Chapter 36: Overwhelming! Golden Lion and Whitebeard come into contact...

海圆历1491年1月1号，正午11点40分。

In Marinford Inner Bay Square, all the monsters directly recruited from all over the world gathered here, and warships from overseas were coming one after another.

Under the scorching sun, a huge selection and competition arena was set up in the inner bay of the Navy Headquarters.

It was established to celebrate the direct recruitment of navy personnel and the elite graduates.

The directly recruited officers are rushing to the huge competition arena.

The new elites are rushing to the stands to watch the strength benchmark test of the graduating elites.

"The bones heal over and over again after being broken, which increases the bone density..." In the center of the arena, Arthur stood alone amid the noise of the crowd, looking at his fist wrapped in medical bandages.

"This training will make my wrist more stable and won't collapse during a fight."

During the day, he and Cooper received theoretical knowledge and training suggestions from Zephyr, and from the afternoon to the evening, he stayed with Garp to fight warships.

He felt that his physical strength had improved significantly, but it seemed that just as Zefa said, he was not suitable for fighting with his fists.

On the viewing stand, Garp, Zephyr, Sengoku and others sat in a row.

"I can't imagine how outstanding a person with great potential and hard work will be in the future." Garp said while chewing senbei and looking at Arthur who was motionless below.

This evaluation was entirely due to the fact that Arthur was training himself to death in order to become stronger. In the past month that he had personally observed, he had never seen anyone working so hard.

"Why are you like this, Garp?" Zhan Guo, who was sitting next to Garp and eating senbei with him, was very confused.

Admiral Sengoku noticed that Zephyr and Garp both looked rather solemn.

"See for yourself, Sengoku, you office animal." Zefa said to Sengoku, "This time the world conscription guys didn't recruit any hidden monsters. On the contrary, the new recruits are better than the last one."

"I heard there's a Devil Fruit user with the ability to freeze nature?"

"Not only that, there are also many animal-related students. Their overall strength is much stronger than that of Sakaski and Borsalino."

……

A competition arena was set up in the bay specifically for the World Recruitment.

The directly recruited officers arrived one after another, and a total of one thousand people, big and small, gathered in the arena.

"Giants?" Arthur squinted his eyes and counted, and found that there were still 6 giants in the arena.

One woman and five men, some of whom were familiar to me.

"Let's start quickly. I don't see how durable these villains are." A giant glanced at the villains under his feet with disdain, his face full of disappointment.

"What did you say?" After hearing this, Kaji's eyes were filled with bloodshot, staring at him murderously: "Do you think you can do whatever you want just because you are big?"

He clenched his fists, waiting for the signal to start the competition at 12 o'clock.

For this day, Kaji had been practicing hard for a whole month in order to amaze everyone.

After he scanned everyone, his eyes were fixed on Arthur, who was as calm as still water.

"Hahaha, what can the little people do? Look, I'm going to knock you all away with one axe!"

"Hahaha~"

The five giants laughed unruly and did not take the elites of their own tribe seriously at all.

Jingle Bell--

"Try your best and defeat as many people as possible to be evaluated for officer ranks. Let's begin!" Outside the arena, Kong Ganggu personally announced the start of the competition.

As the bell rang at noon, Gang Gukong gave an order.

The competition officially begins.

Boom! The giants wielded their weapons recklessly, and some elite soldiers were knocked flying into the sky beyond the sea.

"Let's eliminate all of them quickly, Cooper." Arthur stood with his sword drawn and said to Cooper on his shoulder.

"Cooper!" (Good!)

Cooper flew into the air and quickly swooped down on a giant who was brandishing his weapon, hitting him on the head with his eagle claws.

The enormous claw force instantly kicked the giant man out to sea, splashing amazing waves.

"The eagle kicked the giant away? What a joke."

There was a huge commotion on the field. Every time Arthur took a step forward and swung the back of his knife, an elite would be knocked out.

"Get out of my way! You big guys who only look good but do nothing!" Kaji jumped high in the field and hit a giant in the abdomen with Bang's punch.

The terrifying punch force knocked the giant away on the spot, leaving him without any ability to defend himself.

"What! Where do these little guys get their super powers?"

Kaji punched all the people who stood in front of him and sent them flying out of the arena, aiming directly at Arthur.

