One Piece: Starting as a Marine Lieutenant, I Slack Off and Get Stronger

"Ding! Your cumulative time spent slacking off has reached 500 hours. The first stage of the [Career Mission - King of Slacking Off] has been completed."

"Rewards: 10 Advanced Attribute Enhancement Cards, 1 [Armament Haki - External Release] Skill Card"

Karl grinned: "Use all enhancement cards to enhance perception."

After the enhancement is complete, Carl's attributes are as follows.

Host: Karl

Age: 24 years old

Physical fitness: B

Perception: B-

Willpower: B+

Haki: Armament Haki LV6 (Hardening, Entangling, External Release), Observation Haki LV5

Special Abilities: [Still as a Virgin], [Swift as a Rabbit], [Child of the Sea], [Swordsmanship LV3]

Holy Light Fruit: 23.6% (Awakening Progress)

Active Skills: Vulnerable (available), Shadow Vision (already used).

Karl's strength continued to improve steadily, especially in terms of his domineering aura and swordsmanship, where he made rapid progress.

"Colonel! We have arrived in Marineford. Please give your instructions!"

"Alright, then let's dismiss everyone! Get some rest!"

"Yes, sir!"

After following Carl for two months, Nelson has grown a lot and at least no longer needs to ask Carl for advice on everything.

Carl patted Nelson on the shoulder, turned and left, heading straight for the Marshal's office.

......

Knock knock knock~

"Come in!"

Karl walked into the Marshal's office, nodded and smiled at Staff Officer Crane beside him, then sat down and quietly became a handsome man.

"Karl, you've done a great job these past two months. You've easily taken down four pirate crews with bounties over 4 million. Your efficiency is truly impressive!"

Karl was stunned. This was considered high efficiency? How slow were the others?

After thinking about it carefully, Karl felt that it might be because he was lazy. He simply gave up on those pirate crews that didn't have much information and didn't act frequently, and focused on dealing with those more active pirate crews. How could that not be efficient?

He won't be like the future Smoker, chasing after someone from the East Blue all the way to the New World for a straw hat.

"Everything is for justice!"

Sengoku and He looked at each other and nodded. Sengoku then took a document from the drawer and handed it to Karl.

With a faint smile on his face, he said, "Congratulations, Karl. From now on, you are a Rear Admiral of the Marine Headquarters!"

"Ding! The host's military rank has been promoted from colonel to major general. You have received a promotion reward: 3 special-grade designated attribute enhancement cards."

"Daily task rewards have been changed to 7 designated attribute enhancement cards + 4 random rewards (can be stored), and the probability of obtaining rare rewards has been increased to 7%."

Karl's face lit up with joy as he took the official document from Sengoku's hand, feeling quite pleased with himself.

"Major General Karl."

"exist!"

Sengoku smiled and shook his head, handing a document to Karl. Upon seeing the title beginning with "Seven Warlords of the Sea," Karl frowned: "Fleet Admiral Sengoku, this is..."

"That's right, I didn't agree with it in the first place, but I didn't say much because of the pressure from the World Government. But recently their behavior has gone a bit too far, and you should know that very well."

Originally, Sengoku turned a blind eye to the behavior of the Seven Warlords of the Sea, as long as they behaved themselves and didn't go too far.

However, Karl's two encounters with the Seven Warlords of the Sea served as a wake-up call for Sengoku, clearly indicating that some of the Seven Warlords did not take the Navy seriously at all.

Carl nodded quickly, "That's right! Especially that Mihawk, he's really wicked. Look at Moria, he's so dedicated, he didn't dare to lay a hand on us even after we killed so many of his zombies."

"Therefore, I plan to convene all the Shichibukai members at Marineford during the World Government Summit, and your task is to 'invite' one of the Shichibukai to Marineford."

To be honest, apart from being forced to accept the World Government's summons and paying a certain amount to the government, the Seven Warlords of the Sea are usually free to act as they please, completely free from government interference.

Even as the Fleet Admiral, Sengoku couldn't arbitrarily mobilize these Seven Warlords of the Sea. Therefore, he went to great lengths to obtain the World Government's approval for this summons.

After thinking it over carefully, Carl nodded. It was indeed a challenging task.

"Marshal of the Warring States Period, tell me! Whom should I invite?"

