Chapter 645: Completed, the storm is coming! (2 in 1)

The bounty of the Straw Hat Pirates is only considered a small pirate group when looking at the entire ocean.

If we talk about strength alone, the Straw Hat Pirates are definitely among the top ones in the first half of the Grand Line.

Although they did not encounter any strong opponents along the way, the speed at which the members' strength grew did not slow down due to the low intensity of the battles.

With the help of Luffy, even Sanji, who was only thinking about cooking to please Nami and Vivi, successfully awakened his Observation Haki and Armament Haki.

Whether or not one has mastered domineering power can be said to be a watershed.

This determines whether this pirate group is qualified to enter the New World.

For any pirate group capable of venturing into the New World, mastering Haki is the most basic thing, and can be considered the threshold for entry.

And now the Straw Hat Pirates have the strength and vision to explore the new world.

Luffy, who had received orthodox naval education in the headquarters of the Navy, had his horizons broadened long ago. He was very clear about where his own strength stood in this ocean. Although his style of doing things still seemed a bit nonsensical, Luffy knew very well what kind of people he could offend and what kind of people he could not offend.

Therefore, after landing on the Sabaody Archipelago with the crew, Luffy and his crew members behaved very low-key.

Luffy sneaked out of the Marine Headquarters. He was well aware of how powerful the Marine Headquarters' intelligence network was in the Sabaody Archipelago. In order to prevent his actions from being discovered by Sengoku, Luffy tried to keep a low profile as much as possible.

Luffy was afraid that Sengoku would send out generals whom he could not deal with and force himself back to the Marine Headquarters.

In order to conceal his identity, Luffy hid in the most lively island GR-33 during the period when the ship was coated.

The GR30-GR39 islands of the Chabaoti Archipelago form a very distinctive Soap Bubble Park, which is the most visited amusement park in the Chabaoti Archipelago. All tourists who come to the Chabaoti Archipelago will not miss it.

With its large population and complex personnel composition, Bubble Park naturally became the best place for Luffy and his crew to hide their tracks.

The headquarters navy stationed in the Sabaody Archipelago focused more on the shipyards of GR50~GR59, the coating craftsman concentration area, and the hotel concentration area of ​​GR70-GR79.

The security environment in places like amusement parks has always been good, and the Navy has invested relatively little regulatory power here.

It is precisely because Luffy came from the Navy Headquarters that he can clearly know which area of ​​the Sabaody Archipelago is more suitable for their activities.

Coating is a relatively long process. A skilled craftsman may need three or four days, while a slower craftsman may need a week or even longer.

As for those black craftsmen who specialize in coating pirate ships, both the coating time and the coating cost are much longer than those of ordinary craftsmen.

This is not
When Nami somehow found the "black worker" Rayleigh, she had already spent 30 Beli before the coating even started.

This is the channel fee.
Every pirate who wants to go to Fishman Island will be "slaughtered" before setting off.

Rayleigh and Luffy were not familiar with each other, and they had not established a preliminary understanding of each other through the auction world. Even when Rayleigh was coating the Sunny, Luffy had already led the crew except Franky to the amusement park.

He and Luffy have never even met each other, let alone any kind of master-disciple relationship between them.

For Rayleigh, coating the Sunny was just a job that allowed him to buy alcohol.

I'm afraid even he himself didn't expect that the young savior who ate the Nika Fruit would pass by him like this.

Just as the Straw Hat Pirates arrived at the Sabaody Archipelago and prepared to go to Fishman Island, the main force of the New Navy also spent more than a year to complete the entire army's equipment replacement.

It took a lot of time for the new equipment to be designed and produced and put into service by the entire army. During this period, many detailed adjustments were made to these new weapons of the new navy.

At the same time, Vegapunk's development of thermal weapons did not stop just because it wanted to equip the entire new navy.

New weapons were invented one after another. The new navy not only underwent large-scale updates to individual weapons, but also warships, naval guns and other armaments had varying degrees of "evolution".

There is a huge generation gap between the weapons and equipment of the new navy and those of ordinary pirates.

