Pirates on Rocks' Ship 996

His warship wasn't badly damaged, so after a little repair, it was ready to set sail again. This time, he wasn't going to lose track of his target.

Meanwhile, Reina and the others were unaware that Zephyr had already caught up with them.

After his battle with Vice Admiral Bocato, Reina also discovered some of his own shortcomings. He summarized them, and the most basic one was his physical fitness.

Although he has been training in physical skills, which has led to a rapid increase in his physical abilities, compared to these powerful figures from the world of anime and manga, his physical abilities are really nothing.

Besides his physical abilities, another issue is that he doesn't have enough control over his own abilities. The Black Emperor's abilities are very powerful, although they seem somewhat emasculated in him, but with his development and training, they have increased considerably.

As his abilities increased, his control over them decreased considerably.

In this battle, Bocato used rapid slashes to break through his Black Emperor ability with multiple attacks. If his opponent hadn't been relatively weak, he might have been the one to lose.

Therefore, his main focus of training now is physical skills, swordsmanship, and developing the Black Emperor's abilities.

The reason why swordsmanship is included in the compulsory course is because swordsmanship training also enhances his physical fitness, just like the Six Styles of the Navy. If one's physical fitness is not up to par, then it is impossible to successfully learn the Six Styles of the Navy.

His swordsmanship is the same; if his physical fitness can't keep up, then his swordsmanship won't improve.

Now, thanks to the system, it's much easier for him to cultivate swordsmanship than for ordinary people. The main thing is to improve his physical fitness through regular training. As long as his physical fitness keeps up, his swordsmanship will improve.

"Jozu, almost there, one more punch!" After finishing his physical and sword training for the day, Reina found Jozu again, hoping that he could absorb some of the impact energy for him.

Without further ado, Joz struck Reina once more with his diamond-turned fist.

"Bang!" Reina blocked Joz's fist with one hand, but his body was knocked back several steps. This was because he had reached the limit of the energy he could absorb, so the excess impact knocked him back.

"Hoo~" Reina closed his eyes and began to gather his strength.

"Slash!" Suddenly, Reina opened his eyes, drew Muramasa from his waist, and slashed at the sea to the side.

"Boom!" A huge sword aura flew out, parting the seawater on both sides.

"Such a powerful strike is rare even among sword masters!" Vista exclaimed, watching Reina's strike.

"This isn't my true strength, and the time it takes to gather power is too long; it's simply impossible to complete in battle!" Reina shook his head and said.

He had discovered this during his previous fight with Bocato: a charged attack requires time to build up power, and the more energy he absorbed, the longer it took to build up power.

He wasn't proficient enough with this move to fight while simultaneously gathering his strength.

He had just tested the effect of absorbing to the limit and then using a concentrated attack; the destructive power was indeed considerable, and even Whitebeard, who was standing nearby, acknowledged the attack.

However, this is not a tactic he can employ in combat, so it cannot be considered part of his actual strength.

If one day he can unleash this move at will after absorbing all the energy in a battle, he will have the ability to injure those powerful opponents.

As Newgate just said, if he hadn't been defending, Reina's slash would have been enough to hurt him.

"boom!"

"Again!"

"boom!"

"Wait... let me catch my breath..." Reina covered his nose, reached out to stop Joz, waved his hand, and said.

Regarding Black Emperor's abilities, he is currently focusing on training his ability to concentrate power for a single strike, quickly gathering strength in battle and then releasing it.

"Hey Reina, have you rested enough? Is it my turn next?" Hansen asked, rubbing his hands together eagerly.

Marco, Vista, and others were all waiting in line to spar with Reina.

When sparring with Reina before, they were all the ones who got beaten, so no one wanted to spar with Reiner, but it was different now. This kind of beating was their favorite thing to do, so they all lined up to wait to spar with Reiner.

Thanks to them, Reina's mastery of the Power Shot is also increasing rapidly.

Chapter 69 Frozen Thousands of Miles

"Are you kidding me? Why are they chasing us like this?" Hansen said to Laco, sitting on the ship's railing, holding a fishing rod.

"Who knows? They've already played four or five games, haven't they?" Laqué shook his head, somewhat speechless, and said.

"Speaking of which, is it only Marco and Joz left to train with Reina now?" Hansen glanced at the three fighting on the deck and whispered.

Lacjo nodded and replied, "Now I know why Marco and the others were so reluctant to spar with Reina. That guy is a monster!"

Hansen also looked like he was still in shock. In just a few days, Reina had gone from being constantly beaten to occasionally fighting back, and now he could basically turn the tables and beat them up.

"boom!"

Before the two had finished speaking, a loud crash came from where Jozu and Reina were fighting, followed by the sound of someone falling into the water.

"Quick! Joz seems to have been knocked into the sea by Reina! Go save him!"

"Seriously? Not again? How many times has this happened?"

The crew members ran toward the ship's side, shouting as they went.

Hansen and Lakyo exchanged a glance and ran over together. Neither of them were ability users, so they could go down and rescue Jozu.

"Splash!" Before they could get over, they saw Reina jump off the ship and a moment later drag the unconscious Joz back onto the ship.

"Phew~ Sorry, I couldn't stop myself!" Reina said with an embarrassed smile.

After several days of intense training, Reina's proficiency with his Black Emperor ability has improved considerably. At least now he can skillfully use the Power Strike in battle, although he can only use more than half of the energy each time.

If he uses more than half of his power, the situation described above will occur, where he cannot fully control the strength and accuracy of his attacks. Unless he is given time to build up his power, his strongest move in combat right now is a concentrated strike using half of his maximum energy.

"Don't look at me! Even Joz couldn't withstand the attack, do you expect me to?" Marco quickly shook his head when he saw Reina looking at him.

