How many pirates had he killed?
Maud had not bothered counting.
He could only be certain that most of the prey he had written into his notebook were inside the colosseum.
Most of this prey consisted of pirates.
At his request, the Revolutionary Army only gathered intelligence on pirates with relatively high bounties or notorious reputations.
Only pirates like these would be the main force competing for the Devil Fruit.
Even if an unexpected situation arose, they would not give up easily after obtaining some capital.
That was exactly the situation Maud was most happy to see.
However, before carrying out this plan, Maud had not expected the Aha Kingdom's army to give him such tremendous assistance.
Thanks to the army's "wholehearted" cooperation, Maud had been able to smoothly pocket most of the experience.
By the time the pirates trying to break through the encirclement and escape realized what was happening, fewer than three hundred of their comrades were still able to stand around them.
As for the army, although it had held a ten-thousand-to-two-thousand advantage, it had still lost roughly 2,500 elite soldiers.
Judging by the casualties, the army's losses were undoubtedly more serious.
This also showed, indirectly, just how formidable the pirates were.
The army had five times as many soldiers as the pirates, and Maud had also been constantly stabbing the pirates in the back from behind with righteous sneak attacks.
Yet even so, these pirates, who had no discipline or teamwork to speak of, had still cost the army a quarter of its forces.
Judging solely by individual strength, the difference between the two sides was obvious.
Although the army had lost 2,500 soldiers, it still had more than 7,000 remaining.
With such forces, maintaining the strength of the encirclement was no difficulty at all.
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