"This guy looks like he's playing? Playing baseball?" Kaji watched Arthur strolling among the crowd, waving a knife. He used his legs to rush to his side and threw a punch.

"Get started. Step forward." Arthur's aura suddenly sank, and he found Kaji running straight towards him. He quickly turned around and punched him with the back of his knife.

Arthur easily blocked the punch with the back of his knife, and the stalemate continued.

Arthur narrowed his eyes and stared into Kaji's eyes, and said coldly: "Goodbye, Kaji."

"Huh? You don't think you are stronger than me..." Before Kaji Kyou could finish his words, he suddenly felt a huge force from the fist that knocked him away instantly.

"The force of my fist was dissipated by his skillful use of the blade!?" Kaji was flying in the air in disbelief.

Suddenly he yelled, "This fucking gap is impossible!"

Arthur swung his sword with explosive force, lifting Kaji into the sky.

Seeing his body rushing out of control at high speed, he shook his head with contempt: "You are not the only hopeless person. I am also hopeless on my journey to become stronger."

After saying that, his aura sank again, and even the floor was crushed by him.

His calf muscles bulged as he quickly moved through the crowd, swinging his sword continuously, just to quickly end this competition involving thousands of officers.

Whether it was the giant or other elites who had trained for more than a month, they were all knocked into the sea one by one with the back of the knife.

No matter if it was a domineering directly recruited officer or a gifted genius, they were instantly crushed in front of him.

The entire arena became his sword dance stage, and everyone became his target.

With everyone watching, half an hour later, only Cooper, Arthur and Gion were left on the field.

"Jump." Arthur forced Gion to the seaside of the naval port with a knife and asked her to jump down by herself: "If you don't jump, I will chop you down."

"You monster...Arthur!" Gion cursed at Arthur, having retreated to the edge and looking at the sea just a step behind him.

At this moment, Cooper, who was flying in the air, suddenly kicked her.

"Fool, Cooper, come back." Arthur reminded loudly when he saw this, but Cooper had already formed a diagonal dive and could not stop.

Gion was seen holding a knife and using the back of the knife to easily block Cooper's eagle claw.

"Cooper..." (This is how Arthur exerts his strength...) Cooper felt his strength being taken away, and his body lost balance, and was thrown into the sea behind him by Gion's instantaneous force.

"Ah!" Arthur covered his face and sighed, "It would be great if we could fight each other with the Six Styles when we are the only two left?"

"Storm Kick!" Arthur raised his leg and swung out a blue wave, which cut through the ground and rushed vertically towards Gion.

Ding! Gion easily deflected it and said with a smile: "I have to say you are a genius, developing such a defensive sword technique."

"Don't you have to pay tuition to learn by stealing?" Arthur felt a little regretful that Kizaru, Akainu and Dragon, who graduated early, did not participate in this competition test.

Otherwise, you should try it with them.

"But I can't reach your level, why should I pay tuition?" Gion retorted. In her opinion, what she learned secretly was her own ability and talent.

Learn from the ass.

The next second, Arthur ran towards Gion with a knife in hand. He rushed in front of her with lightning speed and swung the knife at her.

Gion tried to bounce away and counterattack, but was broken by the explosive force from Arthur's sword, and fell into the sea like a broken zither.

"The biggest flaw of this move is that it will become ineffective once the enemy's strength exceeds the instantaneous burst of power of the knife wielder." Arthur slowly put away the knife, and then pulled up Cooper, who had just been thrown into the sea by Gion.

"Obviously, you can't stop my explosive swordplay."

Arthur's victory silenced the entire audience. They thought the competition would last a whole day, but it ended in just half an hour?

Cyborg Sora glanced at the clock. It was 12:29.

It was immediately announced that Arthur had won the tournament.

……

after one day--

In the Grand Line New World, newspapers spread across the sea about the rising star of the navy hailed as a monster.

Inside a huge pirate ship flying in the sky in the New World.

In the hall, which was as magnificent as a palace, many ferocious-looking pirates with scars all over their bodies stood on both sides of a golden lion-head chair.

A man with thick long golden hair, two scabbards hanging from his waist, and an extraordinary domineering aura was sitting on it.

He held the daily report released by the Navy today, and veins on his forehead suddenly bulged: "The captain of the 14th Division was killed by this kid who hasn't even grown all his hair yet?"

Almost all the remaining crew members of the Rocks Pirates gathered here.

