War Rekindled

Teach didn't pay much attention to the great battle in the Golden Sea; the pirates' surprise attack led to the Navy's defeat.

With the arrival of other powerful pirates, Gaya Island's defenses are not lacking in high-end combat power, especially with the presence of Admiral- level fighter Chronos.

The navy is now deploying a large network to encircle the entire waters around Gaya Island.

Such a large-scale operation cannot be completed in just a few days; the period before the next war will last for some time, a period that appears calm but is actually brewing for an even greater conflict.

However, they are also constantly monitoring the Navy's actions. After all, the first half of the Grand Line is the Navy's home turf. If the Navy has any ideas and is willing to risk everything and bear the wrath of the Great Pirate of the New World, they will keep all these powerful pirates in the waters around Gaya Island.

This makes one wary, even though the chances are extremely small, given that the current Fleet Admiral Sengoku is a very rational individual.

He would never do something that would result in the loss of 800 or even more of his own men, even if it meant killing a thousand enemies.

In the Night Palace, under the intense pressure of gravity, Teach was training in his training area. Teach was now twenty years old, and four years had passed since the Great Pirate Era began.

Teach has never stopped training his body, and now is the time when his strength is rapidly improving.

While training under gravity, Teach also unleashed his Observation Haki to its fullest extent, using his keen Observation Haki to examine the inside of his own body.

Multitasking, in a microscopic world unseen by others, Teach is consuming Armament Haki. Unlike the usual wrapping and covering, Teach's control over Armament Haki is now extremely precise.

Teach didn't know how Garp used Armament Haki to temper his body, but after understanding what Armament Haki was, Teach naturally had his own methods.

What works for Garp may not work for him; it depends on the individual circumstances.

Using Observation Haki, along with his self-regulating Life Return, Teach is attempting to integrate Armament Haki into his body.

This is extremely difficult. The normal application of Armament Haki is to form an invisible armor that covers the body, even the higher-level Ryou is the same, except that it has more fluidity than ordinary coverage.

To Armament Haki's physique with Armament Haki, one needs to precisely control Haki, fusing every strand of Haki with muscles, bones, and flesh.

This process requires complete concentration. As a swordsman, he already had some experience in tempering Black Blade, but compared to inanimate iron, the human body is infinitely more complex.

Only by maintaining this state can one temper their physique.

Right now, Teach is only taking the first step, and this step is already extremely difficult. If he didn't possess such Observation Haki and Life Return, he simply couldn't do it. At most, he could only do something like Garp, such as simple physical tempering while focusing on his fists.

That's how Iron Fist Garp.

People generally wouldn't dare touch vital organs like the internal organs and the heart.

However, Teach possesses unparalleled ambition and a full-body Armament Haki, which is a massive undertaking. Even now, Teach can only integrate one-third of Haki into his body at a time.

To allow the Haki to permeate the entire body and flow within, and to temper the body, at least two more years are needed.

This difficult start, however, gave Teach confidence in an endlessly bright future.

As an innate power, Awakening Haki is a process Haki increasing Haki quality and strengthening one's physique.

It is also a process of enhancing one's vitality. Now, Teach is already considering the essence of Haki, or rather, many people are aware of the role of Haki, but no one has truly summarized it.

This innate talent is not merely a weapon; it enables the human body to leap to a higher level of life.

A stronger and more robust physique will promote the improvement and growth of Armament Haki. Once Armament Haki reaches a certain stage, it can in turn stimulate the evolution of the body.

Many people fall into the latter category, becoming stronger by learning Armament Haki. As their Armament Haki improves, their physical strength is also rapidly enhanced by the influence of Armament Haki.

There's nothing wrong with using combat as a way to improve one's strength.

However, some rare monsters are born with powerful physiques, or possess great physical strength even before Awakening Armament Haki.

Once Armament Haki Awakening, it possesses extremely high quality and quantity, even surpassing those who have cultivated Armament Haki for several or even ten years. In a short period of time, Armament Haki will also improve rapidly.

Teach, on the other hand, perfectly went through both of these processes. After Awakening Armament Haki, he rapidly improved due to his physical talent and powerful physique.

