Chapter 804: Heavy Will
Whitebeard was still buried by Shanks in the place in the original work. This time there is only one grave. Even if he is alone here, Whitebeard should be happy!
After the funeral, Vic took Ace away. Although Ace wanted to stay with Marco and the others to lick their wounds, after Vic said that he would train Ace for two years, Ace and Marco agreed.
Marco and the others have placed their hopes on Ace. When Ace returns, they will support Ace to become the new captain.
Marco is already quite old and does not have much room for growth. No matter how hard he tries, he cannot reach the emperor level of combat power. Only the younger Ace has this potential. If there is a strong man like Vic to train Ace, it would be even more possible, so Marco and the others agreed without hesitation.
After this big change, Ace understood a lot of things and his concepts changed. To put it bluntly, he became much more mature. He knew that Vic was doing it for his own good, so he did not reject Vic's arrangement.
When Wick brought Ace back to the Sabaody Archipelago, Luffy had not yet woken up. The encounters with Impel Down and the Marine Headquarters had caused Luffy to overdraw his body too much, even affecting his lifespan.
So Luffy was in a coma for a few days, and only woke up after Vic treated him, which made the big-headed Ivankov who was watching the fun nearby marvel. Hormones have a great impact on the body, but not comprehensively, so he couldn't solve Luffy's physical problems.
However, by using bioelectricity to convey various information to the brain, Vic can fully control Luffy's body, so any effect can be achieved and Luffy's hidden dangers can be easily solved.
It was also because Vic had laid a good foundation for Luffy before, so Luffy’s life loss in Impel Down was not as much as in the original work. When he woke up and saw Ace by his side, Luffy jumped for joy!
He had been having a nightmare before. In the dream, Ace was punched through the chest by Akainu, and he lost Ace forever. Now that he saw Ace was still alive, his heart was completely at peace. However, after the excitement of reuniting with Ace passed, he thought of his companions, and then he couldn't sit still and wanted to go out to sea to find them.
"Luffy! Don't worry, where Nami and the others are, are all good places for them to practice. After what happened recently, don't you see the point?
With the current strength of your pirate group, you can't go to the New World at all, and even if you go, you can't go far. Do you want to see Nami and Robin die in the sea with you?
So you should stop and concentrate on your cultivation. It won’t be too late to go to the new world when your strength improves greatly. The great secret treasure is there. No one has taken it for more than 20 years. Even if it is a few years later, it will not change. So you don’t have to rush. "
Seeing that Luffy was impatient and wanted to go out to sea to find his partners, Victor immediately stopped him. In the original work, Ace died and Luffy was on the verge of collapse. In the end, it was his partners who supported his belief in survival. At that time, he also realized how weak he was!
Even if he was lucky enough to rescue Ace, what would that do? Without strong strength, he still couldn't take him away, so he calmed down and became stronger. This is also two years later. Many viewers said that Luffy has changed a lot and can no longer bring them the original happiness!
After experiencing major changes, people will definitely grow up, even someone like Luffy will grow up. This is a transformation from a boy to a man. Luffy has become mature and calm, and naturally he is less cheerful.
Now Ace is not dead, so Luffy's understanding of his strength is not so thorough. He also learned that Kuma was sent by Wick, so he has nothing to worry about, so Luffy is still a little jumpy.
If Luffy keeps acting like this, then Victor's plan will really go wrong, and he will have to do something ruthless to Luffy. Anyway, Victor can weave illusions, and Luffy can easily fall into his trap.
"I'm definitely not strong enough! If I meet a real enemy, I won't be able to protect them! Uncle Vic! How long will it take me to train to defeat the admiral of the navy?"
After hearing what Victor said, Luffy, who was a little excited just now, immediately calmed down. He was not really heartless. He still cared a lot about his partners.
Since they set out to sea, they have encountered many crises, some of which they resolved with all their might, some they avoided by luck, and some were protected by Vic. Many of these situations where they were bound to die were due to their lack of strength.
Coupled with the previous dream, Luffy fell silent for a rare time. Thinking about the navy he would face in the future, Luffy's first thought was to be able to defeat the navy admiral after training.
“You are very talented and learn everything quickly, but sometimes it’s not enough to just learn quickly. Some strengths need to be accumulated over time. No matter how talented you are and how quickly you accumulate knowledge, you can’t stop others from accumulating knowledge over decades.
