Chapter 46 Day After Day

Night falls.

Rogue Town, the back mountain to the west.

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

"Stand up!"

His cold voice sounded.

In the darkness.

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

This is [Barbarossa]!

The person with the ability of the Strong Liquor Fruit was once offered a reward of 24 million Baileys!

Coles said, "Use your ability and fight with me."

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

Combat training is a daily necessity.

And the strength of the red beard [Barbarossa] is just enough to become his current opponent.

[Barbarossa]'s body was surging with dark light, and he began to use the devil fruit ability to attack Coles.

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

"Can't it be superimposed?"

Coles frowned slightly.

The first level of the Liquor Fruit ability is to bring excitement and fearlessness of pain to the user, but the Shadow Soldier already has this characteristic, and even has a more perverted "continuous repair".

This also led to no changes after [Barbarossa] used his ability.

Don't look down on Barbarossa's amplification ability for this reason.

If Barbarossa had not died, with this amplification effect, after entering the Grand Line, he could have recruited enough pirates to create a crazy war pirate group with soaring combat power.

But Barbarossa's luck was still a bit bad, and he died before he developed.

[Barbarossa] also seemed to find that the ability had no effect.

The second level of distillation form was activated!

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

The next moment.

[Barbarossa]'s figure suddenly disappeared on the spot, and when he appeared again, he was already next to Coles.

The fist, which also emitted white steam, had already attacked Coles.

In response, although Coles had the reaction of the shadow, he was still a little slow and could only block with the long sword in his hand.

Bang!

A crisp sound rang out.

Coles' body was directly repelled more than ten meters, and then the power was removed.

Is it really similar to Luffy's second gear?

The strength, speed, and defense have been greatly doubled.

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

[Barbarossa] left a stagnant shadow in the original place and charged towards Coles again, slashing down with a shadow-transformed sword in his hand.

Coles could only barely see the trace of [Barbarossa] by reaction.

The navy's katana and the shadow sword collided.

The two retreated a little.

In terms of strength.

Coles is comparable to [Barbarossa], but is suppressed by the powerful speed.

This high-speed movement.

It reminded him of the Shaving, one of the six styles of the Navy!

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

I wonder if I can learn the Shaving, one of the six styles, in advance when I go to the Navy headquarters?

After retreating again.

Coles' eyes condensed, and he used the "Silent Slash" he learned after reviewing the battle with Clo.

His figure suddenly accelerated and slashed past [Barbarossa].

Swish!

A huge gap was cut in [Barbarossa's] abdomen.

But in a flash.

The gap was restored to its original state.

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

The second gear of the Strong Liquor Fruit actually increased the recovery ability of the Shadow Soldiers to a certain extent.

[Barbarossa] raised his head, without any expression on his face, holding the Shadow Sword, and continued to fight with the Summoner.

Coles also quickly met.

But with the superposition of the second gear state and the characteristics of the shadow soldier, [Barbarossa] is just like an indestructible cockroach, and he can't defeat it now.

If he wants to judge the strength by the bounty again, Coles thinks that the current [Barbarossa] is at least as strong as the pirate with a bounty of 40 million.

However, the pirate with a bounty of 40 million only appears on the Grand Line. He has never fought with him, so he can't judge the specifics.

After finishing the combat training, Coles sent [Barbarossa] back to the shadow world.

Then, he summoned the strongest shadow soldier [Lanros].

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

[Lanros] knelt on one knee.

"King, what are your orders?"

"Use precise swordsmanship to fight me."

"Yes!"

...

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

The battle lasted only a dozen breaths.

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

This battle also made him know what the huge gap in swordsmanship is.

Coles couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

Although his swordsmanship has surpassed the basic swordsmanship and entered the level of precise swordsmanship with the spirit of load, his foundation is still far behind.

After all, compared with others who have been training day by day, Coles has only been learning swordsmanship for two months.

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

Okay, continue training!

However, this time he is not facing [Lanros], but eight [Shadow Knights] who also have precise swordsmanship.

As for the remaining four, they are guarding 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 very late for others, but for Coles, it is still very early, after all, he only needs to sleep three hours a day.

Next.

It is the training of the shadow fruit ability.

The shadow power in Coles's hand keeps surging, and he begins to master the fruit ability.

Physical skills require long-term training.

It is impossible to become stronger in a short time.

Swordsmanship has now encountered constraints, and it is necessary to continue to hone in on precise swordsmanship.

Therefore.

The only way for Coles to quickly improve his strength is the Shadow Fruit.

And the most important ability of the Shadow Fruit is "summoning shadows"!

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

Now, he has twenty shadow soldiers, namely:

[Lanros], [Barbarossa], twelve [Shadow Knights], [Clo], [Yoron], [Sam], [Bridge], [Aton] and [Orange Cat].

And this is just the beginning.

With Coles's skilled development, the number of shadow soldiers will increase.

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

Just imagine.

Coles felt a little throbbing in his heart.

After all, who can resist a shadow army that will not refuse orders!

...

The next day, early in the morning.

After Coles woke up, he had breakfast and went to the naval base on time.

After returning home.

He spent some time with his family, and then started various training according to his own arrangements.

Day after day, repeating continuously.

Although his strength improved slowly.

But as time went by, his strength improved significantly.