"Lance, you're literally lightning now! What are you doing?!"
"Are you stupid? Why are you still trying to shoot guns?!"
"You can fire lightning just by raising your hand now! Isn't lightning stronger than your bullets?!"
"Shirley! Hit him with the shield! Use Armant Haki!"
"Tokikake, stop standing around watching and beat him up too!"
Aboard the Warhamr, Hamr was currently instructing Lance on how to develop his abilities.
Unfortunately, Lance had been a sniper for so long that he couldn't imdiately break his old habits.
This made Hamr extrely annoyed.
If he hadn't been busy forging at the sa ti, he definitely would've smacked Lance with a couple hamrs already.
After leaving the giant ship, the Warhamr didn't return to Birka.
Instead, it slowly sailed back toward Angel Island.
Hamr had his own plans.
Even if Roger had gone to Angel Island, he would leave after reading the Poneglyph.
At that point, Angel Island would still beco his personal backyard!
At worst, he'd just wait a few extra days.
The Warhamr had more than enough supplies anyway.
Hamr had plenty of patience.
So now he had directly set up a forge on the deck.
Training people while forging at the sa ti.
Life was pretty damn good.
"Whoa! Shirley, you're actually serious?!"
"Three million volts! Lightning!"
Facing the pitch-black shield, Lance quickly reacted.
Both arms transford into lightning and blasted forward instantly.
The electricity slamd into the shield, exploding into dazzling flashes of light.
As for Lance's initial training direction, Hamr only had one instruction:
Increase the intensity of the lightning.
In other words, increase the voltage.
To accomplish this, Hamr subjected Lance to brutally inhumane training.
As for the training content?
Simple.
Hit him with a hamr.
Hamr firmly believed that any form of energy, once compressed, could unleash far greater power.
Thus, Absolute Space Omnidirectional Hamr.
Of course, without Armant Haki mixed in.
Otherwise even ten Lances wouldn't survive it.
Once transford into lightning, Lance would be compressed into a tiny cube by Hamr.
It was miserable, but extrely effective.
Lance quickly mastered three million volts at incredible speed.
Once he got the hang of it, Hamr left the rest of the training to him.
The sparring partners also shifted from Hamr himself to Shirley and Tokikake.
"Gion, are you sure you still want to experience this?"
Hamr continued forging without even lifting his head as he asked the woman beside him.
"Yes, I'm sure."
"Earlier, inside your Absolute Space, I felt a completely different kind of pressure."
"I think only when I can ignore your Absolute Space entirely will my strength truly reach completion."
Hamr responded with a disdainful smirk.
'Ignore his Absolute Space?'
'Dream on.'
'Even Teacher Zephyr could only forcibly break through it using brute strength.'
Without exaggeration, if Hamr activated Fruit Awakening while using Absolute Space, even Zephyr wouldn't escape quickly.
"Fine then. Since you're asking to suffer, go ahead."
"Absolute Space!"
Without any visible movent from Hamr, invisible hamr strikes instantly surrounded Gion as Absolute Space ford imdiately.
The reason Hamr agreed to this was because he had discovered sothing:
Absolute Space also greatly improved his own growth.
By constantly maintaining Absolute Space, he could clearly feel his mastery over the Devil Fruit strengthening at a noticeable pace.
And so seven days passed.
The group drifted across the White-White Sea for an entire week.
Once Hamr calculated enough ti had passed, he finally ordered the soldiers to accelerate toward Angel Island.
"Hamr, what if we run into the Roger Pirates again?"
Looking at the increasingly close Angel Island, Lance asked from behind Hamr.
For Lance, these seven days had been absolute hell.
Constant Armant Haki beatdowns from Shirley and Tokikake,
Combined with Hamr occasionally using All-Directions Hamr to forcibly compress him,
Left Lance ntally exhausted.
But the results were obvious.
From his initial three million volts, he had now increased his output to seven million volts.
As for Shirley and Tokikake.
Shirley was fine.
Being a Mink, she naturally generated electricity and possessed near-maxed-out lightning resistance.
But Tokikake?
He suffered miserably.
The man had basically beco an afro-headed explosion victim.
Still, his lightning resistance improved quite a bit too.
"Run into them? I'll just throw you out there to electrocute them."
Hamr shot Lance an irritated glare.
Seriously, what an awful topic to bring up.
"What if we run into them again?"
'What?'
'Did eating the Rumble-Rumble Fruit suddenly make Lance think he could challenge Roger now?'
'Stop joking.'
Hamr still wanted to live a few more years.
"I can see the harbor. Shirley, do you see Roger's ship?"
"Nope. Don't see it."
"Perfect. They probably already left. Alright boys, let's dock!"
The mont Roger's ship wasn't spotted, Hamr's mood instantly brightened.
As long as he didn't run into Roger,
Hamr feared absolutely nobody!
"Oh? Vice Admiral Hamr, you've returned."
The mont Hamr and the others landed at Angel Island again, Gan Fall, who happened to be patrolling the harbor, imdiately noticed them.
"Gan Fall, where's that bastard Roger?"
"Roger? He already left."
"GOOD!"
'...Was Roger really that scary? He honestly didn't feel that terrifying to .'
"Since Roger's already gone, let's spare him for now."
"Gan Fall, there's actually sothing I want to discuss with you."
Hamr imdiately dragged Gan Fall aside, preparing for a little heart-to-heart conversation.
"What is it, Vice Admiral Hamr?"
"You helped us resolve the Shandian conflict. If there's anything you need help with, just say it."
"You know I'm a Marine, but I'm also a blacksmith."
"I'd like to establish a long-term purchase arrangent for Skypiean Dials and Iron Clouds. What do you think?"
This had always been Hamr's plan.
Skypiea produced huge quantities of Dials and Iron Clouds, both were materials he desperately needed.
Obviously freeloading wasn't an option.
But if he could get a discount?
Even better.
"That? Sure."
"But Vice Admiral Hamr, can you frequently co to Skypiea?"
In Gan Fall's eyes, the real problem was transportation.
Skypiea was ten thousand ters above the sea.
Traveling back and forth wasn't easy.
"Don't worry about that."
"My vice-captain Lance can fly now. He'll co collect the shipnts."
As he spoke, Hamr looked toward Lance in the distance with an extrely devious grin.
Lance instantly shivered.
Just from that smile alone, he already knew Hamr was plotting sothing against him again.
"In that case, it's possible."
"But if Vice Admiral Hamr can also forge a Cloud Armor for , I can personally ensure every rchant gives you a 20% discount. What do you think?"
Gan Fall had personally witnessed Hamr's forging ability.
That heaven-defying craftsmanship was truly extraordinary.
And the incredibly powerful Cloud Armor, he wanted one too!
"You old geezer, you're pretty sly!"
"Do you even know how difficult Cloud Armor is to forge?!"
"40% discount!"
"25% discount, Vice Admiral Hamr."
"Iron Clouds still need to be gathered and processed. You should consider the hardships of Skypieans"
"30% discount!"
"Deal!"
Hamr: 'Damn old man! Old people really are the most annoying!'
Gan Fall: 'Ahahaha, young man, you're still too inexperienced! Iron Clouds are easy to gather! Cloud Armor, here I co!'
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