As Maud stepped out from the crowd, those imposing bounty hunters suddenly collapsed to the ground, seemingly unconscious and utterly motionless.
The bystanders who witnessed this scene with their own eyes instinctively attributed the unbelievable phenomenon to Maud.
"I know. I know what happened..."
Among the bystanders, an older man with a large black mole on his nose seemed to recall something. He stared at the indifferent Maud in the middle of the area with utter shock, as if looking at a newly born monster.
"It's Conqueror's Haki...!!!"
"Conqueror's Haki? What's that?"
The mole-faced man's companions seemed unaware of what Conqueror's Haki was. Though shocked, they were all filled with confusion.
The mole-faced man's eyes trembled nonstop as memories buried deep within his heart surged forth like waves.
He was a failure who had fled back from the New World. Compared to this group beside him who had never even been to the New World, the things he had been fortunate enough to witness could earn him plenty of fine wine even if he only bragged about them.
"That's an ability that can stun opponents without even lifting a finger. It's hailed as the symbol of a king. Only one person in a million can possess it!"
"Hm?"
The astonishment on his companions' faces deepened.
They had assumed that Bagard Maud was merely a rookie pirate with a relatively high bounty. If they used overwhelming numbers, perhaps they could even take advantage of the situation.
But now...
The companions who had come with the mole-faced man began to retreat.
A monster of the new generation like this was absolutely not someone they could afford to provoke.
Why bother looking for trouble with Maud?
Weren't there several other supernovas with bounties exceeding one hundred million who had arrived at the Sabaody