Aiming for the top with the magnetic fruit in One Piece

The people near the Padera Island pier had fled the area a long time ago, after all the fight between pirates was a scandal.

"In truth, we don't have grudges deep enough to fight to the death, let's leave it for now"

Vlad didn't fear Crocodile but he was a little eager to go in search of the mysterious devil fruit, he didn't want to waste time playing with sand.

If he really started a fight, it would take some time to take care of Crocodile, after all Vlad didn't have armor haki.

He was very clear that relying so much on his fruit was a weakness of his in some way.

"For now you say? Hmph, okay let's continue another time"

Crocodile also didn't want to drag the fight so he accepted but continued to closely observe the group who suddenly whispered things among themselves.

Vlad turned his gaze on Crocodile before speaking with a mischievous smile.

"Okay, Crocodile, from now on remember us, I'm Vlad, captain of the Transcendent Pirates, don't forget it."

Crocodile who was alert, noticed that countless metal bars were levitating in the sky.

"Goodbye Crocodile!"

When Vlad's voice fell, both he and the others disappeared under the stupefied sight of Crocodile who saw an endless amount of metals falling towards him.

"Damn it!"

Crocodile dodged by turning into sand, but he wouldn't be able to get a break in a short time due to the amount of things falling.

Just when he was going to look for Vlad, suddenly, he noticed how his ship disappeared. 

"Captain, it was them, they took him away flying..."

Crocodile who heard this suddenly exploded and kicked the pirate to vent.

In the distance, Vlad and the others had already moved away on the ship with supersonic flight speed.

"Hahaha Captain, he really took a risk."

Vincent was laughing as he enjoyed the view from above.

"That guy was so annoying."

Enel said grumpily as he scratched his ear.

"With Captain's skill, escaping is so easy! Yohohoho!"

The group found a large amount of Belly, each sharing a portion, and Vlad returned what he owed Vincent.

Aside from money and some supplies, there wasn't much else on the ship.

Vincent shook his head as he spoke and sighed.

"I need to get stronger..."

Vincent became dejected since he couldn't help Enel much earlier.

"Don't worry Vin, we were unlucky to run into another Logia, just follow the training plan I told you about."

Vlad gave him a comforting hand on the shoulder.

"It's okay."

Vincent nodded as he headed off to train.

After dismissing everyone to take care of their own business, Vlad began to think about the future.

Vlad was in search of Devil Fruits, while he was at it, he planned to gain experience in battle and train his physique to become stronger.

There were specific fruits that Vlad already had his eye on. The Baku Baku no Mi of the future Wapol.

Vlad was already planning to pay a visit to Drums Island in the future and see if he could snatch the fruit, aside from the Come Come Fruit, he also planned to head to East Blue to find the Fire Lodge Fruit.

Aside from those already mentioned, he also didn't forget the Vampire Fruit that the Red Earl obtained, which is a Mythic Zone Fruit.

Vlad stopped thinking about those fruits and focused on what would come soon, the possible fight with the World Government agents.

The level of strength is unknown, but Vlad didn't think they were high level people.

Currently in Vlad's group, he was the strongest, followed by Brook and finally Vincent, the 3 had tremendous potential he just needed to train.

Vlad was somewhat encouraged but another memory had given him a reality check.

The fight with the Umibozu and his fight with Crocodile had left him with complicated feelings.

While it was true that Vlad did use water to counter Crocodile's logia, it was only because he didn't want to get too tangled up with that guy, but Vlad knew that other logias wouldn't be the same.

He urgently needed to learn Armament Haki, but that would take time. Vlad's physical talent isn't that great, it's going to take him longer to get it than others.

Anyway, there was nothing that training and perseverance can't do in this world, Vlad would increase his training from now on. 

As for the umibozu, that would take even more time, Vlad had his own pride and wanted to fight that creature again in the future, but that monster really did have a yonko-level physique in Vlad's eyes.

"Hmm, that creature is a great mystery..."

Vlad didn't bother to overthink things any further and went straight outside to train.

After about 4 hours, with the help of supersonic speed, Vlad and the others had arrived at the new island, as soon as they arrived Vlad activated his observation haki and searched the entire island.

After a while, Vlad found certain white figures wearing masks, following the path, Vlad's ship (actually a crocodile ship) stayed at a certain distance while the other agents didn't notice it.

The plan was to stalk them from the sky while Vlad kept his special observation haki active. They planned to take him by surprise when they brought the fruit.

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A group of 3 people wearing white and masks were following a path in a meadow, the 3 of them didn't say a word to each other.

 They didn't seem to be uncomfortable with the silence.

One of them suddenly saw pools of blood and looked at the others.

"It's here." 

The other agents just nodded and moved forward finding themselves behind a huge rock. A bloody body hugging a Devil Fruit.

"It seems that he did not survive, he is already dead, all that remains is to take the fruit from him."

"Alright, go get him."

The one who seemed to be the leader let his subordinates take care of it.

Just when the subordinates were only 15 steps away, the scene changed.

Vlad who arrived with great speed, suddenly appeared sending a kick to one of the agents, who could not react to Vlad's supersonic speed, he flew away with a bleeding nose.

The other 2 were on guard to see this scene, but Vlad had already arrived in front of another one, giving him a jump with a knee full to the face.

Vlad who had already injured 2, leaving them with his magnetic mark. He approached the dead body of the pirate snatching the fruit.

When the leader saw this, he suddenly transformed into a Gazelle kicking Vlad at high speed.

Vlad stood still and suddenly in front of him, a metal shield came from the sky, blocking the CP agent's attack.

Vlad didn't give the CP agent any time, and several metal figures rushed from different directions, all aiming at the CP agent's body.

Meanwhile, the other 2 agents from before had transformed back, one was an anteater while the other looked like a rat.

Just as the two approached, a huge repulsive force pushed them back the way they came, breaking several huge rocks.

 This time making them vomit a huge amount of blood. The leader of the CP agents saw this and was shocked.

"Who are you?" The leader in his gazelle form suddenly noticed that 3 more people had surrounded him.

Enel, Brook and Vincent were prepared to fight as well.

Vlad smiled at the cp agent's question.

"I'm the captain of the Transcendent Pirates, Vlad, remember my name."

Vlad put away his devil fruit as he spoke.