Six Powers and Two Types of Haki

"Alright, if there's nothing else, get out of here. I still need to study this thing properly," Zhu Mang said irritably.

Only then did Doflamingo realize that, after being intimidated by Gebinz's overwhelming strength and then beginning to dream about his family's future, he had become overly anxious about gains and losses.

And now, he had even done something like this.

If this continued, let alone winning over this lord, he might even achieve the opposite and provoke his displeasure!

"Then I'll take my leave first," Doflamingo said, immediately rising to bid farewell.

After he left, Zhu Mang finally began studying the two "martial arts manuals" in his hands.

The first was [Six Powers].

However, after quickly reading through it, Zhu Mang felt somewhat disappointed.

This so-called [Six Powers] might indeed have been a decent "martial arts manual" for those commoners in the One Piece World.

For example, [Soru] allowed one to move rapidly at roughly twenty-five meters per second.

Its principle was to stomp the ground dozens of times in an instant, creating explosive speed.

Not long after the original plot began, Kuro of a Hundred Plans—the man Luffy and the others encountered in Usopp's hometown, Syrup Village—had relied on a self-developed technique similar to [Soru], Shakushi, to dominate one region.

But was twenty-five meters per second really that fast?

It was only four seconds for a hundred meters.

In a modern setting, that would indeed be incredible.

After all, even the fastest modern athletes could barely break ten seconds in the hundred-meter dash.

But in Dragon Ball...

Master Roshi, with a power level below 150, could easily run one hundred meters in 5.4 seconds.

And that was merely the raw physical strength of people in Dragon Ball.

If he entered his muscle-bulking power-up state, that speed would only become faster.

As for someone like Zhu Mang, with a power level of 1,000, his flying speed could easily reach several times the speed of sound!

As for [Geppo], it was like an advanced version of [Soru]. It merely changed "powerfully stomping the ground" into "powerfully stomping the air," allowing one to walk and leap through the sky and achieve a brief flying effect.

Yet compared to [Flight] in Dragon Ball, it was still vastly inferior.

However, the [Six Powers] were not entirely without merit.

Just like Earth and Yardrat in Dragon Ball.

Although their power levels were low, their techniques were highly refined.

When it came to the development and application of ki, they far surpassed those naturally powerful aliens.

The same was true here.

The remaining four techniques still had some worthwhile aspects.

For example, [Iron Body], [Finger Pistol], and [Tempest Kick] appeared to be applications of the body, but in reality, they were techniques that weakly mobilized something akin to ki within the body to launch attacks.

In fact, within the Marines, these physical techniques were generally regarded as prerequisite skills for awakening [Armament Haki].

And the final technique, [Paper Art], was a prerequisite for [Observation Haki].

Moreover, this "manual" recorded many derivative applications of the Six Powers developed by Marine officers through their own understanding after training in them.

For instance, combining [Soru] and [Iron Body] created [Soru: Iron Body Ball]. Not only did it eliminate the drawback of being unable to move while using [Iron Body], it could also use the speed of [Soru] and the toughness of [Iron Body] to generate enormous impact force.

If adapted into Dragon Ball, it really did have several possible applications.

For example, in the classic battle between Son Goku and King Piccolo, Goku had both legs and one arm crippled under King Piccolo's coercion. Yet in the end, he still used the recoil of a ki blast to fly into the air, then infused ki into his fist to form the iconic [Penetrate!], piercing through King Piccolo's body and finishing him off.

There was even [Iron Body: Soft Iron Whip], which combined the seemingly opposing techniques of [Iron Body] and [Paper Art]. It allowed the body to twist like a snake, accurately locate the enemy's true body amid a barrage of attacks, and strike it.

Furthermore, Zhu Mang recalled the manga's plot. CP9, led by Rob Lucci at Enies Lobby, had used quite a few derivative techniques of the Six Powers.

Of course, what Zhu Mang found most interesting was the [Six Powers Secret Art].

There were currently two types.

One was [Rokuogan], which fully combined the advantages of the Six Powers and used [Finger Pistol] as its core to release a shockwave of considerable power.

Wasn't that just an alternative kind of "Kamehameha"?

The other was [Life Return]. After mastering the Six Powers, one trained the effects of [Paper Art] into the body, allowing one to freely control every part of the body, even one's hair, for attacks. (Purely personal interpretation, don't @ me.)

Compared to [Rokuogan], Zhu Mang was more interested in [Life Return].

Because Saiyans possessed a cheat-like passive ability: whenever a Saiyan revived from the brink of death, the hidden potential within their body would be stimulated, greatly increasing their power level!

In the original work, both Son Goku and Vegeta had used this passive ability to rapidly stack their power levels in an extremely short period of time, sometimes gaining hundreds of thousands or even millions at once.

But they only dared to do that because they had bug-level items like Senzu Beans supporting them.

How could Zhu Mang dare to do such a thing?

And one of [Life Return]'s effects covered "rapid recovery."

Taking the original plot as an example, whenever the protagonist, Wong Luffy, went through a major battle, even if he was severely injured, he could quickly recover by eating meat and similar foods.

If one were merely reading the manga, that could be understood as a manga effect.

But since Zhu Mang was now inside this "manga," it naturally became "reality" to him.

Then he had to consider certain things.

Why could Luffy do that?

Zhu Mang was more inclined to believe that Garp, as Luffy's grandfather, had subtly taught him the ability of [Life Return] during his training, allowing him to rapidly convert what he ate into energy and thus quickly restore his body.

As a physical combat powerhouse who had become famous across the seas through martial prowess alone, it might not have been impossible for Garp to accomplish that.

Likewise, Zephyr, as well as the former Fleet Admiral and current Commander-in-Chief of the World Government's armed forces, Kong, should all have their own hidden physical techniques!

"Should I capture all of them and make them my coaches?" Zhu Mang rubbed his chin as an evil idea surfaced in his mind.

"Forget it. I'll practice by myself first. If I can't master it, then I'll consider it."

After thinking it over, he decided to be a good person and spare them for now.

Then he flipped through the training methods for the two types of Haki.

The Armament Haki he had initially placed high hopes on had instead become rather useless.

Because if one ignored its intensity, its effects were actually reflected in the training methods of the Six Powers.

The Marine-derived Armament Haki technique, [Armament Haki Armor], was essentially similar to coating the body with ki in a particular manner.

On the contrary, the descriptions related to Observation Haki made his eyes light up.