Chapter 5: Attribute Interface
A few days later.
The New World.
Loki Port.
Bubbles suddenly rose from the rolling sea.
A shadow beneath the surface rapidly expanded.
With a splash, waves scattered as the bulging surface was pierced by a sharp mast.
A medium single-mast sailboat, no more than ten meters long, burst up from beneath the sea, wrapped in a soap bubble coating.
With a crisp pop, the bubble burst.
Foamy spray carrying the unique fresh scent of the Yarukiman mangroves splashed onto the deck, onto a white-haired young man who was leaning back.
Carlo rose to his feet.
Glancing at the island's outline now visible ahead, he crushed the military Log Pose at his feet with one step.
"So I'm here… Loki Port."
Feeling the blood and energy inside his body growing more active, and his mood steadily rising with excitement, Carlo's lips curled upward uncontrollably.
"Let it start here—my legend."
"System, show my current stats!"
Ding!
"Attribute panel activated!"
Physique: 5-star 58.383
Haki
Observation: 6-star 65.275
Armament: 6-star 68.002
Conqueror's: 7-star 73.528
Devil Fruit: 2-star 20.212
Overall rating: 6-star
Comment: In the eyes of top-tier powerhouses, someone like you is, at best, a loli.
Seeing the comment appear in his mind, Carlo's face instantly darkened.
"Screw your loli!"
"You're the loli! Your whole family are lolis!"
The system in his mind did not respond to Carlo's furious cursing.
As if it had never appeared at all.
Only when Carlo called for it would it surface again in the depths of his mind.
No one but him could detect it.
Yes.
Carlo had a system.
A system that could display his personal attribute panel.
That was the cheat he gained when he came to this world.
When the system first awakened, Carlo was ecstatic.
But after he finished exploring everything this damned system could do, his mood turned just as awful.
Because his system had no point-allocation function.
It didn't issue missions.
It couldn't do daily check-ins.
It didn't have a system shop to exchange items from countless worlds.
And it definitely wasn't going to turn into a cute catgirl or a succubus.
Other than showing his current attributes across three dimensions—physique, Haki, and Devil Fruit—it had no other functions at all.
Well, not exactly none.
At least it had a vicious, soul-killing mouth for comments.
Screw it!
Trash system, give me back my youth!
Get out of my head!
"I, Carlo, would rather jump off this ship than want a useless system like you!"
Ding! "Host's intense intent detected. Unbinding in progress…"
"Sorry, System Dad, I was wrong! Please don't leave me!"
Carlo apologized at light speed, begging the system to forgive him.
Fine, he admitted it.
This trash system wasn't completely useless.
At the very least, those stat numbers down to three decimal places let Carlo pinpoint his own power level with extreme precision.
They let him know exactly how many points of progress and growth each round of training brought.
That tiny, incremental progress.
Watching the three-dimensional numbers slowly climb.
Feeling his strength rise steadily.
That truly was his biggest motivation to keep pushing himself.
A lot of the time, people fail to persist with long-term effort because they can't see growth in the short term.
But with a system that could show his stats at any time, Carlo's progress over the past few years was visible to the naked eye.
And after years of figuring it out, Carlo roughly understood what these numbers actually meant.
Overall…
The maximum value should be 100.
The closer the number is to 100, the stronger you are.
And the growth isn't linear—it's more like leveling in a game.
The higher you go, the harder it is to improve.
But the power gained per improvement is greater.
With Carlo's current average stats in the low 60s, the system gave him an overall rating of six stars.
Ignoring Conqueror's Haki and his Devil Fruit, his overall strength was roughly between a Marine Headquarters vice admiral and an elite vice admiral from a Buster Call.
Seven stars would be from elite vice admiral to admiral candidate, or what would later be a Yonko's right-hand man.
Eight stars would be from admiral candidate or Yonko's right-hand man up to top-tier combat power.
Nine stars would be true top-tier combat power.
It covered what people call admiral, emperor, king, and god.
That meant the average of the three core attributes was 90 or above.
Note that the star rating standard only calculated the three powers anyone could have: physique, Observation Haki, and Armament Haki.
Conqueror's Haki and Devil Fruit, which only a few people had, were not counted.
They were treated as extra personal combat bonuses.
So Carlo's real combat power, with Conqueror's Haki and Devil Fruit added in, should actually surpass a normal vice admiral.
And by a lot.
Of course, combat power could never be judged by an attribute panel alone.
You still had to factor in battle experience, battlefield conditions, personal willpower, and many other things.
And the star rating the system gave was both very vague and very absolute.
It was vague because the gap within a single star tier could be enormous.
For example, among nine-star top-tier fighters, the strength gap between an admiral like Ryokugyu and someone like Rocks, and someone like Imu, was immeasurable.
The difference between 90 Armament Haki and 100 Armament Haki wasn't a simple ten-something percent.
It was ten times, or even far more.
And it was absolute because it was a strict average across physique, Observation, and Armament.
For example, Carlo's six-star rating didn't require all three of those attributes to exceed 60.
It required their average to exceed 60.
If the average was above 60, that was six stars.
If it was short by even 0.01, that was still five stars.
Like him right now—his three attributes were a bit lopsided.
Compared to his 68 in Armament Haki, his 58 in physique was a full ten points lower.
But it couldn't be helped.
He was just a normal human.
And humans had limits.
Physique training was the hardest of all the attributes.
In Carlo's view, it was even harder than Conqueror's Haki.
Especially later on.
Physical durability would grow slower and slower until it hit a complete bottleneck.
If you couldn't break through, you'd stop there for life.
Then as you aged, it would gradually decline.
Don't let 58 physique look low.
Carlo's body right now—purely in terms of strength—was already close to a normal adult giant.
One hand alone held terrifying ten-thousand-ton force.
Just as Carlo was immersed in the numbers on the attribute panel…
Boom!
From the direction of Loki Port, faintly visible ahead, a tremendous roar suddenly rang out.
Startled, Carlo looked up and saw flames rising into the air along the distant horizon.
Even in broad daylight, it was extremely conspicuous.
That immediately piqued his interest.
"Oh? Someone's attacking Loki Port? This is Rocks Pirates territory—who's got the nerve?"
"And what the hell is this…"
"Aren't they stealing my job?!"