In a person's life, energy always gradually declines with age.
Flowers can bloom again, but youth never returns.
Kenji felt his body was in the best condition it had ever been, even better than in his youth.
After all, in his youth, while his energy might have been abundant, his physique was generally far from its peak state.
He even had a premonition that after some time, his face might change, becoming even younger.
As for staying up all night having fun, it was incredibly easy.
With his overflowing energy at this moment, staying up all night for several days and night would be a trivial matter.
"If I go to the pleasure district to relax when I have free time, will I be refused service or charged double?"
Kenji puffed out his chest and breathed, a thought suddenly popping into his mind, vaguely sensing that he would likely be turned away from many pleasure districts in the future.
After a moment of random thoughts, he shook his head, collected his thoughts, and returned his attention to the system's trait interface.
"Hmm, besides Physique, Swordsmanship has actually advanced."
In his field of vision, Swordsmanship was shimmering with purple light.
"Light purple rarity, it probably means I've stepped into the threshold of a swordsman!"
Kenji wasn't very familiar with the way of the sword. He had stopped training it after a period when he realized he didn't have much talent for it.
He wasn't really clear about the specific divisions of swordsmanship strength.
However, the highest rarity for a trait was Gold, so he estimated that a purple rarity swordsmanship trait, second only to Gold, should at least be considered a swordsman.
Even if not a great swordsman, at least a minor swordsman should be okay, they were all swordsmen after all.
It was just that Kenji's 'Swordsman' status was somewhat watered down. He had almost forgotten the sword techniques he had trained back then.
"I'll practice again when I have the chance."
Kenji rubbed his chin, recalling the demeanor of those 'Great Swordsmen' in his memory.
"Don't say it, fighting with a sword is indeed..."
Soon, he reined in his scattered thoughts and turned his gaze to the '+' signs behind the traits.
"I still have 3 assignable upgrades left... which one to choose..."
Kenji's gaze swept over each trait.
He first found several Gold Traits.
Besides Armament Haki and Physique, which had already been upgraded to the highest 'Super Gold' rarity, the remaining Gold Traits were Observation Haki, Conqueror's Haki, and Hand-to-Hand Combat.
Kenji's gaze finally landed on the Conqueror's Haki trait.
"I must upgrade you first!"
He chose to upgrade the Conqueror's Haki trait not just because of Conqueror's Haki's inherent power.
Another important reason was that the Dark Gold rarity was too hard to bear; it had to be dealt with.
As Kenji mentally pressed the '+' sign behind the trait, the golden light emanating from the trait grew even more intense.
[Your Conqueror's Haki (Dark Gold) has been upgraded to Conqueror's Haki (Super Gold)!]
"The third 'Super Gold' rarity trait achieved!"
Kenji looked at his gains with satisfaction.
"Now I have 2 upgrade opportunities left... Hmm, I'll upgrade Observation Haki!"
"Observation Haki is already Gold rarity. Two consecutive upgrades will make it Super Gold!"
Kenji's attention shifted to the Observation Haki trait, and he clicked the '+' sign behind the trait twice in a row.
[Your Observation Haki (Gold) has been upgraded... Dark Gold... Super Gold!]
[Current Observation Haki (Super Gold)!]
"The fourth Super Gold trait!"
"Ugh, all the rewards are used up..."
At this moment, Kenji scanned the four traits glowing with golden light, feeling both satisfaction and a sense of emptiness.
It was like the deep emptiness after experiencing extreme pleasure.
Fortunately, a system prompt appeared very timely, filling the empty feeling in Kenji's heart.
The system had issued a new mission!
And it was an extremely difficult mission, which immediately diverted Kenji's attention.
[The Marine's highest combat power has finally arrived as reinforcements. Feeling greatly encouraged, you decide to gamble your righteous life and respond to the Marine's highest combat power's challenge to one of the Legendary Pirates, the Roger Pirates, for a decisive battle!]
[Mission (Main): Deeply assist the Marine's highest combat power in subjugating the Roger Pirates, and survive until the battle ends!]
[Reward: Random evolution of an owned trait 1 time!]
"This... what's going on? I've decided to gamble my life?"
Kenji was dumbfounded.
"Hey, system, don't make decisions on your own!"
He knew that the system's timeline differed greatly from reality. The system would make some behavioral deductions and issue missions based on his performance in the virtual timeline.
But even in a virtual timeline, being arranged by the system without permission was quite annoying.
However, he had to admit, he felt no emptiness at all at this moment.
This move by the system made him highly focused, carefully examining all the mission content.
"Assisting in the subjugation of the Roger Pirates, and surviving... that's very difficult." Kenji frowned.
If Legendary Pirates were so easy to subjugate, the Marine and the World Government wouldn't have been unable to catch them all this time.
In fact, until the end of the Legendary Pirate era, not a single one of the three legendary pirates was captured.
And the reason for the end of the three legendary pirate era was not due to external pressure or challenges, but from within.
It was because one of the three had elevated his status .
Initially, they were happily legendary together, but one secretly became the 'Pirate King'.
Now, the system's mission was to subjugate this Legendary Pirate with the potential to be the 'Pirate King'.
"This difficulty, the reward... huh?"
Kenji discovered that this mission's reward was a completely new thing he had never seen before.
"Trait evolution reward? Direct evolution?"
"Hmm, it doesn't seem to be an ordinary derivative evolution..."
Normally, a derivative evolution is only highly likely to be triggered when a trait advances to Gold rarity.
He felt that this reward was somewhat great, but it matched the difficulty of the 'Subjugate Legendary Pirate' mission quite well.
"This system, it really doesn't leave any loopholes."
Kenji pouted, closed the system interface, and looked up into the distance.
At this moment, on the distant shore opposite, Roger and his crew were already prepared, their aura fully unleashed, and a major battle could erupt at any moment.
Actually, under normal circumstances, the battle wouldn't start so quickly, because Garp's warship and the island's coast were still separated by a considerable distance—about a dozen nautical miles.
However, Garp's style couldn't be viewed with normal eyes. He often made choices that would drop jaws.
For example, right now, the warship was still a dozen nautical miles from the coast, a very long distance.
However, Garp stood at the bow and exerted force with both feet, instantly crushing the front half of the warship's deck, causing the stern to lift high and almost sinking the entire warship.
Garp himself, using the enormous recoil force, flew at high speed towards Roger, who was standing on the shore.
"No wonder Tsuru didn't want to ride on the same warship as him... Garp really wastes warships."
Kenji looked at the warship in the distance that was almost sinking, and silently made up his mind.
He must never let Garp board his warship.