NOVEL NEXT Chapter 146: 146 Another Captain John Treasure
Silver Ax cast an admiring look at Lynch: "I didn't expect that there are people of the same mind as me in Marine."
Whitebeard's expression was a bit blank. He suddenly realized the young man who had once helped him wasn't as "honest" as the rumors said
"Kid, you're still as cunning as ever," Kaido thought, feeling like he knew Lynch well. This kid was sharper than a rabbit.
"Well, well, 'cunning' sounds bad. Let's call it shrewdness"
As Big Mom spoke for Lynch, she swung her sword, cutting through Silver Axe and Kaido, and snatched the Earth Fruit back into her hands.
Lynch smiled at them shyly but didn't say much; he still had plenty of treasures to collect.
"What is this?"
Jack discovered a demon sword among the weapons. As he held it, his eyes turned red, and a bloodthirsty desire surged in his heart.
"Roar!"
The murderous intent inside him surged, and Jack charged toward the nearest pirate like a raging bull.
But after just a couple of steps, Jack's red eyes faded back to black and white. He stopped, stared at his empty palm, and roared, "Where's my sword? Who the hell stole my sword?!"
Meanwhile, the demon sword that had nearly driven Jack to madness was now being held by the Demon Cutter Sword, greedily absorbing its power.
"How dare you steal my sword?!" Jack gasped, glaring at Lynch. He didn't care if Lynch was an Admiral.
"Who do you think I am? I'm Jack the Drough!"
"Haha." Lynch chuckled to himself. This Jack is really a fool. No wonder he managed to achieve such a notorious title as "the king of ships."
Lynch looked at Jack's two-meter-long ivory. "If you don't turn around, I'll forget. That ivory must be quite valuable, right?"
"Humph! That's right. My ivory is one of a kind in the world, and it needs to be maintained with essential oil every day," Jack replied proudly, his tone was vicious.
"But don't think that I, Jack, will let you go just because you flatter me."
"Well, then I have no reason to let you go."
Lynch returned to his six-meter height and thrust down, pinning Jack's head hard against the ground.
It would take the Demon Cutter a while to absorb the power, giving Lynch time to focus on other things. Jack was only twenty years old now, and his strength was probably on par with Mark's. He still had a long way to go before he could become the king of shipping in the future.
"Ho! Let me go!"
Jack was shocked to realize that his strength was no match for Lynch's. No matter how hard he struggled, he couldn't break free
. Even when he transformed into his half-animal form, he remained pinned down.
Lynch smiled as he pulled out the two-meter-long Dragon Slayer Sword behind him.
"You...what are you going to do?" Jack panicked for no reason.
"I'll borrow your ivory," Lynch said. With a swift motion, he raised his hand and lowered his sword, cutting off two exquisite pieces of ivory and tossing them into the system space.
"Roar! My ivory! That's the ivory I take care of every day!"
"Give my tusk back!"
Jack struggled to lift his head, veins bulging all over his body. With a powerful roar, he transformed into a massive mammoth and charged at Lynch.
"Noisy."
With a single punch, Lynch sent Jack's mammoth form, which weighed over ten tons, flying.
He crashed into a stone wall, embedding himself deep into it.
Jack reverted back to his human form, motionless and unconscious, leaving everyone unsure if he was alive or dead.
With just one punch, Lynch demonstrated the immense strength of an Admiral, leaving no doubt about his power.
At that moment, the Demon Cutter had absorbed the energy from the demon sword, and Lynch returned it to its sheath.
"Huh~ I guess I'm pretty lucky too," Marco said, smiling as he looked at the Devil Fruit lying at his feet.
Suddenly, he seemed to remember something and began searching the area for Lynch.
The two men locked eyes from a hundred meters apart. Marco felt stuck, unsure whether to pick up the Devil Fruit at his feet or leave it alone, so he could only smile awkwardly.
The memory of Jack's defeat was fresh in his mind. He didn't want to be the next Jack—getting beaten and losing the Devil Fruit in the process.
The greatest advantage of Marco is that he is self-aware and knows that he is going to receive a severe beating against Lynch.
"Yes!" Marco thought. "Katakuri, I'll give you a gift. You're welcome!"
He kicked the Devil Fruit to Katakuri like a ball.
"Pineapple head, you dare to harm me?" Katakuri glared at Marco and quickly tossed the Devil Fruit aside.
A young pirate picked it up and respectfully presented it to Lynch. "Admiral Sun Candle, this is my tribute to you."
"Well, not bad. I'll accept it," Lynch said.
The sight of Jack being defeated with a single punch made everyone hesitant to act recklessly.
Whitebeard and the others also looked down on the ordinary Devil Fruits, focusing instead on competing for the Logia-type Earth Fruit, which gave Lynch an advantage.
"Eat my One Strike: Raime Hakke!"
Taking advantage of the three-way confrontation between Whitebeard, Silver Axe, and Big Mom, Kaido struck Silver Axe with a stick, showing no mercy. The black lightning crackling around the stick was painful to witness.
The Earth Fruit fell into Kaido's hands.
"Ahem, Kaido, you sneaky bastard!" Silver Axe coughed up blood as he flew backward.
"You have no martial ethics, attacking a seventy-year-old man!"
Silver Axe felt miserable. Even with four people competing for the Devil Fruit, the other three always seemed to target him, whether intentionally or not. It was clear he was still hated from his past.
Unfortunately for Silver Axe, he flew backward right toward Lynch.
"Roll!"
Lynch delivered a powerful kick, sending Silver Axe back into the battlefield and leaving a large dent in his armor.
"Young people these days are not as kind as I used to be," Silver Axe muttered as he got up from the ground, spitting blood and looking for an opportunity.
"Hahahahaha! I found it! I found it! So John really took this thing away back then!"
Ochoku, clad in golden armor, stood atop Golden Mountain of Money, laughing wildly while holding something in his hand.
Unlike Silver Axe, he had never joined the battlefield; instead, he had been searching for something alone from the start.
It seemed he had finally found it.
What he held looked like a pendant. Long ago, the Celestial Dragons had several sacred places, including Mariejois and Hidden Dragon Gorge.
Among them, the Holy Land Mariejois is where the Celestial Dragons control the world's power. It is also where they raise the Celestial Dragons like pigs.
These Celestial Dragons, lacking ambition and only wanting to eat and live in comfort, are kept in the safest place. Their only purpose is to produce as many heirs as possible for the Celestial Dragons.
To put it bluntly, they are a group of breeding pigs who do not hesitate to marry incest for the so-called noble bloodline, thus giving birth to more idiots.
This is why most of the Celestial Dragons seen in the Holy Land Mariejois look like losers and idiots.
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TO BE CONTINUED
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