Sailing in the age of great pirates

After the destruction of the Black Cat Pirates and the battle with Crowe, Aesop's combat power has been further improved.

The first is the improvement of swordsmanship. If you want to improve your swordsmanship, you not only need to practice hard, but also need to sharpen your own sword spirit based on the courage of the enemy.

But if you want to take advantage of the enemy's pressure to quickly improve your swordsmanship, you must have enough foundation in swordsmanship.

Just like Zoro, during the few years of sailing with Luffy, his swordsmanship improved rapidly, which was due to the accumulation of swordsmanship in Shuoyue Village. After that, he studied swordsmanship with Hawkeye for two years, which truly laid the foundation for his journey to the great world. The path of the swordsman.

Aesop has been practicing swordsmanship on the island for three years, and he has accumulated enough knowledge during these three years.

It only takes some fighting and pressure to turn these potential accumulations into strength.

In the battle with Crowe, part of his accumulation of swordsmanship had been released, so that he truly touched the realm of a swordsman with the sword that killed Crowe at the end.

The ability to cut through steel and the energy of the sword that escapes from the blade are the hallmarks of a swordsman.

He has truly stepped into the threshold of a swordsman, which can be said to be rare in the East China Sea.

But the swordsman is not the pinnacle. There are black swords and great swordsmen above them, which have more powerful destructive power. In comparison, Aesop's swordsmanship is still vulnerable.

Moreover, there is a considerable gap among swordsmen. For a weak person like Aesop who has just stepped into the realm of swordsmen, the sword energy he cuts will disappear and escape as long as he is ten meters away.

The top swordsman, on the other hand, can cross a distance of hundreds of meters with a casual slash, killing the enemies there, which is simply a world of difference.

To continue to increase the intensity of the sword energy that you cut out, you need strong physical strength. Only a strong enough body can compress and condense the sword energy.

And this is just a transitional stage. As long as Aesop's body continues to strengthen, sooner or later he will be able to slash across hundreds of meters to the point of tearing the earth apart.

The real difficulty is to become a great swordsman. On the sea, not only the East China Sea, whether it is the first half of the Great Line or the second half of the New World, the number of great swordsmen is rare.

Hawkeye is one of them, as is Oden Mitsuki, and the red-haired Shanks who is still competing for the position of the Four Emperors is also one of them.

And as long as you step into the realm of great swordsman, you are qualified to compete for the title of the world's greatest swordsman.

At this time, Aesop was still far away from this level.

He is just a little shrimp who has just stepped into the level of swordsman, and in the eyes of those people, he is just a younger brother.

During the battle with Crowe, Aesop also realized a problem.

That's the move.

Crowe's strength was actually not as good as his, not to mention that he was blessed with the flower fruit ability, but with the weird speed of the Silent Step, he was forced into danger.

Obviously Aesop's speed, strength, and even swordsmanship are on par with Crowe, or even much higher. It's not because of lack of combat experience, but because of his inferior moves.

Crowe's Silent Step and Spoon are both able to bring his own strength to 200%, making it even difficult for Aesop to resist.

In the end, only the artificial eyes grown on Crowe's body from the Flower Fruit and his swordsman-level swordsmanship were able to defeat him.

If he could also have a few sword moves, it would be more than that.

During the time when Aesop followed Oden Mitsuki, the swordsmanship he practiced was indeed Oden Mitsuki's Oden Two Sword Style, but it did not include moves.

I just told him how to make the sword thrust out faster, how to use the two-sword style, etc. It was all about laying the foundation.

It was precisely because of these basic Oden Ersword style that Aesop, who was only sixteen years old, stepped into the realm of swordsman.

Although it is not as rare as the great swordsman, it is still an extremely rare existence in the sea.

An ordinary pirate would never dare to provoke a swordsman.

Moreover, Zoro, a three-sword swordsman, only entered the realm of swordsman after sailing with Luffy for a period of time. At that time, he was already twenty years old.

It is enough to show how powerful Oden's two-sword style is.

