Pirate: I Loaded the Game Panel Chapter 22

If they remembered correctly, the Devil Fruit that the brat in front of them had eaten was clearly the Paramecia-class Hollow-Hollow Fruit, a Devil Fruit with a fatal flaw!

As everyone knew, the main body of a Hollow-Hollow Fruit user was always their fatal weakness!

Yet who could tell them why this brat's ability was actually so bizarre?

Was this still the Hollow-Hollow Fruit?

Or did this brat eat some other fruit?

Or could it be a Logia?!

Capone Bell refused to believe it and flatly blurted out, "Bege, don't stop, increase the firepower! This brat has only eaten the Hollow-Hollow Fruit for a mere month; it is absolutely impossible for him to have developed his ability to this extent. This bizarre ability of his definitely has major limitations!"

"Yes, Father!"

A fierce look flashed suddenly in the eyes of Capone Bege upon receiving the command. He raised both hands simultaneously, and the artillery barrage intensified further.

The already wobbly Hard Shell Bar was directly blasted into ruins by this round of artillery fire, but Adrian in front of them remained completely unharmed, not even a single speck of dust staining his clothes.

Adrian was still slowly walking step by step toward the Capone father and son, his expressionless posture releasing a suffocating sense of oppression.

"Stinking brat! Fire pistols, artillery troops continue to fire! Cavalry troops, charge out!"

Capone Bege clenched his teeth tight. While pulling Capone Bell back with his right hand, his feet directly turned into tank treads and he retreated at high speed, his speed not a bit slower than that of an actual tank.

At the same instant, faint ripples emerged beside Capone Bege, and dense apertures appeared across his body. Looking closely, they were actually castle gates.

The castle gates swung open, the drawbridge lowered, and a total of eight light cavalry squads, in groups of five, rushed out head-on, holding cold, gleaming sabers and fiercely launching a charge at Adrian!

That was not all. Inside the castle, a fifty-man fire pistol and artillery squad opened fire in a volley toward Adrian!

All of this happened in the flash of a spark.

Even a West Blue great pirate with a bounty exceeding ten million would probably have to drink a cup of hatred on the spot under this sort of nearly perfect surrounding situation deliberately created by Capone Bege.

However...

Mini Hollow: Nova Fire!!

Hundreds of white mini hollows rushed toward the charging cavalry squad like an insect swarm attracted by fresh blood. With just a brief encounter, the forty-man light cavalry squad was instantly reduced to practically nothing.

The remaining mini hollows maintained an arrogant posture as they launched an attack on Capone Bege's main body, blowing him tumbling to the ground.

The momentum of offense and defense instantly reversed.

"Whether it's fire pistols or curved blades, it's all the same to me.

"It's nothing more than passing the time playing with you."

Adrian flicked his fingers out of sheer boredom. Facing a group of mobsters who could only throw their weight around in the West Blue underworld, he could not muster even a tiny bit of fighting spirit.

"Jumping Bomb!"

A deafening explosion came from Capone Bege's direction, and a tall, mighty figure "catapulted" over from there as if it were ammunition.

"Brat, don't get too arrogant! This is--the Capone Gang after all!"

"Bomb Blast: Hell Cannon!"

Capone Bell's hands turned into huge bombs burning with fierce flames. Bringing his hands together, he smashed them down fiercely toward Adrian.

Boom--!!

The bar floor along with the surrounding stone-brick walls were all blasted to smithereens.

The Hard Shell Bar, this terrifying bar that had carried the Capone Gang's prestige for over a dozen years, finally welcomed its final doom today.

On the smoke-filled street, a gloomy and terrifying smile surfaced on Capone Bell's ferocious and terrifying ‘Scarface’: "Nobody has ever been able to block my bomb fists!"

Capone Bell, the current godfather of the Capone Gang, was shockingly also a Devil Fruit user!

And it vaguely felt somewhat familiar.

"Paramecia-class Bomb-Bomb Fruit? Or the Bomb-Bomb Fruit, or perhaps the Bomb-Bomb Fruit?" Adrian's voice suddenly came from behind Capone Bell, carrying a trace of faint surprise, "Whatever, it doesn't matter..."

Veins bulged fiercely on Capone Bell's forehead, making his visage appear even more terrifying. Seeing him instantly turn around, he spat out a mouthful of white mist with great force.

Then, instantaneous detonation!!

"Annihilation Minefield!"

The surrounding environment welcomed a second destructive explosion. The buildings on both sides of the Hard Shell Bar were completely destroyed and collapsed, and the gangsters of the Capone Gang who had surrounded the area were all shaken by the violent shockwave, screaming as they flew out of the bomb zone.

The next moment, Capone Bell's feet transformed into bombs and then violently detonated, leveraging the massive impact force to leap fiercely into the air, scanning the smoke-shrouded ground back and forth.

For some reason, Capone Bell always felt that his second large-scale detonation still hadn't harmed that brat.

"Are you looking for me, Mr. Capone?"

