Navy Successors Indeed!

In a sense, Smoker, Yaen, Gion, and Kake could all be considered navy officers from the same generation. They were around the same age, but setting Yaen aside, Gion and Kake's strength and status had already far surpassed Smoker's.

Yet in the conflict just now, Yaen had seen that not only had Smoker's flawed personality failed to undergo any substantial change, but even his Devil Fruit ability, physical constitution, Body Technique, and so on had barely changed...

Yaen found it hard to imagine what Smoker had actually been doing after being exiled to Loguetown for several years.

Had he merely been relying on the Logia "Smoke-Smoke Fruit" to launch Dimensional Strikes against the East Blue pirates, who had barely mastered Haki, venting his own dissatisfaction and dejection?

More worrying to Yaen was that after Yaen, Gion, and Kake's generation of navy officers, several successive generations had passed without producing any astonishing, monster-level navy newcomers.

Forget it. If the new generation of navy officers proves beyond saving, then once the organization achieves total victory, we might as well reorganize the navy directly...

Yaen pondered this silently and couldn't help seriously considering the idea.

The navy, established and supported by the World Government, was essentially tasked not only with suppressing rampant pirates, but also with maintaining public order and stability across the World Member Nations and the seas as a whole, strengthening the World Government's rule and control over the ocean.

However, because the World Government publicly upheld the principles of the "Empty Throne" and "never interfering with or destroying the World Member Nations," it had chosen this kind of "outsourcing" arrangement, leaving the navy to carry out overt military intervention.

Of course, through Lucci, who had gained control of some CP0 intelligence, Yaen had confirmed that the World Government still had