With a roar, Sanji's body suddenly stopped spinning at high speed.
With the huge kinetic energy from spinning to the limit, he raised his right leg and swung it hard. A crescent-shaped slash over 10 meters long, burning with blazing flames, instantly arrived in front of Zephyr.
This brat!
Zephyr had no time to be surprised and could only raise his hand to block it again.
The scorching flame slash also failed to break through his defense after hitting him.
However, the terrible kinetic energy of the slash pushed Zephyr all the way back, and his legs directly plowed two deep grooves on the ground.
"It's not over yet, Santoryu : 108-Pound Phoenix!"
Zoro jumped out again at this time, adding another damage.
Three blue slashes gathered together, forming a phoenix-like sword energy superimposed on Sanji's attack.
Instantly, the power of the flame slash became stronger, the scorching flames scorched the earth, and even Zephyr began to sweat slightly.
The combined attack of the two couldn't help but surprise Zephyr secretly.
But he was an admiral after all, no matter how exquisite and powerful the two attacks were, he still couldn't be stumped.
"Hah!"
Zephyr shouted, blocking the attack with his left arm, and raised his right fist high.
A thick Armament Haki was wrapped around it, and as the fist fell, it slashed at the flames and released.
"Armament Haki: Hardening!"
The powerful fists hit the flaming slash with unstoppable force.
The slash was instantly dispersed, and the sparks flew everywhere like exploding fireworks, and finally fell to the ground and dissipated into nothingness.
Sanji and the others stared at this scene in a daze, not knowing what to think.
This was already their full-strength attack, but it was still easily dispersed by Zephyr.
Are they too weak, or is this old man too strong?
Looking at the two dumbfounded teenagers, Zephyr slowly put away his posture, with a look of satisfaction on his face.
"Let's stop here. I have a general understanding of your strength."
After saying this, he paused and looked at the two of them with a serious look.
"Have you already started your armament haki training?"
Zoro reluctantly retracted the three swords and nodded:
"Yes, but I have not practiced for a long time and I have not yet fully mastered it."
"Well, as a swordsman, your swordsmanship is considered exquisite in the headquarters."
Zephyr expressed his affirmation to Zoro. After saying that, he looked at Sanji.
"You too, you are able to integrate the six styles so skillfully into your kicking skills, your talent is truly rare."
Zephyr said, taking out a booklet and writing down the characteristics of both of them with a pen.
"Okay, let me see your training again, the Haki training method that Luffy taught you."
Hearing this, Zoro and Sanji couldn't help but look at each other.
Then Sanji shook his head and gritted his teeth and said:
"The method he taught us was to blindfold ourselves and let everyone beat us up.
During the beating, we had to either learn to use Armament Haki to resist or learn Observation Haki to avoid it."
After hearing this, Zephyr's face darkened and he started to curse.
"Bastard!"
Taking a deep breath, Zephyr suppressed the urge to grab Luffy and beat him up, and explained:
"I don't deny that some people can learn armament haki through this kind of training.
But the essence of armament haki power is the invisible feelings such as momentum, killing intent, and fighting spirit. It is the embodiment of willpower.
Learning armament haki is learning how to control willpower.
For this, the marine has long explored a complete and effective training method."
Zephyr talked eloquently with his hands behind his back, and his words opened another door for the two of them.
"Do you know about life return? This is also a move that is circulated among the marine elite and world government agents.
The principle is to infuse the will into various parts of the body, so as to achieve the effect of controlling the body, hair, internal organs, etc.
There are a lot of similarities between the two. Once you have mastered life return, learning armament haki will be much easier."
"Life return? Didn't Luffy have that? Isn't that a passive skill?"
Zoro asked in confusion.
Zephyr nodded slowly with a dark face, "That's right for him. That kid has a special physique and is born with life return.
So he learned Haki very quickly at the beginning.
In fact, he mastered Haki by himself in the battle as you just said."
Hearing this, Zoro and Sanji's faces immediately turned green.
After all this time, it turned out that this bastard was a pervert, so he taught them as if they were perverts like him.
