Chapter 125: Hiding Strength, Suffering
If Luke only uses his fists now, with the maximum power of the Space Fruit's full-strength burst, he will have 80% of the power of Garp's full-strength punch.
From being completely defeated by Garp two years ago to now having a punch that is not much weaker than Garp's, it is really dreamy.
What’s even more fantastic is the power of Luke’s swordsmanship, because the ultimate lethality of Luke’s swordsmanship has been able to catch up with the ultimate lethality of Garp’s Bone Fist.
This is not surprising. Lu Kai has only been practicing boxing for two years, but he has been practicing sword for eight years. He has a high talent for swordsmanship and the power of his sword moves has been increasing.
In addition, Lu Kai continues to develop the power of the space fruit, and now the space power he can mobilize is twice as much as two years ago.
Even if Lu Kai had not made any progress in other aspects, his strength had at least increased by two times, not to mention that Lu Kai's progress in other aspects had always been rapid.
It is no exaggeration to say that once Lu Kai exerts his full strength to attack, combined with the unparalleled dodging ability of the Space Fruit, he has the confidence to defeat anyone in this world in a protracted battle.
After all, what Lu Kai feared least was a protracted war. With the system's 'zero reset' function, he didn't believe that anyone in the world would have a better advantage than him in fighting a protracted war.
So faced with this situation, Lu Kai chose to hide part of his strength.
First of all, Lu Kai concealed many of the magical uses of the Space Fruit and only showed a small part of it to others. Lu Kai had never shown the more powerful uses in front of anyone.
Secondly, Luke never showed the power of his Dark-Dark Fruit in front of anyone, and concealed the fact that he was a dual-fruit ability user.
Third, the power of the instant punch displayed by Luke was only 70% of that of Garp, and the power of the swordsmanship he displayed was even 10% weaker than the instant punch.
But even so, everyone was still extremely shocked, especially Garp, who knew Luke's strength best.
He had never seen anyone progress so quickly, nor had he ever seen anyone with such terrifying strength at the age of 16.
Although Lukai still seems to have a certain gap when fighting Garp in a head-on attack, when combined with the ability of the fruit, he can fight on equal terms with Garp and not be at a disadvantage.
Of course, the strength shown by Luke is not enough to defeat Garp, but Garp is also unable to defeat Luke who uses teleportation to avoid fatal moves.
The reason why Lu Kai concealed his strength was Fu Ya's suggestion.
Fuya's greatest talent is her extraordinary mind. Lu Kai always listens to Fuya's words because they make so much sense.
Fu Ya has never had any doubt that Lu Kai will become the strongest in the world in the future, but she knows very well that the tallest tree in the forest will be destroyed by the wind. The stronger Lu Kai's strength is, the more likely he will become a target of public criticism.
Over the years, Fu Ya has conducted in-depth research on the Celestial Dragons and has a very clear understanding of the structure of this world.
What will happen if Lu Kai’s strength exceeds the acceptable range of the Five Elders, or even makes the Five Elders feel that Lu Kai is an uncontrollable variable?
Even though Lu Kai's strength is unmatched, for what he plans to do in the future, his strength alone is not enough. Even if he is made of iron, how many nails can he crush?
If Lu Kai became invincible and really destroyed the Celestial Dragons with absolute force, would the world be peaceful?
On the contrary, the world will surely be in chaos by then, because there are too many ambitious people in this world, and too many people who want to replace the Celestial Dragons and become the masters of the world.
Once all the celestial dragons are dead, these ambitious people will inevitably rise up and divide the land to be king, and the world will be in chaos. Once the world is in chaos, ordinary people will not have a good life for a long time.
When it prospers, the people suffer; when it dies, the people suffer.
Lu Kai was a slave. During the darkest two years of his life, he not only experienced pain and despair himself, but also saw countless people being swallowed up by pain and despair and eventually becoming the walking corpse.
Lu Kai hated all of this and didn't want to go through that kind of pain again, nor did he want others to go through it.
Although Lu Kai's ultimate goal is to overthrow the rule of the Celestial Dragons and establish a new regime, this overthrow should never come at the cost of the people's eternal unrest.
Let me just take one example.
As the armed force with the widest coverage in the world, the navy is directly led by the World Government. But in a deeper sense, the navy is led by the Celestial Dragons represented by the Five Elder Stars. What will happen to the navy once the Celestial Dragons to whom the navy is loyal are gone?
You know, there are many ambitious people within the navy. Once the Celestial Dragons are gone, the navy will inevitably split. The inevitable result at that time is that various factions will become independent and become warlords, each occupying their own territory and becoming the king.
Once the navy is completely divided and becomes independent, who will maintain the most basic order in the world? Even these former navies will become a scourge to the world and join the ranks of those who oppress the lower-class people.
Without the restraint of the navy, all pirates will become more unscrupulous, and ambitious people in many countries will take the opportunity to cause trouble. How many innocent people around the world will suffer as a result?
Even if Lu Kai is the best in the world, can one person manage the whole world at the same time? So this is a matter of tangling up one hair and moving the whole body. No matter which point, Lu Kai and Fu Ya are not willing to see it, so they must think about it in the long run.
So in Fu Ya's plan, Lu Kai must not show his full strength until the plan is foolproof. The more he hides, the better.
When he was a lieutenant general, Lu Kai could only display the strength of an admiral of the Marine Headquarters in front of the world. After becoming an admiral of the Marine Headquarters, he could only display strength that was 30% higher than that of other admirals.
The purpose of doing this is to allow Luke to successfully become the admiral of the Navy Headquarters, make the World Government feel at ease with him, and at the same time gain the preference and reuse of the World Government.
Although it seems that Luke can fight back and forth with Garp now, he relies on the ability of his fruit to dodge attacks. There is a gap between his head-on combat power and Garp's. This makes Luke appear very powerful but not too strong.
In fact, Lu Kai’s current strength is far from reaching the limit in his own mind.
As the Devil Fruit's abilities continue to develop, as Luke's basic physical attributes continue to improve, and as Luke's domineering level continues to increase, Luke's strength will continue to increase.
Lu Kai has thought about this more than once: what will happen when one day his basic physical attributes reach the highest level, his devil fruit abilities develop to the level of awakening, his domineering aura is raised to the highest level, and he even awakens his domineering aura?
Of course, Lu Kai is still far away from this level, and he can only think about it now, but Lu Kai believes that he will reach this step one day.
However, for Lu Kai at the moment, the most urgent task is to become a senior general in the Navy Headquarters. By that time, the comprehensive plan formulated by him and Fu Ya will be put on the agenda.