One Piece: Nobody knows Devil Fruits better than me.

Chapter 86 Island Seven, Sea Beast Weapons?
Successfully landing on the island within one hour counts as passing the test.

This simple sentence from the Warring States period caused the entire martial arts training ground to fall silent.

It's not that the assessment was too difficult, but rather that it was too easy.

The artificial islands in the sea are no more than a few nautical miles from the coastline, and anyone who knows how to sail can easily reach them within an hour, provided that boats are available.

But that's the problem—this is a military exercise involving all three branches of the armed forces, representing the face of the World Government and the Navy!
so.
"has a problem."

Roy muttered to himself, looking at the sea not far away.

The sea surface appeared calm and unremarkable, but in the distance, naval warships could be seen circling around, some of which were flying special flags.

Roy recognized it; it was the flag of the medical corps.

"Although I had heard that the exercise was quite dangerous—there are so many rescue ships."

He smiled, but didn't seem to care.

He simply glanced at Smoker beside him: "Hey, Cigar Man—looks like we're really going to run into each other."

"Oh."

Smoker snorted, but a hint of seriousness appeared on his lips.

The Warring States period made it very clear—those who draw the same island become rivals.

so.
"Just to my liking."

Smoker took the cigar out of his mouth: "Roy, you better not collapse before you even get to the island."

He hasn't missed a single day of training.

"Huh? That's my line, isn't it? I'm incredibly strong right now, just waiting to land on the island and give you a good beating."

After they finished speaking, Smoker turned and left, shouting to the crowd, "Hey, Tashigi—I'm leaving!"

"Yes! Colonel Smoker!"

Then Roy saw a blue-haired girl wielding a katana leave with Smoker in the crowd.

"Colonel?"

He keenly noticed how the other person addressed Smoker.

"Hmm—that guy was promoted to colonel a few days ago. The transfer order and promotion order will be issued after the military exercises."

Tina then took off her cigarette and stubbed it out.

"After the martial arts exercise, he left headquarters to take up a post in Rogge Town, East Sea."

"I see."

Hearing this, Roy nodded: "In that case, let's get together one last time before we leave—let's have a party at Grandma Kara's tonight?"

"Tina isn't treating."

"It's alright, Smoker will treat him—just look at the cigar on that guy's chest, you can tell he's got plenty of money."

Tina shook her head helplessly: "You guys are all so dishonest."

Upon hearing this, Roy simply smiled.

Although my rare friend at the Navy Headquarters is leaving, there's nothing I can do about it.

after all
Everyone has their own path to walk.

As he said this, he threw the Coke in his hand toward Far behind him.

"Put it away for me, I'll come back and continue drinking."

He got up and walked towards the shore!

"."

Boss, even though I ate some fresh fruit, I'm not a refrigerator.

Farrell really wanted to say that.

But in the end, he exchanged a glance with the soldiers of the detention unit, and then...
"Boss! Keep it up!"
The shout reached his ears, but Roy did not turn around.

He simply walked to the shore and leaped forward.

"boom!"

With a step of Moonwalk, his figure flew away into the distance!

Not far away, Smoker's figure also turned into white smoke and flew away.

And it wasn't just them; almost all the participants set off individually, like dumplings being dropped into a pot.

"The martial arts exercise begins—the first test is 'island landing,' and we can see that the contestants have already shown their different choices!"

The commentators at World Economic News faithfully fulfilled their responsibilities.

"General Hammer of the Giants, oh! He leaped directly into the water. Is he going to swim across? That makes sense—giant giants are much faster than boats!"

"And then there's Vice Admiral Gion, she's really beautiful. Cough cough, I mean, the speed at which you look at her is just too fast, I'm sure none of you viewers can see her clearly, because I can't see her clearly either!"

"And that one... oh, why don't I have any information about that contestant with the white mask? Logistics! Logistics!"

"Oh, it's the wicked 'Sola'! He's walking on the sea—no, the seawater has frozen. Is this his ability!?"

"Of course, some people choose to go to the ferry crossing below to take a boat. Well, I have to say that this choice is rather mediocre."

While he was giving his commentary, most of the people in the audience were watching intently, holding their breath.

Because, just as Roy judged—anyone who isn't an idiot would know that.
The assessment is definitely not that simple!
In fact, changes did occur very quickly.

"Buzz!"

At that moment, the once calm sea surface seemed to begin to churn with waves.

No—it's not 'seems'!
There's something underwater!

Some sharp-eyed people have already spotted the enormous black shadow gradually emerging from beneath the sea.

next moment.
"Boom!"

With a tremendous roar, a warship belonging to the multinational guard was suddenly blown into the air by the swirling seawater.

At the same time, a huge figure suddenly emerged from beneath the sea.

"A large sea monster!?"

Upon seeing the enormous sea beast with a ferocious, bear-like face and a body nearly a hundred meters long, gasps of alarm rippled through the crowd.

"hateful!"

On the warship that was being swept away, a contestant holding a sniper rifle shouted angrily: "Just a mere sea monster, watch me blow its head off!"

With a low shout, he aimed his sniper scope at the sea monster's head and fired a shot.

