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The little girl Aisa timidly said, "I haven't participated in practical combat either, but I've heard that Beast Island seems uninhabited, and it's full of various terrifying wild beasts, even fierce beasts." As she spoke, Aisa visibly trembled, looking left and right. As a little girl, she felt a genuine fear of those wild beasts deep down.
"Oh?"
"Our students will be put into Beast Island. Beast Island is divided into junior, intermediate, and senior areas based on the strength of the wild beasts occupying them. You enter the area according to your strength, then eliminate the beasts. Each type of beast has different points, and the stronger the beast, the higher the points. Killing them earns you points, and rankings are naturally calculated by points."
"Is that so?" Law didn't doubt the Marines' ability. They could certainly accurately record scores and surely had ways to protect new recruits.
"There's one more thing you didn't mention." A cold voice suddenly came from behind Law, and the surroundings immediately fell silent.
"You?" Aisa looked timidly at the person behind Law. She remembered that this new student, when he just arrived yesterday, challenged all of them alone, and he won. His strength was terrifying.
"My name is Drake. You probably don't know me, but I know you, Trafalgar Law!"
"Drake, huh? Something wrong?" Law couldn't help but sigh at the coincidence.
Drake looked at Law with cold eyes: "You haven't forgotten what happened on Minion Island so quickly, have you?"
"Revenge?" Law knew he had personally killed Drake's father, but here, he wasn't afraid of Drake's revenge.
"New recruits cannot fight or kill each other. They can only duel in the arena, but the opponent can refuse, unless a lower-level student challenges a higher-level student, then the latter cannot refuse." Aisa clenched her small fist and quickly spoke, not daring to look at Drake's fierce eyes at this moment.
"I know." Drake's eyes were still coldly fixed on Law: "Thank you indeed. You made me leave Minion Island, and I had the chance to become a Headquarters recruit. But I cannot pretend that everything that happened on Minion Island never happened. My father's life and the Op-Op Fruit, I cannot pretend I didn't see them."
"So you want revenge?" Law looked at him disdainfully. He was fearless, even with a six-year age gap at this moment. He felt no guilt. The sea was inherently a place where the strong ruled. If you weren't strong enough, you were wrong.
"I'm not stupid. New recruits who fight each other will be sent to Impel Down. But the rookie camp has a rule: if a new recruit gets zero points in their first three assessments, they will be expelled from the rookie camp and from Marine Headquarters." Drake sneered: "On Beast Island, new recruits can't fight each other, but there's no rule against stealing kills. Whoever delivers the last blow to a wild beast gets the points. I'll make sure you get zero points in this practical combat."
"How ruthless." The surrounding new recruits looked at Drake in horror. To be so ruthless. This was essentially cutting off the new recruit's future path. Too ruthless.
"What, you have an opinion?" Drake's fierce gaze swept over the junior recruits. The students quickly shifted their gaze. They knew how terrifying and powerful this guy was. Their hearts were filled with nothing but pity for Trafalgar Law. Offending such a powerhouse, his future days would surely be very difficult. Perhaps he had no future left.
"Drake is too strong. Only a few top senior students can compare to him. This Trafalgar Law is no match for him. He's finished." "Even if Trafalgar Law's talent is good, he's definitely no match for Drake, who's already nineteen years old. How pathetic." Even new recruits from the intermediate and senior student areas looked over, sympathetically watching Trafalgar Law.
Drake looked at Law with cold eyes. His icy voice echoed in Law's ear: "It seems Doflamingo has been looking for you. If you're expelled from the rookie camp and Marine Headquarters, the outcome will surely be tragic, right?"
"Oh, is that so? In that case, three days later, await and see!" He never wanted to argue with enemies. Whether he won or lost an argument, it ultimately came down to results and strength. He turned and left!
The rookie camp's training methods were quite free. Most students trained themselves using equipment. The instructors' main role was to answer students' questions, resolve their training difficulties, and teach new knowledge. Because of Drake's targeting, Law easily became the focus of the new recruits. Of course, most of the gazes were tinged with sympathy.
"Ten kilograms, another ten kilograms, five kilograms... twenty kilograms. He's actually carrying fifty kilograms of weight. Is he crazy?" In the shocked eyes of the junior recruits, Law put ten kilograms of weights on each leg, five kilograms on each arm, and twenty kilograms on his body. Fifty kilograms of total weight. Only then did he feel some pressure. He stopped adding weight and began training!
"One, two... ten..." Strength training. There were no shortcuts, only perseverance. Law's training method was also simple: weighted push-ups. "He's already done a hundred. His strength is truly terrifying. He's younger than me, yet his strength already surpasses mine. He truly is a special recruit who entered the rookie camp." Many intermediate Marines forgot their own training.
Up to five hundred weighted push-ups. "Huff." Law, sweating profusely, lay on the ground, resting. He had no strength left. He had reached his limit.
"His strength is already comparable to intermediate students. How terrifying." The junior recruits stared in shock at Law, who was training again after his previous session. Another monster had arrived.
"His strength is indeed very strong. He's worthy of being valued by a monster like Doflamingo. But this kind of strength can't compare to mine. Even if he possesses the legendary Op-Op Fruit ability, he's only had it for a few days. With his stamina, he won't be able to exert much power. He's no match for me." Drake was also somewhat shocked. He knew he was inferior to Law at the same age, but now, being stronger than him was enough. This was his absolute confidence.
Except for Logia abilities, which could start with overwhelming power, other types of Devil Fruit abilities required long-term development. They also needed strong personal strength to unleash their power. Drake looked at Law, who was training, with disdain. He also walked towards the equipment area. In the midst of many terrified gazes, he directly carried five hundred jin of weight and frantically trained push-ups, at extreme speed. In ten minutes, the number surpassed a thousand.
"Terrifying monster. Only Smoker and other top figures in the rookie camp can compare to him, right?" Even many senior students looked at Drake training so frantically with fear. Law, who had just shocked everyone, once again became an object of sympathy, even schadenfreude. "He's clearly very strong himself, but he encountered an even more monstrous opponent. How pathetic." "Their strength gap is at least tenfold. That Trafalgar Law is simply no match for Drake."