Chapter 45 The Ghost Dragon King

"This should be the cave, right?" Jin said as he gazed upon a gigantic cave opening. At this point in time Jin had been searching for the Ghost Dragon King Nebius for a couple hours and had now grown a bit tired of searching.

Without any care in the world, Jin simply walked in. 'Either way if need be I can just out run him like the hero did in the 2nd round.' Jin thought as he walked in.

'This is definitely the place.' Jin thought as he gazed at an opening purple eye. Inside the cave an old western dragon was resting. It's top side was covered in dark purple skin with red spikes littered around it's face and back. It's underside bore a lighter shade of purple, and it's two towering red horns lay above it's head. (for a better depiction I suggest going to chapter 22 of the manhwa if you want, then again that's up to you(on a side note you can find it at reaper scans, they translate it(and yes I read the manhwa not the novel, it's what I found first)))

"RAGH!!!!!!"

Nebius raged as it's claw thrusted toward Jin. 'Shit, he's faster than expected.' Jin thought as he activated OFA and dodged to the side. The claw just barely missed Jin as it crushed the ground to his side.

"I must say, you may have a hard time fighting here, but I don't like the scenery much either. Let's take this outside." Jin said as he dashed out of the cave. Immediately the old dragon followed him out, as it's 6 wings fluttered in the air.

It's purplish red wings caused a gust of wind to fly by as Jin stopped and got ready to fight the dragon. 'According to the system, his threat level is 3rd Stage Mid, I can't beat that. But I do have one advantage.' Jin thought as he and the hulking dragon locked eyes.

After this Nebius immediately lifted his jaw high as he began to charge up a breath of poison. As he did that Jin gathered the air around him as he got two air canons ready to counter.

"PUUUUUUU!!!!"

The beam of poison blasted out as it shot towards Jin. In response Jin immediately shot both hands forward as the blasts of air and the blast of poison clashed in mid air cancelling each other out. Unluckily for the surroundings, the poison still killed and then disintegrated the surrounding flora and fauna.

Seeing Jin, an inferior being, block it's blast of poison, Nebius was enraged and immediately began charging another blast. "Do you think I am that retarded?" Jin said as he pointed a finger at Nebius. "Air bullet!" He said a blast of air shot out and hit Nebius' neck which was storing all the poison.

Immediately an eruption of poison shot out in all directions as even Jin was covered in it. Nebius though was without a scratch. 'So instead of damaging him I damaged myself, and now he's enraged.' Jin thought as Nebius' gaze turned monstrously enraged.

Soon the dragon began to flap it's wings as it shot into the sky, seemingly getting an attack ready. As this happened Jin increased the functioning of his liver and his blood pressure to detoxify the poison.

People miles away could see the battle occuring between Jin and Nebius and even Jin grew a bit worried. 'Should I run, or fight?' Jin thought as he saw Nebius begin to wrap his wings around his body, and fall towards the ground.

"Fuck it, let's do this." Jin said as he placed his hand on his chest. 'I still haven't full mastered One For All, currently my power output is at about Stage 3 Low at my maximum.' Jin thought as the mark between his eyebrows began to turn black. Along with that the horn on his head also turned pitch black as two black marks extended from the eye of Solomon towards his eyes.

'That doesn't mean I can't go into Overdrive though.' Jin thought as the dragon closed in getting ready to unleash it's strongest move. "You know what they say, the Dusk before the Dawn." Jin said as his body continually erupted in spurts of blood before immediately closing.

Rewind along with Perfect Body Control could barely keep him at his current power output being Stage 3 High.

At this point the Dragon was 500 meters away from Jin as it's mouth opened getting ready to release a burst of chaotic poison. 'Here goes nothing.' Jin thought as he pulled back his right fist.

Almost a milisecond after a a gigantic ball of poison released as Nebius unleashed his wings, slashing through the air creating a multitude of poison bullets shooting at Jin. In response Jin immediately jumped towards Nebius creating a gigantic crater in the ground like no other.

As he moved through the air he dodged the poison, manuevering with his right hand which continually shot bursts of air to give him maneuverability mid-air.

Jin shot through the air as he made it in front of the dragon's face. He was so fast, Nebius couldn't even react as Jin's fist shot out releasing a massive destructive force, destroying anything and everything in it's path, including, the fabled Ghost Dragon King's head.

Due to this Jin's arm burst into a mist of blood as he fell to the ground along with the body of the now dead Nebius. At this point Jin couldn't rewind, as or else he'd lose the benefits for killing Nebius, and if he did that half of the benefits would be worthless.

As Jin fell through the air and towards the ground, he oddly smiled. 'Good thing I got Perfect Body Control, and now the one thing I wanted the most. Near immunity to poison.' Jin thought as blood leaked from his lips.

One may not know, but what Jin truly wanted was complete immunity. He didn't know what he'd facce in the tournament many, many years later, but he knew for a fact he'd need a few things to survive. Firstly powerful comrades, secondly powerful equipment, and last but not least complete immunity to most things. As in he couldn't be susceptible to poison, to time warping, to ice or fire, or even mental abilities.

Due to this he had been collecting powers to specifically counter these problems. Starting with Rewind, and now with Nebius' power.

'Now with this power I'll be unbeatable in the One Piece World.' Jin thought as a purple aura began to surround his body. As he reached the ground, he sent a blast of air in front of himself with his barely functioning arm.

For about half an hour, Jin laid there as his blood pooled, as this occured though, his body continually repaired his arm along with the rest of his body brining it back to stable condition in a reasonable amount of time.

"Finally I can move." Jin said as he moved around his right arm. 'It'll take time to adjust to my body's proper strength, but this will do for now.' Jin thought as he moved towards Nebius' corpse.

Along with the power obtained on killing him, Nebius also dropped another wonderful treasure, his heart. With immense anticipation, Jin immediately began ripping through Nebius' corpse and eventually found the heart, and once he did so, he consumed it.

Immediately power gushed through Jin's body, and images of Nebius surfaced in Jin's mind. Soon after immense pain flushed throughout Jin's body as the power of chaos that Nebius contained suffused into his body.

To reduce the pain he felt, Jin immediately increased his endorphin emission. 'Thank god the hero was practically a doctor with his amount of knowledge, or else I wouldn't know this tactic.' Jin thought as the pain immediately decreased, and Jin even felt like it was a walk in the park.

A few minutes later, the power completely fused with Jin's body and he sensed a gigantic orb within his dantian, which was only inferior to that of One For All.

"It seems I am op." Jin said as a smile shone on his face.