Slaughter! Moria's Ambition

Bounty equals strength!

That was the simplest value held by pirates across these seas.

The higher your bounty, the greater your fame.

Pirates who sailed the seas also yearned for higher bounties from the Marines.

"Fierce Leopard Pirates, Fierce Leopard Proffer!"

Lin Ye recognized the pirate captain the moment he saw him.

Devil Fruits were truly rare on the seas. Over the past year, Lin Ye had traveled nearly the entire Grand Line with Moria and encountered only a handful of Devil Fruit users. Only two had dropped Devil Fruit ability Entries, and one of those had even been a weakness.

Namely, the weakness that those who ate Devil Fruits feared seawater. Lin Ye had been so annoyed that he directly shattered that Entry.

"Brat, you actually know this captain's great name!"

Hearing Lin Ye call out his name, Proffer burst into laughter. Fur rapidly grew across his body, and in the blink of an eye, he transformed into a leopard man.

"I'll take your life first, then go find your captain."

Like a leopard, Proffer became an afterimage, darting back and forth.

The surrounding pirate grunts were overjoyed at the sight and raised their blades and swords in celebration.

Lin Ye curled his lip when he saw that.

Before crossing over, when he watched anime, he had thought people in this pirate world were wildly temperamental and absurdly easy to sway emotionally.

But after spending a year in this world, he found that it really was true.

It was especially obvious among these pirates.

They clearly knew Thriller Bark was right behind them and could crush their ship at any moment, sending them to the bottom of the sea.

Yet now that they saw their captain act, they seemed to have forgotten all about it, raising their weapons and cheering for him.

"Brat, you got distracted!"

Proffer suddenly roared. His figure instantly appeared behind Lin Ye, and he raised a massive claw. After Beastification, he stood nearly three meters tall, and his enormous claw was almost as large as half of Lin Ye's body.

Splat!

The massive beast claw stopped at Lin Ye's side.

A sword coated in Armament Haki had stabbed backward into the leopard man's chest, piercing straight through his heart.

"Impossible!"

The immense vitality granted by the Zoan Devil Fruit kept him from dying immediately, even with his heart pierced.

Terror filled the leopard man's eyes as his towering body slowly reverted from Beastification.

Expressionless, Lin Ye pulled the sword from his heart.

[Picked up Armament Haki: Level 1]

[Picked up Cat-Cat Bounce: Level 1]

Oh, it dropped something!

The notification appeared in his mind, and Lin Ye's eyelid twitched as he turned to look at the burly man crumpled on the ground.

In the past year, he had never encountered anyone like Roger, who had dropped five Entries at once.

The most had been a major pirate with a bounty of 210 million who died at Moria's hands. He had dropped Two Types of Haki and a kicking technique.

Most pirates did not drop even one. A few dropped one, and very few dropped two, but one of them might be a garbage Entry.

Retracting his gaze, Lin Ye swept his eyes around.

The pirates who had been cheering moments ago now wore terrified expressions, though their faces still carried wild delight as they held their weapons overhead.

Lin Ye lightly tapped the deck with his foot, his longsword becoming a life-taking Scythe.

Dark sword flashes swept through the air, and the pirates aboard the ship died without a sound.

"Run!"

After twenty or thirty men had died, someone finally came to his senses and shouted.

But this was a ship, and beneath it lay the sea of the New World.

Jumping overboard and abandoning the ship meant certain death.

Run? Where could they run?

On Thriller Bark, a pirate raised a spyglass and watched what was happening on Lin Ye's pirate ship.

"Ah, the captain's at it again."

"At this rate, there probably won't be anyone left alive on that ship."

At those words, the surrounding pirates all nodded in agreement.

They had originally thought that after joining the ship, Lin Ye would first become a deckhand and handle chores like scrubbing the deck.

Yet Lin Ye had never done such work. Instead, in only a short time, his status aboard the ship had risen rapidly.

It all came from strength.

"I think the captain could easily handle those major pirates with bounties of one or two hundred million now. Too bad our captain is just too strong."

A pirate sighed deeply.

"Enough nonsense. Get closer, but don't ram the ship over again, or all the treasure aboard will sink into the sea."

As the pirates on Thriller Bark discussed matters, they began to move.

Meanwhile, Lin Ye's silent slaughter had already ended.

Not a single person aboard remained alive.

"Thirty-two?"

Lin Ye was not very satisfied.

Some decent-quality Entries could be broken down into two or three Blank Entries, yet these hundred-plus pirates had only given him this much.

He did not know whether it was just his imagination, but he felt that the chances of these people dropping Entries were decreasing.

But if there were too few, then he would simply keep going.

Lin Ye slightly bent his knees and activated the Cat-Cat Bounce he had just obtained.

His legs instantly tightened, and the strength in them nearly tripled.

His legs tensed violently, blasting the deck beneath his feet apart. Lin Ye shot a hundred meters into the air, then shifted twice in midair before landing on another pirate ship racing away.

"I'm delivering goods to Lord Kaido—"

Seeing someone leap directly onto his ship, the man who appeared to be the captain immediately shouted before he could even make out the newcomer's face.

He tried to use Kaido's name to intimidate Lin Ye.

But before he could finish speaking, Lin Ye's sword pierced his throat.

Lin Ye felt not the slightest psychological burden in killing these pirates. Every last one of them deserved to die.

The slaughter continued.

The weapon on the verge of evolving into a Black Blade glimmered with a muted sheen as it harvested the lives of the pirates aboard.

Lin Ye was reaping his harvest.

Elsewhere, Moria cleaved the opponent before him apart with a single slash. Without sparing a glance at the trembling pirates, he looked toward the pirate ship where Lin Ye was.

His Observation Haki had clearly caught Lin Ye's actions just now.

Clean and decisive, without the slightest hesitation.

"This brat has gotten stronger again."

Moria ground his sharp teeth together, producing a piercing scraping sound.

Moria had watched Lin Ye grow from a complete novice into what he was now.

Previously, Moria had believed Lin Ye could never threaten him, so he had been happy to have such a capable subordinate.

But now, unease had begun to arise in Moria's heart.

This kid was only eleven this year.

On these seas, he was absolutely a Monster among Monsters.

Still, forget it. It was far too early for this brat to threaten his position.

It was not as though Moria had stopped growing stronger.

After all, his goal was to become King of the Pirates.

And next, he would defeat one of the rulers of the New World.

Kaido of the Beasts Pirates.

These people had actually been delivering goods to Kaido, and Kaido was in Wano Country.

A fierce gleam flashed in Moria's eyes.

Moria, who had roamed the seas far and wide, believed Kaido had merely set sail earlier and gained fame sooner.

He was absolutely no weaker than Kaido.

He wanted to sit in the seat of ruler of the seas too.