Chapter 70: Sabaody Archipelago

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"Morons! Recruits with a score of more than 90 points in the previous two physical assessments, come here!"

In the square in front of the marine HQ, Zephyr hung up the Den Den Mushi and shouted at the many marine recruits, which immediately gathered together in lines.

"Some pirates are causing trouble on the Sabaody Archipelago. I took over the task of suppressing these b* from the HQ. Your time has come to participate in a real-world task, a real combat mission!"

Finishing his announcement, Zephyr walked towards the port.

Hearing Zephyr's words, many of the selected recruits glanced at each other in surprise. The Chief Instructor Zephyr led teams to go out for actual combat missions before, but he used to take just a few selected recruits with him!!

Those who achieved these scores above 90 points could register as a temporary marine trainee to perform tasks, but those tasks were often very dangerous, and no one would protect them in dire situations.

However, Zephyr's leadership was different. He would take full responsibility for their safety. Although he wouldn't take action until facing critical moments, but there wouldn't be there any danger on the recruits' lives.

Moreover, as trainees, they would only be able to gain a few military achievements. After all, even if a trainee managed to kill a powerful pirate alone, the success would be shared between the officer in command and all the officers. However, going out with Zephyr, the military achievements wouldn't be divided by the troops!

"Other people continue to evaluate!"

Zephyr said while taking many recruits to the port without looking back.

The recruits who did not reach 90 points in the assessment all looked at Zephyr and the others enviously.

Zephyr took over this task of repressing the pirates on Sabaody for two main reasons. The first one was Ron's behavior, he wanted to let off steam. Secondly, Ron's previous battle with Gumir brought a little unhealthy wind to the camp.

Ron was very poor physically, yet he relied on some kind of devil fruit ability, and suppressed the instructor Gumir!

This was a huge blow for many recruits, who were still desperately practicing, struggling to close the big gap with Gumir, especially the elites among them.

So many recruits were a bit confused, and some others grew tired of the daily training.

This kind of atmosphere must be contained.

And the best way to contain such mess was to let recruits witness the effectiveness of physical skills in actual combat.

If an officer's physical strength was enhanced to a certain extent, he could become strong enough to annihilate a mountain or split an island with just a punch, even to go against devil fruit users and win!

Zephyr wanted to show the recruits that Ron, who relied on the ability of his devil fruit and didn't pay attention to his physical strength, was on a wrong path and would never become a real strong man.

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Sabaody Archipelago

Outside of a ruined auction house, many marines were fiercely fighting pirates.

The number of marine soldiers far exceeded the number of pirates. There were thousands of them. However, in the face of a group of pirates, which had only a few dozen people, they were still defeated. They could only force a blockade to prevent the pirates from breaking through.

"isn't the HQ reinforcement here yet?!"

A captain slashed a pirate with his sword and yelled at the liaison officer.

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