"Then, Teacher Jaba... I'm gonna start!" After getting everything ready, Fang Yi put away his smile and said seriously.
"Go ahead!" Jaba nodded, holding an axe in his hand.
More and more crew members gathered around to watch. Even Captain Roger had come out without anyone noticing.
Shanks and Bucky were also standing by, eager to see just how powerful Fang Yi was.
After his defeat earlier, Shanks only realized later that Fang Yi probably hadn't used his full strength in their fight. Otherwise, if Fang Yi had used that long - range attack move earlier, he would have lost ages ago.
So now, he was determined to take a good look at Fang Yi's real strength.
"Whoosh!"
The moment Jaba nodded, Fang Yi shot his first arrow. At the same time, he didn't stay put but immediately moved, as if he was really afraid of Jaba.
However, Jaba didn't go on the offensive against Fang Yi. Instead, he simply knocked the arrow away and crouched down, as if he was ready to attack at any moment.
"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh~~"
Arrows came flying from all directions one after another. Fang Yi kept changing his position, not giving Jaba a chance to attack him. He also used the angle and time difference to create the illusion that there were countless attackers instead of just one.
"Interesting!" Jaba smiled faintly. With a stomp of his foot, he shot out like a cheetah. The arrows in his path were forcefully broken by him. Moreover, the position he aimed for wasn't where Fang Yi was at the moment but the place where Fang Yi was likely to move next, calculating the time difference precisely.
But Fang Yi wasn't panicked. With a stomp of his foot, he changed his direction and shot another arrow.
Seeing Fang Yi's responses and his smooth - flowing movements, Bucky and Shanks looked like they'd seen a ghost.
Thank goodness Fang Yi hadn't used his bow and arrows earlier. Otherwise, Shanks reckoned he wouldn't even have been able to get close to Fang Yi and would have been shot full of holes like a hedgehog. He didn't have Jaba's strength.
"Kid, if this is all you've got, you'll really disappoint me!" Jaba turned his head and easily dodged Fang Yi's arrow, smiling as he spoke.
Fang Yi smiled faintly but didn't reply. From the start until now, he has shot more than a dozen arrows. He's waiting for the moment when his Skill triggers. Considering the gap between him and Jaba, he has no chance of winning at all. Only when the Skill is triggered can he surprise his opponent.
To trigger the Skill, he can only keep attacking because it's all about probability.
That's why he keeps changing his position and shooting non - stop.
Even though he doesn't use any special techniques in each shot, the precision of his shooting is his greatest edge. As long as the Skill is triggered, it'll surely surprise Jaba.
"Whoosh, whoosh~~"
He raised his hand and shot two more arrows. Although Jaba deliberately slowed down, the distance between them is now very close.
"Hmm?"
With a muffled grunt, Jaba, who had already dodged Fang Yi's arrow, suddenly stopped in his tracks as if he'd been hit.
But he didn't have time to react, for Fang Yi's second arrow was already on its way.
"Clang!"
This time, instead of dodging, Jaba swatted the arrow away with his arm.
"Armament Haki!" Fang Yi's eyes flashed when he saw a layer of black Armament Haki covering Jaba's arm.
He was sure that the first arrow had triggered his Precision skill; otherwise, Jaba wouldn't have acted so strangely.
That's why Jaba chose to use Armament Haki against the second arrow.
"Kid, how did you do that just now?" Jaba looked at his stomach. There was no sign of being hit by an arrow, but the feeling was exactly the same as being shot. So he couldn't help but ask.
This was the characteristic of his Precision skill. Although it had a 100% chance of hitting, it didn't really strike the enemy. So when he used a bow, a sword, or even a gun, even if the skill was triggered, the enemy would only feel as if they'd been hit, without actually bleeding or having external wounds.
For example, if he used his sword to slash at Jaba's shoulder and Jaba blocked the attack with an axe, but this strike triggered the Precision skill, Jaba would only feel the pain of being cut by the sword, without any external wounds.
However, if his target was the neck, heart, or other vital areas that could be lethal with a single blow, then an unprepared Jaba might lose his fighting ability and collapse on the spot.
This was Jaba, a powerful warrior with a possibly extraordinary constitution. If it were an ordinary person, they might have died instantly.
This was also the most important reason why Fang Yi chose a ranged weapon.
The probability of the Precision skill triggering was really hard to say. Although 20% seemed low, it meant there was a chance for each attack. He might trigger the skill with every strike, or he might not trigger it even once throughout an entire battle.
