During the day, Allen used Saitama-sensei’s training method: 100 push-ups, 100 sit-ups, 100 squats, and a 10km run every day.
At night, he practiced sword fighting, and whenever he had time, he went to talk business with the bees.
As for food, there were plenty of wild animals in the forest.
Before he grew up, he couldn’t win head-on against some of the larger beasts, but he could kite them to death by dodging with Observation Haki.
After all, not all animals were like those on Rusukaina Island near Kuja, which could use Two-Color Haki.
Allen didn’t understand the realms of swordsmanship, so he could only repeat his sword swings day after day, adding weight training to his arms, hoping that quantitative changes would lead to qualitative changes.
When he felt he wasn’t improving, he would go into the sea to practice.
Every time he climbed back onto the shore, the double torture of sore muscles and mental exhaustion made Allen feel like he was dying, but knowing that he couldn’t move an inch in this world without strength, Allen never stopped his training.
As for physical techniques, based on the principles of the Rokushiki from the original work, Allen developed Soru.
As for the other five techniques, Allen felt they weren’t of much help to him and didn’t see the need to waste a lot of time practicing them.
Seven years had made Allen much stronger.
Although he still hadn’t awakened Armament Haki, his physical strength was incomparable to what it was a few years ago.
Based on his current physique and swordsmanship, plus Observation Haki, he should be stronger than a Colonel at Marineford.
After all, Oda-sensei never gave a clear power ranking, perhaps because Oda himself didn’t understand One Piece.
Instead, in the comment sections of anime videos from his previous life, many netizens had provided their own imagined power rankings.
Four Emperors > Admiral > Admiral Candidate ≥ First Mate ≥ Shichibukai > Vice Admiral > Officer-level.
By the time one reached the officer level, they could basically use Two-Color Haki.
Below the officer level, they were just slightly stronger ordinary people.
In the anime, apart from Smoker and Hina and a very few other officers who had some strength, others had no screen time at all, and even if they appeared, it was just to advance the plot.
This kind of power ranking was recognized by many, but among the Vice Admirals, there were people like Garp who could hammer Rocks to death.
Among the Shichibukai, there was Hawkeye, who used to duel with Red Hair every day.
Red Hair only stopped fighting him after losing his arm, claiming he didn’t want to bully a disabled person.
Although there was a suspicion of showing off, it was undeniable that there was a clear gap in strength between Hawkeye and the other Shichibukai.
Therefore, this kind of power ranking could only be used as a reference.
The Marine didn’t have the rank of Fleet Admiral yet, with Admiral Kong as the highest commander, while the Sengoku, Garp, and Zephyr known from the original work were all Vice Admirals at this time.
The Marine was an organization established by the World Government with resources to deal with pirates.
Perhaps because they were afraid that the Marine would become too powerful and out of control, the World Government had always controlled the Marine’s funds and limited the scale of the Marine.
Now 17 years old, Allen was no longer afraid of confrontation and fighting with enemies.
Because some small-time pirates had landed on Allen before, Allen had used his swordsmanship and the combat experience he had accumulated from fighting wild beasts to repel these low-level characters.
After all, it was the island where he had lived for 7 years, and the residents of the island were good to him, so he didn’t want them to be burned, killed, or looted by these low-level characters.
As for the big pirates with bounties, because Allen was not far from the Marine G-5 Branch, those pirates didn’t dare to enter the range of the Marine base at will.
Relying on justice, those Marines could still act as a deterrent to some extent.
After all, apart from the Rocks Pirates, no pirate crew was blind enough to directly attack a Marine branch.
One had to know that there were Vice Admirals in the Marine branches in the New World.
Even if it was an unknown Vice Admiral, that was not someone an ordinary pirate could mess with.
Speaking of the Rocks Pirates, Allen took out the newspaper he had bought in town earlier.
The news of the Rocks Pirates actively attacking a kingdom’s stationed Marine warship and destroying the kingdom caught his eye, along with the bounty posters of Rocks and his executives.
Rocks D.
Xebec, Whitebeard Edward Newgate, Golden Lion Shiki, Charlotte Linlin, John, Silver Axe, Ochoku, and Kaido, who was still an intern crew member.
Most of the faces on the newspaper were ones he had seen in the anime in his previous life.
The average bounty of the Captain and main executives exceeded one billion Berries.
This wasn’t the era where an ivory-valued nine hundred million was common; a large pirate crew with an average executive bounty of over one billion in this era was terrifying just to think about.
Three of the future Four Emperors were in the current Rocks Pirates, plus the legendary pirate Admiral Golden Lion Shiki.
If the World Government had a real Marineford War with the Rocks Pirates at this time, the World Government would likely be finished.
However, having said that, the later God Valley incident did defeat Rocks, but that was under the condition that the executives were basically slacking off.
After all, most of the members of the Rocks Pirates had yielded to Rocks’s tyranny, or joined because they wanted to do evil under Rocks’s name.
Even so, it required Roger to join and cooperate with Garp, two against one, to take down Rocks.
It was conceivable how strong the Rocks Pirates were in this era to make the Marine and pirates join forces.
Allen hadn’t yet decided whether to join the Marine or form his own pirate crew.
Being in the Marine was stable; he wouldn’t have to be chased around the world, but he would have to be a dog for the Celestial Dragons.
As someone with the soul of a previous life, Allen felt disgusted from the bottom of his heart.
Being a pirate was freer, but the feeling of being chased by the Marine every day was not pleasant.
“Forget it, it’s too early to talk about this.
Let’s wait until I master Armament Haki and raise my swordsmanship to the level of a Master Swordsman.” Allen got up, patted his face, and prepared to go to the forest to hunt some prey for today’s dinner.
On the other side, at Hachinosu, the Rocks Pirates, who had just returned, were having a meal.
John laughed arrogantly, “Hahaha, Captain, that king thought that just because he became a member of the World Government, we wouldn’t dare touch him.
It’s simply laughable.” “Yeah, he even threatened us, saying that if we dared to invade his country, we would suffer a crazy blow from the Marine.
It scared me to death.” Silver Axe and the others chimed in with evil laughs.
A tall man with a full head of Red Hair looked at all this with dominance.
“It seems my reputation hasn’t spread throughout the New World yet.
After resting for a while, let’s wipe out the Marine’s G-5 Branch.
The New World is my territory, hahahaha—” Beside the Red Hair man was a six or seven-meter-tall blond giant with a white beard like a crescent moon, drinking alone, seemingly uninterested in their conversation.
“Ma ma ma ma ma, in that case, all the desserts in the New World will be mine.” A tall woman with a hot figure, wearing pink leather, said.
“Jie hahahaha, if you ask me, we should just attack the Marine headquarters.
A branch doesn’t have as much treasure as the headquarters.” A blond man with his hair spiked up, chewing a cigar, laughed and said.
“The Marine headquarters will be attacked one day, but not now.” The Red Hair man glanced at the blond man, somewhat dissatisfied with the blond man’s self-assertion.
“Then I’ll listen to the Captain.
When the time comes, I’ll throw hundreds of islands at Marineford, hahahahaha.” If Allen were here, he would be able to recognize them immediately: they were Whitebeard Edward Newgate, Golden Lion Shiki, Charlotte Linlin, John, Silver Axe, and others.