Chapter 140: Historical issues, the competition begins

Chapter 140: Historical issues, the competition begins

"When I first met you, I knew you would have a great future." Akaitis said with emotion while drinking his wine, "Little Luke, to be honest with you, I actually wanted to invite you to join my branch."

"Brother Akaitis, why didn't you mention this?" Lu Kai asked with a smile.

"Hey, first place, you are too strong. A small branch really can't accommodate you." Akaitis sighed.

"As for the second one, I actually mentioned it to your King Russell. Guess what? He got furious and said that you would be his next chief of palace guards, so I gave up on this idea."

Lu Kai was also speechless after hearing this.

Russell had always been obsessed with him and insisted that Lu Kai serve as the captain of the palace guard. He invited him countless times and he kept on insisting despite being rejected countless times.

Even after Lu Kai joined the navy, Russell told Lu Kai that if he was unhappy in the navy, he should come back, because Itakisia would always need him.

But this kind of persistence and waiting is really too much for Lu Kai to bear, and Lu Kai can only find ways to make it up to him in other ways.

The two chatted about a lot of things, including the recent situation of the Itachisia Kingdom.

Ever since Tule and his son were eliminated, Russell began to show his tough side. He first used iron-blooded means to clean up the remnants of Tule and many of his former followers.

After that, he went around to seek advice from wise men and invited many hidden masters and talents to come out of retirement, and implemented new policies, which allowed Itachisya to rise to a higher level again. So now Itachisya is developing very well.

After saying goodbye to Akaitis, Luke returned to training.

However, during this period of time, there were a lot of people who wanted to visit Lu Kai for various reasons, and from time to time Lu Kai's adjutant Clyde came to report to Lu Kai.

Lu Kai refused all of them on the grounds of preparing for war, because he knew the purpose of these people coming to see him.

Some people knew that Lu Kai would be very successful in the future, so they wanted to build a relationship with him in advance. It would be even better if they could be noticed by Lu Kai and recruited by him.

Others had seen all the news about Lu Kai in the newspapers in the past two years, and had developed a curiosity or admiration for him, and simply wanted to meet him.

However, Lu Kai has never had much interest in socializing. He would offend people whether he met them or not, so he simply refused to meet anyone.

The internal competition of the navy is finally about to begin with many people gearing up for it.

The first few days of the battle had little to do with Lu Kai, because some generals and officers of the Navy Headquarters whose strength had been proven had directly entered the finals as seeded players.

There are a total of 128 people in the final round, divided into groups of 4, and a total of 32 groups will first participate in the group stage.

Then two people from each group advance to the knockout round, where the losers are eliminated directly, while the winners advance directly to the next round.

There are a total of 16 people who advanced directly as seeded players this time, and each of them is a well-known figure.

There are three candidates for the future admirals of the navy, natural devil fruit users - Sakaski, Borsalino, and Kuzan, as well as the current popular 'Red Wind' Lukai, the idol in the hearts of countless people.

There are only four seeded players from the younger generation.

All four of them have one thing in common, which is that they have overwhelming strength compared to other navies of the same generation.

Next came the other long-established vice admirals of the Naval Headquarters, including the Chief of Naval Staff, the famous Vice Admiral Tsuru.

However, many future vice admirals who have already emerged, such as the famous Tea Pig, Flying Squirrel, Doberman, Ghost Spider, and Fire Mountain, are not qualified to become seed players.

As for the future admiral candidate "Momotosagi" Gion, he has only recently joined the navy.

Although her strength is already very strong among the new generation of navy, her current rank is not high enough and she is not even qualified to participate in the competition.

However, Lu Kai was forcibly interrupted by Cyborg and called to watch the fight, and he sat next to Cyborg on the judges' seat.

Lu Kai's appearance immediately attracted many people's attention. These eyes were different, some were curious, some were admiring, and some were hostile. Lu Kai didn't care about these eyes, but he was in a bad mood.

Cyborg's decision left Lu Kai speechless. In his opinion, this was a complete waste of time.

With this energy, wouldn't it be nice to improve some of his attribute values? However, Lu Kai couldn't refuse Steel Bone Kong's mandatory order.

As a last resort, Lu Kai could only watch the battle while exerting the maximum degree of 'spatial compression' on himself, so that he could continue to be trained every moment and every move. Although the effect was not as good as formal training, it was better than nothing.

Many generals in the branch did not have a good impression of Lu Kai.

There are reasons why fans keep giving Lukayla hatred, some are out of jealousy, and some are simply upset because Lukayla is famous and popular.

Others believe that Lu Kai is actually a waste, and that he was just packaged and promoted by the Navy Headquarters with lies.

So when some people saw Lu Kai, they directly provoked him with their eyes and body language.

What's worse, some even directly humiliated Lu Kai with words that were very unpleasant to the eye. This was something Lu Kai had never experienced in the two years since he joined the navy.

But Cyborg issued a strict order that no one was allowed to cause conflict in the Marine Headquarters, which made Lu Kai very angry.

Not only Lu Kai, many other officers in the headquarters also encountered provocation and contempt, but the situation was not as serious as Lu Kai's.

After all, the influence of other people cannot be compared with Lu Kai's. They are just innocent victims. The real target is Lu Kai and the Navy Headquarters.

After coming to the Marine Headquarters, many officers from the branch became even more arrogant and domineering than the people in the Marine Headquarters.

This made Lu Kai doubt his life, especially since the branches in the four major sea areas had few decent combat forces, but each of them thought they were very great and did not take the Navy Headquarters seriously at all.

This is the real reason why the Navy Headquarters held this competition.

As far as Lu Kai knew, when the previous marshal was still in office, the navy was forced to carry out several reforms due to some special reasons of that era.

Lu Kai didn't know the specific reason. He only knew that all the relevant materials related to the so-called special reason were kept secret and no one in the navy was allowed to investigate or even explore the situation at that time.

So even Garp didn't know the inside story at that time because he hadn't joined the navy yet.

The original intention of the reform was good, but it seems that there were some problems in the decision-making at the time, coupled with the particularity of the times.

Not only did the reform fail to achieve the desired effect, but it also led to major problems within the navy, so much so that it took the navy more than ten years to recover.

Although this incident seems to have passed, there are still some aftereffects.

At that time, the Navy Headquarters' management of the branch was once very lax, and even completely lost control, and its control over the sea became very weak.

This resulted in many branches becoming local tyrants and formed some bad habits.

After the previous marshal took the throne, he has been working hard to change this situation, which has improved a lot.

After Cyborg succeeded him as Grand Marshal, the situation improved again during the more than ten years he served as Grand Marshal.

However, historical problems still exist in some branches.

Therefore, Cyborg plans to take advantage of the fact that the navy is basically stable now and the navy headquarters is full of talents to completely solve the problems of some branches at one time.