It would be strange if they could learn it!
But fortunately, there is Zephyr to explain it to them and teach them step by step.
The two of them quickly put aside their unhappiness and stayed in the elite training camp to start training seriously.
Of course, Zephyr would not keep them.
After a day of training, he told the two of them the direction of the subsequent training, gave each of them a training plan written on the spur of the moment, and sent them away.
Despite this, the two still benefited a lot, and sincerely called him Teacher Zephyr when they left.
On the fourth day after returning to the headquarters, After getting dressed up, Luffy stood in the largest square in Marineford.
Senior Marine officers who stayed at the headquarters, such as Tsuru, Zephyr, and Aokiji, attended the event.
In addition, Vice Admiral Momonga, Strawberry, Doberman, Rear Admiral Yukimura, Catacombo and many other Marine high ranking officer came to watch the ceremony.
On the high platform in the center of the square, Luffy, Hina, Ain, Cook and other main members of the guerrilla's squad stood in a row in order of marine rank.
Opposite them was Fleet Admiral Sengoku, who was dressed in formal attire and had a serious and earnest face.
Taking the golden medal from the hands of the marines beside him, Sengoku came to Luffy and put it on him personally.
After that, he straightened Luffy's suit, patted him on the shoulder and encouraged him:
"Captain Luffy, I hope you will continue to work hard in the future. I look forward to awarding you a medal next time."
"Yes! I will live up to the Fleet Admiral's expectations!"
Luffy stood up straight and saluted in response.
After that, he turned around and stepped forward, saluted and thanked all his colleagues who came to watch the ceremony.
Immediately, there was applause from the audience. Sengoku also smiled and clapped softly. After the applause stopped, he took another medal and began to award the medal to Hina.
"Captain Hina, I have seen your performance, keep up the good work."
"Yes, thank you Fleet Admiral Sengoku!"
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After Hina finished her set of procedures, Sengoku began to repeatedly award medals and encouragements, and then the next one.
Soon, everyone had a golden medal on their chest.
But it was not over yet, the next part was the highlight.
After handing out the medals, Sengoku held the radio Den Den Mushi and announced in front of everyone:
"Captain Luffy was appointed as the captain of the Marine Guerrilla's Squad a year ago and was ordered to go to the East Blue.
During the East Blue mission, he severely cracked down on the arrogance of local pirates.
He conscientiously completed the task of inspecting the East Blue Marine issued by the headquarters.
He purged the corrupt officers in each branch who had extremely bad influences such as corruption and bribery.
Half a month ago, together with the Grand Line Marine G27 Branch, he discovered the conspiracy of Crocodile, one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea, to overthrow the world government and allied countries. He bravely took the lead and successfully brought the villain Crocodile to justice without fear of danger.
Hereby, in the name of the Supreme Commander of the Marine of the World government, I appoint Captain Monkey D. Luffy to the rank of Rear Admiral of the Marine Headquarters."
After saying that, Sengoku immediately took the lead in applauding.
Tsuru, Zephyr, Aokiji and others who knew the news in advance also applauded and celebrated.
But the others who came to watch the ceremony were dumbfounded.
They guessed that Luffy would be promoted after defeating the Seven Warlords of the Sea.
But they didn't expect that Luffy would skip the Commodore and directly be promoted from Captain to Rear Admiral.
You know, he has only been at sea for more than a year.
This promotion speed is too outrageous.
Of course, although they were surprised, everyone still agreed with this appointment. After all, Luffy captured a Seven Warlords of the Sea, the seven who are known as one of the major powers of the sea.
In terms of strength alone, Luffy, as Rear Admiral, is completely sufficient.
Under the applause of the crowd, Luffy stood up again and spoke a set of standard official language.
Sengoku didn't care, and handed Luffy the appointment documents and a set of higher-standard marine uniforms and cloaks with a look of satisfaction.
After that, he repeated what he had done before, listing the events of Hina and others one by one, and commended them.
Among them, Hina was promoted to Rear Admiral, Ain was promoted to Commodore, Cook, Gavin, Binz and others were promoted to captain, and others were also promoted.
