Zongman: Simultaneously travel through time and start a one-person chat group

Anyone who has some knowledge of the sea knows that it is very easy to get lost on the sea. After all, the sea is all the same blue, without even a single sign.

Even many experienced fishermen who go out to sea rely on satellite positioning to determine their location, while in ancient times various sea compasses were needed.

In this world, there is no satellite positioning, and the marine compass becomes useless due to the magnetic field, so there are permanent pointers.

There are two types of permanent pointers.

One is a blank permanent pointer. It moves forward according to the magnetic field of the Grand Line, rests for three or four days on each island, and then records the magnetic field and points to the next island. This is the version that Luffy and his friends have been using.

The advantage is that you can collect the history of your journey. The disadvantage is that this thing has to stay for three or four days at each island to record the magnetic force, and the direction to the next island is random (fortunately).

The other type is a permanent directional pointer completed by our predecessors, which always points to the direction of an island.

Although this pointer looks very ordinary in the original book, in fact, this pointer is an extremely precious prop in this ocean. It is a hard currency that can be used as money. Some precious pointers can even be sold at auction houses at high prices.

After all, whether it is a merchant ship, a warship, or a pirate ship, being able to clearly define one's goal means saving a lot of effort and avoiding countless unknown dangers.

If individuals in the pirate group want to obtain these hard currencies, they need enough Bailey, and more importantly, enough luck, because you don’t know where to get the permanent pointer to the island you want to go to.

However, the pointer problem that is difficult for pirates can be solved after joining the navy. As long as you have a certain rank, you can obtain a permanent pointer pointing to known islands from the navy.

Rather than relying on trading with pirates for a permanent pointer that you don't know if it's real, or relying on snatching the permanent pointer to carry out operations, it is far less convenient to get from the navy.

This can be considered a benefit of joining the navy.

One of the important reasons why Qiao Qiao chose to temporarily stay in the navy was to obtain a pointer to the island where Vegapunk was.

290. Pirate Qiao Qiao: People have hands, and swords are just tools

Garp said, "According to the rules, you should have come with me to the Navy Headquarters for the troublesome awarding ceremony, but since you are so casual."

"...Can all of this be reduced..." Smoker couldn't help but complain as he watched from the side.

The investiture ceremony represents the transformation of a marine into a naval officer.

For some people, performing this ritual only happens once in a lifetime or it is the result of a long struggle to achieve results.

Even Smoker started out as a marine and gradually upgraded his rank.

In the past, he was extremely excited every time he was awarded a medal since he was a Marine.

Therefore, in Smoker's opinion, the Navy's medal awarding ceremony is a very ceremonial event.

However, Smoker watched as the eccentric Garp and the eccentric young man casually decided the originally quite ceremonial awarding ceremony in just a few words - Garp threw the rank of general to Qiao Qiao.

That rank was... Colonel upon landing, only one step away from being a core general, the same rank as me...

"..." Smoker was filled with mixed feelings. He had fought for so many years and captured so many vicious pirates, but it was not as good as a few words from Vice Admiral Garp.

"Damn, navy termites." Smoker muttered.

However, Smoker didn't notice that what the two of them said next became more and more outrageous.

"I thought he would be promoted to general when he landed." Qiao Qiao complained. He knew that after a few years, he would be promoted to general if he had the ability.

"Hmm? Are you willing to stay at the Marine Headquarters? If so, I will discuss it with Sengoku again."

"..."

"..."

The marines and officers could only scream, "What do you think of the admiral?"

That is the highest combat power of Navy 310!

Among the two populations, it seems quite arbitrary that only those with the highest combat power and status can obtain the title.

It just so happens that one of these two people who are talking nonsense is a hero of the navy. In terms of qualifications, let alone becoming an admiral, he was the one who gave up the position of the current marshal.

"..."

Smoker only felt that he had once had the ultimate dream, but was stepped on by two unreliable guys...

Is it so difficult to be promoted to admiral in the navy and change the current corrupt status quo of the navy? Even the navy heroes that Admiral Aokiji once admired are so corrupt.

……

"As for medals, wait until you have made some achievements. This is the navy's cape and uniform."

Qiao Qiao looked at the words "white suit, white cape".

He had only dared to wear this costume at cosplay events back then, but here, this costume was a symbol of honor, making ordinary people and marines in awe, and making ordinary navy officers flee at the first sign of trouble.

Next to the costume is a Nodachi-style weapon.

When Qiao Qiao gently picked it up, he saw the girl with glasses next to Smoker, who should be Tashigi, and she said, "According to Vice Admiral Garp, our East China Sea Navy can provide the best swords, the Great Sword of Twenty-one Ranks, Purgatory, [Supreme Great Sword of Twelve Ranks], [Great Sword of Twenty-one Ranks], [Good Sword of Fifty Ranks], this Good Sword is already the best sword in our East China Sea..."

Only Garp and his crew knew that they had defeated the world's number one swordsman. Even though Qiao Qiao denied it, Garp still felt that "a sword should be matched with a swordsman" and requested that a suitable weapon be prepared at the awarding ceremony.

"No need for introduction." Qiao Qiao waved casually.

"What do you think? The sword will choose its master. If you are a swordsman, you should be able to feel the compatibility between yourself and the sword when you swing it..." asked Tashigi.

"Nothing special."

After all, Qiao Qiao was not even interested in the top-level black swords, such as Enma and Ame-no-Hazel, hidden in Oden's Oden in Wano Country, so how could he be interested in this long sword that had not been nurtured much?

As soon as he grasped the sword, Qiao Qiao had a completely different feeling from when he was wielding the two knives before.

