Drum Island's New Hypnotist

Drum Island Royal City.

A forbidding fortress whose outer walls were covered in thick stone.

Torches on the walls illuminated the figures of countless guards.

Lin Nuo hovered in the air beside the royal city, extending the power of Voice of All Things.

[Damn it... I have to stand guard until the middle of the night in this awful weather...]

[I only make a few tens of thousands of Beli a month. Why should I risk my life... I'm exhausted...]

Complaints, weariness, grumbling... all kinds of inner voices and murmurs blended together and reached Lin Nuo's ears.

"Looks like everyone's having a hard time."

Lin Nuo spread out his Haki, brushing it across the city walls.

The next second—

"Phew... ZZZ..."

"Thud..." "Clang..."

On the walls, the guards who had just been rubbing their hands and stomping their feet went limp one after another, slumping against the battlements or sliding straight to the ground.

Lin Nuo landed silently, stepping over the guards strewn everywhere as he headed deeper into the castle.

The passages within the royal city were intricate and maze-like, filled with concealed mechanisms and patrols moving back and forth.

But to Lin Nuo's senses, everything was plainly visible.

Wherever he went, whether it was patrolmen in the corridors or guards concealed behind hidden compartments...

So long as they entered a certain range, they collapsed where they stood and fell into a baby-like sleep.

He proceeded without obstruction, leaving nothing but a long row of sleeping bodies behind him.

At last, he stopped before an ordinary-looking stone wall.

Rather than breaking through it directly, Lin Nuo peered inside through a crack in the door.

The room was brightly lit and packed with all kinds of distillation and extraction equipment.

A middle-aged man wearing a crown, his eyes wild with