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

"After all, you're the warden of Impel Down. How you deal with these prisoners is your decision, so I won't interfere."

Karl was telling the truth, and it didn't matter if Magellan didn't listen at all, because with his presence, the gears of fate had already quietly begun to turn.

Who can say for sure what the future holds?

Magellan sighed, ultimately unable to make a decision: "Thank you for the suggestion, Major General Karl. I will give your opinion a good consideration, I promise."

"Well, it's about time, let's go!"

Magellan turned and walked toward the elevator, deep in thought. As he passed Shiryu's cell, Shiryu was still yelling at the top of his lungs, "Magellan, if you dare to give the thunderstorm to anyone else! I swear I will kill you!"

"Hmph!" A cold glint flashed in Magellan's eyes. He extended his left hand, conjuring a long, thin, dragon-shaped stream of deadly poison, and said in a low voice, "Sorry, you don't have a chance!"

Shiryu stared wide-eyed in disbelief: "You want to kill me? Have you forgotten that we were once known as the iron wall of Impel Down?"

"Shiliu, you were sent to the Infinite Hell for indiscriminately killing prisoners and colleagues. You should have been executed, but in consideration of our past relationship, I have changed it to a suspended death sentence."

"But now it seems that you have not only not repented, but have become even worse."

"Today, in my capacity as the Warden of Impel Down, I hereby execute you on the spot! Poison Dragon!!!"

Shiryu roared, "I only killed some trash, what right do you have...?"

The dragon-shaped creature roared in agony as it charged toward Shiliu, exploding on his body. Its purplish-red venom continued to corrode his flesh, rendering him unable to utter a sound.

In the end, Shiryu turned into a sticky, indescribable mass and died in his cell.

Magellan sighed, looked at Karl beside him, said nothing, yet seemed to have said everything.

The first layer at sea.

Magellan personally handed Shiliu's sword, Thunderstorm, to Karl, saying, "I hope it will be of some help to you."

Karl smiled as he received the thunder and rain, which coalesced into a massive ball of holy light, which he then absorbed into Magellan's body.

"Consider it my parting gift that Director Magellan will not suffer from diarrhea for at least three days!"

Magellan then smiled and said, "General Karl is very kind!"

"500 prisoners have been loaded onto the transport ship. We wish Major General Karl a safe journey!"

Domino watched Carl's departing figure with reluctance, sighing in her heart. When would she ever see such a handsome man again?

As the escort ship gradually departed, Magellan's expression returned to calm. He turned to Hannibal and said, "Within two hours, place the files of all criminals in Level 6 in my office!"

Hannibal blinked in bewilderment. Was this really the Magellan he knew?

On the escort ship, Karl gripped Thunderstorm and slowly drew it from its sheath, a strange red light flashing across the blade.

"Tsk tsk tsk, a cursed sword..."

Chapter 80 Ability Awakening Stage 1

The red light quickly disappeared.

The blade exhibits a liquid-washing-like motion effect, turning the edge blue before returning to normal.

The moment Karl gripped the hilt of the knife, he felt the urge to kill rising in his mind, and it still is now.

"A demonic sword, indeed demonic!"

No wonder Shiryu is so bloodthirsty; he's quite a match for this sword.

Smoker walked over and looked at Thunderstorm in Karl's hand, saying, "A demon sword? This sword is a demon sword? I can't tell."

"Here, you'll see when you try it!" With that, Carl tossed the thunderstorm to Smoker, letting him experience it for himself.

"Tch, nothing special..."

Smoker suddenly froze before he could finish speaking, a red glint flashing in his eyes. He looked at Karl expressionlessly, gripping Thunderstorm with both hands and striking a pose.

"Smorg?"

The next second, a strange red streak flashed past Karl, followed by a ding.

Carl pulled out half of the Autumn Water, blocking Smoker's attack.

"This guy..." Bang! With a backhand kick, he sent the Thunderstorm in Smoker's hand flying into the air, and precisely grabbed the hilt of the knife as it fell.

Smoker scratched his head, looking completely bewildered. What had just happened?

"The waters of this knife are too deep; you didn't have a firm grasp on it, and it controlled you!"

"So what I was just now was..." "That's right, you wanted to cut me."

