One Piece Flame Emperor Ace

Chapter 17 Internship Tasks
The naval training base, as a piece of news came out, suddenly exploded...

"Hey! Have you heard? I heard that our bottom-to-last student openly engaged in a fight with the second-stage student Beronka, saying that he would fight to the death within three months!"

"Who doesn't know, isn't it the boy of Ace! I heard that he broke the arm of Beronka's younger brother Poca."

"Forget it, after the monthly test this time, Ace is number one on the ranking list!"

"That's just the number one among the first-stage students. What is it! Do you know how strong this Veronka is? I heard that one person killed Jess the Ripper with one knife a while ago."

"That pirate with a bounty of 9000 million Baileys? Then Veronka must have the strength of a major general."

"Hey, poor boy!"

……

The news spread all over the base unknowingly, and almost everyone was not optimistic about Ace.

But at this moment, the person involved has already returned to the apartment, leisurely eating the barbecue of Neptune.

"Phew~ I'm full, today's meal A is delicious! And it can be packed." Ace said while pressing the sofa under his buttocks. When he pressed it, he made a dent, and then slowly bounced it up.

"And the environment in this apartment is really good, no wonder everyone is desperately trying to become stronger."

Sure enough, strength determines living conditions, which is the criterion of One Piece world.

Derek on the side also patted his belly, and fell down on the soft sofa with a strange look on his face.

He doesn't care about the living conditions and reputation among the privileges of ranking first.

The only thing he valued was three free A meals a month, after all, this was something that could improve his strength.

But just today, Drake has eaten five meals A.

"Suddenly I feel that it's not bad to follow Ace, and Ace is so strong."

Drake was taken aback by his own thoughts, and quickly looked at the two people around him, only to find that they were not paying attention to him, so he exhaled.

"Why are you still eating!" Ai En on the side didn't eat, but looked at Ace worriedly, with tears in his eyes, "There are rumors outside that my brother must lose."

"Brother won't lose, if you don't believe me, ask Drake." Ace pointed to his side.

"I..." Although Drake knew that he had lost before, he still wanted to get angry now.

But when he thought of the major general-level strength that Ace had just exploded, he was immediately discouraged, "I'm not your opponent now."

Although Drake looked uncomfortable on the surface, taking advantage of Ace's inattention, he grabbed the last meal A and devoured it hungrily.

There was no disappointment on his face, it was clearly planned, with a triumphant smile.

Ace's hand stretched out to the table froze. The two formed a friendship because of the battle just now, but the feud of grabbing food is irreconcilable!
"Give me back my food!!!"

Ace rushed forward with a roar.

On the other hand, Ai En laughed out loud because of the fight between the two, alleviating some of the worries in his heart.

……

The next day, at 6 o'clock in the morning, Ace got up from the soft bed and stretched himself, only to find that his period of weakness had not passed.

With a wry smile, he murmured: "The bed in this apartment is comfortable, but yesterday I used the Cui Body Art for a long time, and it may take a day to recover."

Jumping on the spot twice, Ace opened the door and walked out.

"Good morning!"

Facing him was Ain who had already washed up, his wet hair was still wet, it looked like he had taken a shower.

Ace stared blankly, the little girl is very cute.

He quickly shook his head, shaking his distracting thoughts away.

"Well, good morning."

This apartment has three bedrooms and one living room, so Ace simply let Drake and Ian live there.

After washing up, Ace suddenly found that Drake had gone out, and asked with some doubts: "Aren't you going to listen to the instructor explain the internship tasks today? Why did he go out so early?"

"It seems to be training." Ai En replied while putting on his shoes.

Ace was taken aback when he heard this, it was too much effort, it seems that yesterday's incident stimulated him a bit.

After touching his nose, Ace's eyes turned serious.

You can't relax yourself!

The life-and-death confrontation with Beronka three months later, and Edward Weibull who will come at an unknown time, based on his current strength, he will definitely die sooner or later.

Taking a deep breath, Ace has thrown away all the slack thoughts.

"Let's go, let's see the instructor."

……

When the two of Ace arrived at the agreed meeting point, besides Drake, more than a dozen students had already arrived.

After they saw Ace, they couldn't help whispering together, obviously they all knew what happened yesterday.

Ace is now number one on the charts, so they dare not comment loudly.

But Ace could still vaguely hear some words.

The words are basically "overestimate", "arrogant", and "dead". It seems that most people think that Ace will die in the duel with Veronka.

Ace doesn't care either. Although these people are elites, they are just some high-level cannon fodder, so there is no need to care about their words.

So Ace was just chatting with Drake and Ian while waiting for Instructor Shatton.

After another 15 minutes or so, Instructor Shatton finally came.

"Quiet, line up!" Shatton stood in front of everyone, and ordered with a serious expression: "I think everyone has discovered that many students in our first team have been eliminated."

Ace looked around and found that there were originally more than 30 students, but now there are only about 20 left.

"But there is also good news. Our first team now has three top ten players." Shatton pointed to the three of Ace, but he obviously didn't want to look at Ace directly. Thinking of them eating 40 yesterday, the corners of his mouth twitched. Slight twitch.

And the surrounding students also cast envious or jealous eyes on them.

"Okay, today I will mainly explain to you the tasks for the next month." Shatton adjusted his expression and explained: "There are two types of internships, one is garrison tasks, as the name suggests, you will be assigned Go to a naval base in the four seas and assist the local defenders to eliminate some local novice pirates, because the enemy is very weak, so it is relatively safe."

Speaking of this, Shatton looked at the students, and continued: "But if you choose this kind of task, then you will never get the chance to enter the second stage of study."

When Ace heard this, he immediately ruled out this kind of mission. He didn't come here for safety.

"And the second is to follow a major general and destroy the famous pirate group on the great route. If you perform well during this period, you will get a chance to be recommended, but..."

Shatton paused for a moment, and then said: "Different from the first type of mission, the target pirates for this type of mission are all provided by naval intelligence agencies, and the captain's bounty is at least over [-] million, so during the battle, you are very May die."

The students were suddenly in a commotion, because after studying for this period of time, they already knew the general relationship between the pirate's strength and the bounty.

School level: 2 million - 1 million

Major General: 1 million - 2 million

Lieutenant general: 2 million - 5 million

……

This division is not an absolute standard, but it is enough to explain the problem. A pirate with a bounty of [-] million is an enemy at the level of a major general!
Although he will be dealt with by his own chief, but who knows if he will be affected by the aftermath of their battle, it will be dead.

Immediately, a group of people retreated.

"Now, please step forward for the students who choose the second task!" Shatton was not in a hurry, and ordered after the students finished thinking.

"Ace!"

"Drake!"

The two stepped forward without hesitation and smiled at each other.

"I... I will go too!"

Ain, who is usually timid, even chose the second type of task.

(End of this chapter)