But without moves, fighting would be too monotonous and unable to deal with too many emergencies.

He is not the great swordsman like Hawkeye who uses his ultimate move as a level A.

So after fighting Crowe, he imagined creating his own sword skills.

For example, Sauron created most of his own moves, the most famous of which is Three Thousand Worlds.

It's not like he didn't want to learn the Sixth Form of the Navy, but if he wanted to join the Navy, he would definitely be constrained, and he wouldn't have the freedom he has now.

Moreover, the filthiness in the navy is no less than that of pirates.

So Aesop was too lazy to join the Navy for the Sixth Form of the Navy.

The so-called moves are all created by people. The moves you create may not be very powerful, but they are the ones that best suit your fighting style.

Just like Zoro's various three-sword-style sword skills, only those who match his three-sword style can't do it if others don't have his bite power.

And Aesop's swordsmanship has reached the threshold of a swordsman, and he has the ability to create moves.

However, moves cannot be created casually. Aesop plans to use the swordsmanship and the flower fruit's ability to combine them to create moves that are suitable for him.

In this way, his two abilities can compensate for each other, to the point where one plus one is greater than two. Otherwise, swordsmanship is swordsmanship and fruit is fruit, so his combat power will not increase much because of the addition of the two.

There is no precedent for moves that combine fruits with other powers. For example, Luffy's fourth gear used the combination of rubber fruits and armed haki to allow Luffy to fight Doflamingo. Achieve victory.

This is the effect of one plus one being greater than two. If Luffy's fruit is not related to Armament Haki, his combat power will really be weakened by more than a little bit.

Aesop was thinking about how to combine his swordsmanship with Huahua Fruit's ability. What is the connection between the two?

Flowey Fruit's ability is to be able to grow different limbs on its body anywhere, the most versatile of which are arms.

What are the benefits of having more arms?

He thought hard, and in a daze he remembered the sight of Zoro holding the handle of the knife in his mouth, with saliva all over the handle, Aba Aba.

If Zoro didn't have only two arms, who would want to fight with a knife in his mouth.

The thing that Huahuaguo is most indispensable for is arms. Maybe he can also learn the three-sword style.

Or four sword style, six sword style

Even Kirabi’s eight-sword style that brutally tortured Sasuke

Aesop thought, if Huahuaguo wanted to cooperate with swordsmanship, he had no choice but to switch from the swordsmanship school.

The more knives you use, the better, but the more knives you use, the faster the attack speed and frequency will be.

Nowadays, Aesop is using the double-knife style, which is famous for its speed, much faster than the one-knife style.

But if you want to transform yourself from a dual-knife style to a multi-knife style, there is still a flaw.

That is maneuverability and the dispersion and weakening of power.

The dual-sword style or other multi-sword style will indeed be much faster than the one-sword style, but the physical strength will be dispersed to each sword, so that the pure strength is not as good as the one-sword style.

Only Zoro, the slit man, can skillfully use the three-sword style.

As for the arms grown from Aesop's Huahua Fruit, they possess some of the power of the original body, but after all, they are only part of it.

It is far inferior to the main body's arm, so that the power is unbalanced.

The power of each sword is different, but it is quite deadly. Once the enemy seizes this flaw, the consequences will be disastrous.

In terms of operability, Aesop's flowery fruits can also control those arms like the main body.

But they were just simple commands. Overly complicated operations were impossible and would consume too much of his energy.

And the swordsmanship moves are even more difficult to perform with the prosthetic hand.

Aesop frowned, wanting to complete the move that combined swordsmanship with fruit. The two thresholds now placed in front of him must be passed.

If you want to cross these two thresholds, Huahuaguo's ability must undergo new changes, so that the grown arms have the same power as the main body, and the maneuverability is reduced.

This is also an important point in his Huahua Fruit development route. With this point as the core, the swordsmanship and the power of the fruit are completely superimposed.

How can we develop this ability as expected so that the route will not go astray?

Aesop thought for a while and activated the flower fruit's ability.

