Conqueror's Haki

Someone sighed.

Deep in their hearts, they also felt pity for this young man.

Stationed in the Sabaody Archipelago, things like this happened far too often.

Some were dealt with by the Security Force of the Celestial Dragons, while others were handed over to them.

This made many marines feel indignant in their hearts; their burning passion to join the army for the sake of upholding justice ultimately turned them into the running dogs of the Celestial Dragons.

"Send him off early. He can even be considered lucky, otherwise if he fell into the hands of those people, who knows what kind of suffering he would have to endure!"

A marine raised the rifle in his hand and said with a soft sigh.

Then, he pulled the trigger without hesitation.

Blue smoke curled, the gunshot quickly dissipated, and the scene fell into silence.

The marines surrounding Xia Le constricted their pupils, opened their mouths slightly, and expressions of incredulity and shock once again surfaced on their faces.

"What on earth is going on with this brat?"

"He's actually not a Devil Fruit User!"

Looking at Xia Le, who was completely unscathed and still silent, everyone was incomparably shocked.

This exceeded the estimation of Major Kalens and left them unable to understand.

"If we can't kill him, the unlucky ones will be us!"

A marine said with a trembling voice.

They hadn't been marines for a short time, and the number of times they had fought to the death with pirates was quite a few, but they had never seen such a bizarre thing. A boy with a plain appearance couldn't actually be killed.

Xia Le pressed his lips together, seeing the numbers on the panel increase by points once again, having changed to thirty-four.

This meant he had already experienced thirty-four deaths.

"Wheel out the artillery."

Taking a deep breath, the marine with the rank of lieutenant said in a loud voice.

There was also a trace of panic in his eyes; the boy who couldn't be killed, coupled with the pressure of the Celestial Dragons behind him, made a trace of inexplicable fear rise in his heart.

At first, they thought the opponent was a strange Devil Fruit User, but at this moment, after it was confirmed to have nothing to do with a Devil Fruit, that bizarre fear rapidly magnified.

At the same moment, in the base office.

Kalens slightly adjusted his emotions, then gently pushed the door open and entered.

When he saw the man sitting in the main seat with a square face and black buzz-cut hair, his heart became even more nervous.

"Vice Admiral Garp, why are you here?"

The man before him, with a stalwart figure and muscles that seemed about to burst out, was precisely the Hero Vice Admiral whose reputation had reached its peak in the navy today, Garp.

"You really live more and more in reverse, Kalens!"

"You've actually degenerated into a servant of the Celestial Dragons, a bunch of scum."

Garp's voice was loud and clear as he raised his head to look at the other person.

The Hero of the Navy Garp at this moment showed absolutely no signs of future aging; a head of short hair was pitch-black, and his entire body was suffused with a fierce, strong, and iron-blooded aura.

Iron Fist Garp didn't just refer to his fists, but also his style of conduct during his youth.

Kalens's body trembled as he said helplessly, "I can't help it either, Vice Admiral Garp. Situated in a place like the Sabaody Archipelago, some things are truly helpless."

"Why don't you transfer me away, or I can follow by your side and pursue those pirates as well."

Garp let out a laugh. "You've got a pretty good imagination. Position appointments and transfers are the business of Fleet Admiral Kong."

"Besides, this personality of yours isn't worthy of following by my side."

Kalens was even more helpless, a trace of faint sorrow resting between his expressions.

He was actually very clear that although the other party had once taught him and the two sides shared a teacher-student bond, Vice Admiral Garp had always looked down on this personality of his—facing nobles, happy to fawn, bowing and scraping.

"Sorry, I accidentally said hurtful words again."

"I just happened to be passing by your place, so I came to take a look by the way."

Garp waved his hand, not a trace of an apologetic look in his words.

"I will be responsible for your ship's supplies."

Kalens said cautiously.

"What I hate most is this appearance of yours. As a marine, you always like to bend over and don't have a shred of your own backbone!"

As he spoke, Garp seemed even more angry, grabbing a fine decorative object placed on the desk and violently throwing it over.

Kalens shrank his body, the decoration brushing past his ear and landing with a bang on the floor behind him, scaring him so much that his entire person shrank.

"Don't say in the future that you're my student!"

The words beside his ear made Kalens sigh in his heart, adding yet another trace of bitterness. Those things he did in the Sabaody Archipelago were probably already passed to the other party's ears.

He didn't know what to say for a moment, but fortunately Garp also vented his anger after a moment and began chatting with him idly.

About half an hour later, hurried footsteps sounded outside the office door.

Garp raised his head, and Kalens reacted accordingly.

"Major Kalens, it's bad!"

The sound of knocking and a nervous voice rang out almost simultaneously.

"That brat really can't be killed!"

Kalens's expression changed slightly as he saw a look of curiosity appear on the face of Vice Admiral Garp opposite him.

"Can't be killed? Who can't be killed?"

