Xihai, 166th Naval Branch.
The center of the Navy branch is a 3-story office building with a blue and white naval flag flying on the roof.
Naval Base Commander's Office on the 3rd floor.
Sitting in the center is a bearded man in his late forties, Lieutenant Colonel Barlow, the base commander of the 166th Naval Branch.
He was smoking a cigar in one hand and looking at a document in the other. The content of the document was a report on the Bokoa pirate invasion.
Lieutenant Colonel Barlow frowned when he saw the report at the end that members of the Reynolds family had been killed. He put down the document, rubbed his temples, and sighed.
"Oh, why is there still something to do with those bastards from the Reynolds family? Damn it, I have to deal with these bastards again."
The two marines sitting on the sofa opposite Lieutenant Colonel Barlow heard the sound and looked over. It was Lieutenant Lance and Lukar who had returned to the base.
"Captain Barlow, this time Lucal acted alone again and directly killed the Reynolds family members. I had no time to stop him." Lance explained.
"Forget it, that's it." Barlow waved his hand and took a puff of his cigar.
Barlow was not too surprised after reading the report.
Over the years, the gang has put pressure on Branch 166 base director Barlow many times through various kingdoms, and he has become accustomed to the troubles caused by Lukar.
Barlow also understood that the original strength of Branch 166 was average, and before Lukar joined, it could only fight ordinary little pirates.
Although Lukar caused a lot of trouble after joining, he made the reputation of branch 166, and the headquarters gave a lot of support, so he was able to stabilize the situation despite the opposition from all parties.
It can be said that I have a love-hate relationship with Lucar.
"Since everything is fine, I'll leave first." Lukar said from the side, stood up and prepared to leave.
Usually it was not Lukar who came to report. After all, he only had the rank of sergeant. This time, Lieutenant Colonel Barlow notified Lukar to come with him.
"Don't leave yet, there is another big thing, it's about you, Lukar." Barlow said, his face gradually became happy.
"my business?"
"Well, didn't you apply to me to go to the headquarters? Under normal circumstances, it is quite difficult for the branch to transfer to the headquarters. Now there is a new opportunity." At this point, Barlow laughed.
"What chance?" Lukar asked, his original somewhat rigid expression beginning to relax.
Regarding applying to go to the headquarters, Lukar applied to Barlow last year, but there has been no news.
Lieutenant Colonel Barlow took a puff of his cigar, exhaled slowly, and said
"The headquarters recently issued a notice that Admiral Zefa will be transferred to the Naval Academy as an instructor to form the first batch of recruit training camps. The headquarters will ask each branch to select young, potential, and talented soldiers and send them to the headquarters."
"The most outstanding person in our branch is Lukar. Don't you also yearn for the headquarters, so I put you on the list."
Barlow was a little excited when he said this: "Lucar, you have passed the list review. In another week, the headquarters warship will dock here to pick up the new recruits from the West Sea to the headquarters."
Lance, who was listening on the sidelines, looked at Lukar with envious eyes and said with complicated emotions: "Congratulations."
Unexpectedly, Lukar did not accept any punishment for this report but instead gave him a huge pie.
For the vast majority of naval soldiers in the naval branch, the Navy Headquarters is a sacred place and their longed-for goal. If there is an opportunity to serve in the Navy Headquarters, no one will let this opportunity go.
The Four Seas Branch is a completely different concept from the Navy Branch and the Navy Headquarters of the Grand Line. Normally, the rank of soldiers in the Four Seas Branch is about three ranks lower than that of the main branch.
For example, Lieutenant Colonel Barlow, if you don't count the base commander position and just have a military rank, if you put him at the Navy Headquarters, he would only have a lieutenant level.
Lance is not too old, in his early thirties, but his talent is limited. It is basically impossible to be transferred to the headquarters in this life. The best development is to take over as the base director.
"Boot camp? I've been in the navy for five years, why do I need to do rookie training?"
"Why don't you try to transfer to other positions, as long as it's the front line or a miscellaneous soldier?"
Lukar did not approve of this method of entering the headquarters.
Lukar, who has been in Branch 166 for 5 years, has seen his strength growth somewhat stagnant.
