"Wahahaha, kid, what's your name?"
Rocks, seeing Nox's aura surge, also retracted his Haoshoku Haki, seemingly very satisfied with this result.
"My name is Nox, the future World's Greatest Swordsman!"
Nox also retracted his Haoshoku Haki, looking at Rocks without showing any weakness as he spoke.
"Wahahaha, Nox, the future World's Greatest Swordsman, welcome to the Rocks Pirates."
Rocks said nonchalantly about Nox's behavior.
Before Nox came to Beehive Island, Rocks had already investigated him.
Knowing Nox's terrifying potential, he was generally more lenient with potential crew members and provided some protection until they could grow up.
It can be said that most of the executive officerss on the Rocks Pirates grew up this way, which is one of the reasons why the Rocks Pirates are getting stronger and stronger.
"Captain, I wonder how one becomes an executive officers of the Rocks Pirates?"
Seeing Rocks acknowledge him as a crew member, Nox's mouth slightly curved up, and he spoke straightforwardly.
Coming to the Rocks Pirates, he didn't want to be an intern like Kaido, following behind a certain executive officers as a subordinate.
It can be said that now, besides Rocks, he doesn't respect anyone else.
"Wahahaha, ambitious, very good!"
"To become an executive officers of the Rocks Pirates, you just need to defeat a current executive officers, or fight to a draw with them, and you can get the executive officers position."
Rocks greatly appreciated Nox's arrogant behavior and directly stated the condition for becoming an executive officers.
The members of the Rocks Pirates present were all dumbfounded by Nox's actions.
They didn't expect that Nox possessed Haoshoku Haki, and even less did they expect that Nox would want to become an executive officers of the Rocks Pirates as soon as he arrived.
And the executive officerss of the Rocks Pirates were all staring at Nox, wanting to see who he would choose as his opponent.
Golden Lion Shiki looked at Nox with burning eyes and even provoked him with his gaze, but Nox ignored him.
Although Golden Lion Shiki hasn't eaten the Float-Float Fruit yet, his strength is very powerful, and Nox knew that he was not Golden Lion Shiki's opponent at the moment.
After Nox displayed his Haoshoku Haki, Whitebeard also became very interested in Nox.
But Nox wouldn't be foolish enough to choose Whitebeard as his opponent; the current Whitebeard is definitely the strongest among the many executive officerss.
Charlotte Linlin, after Nox displayed his Haoshoku, looked at Nox with an extremely fervent gaze, as if she wanted to eat him.
Seeing Charlotte Linlin's gaze, Nox felt a chill; he knew without thinking that Charlotte Linlin was eyeing his body.
To be precise, she was eyeing his sperm and wanted to have child with him.
Nox would not touch this kind of woman; he didn't want to inexplicably have many green hats on his head in the future, the kind that couldn't be taken off.
He also ruled out the two Kurozumi; these two were not combat members, and Nox had some discernment, even if he successfully challenged them, it wouldn't count.
Finally, he stopped on Wang Zhi, Silver Axe, and John. The strength of these three was comparable to Whitebeard, Shiki, and Charlotte Linlin.
Although they were similar, they were more than ten years older than Whitebeard and the others, and their potential was almost exhausted.
After all, Whitebeard, Shiki, and Charlotte Linlin are still very young, while Wang Zhi, Silver Axe, and John are all fifty years old.
And John's strength, as far as he knew, was the weakest among the three.
"I choose to challenge John!"
Picking the soft persimmon to squeeze, Nox understood this point.
"Yohohoho, kid, let me teach you, before joining the Rocks Pirates, if you don't have a certain level of strength, you must know how to respect your seniors."
John, who was originally drinking fine wine and watching the show, became angry when he heard that Nox wanted to challenge him.
Nox choosing him, didn't that mean that in the other party's eyes, he was the weakest among all the executive officerss of the Rocks Pirates?
As John stood up, Nox also consciously left the area and went to another open space; after all, this place was too small to fully display their abilities.
"Moonwalk!!"
"Senior John, the ground is too small to support our battle, do you dare to fight me in the sky!!"
Nox stepped on Moonwalk and rushed into the sky, looking down at John below and provoking him.
He knew that he was not John's opponent; after all, John had been at sea for decades longer than him, and his Haki had at least reached a high level, and his physique was also inferior.
So from the beginning, he didn't think about how to defeat John, but how to fight to a draw with him.
Without a doubt, sea battles, air battles, and land battles were all Nox's strengths.
A sea battle on Beehive Island was unrealistic, so there was only an air battle. He absolutely could not fight John on land, otherwise he would lose miserably.
With Nox's current strength, even running on land with weights was no longer suitable for him.
So after he learned Moonwalk, he wore weighted iron armor, held a giant stone weighing over a hundred thousand pounds, and ran in the air using Moonwalk to train his Moonwalk, stamina, and air combat ability.
It can be said that in terms of air combat, he definitely had the advantage, and he could also suppress John's powerful strength.
"Yohohoho, let the senior tell you that the executive officerss of the Rocks Pirates can crush their enemies in any combat environment."
Seeing Nox's smiling face looking down at him from the sky, John became even more enraged. A mere kid actually dared to look down on him; this was an insult to him!
It's just an air battle, that's all. Having been through countless battles, he had also fought in the air many times.
John did not eat a Devil Fruit; he became an executive officers of the Rocks Pirates by relying on his Haki, swordsmanship, and body art.
"Bang!!!!"
Then he pulled out the flintlock pistol from his waist, covered it with Haoshoku, and shot at Nox in the sky.
And Nox casually tilted his head and dodged the bullet's trajectory.
Taking this opportunity, John also stepped on Moonwalk and flew up into the sky. Moonwalk, this body art technique, could be mastered quickly by strong people like John as long as they were willing to learn it.
"Limitless · Mountain Collapse Slash!!!"
As John stepped into the air and rushed up, Nox rushed down from above even faster.
His sword was held high above his head, and the invisible sword energy was like Mount Tai pressing down. With one slash, even a large mountain could be split and collapse.
"Clang!!!!"
Seeing this, John drew the rapier from his waist and steadily received Nox's slash.
In John's opinion, the power of the mountain collapse was just so-so. For a strong person like him, it was easy to shatter a mountain.
Regarding the setting of age and strength:
In this book, the peak period of the body is set at half the normal lifespan. If the lifespan is 100 years, the body will reach its peak around the age of fifty.
If they are strong in body art and Haki, they can use special techniques to extend the body's peak to around sixty years old.
After the age of sixty, the body's strength and Haki may not decline, but stamina will slowly decline.
After reaching eighty years old, even the strongest in body art, their body strength and Haki will decrease.
This setting is based on the original characters like Garp, Sengoku, Kong, Rayleigh, etc. In the original work, Garp was already 78 years old during the Marineford War.
Special cases like Whitebeard and Zephyr are excluded.