I summon the shadow army in Pirates.

Night falls.

Rogge Town, the back mountain to the west.

At this time, Coles was standing alone in this quiet mountain forest.

"stand up!"

As his cold voice sounded.

in the dark.

A tall shadow soldier with a red beard on his chin appeared.

This is [Barbarossa]!

A person with the power of the Liquor Fruit was once offered a reward of 24 million beli!

Coles ordered: "Use your abilities and compete with me."

Although there is still a lot of time before he goes to the Navy Headquarters, he will not relax any training that can improve his strength.

Combat training is a must every day.

And the strength of Red Beard [Barbarossa] is just right enough to become his current opponent.

[Barbarossa]'s body surged with dark light, and he began to use his Devil Fruit abilities to attack Coles.

However, [Barbarossa] did not change much after using its ability.

"Can't it be superimposed?"

Coles frowned slightly.

The first level of the spirit fruit's ability is to bring excitement and pain-free effects to the user, but the shadow soldiers already have this characteristic, and even have an even more perverted "continuous repair" effect.

This also resulted in no change after [Barbarossa] used his ability.

Don't look down on Barbarossa's ability to increase due to this.

If Barbarossa had not died, relying on this amplification effect, after entering the Great Channel, and recruiting enough pirate men, it would be possible to create a frenzied pirate group with soaring combat power.

But Barbarossa still had some bad luck, and died before he could develop.

[Barbarossa] also seems to have discovered that his ability has no effect.

The second distillation form is activated!

Above the shadow body, white mist was steaming and surging, giving it an extremely strong aura.

next moment.

The figure of [Barbarossa] suddenly disappeared on the spot, and when it reappeared, it was already beside Coles.

The fist, which was also emitting white steam, was already attacking Coles.

In this regard, although Coles had the superposition of shadow reactions, he was still a little slow and could only block with the long knife in his hand.

boom!

A clear voice sounded.

Coles' body was knocked back more than ten meters before he lost his strength.

Sure enough, it is similar to Luffy's second gear!

Strength, speed, and defense have been greatly doubled in all aspects.

He couldn't help but feel a little lucky in his heart. Fortunately, he let [Lanlos] deal with the opponent first, otherwise he would have been in trouble when fighting.

[Barbarossa] left a shadow on the spot and charged towards Coles again, slashing down with a sword transformed from the shadow in his hand.

Coles could only barely see the traces of [Barbarossa] based on his reaction.

The navy's sword collided with the shadow sword.

The two of them each stepped back a little.

On top of strength.

Coles was comparable to [Barbarossa], but was suppressed by his powerful speed.

Such high-speed movement.

Reminds him of one of the six navy styles, shaving!

That is, kicking the ground dozens of times to generate strong rebound force to move at high speed.

I wonder if I can learn one of the six styles of shaving in advance before heading to the Navy Headquarters?

After retreating again.

Coles' eyes narrowed, and he used the "Silent Slash" he learned after replaying the battle with Crowe.

His figure suddenly accelerated and slashed past [Barbarossa].

呲!

[Barbarossa] had a huge gap cut open in his abdomen.

But in the blink of an eye.

The gap will be restored to its original shape.

"Huh?" A look of surprise flashed in Coles' eyes.

The second level of the Liquor Fruit actually increases the recovery power of the Shadow Soldiers to a certain extent.

[Barbarossa] raised his head, with no expression on his face. He held a shadow sword and continued to spar with the summoner.

Coles also quickly caught up.

But with the superposition of the second level state and the characteristics of the shadow soldier, [Barbarossa] is like an unbeatable little strongman, and he can't defeat it now.

If we were to judge strength by bounty again, Coles felt that the current [Barbarossa] was at least as powerful as a pirate with a bounty of 40 million.

However, pirates with a bounty of 40 million would only appear on the Grand Line. He had never fought against them and could not tell the details.

After completing the battle training, Coles sent [Barbarossa] back to the Shadow World.

Immediately afterwards, he summoned the strongest shadow soldier [Lanlos].

In the darkness, a blue-eyed knight wearing bright black armor appeared, with a somewhat tattered red cape behind him.

[Lanlos] knelt down on one knee.

"King, what are your orders?"

"Use precise sword skills to fight me."

"Yes!"

……

As a swordsman-level [Lanlos], even if he only performs precise swordsmanship, it is not comparable to Coles, a swordsman who has just entered this realm.

The battle lasted only ten breaths.

Coles was defeated by [Lanlos] with precise swordsmanship, and there were many flaws in it.

This battle also let him know what a powerful gap is in swordsmanship.

Coles couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

Although his swordsmanship has surpassed the basic swordsmanship and reached the level of precise swordsmanship with his hard work, the basics are still far behind.

After all, compared to the days and months of training others had, Coles had only been learning swordsmanship for two months.

Now, he still needs to polish the foundation of swordsmanship firmly again, otherwise continuing to improve will undoubtedly do more harm than good.

Okay, let’s continue training!

However, this time he was not facing [Lanlos], but eight [Shadow Knights] who also had precise swordsmanship.

As for the remaining four, they are protecting their father and sister in the villa.

……

After finishing the combat training and swordsmanship training, it was already one o'clock in the morning.

This is already very late for others, but for Coles, it is still very early. After all, he only needs three hours of sleep every day.

Next.

It is the training of shadow fruit ability.

The power of shadow in Coles' hands continued to surge, and he began to master the fruit's ability.

Taijutsu requires long periods of training.

It cannot become stronger in a short period of time.

Swordsmanship now also encounters elbow control, which requires constant polishing in precise swordsmanship.

Therefore.

The only way Coles can quickly improve his strength is through the Shadow Fruit.

As for the ability of the Shadow Fruit, the most important one is "summoning shadows"!

It is precisely because of this special ability to communicate with the power of the undead that Coles' strength can continue to improve like a snowball.

Now, he has twenty shadow soldiers, namely:

[Lanlos], [Barbarossa], twelve [Shadow Knights], [Clo], [Yulon], [Sam], [Butch], [Aden] and [Orange Cat].

And this is just the beginning.

As Coles develops skillfully, the number of Shadow Soldiers will increase.

At that time, even summoning a powerful shadow army will not be difficult.

Just imagine.

Coles felt a little fluttering in his heart.

After all, who can resist an army of shadows that won't refuse an order?

……

The next day, early morning.

After Coles woke up, after breakfast, he went to get off work at the naval base on time.

After returning home.

Spend some time with your family, and then start various trainings according to your own arrangements.

Day after day, the repetition continues.

Although the speed of strength improvement is slow.

But as time goes by, his strength has improved significantly.