The Descent of a Natural Disaster and a Feast of Slaughter

Red Dog hurled both fists fiercely toward the heavens!

Countless enormous fists of magma, carrying terrifying heat capable of destroying the world, tore across the sky like a meteor shower of hellfire, pouring down upon the port of the Saintingburg Kingdom in precise parabolic arcs!

"It's the Navy! An admiral! Run!"

The Mad Axe Pirates instantly fell into utter, panicked collapse.

But before such heavenly power, human strength seemed so insignificant!

"Boom! Boom! Rumble—!"

A chain of violent explosions erupted at the heart of the port!

In an instant, the entire coastline was completely swallowed by a sea of fire and magma!

The flagship was smashed in half, detonating its powder magazine and vaporizing several massive pirate ships nearby into charred remains amid screams!

"Ahhh! My leg!"

"Help! I don't want to die!"

Within that inferno, only Captain Mad Axe and his first mate, the strongest among them, managed to protect themselves with Haki. They coughed up mouthfuls of blood under the disaster-like bombardment, barely preserving their lives.

Even so, they were covered in severe burns and looked utterly miserable!

Although the numerous affiliated pirate crews at the edge of the magma barrage suffered heavy casualties, their scattered formations allowed several thousand surviving pirates to flee wildly toward the kingdom's interior like headless flies!

At that moment, the warship finally cleaved through the towering waves and charged boldly into the boiling port!

"All units! The admiral has already destroyed the pirates' main force!"

Rear Admiral Rex, the aide leading the force, suddenly drew the cold gleaming blade at his waist and roared at the recruits on deck in a voice like rolling thunder:

"Next, this is your battlefield!"

"Don't let a single pirate escape! Charge! Wipe out every last piece of trash!"

"Kill—!"

Already fired up by the admiral's terrifying strength, the recruits raised their muskets and swords and surged down the lowered gangplanks toward the shore like a flood.

And amid that overwhelming charge.

One figure was faster than all the rest! Fast as a bolt of white lightning ripping through the air!

Rochi did not even wait for the gangplank to fully lower.

The explosive power of his officer-grade physique flooded into his legs in an instant. With a boom, he crushed the solid wooden railing at the deck's edge beneath his feet.

Like a maddened tiger, he leaped more than ten meters into the air and crashed heavily into the fleeing pirates with the force of Mount Tai bearing down!

"Bang—!!!"

The instant he landed, the tremendous recoil sent seven or eight Soldier Level pirates sprawling in every direction!

"Damn Navy brat! You dare charge into our ranks alone? Brothers, chop him into mincemeat!"

A group of bloodshot pirates raised curved blades stained with civilian blood and charged at Rochi from all sides.

Yet Rochi's face held not the slightest fear. There was only an extreme, crazed, almost pathological excitement, as though he were staring at countless moving vaults of treasure!

"For you, this is a purge..."

Rochi had not even brought a standard-issue musket. He slowly clenched his fists, as solid as forged steel, and the crackling of his bones rang clearly across the clamorous battlefield.

"But for me... this is a once-in-a-lifetime experience feast!!!"

Before his words had even faded, Rochi moved!

"Splurt!"

There were no unnecessary flourishes. With a brutally clean rising knee, Rochi smashed the breastbone of the pirate charging at the front! Jagged shards of bone even pierced through the pirate's back!

"Crack!"

With a spinning chop of his backhand, another pirate's neck snapped sharply. His head twisted a grotesque one hundred and eighty degrees before he thudded to the ground!

[Ding! Killed a Soldier Level pirate. Experience +5!]

[Killed a Soldier Level pirate. Experience +5!]

The pleasant mechanical notifications began flooding Rochi's mind wildly!

"Too slow! Too weak!"

Rochi tore through an army of thousands of pirates as though no one stood in his way!

Every part of his body became the deadliest killing machine.

Blood sprayed, and severed limbs flew through the air!

"Bang!"

Rochi kicked a pirate corpse away. It flew like a cannonball, knocking down five or six pirates behind it and caving in all their chests!

In less than three minutes, Rochi alone had carved out a blood-soaked void more than ten meters across within the densely packed pirate formation!

The pirates who had wanted to surround and kill him now stared at the blood-drenched youth, whose eyes were as cold as a god of death. They staggered back in terror, their hands shaking violently around their blades.

"Monster! There's a monster in the Navy!"

Meanwhile.

Rear Admiral Rex stood on high ground in the rear, directing the battle with a solemn expression as he surveyed the entire field.

Suddenly, the corner of his eye locked onto the invincible white figure at the forefront of the battlefield.

"Who... is that soldier?"

Rear Admiral Rex sucked in a sharp breath, extreme shock flashing in his eyes.

"There are no traces of any Devil Fruit ability. He relies entirely on the purest physical combat techniques! Such clean, ruthless killing techniques are nothing like those of a recruit. He looks more like a battle-hardened asura who clawed his way out of mountains of corpses and seas of blood!"

Rex gripped his sword hilt, his eyes blazing. "That kid is a born killer! A genius!"

Rochi's slaughter was like an elegant, lethal waltz.

On the streets of the capital, now reduced to ruins, he alone stood atop corpses and thick blood, forcibly blocking several hundred affiliated pirates trying to break through!

"Quick! Shoot him! Don't fight him up close!"

Several pirate underlings were scared out of their wits and frantically ordered their men to raise their flintlock muskets.

"Bang bang bang bang—!"

A dense rain of bullets wove into a fiery net and descended upon Rochi!

But against Rochi's terrifying neural reflexes, which had already reached the peak of Warrant Officer level, the firing trajectories of those muskets seemed so clumsy and laughable.

His body flickered like a phantom, leaving behind a long trail of afterimages.

Bullets whistled past the edges of his clothing, yet failed to harm even a single hair on his head!

"With shooting this soft, you should go practice some more in hell!"

Rochi's icy voice rang beside one pirate underling's ear like a death sentence from the god of death!

"When did you..." The underling turned his head in utter horror.

"Bang!"

Rochi's cannon punch blasted the underling's head apart as though he were smashing a watermelon!

Red-and-white gore splattered across the faces of the surrounding pirates!

Just as Rochi was killing to his heart's content and preparing to claim all these experience packs—

"Buzz—!"

An extremely dangerous, violent current of air, accompanied by the frantic warning of Basic Observation Haki, instantly made every hair on Rochi's body stand on end!

Rochi's dark eyes sharpened. He stamped hard against the ground with the tip of his foot and, without warning, shot backward seven or eight meters!