On this day, the new navy, with updated equipment and completed training, began to assemble on a large scale at the Cake Island Harbor, and then, under the leadership of Kuzan, quickly sailed out of the harbor.

The total number of warships in the fleet led by Kuzan has expanded to nearly 200, and the number of main battle ships with a length of nearly 200 meters has reached 20. Other navigation ships, frigates, early warning ships, and supply ships have formed a formation and gathered around the main battle ships, sailing towards the open sea in a mighty manner.

At a glance, the huge new naval fleet covered the entire sea area visible to the naked eye.

As the fleet passed by, turbulent waves appeared on the originally calm sea.

Wooden sailing ships, which are outdated products, have been completely eliminated. With the production machines designed and manufactured by Vegapunk, it took only more than a year for the new navy's fleet equipment to be completely renewed.

It is foreseeable that in today's New World, no pirate group can survive the iron torrent of the new navy.

The generals leading this large-scale operation of the New Navy were Kuzan, Ichisho and Mihawk.

After the fleet sailed out of the World Sea, it split into three forces and headed in different directions.

Even if the new navy tried to block the news, such a large-scale operation could not be concealed by blocking the news.

The secret construction of so many warships took advantage of the special nature of Lord Lantern. Naturally, there was no way to hide this large-scale operation from other forces on the sea.

As soon as the new navy's troops were dispatched, the Navy Headquarters and the World Government received news about the new navy's latest movements.

The appearance of this torrent of steel also frightened Sengoku so much that he had no time to care about Luffy and his gang and quickly convened an internal meeting.

The new navy has achieved a technological leap.

This is an enormous pressure for everyone on this ocean.

Whether it is the pirate forces or the World Government, the strength of the new navy will do more harm than good to them.

But the strange thing is that no one acted rashly. They were all waiting, waiting for the first battle of these iron torrents of the new navy. Only then could they effectively assess the current strength of the new navy and formulate the next way to deal with the new navy.

Fishman Island.

After the new navy’s new weapons and equipment were equipped to the main combat units, they could finally be supplied to other combat units.

The Jinbei unit, which has been stationed on Fishman Island all year round, is one of the last groups to receive new equipment in the entire new naval system.

The reason is very simple. The Fish-Man Navy stationed on Fish-Man Island does not participate in the war of unification of the New World. Moreover, the Fish-Man Navy itself has unparalleled advantages in the ocean. In the deep sea, there are relatively few occasions where they can use new weapons and equipment.

Therefore, when it came to equipment deployment, the Murloc Navy's ranking was naturally relatively low, and the number of new equipment given to them was relatively small.

However, on the day when the warship transporting the weapons entered the harbor of Fishman Island, Jinbe personally brought a group of people to receive the weapons.

In Yoriichi's opinion, the Fishman Navy may not have much use for these weapons and equipment, but the actual situation is not so.

In recent years, the number of pirates who sneaked into Fishman Island through various channels has only increased. Even if the Fishman Navy stationed on Fishman Island has expanded twice, it is impossible to monitor the entire Fishman Island. The weakening of the World Government's control over the four seas has made the soil for breeding pirates more fertile, and its influence has inevitably affected Fishman Island.

In recent years, the fish-man navy on the island has also needed to fight pirates on the land. Although fish-men are naturally stronger than ordinary humans, every pirate who can come to Fish-man Island is no ordinary person. Ordinary fish-men do not have an absolute advantage in fighting these pirates on land.

Fortunately, the general guarding Fishman Island is Jinbe. If it were a weaker leader, Fishman Island would have been defeated by pirates long ago.

But Jinbei is a kind and honest man. Even though he encountered such tremendous pressure, he never made any demands to the headquarters, and he never even complained to the art school. He has been silently leading the fish-man navy to resist the increasing number of pirates, bearing tremendous pressure.

The reason why Jinbei attaches so much importance to the replacement of new naval weapons this time is because he really needs help from the headquarters.

"Lieutenant General Jinbei, this is the list of weapons, please take a look."

