Loguetown, Number Five Backstreet.
Something unbelievable was happening.
If the four thousand pirates gathered on Number Five Backstreet were vicious hungry wolves, then Lynn, charging into the street from the entrance, was like a savage beast plunging into a wolf pack!
Including Hachi, the dozens of pirates at the very front of the street saw nothing more than Lynn's figure flash before their eyes. By the time they regained consciousness, their entire bodies had already been sent flying into the air.
Before they hit the ground and lost consciousness, those pirates stared at Lynn as he continued onward below them, suddenly feeling that the whole thing was utterly unreal.
After crashing heavily to the ground, Hachi stared wide-eyed at Lynn's back.
"The gap is really this huge..."
Elsewhere.
After activating Icebound Domain, Lynn swiftly dealt with the dozen or so pirates in front of him. He then exhaled several puffs of white mist and deactivated the state.
Icebound Domain was currently his strongest sustained offensive technique. At full power, Lynn could only fight for three minutes in that state at most, and that was before accounting for the Energy Value consumed by his other moves.
Against these low-level pirate grunts, Lynn had no need to maintain Icebound Domain at all times.
Why use a sledgehammer to crack a nut?
What Lynn truly needed to be wary of was that terrifying killing intent that had been following him like a shadow!
Besides, Lynn had already achieved his objective.
At a speed nearly invisible to the naked eye, he had sent dozens of people flying into the air. That sight had already placed immense psychological pressure on the pirates behind them.
They now had only one evaluation for Lynn—
Monster!
Even with precious Seastone weapons in their hands, they faced an opponent they could not even hit. An indescribable fear spread among them.
"Don't be afraid!"
At the front of the crowd, a more courageous bearded man shouted, "There are four thousand of us! Attack him with Seastone weapons! Devil Fruit Users fear Seastone most!"
"Ha ha ha ha!"
Lynn laughed loudly at that. Then he spread his arms, bent forward at the waist, and charged ahead like a war chariot.
The moment he collided with the pirates, the immense impact forced the front row back again and again. With so many people packed into the street, the pirates were squeezed tightly together.
Seizing the chance, Lynn grabbed the outermost pirates on both sides with his hands. Then he drew his arms together with force, crushing six or seven people between them at once!
Then the pirates witnessed another scene they could not comprehend.
If a restaurant served terrible food, they might cause trouble there and flip the table.
But what they saw now was—
Flipping people!
Lynn spread his arms and wrapped six or seven pirates in an embrace with astonishing brute strength. Then he exerted force through his waist and abdomen, abruptly arching his whole body backward.
Those pirates, along with more than a dozen people behind them, were all flipped into the air!
"Waaah!"
The pirates thrown skyward felt dizzy and disoriented, unable to stop themselves from letting out all sorts of strange cries.
When they realized they were unharmed and were about to adjust their bodies to land on the ground—
Lynn, in full view of everyone, grabbed a vendor's handcart in each hand. Then he exerted force through his waist and abdomen and spun around along with the two carts!
After two or three rotations, once his speed had built to an astonishing level, Lynn aimed at the pirates in the sky and hurled the two wooden handcarts with all his strength.
Bang!
Bang!
After striking two unlucky pirates head-on, the wooden handcarts shattered. Their fragments sprayed across the other people in the air, then fell to the ground and threw the pirates below into chaos as well.
The fragments and the pirates hit the ground almost at the same time.
Lynn stood in the middle of the street and continued forward, one step at a time.
Anyone who entered Lynn's attack range was sent flying by a single heavy punch—either soaring into the air or smashing viciously into the walls on either side of the street.
Behind him, not a single pirate could remain standing;
Before him, not a single pirate was not retreating!
By the time Lynn had advanced roughly one-tenth of the way, several hundred pirates had already fallen beneath his fists.
Gradually, Lynn began to sense that something was off.
Hundred Plans Kuro was a very intelligent man, and Lynn had been forced to come to Loguetown. Kuro should therefore have had enough time to choose a place suitable for them to fight.
Yet if he wanted to use a human-wave tactic against Lynn, Number Five Backstreet was clearly not a wise choice.
Just as Lynn had observed before, Number Five Backstreet was very long from end to end, but it was not wide on either side.
Thus, at most several dozen pirates could appear before Lynn at one time. Any more, and there would not be enough room for them to stand in the street.
Lynn had also entered from the street entrance.
Therefore, no matter how many pirates there were, they could not surround Lynn from all directions. That was a major taboo of human-wave tactics. Lynn did not believe Kuro would make such a basic mistake.
The only possibility was that Hundred Plans had some special method hidden away to deal with Lynn!
After all, Lynn was in the open while the enemy was concealed. He had no choice but to stay vigilant.
Just then, the ground began to tremble.
A massive, burly man pushed through the pirates and stood before Lynn.
The man was a full four meters tall, with muscles forming an explosively powerful inverted triangle.
"Oh! It's Big Eater Bart!"
At the sight of the hulking man, the pirates immediately found their courage.
"Take down that runt, Bart!"
"Let him taste your Iron Fist that can punch through five layers of steel plate!"
The big man called Bart rolled his neck. Amid the pirates' cheers, he looked down at Lynn and revealed a disdainful smirk.
"I heard from Captain Krieg that you fight with your fists too?"
Lynn looked back at him and cracked his fingers. "That's right."
"Then let's play a game."
Bart said slowly, "The two of us will stand still and take turns punching each other until one of us falls completely. How about it?"
The pirates immediately grew excited.
"Oh! It's Bart's terrifying game!"
"Ha ha, no one has ever been able to take one of Bart's punches!"
Lynn glanced at the pirates behind Bart, thought for a moment, and agreed. "Sure."
Bart took out a coin and grinned. "In that case, let's flip a coin to decide who attacks first!"
The pirates all sneered.
Bart's coin was a specially made cheating coin. No matter how it was tossed, it would always produce a result favorable to Bart.
In other words, Lynn would have to accept Bart's first strike!
However, Lynn's next words caught everyone by surprise.
"No need. I'm in a hurry. You go first."
"Hmph!"
Bart heard the disdain in Lynn's words and snorted coldly. Veins suddenly bulged across his right arm.
"You dare look down on me? Die!"
Bang!
A fist more than twice the size of an ordinary person's head struck Lynn directly in the face!
"It hit him head-on!"
Lynn's hands still hung at his sides, so from any angle, that punch had landed squarely on target.
The pirates could not help secretly rejoicing. That was an Iron Fist capable of punching through five layers of steel plate!
Yet the next second—
Lynn's calm voice rang out.
"Is that all?"
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