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The pirate rabble felt a sudden tremor in their hearts, but it was already too late to react.

The swords swung by the pirates in the front row hadn't even been retracted yet, and the grunts in the back row were already surging forward aggressively, crowding the violent crime scene like a Spring Festival travel waiting hall.

Such a dense formation was what every hero with AOE skills wanted to see.

With enemies this cooperative, a twenty-nine kill streak was practically guaranteed.

"Judgment!"

Garen gripped his greatsword tightly, spinning rapidly through the crowd like a meat grinder.

The skill

Judgment

looked extremely comical in the game, and combined with Garen's character model, he looked like a spinning iron top.

But when this skill was recreated in reality, the cruelty of the word "Judgment" was truly revealed.

The rapidly spinning B. F. Sword lived up to its name, unleashing a death storm that no one could escape the moment it was activated at full power.

As long as a fragile human body slightly touched the sweeping high-speed blade, a bewitching and terrifying scarlet mist of blood would bloom in the blink of an eye, and the complete body would soon be torn to pieces.

This art style was not righteous at all, but rather like a vampire who had wandered onto the wrong set.

But Demacia's justice never showed mercy to evil adversaries.

The young constables on Samwell Island almost suffered indelible psychological trauma from helping the Steel Cutlass Pirates collect corpses.

The duration of

Judgment

was three seconds, which didn't sound long, but it was more than enough to deal with the densely packed pirate grunts who were swarming up.

By the time Garen stopped spinning and slowly sheathed his sword, there wasn't a single enemy standing in front of him.

The remaining small number of pirate rabble immediately changed their expressions drastically, and without caring what their boss, Captain Buggy, would do, they fled backward like madmen.

Captain Buggy and his two officers, Cabaji and Mohji, instantly lost their previously confident and leisurely demeanor, their faces as ugly as if they had eaten two pounds of shit.

"M-Mohji?"

Cold sweat dripped down Buggy's face, and a conspicuous red nose trembled uncontrollably:

"Why don't you go and test his mettle again?"

"Huh?"

Beastmaster Mohji was slightly stunned, and forced an ugly smile at Buggy:

"My my pet lion is teething these days"

"Roar roar roar~"

The human-like lion Richie cooperatively covered its blood basin mouth, and rolled around on the floor in pain.

As it rolled, the big lion rolled more than ten meters away from the battlefield at some point, and was still continuing to roll further and further away.

Buggy turned his head and looked at another of his capable subordinates, the acrobat swordsman Cabaji.

"Th-this"

Cabaji's facial muscles twitched and twitched, and he couldn't hold the katana in his hand steadily:

"It's better for you to do it yourself, Captain Buggy..."

"You're a Devil Fruit user who's not afraid of being cut by swords!"

"Ugh"

Buggy looked at the heavily armored swordsman in the distance, who was covered in blood and as terrifying as a god or demon, and couldn't help but feel a drum beating in his heart.

He was a Chop-Chop Fruit user, and could divide his body into several pieces at will and float them in the air, so in theory he didn't need to worry about swordsmen like Garen who simply used swords to chop people.

But the way Garen killed people so efficiently like a meat grinder still made Buggy, who wasn't a cold-blooded tough guy, feel fear instinctively.

"Captain Buggy?"

Cabaji retreated silently, calling out his captain's name tremblingly.

"Wait a little longer"

Buggy wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, and forced himself to say:

"I'll let him know how powerful I am right away"

Buggy didn't dare to act for a while, which happened to give Garen time to study the new changes in the system—

It turned out that after Garen used his greatsword to spin and sweep through a group of rabble, his experience bar rapidly increased due to these gains, and finally barely reached the threshold of level 4.

Garen's level suddenly rose from level 3 to level 4.

According to the progress in the game, level 4 was when a character had an extra skill point and could advance to learn a small skill.

But Garen's three small skills had full-level effects from the beginning, and there was no need to advance to learn them.

So Garen had been wondering what the skill points he would get after level four would be used for.

The system gave Garen the answer:

You have reached level 4.

Random reward, drawing.

In the next second, an extra slot appeared out of thin air in the skill bar on Garen's system interface:

"Gained an additional new skill: [Mirror Image]."

After a brief moment of stunned silence, Garen suddenly became excited:

After leveling up... he could actually receive additional random rewards?

