One Piece Dragon King - Chapter 55

A month passed quickly.

The elite camp’s graduating monsters boarded a ship to take their exam. Ain wasn’t yet strong enough to take the exam, so she continued her training at the base.

However, due to her Devil Fruit ability’s significant enhancement, she had become extremely powerful.

Teacher Zephyr advised Ain to focus on training her physical techniques, but Ain wasn’t inclined to listen, believing her Devil Fruit ability was strong enough. Thus, Zephyr had Halse persuade her, and Ain listened.

Now, Ain was diligently training her physical techniques at the base.

“Negative emotions from Zephyr +90,000.”

Naturally, Halse also participated in the exam.

“Just to let you know, although there shouldn’t be any life-threatening danger, there have been cases where people died because they didn’t release their distress signal in time. Are you all prepared?”

Before the ship departed, Vice Admiral Doberman addressed everyone.

The crowd exchanged looks, unsure of what to say.

Fear was inevitable, but no one chose to quit, so everyone stayed.

For Halse, this exam was just a formality. Even if he stood there and let the beasts attack him, they wouldn’t be able to break through his defense, so he wasn’t afraid.

Vice Admiral Doberman glanced at Halse a few times. This was Zephyr’s disciple, and although Doberman hadn’t met him often, Zephyr had mentioned that Halse was a monstrous talent with the potential to become an admiral.

Halse closed his eyes to rest, feeling the sea breeze, though it seemed scentless to him.

He was so used to the sea breeze at Marineford that he couldn’t feel the slightly salty wetness described in poets’ verses.

Sigh~

By the way, would there be Sea Kings on the way? Sea King meat was quite tasty, and he hadn’t had any for a while.

“Halse, do you have confidence?”

Naturally, Halse received some special attention.

“Yes.”

Halse opened his eyes to see Vice Admiral Doberman and nodded.

Doberman felt irritated by Halse’s overly relaxed demeanor, but he was still a nice guy.

“Negative emotions from Vice Admiral Doberman +5,000.”

Too little.

It’s better not to bully nice people.

Halse was a somewhat unique figure. Few people knew him; everyone knew Garp had a powerful grandson, but few knew what he looked like or his name.

Unlike in his previous life, when information was easily found online, it wasn’t as accessible here.

The ship set sail towards an island.

After about half a month, they arrived.

During this time, Halse couldn’t train his body techniques and had to meditate instead.

But now, he could meditate without being completely still, though it wasn’t recommended during combat.

Meditation during combat would quickly deplete his energy, cause distractions, and reduce his combat abilities.

Training body techniques during combat would reduce his defense and strength and slow him down.

Body training involved breaking down and rebuilding his muscles, making them stronger through recovery, much like how others trained.

Others broke their muscles within a recoverable range, then their muscles would rebuild stronger after receiving enough energy.

Halse’s method was just more intense.

The island was enormous.

Compared to islands in his previous life, it was quite small, but in the world of One Piece, it was considered large.

The terrifying roars of beasts constantly echoed from the jungle, where frightening beasts chased and fought each other.

Halse felt a bit impatient, wanting to jump down and fight. Training with his teacher never involved life-and-death battles, limiting his combat experience. Here, he might make a breakthrough.

Vice Admiral Doberman asked once more before they disembarked, and a few people backed out. Halse, however, was eager to go.

The ship docked, anchored, and secured.

Everyone was to survive in the jungle for about half a month. When it was time to regroup, signal flares would be fired from the ship, and they just needed to return.

A month had passed.

Unfortunately, Halse didn’t know anyone here except Vice Admiral Doberman.

The Navy provided some living supplies like toothbrushes and toothpaste, as they didn’t want to see a bunch of wild people after half a month. These supplies could be repeatedly collected near the warship, but not food, water, or medicine.

The area near the warship was a safe zone, but cadets couldn’t stay there too long, or it would be considered cheating, and they’d fail the exam.

Injured personnel could stay in the safe zone, but there were few injured since it was hard to survive here.

Halse collected his toothbrush and toothpaste, stored them in a backpack, and carried it. If lost, it couldn’t be replaced.

Some used weapons like swords, which they could carry.

However, those using guns couldn’t, to prevent stray bullets from hitting teammates.

Such incidents had occurred before, and while unavoidable in the battle against pirates, the cadets’ marksmanship wasn’t strong enough, and many formed teams, so they couldn’t use guns.

Halse had long-range attack magic and didn’t need a gun.

Weapons like guns were initially powerful but became less effective without special ammunition like Usopp’s.

Devil Fruit users, swordsmen, and those strong in physical techniques didn’t need ammunition, though swordsmen needed to maintain their weapons.

Zoro, for example, frequently polished his swords.

Halse looked at the jungle, revealing a menacing smile.

Feel the pain, embrace the pain. From now on, this island will experience pain.

Why, you ask? The reason is simple: I, Halse, the man destined to kill Im, the ruler of the Void Century, have arrived.

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