One Piece: The Eternal Flame

Become the strongest navy and exercise the name of justice.

After making promises with the marshal that day, Gray's training became more serious. He was eager to go to sea and to prove himself.

The time spent in the training ground was getting longer and longer, no matter it was windy, rainy, snowy or scorching hot, Gray never stopped waving his wooden sword.

In Steel Gu's words, "Basic skills are more important than sword moves."

It is necessary to change the habit of working hard, exerting force, and fighting that has been cultivated since childhood into a method of calming down, relaxing, and accommodating to defeat the opponent.

It is indeed difficult to persevere all the time. Basic skills do not have obvious effects like sword moves. It takes a long time. There must be a process from quantitative change to qualitative change, and a process of reborn.

This is much more difficult than practicing strength, speed, moves, and flexibility.

But Gray persisted, a kid who surprised everyone with his resilience and talent.

He accepts the most orthodox teachings of the navy and firmly believes in the justice of the navy.

I want to save those islands that have suffered similarly to the Valley of the Gods, save civilians, and also want to become the most reliable navy like Cyborg that everyone can trust.

At this time, on the school's training ground, many people gathered together and formed a big circle, with three floors inside and three floors outside, it was very lively.

Today is the date of graduation assessment.

The graduation assessment of the Naval Academy is actual combat. The opponent is determined by the order of the lottery, and after the victory, the next round of lottery will be entered.

The final winner is the one with the best graduation result, and the loser also competes to determine their ranking.

This kind of grouping is of course unfair, because maybe some people with good strength will encounter strong opponents in the first round, and they are obviously hopeful to enter the next round, but they will be wiped out.

Or a person whose own strength is not high meets a weaker opponent, obviously incompetent, but the ranking is not bad.

This kind of thing happens every year, because the final exam not only tests your real strength, but also tests your luck.

In the end, only the first third of the navy will be admitted to officially become the navy, and the rest will either stay in the school for a year, or leave to find another way out, or return to the navy branch when they came back.

Everyone's eyes were fixed on the two people who were fighting fiercely in the arena at this moment. The lightning-quick moves made people dazzled, and it was hard to tell whose swordsmanship was better.

The two people fighting together at this time were well-known figures in the Naval Academy.

One is Muli, who has been repeated for four years. He is now 28 years old. He is a legend known to everyone in the naval academy.

The other was a more famous, genius-than-genius monster, Gray, the youngest in the school.

Muli was recommended by a certain naval branch when he was 20 years old. He is a down-to-earth person, hard-working, hard-working, and hard-working. Although his talent is average, he works hard to make up for his shortcomings.

When the assessment of their navy began, everyone thought that he would definitely be able to join the navy, but something unexpected happened.

In the first round of the lottery, he drew the strongest naval recruit in the same period, and of course Muli lost.

Those who didn't win the first round had no hope of becoming one-third of the qualified places. Muli chose to repeat the grade and work hard for another year.

As a result, in the second year, he again won the strongest rookie king of that period.

The same was true in the third year, he was always stuck at that hurdle, obviously strong enough, but because of luck and talent, he was often eliminated in the first round by the strongest recruit of the current period.

But Muli never complained, he just practiced harder to meet the fourth year's assessment.

The instructors all knew about this matter, although they felt sorry for him, they couldn't break the school's rules for Muli's sake.

The rule is that once someone breaks it, everyone will want to break it, so it can no longer be a rule.

But this year, the instructors specially arranged for Muli to draw lots at the end, and he was the last one. If the strongest guy can still be drawn, it would be too unlucky.

Almost all the instructors who knew Muli's story prayed in their hearts: there should be no more accidents this year.

Muli drew a lot, put the note in the hands of the instructor who counted, and then returned to the team.

He is already 28, and this is the last year. If he still fails, Muli will have to go back.

The instructor in charge of statistics opened Muli's note, his expression froze immediately, and then he frowned and called for other assessment instructors.

The recruits were all watching, not understanding what happened, and saw the instructor holding the statistics sheet to browse one by one, and finally shook his head.

Looking at all this, Muli clenched his fists and ran over in disregard of discipline, asking anxiously, "Instructor, is there something wrong with my note?"

"Because Daniel, who was in the same period as you, dropped out of school, the number of recruits in this period is odd, and one person will be eliminated directly because he didn't draw an opponent." The instructor explained.

After Muli listened, his lips moved, as if he had lost all strength for a moment, and he didn't dare to ask if the person who was directly eliminated was him.

But the instructor continued: "But the problem now is that there is no blank note. Your note is a person's name. If he does not participate in the assessment, he must have been maliciously dropped."

"Then what should I do? Instructor, this is my last chance." Muli said anxiously, "Please let me fight that person, is that okay? No matter who it is, at least it's better than being eliminated directly."

He has no chance to persevere. This is the last year. Thinking about the expectations of those who sent him here, if he fails again, he really has no face to go back.

"This" the instructor hesitated, they really didn't expect Muli to be so unlucky, in the first three years, he got the strongest draw in the same period, and this year he finally failed to draw the best one, but he got the note that should have been eliminated directly.

He looked at the other instructors who were discussing this matter, and the last one nodded, agreeing to this battle that should not have existed.

"Okay, but your opponent." The instructor considered his tone, "It's Gray, I think you should have heard his name, before he participated in the training as an observer."

Because of Daniel's dropout in this exam, someone will definitely come out, and the blank note that was changed to Gray's name was drawn by Muli. The instructors all agreed that it is better to give Muli this chance. No one wants to be wiped out without a fight.

Gray, who was training elsewhere at the time, didn't know that he was suddenly assigned an assessment. When the instructor came to inform him, he was practicing sword moves, sweating profusely, and even his clothes were wet.

After listening to the instructor's words, Gray nodded without hesitation, "It's the game, I'm fine."