Fighting Salt-Eating Sharks (Part 2)

The team members answered in low voices and slowly swam backward. Uncle Kate stayed at the rear to cover their retreat while using Observation Haki to monitor the Salt-Eating Sharks' movements.

Almost as soon as the Hunting Squad began retreating, huge waves surged rapidly toward them. The waves were far larger than before. It seemed the earlier attack had only been a test.

The Salt-Eating Shark King also realized that its tasty prey was escaping.

It commanded the Salt-Eating Shark swarm to split into two groups, bypass Uncle Kate, and charge straight toward the rear. It wanted to cut off their retreat and surround the Hunting Squad.

So this Salt-Eating Shark King really was directing them! Uncle Kate thought.

Uncle Kate roared, "There's no time! Get closer to me! Hurry!!"

By then, the Salt-Eating Shark swarm was already within ten meters.

Uncle Kate's gaze turned sharp. He spun around, raised his right hand, gripped his Harpoon, and instantly thrust it more than ten times to the right.

Invisible streaks shot out along the Harpoon and struck the Salt-Eating Sharks on the right.

Flesh and blood flew at once, staining the water red.

The shark swarm halted, then swam madly toward Uncle Kate.

The corner of Uncle Kate's mouth curled up slightly. Beasts are beasts. I'll deal with this side first! he thought.

Unexpectedly, trouble broke out on the left. As Uncle Kate attacked the Salt-Eating Shark swarm on the right, the group on the left turned at the same time and attacked the Hunting Squad.

There were simply too many attacking Salt-Eating Sharks. In an instant, the team members could no longer hold them back. One of them even had a leg bitten off.

The other team members were wounded as well.

With this delay, the Salt-Eating Sharks on the right also pounced. The situation descended into chaos! The Hunting Squad members hurriedly closed in around Uncle Kate, leaving the Salt-Eating Sharks no chance to slip through.

The Salt-Eating Sharks charged frantically! The team members' rapidly swinging Harpoons collided violently with the sharks' savage jaws.

The resulting white shockwaves rose two hundred meters high, clear enough for Luo Han to see from the island.

Brother Rhine stared tensely at Uncle Kate battling below, worry filling his eyes.

Cole and several of the younger children went pale when they saw a team member lose his leg.

They said nothing, only bit their lips and stared fixedly at the battle below.

A Harpoon swept out, and another streak shot toward a Salt-Eating Shark. With a sizzling sound, blood gushed out.

Uncle Kate's attack saved a team member whose head had nearly been bitten off.

He looked around, but there were too many! Even more Salt-Eating Sharks were swimming over from afar. They must have been summoned by that Salt-Eating Shark King. Looking at the Salt-Eating Shark King lingering in the distance, he knew this could not continue. Otherwise, the team members would not be able to withstand it. He could only kill the Salt-Eating Shark King in an instant. Otherwise, with its intelligence, it would not give him another chance.

Uncle Kate closed his eyes and made up his mind!

A tremor spread through the water! Luo Han was startled! The Salt-Eating Shark swarm below instantly stopped attacking, as if it had encountered something terrifying. No matter how the Salt-Eating Shark King called out, they would not move.

Tremors spread outward from Uncle Kate across the bloodstained sea, stirring up ripples.

Gripping his Harpoon tightly, Uncle Kate assumed the stance of the One-Character Thrust Punch, his right hand drawn back around the Harpoon. An imposing aura erupted from him, and arcs of electricity flickered around him. That was electricity born from the void. Only an especially condensed and heavy aura could create tangible friction with the air and produce such a strange phenomenon.

Seeing Uncle Kate so different from usual, Luo Han was shaken by his aura as well!! Uncle Kate did not even have Conqueror's Haki! How powerful would it be if he did??

No wonder Conqueror's Haki could make those with weak wills faint.

The scene shifted back...

Having finished gathering his strength, Uncle Kate calmly looked at the Salt-Eating Shark King in the distance.

Very quickly, the beast sensed that something was wrong.

Its instincts as a living creature urged it to flee, but its intelligence told it that it should not. It hesitated for a moment!

But Uncle Kate would not hesitate. His fully charged strike erupted in an instant.

"Boom..."

A sonic boom from air being rubbed at extreme speed rang out. A white river shot straight toward the Salt-Eating Shark King, reflected in its terrified eyes.

The white river pierced through the Salt-Eating Shark King and continued into the deep sea.

It left a "riverbed" stretching more than ten kilometers across the vast ocean surface.

"Splash! Splash!"

With the Salt-Eating Shark King dead, the Salt-Eating Shark swarm scattered and fled. The sea surface gradually calmed.

Only the Hunting Squad members remained, staring at the "riverbed" ahead with their mouths wide open, unable to close them for a long time. Even after more than ten breaths had passed, they still had not recovered from the shock of that power.

"Enough, you idiots! Head back! Get that unlucky bastard Aite treated and stop the bleeding! Otherwise, losing his leg won't be the only problem." Uncle Kate swayed, steadied himself, and roared at the group of fools!

Why aren't you heading back? Waiting for those Salt-Eating Sharks to come again? I can only use that one attack. If they come back, I won't be able to hold them off, Uncle Kate thought silently.

Filled with admiration for their captain, Uncle Kate, the Hunting Squad members quickly swam back beneath the island. Then they climbed up to the island along the ropes.

By then, Luo Han, Cole, and the others had recovered from Uncle Kate's ultimate move. They all clung to the stone pillars and watched the Hunting Squad members, especially Uncle Kate.

Before long, Uncle Kate and the Hunting Squad members had all come up.

"Dad! Ah... ah... Dad..." Twelve-year-old Little Firo cried as he hugged Uncle Aite's remaining leg. His mouth trembled, and he had clearly been crying for quite some time.

"I'm fine! From now on, I can play with you more often." Uncle Aite stroked his son's head and smiled. There was regret in that smile, along with a trace of relief...

Little Firo continued crying as he clung to Uncle Aite.

"Hurry and bandage Aite's wound!" Uncle Kate said then.

The nearby Hunting Squad members quickly took out medicine powder and strips of cloth to bandage Aite's wound.

Watching this scene, Luo Han felt a little bitter. At the same time, his desire for power became even more urgent. It was like the saying: "You never know whether tomorrow or disaster will come first." Only by possessing overwhelming power could one calmly face every unexpected event.

Uncle Kate gave Luo Han, who was deep in thought, a thoughtful glance. He shook his head and instructed everyone to tend their wounds, while the rest carried the salt back to distribute among the island's people.

On the way back!

Neither Luo Han nor Cole spoke. They needed time to sort through what they had seen today.

Before long, they reached the entrance to their home. After saying goodbye to Cole, Luo Han entered.

Grandma Mo was not there. She was probably scraping resin in Divine Tree Square!

He returned to the inner cave and lay down on the stone bed.

He recalled everything that had happened earlier. That slash like a white river was still vividly imprinted in his mind.

It was as though it were happening before his eyes all over again.

That must have been the move, right? A charged strike that annihilated everything in its path!