If he chose to fight with a sword or bare - handed, he might be killed by the enemy before the skill could be triggered.
Moreover, this required the enemy to be unprepared. For powerful warriors like Jaba, Rayleigh, and Roger, once they were on guard, even if they were hit in a vital area, the damage might be minimal.
But the likes of Shanks and Bucky didn't have to worry. Even if they were on guard, they currently lacked the necessary means to defend. So if they were hit in a vital area by Fang Yi, it would be bad news.
This was also the reason why Yamon didn't remind Jaba before the sparring started. He believed that although Fang Yi's methods were strange, they weren't a problem for Jaba.
"Teacher Jaba... Didn't you ever notice this ability of mine?" Fang Yi said with a faint smile.
On the ship, there were two people who had noticed Fang Yi's ability. One was Yamon, who taught him archery every day, and the other was Petrom, a sniper who was also the first to discover this ability.
It was him who accidentally found this feature in Fang Yi's attacks and advised Fang Yi to use a sniper rifle.
As a result, Fang Yi ran off halfway to learn archery from Yamon, leaving Jaba disappointed for a long time.
"Looks like I underestimated you! Next... I'm gonna get serious!" Jaba smiled slightly and suddenly disappeared from where he stood.
When Jaba disappeared, even with the blessing of the Hawk Eyes, Fang Yi could only see some blurry afterimages rapidly approaching him. His body wanted to move, but it seemed to disobey him.
"Thud!" Jaba's knee rammed directly into Fang Yi's stomach, and then he delivered a heavy elbow strike to Fang Yi's neck.
"Plop!"
Fang Yi spectacularly fainted on the ground.
"Puhahaha... A kid is just a kid! You're still far from it!" Jaba looked at Fang Yi lying on the ground and laughed heartily, looking extremely smug.
However, the surrounding crew members were quite speechless.
You know he's just a kid, yet you still took it so seriously...
That move Jaba made, simple as it seemed, could definitely be defended against by no more than five people on the ship. The rest would definitely end up the same as Fang Yi.
Especially Yamon beside them. He almost burst out laughing. Did this guy forget why he was sparring with Fang Yi? Wasn't it to test Fang Yi's strength? Now he'd knocked the guy out. What a waste of a test!
Seeing Yamon's expression, Jaba, who was in the middle of his laughter, froze. He also remembered this, but he'd been so embarrassed just then that he'd forgotten and knocked Fang Yi out.
So the spar ended amidst everyone's laughter.
Not long after, Fang Yi regained consciousness. He was quite satisfied with the result. He'd made Jaba take his abilities seriously, and he hadn't revealed some of his trump - cards.
That's right. In fact, he still had some moves he hadn't used. But it was just a guiding spar among the shipmates. There was no need to show all his moves.
After this battle, Bucky stopped challenging Fang Yi every day like before. He'd realized that he was no match for Fang Yi at the moment. Fang Yi had just been playing around with him each time.
Knowing this, Bucky was extremely angry and thought Fang Yi was just fooling him.
Shanks felt the same way. They'd agreed to go all out before the fight, but judging from Fang Yi's performance in the fight with Jaba, he clearly hadn't gone all out when fighting him.
For this reason, both of them were quite resentful and trained even harder.
One day, they accidentally overheard a conversation between Fang Yi and Yamon and finally understood Fang Yi's thoughts.
"Kid... Why haven't I seen you hanging out with Shanks and Bucky lately?" Yamon asked with a smile while drinking wine as Fang Yi was practicing the basic skills of archery.
Shanks and Bucky happened to pass by. They didn't mean to eavesdrop at first. After all, they were all shipmates, and it was impolite to eavesdrop on others' talks.
But since the conversation was about them, they unconsciously stopped in their tracks.
"Those two guys are working hard on their training to beat me as soon as possible!
Fang Yi smiled and replied while drawing his bow.
"Who asked you to deliberately make them think they could beat you soon? Now that your strength is exposed, you're getting disliked, aren't you?" Yamon laughed quite irresponsibly, showing no intention of helping his disciple as a teacher should.
"Hahaha... I didn't deliberately toy with them. If I defeated them directly, what could they gain? I don't really need two followers! Only by giving them hope will they have the motivation to train. On this sea, if you have no strength... you'll die!" Fang Yi said without looking back.
Yamon was stunned, and so were Shanks and Bucky, who stood still there. They never thought Fang Yi would think like that.