Looking at the angry Golden Lion Shiki above, no one present dared to speak.

"What genius? What monster? That's because they haven't met me! Those incompetent guys in the navy can only create public opinion and confuse the people." Shi Ben looked at the newspaper in his hand, furious.

I don’t know how many of the so-called geniuses and monsters the navy talked about fell into their hands.

Monster genius? That's just the threshold to meet them.

He knew very well that this was just a way for the navy to boost morale and recruit more new soldiers.

In the content, the Navy World Recruitment has ended, and troops are about to be dispatched to suppress and declare war on the pirates of the New World.

In order to calm his bad mood, Ski lit a cigar and put it in his mouth: "If it weren't for Roger, that nosy guy, showing up with Garp..."

"A month ago, I captured the warship carrying the explosive rock. Damn it."

He couldn't understand why Roger, a fellow pirate, had no ambition and only wanted to take risks and live the life of an ordinary person.

In his opinion, pirates should do big things, keep expanding, and eventually use all resources and manpower to rule the world. This is what pirates like them should do.

Just going on adventures and searching for treasures? What's the difference between that and being a pirate under the name of an adventurer?

"If we have ancient weapons, this era will no longer be ours?" Shiki said worriedly. He suspected that the whereabouts of the ancient weapons were recorded in the historical texts collected by the Roger Pirates.

Seeing that Shiqi's temper had gradually subsided, a cadre captain wearing a robe and a knife on his waist stood up with a calm face:

"Lord Shiki, I heard that Whitebeard and a group of brats robbed our territory and then docked their ship at the pier of an island called Sphinx."

"Whitebeard? He has disappeared for 7 years, and now he finally shows up?" Hearing the three words "Whitebeard", Ski was suddenly in high spirits, as if he had heard the name of an old friend.

"Let's go... let's go meet an old friend." Shiki waved his arm and immediately activated the ability of the Float-Float Fruit to adjust the flight direction of the pirate ship.

"But the navy has also learned about him. If we go to meet him, it will definitely attract attention." A navigator ran out to dissuade them.

The Navy does not allow the remnants of the Rocks Pirates to meet. Now that the pirates have learned the news, the Navy should also know it.

This move meant another catastrophe of conflict with the navy.

"So what?!" Upon hearing this, Shiqi turned around, pulled out the pistol from his waist, aimed at the navigator, and decisively pulled the trigger.

The bullet pierced the navigator's thigh, and he screamed in pain, covering his leg.

"Do you think I'm afraid of a conflict with the navy?" Shiqi stared at the navigator with bloodshot eyes. He had encountered enough bad things in the past few months.

Just use him to vent my anger.

……

At the Marinford Military Dockyard, alarms rang throughout the island.

Soldiers and officers boarded the deck of the warship one after another, preparing to set sail for combat.

"So, my third mission will be to go to sea with him?" Arthur stood on the deck of the warship where Cap was.

He looked with dead fish eyes at a man in front of him who was wearing a gray sweatshirt, covering his navy cap with the hood of the sweatshirt, and had a serious and gloomy face.

The person standing in front of him, with his hands in his sweatshirt pockets, was Sakaski, who had boarded the Garp warship.

"Do you have any prejudice against me?" Sakaski walked up to Arthur with his hands in his pockets, staring at him with a cold aura.

During the last mission in the Eivor Sea, a new recruit had dared to accuse him, a colonel in the headquarters.

Because of this incident, he no longer had any good feelings towards Arthur and felt that the other party had a wrong outlook on life and was not suitable for being a navy officer.

"Oh?" On another Sengoku warship near Garp's warship.

Kizaru looked at the atmosphere on the deck of Garp's warship, which was gradually heating up: "Those two guys don't seem to get along."

Seeing this, Cap punched Arthur and Sakaski on the head with his fists:

"Don't be so prejudiced against your comrades. This mission is to go to the New World to prevent Golden Lion Shiki and Whitebeard from getting close to each other."

The two of them immediately held their heads and looked miserable, with a big lump appearing on their heads.

"What's wrong with that punch? It hurts so much? Damn!" Arthur held his head and cursed in his heart, not daring to imagine the scene before him.

Even Akainu was beaten by Garp when he was young?

There was another thing that Arthur couldn't understand, and that was why he was taken out to sea on a mission and the people he came into contact with were all extraordinary figures.

He already wanted to leave the Navy as an organization.