Whitebeard: This Guy Really Gives It Everything

"I crave battle too!"

Ares answered Ochoku excitedly. His battle just now with Kaido and Rocks had slightly improved his own strength.

It was far faster than the improvement he usually gained from ramming into mountains.

He walked to the shore, leaped into the air, and plunged straight into the sea with a splash, sending waves spraying everywhere!

Ochoku stared in shock, his eyes nearly popping out of their sockets. He hurriedly shouted toward Ares in the water, "Ares!!"

"What are you doing jumping into the sea?!!"

"Come aboard with me!!"

He was utterly astonished by Ares's actions and even wondered whether Ares had lost his mind.

He had actually jumped straight into the sea!

"No!"

Ares poked his head out of the sea. His entire body was submerged in the seawater as he said to Ochoku on the shore, "You guys take the ship. I can swim alongside it in the sea!"

The cool seawater refreshed him to the core, giving him an incredibly comfortable and liberated feeling.

Looking at Ares in the seawater, Ochoku truly felt a little admiration for him and said again, "Ares, remember to come aboard at any time if you can't hold on!"

That brat Ares really was a training fanatic.

He was unwilling even to stay aboard the ship, choosing instead to swim in the sea. He was practically an "eccentric" creature.

"I know." Ares replied faintly before floating alone on the surface.

Ochoku shook his head and sighed inwardly, There's a reason he was able to become a monster.

This guy is truly ruthless with himself.

He could not help recalling the scene from earlier when Ares had willingly taken Kaido's punch head-on. He had practically thrown his own body into the line of fire.

A madman!!

At that moment, the various captains also returned to the shore with their men.

Seeing Ares in the sea, Whitebeard looked surprised and hurriedly asked Ochoku, "Ochoku, why is Ares staying in the sea?"

He was not the only one who was curious.

Shiki the Golden Lion, Charlotte Linlin, and the other pirates all turned toward Ochoku, their eyes demanding an explanation.

Ochoku curled his lips and said, "It wasn't me who told him to go into the sea. He jumped in himself."

"He doesn't want to stay aboard the ship. He wants to swim in the sea to train himself while following us on our voyage!"

There was no way he could do something like that himself.

It was simply too crazy, too torturous.

He might as well return to his room aboard the ship, take off his heavy armor, and sleep.

Hearing Ochoku's explanation, admiration flashed through Whitebeard's eyes. He could not help praising him, "No wonder this guy was able to become so strong. It turns out he thinks about training every moment."

"This guy... really gives it everything!"

The regret and dejection in Whitebeard's heart became even more obvious. If only Ares would join his division.

He was thirty-two this year. Having lost his family when he was young, Whitebeard also yearned for familial affection.

Upon seeing a brat like Ares, he naturally developed a certain feeling and impulse.

The thought was not about sword fighting!

Rather, he felt an urge to make Ares part of his family. As his age gradually increased, this desire in his heart only grew stronger.

Golden Lion could not help taking a sharp drag. The ember of the cigar in his mouth immediately flared brightly as he said admiringly, "Ares is only fourteen or fifteen years old."

"If this guy keeps growing, who knows how terrifying he'll become?"

Ares already possessed astonishing talent, and he was tempering himself through such arduous training.

Ordinary people generally reached their peak in their forties or fifties, while Ares was still at least thirty or forty years away from that peak.

If Ares kept persevering like this, combined with his terrifying talent and potential, Golden Lion truly could not imagine how frightening his future would be.

"Who cares how terrifying he becomes? The stronger he gets, the more this old lady likes him!" Linlin excitedly licked her bright-red lips.

Looking at Ares floating on the sea, his bulging muscles, bronze-like all over his body, involuntarily sent Linlin's imagination running wild...

A broad flush appeared across her cheeks.

A hazy look also unconsciously surfaced in her eyes.

Although it was merely an illusion, she was thoroughly enjoying herself!

Rocks arrived afterward and raised the corner of his mouth. He said to Ares in the sea, "Ares, come aboard and rest whenever you get tired."

"I'll have someone arrange a room for you!"

He then walked up the gangplank.

The members of the Rocks Pirates also cast admiring looks toward Ares. It was their first time seeing anything like this.

If they were asked to follow the ship by swimming through the sea, probably none of them would be willing.

There were all kinds of ferocious beasts in the sea, which made it an extremely troublesome undertaking.

Putting themselves in Ares's place, they felt that the brat was truly crazy and utterly fearless of death.

Kaido arrived afterward and also saw this scene. His expression immediately changed drastically.

His expression shifted unpredictably. After holding it in for a long while, he finally said heavily, "I won't lose to him!"

He had originally planned to return to the ship and rest, but now he intended to go back aboard and train!

Grinding his teeth, he forced several words through the gaps between them: "Absolutely not!"

He turned and stepped onto the gangplank.

A full-blown training competition officially began.

"Raise the anchor!!"

"Hoist the sails and set out!!"

The enormous pirate ship began sailing across the sea, while Ares followed behind it by swimming.

Aside from resting and eating,

Ares spent all his time in the sea.

Five days passed in a flash, and Ares's persistence won the admiration of most of the pirates aboard.

At the port of Hachinosu Island,

dozens of all kinds of ships were moored along the huge port, both large and small.

Most were affiliated pirate crews of the Rocks Pirates, while a small portion were involved in trade conducted by the underground forces.

As the island where the greatest number of pirates in the New World gathered, its underground forces were also extraordinarily complex.

Moreover, Rocks was extremely permissive toward the actions of these pirate crews, because he believed that only those with sufficient strength could obtain everything!

Women, treasure, fine wine, territory...

As long as you were strong enough, and as long as you could protect it, it was yours!

The island was constantly filled with dark incidents such as assassinations and plunder.

As the enormous pirate ship slowly docked, countless people throughout the port turned their attention toward it.

It was all because of the words "Rocks Pirates"!

At that moment, an extremely tall woman stood at the port, easily three or four meters tall.

Her outfit was incredibly bold and provocative. A tight-fitting leopard-print bodysuit outlined her curves to perfection.

Her figure was full in all the right places, with an impressive bosom!

She wore thick red lipstick and a pair of sunglasses.

In her hands, she held a large bouquet of vivid roses.