The door opened, and the marine outside took a deep breath. Just as he prepared to report, Garp sitting there boisterously instantly caused his entire body to tighten up and stiffen all over.

"V-Vice Admiral Garp!"

Garp waved his hand and said with keen interest, "Continue speaking."

"From capturing that brat until just now, he has never spoken a word."

"But through other channels of beating around the bush, we have already found out the other party's information."

"This boy is named Xia Le, originally a servant of the Bokan Family on the Sabaody Archipelago, but ten days ago, he suddenly went mad, killed the Bokan family, and escaped."

The marine lowered his head, not daring to look straight at Garp, and said nervously.

"Today, he angered the Celestial Dragons and was captured by us."

"We tried gunshot, cannon fire, burning, hanging, seawater."

After taking a deep breath, the marine's voice began to tremble.

"But none of them could kill the opponent!"

Hearing this, Kalens was stunned.

Garp was even more curious. "A Devil Fruit User?"

The marine answered quickly.

"No, from beginning to end, during the execution, he wore Seastone Shackles!"

Garp's expression instantly turned astonished.

Kalens's complexion was even uglier; failing to deal with that brat meant that the Celestial Dragons would deal with him. Moreover, right now Vice Admiral Garp was still by his side.

This time, the trouble was huge.

Conqueror's Haki

Garp in front, Kalens in the back, their steps very hurried.

At this moment, the mood of this major of the Sabaody Archipelago was very uneasy, and even more extremely nervous.

Upon hearing the ins and outs of Xia Le's matter, Vice Admiral Garp did not throw a fit on the spot, but instead reined in the smile on his face and told him to lead the way.

Because he suffered enslavement and torture by the nobles and angrily killed the nobles to escape, this kind of personality seemed to hit Garp's preference right in the center, diametrically opposed to his own.

Thinking carefully, the marine force currently following by Vice Admiral Garp's side was also of this sort—crazy and fearless of everything.

It was just that the casualty rate was a bit higher; after all, they had to fight fiercely against brutal pirates day in and day out.

When the two of them had just approached the training ground, their footsteps suddenly paused. Kalens blankly raised his head, an expression of shock appearing on his face at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"Hum!"

An overbearing and intensely oppressive aura emanated from ahead, the void seemingly distorting at this moment.

"Conqueror's Haki?"

Kalens said in shock.

He stared blankly ahead, unable to imagine that this aura actually originated from the body of that black-haired boy.

Inside the training ground, Xia Le, whose head was buried in an iron basin filled to the brim with seawater, suddenly raised his head.

Gunshots, strangulation, hanging execution, decapitation, incineration, cannon fire, poison, and a series of other punishments capable of easily causing anyone to die were all concentrated upon him.

Death after death caused the points on his system panel to instantly surge to sixty.

This meant that since coming to this world, in such a short period of time, he had already died sixty times.

Such frequent frequencies of death caused the anger and fury in his inner heart to completely bloom in this world in another form.

"Why?"

"Why must I encounter such injustice? Why must I welcome death the moment I come to this world?"

"Why, with so many deaths, can it still never kill me!"

"Why? Must I feel this kind of pain?"

Xia Le went mad.

No methods could kill him, but the pain of death, that sense of suffocation, was something he could clearly perceive every single time.

In other words, he really had died this many times, yet he was able to be resurrected time and time again.

Thus, it created the illusion of being unkillable!

When all the pain, all the unwillingness, all the anger, and all the madness concentrated entirely at this moment and then poured out, deep within his body and deep within his consciousness, something seemed to be pierced open, instantly rushing forth in a surge.

"Hum!"

The void trembled and distorted, a terrifying aura billowing and permeating the surroundings. Taking the brunt of it were the marines who had constantly racked their brains and tried their best to figure out how to kill him.

"Plop!"

Four pairs of eyes rolled back into white, the weapons in their hands dropped, and they collapsed limply to the ground, losing consciousness.

Then, this aura swept toward the surroundings at an astonishing speed, causing the living creatures all around to faint without exception, while even plants and flowers drooped their heads and bent over one after another.

When this momentary outburst finished venting, Xia Le raised his head, his entire body trembling.

Right before his eyes, a line of information surfaced on the panel.

Conqueror's Haki Lv. 0+

Quickly calming down within his heart, Xia Le realized something.

He had actually inadvertently awakened Conqueror's Haki because of this kind of anger and madness. At the same time, his gaze even paid attention to those sixty points.

Right at this moment, a deep and thick voice carrying anger came over.

"Kalens, you actually wanted to execute such an outstanding youth."

"The person who deserves to die the most is you!"

Xia Le raised his head, and what he saw were precisely two figures stepping forward.

The man walking at the very front had a tall stature, a square face, a black buzz-cut, and a fierce, powerful aura all over his body. He was continuously smashing the head of Kalens behind him with his fists.

The latter hugged his head in pain and finally even collapsed to the ground with a plop.