Chapter 56 Lieutenant Ain

Zhan Guo didn't speak, but placed a document on his desk.

"The other Seven Warlords have already been invited by Vice Admirals, and now only Boa Hancock remains uninvited. Are you confident?"

Karl raised an eyebrow, immediately sensing something was amiss. If it was the Empress, then completing the "Don't fight your own people" task would be extremely difficult!

If it were Crocodile or Doflamingo, he would be 100% confident in completing the mission, because both of them would greatly need the identity of a Shichibukai.

As for the Empress, although she is needed, this woman has a strange personality and always uses her beauty to commit crimes; otherwise, this mission would not have been his.

"Um, Marshal Sengoku, could we change him?"

"What do you say?"

It seems there's no way to change it. Karl sighed and took the Empress's information.

"Alright! I'll take this mission, but I remember Daughter Island is in the Calm Belt! My warship can't get there!"

Sengoku waved his hand: "That's a minor issue. You're already a general-level officer, and headquarters will provide you with a Seastone warship, which will arrive the day after tomorrow."

"Take a rest these next couple of days, and we'll set off on time the day after tomorrow!"

"Ok."

Just as Karl was about to leave, Staff Officer Crane called out to him, "Wait a minute!"

"Staff Officer He? What's the matter?"

Staff Officer He looked at Karl with a smile and said, "There is indeed something you should remember about this girl, Aien, right?"

"Of course! Wait, Staff Officer He, she won't be in trouble, will she?"

Seeing Karl's worried expression, Staff Officer He was taken aback at first, then laughed and said, "Don't talk nonsense, Ain is fine! It's just that she wants to be your adjutant."

"Oh, that's good! Wait, what did you say? Ain wants to be with me?"

Staff Officer He chuckled and joked, "Yes! Sigh~ I've raised her with so much care and effort for so long, but daughters grow up and leave home!"

Karl was getting restless. After not seeing each other for so long, she suddenly wanted to be his adjutant. Could it be that Ain was after him?

"Then, this, did Ain really say that?"

"How can it be false?"

Sengoku chuckled and said, "Don't even mention Ain, plenty of female marines would love to be on your ship! It's truly enviable!"

"Tsk tsk tsk~ The most handsome man in the world, I was a handsome guy when I was young too! Why didn't anyone give me that nickname?"

Are the rumors about the world's most handsome man really this outrageous these days? No wonder all those female sailors were staring at him with gleam in their eyes the whole way here!

Karl scratched his head awkwardly: "Since Staff Officer He has spoken, I'll go talk to Ain later."

Staff Officer He nodded: "That's for the best. Anyway, I've already released her. Just have her report to you directly!"

......

After leaving the Navy Headquarters, Carl arrived at the training ground. Although there were no new recruits, Zephyr would be there every day to guide the Navy's training.

"Professor Zephyr! It's been a long time!"

"Hahaha, you've finally deigned to come see this old man! Tsk tsk tsk~ Not bad! You're a major general now!"

Zefa patted Karl on the shoulder, his face full of joy. Karl's physique hadn't suffered; it seemed he really had been training diligently.

"I'm just catching pirates every day! Otherwise, I wouldn't have been able to be promoted directly from colonel to rear admiral!"

Zephyr waved his hand dismissively: "Your current strength is more than enough to be a vice admiral. Compared to Akainu and Aokiji, you're actually slow!"

"How could I possibly compare to those monsters!"

Upon hearing Karl's words, Zephyr smiled without saying a word. In fact, in his opinion, Karl could also be described as a monster.

After chatting for a while, Zephyr suddenly pointed to a blue-haired girl by the training field: "Hey, look, isn't that Ain?"

Carl looked closely and realized it was true, so he quickly went over.

"Ain, are you here to see Teacher Zephyr too?"

Ain looked at Karl, whom she hadn't seen in a long time, her face slightly flushed: "Um, did Staff Officer He tell you about becoming your deputy?"

"Hahaha, of course I said so. What, are you so eager to become my adjutant?"

Ian playfully punched Karl in the chest with her small fist: "Hmph! I'm going to be your adjutant, do you agree?"

"How could I dare disagree! Otherwise, if you turn me into a child, who am I supposed to complain to?"