but the surrounding clouds did not change at all.

Ryan was stunned, because Ryan found that his slashing speed was a little faster than before, and although he could also cut the cloud in half when he slashed the cloud before, the aftermath would affect the surrounding clouds.

"Now this situation is like..."

Ryan suddenly thought of something and screamed: "It's like space cutting!"

The unpleasantness of eating the devil fruit just now disappeared. Ryan believed that the Kongkong fruit definitely had more than just the ability to cut space, and there must be other abilities that he had not developed.