"boom!"

The bullet struck the sea monster's head instantly, and a violent explosion was heard.

Seeing this, he smiled smugly: "I am an officer of the guards of various nations, and my bullets are explosive rounds specially produced by the 'Kingdom of Dor' in the North Sea. Mere sea beasts, huh!?"

But before he could finish speaking, he saw the smoke dissipate.

The enormous sea monster was staring at him with its wide, scarlet, and wild eyes.

Only then did the contestants notice that the sea monster's body was actually emitting a metallic luster.

"What is this thing?!"

Before he could even be shocked, the sea monster's massive tail swept him and the warship to the ground.

The hospital ship beside him quickly headed towards him.

Then came the commentator's regretful voice: "Ah, Buffy, the 'Gun Knight' of the All Nations Guard, has been eliminated—what a pity. But there's no need to be sad, because quite a few other contestants have also been eliminated."

"After all, there are just too many of these sea monsters! And they're all so huge!"

Yes.

As the contestants reached the surface of the sea.

Beneath the surface of the sea leading to the nine artificial islands, there were clearly enormous sea monsters of terrifying numbers emerging from the water.

This directly resulted in a large number of ordinary contestants being eliminated almost simultaneously, while the remaining contestants had to stop.

They seemed to form a long 'barrier', blocking all the participants from view.

"What an idiot—who would want to fight that thing head-on?"

"The sea is blocked, so why not go by air?"

But at that moment, a contestant dressed in a scientist's uniform, carrying a rocket launcher, instantly soared into the sky!

But
"Roar!"

Below him, accompanied by low growls that sounded like a language, the sea creatures began to gather.

"Click!"

"Click!"

The next moment, the tails of the sea monsters folded up like buttons and then connected, forming an even longer, enormous creature in a short time.

These massive, interconnected structures leap out of the water—their height almost reaching into the clouds!

"what!?"

So the scientist only had time to utter a single word before he was instantly shot down from the sky.

As he plummeted into the medical ship below, smoking and rolling his eyes, all the contestants present clearly realized the truth.

This is the real content of the first assessment.

It's not just about landing on the island, but about passing through the barrier formed by these sea creatures and then landing on the island.

But
"Even in the air."

"No matter how you look at it, these things aren't sea monsters at all!" someone couldn't help but say.

What kind of sea monster has a body like steel that can even connect with each other?
"With such a monster blocking the road, who can..."

But they weren't finished complaining.

next moment.
"Qiang!"

The crisp sound of the sword echoed across the sea.

"boom!"

The enormous head of a sea monster fell down in an instant.

Blood splattered, revealing the steel-forged blood vessels and bones inside its neck—enough to prove that the contestants' judgment was correct; these sea monsters were indeed not normal beasts.

But at this moment, on that fallen head.

"Shh!"

A figure was clearly standing there—a graceful figure wearing a naval uniform.

'Peach Rabbit' Gion.

"Swift Slash - Pallas's Rabbit!"

At this moment, she brandished her famous sword 'Kinpiro' and her rabbit ears swayed in the wind.

"Shh!"

Her figure vanished at a speed invisible to the naked eye, and then in the next instant, the heads of four sea beasts in front of her were severed.

The next moment, her figure flashed past the falling heads, and she rushed towards the artificial island in the distance with exaggerated speed as if walking on flat ground.

And she is not an isolated case.

"So what if they're just sea monsters, even if they've been modified—"

From the direction of Island Two, the massive giant general 'Hamer' didn't even pause for a moment before plunging headlong into the sea beasts, where he was quickly surrounded by a group of sea beasts.

But the next moment...
"boom!"

With a tremendous roar, the enormous sea monsters were all blasted away.

Only then did everyone see that Hammer had taken down the sword he had always carried on his back—the sword was very special, too large even for a giant, almost as big as Hammer himself.

"The god of Elbaf will not be pleased to fight something like this!"

The giant general roared, sounding more like a sea monster than the sea monsters themselves.

Furthermore.

"I thought our opponents were something special, but they turned out to be just a bunch of beasts."

From the direction of Island Number Four, a man with a sinister figure and an extremely vicious-looking face was sticking out his long tongue.

"Don't come near me, you trash creatures that are even lower than the lowest of the low."

He chuckled and gently reached out his hand towards the sea monster that was attacking him.

Then, the sea monster's body changed in an instant—its sharp claws and steel-forged body seemed to become the complete opposite, turning into a soft, fluffy liquid like cotton candy.

Then, with a casual wave of his hand, the seawater transformed into sharp, solid spikes that instantly pierced through the sea beast.

These scenes silently illustrate a fact.

"How utterly incredible!"

"'Peach Rabbit,' 'Evil Tongue,' 'Greatsword.' The powerful warriors quickly distanced themselves from the main force!"

"Look, everyone! This is a military exercise, this is the young generation of the government and navy safeguarding the security of the seas!"

The commentator delivered a passionate speech.

And at this moment.
"These sea monsters."

At this moment, Roy was observing the sea beasts.

"Is it Vegapunk's sea monster weapon?"

He had a feeling that he already knew the answer.

