Chapter 149: Unprecedented

Gradually.

From the shattered, collapsed deck came a thunderous, ear-splitting roar.

Boom boom boom!

The deck trembled,

and crumbled.

Countless scattered fragments and wreckage were blasted out from beneath the ruins.

Immediately after,

the battered and bruised Navy Commander Bokarto slowly pushed out both hands, braced them against the deck on either side, endured the stabbing pain throughout his body, and crawled out from the ruins.

"Cough, cough!"

After a violent fit of coughing, Bokarto's face went pale. He spat out fresh blood, shook his head with a bitter sigh, his eyes filled with helplessness and defeat.

He knew.

He had lost!

And what's more…

it was a crushing defeat!

He had been suppressed the entire fight!

He had almost no power to fight back.

What made Bokarto feel the deepest sense of defeat was…

the one who had crushed and routed him was a child only four years old.

He had never dreamed of it.

That one day,

He, a high-ranking Vice Admiral of the Navy Headquarters, would actually lose to a mere four-year-old brat!

One must understand.

Having followed Vice Admiral Captain Kapu for many years, he possessed the genuine combat power of a Colonel!

However,

he still lost.

Colonel-level combat power, and he was still suppressed the entire fight!

This made Bokarto completely unable to imagine.

Just how terrifyingly astonishing was the combat power of the four-year-old Lu En!

"With my current level of strength, even compared to a Navy Headquarters Colonel, I would absolutely be in no way inferior."

"But even so…"

"I still lost."

"What does this mean?"

Thinking of this, Bokarto's pupils shrank slightly, and his mind was greatly shaken.

Colonel-level combat power, and he was beaten to a pulp in three punches!

One might ask,

just what tier did the four-year-old Lu En's strength actually belong to?!

Gulp!

Bokarto couldn't help but swallow a mouthful of saliva, instinctively ignoring his own grievous injuries.

He was scared.

The astonishing guess that surfaced in his mind instantly left his thoughts blank.

"Goodness…"

"Could it be?!"

"Mr. Lu En, only four years old, already possesses combat power at the Brigadier General level?"

"Oh my!"

"This… can't be real, can it?"

"Brigadier General-level combat power at four years old?!"

Bokarto's eyes went wide, his face full of shock.

Brigadier General, stands above Navy Colonel.

Within the Navy there are many ranks, with a strict hierarchy.

At the very bottom are Third-Class Privates, then Second-Class Privates, First-Class Privates, Corporals, Sergeants, and Master Sergeants.

These belong to the military's grassroots personnel.

Above that,

come the Navy Officers!

Navy Second Lieutenant, First Lieutenant, Captain,

then Major, Commander, Colonel.

Above Colonel, is Navy Headquarters Brigadier General!

Brigadier General already belongs to the military's mid-level top officers!

Holding the rank of Brigadier General allows one to independently dispatch a single warship to sail out to sea.

One can well imagine.

How lofty the status of a Brigadier General is!

Although the navy's rank system does not correspond one hundred percent to a person's actual combat strength.

The most typical example is Captain Kapu, who, despite being a Vice Admiral, absolutely possesses the terrifying combat power of an Admiral!

Even,

surpassing an Admiral!

But under normal circumstances,

rank, in the vast majority of cases, represents a navy officer's combat strength.

What Bokatuo could not even imagine was…

Lu En, who at just four years old had beaten him to a pulp in three punches, very likely possessed the terrifying combat power of a Rear Admiral!

This astonishing guess left Bokatuo instantly dumbfounded.

"N-no way, right?"

"Th-this!"

Bokatuo was utterly stupefied.

After quite a while,

he finally managed to forcibly suppress the shock welling up inside him.

Then,

bracing himself against the railings on both sides, dragging his exhausted and aching body, he collapsed heavily beside the deck.

Lying flat on the deck, he kept adjusting the rhythm of his breathing.

Looking closely,

Bokatuo's entire body was covered in wounds, battered and bruised all over.

From his abdomen to his chest, a vicious, terrifying blood-red gash — though only a superficial wound, the blood spilling and flowing outward still made the injury look especially horrifying and savage.

Besides that,

several of his ribs had also been broken.

His abdomen had, at the very end, been punched so hard he nearly gagged and vomited.

All in all,

although Bokatuo was not at death's door or bearing a heavy burden of grave injuries, he was infinitely close to being critically wounded.

And all of this was caused by nothing more than Lu En's three punches!

Reduced to a state on the brink of grave injury by Lu En's three punches.

"If Mr. Lu En hadn't pulled back a little of his strength at that final, critical moment…"

"Right now, I might have been beaten into a cripple."

"I have to admit."

"Mr. Lu En is an absolutely terrifying monster!"

Bokatuo let out a helpless, bitter laugh.

If Lu En had not shown mercy…

when that earth-shattering punch came crashing down, half his life might have been taken from him entirely.

Not long after,

Captain Kapu came to Bokatuo's side, looked at the latter's battered, wretched state, and could not help but shake his head with a chuckle: "How is it? You alright?"

As for Bokatuo's crushing defeat, Captain Kapu had clearly anticipated it long ago.

However…

he too could never have imagined,

that Bokatuo would be beaten to a pulp by Lu En in just three punches!

This, likewise, exceeded Captain Kapu's expectations.

"Still holding up."

Bokatuo let out a bitter sigh.

"The taste of defeat doesn't sit well, does it?"

"And what's more…"

"defeated by a little brat who's only four years old."