sea circle calendar 1499, Marine personnel changes.
This year, Marineford Lieutenant Commander Lippo Hope, ‘White Rabbit’, was successfully promoted to Marineford Rear Admiral.
In the same month, Marineford Lieutenant Commander Gild Tesoro, “Golden”, was promoted to Marineford Captain.
Following this, Tuoli Tuoma, ‘Snake Princess’, a former Kuja Pirates cadre and swordswoman with a bounty as high as 925,000,000 Berries,
Under the joint guarantee of Marine Hero Vice Admiral Garp, former Admiral Zephyr, ‘Black Arm’, and Gern, ‘Heaven Quake’
The World Government was forced, under extreme reluctance,
To revoke her wanted poster and allow her to join the Marine, granting her the rank of Marineford Rear Admiral, but at the same time, she would only accept direct orders from Gern.
At the same time, through Gern’s recommendation, Eneru, whose background was clean, successfully entered the Marine Elite Training Camp.
But what was shocking was that this guy, in just one week, relying on the power of the Rumble-Rumble Fruit and his innate Observation Haki,
Without using Armament Haki, he fought through and swept all the trainees in his batch!
His astonishing performance immediately earned him the title of ‘Marine's Strongest Rookie’
Becoming another Marine supernova crowned with the name “Monster” after Sakazuki, Kuzan, Borsalino, and Gern.
However, Eneru’s unruly personality caused him to stay in the training camp for only one month before Zephyr personally took him in for special training.
Even more astonishing was that Eneru, possessing innate top-tier Observation Haki and Haoshoku awakened under Gern’s stimulation,
Under Zephyr’s strict guidance, he basically mastered Armament Haki application techniques in just four months.
He then graduated exceptionally, and due to his strength, was directly awarded the rank of Marineford Lieutenant Commander.
Also in June of this year, during the period when the World Government was purging Roger Pirates remnants, they successfully discovered that
‘Pirate King’ Roger might have bloodline descendants left in the world, so based on time calculations,
The World Government organized the Marine and CP0 to jointly blockade all 24 islands in the first half of the Grand Line that Roger might have visited.
They screened all pregnant women and children according to the timeline, and exterminated them all.
And this time, the Marine officer in charge was the Marine legend who personally arrested the ‘Pirate King’:
‘Heaven Quake’ Gern Reginald Sigma!
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First half of the Grand Line, Snew York Island
Marine warships and World Government ships blockaded all ports on this island.
At the same time, the Marine soldiers who disembarked immediately lined up in two rows, standing respectfully straight, staring with admiration at the figure about to descend.
Then, Gern, wearing a justice cloak, a black shirt, and with Hachibusa at his waist, slowly walked down the gangway from the warship.
He held a latest newspaper in his hand, a faint sneer playing on his lips.
“Tsk tsk tsk, Moonlight Moriah lost quite miserably!
Was he wiped out by Kaido’s crew in Wano Country?!” Gern clicked his tongue, looking at the headline on the newspaper.
“Gern!” At this moment, Eneru, who was still shirtless and following behind, munched on an apple and asked indistinctly,
“I heard you’re going to fight that guy named Kuzan? Is that true or false?”
Despite having joined Marineford for only half a year, Eneru had already become the focus of attention due to his arrogant personality and overwhelming strength.
Although he was still so arrogant that he had no friends and liked to call himself “God”.
“Looks like you’re adapting well, huh?” Gern glanced at him sideways, a half-smile on his face.
“Looks like you didn’t get beaten up any less by Teacher Zephyr, right? Haha! You can actually remember other people’s names honestly.”
“Don’t look down on me!” Eneru snorted coldly, tossing the apple core casually, accurately hitting a distant trash can.
“Now, I am called a ‘monster’ by those ants!
What does this mean? It means the growth rate of ‘God’ far exceeds your imagination!”
“Then you should grow well!” Gern rubbed his temples helplessly.
Libo was borrowed by Vice Admiral Garp, Tesoro was on vacation because of Stella, and Snake Princess disliked this meaningless mission.
So for a while, there was only an arrogant naked man following me, sigh...
“What kind of expression is that?!” Seeing Gern’s disgusted look, Eneru immediately became furious, “Bastard, don’t look down on God!”
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As Gern and Eneru’s figures gradually moved away, the Marine soldiers at the port finally relaxed with a sigh of relief.
“Hey, that guy following Lieutenant Commander Gern… is he the ‘God’ Eneru who’s been the talk of the town recently?”
A young Marine recruit asked in a low voice, his eyes full of awe.
“Nonsense! Who else could it be?” The old Marine next to him squinted and looked into the distance.
“That guy was recommended by Lieutenant Commander Gern into the Elite Training Camp on his first day at Marineford.
Heh, he joined for only a week and single-handedly swept all the trainees in his batch in the entire Elite Training Camp!”
“That strong?”
“He’s a completely new generation of Marine “monster”!”
“I heard he was originally the ruler of Sky Island, calling himself ‘God’, but was forcefully subdued by Lieutenant Commander Gern and dragged back to the Marine…”
“Huh? Is that true or false? Lieutenant Commander Gern personally took action?”
“Absolutely true! I have a friend at G-62 Branch, and he said that day the entire sky was covered by thunderstorms, and even the warship’s communication equipment malfunctioned…”
Another soldier leaned over, adding mysteriously, “And that’s not all! Do you know?
Three months ago, Admiral Zephyr personally evaluated the Elite Camp, and that guy directly changed the terrain of the entire training island with lightning!
Even the Admiral praised him, saying his ‘potential is no less than Sakazuki’s back then’!”
“Hiss… another Nature Type monster…”
“Also, did you notice? Even though he just joined the Marine, he’s already able to carry out missions with Lieutenant Commander Gern…”
“Nonsense! Do you think just anyone can be favored by Lieutenant Commander Gern? The last one with that treatment was Rear Admiral Libo!”
“But… that guy’s personality is too arrogant, isn’t it?
He keeps saying ‘God’ all day, and even dares to talk back to Vice Admiral Sakazuki…”
“Heh, arrogant as he is, he has the capital to be arrogant!
How do you think he was exceptionally promoted to Marineford Lieutenant Commander right after graduating?
I heard that Admiral Zephyr led a team out for training before graduation
They encountered a ship of the Big Mom Pirates, and before Admiral Zephyr even spoke,
He alone, with just one move of ‘Amaterasu’, directly sank that pirate ship, and even the cadres of the Big Mom Pirates on board…”
The sea breeze carried the fragmented whispers, and the soldiers’ gaze involuntarily turned towards the distance again.
The shirtless man was swaggering behind the Marine’s youngest legendary Lieutenant Commander, incomparably arrogant.