"Ha!"
Ockham gripped a wooden sword and thrust it viciously at his opponent.
But his opponent easily knocked the wooden sword aside. Before Ockham could retract his arm, the other man twisted his wrist and jabbed the wooden sword into Ockham's waist.
"Don't focus only on attacking. Remember, you have to keep your footing steady at all times!"
The former pirate chief, now Arda Navy private Quirk, loudly pointed out his opponent's weakness.
Ockham rubbed his aching waist where the wooden sword had jabbed him, then resumed his offensive stance and began searching for an opening in Quirk's defense.
After circling each other several times while staring one another down, he found what he thought was an angle from which Quirk couldn't counterattack and thrust forward with ruthless precision and speed. However, this time Quirk merely sidestepped...
With a loud splash, Ockham, having charged too fiercely, fell into the water.
The sailors of the Arda Navy were practicing how to fight on the surface of the water. Six naval warships and more than a dozen temporarily requisitioned fishing boats were packed with sailors engaged in fierce "battles."
Just as everyone was training with great enthusiasm, an Assembly Horn suddenly sounded from the shore.
Everyone immediately stopped what they were doing, rowed their boats, and headed toward the military harbor's pier.
Through constructing ships and requisitioning and refitting civilian vessels, the Arda Navy now possessed six relatively large galleys, each operated by around fifty men. The Navy had also set aside a plot of land in Franklin Harbor to build a Navy Base, along with a dedicated pier for berthing military warships.
Onshore, Paul and his "Navy Commander," Austin, were already waiting there.
After coming ashore, the sailors quickly ran to the Drill Ground inside the military harbor and assembled. According