"Land, I finally reach the land"
As soon as van reach the island, he left the ship and knelt on the same of the beach.
It's been a month since he sailed in the sea, if the food and water wasn't meant for a few people, he would have died of hunger and thirst without doubt.
He swears that he won't sail again without a map, the feeling of looking at the sea for a long period of time with no idea of where the hell you are, is very taxing on any normal human feelings.
Van collected himself and asked number one to hide in his shadow while he went deep on the island.
Soon, he reaches a small town that barely enough for a thousand people to life at.
He entered the down while wonder which place will be netter to collect information.
"According to the novel I read of world travelling the best place is likely the bar.
Van went to the only bar in town.
It was a small building that was built in the old western way, he entered the bar with a smile.
"He didn't expect any kind of reaction in the end he is still invisible, he sat down in a small corner and start listening to the gossip of the people in the bar.
"Did you heard the Capone family and the smo family is fighting again."
"Really, it's really good that our town is very remote and the Capone family has no interest in us.*
"But even as a remote town, we still in the smo family territory."
"TSK, the nine families is really a pain in the ass, unless they have been destroyed, no matter what we do is useless in front of them"
After a period of listening, van understand the situation.
He is now on a small island called soka, and it's one of the islands of west blue.
The west blue is one of the five sea that is famous for his mafia and there's nine mafia family that control this sea, and they're fighting between themselves and the marine.
This island is under the control of smo family, but there's only three mafia people in this island due to her far place and that's low resource island.
These three mafia guys are like god in this town with no one even the marine daring to displease them.
After van got some clarity, he began to plan his path in this world.
If you want to reach the top in this world, you have two obvious options, and it's marine or pirate but they not your only option you can join the pirate hunter union or join a mafia or even join the revolution army.
Let's first, dismiss the pirate thing it's too high profile, and he will become an enemy of the world.
The revolution army is a big now because they fight for an idea and that's mean thier salary is sucks and a lot of money is needed for the shadow legion idea.
Working for the marine or the world government is a big no, you will have to risk your life and fight pirates for a normal salary.
So the only options is pirate hunter and mafia, they are the fastest way to collect money.
"Maybe I should select both, join the mafia and if I catch any pirate, I can turn him in for the bounty.
Now, there's a problem what should I say about my power, like am I a devil fruit person and if am I then what's my devil fruit.
After some thinking, van decided to go with a shadow devil fruit option, the massage from the system that someone noticed that he absorbed the power of devil fruit make him a little worried to show it of.
He can still train by make any part of his body invisible as long as he hides it with clothes, and he can try making the land invisible under his feed and goes with depth.
It's more time-consuming way, but it's the safest one.
Now he should find away to join the mafia, according to what he knows, the three mafia guys are named Michael, Adam and William.
Michael is a weapon foul, he likes collecting all kind of weapons and believe that any guys can be killed as long as he is shouted in the head.
Adam is a normal pig devil fruit person, he is very lustrous and the people in the down calls him the demon.
William is a famous swordsman in the west sea, it's said that he was transferred here because he refused to kill a woman.
"I guess, I should enter the smo family through William."
William asked for the whereabouts of William and discovered that he lived in a small house in the edge of town and kept training his sword.
So, van took a branch from a nearby tree and went to the road that William uses to go to his training location and start training with the branch as a sword.
As soon as he starts training, he received a message from the system.
{It's detected that the host is trying to learn the way of the sword, estimated time to reach the beginner level of swordsman is ten years}
{The host talent is swordsmanship is trash}
Van was disappointed "so, I don't have the talent for swordsmanship but I will continue anyway, I don't believe that any hard work will go without any gain, in the end, time and hard work can replace talent"
After two hours of training, he noticed that William appeared at the beginning of the road, he's probably going to train.
William takes a long glacé at van and left without saying a word.
But van didn't care very much, it's true that he want to gain the attention of William, but he is clearly had no qualifications to be a swordsman so his only hope that William is moved by his determination.
He kept training not forgetting to train his snake charm also until he heard a massage from the system.
{Snake charm level 2 : 2.03%(you can turn five meters around you invisible)}
{+,01 strength}
{+.01endurance}
"Now my strength has reached,81 and my endurance has reach ,61"
"If I get the same increase every day my strength will reach a normal human in twenty days while endurance in 40 days}
The feeling of getting stronger was fascinating to say the lest, so despite his fatigue and that is midnight already, he decided to keep training.
But what van doesn't know that there was a pair of eyes that looks at him from a distance in approval.
After half an hour van fall at the ground exhausted to find William approaching him while saying
"Hi boy, it's no used to train this hard, your talent in the way of the sword is nonexistent, so don't push yourself too hard."
Van smile, of course, he knows that, but he said
"Does it matter if I have a talent or not, I like the way of swords, is it wrong for man to do what he wants and follow his dream?"
William looked at van for a long time then smiled and said
"No, it's not wrong, look if you want I can help you learn the way of the sword"
Van's eyes sparkled and said
"Van greets the teacher."
William smiled softly and said while leaving
"Not so fast young man, I am not your teacher yet, but, I can still give you some pointers, see you tomorrow morning."
Van looked at William back for a moment then faint.