"Captain, don't you use a sword?"
Howard asked in shock, looking at Nox who was bare-handed.
"To deal with you, do I still need to use my sword?"
"Come on, go all out and force me to use my sword!"
Nox said provocatively, looking at Howard.
"Then I'm coming, Captain!"
The person known as the World's Greatest Swordsman was right in front of him, but he couldn't even force out the other party's sword. This feeling was extremely frustrating no matter how he looked at it.
Howard's pride was instantly ignited, and he charged towards Nox with all his might.
"Sigh, Brother Howard is seeing the Captain with this expression for the first time, he must be very angry."
Kyle chuckled awkwardly from the side.
"Yeah, the Captain's appearance is indeed infuriating to look at, making you really want to punch him."
Ashura Doji nodded.
"But, that's just thinking about it. Didn't we face the same situation back then? Later, it wasn't us who beat the Captain, but the Captain who beat us all up."
Bullet's mouth twitched slightly.
"Well, I guess Howard will understand something after this lesson."
Kano laughed.
As expected, after a quarter of an hour of continuous fighting, Howard didn't know how many times he had gotten up from the ground.
His whole body was now swollen and bruised, and he looked visibly fatter.
"Bullet, you're next!"
Looking at Howard, who could no longer stand up, Nox looked at Bullet beside him.
"Gravity Storm Leg!"
Upon hearing this, Bullet directly unleashed a Storm Leg, and even specifically added gravity into it, making his Storm Leg more powerful.
"Hmm, not bad, you can already integrate gravity into your attacks, but your body art foundation is not solid!"
Nox said after casually bursting the Gravity Storm Leg.
Although his body art was not strong, his vision was very high. After all, he had fought against powerhouses at the peak of body art like Garp, Sengoku, and Zephyr.
Naturally, he could see the flaws in Bullet's body art.
"Bang!!!"
Nox instantly arrived in front of Bullet, and his fist, as big as a casserole, smashed over.
"Iron Body!!"
Bullet subconsciously blocked with his hands in front and defended with Iron Body.
"Iron Body cannot move, this is a drawback, you need to improve it in the future. Also, don't use Iron Body at every turn. Haven't you heard that the strongest defense is offense?"
However, Nox's fist quickly changed direction and slammed into Bullet's stomach, almost making Bullet throw up his breakfast.
"Bullet, your lower body is not stable enough."
"After you finish learning Rokushiki, go and learn other body arts. It's best if you can create your own unique body art. That way, you can be considered a true body art powerhouse."
"Also, the next focus should be on learning Life Return. People who can't use Life Return are not qualified to be called body art powerhouses."
"..."
Nox beat, no, trained Bullet while patiently teaching him.
Until a quarter of an hour later, Bullet, like Howard before him, lay on the ground, swollen all over, unable to even crawl up. He could only let others carry him out to soak in a medicinal bath.
"Ashura Doji, your power has not fully integrated into your sword, and your physical strength has not been converted into speed."
"Kyle, your Stealth-Stealth Fruit development is not good. You've hidden your figure but not your presence and sound."
"Karoo, your Sword Wing Tiger Fruit development is insufficient!"
"Kano, your Busoshoku Haki is too weak."
"Marley, your feathers are not hard enough, and their flexibility is also insufficient."
"Marcus, you still haven't truly mastered the Mink Tribe's Sulong form by now?"
"Gerald, you've practiced too little Fish-Man Karate. From now on, train in the Sea every day. If you can't reach 5000 watt (watts) during the next check, I will personally teach you how to practice!"
"..."
In the following period, everyone who was called by Nox, one by one, ended up lying on the ground, then being carried away and thrown into bathtubs filled with medicinal baths.
"Ah!!!!"
However, the injured people who were just lying on the ground unable to get up, instantly jumped up the moment they soaked in the bathtub.
That intense pain made them instantly want to run away, if not for others holding them back down.
"Hmm, this medicinal bath is really good. Apart from the drawback of being very painful, it can be considered a completely successful medicinal bath."
Nox watched his subordinates howling in the bathtubs, observing their injuries continuously healing, and nodded with satisfaction.
Originally, Lesley could have further improved the medicinal bath so that it wouldn't be so painful for the soakera, but Nox didn't let Lesley modify it.
