Chapter 318: Meet the 5 veterans and gain their trust
Not long after, Lu Kai arrived at Pangu City in Marijoa, and was summoned by the Five Elders to the Hall of Power, which represents the highest power of the World Government.
The Five Elder Stars refer to the five leaders of the "supreme power of the world government". As the heads of the highest level of the Celestial Dragons, they hold the pinnacle of world power.
The five members of the Five Elders are all male elders, and each has their own division of labor.
The Five Elders each have a title named after "God", which are:
Shepard ten Peter Saint (Jupiter), the "God of Farmwork".
"Financial God of War" Zambaron V. Nasujuro Sei (Venus).
"The God of Law" Topman Wochulisheng (Mercury).
"The God of Environment" Marcus Mars Saint (Mars).
"The God of Science Defense" Jagarcia Satan (Saturn).
This was not the first time Lu Kai had met the Five Elders.
When he was still a vice admiral, Cyborg Sora, who was then the admiral of the Marine Headquarters, brought Luke to Marijoa to meet the Five Elders.
Soon after they became generals, the Five Elders also summoned Zhan Guo and Lu Kai.
At that time, the Five Elder Stars gave Luke the Golden Den Den Mushi in front of Sengoku, and also gave him the power of a general.
However, it was the first time for Lu Kai to meet the Five Elders alone.
"Lu Kai, it's been two years since we last met, right?" Woqiulisheng, the "God of Legal Affairs" and one of the Five Elder Stars, was the first to ask Lu Kai.
At this moment, Lu Kai stood straight, with his hands behind his back, looking solemn, and replied: "Your Excellency Saint Woqiuli, yes!"
"Someone has just given me a complete report on what happened on Melos Island." Saint Woqiuli continued.
"Don't take it to heart that Chalmac shot you."
"Your Excellency Saint Woqiuli, I was wrong just now. I shouldn't have contradicted Saint Chamak." Lu Kai immediately replied with a guilty look on his face.
At the same time, he thought that these Five Elders were really good at killing people without using a knife. They were clearly using the incident of Chamakh to criticize him, but they acted as if they were comforting himself.
"And I betrayed your trust and failed to capture the slave alive." Lu Kai continued.
However, the Five Elders had no intention of blaming Lu Kai for this. Instead, some of them nodded with satisfaction.
Woqiulisheng continued: "I told you before that you should do your best. It was not just empty words. You did a great job on this matter."
The 'God of Scientific Defense' Jegarcia Satan Saint also said: "You arrived at the scene in the first time and found the slave in the first time.
"It's just that the slave had died before you arrived. This is because Czarmark asked us for help too late. It has nothing to do with you. This only shows that some things are not destined to belong to him."
Everything that happened today, the amount of information is really overwhelming.
Lu Kai wrote down all the information he got, and planned to go back and discuss it with Fu Ya to see if he could discover some special secrets.
"I heard that you captured Charlotte Lingling?" Satan Sheng interrupted Lu Kai's thoughts and asked.
"Yes!" Lu Kai answered again.
"Zhan Guo should have talked to you about this."
"Yes, Marshal Zhan Guo and I talked for a long time." Lu Kai answered seriously.
"Do you understand our intention?"
"Yes!" Lu Kai acted purely like a subordinate in front of the Five Elders, and his answer was brief and to the point.
"Oh? Tell me about it." Saint Satan smiled rarely.
"Marshal Zhan Guo has always told me to look at problems from a higher perspective and over a longer period of time, and I have been trying to do so," Lu Kai replied.
"So my understanding of this is that temporary gains and losses are irrelevant, and the long-term stability of the world is more important than anything else."
The Five Elder Stars all showed admiration for Lu Kai.
"So, what are you going to do next?" one of the Five Elder Stars asked again.
"I will try my best to do my job as an admiral of the Navy Headquarters." Lu Kai replied.
"That's all?" The Five Elder Stars said in a tone that seemed dissatisfied with the answer.
"I will do everything I can to maintain world stability and the absolute dominance of the world government." Lu Kai continued solemnly.
"Very good!" The Five Elder Stars nodded one after another.
Woqiulisheng also spoke again: "Lu Kai, always remember your identity and remember what you said today."
"Yes!" Lu Kai answered seriously.
After Lu Kai walked out, the expressions of the Five Elders did not improve, but became even more serious.
"How is it?" asked Peter Saint, one of the Five Elder Stars.
"The special Den Den Mushi that can sense other people's brain waves and determine whether they are lying did not show any abnormalities." Satan Saint said.
"In that case, we can safely and boldly let him do some things."
Lu Kai, who had just walked out of the Hall of Power, heard the conversation between several people through the fluctuations caused by the conversation, and immediately realized what was going on.
He also understood why the Five Elders summoned him alone.
Not to convey information to myself, just to examine myself again.
As old monsters who have lived for hundreds of years and the rulers of the world, the Five Elders will not act on emotion. They have their own standards for evaluating people.
Lu Kai is most likely the candidate for the next marshal, and he is also the most powerful admiral in the navy at present. It cannot be too careful when examining Lu Kai.
However, because the ability of the space fruit that Lu Kai possesses has been awakened, even if he does not open up the invincible space, he can still sense the slightest fluctuation within a certain range.
It was because of this that Lu Kai overheard the conversation among the Five Elders in the Hall of Power.
And because of his caution, he successfully passed the inspection.
Even Lu Kai couldn't use his Observation Haki. After all, Observation Haki is also a kind of energy. Any energy within the scope of this hall of power might be sensed in a special way.
The reason why the special Den Den Mushi that can sense other people's brain waves did not sense Lu Kai's abnormality was not because Lu Kai was telling the truth.
Instead, he used the power of the devil fruit.
Because Luke's two devil fruits have now been developed to an extremely high level, he used the power of the space fruit to form a barrier to wrap himself.
At the same time, all the auras emitted by itself will be screened, and any abnormal auras will be transmitted back the moment they touch the barrier.
Lu Kai can control other people's perception of him through their observation Haki or other means of detection.
To put it simply, Lu Kai will exude whatever aura others want to feel.
The Space Fruit is a devil fruit that has not appeared in eight hundred years, and Luke has never found anyone else possessing this ability, so no one has ever doubted anything about him.
If not for this, Lu Kai would have been exposed long ago.
It was precisely this habit and caution that helped Lu Kai a lot when facing the Five Elder Stars.