Beginning the Action

"Bang!"

A gunshot rang out on the ship, grazing the Water Clone's hair.

"Disperse!" Rodney ordered, and the Water Clones scattered, running towards the other pirate ships.

Rodney, however, focused his attention on the largest flagship.

The enemy had already spotted him. After the initial missed shot, a dense rain of bullets followed.

The Sharingan appeared in his eyes. The speed of the lead bullets in the air seemed to slow down. Through the Sharingan, he captured the trajectory of the bullets, predicting and calculating in his mind. His body reacted accordingly, dodging the attacks. All of this happened in a flash, his body moving almost instinctively.

"Useless! Useless! Shoot him! Turn him into a sieve!" Krieg roared upon seeing this.

"Aye, aye!" The pirates, terrified, broke out in cold sweat and continued to shoot at Rodney and his Water Clones.

Unfortunately for them, all the attacks were easily dodged.

"Give me the gun!" Krieg, enraged by the incompetence of his men, snatched a Fire Gun and aimed at Rodney, firing.

The distance was just right. The Water Clones threw Kunai with Explosive Tags attached, embedding them into the pirate ship.

"What's that?" A pirate leaned over the railing, curiously looking at the Kunai.

The Explosive Tag on the Kunai suddenly burst into flames, and then...

Boom!!

The relatively sturdy hull of the ship had a large hole blown into it by the Explosive Tag's explosion. Seawater poured directly into the blown-open hole, flooding the ship's interior.

"It's bad! The ship is leaking! Abandon ship! Abandon ship!"

The pirates jumped into the sea without a second thought, swimming towards the other pirate ships. Such a large hole could not be repaired, so they had no choice but to abandon ship.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Continuous explosions occurred around the fleet. The Water Clones moved quickly, attaching an Explosive Tag near the waterline to each ship they passed, blowing holes in the bottom and letting in seawater, forcing the pirates to abandon their ships.

A fleet of thousands of men was easily dealt with in this manner.

The biggest advantage of the Krieg Pirates was their numbers, and the most important thing at sea was ships. Without ships, you wouldn't even have the chance to set sail. The ships in the East Blue were not the large ships built in Water 7, and they weren't made of any special materials, so blowing them up was quite simple.

In an instant, the sea was like a pot of dumplings, filled with bobbing heads.

Rodney didn't care about the fate of these guys. Whether they lived or died was up to them. Since they chose to be pirates, they had to be prepared to die at sea. When you live by the sword, you die by the sword.

They had to be responsible for their actions!

"Captain Krieg! Save us!"

"Let us on board, Captain Krieg!"

"I don't want to die, Captain Krieg, please let me on board! I am your most loyal subordinate!"

The pirates wanted to board Krieg's large ship because it was the last one left. The other dozen or so ships had all been destroyed by Rodney.

Krieg's ship was the only one they could board, the only thing that could keep them alive.

"Get down! All of you get down! You bunch of good-for-nothings! Don't let any of them on! Where did that damn thing go?" Krieg initially accepted some of the stranded crew members, but then he refused to take in those he considered useless, instead ordering his men to drive away those who were trying to board.

The ship was large, but it couldn't accommodate one or two thousand people, and that guy would definitely find a way to get on board and kill him. With too many people, it would be difficult to fight.

As for so-called loyalty, he didn't need it, because he didn't trust his crew members. He ruled them not with loyalty, but with fear and wealth.

A carrot and stick approach.

As long as the crew members feared him, nothing else mattered.

If people died, he could always recruit more. He needed to kill that bastard who had crippled his fleet first!

"He's over there!" a subordinate shouted.

Rodney defied gravity, running up the almost vertical hull with movements that would make a certain bovine deity rise from his coffin. He stood firmly on the railing, his eerie red eyes sweeping across the deck, filling many of the pirates with fear.

"Shoot!"

Krieg was decisive and ruthless. At his command, the armed subordinates drew their guns and fired!

They accurately hit Rodney's body, turning him into liquid.

Yes, liquid, just a Water Clone.

