I've Already Become An Admiral And Now The System Shows Up?

[You have successfully survived until the Legendary Pirate, Golden Lion Shiki, retreated! Your performance has surpassed over 90% of Marines!]

[Mission (Side): Survive until the battle ends or Golden Lion Shiki leaves! — Completed!]

[Reward: 3 Assignable upgrade opportunities!]

[Reward has been distributed!]

"Hmm, it looks like Shiki has run far away. I can claim my reward early."

Kenji looked at the system prompts in his vision with a good mood.

Just as he started reading, his eyebrows twitched.

"Surpassed 90% of Marines? I'm an Admiral, so isn't that to be expected… Oh!"

"In the system's timeline, I'm just a Marine Captain who was exceptionally promoted right after graduation? Then never mind."

Kenji continued to read until he finished all the prompt text. Then he vaguely felt something was wrong and went back to check carefully.

"…This time, there's only the basic reward?" Kenji confirmed repeatedly, finding that the reward content had not increased.

When the mission was first issued, it offered 3 Assignable upgrade opportunities, which, based on past experience, should be the basic reward for the mission.

However, this time, no extra rewards appeared.

"Is it related to the content of this mission?"

Kenji thoughtfully examined the mission content: Survive until the battle ends or Golden Lion Shiki leaves!

Previous sudden missions encountering strong enemies would come with certain conditions, such as 'lead some Marine personnel to survive,' and so on.

This mission, however, had no additional conditions. Its content was very simple, direct, and brutal. It simply required Kenji himself to survive.

A very pure survival mission!

'Survive' was both the basic requirement of the mission and its entire content.

"No additional conditions, so no extra rewards?" Kenji frowned slightly, but then shook his head.

"If Shiki really went berserk… it might indeed be impossible to save many people."

In reality, Shiki's Float-Float Fruit ability's destructive power was not fully displayed today.

Kenji had witnessed the terrifying destructive power of this Legendary Pirate. That scene was comparable to Whitebeard's Tremor Tremor Fruit's power.

However, the Marine ship still suffered significant damage in this battle, as it was besieged by numerous pirate ships, and there were also casualties among the Marine ship's crew.

"Being able to withstand a pirate fleet's siege, Marie has grown a lot." Kenji turned around and looked at the Marine ship's crew.

He saw Marie on the Marine ship's deck, directing soldiers to repair the ship's damage, while soldiers shouted slogans and relayed ropes to tie down the sails. Personnel still held their posts in the slightly damaged lookout, ready to report enemy movements on the battlefield.

Amidst a battlefield full of fire and death, this place was teeming with vitality.

"This war should be coming to an end soon."

"Huh? Tsuru also came down? Why is she heading towards Sengoku?"

Kenji scanned the entire battlefield and found that Tsuru's Marine ship had already approached Sengoku.

This made Kenji feel that he was not trusted much.

"I didn't pay attention to your side during the fight just now… but isn't Sengoku's side clearly more dangerous right now?" Kenji pouted, thinking that Tsuru might have been scared by the previous battle.

Not long ago, when he was fighting Shiki, Tsuru's Marine ship was levitated by Shiki's Float-Float Fruit's ability, surrounded by numerous floating pirate ships.

And Kenji, during the fierce battle, indeed did not pay attention to Tsuru's Marine ship. Perhaps it was affected by the battle's aftermath?

Kenji looked at Tsuru's tattered Marine ship, a little unsure.

What if those scars were caused by pirate ships?

"Even if it was really the aftermath of the battle, there's no need to be so scared, right?"

"There's no war without casualties, isn't it normal for Marine ships to be destroyed?!"

Kenji believed that Tsuru's resolve was insufficient, and he would find an opportunity to re-educate her later.

"And even if she doesn't want to come to my side, she shouldn't actively go to that battlefield…"

Kenji saw that as soon as Tsuru's Marine ship entered the range of Sengoku and Whitebeard's battlefield, it began to disintegrate.

In less than three minutes, the Marine ship, which could barely sail, was forcefully torn apart by almost half, with broken masts, hull, decks, and other debris scattered everywhere.

And at the center of the battlefield, the great battle between Sengoku and Whitebeard had already entered its climax.

He saw Sengoku's Marine ship and Whitebeard's pirate ship in close proximity, with the two fighting face to face.

The Golden Buddha's giant fist struck head-on, and Whitebeard met it with his great naginata enhanced with Conqueror's Haki.

The power of the two erupted through the air, and the strong Haki shockwave tore through the dark clouds in the sky, with a ray of sunlight piercing through the cloud gap.

The aftermath of the battle stirred up thousands of giant waves, surging in all directions.

"It looks like the battle won't end anytime soon." Kenji withdrew his gaze and scanned the system interface.

The Assignable upgrade opportunities had been issued, and he was examining the status of all his current traits, preparing for the upgrade.

[Name: Kenji]

[Traits: Armament Haki (Super Gold), Observation Haki (Light Gold), Conqueror's Haki (Super Blue), Physique (Gold), Hand-to-Hand Combat (Light Gold), Swordsmanship (Super Blue), Sea Beast Power (Light Blue), Superspeed Regeneration (Super Blue), Iron Body (Light White), Future Vision (Blue), Berserk (Super White)]

"Conqueror's Haki is still only blue rarity…" Kenji's gaze swept to [Conqueror's Haki], and he frowned.

Earlier, during his battle with Shiki, Kenji had secretly decided to upgrade [Conqueror's Haki] as soon as possible to gain the power of Conqueror's Haki infusion.

However, he only had 3 Assignable upgrade opportunities at the moment, making it impossible to advance [Conqueror's Haki] to gold.

"The traits of top powerhouses must at least be gold, right?"

Kenji did not think that [Conqueror's Haki] of those Legendary Pirates would only be purple rarity.

Furthermore, Kenji vaguely felt that even advancing to a gold Conqueror's Haki might not guarantee mastery of Conqueror's Haki infusion.

Some top powerhouses with Conqueror's Haki had not mastered Conqueror's Haki infusion, only a very few could master this power.

"It might be necessary to upgrade [Conqueror's Haki] to an even higher gold rarity."

(End of Chapter)

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