Chapter 135: No Matter How High Your Martial Arts, You Still Fear Muskets (15)
Chapter 134: No Matter How High Your Martial Arts, You Still Fear Muskets
The Fish-Men's imagined enemies had always been pirates, never these villagers.
Even among pirates, what pirate crew possessed so many muskets?
As long as cold weapons were used, the Fish-Men feared no one.
But muskets and cannons were exceptions.
Gunpowder-propelled metal dealt the Fish-Men a divine punishment they could not resist.
Aside from Arlong, perhaps only Chuchu could withstand the concentrated fire of more than eighty muskets.
The cartilaginous Fish-Man, who had taken over a dozen bullets, possessed astonishing vitality. He was somehow still alive. With difficulty, he rolled over, then lay on the muddy ground and screamed, "You... how dare you! How dare you resist us!"
Even now, he could not believe that the villagers had more than eighty muskets, that they had dared to ambush them, that they had dared to attack him!
To the Fish-Men, humans were undeniably an inferior race. They were weaker, had less stamina, and even needed tools to sail the seas. Even after eating Devil Fruits, most Devil Fruit users were restrained by the water strikes of Fish-Man Karate.
It could be said that humans faced enormous disadvantages before Fish-Men. Their individual combat strength simply could not compare to the Fish-Men's...
But that was only at the lower levels of combat power.
The Fish-Men's weak reproductive ability doomed them to lose to humans in racial competition.
Not to mention that because humans had started out weak, they possessed an indescribable obsession with becoming stronger. People like Zoro, who gave everything to grow stronger, could be found everywhere across these seas. Could the entire Fish-Man and merfolk population combined even produce twenty such people?
Impossible. There were