Pain, sometimes, is also a form of training, training their firm will. If they can't even endure a little pain, how can they become powerhouses!
After training his subordinates, Nox returned to his residence.
"Nox, according to recent intelligence, many World Government spies have infiltrated our Pirate Crew."
"Among these spies, I have cleared out a portion, and the remaining portion are spies who cannot access the specific matters of our Pirate Crew."
At this time, Shakky also happened to return and brought up the matter of the spies.
"What about other Pirate Crew? Is there a similar situation?"
Nox asked.
"Yes, almost all Pirate Crew in the New World have this situation, but I don't know which specific Pirate Crew can identify the spies."
Shakky nodded.
"If that's the case, it means the World Government is going to take action against the Pirate Crew in the New World, but they won't directly intervene."
"Instead, they want to use those spies to stir up conflicts between the numerous Pirate Crew, and then let the many Pirate Crew in the New World conquer, wage war, and slaughter each other."
"Finally, the World Government and the Marine will come out to clean up the mess, thus achieving the goal of eliminating these great Pirates in the New World without any effort."
Nox rested his chin on his hand and quickly understood the World Government's plan.
After all, planting spies and then letting the Pirates kill each other is the World Government's specialty.
In the original story, countless great Pirates were destroyed by this move of the World Government.
However, this move of the World Government is useless against the Limitless Pirates. The Limitless Pirates have Shakky controlling the intelligence network.
Not only does she have half of the intelligence network left by Rocks back then, but Nox has also invested a large amount of money in the past two years.
Shakky's intelligence network has not only been maintained but has also started to grow larger.
In fact, since last year, Shakky has already been training spies similar to the World Government's CP department.
However, it is just starting now and is still only in its embryonic stage.
"Then should we..."
Hearing Nox's words, Shakky understood.
"No need. Even without the World Government taking action, the New World cannot accommodate so many Pirate Crew. A great war is bound to break out sooner or later, it's just a matter of time."
"If our Limitless Pirates want to continue expanding our territory, we also need to plunder the territories of other Pirate Crew."
Before Shakky could finish, Nox interrupted her. If the Limitless Pirates were to develop, they naturally had to occupy more territory.
The New World is only so big. Including the Roger Pirates, there are already 11 powerful Pirate Crew in the New World!
With such a large number of Pirate Crew and the New World being so small, how could there be enough to divide!
Now the Limitless Pirates have initially grown. Besides Nox, there are also Ashura Doji and Howard who are presentable.
Regardless of which Pirate Crew he faces, he is confident of winning, so he is not afraid of the outbreak of war at all.
It's just that during the war, he needs to pay attention to the Marine and the World Government, so that the other party doesn't reap the benefits in the end.
"Athena, has anything happened in our territory during this time?"
Nox asked. Many matters in the Limitless Pirates' territory are now managed by Athena and Lesley.
It used to be just Lesley managing things alone. After Athena came, Lesley brought Athena along.
This way, Lesley had more time to research her favorite drug research, medical research, and other projects.
"Hmm, nothing major has happened, because our Limitless Pirates have never attacked civilians."
"So even when we occupied new territories, they quickly settled down after we took over."
"Furthermore, the various measures we previously introduced have been implemented very well, and the people in the territory have also started to become wealthy."
Athena smiled. She was now finally able to help Nox and was happy from the bottom of her heart.
"That's good. From now on, let's implement a series of child-rearing reward policies. The more child a family has, the more rewards they will receive. We need to quickly increase the population in the territory."
"After all, many of the islands we occupy have very few people living on them."
Nox nodded with satisfaction.
Population is the foundation of development. Only with a larger population can more wealth be created and more geniuses be born to join the Limitless Pirates.
"Having child? I understand. Tomorrow I will have people come up with some policies to encourage childbirth."
Athena said.
After chatting with his three women about some development issues of the Limitless Pirates, Nox once again immersed himself in training.
Nox, at the young age of 21, was in a period of rapid physical growth, so the speed of progress in training his body and refining his Haki was still very fast.
If it were others, reaching his current strength, it would be very difficult to improve even a little.
But that was only because ordinary people who reached his current strength were already in their thirties, forties, or even fifties, which is why progress was so difficult.
But Nox was different. He was still young. If he wanted to improve, he only needed to train harder to become stronger again.
Youth was his greatest asset!