Suddenly, petals fell from the sky.

The arms did not grow from the ground or the wall, but from his own body.

Four prosthetic arms grew from his back, each arm identical.

This is the first time he has tested the flower fruit's ability on his body. Before, he was very uncomfortable with having some extra limbs on his body, even if they were his own.

But now that four prosthetic hands have grown on his body, he has some new feelings.

The connection becomes tighter and tighter, growing firmly on the body.

The limbs grown from Huahua Fruit originally originated from his body, and now they grow on his body, and are connected by blood.

It was as if he was born with six arms, instead of limbs grown from flowers and fruits.

The four arms behind his back are either fists or seals, and you are familiar with the difference.

In the past, he used the Huahua Fruit to grow arms on the wall, or to grow arms from the enemy's body. He relied on the ability of the Huahua Fruit to control those arms.

But now Aesop clearly feels that the four prosthetic hands growing on his body are not relying on Huahuaguo's ability, but his own subconscious behavior.

As long as there is a thought, those arms will move according to their own thoughts.

It seems that the nerves in these prosthetic hands are bonded to my own cranial nerves.

With a thought in Aesop's mind, the four prosthetic hands growing out of his back grabbed the double knives hanging on the wall.

Each of the four arms holds two knives and their scabbards.

The very real feeling of touch was conveyed to his mind, and he tried to swing the knife and scabbard in his fake hand, slashing forward.

However, only the two arms holding the handle of the knife completed this action, and the other two arms holding the scabbard seemed to have not yet reacted.

He also slowly raised the scabbard in his hand, his rhythm slowing down for more than a beat.

This is a lack of coordination. In his previous life, he only had two arms on his body, and he was not used to the feeling of suddenly having four more arms.

Only two arms received instructions from the brain. The other two were not slow to respond, but the brain subconsciously believed that he only had two arms, so it did not issue instructions to those two arms.

When Aesop noticed that the other two arms were not moving and his brain reacted, it was already a beat slower.

This was a habit his body had carried on for more than ten years, but he couldn't change it for a while.

However, Aesop can use the flower fruit's ability to control four arms at the same time, but the meaning is different.

Through the control of Huahuaguo, only some simple commands can be executed. Complex commands will cause the arm to freeze.

Therefore, it is imperative that the brain and body become familiar with the four extra arms.

Then Aesop continued to control the four arms with his brain. The nerves were connected to these four arms. He had to maintain an extremely concentrated state in order to transmit the brain's instructions to these four arms.

However, this kind of familiarity cannot be accomplished overnight. It is like having an extra pair of wings. If you want to fly, you need to train persistently, instead of just having instinct and being careless.

Aesop was not in a hurry. He felt that his flowers and fruits seemed to be waking up during this kind of training. The rhizomes rooted in the body absorbed nutrients and grew rapidly.

At the same time, the Black Cat Pirate Ship sailed very peacefully during this period and had already left Hope Island far away.

The pirates on the ship also became a little more unrestrained from being silent at the beginning.

They say it's impudent, but it's actually their nature.

During this period of Aesop's seclusion, they also forgot the fear they had.

However, under the management of Zangao, they have not caused any big troubles yet.

Although Aesop was in seclusion and pondering sword skills, he did not relax his surveillance of the pirates.

Huahuaguo's intelligence collection is top-notch, and nothing on the ship escapes his eyes.

Seeing that there was no big trouble, Aesop let it go. Anyway, they didn't have much time to be reckless.

And Xiao Zi was a little depressed for a period of time when she just left Hope Island, and seemed reluctant to leave.

But people have to face reality after all, and soon she recovered, spending some time on the boat looking at the sea view, or reading some books that Crowe left on the boat.

Recently, he was studying pirate management with Zangao, but Xiaozi's immature face was obviously not intimidating, and the pirates even blatantly defied the rules.

However, these pirates were punished one by one by Zangao, which made them more obedient.

Xiao Zi didn't give up just yet. She was planning to become Aesop's housekeeper, how could she back down at the slightest setback.