Night falls.
Roge Town, the back mountain on the west side.
At this time, Coles was standing alone in this quiet forest.
“Stand up!”
As his cold voice sounded.
In the darkness.
A tall shadow soldier with a red beard on his chin appeared.
This is Barbarossa!
The person who possesses the ability of the Liquor Fruit was once offered a bounty of 24 million berries!
Coles ordered, "Use your abilities to fight with me."
Although there is still a lot of time before he goes to the Marine Headquarters, he will not relax any training that can improve his strength.
Combat training is a daily necessity.
And Red Bearded Barbarossa’s strength is just enough to make him his current opponent.
A dark light surged on Barbarossa's body, and he began to use the power of the devil fruit to attack Coles.
However, after using his ability, Barbarossa did not change much.
“Can’t it be superimposed?”
Coles frowned slightly.
The first level of the Liquor Fruit's ability is to bring excitement and fearlessness of pain to the user, but Shadow Soldiers already have this characteristic, and even a more perverted "continuous repair".
This also resulted in no changes after Barbarossa used his abilities.
Don't underestimate Barbarossa's amplification ability because of this.
If Barbarossa had not died, with this amplification effect, after entering the Grand Line, if he could recruit enough pirates, he could have created a Berserker Pirate Group with soaring combat power.
But Barbarossa was unlucky and died before he could develop.
Barbarossa also seemed to find that his ability had no effect.
The second level of distillation mode is activated!
Above the shadowy body, white mist was rising and surging, giving it an extremely strong momentum.
The next moment.
Barbarossa's figure suddenly disappeared from the spot, and when he appeared again, he was already next to Coles.
The fist that was also emitting white steam was already attacking Coles.
In this regard, although Coles had the shadow reaction superposition, he was still a little slow and could only block with the long sword in his hand.
Bang!
A crisp sound was heard.
Coles' body was knocked back more than ten meters before the force was released.
Is it really a form similar to Luffy's Gear 2
There has been a huge doubling of strength, speed, and defense.
He couldn't help but feel a little fortunate in his heart that he let Lanlos deal with the opponent first, otherwise he would be in great trouble if he fought with him.
Barbarossa left a stagnant shadow on the spot and charged towards Coles again, slashing down with a big knife made of shadow in his hand.
Coles could only barely see Barbarossa's whereabouts by relying on his reaction.
The navy katana and the shadow broadsword collided.
The two of them stepped back a little.
On top of strength.
Coles was on par with Barbarossa, but was suppressed by his superior speed.
This high-speed movement.
It reminded him of one of the six styles of the navy!
That is, kick the ground dozens of times in a row to generate a strong rebound force to move at high speed.
I wonder if I can learn one of the six styles, shaving, before heading to the Navy Headquarters
After backing away again.
Coles' eyes narrowed, and he used the "Silent Slash" that he had learned after reviewing the battle with Clo.
His figure suddenly accelerated and passed by Barbarossa.
Squeak!
A huge gap was cut in Barbarossa's abdomen.
But in a twinkling of an eye.
The gap is restored to its original state.
"Huh?" A hint of surprise flashed across Coles' eyes.
The second level of the Liquor Fruit actually increases the recovery ability of the Shadow Soldiers to a certain extent.
Barbarossa raised his head with no expression on his face. Holding the shadow sword in hand, he continued to fight with the summoner.
Coles also quickly came over.
But with the combined effects of the second gear state and the characteristics of the shadow soldier, Barbarossa was like an indestructible cockroach, and he was unable to defeat him at all.
If one were to judge strength by bounty again, Coles felt that Barbarossa's current strength was at least comparable to that of a pirate with a bounty of 40 million.
However, pirates with a bounty of 40 million only appear on the Grand Line. He has never fought with them, so he cannot judge the details.
After completing the combat training, Coles sent Barbarossa back to the Shadow World.
Then, he summoned out the strongest shadow soldier, Lanros.
In the darkness, a blue-eyed knight in shiny black armor appeared, with a somewhat tattered red cape behind him.
Lanros knelt on one knee.
"King, what are your instructions?"
"Use your precise swordsmanship to fight me."
"yes!"
…
As a swordsman-level Lanros, even if he only uses precise swordsmanship, he is still not comparable to Coles, a swordsman who has just entered this realm.
The battle lasted no more than a dozen breaths.
Coles was defeated by Lanros with his precise swordsmanship, and there were many flaws in his swordsmanship.
This battle also made him realize the huge gap in swordsmanship.
Coles couldn't help but sigh in his heart.
Although his swordsmanship had advanced beyond the basics and reached the level of precise swordsmanship with the help of his mental load, his foundation was still far from perfect.
After all, compared to others who have been training for months, Coles has only been learning swordsmanship for two months.
Now he still needs to polish the basics of swordsmanship, otherwise continuing to improve will undoubtedly do more harm than good.
Okay, keep training!
However, this time he was not facing Lanros, but eight shadow knights who also possessed precise swordsmanship.
As for the remaining four, they were 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 was already very late for others, but for Coles, it was still very early, after all, he only needed three hours of sleep a day.
Next.
It is the training of the ability of the Shadow Fruit.
The power of shadow continued to surge in Coles's hands, and he began to master the ability of the fruit.
Physical training requires long periods of practice.
It is impossible to become stronger in a short period of time.
Swordsmanship has now encountered limitations and requires continuous improvement in precise swordsmanship.
Therefore.
The only way for Coles to quickly improve his strength is the Shadow Fruit.
Among the abilities 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 increase like a snowball.
Now, he has twenty shadow soldiers, namely:
Lanros, Barbarossa, the twelve shadow knights, Clo, Yoron Sam, Buggy, Atton and the orange cat.
And this is just the beginning.
As Coles becomes more skilled at development, the number of shadow soldiers will increase.
By then, it would not be difficult to even summon a powerful shadow army.
Just imagine.
Coles felt a little moved.
After all, who can resist a Shadow Army that won't refuse an order!
…
The next day, early morning.
Coles woke up, had breakfast, and went to the naval base on time for his work.
After returning home.
Spend some time with your family, and then start various trainings according to your own arrangements.
Day after day, repeating over and over again.
Although the speed of strength improvement is slow.
But with the passage of time, his strength has improved significantly.