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With a thunderous boom through the sky, a ring of force suddenly descended from above. Layer upon layer of shockwaves spread outward in all directions, centered on the heavily wounded winged monk on the ground.

"Urgh!" Big Beard in armor let out a muffled groan and fiercely drove his twin swords into the ground, trying to stop himself from being swept away by the shockwave. But the shockwave was simply too powerful. He was pushed straight back, his swords cutting two trenches through the ground as easily as if they were slicing through thin paper, and he was blasted away along with the other soldiers.

The surroundings were a complete mess. Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of people surrounding the monk had all been swept away by the shockwave. Within a hundred-meter radius around the monk, not a single person remained.

High in the sky, the golden radiance gradually faded. Uchiha Hiko, dressed in white, slowly descended and landed lightly beside Weird Monk Urki. With his hands loosely clasped, his indifferent eyes sweeping over the scene, his expressionless face and the empty space created by that single strike gave him the imposing air of an immortal descending to the mortal world.

Urouge clutched his severely wounded body, his gaze somewhat unfocused as he looked at the small young man in white beside him. "Who are you?"

Hiko looked over Urouge, whose body remained extraordinarily muscular even while lying on the ground. He truly admired the physiques of people in the Pirate World. Comparing his own build to theirs would indeed be overestimating himself. "You're Weird Monk Urki?"

Urouge nodded.

Hiko's cold gaze swept over the people scattered in all directions by the shockwave. He said flatly, "I'm Uchiha Hiko. I'm here to save you."

It was as though Urouge had been holding