This meant that the benefits of leveling up were far more than just enhancing physical skills; it could be said to have brought infinite possibilities to Garen's future strength improvement.

And the extra skill he gained, [Mirror Image], was precisely the signature ability of the hero Sun Wukong in the game:

"You enter stealth for 1.5 seconds, leaving behind an uncontrollable clone. After 1.5 seconds, the clone disappears."

The skill effect was slightly different from the game, but still powerful and practical.

After fully understanding the new changes in the system, Garen couldn't wait to try out his new skill:

"Mirror Image!"

In just a split second, Garen felt his entire body become illusory and intangible, like an invisible man.

Garen quietly took two steps forward and discovered that a clone identical to him was still standing where he had been, attracting the enemy's attention in place of him, who had quietly left.

Captain Buggy, with a troubled expression, was now intently staring at the fake Garen clone.

Garen was slightly surprised by the effect of his skill, but immediately realized the power of this stealth ability, which was extremely suitable for both ambushes and escapes.

Before the stealth state ended, Garen immediately raised his greatsword: "Fatal Strike!"

The sword blade suddenly emitted a golden light of justice, but no outsider could see it.

And Garen's figure suddenly became 30% faster, making his powerful body, now at level four, disappear from the spot like an arrow shot from a bow, and pounce towards the clown Buggy sitting in the distance like a hungry tiger.

Just as the blade of Garen's greatsword was about to touch Buggy, his stealth state suddenly ended, and the clone left in place also turned into a cloud of smoke and disappeared without a trace.

Wasted too much time just now.

Garen silently reflected in his heart, while also feeling a bit regretful:

If this stealth effect could last longer, I could use this skill for both military and civilian purposes like someone who ate the Clear-Clear Fruit, allowing it to shine in daily life.

But even so, Buggy, who was pointed at by the greatsword's blade, was still frightened and shivered:

He had been hesitating, staring intently at the "Garen" in the distance...

But in the next instant, that guy suddenly "teleported" in front of him?

Seeing that the blood-stained greatsword was about to strike him, Buggy hurriedly used his signature ability: "Chop-Chop!"

Buggy's body suddenly and strangely split into several black and smooth parts, which scattered in all directions.

The power of the Devil Fruit was indeed extraordinary; Buggy, with his body split into several pieces floating in the air, was still full of life.

"Hahaha!"

Buggy laughed with a fierce look but weak heart:

"This great pirate is a terrifying pirate worth 15 million Beli, a legendary Devil Fruit user!"

"You can't hurt me!"

As soon as he finished speaking, A muffled sound of a sword blade touching flesh echoed on the deck, and Buggy's head, flying alone in the air, was filled with an expression of pain.

"I can still hit him?"

Garen was also a little surprised:

Just as Buggy split his body, the blade of his greatsword that he swung also rapidly changed its trajectory in an instant, smashing towards the largest piece of Buggy's split body.

It seemed that Buggy's splitting ability, which still had a large solid body, did not meet the system's requirement of "unselectable target" and could still be hit by Garen's normal attack with guaranteed hit attribute.

This "Fatal Strike" damage hit Buggy squarely, causing him to tremble violently in pain.

But a great pirate was still a great pirate, with an unusually strong body;

This attack, which would have killed an ordinary soldier instantly, only caused Buggy a certain degree of minor injury.

However, The impact of Garen's attack was far more than just physical damage.

All the parts of Buggy's body suddenly froze.

Including Buggy's head, his scattered body parts all fell from the air like hailstones, and finally scattered powerlessly on the ground.

Although the splitting effect brought about by the previous use of the fruit ability was still there, Buggy was horrified to discover that:

He had completely lost control of his fruit ability, unable to make the split body float, and unable to freely reassemble and split.

Buggy suddenly became an indescribable pile of fragments scattered on the ground, unable to move.

"How is this possible?"

Buggy finally managed to shout out the surprised words he didn't have time to say just now with his disobedient head.

Garen looked at Buggy, who had been split into parts all over the ground by his Q skill, and asked in a calm tone:

"Um, Captain Buggy?"

"How much was that bounty you said you had again, in Beli?"

"Umm…"

Buggy's head, still lying on the ground, immediately plastered on an extremely comical, ingratiating expression:

"Slip of the tongue, slip of the tongue."

"1500, no 'tens of thousands.'"