So your training time cannot be too short, otherwise your partners cannot keep up, and it cannot be too long, otherwise the great treasure will not wait for anyone, so let's set it to two years. After two years, the Straw Hat Pirates will gather again in the Sabaody Archipelago! Mr. Rayleigh! What do you think?"
"Yes! It makes sense."
Luffy's Conqueror's Haki and Observation Haki have already awakened, and Armament Haki is just the finishing touch. With Luffy's talent, it won't take long for him to control them all.
But Haki needs to be accumulated. Even though Luffy has a great talent for Haki and can accumulate it faster than ordinary people, he cannot catch up with the decades of accumulation of the older generation even after practicing for a year or two.
Although Vic feels that the practice of Armament Haki is somewhat similar to the internal strength in martial arts novels, there are also differences.
The practice of Armament Color is similar to the inner strength in martial arts novels. Both require gradual accumulation. The practice of Armament Color is also related to talent, just like the martial arts geniuses with excellent bones in martial arts novels. Such people accumulate inner strength faster, but it is also relatively fast. They can't catch up with the years of accumulation of the older generation of strong men in a short time, and it is even more difficult for ordinary people to counterattack the older generation of strong men.
However, in martial arts novels, some people can rely on top-level skills, natural treasures, and the transmission of skills from masters to catch up with the older generation of powerful people in a short period of time, or even surpass them. This is only possible in martial arts novels.
But in the practice of domineering aura, there is no such thing as a technique, let alone any top-level technique, no natural treasures that can dramatically increase domineering aura, and no masters passing on skills. I have never heard of domineering aura being passed on to others. At most, one can store the domineering aura and use it, but it will not become one's own. It is only a disposable product.
If you really want to go higher, Vic's method of practicing Armament Haki can be considered a top-level technique. It is much faster than mindless practice, but it also has its limits. It is impossible to catch up with the older generation of strong men in a short time.
As for the treasures of heaven and earth, the only one that can be called the Yuan Ling in this world is probably the Yuan Ling. However, ordinary people can only obtain it from food, or from the very powerful sea kings. Rayleigh can also handle this.
But even if there is an adequate supply of Yuan Ling, there is only so much domineering power that can be increased every day. It is impossible to improve one's martial arts skills by decades immediately after eating some rare treasure in martial arts novels. So this is not very effective, and one will not be able to catch up in a short period of time.
As for the transmission of skills in martial arts novels, Vic's understanding is that the senior masters use their powerful internal strength to help you expand your meridians and dantian, so that your dantian can store more internal strength and the meridians can also circulate more internal strength.
Instead of a senior master passing on his power to you, you can become a master with decades of power. Wouldn't such power be consumed after fighting with other masters once? What will happen in the future? A one-time master?
Therefore, the principle of power transmission is actually the process of expanding the Dantian. The internal force that can be used is cultivated after the Dantian expands. This kind of internal force belongs to oneself. Even if it is consumed in battle, it can be cultivated again by meditation.
There will be no passing on of skills to you. Even if a senior master loses all his skills, he can still cultivate them again, instead of directly passing his internal strength to you.
This is somewhat similar to how Vic used his domineering aura to penetrate deep into Rebecca's body, stimulating her to resist and become stronger. However, all Vic can do is to make people become stronger gradually, which is not as good as the martial arts novels where one can enhance their skills for decades in a short period of time.
Therefore, Luffy cannot rely on his reserves of Haki to win the battle. He simply cannot win because not every enemy will give him time to sit up and restore his Haki. All he can rely on is the total amount of Haki he can mobilize each time.
As long as he can mobilize more domineering power than the enemy and defeat the enemy with one blow, that is enough. The reserve of domineering power is one thing, but how much domineering power can be mobilized in each move is another. This has nothing to do with accumulation, but is related to everyone's will!
A strong will can mobilize more domineering energy in the body, so what Luffy can ultimately rely on is his will that has been tempered to be as strong as iron. This is also the targeted training that Victor has been giving Luffy since he was a child, so that he can avoid the accumulation of domineering energy and challenge the older generation of strong men!
Who made Luffy's birth time a bit awkward? There is not much time left for him to develop. We can only use severe punishments in troubled times and strong medicine for serious illnesses!