No One at the Scene Dared Step Forward to Challenge Him Again

"Wait! Stop throwing your lives away! Haven't you noticed? He's already taken down twenty of our men!"

His words

woke everyone up.

The Whitebeard Pirates might have been hot-blooded,

but they weren't idiots.

Taking down two or three of them was acceptable.

Taking down seven or eight was still understandable.

After all, Lin Yan's strength

had become clear to everyone after so many rounds of fighting!

But what was the result?

He had already taken down more than twenty of their crewmates.

He wasn't injured, his face wasn't flushed, and he wasn't even out of breath.

The key was,

he still looked unsatisfied.

He even seemed to want to keep the arena going.

Why?

Why was this newcomer so obsessed with fighting in the arena?

"I get it!!"

"This bastard definitely did it on purpose! He set a trap to lure us in!"

Suddenly,

a crewmate jumped out and pointed at Lin Yan as he shouted.

"I finally see it now. Everything he showed just now was an act."

"This guy is downright black-hearted!"

"Brother, that's not how you fish for people!"

"This bastard had been casting his net from the very beginning, quietly waiting for us to take the bait."

"And we really took it."

"Damn it, we paid our tuition!"

"Two hundred thousand Beli!"

"What the hell is two hundred thousand? I already put up one million Beli."

"Eight hundred thousand!"

"Six hundred thousand. I only paid that much because I cut in line."

Hearing this, the people around them finally understood what was going on.

Lin Yan had done all this

mainly for money—for the admission fees!

Holy shit!!!

Just for two hundred thousand Beli,

he was squeezing them dry, wasn't he?!

After realizing how strong Lin Yan was,

those Whitebeard Pirates crewmates who had previously rushed to challenge him

regretted it so badly their guts turned green.

To fight for their pride and save face,

some of them had even put up more than a million Beli just to cut in line.

Now,

they had emptied their pockets and handed over so much money,

only to end up paying tuition.

Fuck me...

Their mindsets had completely collapsed!!!

Damn it.

I'll beat the hell out of you!!!

Looking at the mountain of cash that had already piled up beside Lin Yan,

the Whitebeard Pirates crewmates all wore expressions of agony.

That was the tuition they had paid!

What was the root cause of this outcome?

When all was said and done,

all of them had collectively lost their heads and thrown caution to the wind just to kick Lin Yan once!

And what happened?

After all that back and forth,

after going around in such a huge circle,

this mountain of money

had all ended up in Lin Yan's pocket.

This day

was a day of overflowing profits for Lin Yan.

At the same time,

it was also a day when the Whitebeard Pirates crewmates cursed nonstop.

Damn it.

They had never seen someone so shamelessly obsessed with money.

"Shameless!"

"Our Whitebeard Pirates' money was just handed over like that?"

"This is outrageous! You even dare take money from our ship?"

"You have no shame!"

The Whitebeard Pirates crewmates cursed and grumbled.

But

cursing and grumbling was all they could do.

They had no choice.

They couldn't beat him, so they could only vent with their mouths.

After this day,

they learned their lesson.

Without absolute strength in the future,

they would never again take part in any transaction involving money!

Those who hadn't fought were doing relatively fine.

But among those who had paid tuition to fight,

heartbroken cries could be heard everywhere.

"Why isn't anyone coming up?"

"Where are you? Stop dragging your feet!"

"Where's the fighting spirit of your Whitebeard Pirates?"

"Didn't you say you'd make me look bad and teach me why flowers are so red?!"

"Didn't every one of you yell about wanting to kick me off the ship? Hurry up and come! I'm standing right here. Stomp on me however you want, beat me up however you want."

"This is a rare opportunity. Once you miss this village, there won't be another shop!"

Seeing that no one had come up for a long time, Lin Yan immediately began taunting everyone.

However,

after seeing the truth,

the Whitebeard Pirates crewmates became well-behaved.

Instead of getting swept up in hot-blooded fervor, they just sat there, refusing to make a sound no matter what.

They had lost their heads earlier because they listened to this guy's taunts.

I'm not listening anymore.

Do whatever the hell you want.

Seeing the absurd sight of not a single person speaking,

Lin Yan fell silent.

He looked at his system.

"Mission Two: Within ten days, defeat three enemies with bounties of 300 million!"

"Current Progress: [1/3]"

Mission Two was still stuck in place.

Among the twenty people he had defeated earlier,

not a single one had a bounty of 300 million Beli.

As a result,

the mission had made no progress whatsoever.

And no one at the scene stepped forward to challenge him again.

Because of that,

Lin Yan was starting to get anxious.

This wouldn't do!

He shifted his gaze

toward the Whitebeard Pirates' division commanders.

Ordinary crewmates might not have bounties of 300 million Beli,

but if division commanders didn't have bounties of 300 million Beli,

that would be rather hard to justify!

After all,

even Izo, who ranked near the bottom, had a bounty of more than 500 million Beli.

Lin Yan called out to the division commanders, "Commanders, how about you come up and give it a try?"

The moment he said that,

the previously silent Moby Dick

immediately erupted into uproar.

All sixteen hundred-plus people aboard were stunned.

Wait.

What was going on?

He was starting to challenge the division commanders now?

"H-He wants to challenge the division commanders?"

"Don't be ridiculous!"

"You don't really think beating ordinary crewmates like us means you can challenge the division commanders, do you?!"

"The division commanders are the Whitebeard Pirates' top combat power. They aren't comparable to ordinary crewmates like us."

"You're far too arrogant."

"Don't forget, you've already fought more than twenty crewmates in a row. Now you want to challenge a division commander while exhausted? Did a donkey kick you in the head?"

"I have to admit, you do have some strength, but compared to the Whitebeard Pirates' division commanders, you're still far behind."

"Stop while you're ahead, newcomer. This is the best way to preserve what little dignity you have!"

The Whitebeard Pirates crewmates went from bewilderment and shock to utter disbelief.

Just as they said,

he had merely defeated ordinary crewmates like them.

And now that his tail was in the air, he actually wanted to challenge a division commander?

A wave of mockery spread across the ship.

Every face carried more or less a trace of ridicule.

As expected of a newcomer.

He probably didn't even know how to spell "overestimating yourself"!

How could a division commander be compared to a clown like him?

Unlike the crewmates who were mocking him,

the other members of the Sixteenth Division, who had previously seen Lin Yan fight Izo, merely smiled without saying anything.

Those who knew the truth

understood very well that Lin Yan had yet to reveal his full strength.

At that moment,

a deep, powerful voice rang out across the deck of the Moby Dick.

Jozu stood up and said in a rough voice, "In that case, I'll be your opponent!"