Sea Beast Weapons, one of Vegapunk's bio-engineering technologies, can create extremely powerful sea beasts.

but
"They clearly haven't become true 'sea monster weapons' yet—we haven't seen the laser attacks and destructive power capable of instantly destroying large warships as described in the original work. Experimental subjects?"

"However, even the experimental subjects are very strong, and most people definitely won't be able to pass the first test."

Roy pondered this in his heart.

Clearly, this first assessment was designed to select the truly outstanding participants.

And judging from the current situation, it has indeed been effective.

Roy glanced at them briefly and realized that almost all of those who had quickly broken through the sea monster horde were powerful individuals recorded in Hans's intelligence register.

The only exception was a few masked figures in the distance.

Two of them, dressed in black suits, were people Roy had seen not long ago—they were Kaku and Rob Lucci.

The other person, dressed in a white suit, was a man with a face like a mask.

“CP0’s Guernica. He actually came too.”

Roy immediately recognized him as the strongest CP0 agent who participated in the battle of the Four Emperors in the original work and directly caused Nika's awakening.

Just as Roy was somewhat surprised, he saw Guernica and the two CP9 members, who had seemed to be acting together, suddenly separate – the former headed towards Island 3, while the latter two headed towards Roy.

But this was also the time when Roy was observing his surroundings.
"Hey! Roy!"

Smoker's voice came again.

Roy turned his head and saw Smoker, enveloped in white smoke, punching a sea monster in front of him and sending it flying. He then looked at him.

"What are you spacing out for?"

Clearly, he noticed Roy's movement of stopping in place.

But upon hearing this, Roy grinned.

"Who said I was daydreaming—I was just judging the scope and quantity."

"Scope and quantity?"

Smoker frowned—what did that mean?
But Roy didn't answer him directly. Instead, he continued, "By the way, Smoker, I just made plans with Tina to have dinner at Grandma Kara's place tonight, so let's make a bet."

He held up his finger: "Whoever arrives on the island last has to treat everyone tonight!"

"Are you serious?"

Upon hearing this, Smoker looked at Roy with a strange expression.

"You know you might have gotten stronger after training with Instructor Zephyr, but no matter how you look at it, my abilities are more advantageous in this situation, right?"

As they were speaking, a sea monster's tail struck Smoker.

"boom!"

The sea exploded, but Smoker's body turned into a cloud of smoke and then coalesced again.

"Woo?"

The sea monster raised its tail and stared wide-eyed, clearly very puzzled.

That's right.

As Smoker stated, his Logia-type ability was a significant advantage in this situation.

Sea monsters' bodies couldn't possibly contain Seastone, so if he didn't care about his stamina in this environment, he could actually completely transform into his element and rush to the finish line.

"Just tell me, are you going to gamble or not?"

But Roy just grinned and said...

"Since you want to treat us, of course I have no objection!"

Smoker snorted and assumed that Roy was simply seeing him off.

As he finished speaking, even thicker white smoke rose from his body—he intended to speed up his journey toward the artificial island.

But at this very moment...
"Since you've agreed, then move aside a bit!"

He heard Roy say those words and saw Roy's clenched fist.

Golden ripples flickered on the surface of that fist.

Amidst the golden ripples, glimmers of blue and crimson light also lingered.

But at this moment.
"Ok?"

On the open sea, Gion, who was speeding toward the No. 1 artificial island in front of her, suddenly stopped, as if she had sensed something.

"Oh?"

Hammer, the giant general who was moving at high speed, also frowned and looked in Roy's direction with fighting spirit in his eyes.

On the entire sea, every truly capable participant could vaguely sense a powerful aura.

And at this moment, I feel the power within my body.

A slight smile appeared on Roy's lips.

[Human-Human Fruit - Buddha Form LV4: Transforms into a giant Buddha, gaining a golden body and power like the Buddha, capable of unleashing powerful shockwaves. With further development, the 'Buddha Golden Body' becomes even more resilient and powerful, releasing even stronger shockwaves. The shape of the shockwaves can be controlled at will, and the range of their impact becomes larger and their duration longer.]

[Human-Human Fruit LV5: Fruit Awakening, grants the user intelligence and physical abilities at the extreme level of an ordinary human, and allows them to maintain human form indefinitely]

“Smoker, I told you—I’m incredibly strong right now.”

"Super Hadouken!"

　Updated 1.13W today
　　I didn't realize how difficult it was to write about such a large-scale competition until I started. Some characters who appear later in the story can't be left out. This part took four hours to revise and was rewritten twice, but it's still the same. I'm about to break down.
　　Many readers have expressed their enjoyment of the clone storyline, and I do enjoy writing clone storylines as well. However, the main storyline is also essential to keep the main plot going. I can only say that I'll try to speed things up as much as possible while ensuring the outline remains intact. (After the martial arts competition, there will be a lot of clone storylines, but the new clones will only appear after the return of the rat and chicken.)

　　By the way, can readers accept female clones? (Because it would be strange for an organization to be all men. In my outline, the twelve constellations have two female clones [in fact, the next clone was originally planned to be female]).
　　
　
(End of this chapter)