"Didn't you guys have a good time beating me up the other day?" Reina asked with a smile.

Marco's lips twitched, and he said, "I knew it was a trap, but I still couldn't resist!"

Indeed, Reina didn't perform that badly at the beginning; he was just afraid that these guys would find another excuse not to spar with him, so he deliberately acted as if he couldn't fight back.

"Reina!" At that moment, Whitebeard suddenly beckoned to Reina, signaling him to come over.

"What's wrong, brother?" Reina casually wiped the water off his clothes and came to Whitebeard's side to ask.

"I've looked at your attack moves, and it seems like you gather all your energy together before releasing it?" Whitebeard asked, looking at Reina.

“That’s right, this is a way of releasing energy that I figured out myself. It’s much more destructive than releasing all the energy at once like before!” Reina nodded and replied.

"Have you ever thought about whether your body can handle the increasing amount of energy you need to gather as your abilities grow stronger?" the white-bearded man asked softly.

Reina was taken aback. He hadn't considered this aspect yet, because given his current physical condition, he didn't need to think about it. He couldn't use a full-force attack right now because gathering power takes time and requires mastering his abilities.

As for why Whitebeard knew so much about Reiner's abilities, it was because Reiner had told Whitebeard about them when Reiner asked him for advice before.

"There are many strong people in this world, and quite a few physically powerful individuals, but do you think you can compare to them?"

"What does Big Brother mean...?"

"Watch closely!"

With that, the white-bearded man gave a soft shout, and a transparent energy circle slowly appeared on his right fist. Although he didn't strike it, Reina could feel the power of that energy.

"This is my Devil Fruit power, gathered using the power of the Devil Fruit!" After dissipating the energy from his right fist, Whitebeard looked at Reina and said.

"Does Big Brother mean that we don't need to gather our internal energy inside our bodies, but can concentrate it on the surface of our bodies?" Reina thought for a while before looking up and asking.

“That’s right. The energy of my Tremor-Tremor Fruit is extremely violent. If I were to concentrate all my energy in my body like you do, my body would be the first to be damaged before I could even attack anyone else!” Whitebeard nodded and said.

“But…” Reina tried, but he couldn’t do it at all. He wasn’t even very skilled at gathering energy within his body, let alone gathering it on the surface of his body.

"How do you manage to cover your body surface with Armament Haki?"

"It overwrote itself when I used it!" Reina said, somewhat bewildered.

"Yes, when your abilities become instinctive and gather on the surface of your body, that means you've become a strong person!" Whitebeard nodded with a smile.

"Phew~ I understand, thank you for your guidance, brother!" Reina bowed to express his gratitude.

Indeed, what he needs now is a direction for cultivation, not endless sparring. Sparring is for finding one's own direction and testing one's ideas. Now that he has an idea and a direction, he should just work hard in that direction.

If it were just about absorbing energy, he wouldn't need to spar with Marco and the others; a few punches from Joz would have been enough.

What he needs to cultivate now is the control over the Black Emperor's energy, the way to release the power, and the speed at which energy is gathered. These do not require sparring; he can cultivate them on his own.

So, in the following days, besides completing his daily work and practicing physical skills and swordsmanship for an hour each, Reina spent all his remaining time training the speed at which he could gather energy and the way he could release it.

"Beep... Day 30 of consecutive check-ins... Payday is being settled..."

You have received a base salary of 300 points.

"Overtime Pay: Fragments of Conqueror's Haki (Part Two)"

"Sign in for 30 consecutive days this month to receive the full attendance gift pack: Special sword move: Thousand Miles of Ice Seal"

"Sign in for three consecutive months to receive the initial three-month consecutive sign-in gift pack: Invulnerability to All Poisons"

Just as Reina finished his last check-in of the month and was receiving his salary, he suddenly discovered that the system had given him an extra gift pack.

"A three-month consecutive sign-in gift pack?" Reina was a little surprised. He didn't know there was such a gift pack. He had always thought that a month was the longest he could sign in, because the sign-in period would be reset every month.

He never expected the system to have this hidden attribute, which made him even more attentive to his daily check-in.

Since there are already three months' worth, there will be more. As long as he persists, he will definitely receive even more gift packs.

Open your inventory, and the "Conqueror's Haki Fragment (1)" that was originally in your inventory has become "Conqueror's Haki Fragment (2/5)"!

In other words, he still needs three more incomplete scrolls to gain the ability of Conqueror's Haki.

This thing is really hard to get; it's not even sold in the mall.

In addition, there was a blue scroll, which Reina recognized upon closer inspection as the special sword technique he had just acquired: Frozen Thousand Miles.

"Special sword move: Freezing a Thousand Miles. Requirements: Host's swordsmanship must reach intermediate level."

After thinking for a moment, Reina used the sword technique scroll directly, and a little figure appeared in his mind, continuously demonstrating a sword technique to him.

"Phew~" Reina quickly sat down, carefully sensing the profound mystery of the sword moves in his mind.

When he opened his eyes again, there seemed to be a flash of blue in his eyes.

"Freeze a thousand miles!" Reina drew Muramasa from his waist and launched the attack according to the method he had just learned.

"Sizzle~~~" A blue sword aura shot out from Muramasa's blade, cutting a mark on the sea in front of him.

Reina noticed that although this slash was not as powerful as his own fully charged attack, the sword energy seemed to carry a chill, and the seawater that had just splashed up turned into ice shards.

Moreover, this was his first time using it. Although he could use it, his mastery of it was not high, and it was quite different from how the little figure in his mind used it.

If I practice this move more thoroughly, and then use my concentrated power to unleash a devastating attack that freezes everything in its path, the resulting damage will be quite impressive.