Chapter 64. Black-on-Black!
Three hundred meters away.
Not too close, not too far. Merlin could observe them clearly, and they were still within range of his Observation Haki.
As for Observation Haki, in general, people who had it could sense those who didn't without being detected.
Merlin had sensed Luo and the others with Observation Haki before, even at close range, yet they hadn't noticed. However, Luo, with his keen senses, seemed to have felt something was off.
That was why Merlin had come here now: to use Observation Haki to probe one of his targets.
Living beings gave off different levels of auras, depending on their strength.
After his Observation Haki awakened and he gained the skill, Merlin had instinctively understood this.
The ship was about two hundred meters long. There were two hundred and twenty-five distinct auras aboard, some stronger than others.
Most were only a little stronger than ordinary people.
But two of them gave off particularly impressive auras. Their auras are no weaker than Fohr's. They're pretty strong.
Merlin figured they had to be worth at least thirty million Beli.
Fohr had said that, at his current strength, he could easily defeat pirates with bounties around thirty million.
Time passed, second by second. On the ship's deck, the soldiers carried on with their business. There was no sign of an emergency muster or anything like that.
Looks like there aren't any Observation Haki users aboard, either.
That made sense. People who possessed Haki were rare in the Four Blues.
From what Merlin knew, Observation Haki could also "collide." Though that wasn't quite right; more precisely, users could sense each other when their ranges overlapped.
Half an hour later, as the sun sank toward the sea, Merlin left.
He began searching clockwise from the eastern edge of