Chapter 19: Moonwalking and Going to Sea

Chapter 19: Moonwalking and Going to Sea

At noon, Vic had lunch at the gym and then rushed to the cabin in the forest to learn blacksmithing. If he encountered suitable prey on the way, he would kill it and bring it to the cabin.

"The temperature, the deformation temperature of the metal, time, quenching, annealing, tempering..." Vic had a photographic memory, so he remembered everything that Kozaburo taught him. In the future, he just needed to practice to become proficient.

These are all some basic things. Different metals, alloys, minerals, etc. have different changes. Vic still has a lot to learn, but he is not in a hurry. He can just learn a little bit every day.

During the learning process, he also has to swing a sledgehammer, and Kozaburo will tell him where to hit, how much force to use, how long to hit, etc. It is not something that can be achieved overnight.

Near dusk, Vic went out hunting deep in the forest and brought back enough meat. The next day, he would bring a lot to Isshin Dojo and have lunch with Koshiro and his daughter. Koshiro didn't eat much, so Vic would ask Kuina to eat more.

Vic's routine was back on track.

After having breakfast in the forest in the morning, he would run to the dojo with a big stone on his back. Sometimes he would discuss kendo with Koshiro, occasionally he would tell stories to Kuina, sometimes he would practice sword moves directly, and sometimes he would meditate directly.

After having lunch at the gym at noon, I would carry stones and run to the forest hut to learn sword-making. Later in the evening, I would go deep into the forest to hunt and practice sword skills. Time slowly flowed forward.

......

A month later, in Koshiro's meditation room.

"Teacher, do you know where there are many powerful beasts? At least stronger than me. I want to go there and gain some experience." Vic said to Koshiro.

Half a month ago, Vic had already mastered the art of snow walking, but his Observation Haki has not yet awakened. It cannot be said that his Haki talent is too poor, but that his strength is too strong at this stage. He has not encountered any life-threatening crisis so far, and the probability of a sudden awakening is too small. Although Koshiro is stronger than him, Koshiro will not kill Vic.

Maybe the body's protection mechanism feels that there is no danger and there is no need to awaken domineering. This may be a shortcoming of too strong talent. After all, you have not stepped into that threshold. Even if you have a skilled body, you cannot act on things that have not appeared. So Victor is going to find a ferocious beast for special training like Luffy, and awaken domineering in life and death.

Hearing Vic say this, Koshiro also understood what Vic meant and admired Vic's determination. When he found that the problem could not be solved in a short time, he immediately used another way to solve it, but that method was a bit dangerous.

What Koshiro didn't know was that Vic was not a man who liked adventure. He liked to be in control, to control his own life, his own being.

But time waits for no one. In twenty years, the world will undergo earth-shaking changes. He doesn't know what kind of person Im is, or how the changes will develop, so he can only use this limited time to work hard to improve his own strength. He will not hand his fate over to others, so Vic feels it is necessary to take a risk now.

"I know a place. It's in the doldrums between the East China Sea and the Grand Route. It's not far from the East China Sea to the doldrums." Koshiro paused after he finished speaking, as if he was reminiscing.

"When I was traveling around the world in my early years, I was sailing in the East China Sea. That night, there was a storm all night long, and there was no light on the sea. As a result, our ship was blown into the doldrums. Inertia made us go deeper into the doldrums. We were not far from the East China Sea, but the sea kings below the doldrums sensed something on the sea and rushed out. In order to escape, we had to row desperately, and we ended up on that island." Koshiro continued.

Vic sighed that he was so lucky that he was not eaten by the sea kings and was able to find a small island in the doldrums.

If Koshiro knew what Vic was thinking, he would definitely slash him a few times to vent his anger.

"When we arrived at the island, the ship had been badly damaged and couldn't set sail in the short term, and there was not much food on the ship. There were more than a dozen of us, and I was considered the strongest among them, so the hunting mission was assigned to me. When I went deep into the island, I realized that the beasts here were too powerful. I saw with my own eyes a sea king come up from the sea to the island, and it fought with the beasts on the island to a draw. Their strength far exceeded mine at that time. Even now I can't beat the strongest ones on the island." Koshiro sighed.

"For food, I had to fight for my life. In the end, I broke through the realm when my life was in danger. That's how I survived on the island. I didn't dare to go close to the deep part of the island because the aura inside was too dangerous. We only moved around the periphery, hunting, cutting trees, repairing the boat, and camping. We stayed on the island for more than 20 days before we completely repaired the boat and left there."

"Teacher, do you have a nautical chart of that place? I want to take a look." Vic asked solemnly.

"It's not on the nautical chart. Even if it was, you wouldn't be able to use a compass to locate yourself in the doldrums. We used the blank pointers on the ship to record several permanent pointers. I'll give them to you later." Koshiro said when he saw that Vic was determined to go.

"I will definitely come back alive." Vic said firmly.

Koshiro got up and went to his room. Vic did not get up and sat there. He was thinking about how to get there. The calm belt was fine, but the sea kings were a little tricky. These guys had strong perception and would float to the surface at the slightest movement.

Wick thought of the Moon Walk. If he learned it, he could avoid the Sea Kings. It would also be a good auxiliary skill in the future. The Moon Walk was probably not very difficult. Sanji could learn it while running, which meant that as long as the speed reached a certain level, he could learn it naturally. There was no reason why he couldn't learn it with such a strong talent.

Don’t think that the speed is very slow just because you see Sanji running very slowly when he learns the Moon Step in the anime. If the speed was really shown in the anime, you wouldn’t be able to see the person’s figure, and you wouldn’t be able to watch the anime, so the expression of speed is a bit poor.

Stepping on the air at high speed to obtain an upward reaction force is to use this principle to achieve walking in the air. It is a little more reliable than stepping on the left foot with the right foot in the martial arts of the previous life. At least the reaction force is not obtained in vain. Now we have to figure out how to use such a small reaction force to achieve walking in the air.

Vic remembered that when he watched anime in his previous life, there would be a loud noise when others used the Moon Step. Vic guessed that the reason for the noise was the sonic boom. If it was a sonic boom, then it would make sense, as the leap was achieved by relying on the reaction force of the sonic boom.

Vic calculated that in order for a sonic boom to occur, the speed must exceed the speed of sound, which is about 340m/s. The Razor in the Navy's Six Styles requires stomping on the ground dozens of times in a row within 0.36 seconds to generate an explosive reaction force to achieve teleportation. As for how many times to stomp on the ground, this should be related to personal strength. Vic guessed that the more times you stomp on the ground, the faster you move, the farther you can travel in the same amount of time, and the more maneuverable you are. Suppose that the number of stomping times using Razor is 30, then the time for each stomp is 0.012 seconds, and each stomp is calculated as one step, and each step is roughly calculated as one meter. Then, in order to use Razor, the speed must reach 83m/s. This speed is already very fast and cannot be seen by the human eye.

According to rough calculations, if you want to use the Moon Step, the speed must reach four times that of "Shave".

This is Vic's rough calculation. There are definitely some discrepancies, but the general direction is correct.

"In other words, I can learn how to shave first, and then practice shaving to an advanced level, and then learn the Moon Step. This way, it will be easier to walk. My current speed can reach a level that is invisible to the human eye, but I haven't reached the initial level of shaving. I haven't focused on practicing speed before. With my physical talent, I can practice very fast. It's better for me to practice the Moon Step first and then go out to sea. Alas." Vic sighed secretly. He had been too balanced in his training before and didn't focus on practicing speed. Vic felt a little regretful. Now he would have to waste some time again.