Thud, thud, thud.
One after another, the sounds of objects colliding echoed. Luffy was directly used by Kyle as a whip, lashing them all away one by one.
Afterward, Luffy, having lost his usefulness and become dizzy and disoriented, was thrown by Kyle towards Ace.
"Ah."
Ace let out another scream.
Looking at the several people wailing on the ground, Kyle revealed a smile.
"Compared to half a month ago, your strength has indeed increased a bit. But wanting to beat big brother? You're still a hundred thousand years too early."
Over the course of this year, Kyle would fight with the five of them at regular intervals.
Compared to a year ago, the strength of all five had increased significantly.
Of course, not to an especially outrageous degree.
It wasn't like Luffy's strength in the original story, which shot up like a rocket.
This was reality, after all, not a comic. There weren't so many instances of wildly increasing strength.
There were no miracles here like someone smelling foot odor two months ago and then awakening their fruit power to fight a Yonko two months later.
Nor were there any incredible things like two hundred times the effort, sacrificing a master, and experiencing exponential growth in strength.
Powerful strength required time to settle, not instant achievement.
As for Kyle, his strength had also increased to a certain degree, but similarly, not too exaggeratedly.
There was still a not-short distance from Admiral level.
And his previous idea had fallen through. In the end, he still had to rely on his own efforts to get stronger. Relying on rewards from the system to get stronger was indeed the fastest method to increase strength, but the problem was.
Ever since returning from Shimotsuki Village, he hadn't heard the system make a single sound for a year.
If not for the system space still being there, he would have suspected his system had disappeared.
Therefore, apart from the first week when Luffy and the others were training and he was playing, during the subsequent days of their training, he was also cultivating.
After all, he couldn't possibly just keep waiting for the system to issue tasks, right?
Facts also proved his decision was correct. Otherwise, waiting one more day would be wasting one more day of cultivation time.
Among all the abilities he had mastered, swordsmanship was probably the one that had increased the most.
Even though he had never cultivated swordsmanship, he couldn't withstand having a tool person.
The thing Kyle did the most this year wasn't cultivating himself, but urging Zoro to cultivate.
Zoro had been forced by him to become the most diligent one among the five.
There was no way around it. If Zoro didn't cultivate, how would Kyle's swordsmanship level increase?
How could his own cultivation compare to the sweetness of getting triple the feedback from Zoro's swordsmanship cultivation results?
Taking another look at the several people, Kyle turned his gaze towards another figure on the side.
That figure, feeling Kyle's gaze, very skillfully took off the cloak he was wearing, leaving only the purple inner garment underneath.
The figure was precisely Zephyr. Over the past year, a habit had formed between Kyle and Zephyr.
Every time Kyle finished playing house with Luffy and the other five, he would have a fight with Zephyr.
After diligent cultivation, high-intensity combat was needed to fully transform the results of daily cultivation and enhance one's own strength.
However, just as Kyle was preparing to head towards Zephyr, the long-absent electronic prompt tone sounded in his mind.
[Ding... Detected special event. Generating task.]
[Task generation successful.... Please examine the task content carefully...]
[Recruitment Task. Recruit Vinsmoke Sanji. The eight-year-old Sanji has just escaped from the Germa Kingdom, which he considers a nightmare. Currently, he and Red-Leg Zeff are trapped on a small reef somewhere in the East Blue. Please go recruit the future big pervert into the Marines.]
[Recruitment Reward. Observation Haki improvement. Bloodline Factor (Sanji).]
[As the task target is not near the host, detailed task target coordinates have been provided.]
Kyle's expression froze for a moment, then erupted with intense joy.
The system, silent for nearly a year. Finally has movement.
Dammit, if the system didn't make another sound, he really would have forgotten about it.
And the rewards this time are quite plentiful.
Let's not talk about the Observation Haki improvement for now, because the system didn't indicate exactly how much it would improve. The value of this reward cannot be determined temporarily.
But Sanji's Bloodline Factor, this is a good thing.
After awakening, it possesses multiple abilities.
First is the hard exoskeleton similar to Wolverine's claws, which can greatly enhance defense. In the original story, Sanji's body directly took on Queen's blades without any issue. Instead, Queen's blades broke. Afterward, even when his body was twisted, he could just hammer and pound it back into shape.
Secondly, recovery power is also greatly enhanced because the Bloodline Factor contains healing factors.
Furthermore, there is the invisibility ability. Sanji's invisibility ability exists within his Bloodline Factor, not a capability of the Raid Suit. The Raid Suit only serves to assist in activating it.
Theoretically speaking, when the Bloodline Factor awakening reaches a high enough degree, even without the aid of the Raid Suit, one can achieve the effect of invisibility.
In the Onigashima war, it could be said that Sanji's strength after his Bloodline Factor awakened increased by more than one level.
On Egghead Island, he even directly kicked apart Kizaru's laser beam, shocking the uncle into making a meme-worthy expression.
From this, one can see the power of Sanji's Bloodline Factor.
And now, oh, no. Soon, this will become his ability. Then his strength will welcome another wave of enhancement.
Thinking of this, Kyle looked at Zephyr and spoke directly.
"Teacher Zephyr, let's not fight today. I'm going to help you bring back another disciple."
After saying this, Kyle's figure instantly transformed into purple lightning and shot straight up into the sky.
When Zephyr heard Kyle's words, he was stunned for a moment. After a while, coming back to his senses, his eyes suddenly widened, his face turning slightly pale. Regardless of whether Kyle could hear him or not, he shouted towards the heavens.
"Kyle, you bastard, you're going to bring back another little brat for me."
"I'm practically becoming the head of a kid's squad!"
Zephyr yelled and made a fuss. Training these little brats had already left him somewhat mentally and physically exhausted. He only occasionally went over to the elite training camp, spending most of his time training these guys.
Now he was going to bring back another one for him.
Zephyr at this moment only felt weary. His gaze suddenly turned towards the other five who were watching the commotion, and he vented all his anger on them.
"What are you looking at? All of you, get up. Run a hundred laps around the training ground."
"Huh." x5.
At the same time, on a small reef in the East Blue, there were two figures, one big and one small, sitting back-to-back on it.
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