On the warship, Jinbei was carefully looking at this transport ship made entirely of steel. A transport officer came to Jinbei's side with a list and said in a low voice.

"Ok."

Upon hearing this, Jinbei took the list from the transport officer, glanced at it, and his expression became a little strange.

It’s not that there is anything wrong with this list, but the names of the weapons listed on this list are the first time Jinbei has seen them and he has no intuitive concept of them.

"Um, Lieutenant Colonel, can you give me a brief description of these weapons and equipment?"

"I'm a little confused."

"You know, I haven't seen these new weapons."

"And how will the headquarters arrange the subsequent use and maintenance of these equipment?"

Jinbei, who has been stationed on Fishman Island for many years, has been outside the power center of the new navy. It's not that the new navy deliberately alienates him, but because Jinbei himself wants to stay on Fishman Island and protect his hometown from pirates.

Having stayed in the deep sea for so many years, it is natural that Jinbei is not aware of the latest major events happening in the new naval headquarters.

"Yes, Lieutenant General."

"Let me give you a brief introduction to these weapons."

"As for the issue of equipment maintenance and use you mentioned, this time the headquarters has also sent a special teaching team. They will stay on Fishman Island to teach their colleagues how to use these new weapons."

As the transport officer lieutenant colonel spoke, he led Jinbei to the armory box, opened a weapon box with a "Pioneer" stamp on the outside, took out the weapons from it, and then returned to Jinbei to begin introducing them.

The simple demonstration without bullets only satisfied Jinbei's curiosity, but when Jinbei was taken into the small shooting range inside the ship and watched the live-fire exercise with his own eyes, a look of deep surprise appeared on his face.

"These weapons are too powerful!!!"

"What happened to the headquarters? Who invented and manufactured these weapons?!"

The power of the new weapons could even pose a certain threat to Jinbei, which made him curious about the scientists at the headquarters who invented these weapons, and he subconsciously asked this question.

"Uh, sorry, Vice Admiral Jinbe."

"As much as I want to answer your question, the truth is... I don't know either."

"I'm afraid only the generals of Cake Island know this."

"By the way, Lieutenant General, there is a special weapon that I need you to take a look at in person."

"The superiors have instructed that only you can use this weapon."

After briefly testing some weapons in the small shooting range on the warship, the transport officer approached Jinbe with a mysterious look on his face.

"Only I can use it?"

Upon hearing this, Jinbei's face was stunned, and he felt a little excited in his heart.

No man can resist such a powerful firearm.

But when Jinbe was brought to a dim cabin by the transport officer, he was stunned.

This was a small cabin of about five or six square meters. On the bed in the cabin lay a white-haired boy who looked 90% similar to Abel.

"This is.?"

The moment he saw the sleeping boy, Jinbei's mind was full of question marks.

"This is Seraph, named S-Abel."

"Lieutenant General Jinbei, his system only recognizes your audio. Just call his name and he will wake up."

At the transport officer's reminder, Jinbei calmed his mind and gently called out S-Abel's name.

The moment he heard Jinbei's voice, Seraph S-Abel activated, slowly opened his eyes, and sat up from the bed.

"S-Abel is the latest artificial human developed by our headquarters."

"It's a real weapon of war."

"As long as it's not in the sea, he can adapt to any combat environment."

"The highest command of the Seraphs is the generals of the headquarters, and this Seraph, in addition to obeying the orders of the generals, only obeys the orders of you, Lieutenant General."

Although he had never seen S-Abel take action with his own eyes, Jinbei could feel a slight sense of oppression from this Seraphim.

He understood that the "weapon" sent by the headquarters this time was probably something extraordinary.

After receiving the new weapons from the headquarters, the navy on Fishman Island spent some time familiarizing themselves with the new weapons.

And when these fish-man navy appeared in front of the pirates again, their combat effectiveness was already very different.

“Let’s set sail!!!”

On a sunny afternoon, the Straw Hat Pirates gathered again on the Sunny, which had been coated. With a low roar from Luffy, the Sunny also dived into the sea and headed towards the Fishman Island ten thousand meters below.

(End of this chapter)