Progress in Combat (2/3)

"If you're not afraid of Zephyr-sensei coming after you for sparring, you can go ahead and try it." Dragon poured cold water on the situation.

Garp's right hand holding the donut froze in mid-stride before he sighed, "Hey! Dragon, you're getting less and less cute. What happened to the snotty one who loved to follow Daddy's ass when he was a kid?"

"Shut up!" Dragon said with veins bulged, and he resisted the urge to hit someone.

The battle in the field continues.

"Rankyaku - Lupine Teeth!" Perhaps excited by Longinus's ruthlessness, Zephyr's demonstration was no longer limited to the most basic of Rokushiki, but extended to the derivative moves of Rokushiki.

Cutting waves like a pack of wolves running around jumping over the ground adds unpredictable properties to their powerful attacks.

"Rankyaku - Lupine Teeth!" Longinus surprisingly returns the favor with a double leg combo, firing back in the same manner.

However, the same move could have a very different effect. If Zephyr's attack was a ferocious wolf, then Longinus' attack was a hopeless husky that was almost instantly defeated by a touch.

Seeing that Zephyr's kicked cutting wave crashed quickly into his kicked cutting wave, Longinus was not surprised. Facing the remaining momentum of the jumping cutting attack, he stood there without flinching or dodging, stimulating his body blood to drum up full-body strength to take it hard.

"Tekkai - Utsugi!"

The continuous slash waves hit Longinus' chest, making him almost black before his eyes, but the style still worked, after all, not only took down the attack but even returning it.

"I didn't think you'd be able to take it in such a short amount of time, haha, amazing!" Zephyr praised loudly, but the movement of his hands did not pause at all, and his ten fingers were like a spear to grasp the cutting wave right into pieces.

Tokikake and Gion, on the other side, are a bit dumbfounded. How come it's advanced mode while we're fighting, we haven't learned anything yet!

"Surprisingly, he's using his own body to remember Zephyr's attacks, this little guy's ruthlessness doesn't look like what a fourteen-year-old brat should be!" Garp couldn't help but lament.

"Longinus was shipwrecked in the town of Falling Leaf when he was nine years old when the entire village was slaughtered because of the pirates, carrying such pressure and hatred. Naturally, he could no longer be as carefree as other people of his age." Dragon's gaze focused on the increasingly fierce battle in the arena and commented thoughtfully, "Fortunately, he's not the kind of avenger whose eyes are blinded by hatred."

"Perhaps it was the good people of Falling Leaf who kept him true to his heart, which gave birth to the later marine hero, Longinus, a paradoxical combination that frightened pirates in battle but made the populace grateful in everyday life."

"I didn't know you had such a high opinion of him!" Garp looked at Dragon in surprise, not exactly the words that should come out of his apathetic son's mouth.

"I see in him the ferocity of Sakazuki and the gentleness of Kuzan, and even leadership that makes those around him rally around him, and if he grows up, he might be able to unite those two factions within the Marines like never before."

"Fleet Admiral of the Marine Corps? You're even optimistic about him to this point!" Garp was a little depressed that his son had never even looked so favorably on him.

"... just doesn't know if a full-blown marine headquarters means hope for the world or ... destruction!"

Boom! Boom! Boom!

"Shigan - ten Shigan!"

"Shigan - ten Shigan!"

"Rankyaku - Renge!"

"Rankyaku - Renge!"

"Soru - Tekkai Dama!"

"Soru - Tekkai Dama!"

The splendid cutting blows overwhelmed the sky, nearly wholly destroying the advanced training ground dedicated to matching the general rank officers.

No matter what kind of attack Zephyr made, Longinus would fight back in precisely the same way. Although the power between the two was vastly different, Longinus' comprehension of Rokushiki was deepening.

Of course, along with his deepening injuries.

After striking Longinus once more, Zephyr stopped his attack and asked formally, "Longinus, how much comprehension have you gained of Rokushiki?"

"Shame, after having Zephyr-sensei personally instruct me for so long, I still only managed to comprehend about 80%." Longinus wiped away the blood from the corner of his mouth and replied in a raspy voice.

"Eighty percent? To be able to comprehend so much in one battle, your talent is truly enviable. Still, the remaining two achievements are not something that can be learned in battle. You need to go back and practice comprehending them over and over again. So, I will end today's battle with the last style next!"

"80%? To comprehend so much in one battle, make your talent is truly enviable, but the rest of 20% is not something that can be learned in battle. You need to go back and practice comprehending them over and over again. So, I will end today's battle with the last style next!"

"Yes! I will diligently practice when I go back, and also ... will keep my eyes open for this last blow from Sensei!" Longinus took a deep breath and used his Seimei Kikan to break down and absorb some of the fat stored in his body exceptionally quickly so that his rock-bottom stamina was finally picking up a bit.

"Gion, how much have you comprehended?" Standing in the scene, but as if an observer, Tokikake asked dumbly.

"I ... have only comprehended 50% of it, and as it turns out, compared to Longinus, my talent is just awful!" Gion said shyly and frustratedly, and then her soft little hand shook hard, "It seems that I'll have to put in more effort to catch up with Longinus ... plus Tokikake? What's wrong with you?"

Tokikake sat helplessly on the ground and held his legs, "I'm a disgrace to everyone who didn't even learn how to do 30%."

On the other hand, Zephyr has set up his punch.

"Rokushiki is a physical technique that surpasses the limits of human physical ability, and after fully integrating them, it will stimulate the power that is latent in the human body, Rokuogan!"

The same move unleashed by different people can have vastly different power, as Longinus and Zephyr's previous battle had proven.

Rokuogan that Zephyr, as an Admiral, had mobilized the latent power within his body to fire was in no way comparable to Rokuogan that Lucci had used during the first battle of Enies Lobby.

In just an instant, the impact energy spread through Longinus's body as if he had been hit head-on by a water train, or rather, should have been crushed back and forth on his body by the water train.

Boom!

Longinus was blasted directly into the mountain by this blow, deeply embedded within the mountain, only to feel his body falling apart, even with most of his body feeling numb.

"A force at this level of hard contact is still too difficult, and I almost played myself to death again!" Although his physical condition was so bad that it couldn't get any worse, Longinus, who was under the ruins, still laughed, "Is this the strength of an admiral? Obviously didn't use Haki, and even actively suppressed power, but even so, was able to seriously injure me with a single strike, this kind of power ... is truly enviable!" "