"Submit to the strong in order to survive?" Rayleigh looked at the newspaper in his hand and couldn't help but mutter.
A trace of dim light flashed across his turbid old eyes that were hidden under his glasses.
In the end, he clenched the newspaper, sighed, and said, "Whitebeard, you're still the same as always, not admitting the erosion of time at all."
"Haha, it's not that I don't admit it, it's just that this sea still can't trap my steps. Ace coming to my side in the dark is the best fate." Whitebeard laughed and patted Ace's shoulder.
"This time, I'm looking for you because I want you to specially train Ace in the use of the three-color Haki. He has all of Roger's bloodline advantages and awakened Haoshoku Haki very early. He's a symbol of a king that's one in a million."
"As long as Ace can grow up, then on this sea, our Whitebeard Pirates will be invincible!"
The rolling sound, like a tide, shook the soap trees on the shore, making them tremble.
Faced with Whitebeard's words, Rayleigh calmly took a sip of wine and said, "Whitebeard, you don't need to say that. For the sake of the friendship on Roger's ship, I will also help Ace. It can be said that staying in the Sabaody Archipelago is for this reason."
"However, before starting training, I want to know, Ace, what are your thoughts on this sea?"
Thoughts?
Ace couldn't help but be stunned, pressed down on the hat on his head with his backhand, and said with a smile, "Of course, it's to assist Oyaji in becoming the strongest king on this sea."
"And also to defeat the Skeletal Demon. The wound on my forehead still aches faintly when I think of him!"
While saying this, Ace pointed to the injury on his forehead, and the corner of his eye was still twitching slightly.
Thinking of the scenes of being defeated by Kai in an instant on the day they met, it was simply an unforgettable shame for him.
Otherwise, Whitebeard wouldn't have personally asked Rayleigh to take action to guide him in the three-color Haki this time.
After all, compared to Whitebeard's pirate crew, Roger's pirate crew took the elite route.
Among them, Rayleigh served as a teacher-like figure on board to provide guidance.
Red Hair, who had walked out under his command, had now become an existence like the Four Emperors.
At the same time, in the original work, Rayleigh had only spent a year to allow Luffy to initially master the three-color Haki, and his strength had skyrocketed to over a billion Berries.
Just these things alone were enough to show that Rayleigh could definitely be called the Haki enlightener of the pirates.
"Assist Whitebeard in becoming the king of the sea?" Rayleigh glanced at Ace, who had a smiling face and was eager to try, and a trace of disappointment flashed across his turbid old eyes.
He had been staying in the Sabaody Archipelago, which served as a stepping stone from the first half of the Grand Line to the New World, in order to find someone who could inherit Roger's will.
Originally, in Rayleigh's eyes, Ace, who had inherited Roger's bloodline, should have been the closest person to this will.
But the conclusion he had obtained right now inevitably disappointed him.
Could it be that it was really as Whitebeard had said, the new era could only be used as a stepping stone for the old era's overlord journey?
"Oyaji, I just received an urgent report. The Marine's encirclement has already formed, and Byrnndi will soon be blocked. Are we going to go take a look?" Marco held a Den Den Mushi and hurriedly walked over to the side.
Since Impel Down had been destroyed, many pirates who had escaped from prison had been defeated and taken back into custody.
Among them, there were no lack of prisoners from the fourth and fifth levels of the prison.
But Byrnndi was undoubtedly different this time.
His appearance and failure meant that while the heinous people in Level Six Infinite Hell were being brought to justice, it also showed that even if the pirates of the old era re-entered the stage, there was only a dead end.
It could be said that it had different meanings for both the Marine and the pirates.
So this battle had attracted the attention of all major forces, who were eagerly paying attention.
"Let's go, let's just go and send off an old friend and take a look at the collapse of the old era." Rayleigh glanced at the newspaper in his hand, took a step, and disappeared in place.
When he appeared again, he had already boarded Whitebeard's ship.
At the same time, there were many forces who had the same thoughts as Whitebeard.
Faced with the start of the final encirclement, they became restless.
Half a day later, hundreds of nautical miles away from the Sabaody Archipelago.
Seven Marine battleships were rushing quickly towards the northern sea area from all directions.
On the leading battleship, a burly figure like an iron tower stood here, and the justice coat he was wearing fluttered in the wind.
As the commander of this pursuit of World Destroyer Byrnndi World, Akainu's expression was unusually iron-blue at this moment. He gazed at the distant sea surface and didn't say a word.
On the huge ship's deck, the Marine soldiers who were stationed here fell into silence at once as they watched this iron tower figure.
Even the atmosphere became unusually oppressive.
"Admiral Sakazuki, according to the statistics from the rear, in the encounter a day ago, our troops suffered heavy casualties due to Byrnndi's long-range sniping." Onigumo stepped forward quickly from the rear and subconsciously glanced at Akainu's face, which was as gloomy as water, before reporting.
"Among them, two warships were sunk, one hundred and thirty people were injured, and eighteen people died, accounting for 20% of the total number of people on the two warships!"
The not-loud voice, at this moment, seemed to have been infused with magic sounds and echoed on the deck, tensing everyone's nerves.
Akainu's face darkened to the extreme at once. His right hand grabbed the ship's railing, and with a pfftt sound, scorching magma surged out wildly.
He directly crushed the railing! "Bastard, damn bastard!" Akainu roared angrily.
"Our five warships were sunk by a remnant of the old era, and there were such heavy casualties. This is simply the Marine's shame."
Speaking of this, Akainu flicked his justice coat suddenly, glared around the deck, and continued to roar angrily, "Are you going to tell me that this is the strength of the Marine's elite?"
"If it wasn't for others coming to the rescue in time, would our fleet have been completely sunk?"
Thinking of a day ago, Byrnndi using the ship's cannon and the Moa Moa no Mi's sneak attack from more than ten nautical miles away, the suffocating feeling made Akainu unable to swallow this breath.
Afterward, through encirclement and pursuit, he had once pushed Byrnndi and the others into a dead end.
But faced with the Moa Moa no Mi's acceleration ability, he still couldn't succeed with one blow. Instead, it had become an ultra-long-distance pursuit battle.
Originally, according to Akainu's thoughts, he would have sunk Byrnndi, this remnant of the old era, silently.
Now the pursuit across the entire sea had instead alarmed the entire sea and made this battle the focus of everyone's attention.
It had also made him lose face.
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