A figure flashed in one place, quickly punching a log that was right In front of him, a large chunk of the log was easily destroyed by the punch, he flashed again this time flashing behind another log stuck to the ground, once more a chunk of the wood was swept away by his punch. The dirt swept under his feet as his figure blurred once more, this time appearing behind a boulder, His arm charged with a golden hue as he punched the boulder, In a split second the boulder started forming cracks and eventually exploded into dozens of pieces under the force of the punch.
The figure flashed again, this time appearing in a place with no logs or boulders whatsoever, he pulled a canteen out of his pocket and Drank the water inside it.
This figure was none other than Ragnar, He was practicing a new move he created, By rapidly rubbing his feet on the ground multiple times in a sweeping motion, his body got an explosive boost in speed. A move that copied the Rokushiki's Soru move.
While Soru could only be used to boost the user by rapidly kicking the ground, it only gave a short burst of power and quickly ended in a short distance but Ragnar's move could do much more, rubbing his feet on the ground in a sweeping motion gave him an explosive jump in speed but it also allowed him to use inertia of his body to increase his speed by doing the same motion while being boosted by the initial increase in speed instead of just stopping like Soru. In a battle he could just blur around consistently and have an increase in the speed instead of needing to stop when using Soru and resetting his inertia to zero, Through the use of this technique and enough build up time of the inertia, he could be faster than the speed of light theoretically but his body couldn't handle such speeds.
He rested for a bit before going to check out what the other guys were doing.
A month has passed since they relocated to Hashi island, the training was going smoothly and the entire camp was walled with fences.
Now, after Five months of training, all the Fourty one guys that were originally training in Shigeru island were able to use a basic form of haki and use them in combination with their Weapons and skills.
Out of all these, the ones that shined the most were Kashi, Kazuma and Shin. All three of them managed to awaken both of their haki.
They had all Diversed from the basic style they had used till now and started developing new techniques and abilities.
That is what inspired Ragnar to even start making his Soru based technique, he still hasn't thought a name for it though.
Ragnar was also thinking of promoting shin to the vice captain status, after all his strength had been rising very steadily and his is getting more and more knowledgeable and wiser after hanging out for Ragnar for the last month, Shin had strength but he lacked the ability to think things through. That is what kept Ragnar from promoting him.
And lastly Suzen, he is someone who works hard and has potential but what he shines the most is in Strategy, He was maniac with insane battle Iq and A stratagic mind, He might be able to form plans for the crew in the future.
Ragnar just watched as two swordsman spared, their swordsmenship was quite good for a beginner but still they are far from the level that was waiting for them at the grandline. And from what he knew from the timeline of this world, the great pirate era was close, he speculated it would happen just after they set out and officially start their journey. there will be trouble on his journey if his speculation was correct and they needed to be the strongest crew that sets out and his own strength must reach the level to take care of most grand line captains easily.
He was watching the swordsmen train for half an hour, pointing out their mistakes and incorrections. This continued till it was time for lunch, when everyone went to the dining area, Ragnar started training with his swordsmanship and flying slashes.
His aim was to cut a boulder into tiny cubes with just flying slashes alone.
He threw a single flying slash that cut the boulder in half, then another slash, that cut the boulder into three slices, then another slash that cut the boulder into another slice, he then used vertical slashes to completely turn what was left of the large circular boulder into small cubes.
He performed this attack combo in the air a couple of times to get it imprinted into his muscle memory. After practicing this for an entire hour with small breaks in-between, he had perfected the slash combo into his memory with fluid motion and perfection, he gradually started increasing the amount of slashes and reducing the time as he started reaching a satisfactory level with this skill.
By this time the crew had already arrived to see Ragnar train with Sigyn and just watched in awe as he sent large dark coloured slashes flying from his sword.
As Ragnar moved to test his slash combo, he looked back at the crew with a smile and said.
"You all must train very hard to be able to do this, watch very closely." He said, He did the combo as he practiced hundred of times. The entire movement of the sword was just a blur to the one without observation haki as Ragnar sent dozens of slashes flying at the boulder. In just a split second, the boulder got sliced into tiny fist sized cubes.
The crowd applauded at the amazing performance and satarted aiming to get to this level.
"I call this, Umm, Cubic Slash!" He said, he needed to look cool to inspire these guys to train harder and increase his crew's strength.