Then, in just a few years, Teach's Armament Haki improved too quickly, reaching its peak, and now it is starting to influence his physical growth.

Coupled with his natural talent, the next few years were a period of rapid improvement for Teach, especially in terms of physique.

However, the Haki is inherent in the human body, and its positive effects on the body are slow, gradual, and subtle, especially in enhancing vitality.

Therefore, the stronger a person is, the stronger their vitality and the greater their recovery ability.

Recovery ability isn't something you're born with. Do you think these strong individuals were born with it? Absolutely not.

Many years ago, Teach did not have such a body healing ability. Once, he was scratched by a wild beast and it took him half a month to heal.

For Teach, this kind of injury is a minor one, and he can fully recover in just half a day. If he were to Life Return, it would only take a few breaths if it wasn't serious.

Such regenerative ability is comparable to Kaido's Immortal Body; however, Kaido is entirely due to his body's self-healing ability, while Teach recovers by expending stamina through the Life Return.

Moreover, Kaido's Immortal Body, besides his unimaginable regenerative abilities, also signifies a powerful physique. Very few people can injure him, let alone possess such a strong recovery ability.

This Sea Emperor, already known as the "Strongest Creature in the sea, land, and air," has reached a level that even Whitebeard would find difficult to kill.

He's difficult to kill, not invincible. If Kaido becomes even stronger in the future, that's another story.

The training of Armament Haki, like that of Teach, is a difference between active and passive training, and the improvement effect is much stronger.

Although Teach is not yet able to fully temper his Armament Haki throughout his body, it is already having an effect, albeit a very weak one.

Now, Teach has completely focused on his training. Anyway, the Night Pirates and the Saguros Sea are already on the right track, and all that's needed is stable development.

If it's something truly important, Mostima and the others will come and tell him.

Improving their strength was, in fact, the most important thing for him and for the Night Pirates.

Unless it's something extremely important, no one else will bother him.

After all, Teach's strength determines the status of the Night Pirates.

Meanwhile, the three leaders and giants of the Night Pirates, including Rediat, are undergoing further training and development. Having witnessed Pluto Rayleigh's terrifying strength, and now that they have arrived in the New World, he also feels a sense of urgency.

As for Ares, he's somehow ended up on some Beast Island, where he's also training to get stronger and accumulate even more experience.

Furthermore, his training direction is similar to that of Rediat, both focusing on the intertwining of Armament Haki and Conqueror's Haki. Both of them have already mastered Ryou. With their aptitude, it wouldn't take them long to master the highest level of Armament Haki, Internal Destruction.

More importantly, there's the entanglement of Conqueror's Haki, a powerful technique that only the strongest can master.

Both possessing the qualities of a king, they naturally hoped to master this skill as early as possible.

During his battle with Kaido, Ares witnessed this technique Kaido, and with Teach's experience, Ares also began to work towards it.

The Night Pirates sprang into action after Teach issued his highest command.

In the three months following the Navy's award ceremony, the Night Pirates gradually strengthened their control over the Sagarros Sea.

Some islands have developed steadily and do not require a large number of troops to garrison them.

In fact, apart from the outer edges of the territory, these inner areas don't need many pirates to guard them.

Of course, even if the Night Pirates conquered the Saguros Sea, it doesn't mean that the Night Pirates were the only force in the Saguros Sea.

There are other forces, such as pirate crews. However, in the territory of the Night Pirates, they must abide by the rules of the Night Pirates. If anyone causes trouble, they will be suppressed by the Night Pirates.

Even without their top officers, the powerful pirates under their command are enough to suppress them. After all, powerful pirate crews are either swallowed up by the Night Pirates, destroyed by the Night Pirates, or have fled their territory.

Aside from those who were absorbed by the Night Pirates or became affiliated Night Pirates, the rest of them didn't dare to cause trouble on the Night Pirates' territory.

Compared to other dominant pirate crews, such as the Sea Emperor, the Night Pirates take their territory very seriously, rather than neglecting it and simply collecting protection money.

Therefore, the seas Night Pirates are very stable, even peaceful, and many people can feel this change in just three months.

