A few days later.
New World.
Rocky Port.
A string of bubbles suddenly emerged from the undulating sea surface.
A shadow beneath the water's surface rapidly expanded.
With a splash, waves sprayed everywhere as the bulging water was pierced by a pointed mast.
A medium-sized single-masted sailing ship, no more than ten meters long and encased in a layer of soap bubbles, leaped out from beneath the sea.
Accompanied by a crisp pop.
The soap bubble burst.
Foam carrying the unique fragrance of the Yarukiman Mangrove splattered onto the deck of the ship, landing on a white-haired youth sitting against the side.
Carlos stood up, his tall frame unfolding.
Glancing at the silhouette of the island that had appeared in his line of sight, he crushed the Military Log Pose at his feet with a stomp.
"I've arrived, Rocky Port."
Feeling the blood gradually becoming active in his body and his mood growing increasingly excited.
The corners of Carlos's mouth began to curl upward uncontrollably.
"It begins here, my legend."
"System! Display my current attributes!"
Ding!
"Attribute Panel opened!"
[Physique: 5-Star 58.383]
[Haki]
[Observation Haki: 6-Star 65.275]
[Armament Haki: 6-Star 68.002]
[Haoshoku: 7-Star 73.528]
[Devil Fruit Power: 2-Star 20.212]
[Comprehensive Evaluation: 6-Star]
[Comment: In the eyes of top-tier powerhouses, someone like you is, at most, a loli.]
Seeing the comment that surfaced in his mind, Carlos's face couldn't help but darken.
"Screw your loli!"
"System, you're the loli! Your whole family are lolis!"
The system in his mind did not respond to Carlos's angry cursing.
It was as if it had never existed.
Only when Carlos called for it would it surface again in the depths of his mind.
Aside from himself, no one could discover it.
Yes.
Carlos had a system.
A system that could display his own Attribute Panel.
This was the Golden Finger he had obtained upon transmigrating to this world.
When the system first awakened, Carlos had been ecstatic.
After exploring all the functions of this damn system, his mood had become equally terrible.
Because his system had no point-allocation function.
It wouldn't issue missions.
It couldn't be used for check-ins.
There was no system mall to exchange for items from various worlds.
It wouldn't turn into a cute cat-girl or a succubus.
Aside from being able to display his current attributes across the three dimensions of Physique, Haki, and Devil Fruit Power...
It had no other functions at all!
Oh, wait... it wasn't that it had nothing.
At least it had a sharp-tongued evaluation that added insult to injury... damn it!
Trash system! Give me back my youth!
Get out of my head!
I, Carlos, would rather jump off this ship than want such a useless system!
"Ding! Detected host's strong will, unbinding in progress..."
"I'm sorry, System Father, I was wrong! Please don't leave me!"
Carlos apologized at the speed of light, begging the system for forgiveness.
Alright, he admitted it.
This trash system wasn't entirely useless.
At the very least, those attributes detailed to three decimal places allowed Carlos to understand his strength positioning with incredible precision.
It let him know exactly how much progress and growth he gained from every single workout.
This bit-by-bit progress.
Watching the slow growth of his three-dimensional attribute numbers.
Feeling the steady rise in his own power.
It was indeed the greatest motivation for his constant efforts to temper himself.
Many times, the reason people are unwilling to persevere with long-term efforts is that they can't see their growth in the short term.
But with this system that allowed him to see his attributes at any time.
Carlos's rate of progress over these few years was visible to the naked eye.
And after so many years of exploration, Carlos also roughly knew the specific meaning of these attribute numbers.
Generally speaking.
The maximum attribute value should be 100.
The closer the number was to the maximum value of 100, the stronger the power.
And the magnitude of the numbers wasn't a linear calculation; it was more like leveling up in a game.
The higher you went, the greater the difficulty of increasing it.
And the more power each point added.
With Carlos's current attributes averaging in the low 60s.
The system's Comprehensive Evaluation was 6-Star.
Setting aside Haoshoku and Devil Fruit Power, his overall strength was roughly between a Marineford Vice Admiral and a Buster Call Elite Vice Admiral.
7-Star would be from Elite Vice Admiral to Admiral Candidate or the later Yonko Commanders.
8-Star: Admiral Candidate, Yonko Commander, up to Top-tier combat power.
9-Star: True top-tier combat power!
Covering the so-called Admirals, Emperors, Kings, and Gods.
That is, an average of the three-dimensional attributes reaching 90 or above.
Note that this three-dimensional star rating standard given by the system only calculated [Physique], [Observation Haki], and [Armament Haki]—the three types of power that everyone could possess.
The Haoshoku and Devil Fruit Power possessed by a minority were not included in the calculation.
They were considered an individual's extra combat power bonus.
So Carlos's actual combat power, with the bonus of Haoshoku and Devil Fruit Power, should actually exceed an ordinary Vice Admiral.
And exceed it by far.
Of course, specific combat power standards certainly couldn't be viewed solely through the Attribute Panel.
One still had to consider many factors such as combat experience, combat environment, and personal mental will.
Furthermore, the star rating given by the system was a type of evaluation that was very vague yet very absolute.
To say it was vague:
The strength span within a single star level was very large.
For example, even within the same 9-Star top-tier combat power.
The strength gap between an Admiral like Aramaki and someone like Rocks or Imu was immeasurably large!
The gap between 90 Armament Haki and 100 Armament Haki wasn't as simple as ten-plus percent.
It was a gap of ten-plus times, or even greater!
And to say it was absolute:
It referred to its absolute averaging of the three power attributes: [Physique], [Observation Haki], and [Armament Haki].
For instance, Carlos's 6-Star evaluation.
It didn't require his Physique, Observation Haki, and Armament Haki to all exceed 60.
Rather, the average of the three had to exceed 60.
If the average exceeded 60, that was 6-Star.
Otherwise, even if it was off by 0.01, it would be 5-Star.
Just like him right now, these three-dimensional attributes were a bit unbalanced.
Compared to his Armament Haki of 68, his Physique points of 58 were a full 10 points behind!
But there was nothing to be done about it.
After all, he was just a normal human.
And humans have limits.
Cultivating Physique was the hardest among the several attributes.
In Carlos's view, it was even harder than Haoshoku!
Especially in the later stages.
The growth of physical strength would get slower and slower until it hit a complete bottleneck.
If it couldn't be broken, then it would stop there for a lifetime.
And then, with age, it would gradually decrease.
Don't be fooled by his 58 points of Physique appearing low.
But Carlos's current body, in terms of pure strength alone, was already close to a normal adult Giant!
A single hand possessed a terrifying force of ten thousand tons!
Just as Carlos was immersed in the numbers on the Attribute Panel... "BOOM!!"
From the direction of the vaguely visible Rocky Port ahead, a massive roar suddenly erupted.
Startled, Carlos looked up and saw flames rising on the distant sea horizon.
Even in broad daylight, it was extremely conspicuous.
This couldn't help but pique his interest.
"Oh? Someone is actually attacking Rocky Port? This is Rocks Pirates territory, who is so bold?"
"Wait, isn't this..."
"Stealing my job?!"