Achieving Nothing, I Can Only Be the Pirate King

"Sage, it’s not a Vice Admiral."

Lily glanced at them and confirmed the identity.

The Navy Vice Admirals are currently recorded on their side, after all, with convenient intelligence, it’s also possible for the subordinates on the voyage to identify which are Navy Vice Admirals, and then decide for themselves whether to start a fight.

As for why it’s only a Vice Admiral...

Because any Navy below the rank of Vice Admiral would never dare to appear alone in their controlled waters, that would be seeking death.

Of course, if they encounter a Navy they don’t recognize, they can attack directly, with no need for judgment.

"But, it’s just the rank is not enough..."

Lily added, her gaze lingering on the green-haired young man for an extra two seconds.

Especially this Navy, judging by the aura, he is elite among elites, likely having the level of an Elite Vice Admiral.

But if it’s only to that extent...

"Just these few people want to go to Hive Island..."

Sage looked toward Garp, saying in a deep voice, "Have you lived too long, suffered too much, and are planning to die there?"

Several Navy want to storm Hive Island? Even with Garp leading, it’s not feasible.

The setup there is not low; if it were easy to invade, Teach would have been taken down by someone already.

If not by Red Hair, then by himself.

"Puhaha, this old man, whether I die early or late, it doesn’t matter, the young ones have the future, my future was over long ago."

Garp laughed, "Just like you, precisely because you’re young, you have an unlimited possible future. Now you’re a Sea Emperor, who knows what you’ll be in the future."

Sage chuckled, shook his head, and didn’t say more. Instead, he gestured behind him.

Lily instantly understood, came down from the bow position, and handed him a cannonball from the piled-up ammunition boxes.

"Garp old man, wouldn’t it sound better to be killed by me than by Teach?"

His five fingers gripped the cannonball, and with a simple toss, it emitted a shrill ’whoosh’, breaking through the air in an instant, reaching Garp’s face.

Boom.

With a muffled sound, Garp raised his fist, rebounding the cannonball with a unique force, sending it flying into the sky.

Boom!!

A huge plume of smoke exploded in the air, and the dust fell onto the Navy behind Garp.

"Haven’t we played this game before!"

Garp also picked up a cannonball, pulled his arm back extremely, and lifted his legs high.

As soon as the muscles of his arm holding the cannonball tensed like a drawn bowstring, Armament Haki surged from his fingertips, and dark red patterns instantly crawled all over the black iron ball surface.

"Foolish apprentice, I didn’t teach you to use abilities to throw!"

Thunk!

When his legs heavily landed, the cannonball clearly wrapped in Conqueror’s Haki directly shattered the air in front, sending shockwaves across the sea in a massive concave, launching it with furious momentum.

"Not using a power is foolish, isn’t it?"

Sage sneered, and by the time his five fingers spread open, Lily had already handed him a cannonball. As soon as he took it, his arm moved at a speed almost invisible to the naked eye, making the cannonball’s shadow flash past, colliding with the imposing cannonball.

In the instant of collision, the sound vanished abruptly, all sound subdued by the intense impact of Conqueror’s Haki, directly forming a vacuum at the point of collision. The explosion of the two cannonballs formed a five-meter diameter black lightning ball, gradually shrinking, compressing into a singularity.

Boom!!!

In the moment of compression into a singularity, black and red lightning and deep red lightning scattered outward during the clash, solidified Conqueror’s Haki symbols rampaging across the sky and sea, the sky first cracking in half, then turning into a spiraling deep hole, continuously caving in.

The sea between the two ships first erupted in mammoth waves, surging into the sky and then crashing down vertically, forming a sea whirlpool on the surface resembling the sky, sweeping everything around.

The impact turned into a fierce gale, violently sweeping toward both ships, blowing Sage’s white hair and tousling Garp’s full head of silver short hair.

"Old... old now."

"You’re old."

Garp and Sage exchanged a glance, speaking in unison.

"Puhaha! People can’t resist getting old!"

Garp laughed, "But, that’s just how it should be, the sea belongs to the young in the end!"

"That doesn’t sound like something you would say."

Sage stared at Garp for a while, then exhaled lightly, shaking his head, "Forget it."

He turned and descended from the bow, "Lily, steer around the whirlpool, don’t waste time."

"Alright, what about Garp..."

"Don’t worry about him, whatever he wants to do is his own business, I’m just an apprentice, not a true disciple. The true disciple is on Hive Island, one is losing his resolve, the other is in confusion, let them figure it out themselves."

With that, Sage entered the captain’s cabin directly.

Lily took a deep look at Garp, who was grinning fiercely at the other bow, "Losing resolve huh... Everyone, steer around the whirlpool, no need to bother with it anymore."

The Death Star changed course, moving from the left side of the whirlpool, bypassing that Doghead Battleship stopped on the sea, sailing past it.

No one stopped them.

The remaining conscious few fully understood the power of this strongest Sea Emperor, merely watching as the Death Star sailed away.

"No, survived!"

Helmeppo greatly sighed in relief, plopping to the ground as his body slumped after the Death Star completely reached the rear of the Doghead Battleship, with no signs of turning.

That Conqueror’s Haki, it really wasn’t for show. Just withstanding it required exhausting all effort.

"Mr. Garp..."

The green-haired youth pondered for a moment, then looked at Garp’s back on the bow, saying, "Is Calamity your disciple?"

"Puhahaha, I think so, but he doesn’t admit it! Though he’s clearly learned my techniques!"

He looked at the sky and the whirlpool on the sea, baring his teeth, "What’s this, isn’t it very well used."

"It must be a disciple; a guy like Calamity wouldn’t let us go, there’s only this possibility."

The green-haired young man, Prince Grus, a Headquarter Rear Admiral and a member of the Navy’s secret special force ’Sword’, also known as the ’Blade’.

Besides being an Ability User who ate the Glorp-Glorp Fruit, his brain still functions well, able to think through these simple things.

"Mr. Garp, since he’s a disciple and a Sea Emperor...and he’s also an ally with Blackbeard, if he could bring Coby back..."

"Then what about the remaining captives?"

Garp turned to Grus and said, "Blackbeard and Sage are different. Sage follows the rules and does nothing against morality. Blackbeard doesn’t, the people captured on Hive Island are now all awaiting sale as slaves, they rely on that as one of their means of survival."

"Just bringing Coby back isn’t that complicated, but if you want everyone to be rescued, fighting is necessary!"

Garp said, then laughed heartily again, "Puhahaha! Rest assured, old man can definitely rescue that foolish obedient disciple! That guy Sage understands this too, so he just clashed with Conqueror’s Haki!"

But even just that clash requires a slow recovery, a few more and it would be pure battle, and for someone about to head to Hive Island, it’s not a good sign.

Fortunately... The other side moved first.

"This whirlpool..."

Garp scratched his head, "Hmm, everyone is dizzy, can’t sail now."

"I brought some clay."

Grus took a clump of clay from his pocket, casually squeezed it, and the clay scattered down, transforming into several small figures who silently went to the battleship’s control room.

"Simple navigation shouldn’t be a problem, by the time we arrive, they’ll surely wake up."

"You, you’re pretty good!"

Garp patted his shoulder, descended from the bow, "Alright, you handle it, Tashigi, you take command, the old man needs to rest a bit, close my eyes."

Really...

No one can stop it now.

He chuckled, thought of Sage’s performance, and couldn’t help shaking his head.

Wonder how far he can grow, back then in the East Sea, who could’ve imagined Sage could reach this level today.

A few more years...

"Puhaha, the sea is so lively!"