Currently, cruises to hunt down pirates can only be carried out within the waters under the jurisdiction of branch 166, and the area they are responsible for is limited.
The pirates and gangsters that can be encountered rarely bring pressure, and it is difficult to help him improve through fighting.
The Navy Headquarters, where all the best people in the Navy are concentrated, is powerful and can better help improve themselves.
But by going to the headquarters as a recruit, Lukar was still very resistant.
In fact, the real reason is that Lukar not only focuses on physical fitness and combat training in the training camp, but he is very confident in his own strength.
But what I fear most is studying cultural courses. I worry that I will need to take cultural courses after I go to the headquarters.
He is such a reckless person that studying cultural courses is a nightmare.
Lukar's expression gradually hardened at the thought, and his face darkened.
Barlow opposite saw this look and became furious.
"What are you thinking, you idiot! You don't even know about the great things!!"
"Lucar, you need to know that you are a genius with top-notch strength and talent in our branch 166, but there are countless geniuses like you in the entire sea. I don't know whether you can be ranked in the Navy Headquarters. .”
"Furthermore, the instructor of the recruit training camp is General Zefa, the most powerful man in the navy. No sailor wants to be his disciple. The first batch of sailors to join the training camp will definitely be the best talented sailors from all branches of the navy. This opportunity is very rare. I don’t know when the next time there will be such a good opportunity.”
Lieutenant Colonel Barlow's tone slowly became gentle as he spoke. He really didn't want Lucal to waste such an important opportunity.
Lukar silently listened to Lieutenant Colonel Barlow's persuasion in a rare gentle tone, and threw away the messy thoughts in his mind.
Then he stood up and gave a military salute to Lieutenant Colonel Barlow, and said firmly: "I, Lucal, will let everyone see the justice from Branch 166!!"
Lieutenant Colonel Barlow and Lieutenant Lance stood up and returned the military salute.
"For Justice in the Navy!!"
After finishing speaking, Lieutenant Colonel Barlow sat on the office chair again and waved.
"Okay, okay, come on, the meeting is over!"
After leaving the base commander's office, Lukar bid farewell to Lieutenant Lance and trotted out of the base.
Behind the branch base, there are four small hills connected by bare low mountains. It is not a short distance from the branch base. It takes an hour for ordinary people to get here.
Twenty minutes later, Lukar ran to the gentle area in the middle of the hill. This was his dedicated training ground, where most of his abilities were developed.
Why don't you train at the naval base, why not come to such a remote place?
There's no way around it, Lukar's fruit ability sometimes makes too much noise when used.
At the beginning, he tried to use his ability at the base, gathered a lot of soil spikes, and directly transformed the base playground.
After that, a sign was posted outside the base playground - Lukar and dogs are not allowed to enter the playground.
Finally, we found this uninhabited hill, where even louder movements would not affect the base, so we chose this place as a dedicated training ground.
Lukar sat on a huge rock two meters long and wide. As the power of the earth restored the energy consumed by running, he held his chin in one hand and began to think about his own abilities.
His most important abilities are physical skills and boxing and fruits of the earth. He once tried swordsmanship and found that he was not the material.
The physical boxing technique is mainly the rock-shattering boxing series named by himself, which he summed up based on the military boxing in his previous life, the unique punches of the navy of the Kingdom of Flowers, and his own combat experience.
The most developed fruits of the earth at present are the defensive power of earth armor, the recovery power of earth power, and the strengthening of one's own system.
The attack methods of rock type are actually relatively simple, the damage to strong opponents is not outstanding, and the speed of condensation is not the fastest.
The most important thing is that this type of ability is difficult to use on the sea. Without the assistance of the power of the earth, the slow condensation speed is difficult to use in battle.
Considering now, Lukar understands that his biggest weakness is that on the sea, his combat power will be reduced a lot.
If the combat effectiveness on land is 100, the combat effectiveness on sea is only 70.
Now, while waiting for the warship to be picked up, I still concentrate on my physical skills and boxing. This is completely my own physical strength and will not be weakened no matter where I am.
Lukar looked at his hands, his eyes began to condense, and the corners of his mouth raised slightly, and he thought of a possibility.