Rodney himself burst into the battlefield from another direction, along with the two remaining Water Clones.

"Water Release: Water Surge!"

The seawater surged up, and the large waves washed away a large number of cannon fodder from the deck.

"Fire Release: Phoenix Sage Fire Technique!"

"Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique!"

The Phoenix Sage Fire ignited the sails, while the Great Fireball rushed into the crowd and exploded, taking many lives.

Oh my god, the Great Fireball is killing people!!

"Looking to die!" Krieg's second-in-command, and also his top fighter, the Captain of the Krieg Pirates' Combat Division, Ghoul Jin Akin, brandished two iron clubs, each with an iron ball on the head. If they hit someone, a single blow could kill an ordinary person.

He spun the iron ball clubs continuously, using centrifugal force to accelerate and increase their destructive power, charging towards the real Rodney with agile movements. It wasn't that he had seen through the Clone Technique, but rather that he was lucky.

Clang--

White Fang was imbued with Wind Release Chakra, increasing its cutting power, and collided with Ghoul Jin Akin's spiked iron ball, creating a large spray of sparks.

But if Ghoul Jin Akin stopped to observe his weapon, he would have noticed a shallow cut mark on the iron ball.

White Fang easily parried Ghoul Jin Akin's attacks. Each of his attacks was very heavy, constantly rotating to increase centrifugal force, achieving power far exceeding his own strength, but Rodney didn't find it difficult to cope.

His perception was first-rate. The Sharingan captured Ghoul Jin Akin's body movements, processed them in his brain, and made predictions. He could easily counterattack, using a more effortless method to deflect Ghoul Jin Akin's attacks.

It gave Ghoul Jin Akin the feeling of hitting cotton, quite powerless.

"How can this be? This guy is actually on par with the Commander-in-Chief? Too... too strong!"

"Commander-in-Chief, go for it! You must kill him!"

"That's right, Commander-in-Chief, we are the Krieg Pirates! The strongest pirate crew in the East Blue!"

The Water Clone curled its lip and punched a cannon fodder pirate, "Strongest? You mean the largest in number?"

"You..."

Struck where it hurt, the pirates didn't know what to say, so they just attacked blindly. Under the onslaught, the two Water Clones quickly turned into puddles of water.

Water Clones are very fragile, just like Shadow Clones, their resistance to attacks is not strong.

Only one Rodney remained to fight Ghoul Jin Akin.

Krieg narrowed his eyes. Ghoul Jin Akin was already at a disadvantage, which was very obvious. He was thinking about whether to fire a shot, not caring if it would hurt Ghoul Jin Akin. In his opinion, trading a subordinate for a powerful enemy was a good deal.

However, Akin's value was still very high, so he decided to hold off for now, and shouted, "Bala, go help Jin."

"Yes, Captain Krieg, let Iron Wall Bala show this guy what cruelty is!"

A sandwich cookie stood up, with a steel shield more than a person's height on both his chest and back, very thick, sandwiching him inside, like a sandwich cookie. The shields had delicate patterns on them, with a small watermelon-sized pearl inlaid in the center, pearl earrings on his ears, and a pearl on top of his head. On his hands, elbows, and knees, there were also two smaller shields.

Iron Wall Bala, the Krieg Pirates' man with the strongest defense.

Clang.

The two shields in his hands collided with each other, and Iron Wall Bala chuckled, "Since you've met me, then your luck today is zero!"

Rodney: "..."

Am I playing League of Legends?

Deciding to end the battle quickly, the Sharingan pinpointed Ghoul Jin Akin's weakness, and the White Fang in his hand refracted dazzling sunlight. Wind Release Chakra was attached to the blade, a thin layer but with the cutting power to split metal and crack stone!

Suddenly exerting force, he cleaved Ghoul Jin Akin's spiked iron ball in one blow.

Ghoul Jin Akin widened his eyes in disbelief, and so did the people around him, as if they had seen something incredible.

Just then, someone recognized him and shouted, "I know who he is! The recently rising Bounty Hunter, Joestar J. Rodney!"