Just as the Five Elders were about to continue discussing how to solve this problem, Kong arrived at the Room of Authority with Sengoku.
Their intentions were clear: to secure Vic's position Marine Admiral. No matter what the Five Elders said, it wouldn't matter; Vic was a member of their navy and would definitely remain there.
Furthermore, they told the Five Elders that Vic only wanted to be a Marine and had no interest in anything else. He already had enough merit and his reputation in the Marines was no less than that of Akainu and Kizaru. His promotion to Marine Admiral would not have a negative impact on the Marines, only benefits.
If we disagree, that would be bad. There would be no fairness in the Navy on the surface, and the Navy would be completely corrupted. It would no longer be the organization that speaks out for justice and would completely become the World Government's mouthpiece, and the label of the World Government's henchman would be firmly established.
The Five Elders had to take Kong and Sengoku's words seriously. The high-ranking officers of the Navy were the beneficiaries, and they naturally sided with the World Government. However, their numbers were limited. The Navy appeared to be a large organization that upheld justice, but its support for the civilians was mainly due to the ubiquitous presence of its soldiers.
Is it because they firmly believe that the Navy is a righteous organization, and that it can still remain the world's largest organization despite so many naval soldiers dying every year? Or is it because the Navy stands on the side of justice, and they have the moral high ground?
This is what attracts ordinary people with a sense of justice to join the Navy one after another. If the Navy becomes corrupt, the lower ranks will be gone, and fresh blood will disappear. The Navy organization will be almost finished. Can it be maintained by just those high-ranking strongmen? You can't even take care of the first half of the Grand Line!
So the Five Elders asked the two to wait outside. After discussion and consideration, they finally agreed, but before the ceremony to promote Vic to Marine Admiral, they wanted to give him a final test to ensure that Vic would be loyal to the Navy and even more loyal to the World Government after becoming Marine Admiral.
Sengoku and Kong naturally disagreed with the test, as it could create a rift between them and lead to discord. They felt that Vic's behavior over the years made a test unnecessary. However, Titan used Vic's attitude during their conversation as an excuse to test him, leaving Kong and Sengoku with no choice but to compromise.
After the two left, the Five Elders began discussing how to test Vic's loyalty, with loyalty to the World Government being the most important factor.
That means that Vic must do his best to complete any task assigned by their World Government, even if it is considered evil by the world, just like the Ohara Incident back then!
In order to erase the fact that historians would not reveal any details of the Void Century, countless innocent civilians would have to be implicated, so they wanted to test Vic with similar events.
Vic's warship was on its way to the Florian Triangle to find Moria, completely unaware that the Supreme Commander of the Navy and the World Government were engaged in a heated debate over whether he could be promoted to Marine Admiral.
It's unclear how much pressure Garp put on Sengoku and his companion, but Sengoku and his team finished their work without informing Vic, keeping him in the dark as always. Vic's emergence as a variable has indeed caused the Navy's high command a lot more trouble, worry, and anxieties.
While sailing at sea, in addition to his own training, Vic would also use Ryuo to stimulate Rebecca and the others' Haki, a method that was much faster than their own training.
The reason why Shanks and Luffy's Haki grew so quickly is Haki Haki, which is one of the fastest ways to improve.
Vic also used this method to help Rebecca and the others train. Of course, it's also possible to use Haki directly in combat, but if not controlled properly, it can cause injury. However, Vic can control the use of Ryuo to enter Rebecca and the others' bodies and let the Haki clash with each other to help them accelerate their training.
While it's understandable to suffer some injuries in order to become stronger, it's simply impossible for powerful individuals like them to fight on a warship.
Vic was unwilling to stop the warships to land on the island for actual combat. There weren't many islands to encounter along the way, and it would waste time. This situation was good. Vic could train himself and also squeeze the Haki out of Rebecca and the others to become stronger, as long as he kept it in check.
Haki is a product of biological self-protection evolution. Just like the news Vic saw in his previous life, someone was being chased by a tiger, and he burst out with a speed that he could never reach before, and escaped from the tiger's jaws!
There was also a mother who was in a car accident. In order to save her child inside the car, she also showed unimaginable strength. She lifted the car with one hand and rescued the child, but she could not do it again afterward!
This kind of power and speed would be used to protect the creature itself or someone it cares about in extreme situations. In the world of One Piece, that power hidden within a creature is called Haki!
In Vic's previous world, there were similar references to Observation Haki. One was the sixth sense, and the other was the feeling that the current experience was something that had been experienced before, and then finding that the development of events was indeed as they had been experienced.
There are also cases where people deliberately change things and the results change; this is quite famous, and many people have had this experience.
However, this latent power and precognition from the previous life could not be stabilized at all, much like the state of being sometimes good and sometimes bad when Haki was first Awakening.
However, in the world of One Piece, one can become more stable and powerful through deliberate training. When the Haki Awakening within the body but still cannot protect the body, the organism will autonomously accelerate the synthesis of Haki Particles, just like desert plants frantically absorb water during rainfall!
Some will increase their absorption of free-floating Primal Spirit in the space during or after battle, while others will cause their bodies to have an extreme desire for food, because food also contains Primal Spirit.
This explains why some people become stronger quietly after a battle, while others inexplicably become stronger after eating and drinking excessively. This is the essence of becoming stronger quickly through Haki!
In general, it's all about a sense of crisis. A sense of crisis is the most economical way to unleash potential. Another factor is desire. When the desire in your heart can affect your body, your body will actively become stronger in response to that desire. The difference is that one becomes stronger passively, and the other becomes stronger actively.
However, if you don't grow stronger quickly enough in a major battle and are directly defeated by a powerful opponent, there's nothing that can be done. No matter how fast you increase your Haki, there's a limit. There are only so many Primal Spirit floating in space; how can you synthesize a product if you don't even have the raw materials?
Vic had always focused on cells and Haki Particles at the microscopic level, so he had long since figured out that this was the method he used to invade their bodies with Ryuo to create a sense of crisis and accelerate their cultivation. It was safe and fast. As for influencing the body with inner desires? Only a very few people could achieve that, so there was no need to even think about it.
Vic took turns instilling a sense of crisis in the group's inner Haki, and then sent Frodeku to catch Sea Kings to nourish them. After a month of sailing, the group made significant progress.
Even Wendy's Little Yellow team is growing stronger and is finally on the right track. The other three have made great progress, which is equivalent to them being in real combat with people every day.
Although it wasn't a true life-or-death battle, the threat Vic posed within their bodies was considerable; it was essentially a battle between a thousand troops and a hundred or so Haki Particles.
Vic's pressure was too intense; their bodies couldn't instinctively tell if it was intentional, so they naturally exerted all their strength to become stronger. Their bodies instinctively dared not slack off; if they didn't become stronger, their bodies might die from insufficient power.
This is equivalent to Vic discovering a bug in the human body and constantly using his Ryuo ) to exploit that bug. How could Rebecca and the others not become stronger?