The next day, Lucas set up a wooden post at the place where Momousagi usually practiced swordsmanship and began his training again.
Swordsmanship is nothing more than chopping, slashing, picking, stabbing, intercepting, and flicking!
In a word, it is only a matter of practice.
Momousagi had never seen anyone who could start swinging a sword at the morning sun and continue until it set.
She asked herself, she had never been that persistent, but Lucas had done it.
How could she know that persistence was Lucas’s specialty!
Relying on his Photosynthesis Ability, as long as there was sunlight, his body would continuously surge with vitality and strength.
When the sun set, Lucas was still practicing until he was exhausted.
However, the next day, he would still be full of vigor.
Half a month passed slowly.
Tomorrow, he would have to report to the school again.
That evening, Momousagi called a halt to Lucas’s training and said: “I won’t be sending you to the Marine Academy tomorrow.”
After she finished speaking, she took out a sword with a white scabbard and said:
“This sword is called Shuro, one of the Ryo Wazamono, and it was Shuro I carried before I obtained Konpira.”
Konpira is Momousagi’s sword, a Great Grade sword, which has been with Momousagi for many years.
“Thank you, Sister Gion!” Lucas did not refuse, but instead accepted the Ryo Wazamono, Shuro.
Marine Academy
The students gathered again; this time, the elite class and the ordinary class were all together.
“Listen up, brats.
You must have heard of the Rokushiki: Soru, Tekkai, Kami-e, Geppo, Rankyaku, and Shigan.
These are martial arts that surpass the limits of the human body.
If you can master them, they will not only be very helpful for your introduction to Armament Haki in the future, but they are also the most convenient tools in combat.”
On the podium, Zephyr spoke eloquently.
He had said these words to every batch of students and was already very familiar with them.
Rokushiki is still very strong.
At least when Haki is not involved, Rokushiki is the limit of martial arts—of course, excluding Tekkai…
And even with Haki, Geppo, Shigan, and Rankyaku can still be used in battle.
“Of the Rokushiki, two are defensive, two are for high-speed movement, and two are for attack.
These six are complementary.
If you can use them in perfect combination, there will definitely be a place for you on the sea.
Now, I will demonstrate them to you one by one.
The first one is Soru.”
As he spoke, Zephyr’s figure flashed and disappeared, accompanied by the sound of an air explosion.
The next moment, he was in the distance, and a second later, he returned to his original spot.
“What I just used was Soru.
Within a split second (0.36 seconds), I continuously kicked the ground at high speed dozens of times to generate explosive reactive force for high-speed movement.
To the enemy, it looks like I simply vanished.”
“Next is Geppo!”
After he finished speaking, Zephyr stepped into mid-air, his figure climbing upward by stepping on the air.
With the airflow generated by the air explosions under his feet, he quickly circled the entire playground.
“Geppo is a deeper variation of Soru.
It also involves stepping on the air multiple times in an instant to create short-term suspension and flight.”
Regarding Geppo, Lucas’s deepest impression was of the cook, Sanji.
This guy later trained Geppo to the extreme, even rivaling the abilities of flight-type Devil Fruits.
At this moment, Zephyr walked to a huge stone slab, tossed it into the air, and then kicked it.
A crescent-shaped sword-like slash appeared from Zephyr’s leg, flying rapidly toward the falling stone slab in the high air.
Crack!
Instantly, the stone slab broke into two pieces.
Then, Zephyr quickly tapped with both his index fingers, and the two falling pieces of the slab instantly turned into a pile of gravel.
“These two moves are Rankyaku and Shigan from the Rokushiki!
They are the offensive martial arts of the Rokushiki.
Rankyaku can be used at long or short range.
It does not deal damage by kicking the enemy directly, but by using ultra-high-speed and powerful kicks to whip up vacuum waves that create slashes, cutting the enemy in half!”
“Shigan involves gathering all the power of the body into the index finger, and with a hardened finger, releasing a strike in the blink of an eye.
The fingertip has the attack power of a bullet and can easily pierce the human body.”
“Next are the defensive techniques, Tekkai and Kami-e!” Zephyr said, calling over a squad of Marine soldiers.
He ordered them to shoot at him.
Bang, bang, bang!
Accompanying the gunshots, Zephyr’s muscles tightened, and he stood tall and motionless.
“This is Tekkai!” Zephyr said.
Then the second round of shooting began.
Zephyr’s body became thin, easily dodging those bullets.
“This is Kami-e.
Kami-e is about relaxing the whole body.
By sensing the changes in airflow generated by the opponent’s movements, the body becomes as light and thin as paper, allowing for easy and free control of the body to dodge attacks aimed at oneself at the critical moment.”
“As for Tekkai, it involves pumping power into a well-trained body to give it the hardness of iron.
Not even bullets or swords can break through it.
Tekkai is the foundation of Armament Haki, so you must take it seriously.”
Listening to Zephyr’s introduction, Lucas really wanted to remind his classmates to try not to use Tekkai at noon if possible, otherwise, sooner or later, something bad would happen…
After the Rokushiki were explained one by one, Zephyr began to have the six of them start training with Tekkai, after which they could choose other techniques they preferred to practice.
The method of training Tekkai is very simple: it’s just getting beaten up.
This beating was administered by Zephyr himself.
While he was hitting them, he would continuously explain the techniques to Lucas and the other five.
“The human body has many mysterious powers, one of which is muscle.
The function of Tekkai is to turn these scattered muscles into a single whole, giving the body the hardness of iron.”
Zephyr guided them while hitting them.
He was heavy-handed, and even Hina was not spared, being beaten to the point of tears.
However, Hina was very strong.
Previously, when sparring with others, even if she was beaten to tears, she would wipe them away and continue to be beaten.
She had no choice but to wipe away her tears; after all, life had to go on.
Zephyr’s explanations were very necessary.
Under his guidance, where there were shortcomings and where changes were needed were all clear at a glance.
This is the benefit of having a famous teacher.
In fact, in terms of contribution, Lucas believed that Admiral Zephyr was no less significant than Garp and Sengoku; in fact, perhaps even greater.
One must know that Zephyr had taught a large number of Marine backbones; his students were truly everywhere.
The most famous ones are the current three Admirals: Akainu, Kizaru, and Aokiji.
Of course, in the end, it was these three most famous disciples who sent off their teacher.
The reason Zephyr made everyone practice Tekkai first was because, under constant strikes, the body could be strengthened once more, making it relatively easier to master Soru or Geppo later.
Besides that, he wanted them to possess Armament Haki faster, as Haki is the key to the future.
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