The Assessment Results Announced, Marine Headquarters Shaken!

Marine Academy.

At that moment, all the academy's elite marines had gathered together.

Everyone looked puzzled by Chief Instructor Zephyr's sudden summons.

"Why did he suddenly call us here? Is there some kind of emergency?"

"I heard that Special Recruit came back from his assessment."

"A while ago, I heard he was going to capture Charlotte Cracker, a senior officer under one of the Four Emperors. Could he have completed the assessment?"

"How could he? That's a pirate with a bounty of 860 million! Even the Three Admirals probably couldn't have beaten him at that age!"

"True."

"In that case, maybe that Special Recruit failed his assessment?"

"Now that the Special Recruit is back, Instructor Zephyr is bound to announce the result. We just have to wait."

For a while, discussions filled the Marine Academy's administrative hall.

Everyone thought Feng Lei's claim that he would capture Charlotte Cracker was a joke.

In another corner,

Tashigi was also asking Smoker about it.

"Rear Admiral Smoker, do you think that Special Recruit managed to pass the assessment?"

Beside her, Hina also looked at Smoker with interest.

Smoker held a cigar between his teeth and shook his head slightly. "I don't know, but with that kid's strength, there's no way he could threaten Charlotte Cracker, an officer under one of the Four Emperors."

"Hina also thinks that kid isn't strong enough to complete the assessment," Hina said calmly.

Just then,

Two figures slowly approached.

One was a tall, powerfully built man wearing sunglasses, with a massive mechanical device fitted to his arm. He was Zephyr, the Marine Academy's chief instructor.

Beside him stood a black-haired, black-eyed youth.

"They're here!"

In an instant, all eyes turned to the pair.

Everyone had some idea that today's summons had to do with Feng Lei.

Sure enough,

Facing the crowd, Zephyr smiled faintly.

"It seems you all know why I called you here."

As he spoke,

He glanced at Feng Lei beside him and got straight to the point.

"Feng Lei passed the assessment. From now on, he will be a Special Recruit at the Marine Academy."

"What?!"

The moment Zephyr finished speaking, an uproar broke out.

Everyone stared at Feng Lei, their eyes full of shock.

That guy had actually completed the assessment?

How was that possible?

This Special Recruit assessment was the hardest in decades.

Even the Three Admirals might not have been able to complete it back then.

How could this kid be stronger than the Three Admirals had been?

"Instructor Zephyr, wasn't this assessment about capturing a pirate with a bounty of over 100 million? Which pirate did he capture?"

Someone raised the question.

At those words, the others all looked at Zephyr curiously, waiting for an answer.

Even Smoker and his two companions focused their attention on Zephyr.

The three of them found it hard to believe that Feng Lei had the strength to complete the hardest Special Recruit assessment in history.

"He killed Charlotte Cracker, a senior officer under one of the Four Emperors and one of the Sweetheart Four Sweet Commanders."

Zephyr concealed nothing and answered directly.

In fact, when Feng Lei showed him Fleet Admiral Sengoku's appointment document,

He had been shocked as well.

After all, that was a pirate with a bounty of 860 million, a first-rate powerhouse even in the New World.

A great pirate like that could never be captured without an army sent to surround and suppress him, or one of the Three Admirals stepping in.

Much less killed single-handedly?

If it weren't for Fleet Admiral Sengoku's seal on the document, he would have suspected Feng Lei of forging it.

Only after checking repeatedly did Zephyr understand why Vice Admiral Garp had chosen to take Feng Lei as his disciple!

He was already strong enough to kill Charlotte Cracker single-handedly at his age. Once he fully matured, he would certainly be no weaker than any of the current Admirals, Aokiji, Kizaru, or Akainu!

Silence!

A deathly silence!

A pin could be heard dropping in the entire hall. Every marine elite, including Smoker and his two companions, looked horrified.

Zephyr's words echoed endlessly in their minds, leaving them profoundly shaken.

Everyone stared at Feng Lei in disbelief.

How could this be possible?

That was a pirate with a bounty of 860 million!

If they encountered him, all they could do was run, let alone kill him.

But Feng Lei had killed him?

Was he a monster?

"How is that possible?! How could that kid be so strong?"

Smoker bit through the cigar in his mouth, his eyes filled with disbelief.

All along, he had thought Feng Lei had received a Special Recruit recommendation because of Garp.

Now he had been proven wrong.

Feng Lei's strength seemed to exceed his imagination.

He couldn't imagine just how terrifying the growth and potential of someone who could complete an assessment in his teens that even the Three Admirals couldn't have completed back then must be.

"Hina is shocked! Is he really that strong?"

Hina had been so startled by Zephyr's words that the cigarette in her mouth fell to the ground.

"How did he manage it?"

Tashigi's face was also full of shock.

At that moment, no one dared underestimate Feng Lei anymore.

They didn't doubt Zephyr's words, because all it would take was a little inquiry to learn whether Cracker had been killed.

After all, a senior officer of an Emperor's pirate crew had been killed!

How could Big Mom let it go? She would surely get to the bottom of it!

Besides, the Special Recruit assessment also had to pass through multiple levels of review by the higher-ups, so there was no way to falsify it!

"I called you all here for one more thing besides announcing this!"

Zephyr took in everyone's expressions and spoke again.

"Starting today, if any of you can defeat him, I will personally submit a request for your Special Recruit status to be approved."

Everyone was stunned by his words.

Then,

Their faces lit up with delight, and a hint of fervor entered their gazes as they looked at Feng Lei.

All they had to do was defeat this kid to receive the benefits of a Special Recruit?

They were elites from all over the world.

They had always been hailed as geniuses.

Naturally, they had their pride.

Even though Feng Lei's achievement was truly shocking, seeing was believing, and they naturally wanted to see for themselves whether he was really that strong!

Seeing that he had stirred their fighting spirit, Zephyr chuckled and looked at Feng Lei.

"Feng Lei, you have no objections, do you?"

Feng Lei was speechless.

Was Zephyr using him as a whetstone to sharpen these elite marines?

But he also needed real combat to grind his learning progress, so there was no downside for him. He nodded.

"No objections!"

"Good."

Zephyr laughed and said, "Anyone who has my permission may challenge him."

In an instant, the entire Marine Academy was swept up in a frenzy.

As time passed, the frenzy gradually spread.

And with it spread the news that Feng Lei had killed Charlotte Cracker and passed the Special Recruit assessment!

Before long, all of Marine Headquarters was shaken!