Ares kicked his legs, instantly swimming through the seawater like a cannonball, as free and agile as a fish.
Except he wasn't a mermaid.
He was a violent, muscle-bound hunk!
His momentum and speed were like those of a small submarine sailing at full speed.
However, he was still not as fast as Sebastian of the Fish-Man Race. Following behind Sebastian, he engraved every detail of the man's movements deeply into his mind.
So he could learn from them later!
A few seconds later, Sebastian suddenly leaped out of the water. With nimble movements, he climbed along the hull onto the deck using both his hands and feet.
"Sebastian?!"
Gai Ram, a cadre of the Byrnndi World Pirates who carried a massive iron hammer on his back and possessed the Cube-Cube Fruit, hurriedly asked him, "How did it go? Did you deal with that brat?"
Before Sebastian could answer,
Splash!
Movement came from the surface of the sea. Ares also climbed up along the hull, appearing in everyone's sight.
Large amounts of seawater streamed down Ares's bronze, rock-hard muscles and spilled onto the deck.
"You didn't kill him?!" Nightin, the ship's doctor of the Byrnndi World Pirates, cried out in astonishment. Sebastian was one of the strongest cadres aboard the ship.
As a mixed-blood descendant of the Fish-Man Race and the Giant Tribe, he possessed an innate advantage in underwater combat and strength far beyond that of ordinary people!
In the seawater... he still couldn't kill this guy?
Sebastian watched Ares nervously. With a grim expression, he warned his companions, "Don't let your guard down. This guy is extremely strange!"
"His strength is terrifying, and his swimming speed in seawater is actually no slower than a fish-man's!"
Recalling the boy's terrifying Monstrous Strength, he felt a dull ache in his fists and chest. His strength was even more frightening than that of the Giant Tribe. What a terrifying guy!
"Strange?"
Gai Ram reached out and removed the iron hammer strapped to his back, a weapon even larger than his own body. He said confidently, "In the face of my Devil Fruit ability, even the most terrifying strength is completely useless!"
He raised the massive iron hammer in his hands and smashed it down toward the deck.
Bang!
The deck did not break apart. Instead, lines of light appeared, dividing the deck into countless square sections and transforming it into blocks of perfectly square objects!
"Cube--Chaos!!!"
The cubes floated up from the deck, hovering in midair.
"Is that a Devil Fruit ability?!"
Ares looked slightly surprised. He had learned some basic information about Devil Fruits from Golden Lion and Whitebeard.
He roughly knew that Devil Fruits were divided into three major types:
Zoan, Paramecia, and Logia.
Every Devil Fruit had its own unique ability!
He also secretly grew vigilant.
In an instant,
The cubes suspended in the air suddenly came crashing toward Ares, each one like a cannonball.
Ares's expression did not change. He punched one cube after another, bang, bang, bang, sending them flying. He muttered, "It can separate objects and turn them into cubes. What a strange ability!"
His body stood like a towering giant, completely unmoving.
"You've got some skill. Then try this move!" Gai Ram laughed and set his great hammer on the ground.
A glowing cube suddenly appeared between his hands!
Ares spotted its abnormality at a glance. The air had been compressed!
He could not help looking astonished. "This Devil Fruit ability can even compress air? But what kind of offensive effect can compressed air have?!"
He had never seen such a bizarre method of attack before, and it filled him with wonder.
He also found it quite interesting!
"Air--Cube!!"
Gai Ram directly threw the cube radiating a faint white light toward Ares.
Ares quickly raised his arm and suddenly chopped downward!
"Although I don't know what this thing is, I shouldn't come into contact with it recklessly!"
That was what Whitebeard Newgate had told him. When facing a Devil Fruit user, one absolutely must not casually make contact with the opponent before understanding their ability.
As his arm came crashing down, it let out a sharp whoosh.
"One Sword Style: Tang Bamboo!!"
A dazzling azure slash shot from Ares's arm with a swish.
Boom!!
In the blink of an eye, it collided with the glowing white air cube. A deafening explosion rang out.
A huge cloud of white smoke instantly filled the deck.
"He actually created a slash with his body?!" Nightin, her face covered in heavy makeup, shrieked in shock. Her eyes were filled with disbelief. "How can this kid be so fierce?!"
A slash was simply a method of attack produced when one's speed and strength reached a certain level.
Yet even using a weapon, it was not something an ordinary person could achieve.
Not to mention that this tall, robust, powerfully built man had used his own "thick" arm to unleash such a ferocious slash!
She finally understood why Sebastian had said that this guy was strange and possessed terrifying strength.
Now she had truly witnessed it.
There was actually such a--fierce man!!
The pirates on the deck grew tense one after another. Their faces were filled with fear and terror, while beads of cold sweat appeared along their temples and foreheads.
"Compressed air can possess power greater than a bomb. Air..."
"I understand now!!"
Ares's eyes lit up. He suddenly understood, his face filled with delight, grasping some of the secrets behind slashes.
Powerful speed and strength had carried the air along with them.
His bell-like eyes shone brightly. He looked toward the pirates on the deck like a vicious beast and grinned. "I really have to thank you. You've taught me so much about combat!"
"Captain Rocks was right. Battle can temper a person into an indestructible sword!"
"Now..."
"I think I'm becoming more and more eager for battle!!"
In less than a few minutes, he had successively learned how the Fish-Man Race moved swiftly through seawater, a special method of controlling water through punches, and part of the secrets of slashes through the Air--Cube.
The battle was not even over, yet he had already gained so much!
Seawater dripped onto the wooden floor beneath his feet. His entire body was filled with soaring battle spirit, causing his already magnificent frame to radiate a savage, brutal aura as terrifying as that of a ferocious beast.
The members of the Byrnndi World Pirates, locked in Ares's sharp, vicious gaze, could not help shivering. Every hair on their bodies stood on end, like animals whose natural enemy had appeared before them.
"This guy... You should know by now that there's something strange and wrong with him, right?" Sebastian's expression darkened, and his heart began to pound.
He had been unable to defeat this guy in the sea. On the ship, he would probably fare even worse. Fortunately, he still had his companions.
A cadre of the Byrnndi World Pirates stepped forward. His lips, painted with pink hearts, parted as he laughed. "Hehehe... this brat is all alone."
"There are so many of us. It's impossible for him to defeat us!"
"Let's show this reckless brat just how powerful the Byrnndi World Pirates are!"
As he spoke, he reached into his clothes and pulled out a packet of powdered medicine wrapped in paper, then poured the pink powder directly into his mouth.
He shouted excitedly:
"Herbal Fist--Secret Medicine--Korean Newcomer!!!"
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