Chapter 6 - Calm belt, and sea kings:

Now as he finished getting his weapon, he thought that things would get a bit easier for him.

After all if he could fight with a sword, nobody would know about his abilities, especially since he could still swim in the sea, and so he could not even claim it is a devil fruit. As such using a sword would make things easy for him.

Ian, was pretty strong. His father had trained him so hard that he was so strong right now he could tie with an admiral.

He never knew how strong his father is, but he had a guess that his father would be among the strongest in this world. But even after this training he knew he was still weak, therefore he would use everything he had to get much more stronger. He was seeking adventure after all, and that means living in danger all the time.

He was already an anomaly in this world, and practically a cheat with his ability to strengthen his body with no limits.

However in this world where there exist people like Kaido, Whitebeard, Garp, and devil fruits with mysterious abilities, his powers would be normal.

He only reached his current power, by training hard. As for his abilities, he had a hunch that he earned them. He didn't know how he could explain it, but he knew he had done something in his past life to earn them.

As for joining the straw hats, he guessed that being with them would be much better than sailing alone. And so he made his mind to join them.

Now was the first time that he will test his second ability. As far as he could tell, he needs to acquire blood from a person, beast, then he would inject it in his bloodstream. And the mysterious energy in his body would do something effectively making his body stronger.

Of course he didn't know if his body would be changed somehow or not, but it was a risk he was willing to take, considering the future opponents the straw hats would be facing.

Now more determined than before, he went to the docks, and jumped to the sea but didn't use 'Moon steps' to stay floating, rather he used telekinesis.

He would be flying to the calm belt, seeking a very powerful sea king there with a strong body. After which he will get back to wait for Luffy and the rest. He had already seen Luffy's bounty poster at the marine base, and although he didn't know the exact time he would reach here, he knew it was near, and so he was going to get this done with as soon as possible.

It was never known how long it would take to reach the calm belt from Loguetown, however Ian would be flying anyways so he didn't care. His speed was very fast.

If anybody was to hear about this, then they would probably faint from shock. After all the calm belt, which are two areas that are just north and south of the Grand Line, almost never have ocean currents or winds blowing, and are also nesting grounds for Sea Kings. They are very effective barriers for those trying to enter the Grand Line.

However Ian here, was seeking it all on his own.

He used his power to launch himself in the direction of the calm belt at a very fast speed while hiding his self using observation Haki. He had no trouble flying at such a speed, thanks to his strong willpower.

And after almost 2 hours of flying, he soon came to a stop and noticed how there was no wind, and the sea was absolutely calm. It was actually very nice in his opinion.

He lowered his altitude a bit, and then continued flying but this time much slower than before.

He was hiding using his Haki because he didn't want to fight with weak sea kings in here. As for the strong ones they would be able to notice him.

And not even ten minutes later he noticed that something big is coming his way. Once it got out, even as strong and confident in himself, he was a bit intimidated by its size and fierce looking face.

It did not look one bit funny like the one piece manga, rather it had a face similar to a dinosaur with a very long serpentine body and its skin was colored dark blue.

But he soon got his bearings back.

So as to not let the other beasts surface and aid it, he attacked with a strong attack directly as he took his sword and coted it with Haki, and slashed at its neck.

It all happened in an instant, leaving no room for the sea king to do anything but watch as the flying slash took its life.

Unlike what Ian thought, he didn't completely sever its neck as the slash went only hallway through. And that was a testament to its size and sturdiness. But it was not what he was searching for.

He took off his shirt, and put it in his ring.

Afterwards he flew straight into the sea, and used his power to swim very fast while releasing a bit of his conqueror Haki to scare the weaker monsters.

After diving pretty deep, and through the monsters scared of him, he found a very big monster looking at him as if it was waiting for him not bother at all with his conqueror Haki. Granted he was not using it at its full power. It had a long neck and two pectoral fins and a very long tail. It had red eyes and very sharp teeth.

Since he could still use his powers he didn't panic, but attacked it just like before with a sword slash, that had a reduced power output in the water. But it still served its purpose. Which is to piss it off.

Then he took off upwards to fight it outside the sea.

As he was very fast he reached it almost instantly. But as soon as he got out of he had a premonition to dodge which he did. Resulting in him dodging a very powerful bite that clamped on where he was just a second ago.

It appeared that this beast was pretty strong and fast which was what he needed to test his ability.

He used his sword to once again send a slash, only this time it was at its full power, and very close at that. But he was shocked when he saw that it did the monster nothing but a scratch.

He immediately sheathed his sword, and used a 'Shave" while in the sky thanks to his telekinesis power, to both dodge the tail it sneakily attacked with from under water, and attack it at the same time aiming his hand coated Haki with conjecture of his telekinesis at its head which resulted in a shockwave the moment his hands touched the monster.

It was thrown to the sea very aggressively but it took just a moment to once again come attacking at him.

He knew that his attack did the monster some damage, but it appeared that it was very resilient.

He used 'Shave' to get some distance from it, after which he coated both his arms in Haki and his telekinesis, and started punching the air in a very fast speed that led to shockwaves attacking the monster.

He kept bombarding it from afar until he felt a bit tired. Looking at the beast he notice that even though it was hurt with blood flowing from multiple wounds in its body, it was still capable of fighting just fine.

He used his power to hold it in place but he noticed that he can only hold it for one second before it got free due o it's huge size, then he took his sword and used 'shave' to appear near its throat which is a weak spot, and slashed it clean with one hit.

He hurriedly took out a bottle and filled it with its blood, before he took off flying back to Loguetown direction. As he sensed many sea kings coming upwards. Probably to feast on the monster he just killed.