The remaining pirate crews, besides the ordinary ones, were those that wanted to become affiliated with the Night Pirates but hadn't met the requirements.

After all, not everyone would disband their entire pirate crew and merge into the Night Pirates; many pirates want to retain the banner of their own pirate crew.

However, becoming a subordinate pirate crew of the Night Pirates is not that simple.

Moreover, the money earned by these pirate fleets, which do not belong to the Night Pirates, from their spending in the Saguros Sea can be said to belong to the Night Pirates.

Furthermore, in addition to Pagila Island, where the Combat Pyramid is being built, an arena will be built on each of the thirty-six islands, making a total of thirty-six arenas.

Although it was not completed.

The Night Pirates truly treat their territory as an empire, which has brought peace to the seas—exactly what a kingdom desires.

However, for pirates, this is like poison, eroding their will, which is very disadvantageous for the Night Pirates.

For this reason, in addition to the Combat Pyramid, Teach also ordered the construction of arenas throughout the Saghros Sea.

Of course, this was, after all, the era of pirates, and it was still very chaotic.

The Sagarrosh Sea is simply more orderly and stable. Compared to other seas, conflicts between pirates are not uncommon. Even under the rule of the Night Pirates, they rarely interfere in such matters unless it involves Night Pirates interests or causes chaos.

These arenas are not as large as the Combat Pyramid; they are about the same size as ordinary gladiatorial arenas, and the competition format is not as brutal as that of gladiatorial arenas.

Teach was well aware that this kind of arena was a money-making machine. If managed well, it could bring huge profits and attract pirates and other people to the Saguros Sea.

The existence of these arenas can also increase the fame of the Sagarros Sea, enhance the overall combat strength of the Sagarros Sea, and at the same time, improve the combat strength of the Night Pirates.

After all, the gravity field that Teach created with his ability could only affect himself and the members of the Night Pirates in the Night Palace.

These arenas will continuously provide the Night Pirates with new blood. Once a talent rises and performs well, the Night Pirates can directly recruit them.

In this way, the Night Pirates will grow stronger and stronger, while also training their subordinates.

All of this was planned long ago. The Saguros Sea is the territory of Teach and the Night Pirates. In this respect, the Night Pirates have surpassed many other pirate crews.

Because at that time, it wasn't just pirates who worshipped Teach, but also the entire nation's inhabitants.

That's the difference between them.

Contrary to what other forces had predicted, the Night Pirates did not resume their expansion just three months after Teach's order.

This caught other forces off guard, and the islands they had protected were suddenly occupied. Islands not occupied by Great Pirate were easily swallowed up, while those occupied by powerful pirates were targeted by the Night Pirates, who had already received intelligence about it.

Moreover, the Night Pirates targeted the islands occupied by powerful forces first, bypassing the central islands and moving at top speed, giving them no time to react.

With most of their forces focused on the Sea of Chaos, they were caught off guard when their rear was attacked. By the time they realized what was happening, it was too late to mobilize their troops.

After occupying these islands, they then annexed those already within the encirclement.

In just ten days, the Night Pirates expanded their territory by half.

However, this was just the beginning. They wouldn't tolerate their own home being robbed, especially with the Whitebeard Pirates, the Sea Emperor, among them.

Chaos Sea, the Moby Dick.

The Whitebeard Pirates are currently waging war in the Chaos Sea.

"Gurararara! Can't hold back anymore, Teach? Kids, take back our territory for me!" Whitebeard laughed loudly upon receiving the news, his domineering Haki unmistakable.

I wasn't angry about this; that's perfectly normal in the New World.

"Pops, let me go. We can't let the Night Pirates get too arrogant."

"We must take back the territory we've lost!"

"We're the Whitebeard Pirates!" Several division commanders volunteered.

Besides the Whitebeard Pirates, other Great Pirate also made their move, sending out their strongest members.

In an instant, war broke out again. What was lost had to be taken back, otherwise, what would become of their dignity as the overlord and emperor?

Moreover, as a rising force in the New World, the Night Pirates' Night Pirates does indeed need to be curbed; they cannot be allowed to grow too quickly.

And this is what Teach wanted.