Chapter 21 - Captain in Crisis, I'm Done For! (Please keep reading)
Nichijou Bai Ye: [The Rumble-Rumble Fruit is perfectly fine, and you also know its exact location. By the way, there shouldn't have been a Rumble-Rumble Fruit user in your era, so it must have been reborn after death, right?]
Speaking of which, there's still some time until Eneru's era.
If the Rumble-Rumble Fruit user were still alive, then this fruit would definitely not be able to go to Birka for the time being.
Pirate Bai Ye: [There isn't one currently. I definitely have to go to Birka, otherwise I will surely die in God Valley!]
No matter how uncertain he was, if he didn't go, he would definitely die in God Valley.
Zombie Bai Ye: [God Valley is indeed dangerous. There's the God's Knights, Roger, and Garp, as well as the Rocks Pirates' forces. Later on, it seems God Valley was split in half, right? Silver Axe, Captain John, and others all died, and then half of God Valley directly became Thriller Bark? I don't want you to be living as a zombie many years later!]
God Valley itself was extremely dangerous. Silver Axe and Captain John died there.
Many years later, half of God Valley was found by Moriah, who discovered these corpses there and subsequently created his zombie army.
Naruto Bai Ye: [By the way, can you not go? What's your situation with Rocks right now?]
Everyone seemed to only know that he was with the Rocks Pirates, but what his specific situation was, everyone wasn't very clear.
Pirate Bai Ye: [To put it simply, the Rocks Pirates are more like a large fleet, similar to the Straw Hat Grand Fleet in later generations. Rocks himself has his own pirate crew, and everyone else joined midway, such as Golden Lion, Whitebeard, and Linlin. I'm pretty much the same. Although my strength is only that of a Rear Admiral, because I joined relatively early, I also have my own Division!]
Nichijou Bai Ye: [Holy crap, Rocks is quite generous to you then! You have a Division with Rear Admiral strength!]
Bai Ye was actually an investment for Rocks. When the Rocks Pirates were just preparing to take action, he also led his pirate crew to join the Rocks Pirates immediately.
The main reason was that this timeline was very awkward. At that time, he didn't have any cheat abilities, so he needed to cling to a powerful figure.
The survival environment for the Marine was precarious in this era, and Bai Ye also didn't want to be a dog for the Celestial Dragons. Naturally, Bai Ye immediately rejected the role of a Marine.
After all, he was a transmigrator. If he only wanted stability, he could totally be a laid-back Marine in the Four Seas, but he was not resigned to that.
And the Revolutionary Army didn't exist yet, so he could only choose to become a pirate.
Among pirates, currently only two forces were worth joining: the Roger Pirates and the Rocks Pirates.
The Roger Pirates, after being defeated by Rocks once, left the New World and started wandering around the Four Seas. It was obviously not easy for Bai Ye to find them.
The Rocks Pirates had always been entrenched on Hachinosu Island in the New World, so Bai Ye gritted his teeth and decided to join the Rocks Pirates.
Pirate Bai Ye: [In a startup team, even if your strength isn't that strong, the boss will give you a good position. I guess it's similar to Burgess around Blackbeard, but my potential is a bit better than his. Actually, I was only Colonel strength at first; all of this improvement came from training with Rocks during this time!]
The key to Bai Ye's rapid increase in strength was training with Rocks.
He was able to become a Division Captain not only because of Rocks's care, but also because he only took one week to advance from Colonel strength to Rear Admiral strength, and his strength continued to increase rapidly after that, which made Rocks see potential in Bai Ye.
Plus, Bai Ye was the first person to respond to him, so naturally, Rocks would take more care of Bai Ye.
Naruto Bai Ye: [So your pirate crew is all together now?]
He was a bit curious. If everyone was gathered, then it would be almost time for God Valley, right?
Pirate Bai Ye: [Not yet. Kaido hasn't arrived. Currently, the First Division Captain is Whitebeard, the Second Division Captain is Golden Lion, the Third Division is Charlotte Linlin, I am the Fourth Division Captain, the Fifth Division is Wang Zhi, the Sixth Division is Captain John, and the Seventh Division is Silver Axe.]
With a total of seven Divisions, plus some other pirates affiliated with each Division, the framework of the entire Rocks Pirates had already taken shape.
Even if Kaido joined later, he wouldn't become a Division Captain. After all, Rocks had already stated that there would only be seven Captains, and that would not change in the future.
Inuyasha Bai Ye: [That's not bad then. Seven Captains, even if you're the weakest among them, it still looks good!]
This was the Rocks Pirates!
In this era, it was probably the strongest pirate crew. Even Roger and others, when they annihilated the Rocks Pirates, they had to combine with other forces, and even then, so many people escaped.
After so many people escaped, three became the future Four Emperors, and two were legendary great pirates on par with Roger. The Rocks Pirates could be said to be full of talent.
Pirate Bai Ye: [Damn it, I thought so too at first, but Rocks also gave a month's time, saying that a Captain challenge match would be held later. Whoever wins can be a Captain. I'm done for!]
Damn it!
He also wanted to just muddle through at first, but now he felt that he absolutely couldn't muddle through.
With the Captain challenge match starting, his strength would definitely be targeted by everyone.
People like Whitebeard, probably no one would dare to challenge them. Even Wang Zhi and his group would have few challengers. Most people would come to challenge him.
This was also why Bai Ye was so eager to find the Rumble-Rumble Fruit.
Nichijou Bai Ye: [Then you're pretty miserable, but you can activate your Mangekyo!]
Pirate Bai Ye: [I can activate the Mangekyo, but my stamina can't keep up, and I feel that the Rumble-Rumble Fruit currently offers the greatest improvement, so no matter what, I can't sit back and do nothing. This month or so is probably the time Rocks gave me. If I don't achieve it, he won't care about our past relationship!]
During this time, Rocks had been guiding him in his training. If he failed, Rocks would probably no longer guide him in future training.
So Bai Ye couldn't sit back and do nothing. In the pirate world, a teacher was very important, for example, Kaido, who could teach Luffy a new ability with just one swing of his club.
"Hey! Bai Ye, I've been looking for you for ages! Let's go drink!"
Just as Bai Ye was speaking in the chat group, Captain John grabbed Bai Ye directly, looking like he was about to drag Bai Ye to a banquet: "By the way, kid, stop thinking about training. I heard Rocks brought back a very talented kid with Whitebeard!"