Chapter 23 A Genius Indeed
Blue sky, blue sea, white clouds floating.
The huge warship sailed at a steady speed on the endless blue sea, dragging a long white trail behind it.
In the dark cabin, Darren sat cross-legged on the deck alone with his eyes closed.
The light of the oil lamp cast a vague shadow of his figure on the wall of the cabin.
Three smooth metal balls floated in the air, moving centripetally around his body.
If someone were here, they would probably be shocked.
Because these three metal balls flying and moving around the naval colonel, even during the movement, the relative distance between each other has always remained absolutely consistent!
This requires extremely high control ability.
Time passed by minute by minute,
With Darren's fingers gently hooked, the three metal balls kept changing shape like liquid, sometimes stretching and extending into sharp spikes, twisting and wriggling like insidious iron chains, and sometimes spreading and spreading like solid steel shields...
At a certain moment,
Darren slowly opened his eyes.
The three metal spheres gathered together and finally changed into a silver metal wristband, which solidified on the right wrist of the naval captain.
He exhaled lightly, and a satisfied smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
Physical strength: 60.451
Strength: 55.890
Speed: 58.048
Fruit: 71.871
"Sure enough, real combat and fighting can force oneself to grow faster..."
Darren used the "insight" talent to sense his physical condition, and couldn't help but sighed.
In the past few months, his training progress has basically slowed down a lot, and even the speed and fruit ability have almost stagnated.
Although as he continued to increase his training intensity, the various data of his body are still slowly improving, but the speed of improvement is not satisfactory.
However, after the battle with Germa 66, Darren's physical strength and strength have increased by more than 1 point.
If it is training, it will take at least a month to achieve the same effect.
"It's a pity that Germa 66 is too weak and can't really get me into shape."
Darren smiled and lit a cigar.
Germa Judge is not weak, but his ability is too restrained by Germa's technological weapons.
Without a doubt, if it weren't for his appearance, with the military strength of Vinsmoke Judge and Germa 66, "killing the kings of the four countries in the North Sea" and even dominating the North Sea would not be a big problem.
"I really miss the time when I fought with that madman Sakaski..."
Darren's eyes were a little emotional.
Before Sakaski left the North Sea and went to the headquarters for training, he often trained and sparred with the former without using the devil fruit ability.
Of course, the "sparring" between the two of them was fatal in the eyes of others.
After all, Sakaski never held back.
If you are not careful, you may be killed and then tragically become an "accident".
During that time, although he was seriously injured almost every day, the exhilarating fights and the state of constantly forcing himself to break through the limits in the midst of life and death crisis made Darren intoxicated.
That was also the period when his strength leaped the fastest.
Unfortunately, that was all in the past.
After training in the headquarters officer training camp, under the guidance of the former navy admiral Black Arm Zefa, Sakaski is now estimated to have mastered Haki.
The distance between him and him has been infinitely widened.
After all, Teacher Kaido said... Haki is the most powerful ability in this sea.
Thinking of this, Darren slowly stood up.
He was not in a hurry.
The third officer training camp is about to start, and if nothing unexpected happens, he has already won a place.
Although his talent is far inferior to monsters like Sakaski and Borsalino, Darren believes that with his own ability, he can definitely fight for a place in the navy.
Before that, he must build up the North Sea Fleet.
Make this powerful fleet, which will be armed with Germa technology, a military force that belongs to him and obeys his orders.
A determined light flashed in Darren's deep eyes, and he walked out of the cabin and pushed open the door.
The sun shone down, and the navy soldiers outside the cabin were patrolling and performing daily maintenance on guns and artillery.
On the spacious deck, Kaji and Gion were practicing in sweat.
The former was carrying a huge barbell weighing one ton, gritting his teeth and doing handstand push-ups with a ferocious face.
The latter held a long sword in his hand, with a serious look, practicing swordsmanship in a methodical manner, and the sharp blade cut the air, making bursts of sharp whistling sounds.
"Are they both crazy?"
Darren looked at this scene in confusion and asked the flying squirrel who was walking over.
The flying squirrel rubbed his temple helplessly.
"The Germa 66 incident was a big shock to them, especially Kaji... He practiced like crazy after he came back."
Darren couldn't help laughing when he remembered the miserable look of Kaji being stepped on the face by Vinsmoke Judge and kicked away.
Boom! !
At this time, a magnificent water column several tens of meters high suddenly exploded on one side of the warship.
Turbulent waves surged up, and the whole warship suddenly shook.
"What happened!?"
"Is it an enemy attack?"
"No! It's a sea king!!"
"..."
The faces of the sailors on the deck changed slightly, and they quickly took action, drawing their sabers, raising their spears, and adjusting the cannons on the warships.
A huge shadow slowly emerged from the splashing sea water, projected in front of everyone, and almost covered the entire warship.
The scorching sun above seemed to disappear, replaced by a behemoth that was sixty or seventy meters high.
Black scales, with gills, looked like a giant eel.