Fighting with Hawkeye, Qiao Qiao imitated and learned the skills of the world's top swordsman.

Even without deliberately exploring it, he instinctively determined that this was the highest level of swordsmanship he had ever learned, and naturally incorporated all the ordinary swordsmanship he had learned before into it.

Nowadays, Qiao Qiao has instinctively learned something from Hawkeye's swordsmanship and can be considered half a swordsman.

So, this is just a swing of the sword.

Qiao Qiao felt a strange spirit from the long sword.

"Is it the will of the sword? Or the will of the previous owner?"

The inanimate objects in this world can also give birth to spirituality.

Every ship has its own spirit, and every sword has its own spirit.

When a swordsman reaches a high level, he can comprehend from the blade of a famous sword certain qualities and even moves of the powerful person who once wielded him.

With this sudden sensation, Qiao Qiao realized an ability called [Listening to the Breathing of All Things].

"The previous owner of this long sword might have been a swordsman who had reached the level of cutting steel."

Qiao Qiao, who is familiar with the original plot, naturally knows about the breathing of all things.

In the original work, Zoro realized this when he was on the verge of death in a battle with the Blade Man under Crocodile. Only after realizing the "Breath of All Things" can one truly be considered a swordsman and learn the ability to cut steel with a steel sword.

Broken steel!

Breaking steel can be a miracle of great strength, or it can be a skill acquired after reaching this level.

"What an unexpected surprise..." Qiao Qiao himself is an expert in breathing techniques, and when he reaches this level, he can hear the sound of "breathing" from everything around him.

Qiao Qiao's attainments in breathing techniques, coupled with his sudden realization of the breathing of all things, produced an effect that was completely different from that of an ordinary swordsman.

Unlike ordinary swordsmen who absorb their own breath into the breath of all things in nature to achieve the effect of cutting steel.

Ahbe Qiao, who had reached this state of unity between man and nature long ago, was able to incorporate the breathing of all things in nature around him into his own breathing.

Breathing that transforms your surroundings.

It can make the Immortal Breathing Technique and Celestial Sword that Qiao Qiao used in the previous duel with Hawkeye go further.

……

Qiao Qiao took a breath, and everyone around him suddenly felt that the air had become even colder and sharper.

"Gulu" sound.

"Do you feel like we have a knife at our necks?"

Everyone felt as if they were standing on the blade of a knife, which was cutting their lungs and causing pain.

As a sword enthusiast, Dashigi noticed the changes in the famous sword Purgatory Blade in Qiao Qiao's hand earlier than she noticed the subtle changes in the surrounding environment.

"Gu, knife, the knife turned black!"

……

Qiao Qiao held the sword, infusing it with domineering aura.

A huge amount of domineering aura instantly filled the void in this sharp sword that had never been filled by its countless previous owners.

In an instant, the domineering aura reached the upper limit of what the sword could contain, dyeing the entire Purgatory sword black.

"You've already reached your limit, but you still want more, more, you greedy fellow."

Qiao Qiao looked at the Purgatory.

The injection of Qiao Qiao's domineering aura has already stretched it into its own shape beyond its development limit, but it is not certain whether the blade can withstand it.

The sword made a creaking sound, as if it was about to explode at any time.

……

"The sword is chiming, the sword is rejoicing."

Dashiqi looked at the black knife leaping in Qiao Qiao's hand in amazement and swallowed her saliva.

Then, Qiao Qiao casually slashed at the sea surface.

The sword was swung at super high speed with black lightning wrapped around it, creating a crescent-shaped sword energy, which split the ocean in front of Rogue Town with just one strike.

"!!!"

"The sea was cut open."

Everyone stared at the torn ocean in amazement, but was frightened by the swaying warship.

The waves scattered in all directions, but were torn into pieces by countless half-moon sword energies that spread out in the air.

The waves formed by the remaining waves of the sword came from afar, causing the dozens of warships that were sent to greet them to shake.

Many elite marines were shaken to the ground by the violent shaking.

"Great, great swordsman." Seeing this slashing skill, even if Tashigi was dumb, she would understand how terrifying the man in front of her was.

"Weird, monster."

Smoker's eyes froze.

Thinking in his mind, the opponent's casual slash just now made Smoker doubt whether he could take this attack...

At this moment, Smoker finally understood why this man was valued so much by the navy hero Garp.

Suspected to be the untested illegitimate son of the naval hero Vice Admiral Garp (X)

The unreliable Vice Admiral Garp had a keen eye and dug up a monster in the East China Sea (check).

……

After testing the sword, Qiao Qiao casually inserted Purgatory into the crack of the ship's deck.

Treating a sharp sword so casually... makes Tashigi feel sorry for this famous sword that is not cherished by the strong at all.

"You, you think this sword is not worthy of you?"

"How can a sword be worthy or unworthy?"

"Then you treat this sword like this, and the sword is crying."

“What is it crying for???”

"It's probably that dead scum who almost turned him into a black knife with his domineering aura..." Dashiqi was stunned, and Xuan Ji didn't say anything else - this good and sharp blade was in the dark, and it could have endured the darkness, but now it saw a little light.

"...You've got quite a bit of drama."

Qiao Qiao glanced at the wild sword stuck in the ground, and wondered what these people who regarded the sword as their second life were thinking.

All Qiao Qiao saw was a tool.

"Ah, ah? Sword, sword, sword. People have two hands, and both hands have ten fingers. Weapons are just derivatives of arms. To me... a sword is just a tool."

Qiao Qiao walked beside a small tree next to the warship and broke off a branch, injecting his domineering aura.

“And the best feature of tools is that there are endless alternatives.”

The supreme branch was completed.