The Western Port of the Kronos Kingdom.
Sakazuki followed Bullet and Gerald back from the Royal Capital along the same route they had taken before.
For the past three days, he had spent all his time either at the Royal Military Academy or the Army Base.
Clearly, Sakazuki had experienced an unprecedented shock in the Kronos Kingdom.
What he saw with his own eyes shook him far more than anything Bullet and Gerald had told him.
The Central Royal Military Academy had nearly two million students.
Their ages ranged from six to nearly twenty.
Even ordinary people with no particular potential could develop superhuman physiques through professional training, provided they worked hard. In the Four Seas, they would have enough strength to protect an entire area.
And that was in addition to their academic education.
Even the most ordinary student would be considered talented in the Four Seas, capable of making something of themselves.
The Royal Military Academy was too vast, and Sakazuki had too little time. What he had seen was merely the tip of the iceberg.
His attention had mainly been on the young fighters within the Royal Military Academy.
Dedicated arenas and rankings encouraged these students to compete.
It was similar to the Sky Arena.
He had watched those young students fight, and quite a few had displayed tremendous potential.
Every one of them had fought countless battles and mastered all kinds of combat techniques.
Only then did Sakazuki realize that the recruits he had seen at the Army Base were merely the most ordinary students.
There were many younger, stronger students at the Royal Military Academy.
Despite their youth, some were not even eighteen yet and already possessed combat strength equal to a Navy Captain's, or even a Commodore's.
They were capable of graduating early, but