Jim's brute-force punches.
Jaya's savage axe chops.
Beli's Rocket Headbutt.
In less than a minute, they swept through the pirates who had come looking for trouble, cutting them down like autumn leaves before the wind.
All 150 pirates were killed. Not one was left alive.
Of the corpses littering the ground, more than half had been disemboweled by a single punch, dying particularly gruesome deaths.
Most of those corpses had fallen to Jim.
By comparison, Jaya, who wielded a one-handed axe, seemed exceptionally gentle.
Every one of her swings gave the impression that she was about to cleave her opponent in half.
Yet when her axe split apart an enemy weapon and continued into the enemy's chest, it merely left behind a massive wound that was precisely fatal.
Normally, when using a cold weapon like an axe to kill an enemy, finding an opening and cleaving someone in half with one swing was perfectly normal.
Yet the pirates Jaya had struck down basically all had a wound across the chest sufficient to stop their hearts, rather than dying in spectacular fashion.
The pirates present assumed that Jaya lacked strength, but only Maud knew that she was controlling her power so she would not cleave her enemies in half and get herself splattered with blood.
Back then, Saul had said that Jaya was better suited to learning the spear.
That remark had not merely been intended to disgust Gaban. It had actually made some sense.
With Jaya's meticulous personality, which made her approach everything with care, she was not particularly suited to using an axe.
But even though the weapon did not match her nature, Jaya had not let Gaban's painstaking instruction go to waste. Her axe technique had reached an accomplished level.
As for Beli...
Better not mention it.
Beli: