18 Chapter 18 (1/2)

After waiting for about an hour Elliot and the crew had finally gotten back from the cave. Sage let them rest for about an hour before giving the order to set sail for the next outpost.

It took a month for Sage to finish his inspection on the North Blue Marine outpost. Most of the outpost were doing their job and upholding justice in the North blue, but Sage still across a couple of outpost that were abusing their power over the area they were supposed to be guarding.

Sage took care of those in the same manner he did with the outpost on Jukko island. Killing the ones in charge while arresting the underlings and taking them onto his ship before leaving them in the cells of the next outpost he checks.

Sage also came across a few pirates on the sea and some on islands he stopped on to ensure nothing was happening on it. Sage didn't bother with the pirates since only Paradise level pirates could actually give him a form of challenge, but if he wanted a real challenge then he would need to go the New World.

Sage let his crew handle them, so that they could gain experience fighting before they head into Paradise since even though they were trained in Marineford they still have pretty much no experience fighting.

Currently Sage is a day out from the Red Port. The Red port is the way the Marines get their ships over and into the New World. At either sides of the Red line the Red port is at the Base of it directly underneath Mary Geoise. The ports contain a special lifts called Bondolas.

Sage was already granted permission from Marine HQ to use the Bondolas in the Red Ports.

Sage is currently training his Rokushiki while also training his Haki. He's sparing with Elliot.

They are both standing apart from each other while looking at each in the eyes before suddenly disappearing and reappearing while clashing with each other. Sage is using a staff made out of water while also coating it with his Armament Haki.

Elliot is using two swords. One with is pure black with the under part of the blade containing hints of red while the other is pure silver with the under part containing hints of gold. Elliot had told Sage that these blades were Grade swords. Sage knew that because they were really sharp compared to other swords he's used before, but not good enough to be in the Skillful Grade.

They both clashed in the center with shock waves coming out from their clash. The clash lasted only for a second before Elliot went flying backwards and rolling on the deck of the ship. Elliot recovered quickly before jumping towards Sage before using Soru to confuse Sage.

It would normally be useless against him, Sage wanted this fight to be fair so he wasn't using Observation Haki. Only Armament Haki and his devil fruit powers, but still Sage was able to pick out where Elliot was at and swung at him with his staff.

Elliot didn't try to block it since the last time he did that he got sent flying off of the ship, so this time he dodged by the tip of his hair. He jumped in since Sage's guard was wide open after missing, but that was exactly what Sage wanted.

Sage: \” Come on Elliot I already told you to call me just by my name. Forget the formalities me and you are friends now alright \” Sage put his fist up to Elliot. Elliot just sighed before pumping fist with Sage. Elliot: \” Alright then from now on when it's just me and you I'll call you by just your name, but if there's people around then am calling you with your Rank \”