Lantern-sized pupils looked down at the sailors on the deck, and slowly opened their bloody mouths full of sharp teeth.
"A small sea king?"
Darren looked at the "strange fish" in front of him with interest.
During this period of time, Vegapunk had not yet developed a method to load seastone on the bottom of the warship to allow the navy to survive the doldrums.
In other words, at this time, the sea king creatures can still sense the breath of the warship.
The flying squirrel next to him subconsciously reached out his hand and grasped the handle of the saber at his waist, and was about to attack.
Darren held his shoulder and shook his head.
The flying squirrel was stunned, but heard a strange cry from the deck.
"Hahahahaha!! Just in time!! Let's use you, a little reptile, to verify the results of this genius's practice!!"
The moment the arrogant laughter came out, Kaji's figure stepped on the railing of the warship and shot up like a cannonball.
Roar! !
A touch of human anger flashed in the blood-red eyes of the sea king creatures, as if they were angered by the arrogance of the "ant" in front of them, and suddenly let out a deafening roar.
The majestic sound waves suddenly pressed down, causing many navy officers on the deck to fall to the ground.
The sea king opened its bloody mouth full of sharp teeth and swallowed the high-jumping Kaji in one gulp.
Bang! !
Kaji punched out!
Visible ripples and air waves spread out.
The sea king's pupils froze and his expression became confused.
Crackling...
Under Kaji's punch, its teeth continued to crack and then shattered.
Sea king:...
Hot tears brewed in its eyeballs.
At this moment,
Clang! !
The buzzing sound of the famous sword being unsheathed suddenly exploded.
The golden famous sword tore through the air, and a golden sword light whistled through the air and flashed in the void.
Swish! !
A thin blood mark slowly appeared on the neck of the poor sea king creature.
Cut it in two with one sword!
Then,
Boom! !
The huge head of the sea king separated from the body and fell into the sea, raising turbulent waves again.
The blood that kept pouring out dyed the sea surface red.
On the deck.
Kaji landed steadily and posed in a self-proclaimed handsome posture.
Gion sheathed his sword with an indifferent look, and his cloak fluttered behind him.
The other navy officers stared at Gion and Kaji who easily solved the sea king monster. After a second of silence, they all cheered with joy.
Some people even threw out the fishing net swiftly to prepare for the meal.
"You are indeed a genius of the headquarters... a future candidate for admiral..."
Darren looked at this scene and murmured to himself with emotion.
Through the actions of the two of them, Darren judged at a glance that their strength had clearly improved a lot compared to when they first came to the North Sea.
Kaji's strength, speed and physical skills level had increased by at least 30%.
As for Gion... he even comprehended the "Flying Slash", was able to slash out sword rays, and stepped into the realm of a swordsman in one fell swoop!
It's only been a few days!!
This terrifying talent, even if it is not as good as "monsters" like Sakaski and Borsalino, is not far behind.
"Hahahahaha!! Darren, did you see it!!"
Kaji walked over with a proud face, raised his hands and bent his arms, showing his biceps.
"Such a big sea king, this genius broke all his teeth with one punch, you can-"
Boom! !
At this moment, as if attracted by the blood of the sea king, the surging waves exploded again on the sea surface.
One,
Two,
Three,
...
A full eight sea king creatures with a height of more than 100 meters, raised their heads and roared out from the undulating sea surface, echoing each other and roaring loudly that shook the world.
As the huge body twisted and rolled, the sea surface was stirred up by raging waves, rushing towards the warship.
The "small" warship was shaking and trembling in front of the eight sea kings with larger bodies.
Darren waved his hand.
The metal wrist guard on his arm suddenly fell off, and then twisted and stretched like a living thing into a sharp spear, suddenly shooting through the air.
Sharp explosions continued to explode, and under the horrible magnetic field force, the surrounding void continued to bloom with white ripples wherever the metal spear passed.
The speed climbed to the extreme in an instant.
No one could see its trajectory clearly.
Everyone on the deck only felt a flash in front of their eyes, as if something was repeatedly interspersed in the void, like a silver phantom.
The figures of the eight roaring sea kings all stopped.
Swish!!
Their bodies were constantly bursting with tiny blood holes, and they were spurting out high-pressure blood like a sieve.
Boom! !
The huge monsters collapsed one after another, stirring up water columns.
Darren recalled the metal spear, condensed it into a wrist guard again, and put it on carelessly. Behind him was a picture of eight lifeless sea kings falling into the sea.
He turned his head to look at the stunned Kaji and said:
"Major Kaji, what did you want to say just now?"
Kaji's mouth twitched and smiled:
"I said you can do better than me!"
Darren glanced at him, patted his shoulder, and looked into the distance.
The outline of an island gradually emerged on the sea in the distance.
"Get ready, we're going to land on the island soon."
The corners of his mouth curled up with a hint of sarcasm:
"Our mission this time is to protect the great, sacred and noble Celestial Dragons."
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