Even Zoro, who was not qualified to go on stage and Sanji were promoted two levels, from seaman first class to warrant officer.
Nami and Usopp were not so lucky, they were only promoted to Chief petty officer, still the lowest rank in the whole guerrilla team.
But even so, those marines who didn't know much about the guerrilla team were dumbfounded.
'The hell, how can whole team was promoted together?
It's ok that Rear Admiral Luffy was promoted for capturing the Seven Warlords of the Sea, Hina and Ain also played a key role for now.
But what about the others? No, we must protest to the Fleet Admiral.
What? You say the protest is invalid? Then at least let us join the guerrilla team..
We also want to be promoted, we also want to make progress!'
For a moment, the faces of all the marine officers in the square changed.
They all stared at Luffy's back on the podium with fiery eyes, and the fiery eyes made Luffy's whole body shudder.
He seemed to have become a hot commodity now, and everyone wanted to have a bite.
The awarding of honors and promotion activities ended in such a relaxed and happy environment.
When Luffy left the square and returned to the Fleet Admiral's office, he had a layer of cold sweat on his back. After closing the door, he sat down on the comfortable sofa in the office without hesitation, and said relaxedly:
"Phew~ It's finally over. Just now it felt like there were a group of ants crawling behind me.
My observation Haki kept giving warnings, and I felt like I was about to be torn apart at any moment."
Sengoku smiled and sat down in his office chair, crossed his hands on the table, and said jokingly:
"What, do you think being a Rear Admiral is too stressful?
Do you want me to remove your marine rank and position, so that you can go home and be a young master who just eats and waits for death?"
Luffy rolled his eyes at him in annoyance.
"Sure, but Grandpa Sengoku, are you willing to give me up?"
"Humph, what is there for me to be reluctant about?" Sengoku snorted heavily, and then changed to a gloating look, saying playfully:
"Thanks you for recommending Issho to me. He is quite capable and can fill the vacancy left by you."
"Nani——?"
Luffy sat up in confusion, then clapped his hands in sudden realization.
"Yes, where is Uncle Issho? I haven't seen him since I brought him here that day.
Where did he go? What is his current rank?"
"Humph." Sengoku smiled complacently, took out a signed document from his desk, shook it, and said:
"You should call him Sir now. After my application, the world government agreed to promote him to Vice Admiral.
Just yesterday, I sent him to the New World for a mission."
"What?! He really became a vice admiral?!"
Luffy jumped up and screamed. He didn't expect that Issho could be promoted to vice admiral in such a relatively stable period of time.
Originally, he just said it casually, thinking that it would be good if the Fleet Admiral could make an exception and arrange a Rear Admiral.
After all, Issho was a newcomer and didn't even have any achievements.
Sitting back on the sofa, he slowly digested this shocking news.
Suddenly, Luffy realized something was wrong and jumped up from the sofa.
"Grandpa, what did you say?! He went to the new world?
I, the captain, haven't even gone yet, how come he went to the new world?!"
"Is there something wrong?", Sengoku pretended to be puzzled
"Of course not!"
Luffy retorted loudly, and then counted on his fingers.
"Grandpa, I was the first one to know Issho, right?"
"Uh-huh, yeah"
"I was the one who brought him back to the headquarters and introduced him to you."
"Yes, this is your credit. This is one of the reasons why you were promoted directly to Rear Admiral."
"That's right." Luffy clap his hands, spreading towards the Warring States
"I brought him here, and it was thanks to my efforts that he joined the marine. How could you just throw him away to the new world after meeting him once?
He should be my subordinate, and he should follow me."
"Yes, you are right."
Sengoku nodded repeatedly, "And then?"
"Then what? He is mine, he should be mine!"
Luffy argued.
Sengoku shook his head with amusement and leaned back on the chair.
"After saying so much, you still don't understand one thing."
Luffy was at a loss,"What?" He calmly reached out and poked the table, and said in a serious tone:
"Remember, I am the Fleet Admiral."
Luffy:
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