Smoker looked at the Thunderstorm in Karl's hand with apprehension: "Is this the demon sword? Good thing I don't use swords!"

Karl chuckled and said with a smile, "The so-called demon sword is just a famous sword. Famous swords choose their masters. The weak are not worthy of it and therefore cannot control it, leading to their untimely death. The weak fear famous swords, hence the name 'demon sword'."

Being called a "demon sword" is an honor for the sword, proving that its fearsome reputation inspires dread.

After saying this, Karl sheathed Thunderstorm and continued, "If you want to use this sword, you must either respect its will and make it drink blood, just like its original owner, Shiliu."

"Either take complete control of it and make it a killing weapon in your own hands."

"Cut~"

Smoker lit a cigar and strolled away leisurely...

The escort ship needs to travel all the way from the Calm Belt to the Red Line, pass through the passes of Mary Geoise to reach the New World, and then head to Punk Hazard.

This would take approximately two days (including nights) for the voyage.

As dinner time approached, Carl removed the eye mask that Aokiji wore, sat up from the recliner, and yawned.

"The cumulative time spent slacking off has reached 8 hours, and the daily task has been completed."

Rewards include 7 designated attribute enhancement cards + 4 random rewards (can be stored)

Karl silently chanted in his mind: Strengthen the physique to the fullest extent! Then, he left the reward untouched.

Karl usually uses all the enhancement cards from his daily task rewards and saves the random rewards. He's been saving them for less than a month now, and with today's reward, he has a total of 122 draws.

Karl is planning to save up 150 pulls and then do them all at once!

After a slight spasm, the enhancement ended, and the attributes remained largely unchanged.

"The host's Devil Fruit awakening progress has been detected to have reached the first stage. The host is free to develop new abilities!"

"To help the host enjoy slacking off, this system will automatically explore development directions for the host and is currently collecting data. Please wait..."

Karl's lips curled up slightly. "Look, what a mature system looks like."

"Data collection is complete. The most suitable development direction for the host in the first stage is purification."

Karl raised an eyebrow slightly: "Go on."

"Purification: By greatly enhancing the healing effect of Holy Light, the body is immediately restored to a normal state, thus instantly removing various negative effects, such as burns, poisoning, bleeding and other common negative statuses."

"When developed to its fullest potential, it can neutralize the negative effects of other Devil Fruit abilities on the host."

Sounds good! Although it still lacks combat power, its support capabilities are off the charts.

"good,"

Now that the system had told him how to develop it, Karl immediately began experimenting.

After conjuring a ball of holy light in his left hand, Karl frowned. The holy light he was releasing now had both strengthening and healing effects. To enhance the healing effect separately, he had to find a way to separate the strengthening and healing.

After trying for a long time without success, Karl dispelled the holy light and rushed into the cafeteria.

People are iron, and rice is steel, so you panic if you don't eat a meal.

Even if we want to develop skills, let's finish eating first.

That night, Karl had a dream in which he saw white light in his left hand and yellow light in his right, one hand for healing and the other for strengthening.

With his assistance, the three admirals of the Navy slapped the pirate's mouth repeatedly, and then the dream ended.

Carl got out of bed, completely bewildered; it was already daylight.

"Could this be some kind of hint?"

Without further ado, Karl went to cook.

After finishing his meal, Karl retreated to his room to develop his abilities. This allowed him to accumulate time for slacking off while simultaneously developing his skills—a win-win situation.

What?! You're asking who's going to protect the escort ship and prevent attacks from Sea Kings and pirates? There's Smoker, isn't there?

Otherwise, why bring him along?

After a day of effort, Carl finally got a clue.

"It all hinges on this!"

Karl took a deep breath, cupped his hands, and rubbed out a ball of holy light the size of a basketball. He then closed his eyes and focused on feeling the power of the holy light.

"Phew~ Yes, yes, separate them, give them to me... Yes, that's right!"

Karl, with his eyes closed, slowly opened his arms, and a golden holy light the size of a basketball began to split at an extremely slow speed.

As time passed, the splitting speed increased, eventually transforming into a single sphere of light under Karl's control.

One is white, and the other is yellow.

White represents healing, and yellow represents enhancement.