Conqueror's Haki Luck

Sprawled out on the cold floor, Buggy thrashed in his death throes, his heart filled with despair.

He recalled his colorful first half of life, and a strong sense of unwillingness surged wildly into his heart:

I, the great Buggy, wasn't killed when Golden Lion surrounded me in the New World with forty large fleets. Am I really going to die today at the hands of this unknown roadside knight?

Shanks, Rayleigh, Captain Roger...

These famous old friends constantly appeared in Buggy's mind, giving him endless power.

This extraordinary power fermented in Buggy's still-warm chest, and then burst out of his vocal cords in two powerful words:

"Help!"

Garen was stunned by this power, his face full of helplessness:

"Stop yelling."

"I'm going to start hacking people if you keep this up."

Buggy still refused to stop.

Garen raised his greatsword high, wanting to intimidate the out-of-control Buggy.

But Buggy was instead startled by the sight, and turned his head, wanting to use his Devil Fruit ability to fly away again.

"Waste of energy!"

Garen waved the greatsword in his hand with some annoyance.

But Buggy shouted loudly like a madman, "I, Buggy the Great, won't die here!"

"That's not up to you!"

Garen once again cooperatively spoke the villain's exclusive line, waiting for Fatal Strike's cooldown to end so he could swing his sword at Buggy again.

But just then...

A violent explosion suddenly came from outside the captain's cabin.

And in the next instant, Garen felt the entire ship beneath his feet suddenly tremble, followed by the crisp sound of wood splitting that spread throughout the cabin in just a few breaths.

The floor beneath his feet began to tilt at a speed visible to the naked eye, and countless wide cracks rapidly spread across the wooden walls of the cabin.

"What's going on?"

Garen hurriedly grabbed Buggy's foot and fled the already crumbling captain's cabin with Wallace.

After walking out of the cabin door, the destructive power of the unknown attack just now became even more direct:

The Buggy Pirates' not-so-small medium-sized pirate ship had been blasted into two large pieces of wood barely connected together by an inexplicable force, and the entire ship began to slowly sink into the sea.

And on the shattered and tilting deck, many pirate lackeys had already been shaken into the sea by the sudden force;

Beastmaster Mohji and swordsman Cabaji were also hugging Richie, shivering.

Nami, however, gritted her teeth and used all her strength to tie several treasure chests together, tightly protecting them under her body.

Seeing Garen and Wallace, Nami did not forget to remind them loudly:

"Garen, we're being shelled again!"

"Shelling again?"

Garen was stunned.

How lucky did he have to be to be shelled again on another ship?

Wait...

Garen suddenly looked at Buggy, who was breathing a big sigh of relief beside him...

Is this my luck, or this red-nose's luck?

Garen immediately developed a sense of awe for Captain Buggy, who was rumored to have Conqueror's Haki Luck.

Just as Garen was in a daze, the second shell came.

A commotion came from the sky, and the overwhelming sound waves surged like a tsunami.

Then, with a loud bang, the already broken deck suffered another devastating blow, and Buggy's pirate ship instantly became a pile of discarded wood stacked on the sea.

This shell was different from the special Buggy Bomb Garen had suffered before. There was no explosive fire when it crashed to the ground; it was a solid shell.

But this solid shell could set off a terrifying high-pressure storm, causing the solid wooden hull to be shattered by the airflow in an instant, its destructive power even more terrifying than the Buggy Bomb.

"Ultra-high-speed kinetic energy weapon?!"

Garen was shocked speechless:

"What the hell is this place? How much more black technology is there?!"

Nami tightly protected the several bundled boxes and shouted at Garen and Wallace:

"Don't stand there, come and help me carry the boxes!"

Garen suddenly woke up and immediately ran to Nami's side with Wallace.

But at this moment, an unexpected change occurred.

Nami didn't see it clearly, and neither did Wallace, but Garen, thanks to his physical stats after leveling up to four, barely managed to capture the solid cannonball streaking through the air with his dynamic vision.

Perhaps it was the enemy's precise targeting, or perhaps it was a terrible coincidence in the dark, but the landing point of this ultra-high-speed cannonball was right where Garen, Wallace, and Nami were barely standing on the damaged deck.

With Garen's current abilities, there was no way he could avoid this level of attack while carrying Wallace and Nami.

And the speed of the cannonball was so fast that in Garen's vision, it was like an uncatchable blur.

Garen simply had no time to think of other countermeasures.

Either he could jump away alone and watch Nami and Wallace die, or...

"Fatal Strike!"

"Courage!"

In an instant, Garen buffed himself with damage reduction, attack power, and speed, and jumped up from the deck.

His left hand still tightly gripped Buggy's foot, while his right hand raised the greatsword shimmering with righteous light.

For Garen's unscientific, data-driven body, the force exerted by wielding the sword with one hand was the same as wielding it with two.

Frozen in mid-air, Garen attacked the blurry cannonball in his sight.

Normal Attack!

Target Acquired!

If it were a normal swordsman, even if they could barely see this high-speed object like Garen, there would be absolutely no way to stop it with a sword.

But Garen was different; if he could see it, he could strike it.

No matter how fast the opponent's movement speed was, as long as it was within Garen's sword range, it was guaranteed to hit.

The greatsword in Garen's hand met the high-speed solid iron ball head-on in mid-air, the sharp blade colliding with the cannonball.

Garen didn't need to exert much force; the kinetic energy carried by the cannonball itself caused it to be cut in half on Garen's blade.

The cannonball, split in two, suddenly changed its trajectory and continued to fly downwards in different directions, eventually hitting the ship's hull on either side of Nami and Wallace with a deafening roar.

Despite the slowing effect of Garen's sword swing, these two halves of the cannonball were still terrifyingly destructive, stirring up a cloud of wood chips and water when they landed.

And Garen, who had met the cannonball head-on and split it open, was also sent plummeting from the sky like a meteor due to the huge reaction force, embedding himself heavily into the battered ship.

Everything happened in the blink of an eye.

It wasn't until Garen crashed heavily in front of her that Nami realized she had been saved by Garen.

Nami poked her head out from the shattered deck, panicking and shouting Garen's name:

"Garen!"

"Where are you?"

Although she knew that Garen seemed to have some kind of strange ability to be invulnerable to swords, Nami couldn't suppress the panic and worry in her heart, so much so that her voice trembled slightly.

"I'm here!"

Garen suddenly stood up from a pile of wood chips and said to Nami, pretending to be relaxed:

"Don't worry, I'm fine!"

Nami carefully looked over Garen's body and breathed a sigh of relief:

Not even the silk cloth on Garen's armor was damaged, and there wasn't a single scratch on his exposed skin. He really didn't seem to be hurt.

"It's good that you're okay..."

Nami looked at Garen with lingering fear and said:

"Then let's quickly jump into the sea with the treasure chests; we can't stay on this ship any longer!"

"Okay!"

Garen nodded and jumped out of the human-shaped crater he had created as if nothing had happened, and hurriedly helped Nami pack up a few boxes.

However, although Garen didn't say it, a storm was raging in his heart:

He had only received part of the recoil force transmitted from the blade, and he still had the 40% damage reduction effect of [Courage].

Even so, he had still been knocked off a quarter of his health by this cannonball!

Who exactly is the opponent?

Garen was horrified.