A brief calm settled over the battlefield. Neither of the two figures in the arena moved to strike again for a moment.
Whitebeard was not lightly injured at this point. Even if he wanted to counterattack immediately, he felt somewhat powerless. He at least had to first sort out the chaotic aura within his body.
As for Kenji, on one hand, he was too lazy to pursue.
On the other hand, system prompt suddenly appeared in his field of vision.
"Could it be another new mission?" Kenji looked up, surveying the glowing text that almost filled his vision.
After a quick scan, a strange, surprised expression involuntarily appeared on Kenji's face.
Because this sudden prompt was not a mission, but rather a reward.
[You have gained a large amount of information related to Wano Country by befriending Oden, the Shogun's son!]
[You successfully led some personnel into the Flower Capital, the capital of Wano Country, and reasonably deployed personnel to obtain a large amount of information!]
[Mission (Main): Collect information on Wano Country! —Completed!]
[Reward Boost!]
[Reward has been changed to: Upgrade a random owned trait 3 times!]
[Reward distribution in progress...]
[Your Berserk (Light Purple) has been upgraded... Purple... Dark Purple... Super Purple!]
[Current Berserk (Super Purple)!]
[Name: Kenji]
[Traits: Armament Haki (Super Gold), Observation Haki (Super Gold), Conqueror's Haki - God's Domain (Light Blue), Physique - Human (Super Gold), Hand-to-Hand Combat (Light Gold), Swordsmanship (Super Gold), Sea King Power (Super Blue), Superspeed Regeneration (Dark Purple), Steel Balloon (Super Gold), Future Vision (Super Blue), Berserk (Super Purple), Giant Bloodline (Gold)]
"Huh? The information collection mission was completed so quickly? And the upgrade reward was skewed?"
Kenji looked at the rows of traits on the system interface in his vision, still a bit stunned.
"What's going on? This mission to collect information on Wano Country was just issued not long ago, right?"
From his personal perspective, the situation this time was quite strange.
He had just received the mission, but then, in the time it took to eat a meal, it suddenly showed as completed.
The most crucial thing was that he hadn't even carried out the mission during this period.
"Is it because of the system's judgment mechanism?"
Kenji frowned slightly, making reasonable inferences based on the available information.
First, he ruled out the possibility of the system forcibly giving out rewards.
Then, he ruled out the possibility of the system having a bug.
After a process of elimination, Kenji finally found that the most likely scenario did seem to be the 'system judgment mechanism.'
"The system's mission completion judgment is based on the specific mission content..."
Kenji stroked his chin, his thoughts gradually becoming clear, and he nodded, muttering to himself.
"Come to think of it, the task of collecting information on Wano Country has been underway for several days now..."
From the moment he entered Flower Capital, Kenji had been traveling around the city with Oden.
It seemed like he did nothing but eat, drink, and play.
However, in reality, even minor details from daily life could yield a lot of information.
What's more, the person Kenji had been playing with these past few days was the Shogun's son. Even ordinary conversations could reveal many things, at least providing a deeper understanding of Wano Country.
However, in these past few days, the main source of information was still the Marine squad led by Kuzan.
Kuzan possessed some leadership abilities, arranging the squad members in an orderly fashion.
It could be said that the system's prompt, "reasonably deployed personnel to obtain a large amount of information," was entirely referring to Kuzan.
However, as Kuzan's leader, Kenji entrusted the mission to Kuzan for full responsibility.
Was this not also a form of 'reasonable arrangement and deployment of personnel'?
Regardless of whether the system recognized it, Kenji certainly did.
"Hmm, the information obtained from Oden, plus the information collected by Kuzan's side... it's indeed more than enough to complete the mission." Kenji nodded secretly, then suddenly remembered something.
In fact, Kuzan had secretly reported this matter to him two days ago, but at that time, because there was no system mission and he was 'busy with official duties,' Kenji did not delve deeper, even putting it out of his mind.
Recalling it now, Kenji felt... had he missed out on a big prize?
"The information collection mission, the reward content should be linked to the amount of information obtained and the importance of the information, right?"
The more Kenji thought about it, the more he felt it was a pity.
"Two days ago, Kuzan's side had already uncovered some information about 'Pluton' back then."
"What a pity, if the mission had been issued a few days later..."
"Hmm, it's not guaranteed that I would have successfully obtained specific information about 'Pluton' anyway. Only a few people in the entire Wano Country know of its existence."
One of the three ancient weapons, the ancient super battleship 'Pluton,' capable of destroying an island with a single shot, existed in Wano Country.
Kenji knew this information, but only a very small number of people knew exactly where 'Pluton' was hidden.
And according to the system's post-mission reward situation, it was clear that simply knowing that Pluton existed in Wano Country could not bring Kenji an extraordinary big prize.
"That's not right, the news of Pluton itself has a certain value." Kenji put away the system interface, feeling that something was amiss.
In his impression, information about the three ancient weapons was all extremely precious.
Crocodile had been lurking for many years, even bringing in Robin to decipher the Poneglyphs, all for information on Pluton.
And the Poneglyphs that Crocodile painstakingly obtained only recorded that Pluton existed in Wano Country.
This shows that while this information might not be incredibly precious, it was certainly not ordinary.
"System, you didn't exclude Pluton information from the reward judgment, did you?"
Kenji recalled that the Pluton news Kuzan reported a few days ago was mixed in with many other pieces of information, and it was only a very short sentence.
"The ancient weapon Pluton is possibly related to Wano Country."
Normally, if a subordinate presented such a simple sentence of information to Kenji, he would at least let the subordinate know that his fist was not necessarily soft.
"The mission is already complete... it's too late to investigate now."
Kenji shook his head slightly, looking up at his surroundings.
At this moment, outside the battlefield, Oden had already broken away from the main samurai force and arrived at the edge of the battlefield.
Behind him, Ushimaru and a group of samurai watched nervously, afraid that their lord might be swept away by the energy exploding at the center of the battlefield.
If it were a few years ago, Ushimaru might not have been like this, and might not even have cared about Oden's life or death.
After all, at that time, Oden was a notorious outlaw, one could say, very infamous.
But in recent years, Oden's actions had greatly changed the impression of the Wano Country citizens towards him, winning their hearts.
If Oden were to be seriously injured in front of him, Ushimaru would probably have to bear infamy for the rest of his life.