In the open space in front of the branch's dilapidated house, Li Yan was doing the most basic training in swordsmanship, that is, slashing.

"299..."

"300..."

Li Yan put down the ordinary sword in his hand and wiped his sweat vigorously.

Back then, even if I slashed like this tens of thousands of times, I probably wouldn't shed a drop of sweat, but now, it's better, after just 500 swings, I'm already covered in sweat.

However, when Li Yan rechecked his attributes, he found that there was a change in the way of swordsmanship.

[Swordsmanship level: Lv.0 (54%)]

"It actually increased by 2%!"

"I once spent a year trying to master the way of swordsmanship again, and it was only 52%. But now I just conducted 300 slashing trainings, and it has increased by 2%!"

"This B-level swordsmanship talent is really something!"

"However, even at this speed, it will probably take several years to return to the level of a swordsman!"

After all, Li Yan had carefully read the system's classification of swordsmanship levels before.

Starting from Lv.0 to Lv9, they are actually not good enough. They have not even reached the standard of a swordsman. You have to start from Lv10 to truly become a swordsman apprentice. If you want to become a swordsman, you still need to make a leap.

From third-rate to first-rate swordsmen, it is not until the swordsmanship level reaches Lv. 50 that they first enter the realm of swordsman. As for the realm of great swordsman, it is far away.

And according to the system's explanation, ordinary slashing training will only have some effect before the swordsman level. When the sword level reaches Lv. 20, the proficiency that this basic training can bring will be very little. Maybe you

Even if you play for a whole day, you may not be able to gain 1%.

After all, you can't become a great swordsman just by practicing basic slashing, can you?

Of course, these are all things for later. For now, reaching Lv20 as soon as possible and becoming a swordsman again is the primary goal.

Otherwise, even in the East China Sea, which is known as the weakest sea, I would not have the ability to hunt pirates, even those with only one or two million bounties.

If you don't hunt pirates, you will have no merit points. Without merit points, you cannot continue to develop.

Is it possible that we need to pray to the system every day to be kind and do another welfare mission?

Thinking of this...

Li Yan, who had just rested for a while, waved the sword in his hand seriously again.

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Three days later.

"999..."

"1000..."

After completing a new round of basic kendo training, Li Yan once again called up his personal attributes from the system.

【Li Yan】

[Military rank: colonel]

[Position: Base Commander of the 18th Donghai Branch of the Navy]

[Power value: 38]

[Martial arts level: Lv.2 (41%)]

[Swordsmanship level (B-level talent): Lv.2 (92%)]

[Devil Fruit: None]

[Three colors of domineering: armed color Lv.0, knowledge color Lv.0, overlord color Lv.0]

[Exclusive Features: None]

[Skill: Sixth Naval Style·Shaving Lv.0 (37%)]

[Merit value: 2000]

Compared with the past three days, the swordsmanship proficiency has increased by 2 and a half levels, and even the power value has increased by 2 points, although I have not deliberately exercised my body.

At this rate, he should be able to reach the standards of a swordsman again within ten days.

Although compared to the time when one could directly obtain abilities by relying on the divine selection system, this method is now tiring and inefficient.

However, Li Yan felt very at ease.

After all, this is an ability obtained through his own training. Looking at the changes on the panel every day, Li Yan has an indescribable sense of accomplishment.

"It's already the third day. The navy and construction team should be arriving soon, right?"

"Speaking of which, it seems that the scheduled ship is also today!"

Li Yan sheathed his sword again, took his colonel's cloak from the side and covered it behind him, and walked towards the shore.

Sure enough, when Li Yan arrived at the shore, he soon saw two ships, one large and one small, heading towards the small port of the Eighteenth Branch.

Looking at the flags, the larger one is the ship of Donghai Luolan Construction Company, while the smaller one is a monthly scheduled ship.

Presumably according to the arrangement of the system, the ten people who were going to sign up to join the navy in the Eighteenth Branch came by regular ship, right?

With this thought in mind, Li Yan quickly walked towards the small port, preparing to greet his first batch of subordinates.

It's actually not wrong to say that it is a small port. It only has a very simple wooden pier, and the size is only enough to dock two small ships.

As for the big ship owned by Luo Lan Company, it couldn't dock at all, so people could only be sent ashore in batches in small boats.

Li Yan was also very confused about this.

But there is no way...

In the construction module, even a basic military port that can accommodate 3 small warships costs 10,000 merit points, and that’s just the price of the blueprint!

At this stage, I can't afford it at all, and I don't have enough building materials, okay?

Luo Lan Company is indeed the most famous infrastructure company in the East China Sea. After foreman Gross came ashore and asked Li Yan about building materials, construction drawings and construction locations, he immediately took more than a hundred people to start the construction.

After taking care of the construction team, Li Yan surrendered his eyes to the ten people who came with the regular ship.

After a brief inquiry, I found that indeed, as the system said, these ten people were from different islands in the East China Sea, and they all had real identities and were not characters who appeared out of thin air.

However, Li Yan was a little curious. How did the system allow these people to come here voluntarily to join the navy? Could it be that it had modified their personal will or memory?

[Ding, host, your idea is very dangerous, the system will not modify the will or memory of the natives of the pirate world!]

Well...

I just thought about it casually, but unexpectedly the system jumped out immediately?

However, Li Yan became more curious after hearing this. If this was not the case, what method did the system use to get them to come proactively?

"Speaking of which, the 18th Donghai Branch of the Navy is just a very remote branch that is even on the verge of being cancelled. Why did you choose to come here to sign up for the navy instead of going to a larger naval branch like Rogge Town?"

After voicing his question, Li Yan saw one of them put his hand into his trouser pocket and took out something.

"Sir Colonel, I came here because I saw this!"

"this is?"

Taking it from his hand, he found that it was a pound of paper that had just been crumpled into a ball. After quickly opening it and seeing the contents on it, Li Yan felt numb all over!

Isn’t this just a small advertisement from the previous life?

And look at what is written on it, what is said that the new base commander is the proud disciple of Zefa, the chief instructor of the Navy Headquarters, what is known in the headquarters as the seed of the next three navy generals, what is about to start building the most powerful branch base in the East China Sea, etc.

, it even says that you can expect to join the 18th branch and become a general in the future...

"You too?"

Hearing this, the rest of the people nodded, and then silently took out a wad of paper.

Seeing this, Li Yan was even more confused.

Isn't this system causing chaos for itself? Once such a small advertisement is released, maybe even the big pirates on the Grand Line will come to kill me.

After all, the small advertisement said that he is the seed of the three future generals. Who wants to kill him and not become famous immediately?

If I were a year ago, I wouldn't be afraid, but now I...

"System, you did this?"

[Ding, this system knows what the host is worried about, but please don’t worry, the system has only posted ten such promotional tips in total, and no one else will see it except these ten people!]

After hearing the explanation given by the system, Li Yan finally breathed a sigh of relief. The system was still reliable.

"Okay, as the base commander of the 18th branch of the East China Sea, I welcome you to join the navy family!"

"But you have also seen that there is nothing here now. Even the office building is being rebuilt. Therefore, during this period, everyone will help the construction team with some physical work. The sooner the construction of the branch is completed, the better the branch will be.

The sooner it gets up and running!”

Looking at the ten people in front of him, Li Yan said loudly.

There is nothing at the moment. According to what Gross just said after looking at the drawings, these buildings will take about a month to complete. Before then, the Li Yan branch will not be able to operate at all.

In this case, let's just let ten sailors help with some physical work first, which can speed up the progress one day at a time.
To be continued...