Chapter 19: Rukoshiki.

Hiruma was surprised and overjoyed, quickly opening the attribute panel.

[Host]: Hiruma

[Strength]: 69

[Speed]: 101

[Constitution]: 83

[Skills]: Swordsmanship lv15, Marksmanship lv20, Taunt lvMAX, Boxing lv30, Navigation lv10, Armament Haki lv1, Swimming lvMAX, Cooking lvMAX, Dragon Claw Fist lv13, Observation Haki lv2, Rukoshiki (Soru lv2, Tekkai lv1, Kami-e lv1, Geppo lv1, Rankyaku lv1, Shigan lv1)

[Devil Fruit]: Milk-Milk Fruit

No wonder he hadn't been able to level-up his Haki from the loot since awakening his three types of Haki. As for training, he was completely clueless.

Furthermore, Hiruma was a bit unsure of his own talent. Even if he were to learn how to train his Observation Haki and Armament Haki, he was afraid he wouldn't be able to use it.

Hiruma had thought that he couldn't level-up Haki because the loot's quality wasn't high enough.

However, it seemed that Haki was closely related to his attributes.

Increasing his speed attribute would increase his Observation Haki level. If that's the case, then improving his Armament Haki level must correspond to his strength attribute.

As for Conqueror's Haki, it either corresponds to his constitution attribute, or all three attributes.

He would have to wait and see for the specifics. In his opinion, it was probably related to his overall attributes. After all, Conqueror's Haki couldn't be trained. It would only increase when one's strength had reached a certain level.

He learned from the system that the maximum level for all skills was 99.

Every thirty-three levels constituted a major level. Like Haki, levels 1-33 were the basic stage, levels 34-66 were the intermediate stage, and levels 67-99 were the advanced stage.

However, Hiruma knew that after reaching level 99, breaking through would transform the skill into a Devil Fruit.

It would be a unique Devil Fruit with no side effects, exclusive to the person. He just didn't know if this was only possible for him because of the system, or if it applied to everyone.

In a corner, Smoker sat there without moving for a long time. His cigarette had already burned out, but he hadn't even noticed. He just sat there, trying to catch that spark of inspiration in his mind. But no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't succeed.

Smoker smiled wryly and shook his head. He wasn't disheartened, though. He believed that as long as he could follow Hiruma's training, he would eventually succeed.

"Are you giving up?" Hiruma leaned back on his chair and sunbathed with his eyes closed: "If you're giving up, then hurry up and get lost. Don't bother coming back next time if you don't bring cigars."

Smoker shrank back in fright, repeatedly assuring Siege that he would buy cigars as soon as he got back.

.....

"Have you two little guys seen enough? If you have, then drink your milk. It'll be your turn later." Hiruma waved his hand, and a big bottle of milk appeared in the mouths of the two.

Watching the two little guys sucking on the milk bottles, he pondered to himself, "The physical fitness of these two little guys should be enough to start practicing Rukoshiki. "

During this period of time, after his brutal training, coupled with the Milk-Milk fruit's ability to enhance physical fitness, the two's physical strength had become quite amazing.

However, unfortunately, Hiruma didn't have many skills to teach them right now. When he taught Sabo the Dragon Claw Fist earlier, he also tried to teach Ace and Luffy.

But their progress in training was average, so he didn't force them too much.

Ace's future physical skills were basically combined with the Flame-Flame Fruit to display their true power.

As for Luffy, although he now had the Rubber-Rubber Fruit, Hiruma knew the principles and usage methods of his unique second, third, and even fourth gears, but he couldn't use them now.

After thinking it over, Hiruma decided to teach them the Rukoshiki.

Although teaching them this now might cause some misunderstandings in the future, it didn't matter because others' misunderstandings were Garp's problems.

Everyone will suspect whether Garp secretly taught the two the Rukoshiki, which had nothing to do with him.

As for Garp, he would be fine. His son was considered by the World Government to be "the world's most dangerous criminal," but the World Government didn't make things difficult for Garp.

Besides, the Rukoshiki were completely insignificant.

"Master, are you going to teach us physical skills?"

When they heard Hiruma's words, Luffy and Ace were naturally excited.

During this period, they had been repeating boring and tasteless training every day.

If it weren't for their dreams and Hiruma's promise that they would see Sabo again on the Grand Line, they would have surrendered long ago.

"Watch carefully, I'll show you."

Hiruma mobilized the power inside his body and concentrated it on his feet.

"Soru!"

With a heavy thud, his figure disappeared from where he was standing in an instant.

Luffy and Ace were stunned by everything they saw.

They had never seen such a technique before.

Hiruma was just standing in front of them a moment ago, but the next moment, he had disappeared.

"Did you see it clearly?" His voice came from behind the two.

He overdid it a bit for the sake of the visual effects just now.

His leg was cramping~~

Luffy looked confused and had no idea what had just happened.

Ace, on the other hand, had a thoughtful look on his face. Looking at the marks on the ground where Hiruma had just stood, he said uncertainly, "Master, didn't you just step on the ground fastly?"

Indeed, in terms of talent, whether it was Ace or Sabo, they were stronger than Luffy. However, fools had their own blessings, and Luffy's luck was really good.

With the protagonist's halo, he was simply unstoppable.

"Yes, just now in an instant, in less than half a second, I stomped on the ground more than a hundred times in a row. With the help of the explosive force, I achieved a speed that cannot be seen with the naked eye, as if teleporting."

The principle was very simple, but it was not so easy to execute.

Even if the physical fitness met the standard, it still required long-term practice.

"Continue to watch this move, Curly, shoot at me." Hiruma said.

Curly got a gun, and after a bit of hesitation. She shot.

"Tekkai!"

The bullet shot out and hit Hiruma, making a sound like iron hitting iron.

When everyone looked again, they saw that the bullet had completely deformed and fallen to the ground.

"This move is called 'Tekkai, one of the Rukoshiki. By concentrating the force, the body has the ability to have a hardness comparable to an iron block in a short period of time."

Next, Hiruma demonstrated 'Kami-e and 'Geppo.

"How about it, you two little guys choose a technique you like."

It was better to focus on one technique than to be mediocre at everything.

Although Luffy was young, he was very decisive.

"I want to learn Kami-e, it looks like a lot of fun."

Kami-e was the only technique among the Rukoshiki that had no help in attacking. It unloaded all the body's strength, making the body as light as paper, and used the change of airflow caused by the enemy's movements to dodge attacks.

It does have a bit of Tai Chi flavor, but it was only in defense, and not attack.

Hiruma nodded, Kami-e was indeed very suitable for Luffy.

His body could already become a balloon by inflation.

After learning Kami-e, one can completely achieve the same effect as the Rob Lucci of CP9, and dodge attacks by changing the shape of the body.

Luffy made his decision, but Ace did not speak for a long time.

"Master, isn't it the RUKOshiki? You only demonstrated four techniques. Moreover, there are no attacking techniques among them."