ken entered the forest and only saw the sea of tress all the way . this was actually a small mountain so ken climbed the area while admiring the nature here . ken was familiar with system map so he saw the locations of beasts which were huge in number . ken was confident in his abilities but still decided to play it safe and avoided the beasts all the way .
fortunately the beasts here seemed to have strong territorial awareness so most of them didnt leave their small territory which made travel more easier for ken . on the way ken casually ate the fruits that looked edible and found them really delicious .
after more than 30 minutes of travel ken still didnt find the top but he knew that a human was approaching him at great speed . ken had left his map on all the time for scouting purposes and the result was clear now .
just when ken was wondering who could it be , then Ken's eyes widened in surprise. simply because ken actually saw luffy already who was running fast like a monkey with his trademark smile and straw hat .
- oh ? who are you ? I'm monkey d luffy , the person who will become the king of pirates. nice to meet ya shishishishishi....
ken shook luffys hand without a second thought and replied with a smile
- I'm ken just a nobody right now . by the way why are you running so fast ? do you have to go somewhere urgently ?
- * o face * I was going to the village to meet makino . thank you shishishishishi..
just like that luffy came and dashed away like a typhoon but ken wasn't annoyed at all . in fact ken was happy because luffy was as carefree as his character from anime and he could feel his conviction when he mentioned his dream king of pirates. ken too decided to join Luffy's crew as the adventures would definitely be fun with him ..
ken knew that he would meet Luffy again many times in future so he wasn't worried about becoming his crew mate and friend . now ken decided it was best to find a place to train and live peacefully .
one more reason ken chose this island as the starting point was because of the existence of grey terminal here. of course the purpose was grinding for system points easily but killing some scum on the way.
ken followed the map and arrived in a relatively large empty area . of course it was not truly empty because the tress filled the area . he checked again and again and was glad that there was no sign of any bests near here . this area was the closest one where there were no beasts according to the map and ken was glad that the map was correct .
now looking at the sky it was evident that night was approaching so ken decided that it was time to start his training. Ken knew instinctively the command to increase gravity of his body so he immediately increased it to 3x normal .
just as expected ken was assaulted with a familiar pressure like when he started training with gravity seal in naruto world . the difference was that this time the pressure was relatively lower which signified that the body potential in this world was much greater.
Ken was actually comfortable with the familiar feeling of muscles contracting at extreme speeds so he started doing some push ups. ken was thankful to makino as he was not hungry and could train without any distraction from his stomach ...
the effects of infinite stamina were evident as ken didnt feel tired at all even after completing more than a thousand pushups. ken was afraid now that he would become a training maniac now as this feeling of getting stronger quickly was thrilling . ken would rest after every 100 push ups and feel the evident increase in power which made him smile and more motivated every time to train ...