On the plaza between the royal castle and the city gates.
Smoker, dressed in a dark green police uniform beneath a black trench coat, was being besieged by a large number of Royal Army soldiers.
These soldiers wore blue metal armor and white capes over their backs.
Most of them wielded spears, while a smaller number carried long sabers.
This, too, was directly related to the widespread adoption of Breathing Techniques.
The five major schools of the Demon Slayer Breathing Technique were now taught even in public elementary schools.
It was simply effortless for other civilian forces and organizations to get their hands on them.
As the highest armed force of a kingdom, the Royal Army was naturally no exception.
Moreover, the World Government's goal was for every Sea Star Person to know Breathing Techniques.
However, there was one rather troublesome issue for the Royal Army.
The weapon they had practiced with for years had been the spear.
Yet the accompanying moves of Breathing Techniques were primarily sword-based.
Although experts could adapt and improve them according to their needs, how could the Royal Army possibly have so many experts?
They could only abandon their spears for swords, start learning swordsmanship from scratch, and then work hard to master the sword forms of the various Breathing Technique schools.
The costs involved were indeed considerable for most soldiers.
And learning the sword was not something that could be done overnight.
So now, only those with some prior foundation in swordsmanship could more or less perform sword forms.
The others had merely mastered the breathing rhythm of Total Concentration.
This allowed them to temporarily strengthen their heart and lung function through deep breathing in battle, enabling their blood to absorb great quantities of oxygen and improving their physical abilities.
At the same time,