"Bomb..."

Before he could finish shouting the name of the technique (traditional art), Capone Bell suddenly discovered two immensely huge, pearlescent white arms appearing in front of him. His proud, strong physique wasn't even as big as one of its palms.

Capone Bell raised his head somewhat stiffly, seeing an immensely huge Ghost face appear directly above his head, its pitch-black pupils gazing at him without a shred of chill.

"Since you like playing with bombs so much, go play with this one."

Adrian snapped his fingers.

Snap!

Giant Ghost: Peacemaker!

Boom boom--!!!

An extremely violent impact wave was produced in midair, ringing with the momentum to pierce clouds and split rocks. Even the thick clouds high in the sky were dispersed by this matchless, huge explosion.

Faint golden sunlight poured down, bringing a trace of insignificant, warm feeling to this ruined, battered land.

[39. Chapter Thirty-Nine: Legend Degree · [White Ghost]]

Stomp, stomp, stomp...

Steady and powerful footsteps rang in the ears of the disheveled-looking Capone Bege. He propped his hands on the ground and raised his head with some difficulty.

"How pathetic, little Mr. Capone." Adrian looked down condescendingly at the collapsed Capone Bege, a smile whose meaning was unclear appearing on his face.

"Draw your weapons!"

"Prepare to attack!"

"Protect Bege!"

Messy and noisy sounds came from within Capone Bege's body, and then figures leaped out from him one after another. Instantly, another hundred or so gangsters appeared on the battlefield. They raised their rifles and artillery one after another, surrounding Adrian and Bege in the center.

"Little Mr. Capone, do you still not plan to surrender?" Adrian said mildly.

Capone Bege slowly stood up, spat out the cigar in his mouth that had long since gone out, and stared viciously at the black-haired young man in front of him.

The Castle-Castle Fruit provided his physique with extremely powerful defensive power. That last wave of mini hollow bombs hadn't caused any substantive damage to Capone Bege; it had merely made him look a bit disheveled.

But Capone Bell wasn't quite so lucky.

Bege glanced at his father, who had fallen not far away in a pool of blood with life and death unknown, a trace of grief flashing in his eyes.

"I admit I underestimated you, Adrian..." Capone Bege's gaze turned cold, gradually taking on a hint of a frenzied look, "But under the absolute disparity in numbers and firepower, it's impossible for you to win! Open fire, all of you! Finish him off!"

"Tsk--"

A sound of disdain multiplied in the air.

Mini Hollow: Fireworks Festival!

Thousands of mini hollows densely filled the entire sky, even obscuring the brilliance of the sun. They gradually converged into a huge ball of light, resembling falling fireworks, and began indiscriminate bombardment on the battlefield, covering the ground like pouring raindrops without considering the cost of consumption at all.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The moment the explosions rang out, the subordinates who had leaped out from inside Capone Bege's body instantly suffered losses of over half. And amid the subsequent continuous, chaotic explosions, the remaining subordinates also stepped onto the Yellow Springs road one by one.

Capone Bege, on the other hand, received Adrian's special attention.

Hundreds of mini hollows bombarded him relentlessly without a second's pause. Even though Bege's physical defense surpassed ordinary people's, he was still blasted until blood spilled from his nose and mouth.

This bombardment lasted for a full several minutes, and the town center had already been completely razed to the ground.

Amid swirling smoke and dust, the exquisite black vertical-striped suit on Capone Bege had already turned into something resembling a large, ragged dishcloth, and his entire body was covered in fresh blood, not a single piece of good flesh visible anywhere.

"Little Mr. Capone, I have one last question I need to ask you now." Adrian said placidly, "I wonder if you happen to know the whereabouts of that poor Captain Clivatt who was kidnapped by you guys and brought to Oatfee Island?"

Capone Bege, whose consciousness was in a semi-comatose state, could barely stand up relying solely on his own willpower. Hearing Adrian's question, his fat face, blasted until it was bloody and mangled, revealed a cruel smile.

"Brat... cough, cough... Did you say that fool who dared to steal items from the Capone Gang without authorization? Cough, cough, go search the Back Bay District; if your luck is good enough, maybe you can find his bone fragments between a shark's teeth..."

Adrian fell into silence.

"In that case, there's nothing more to say.

"Goodbye, 'Gang' Bege..."

The next instant, a semi-illusory mini-hollow was manufactured and slowly flew into Capone Bege's body.

Mini Hollow: Withering Heart-Piercer.

Capone Bege's eyes widened, blood instantly splashing from his chest, and then he collapsed to the ground with a thud.

"We... chose the wrong opponent... Father..."

Figures emerged one after another from beside Capone Bege. These people were all the final troops he had hidden within his body. Appearing on the battlefield at this moment meant that the Castle-Castle Fruit was beginning to lose its effect.

This also meant that 'Gang' Bege, who would become a member of the 'Worst Generation' more than twenty years later, had reached the end of his destiny at this moment.

"Bege!"

"How can this be... Father and Bege actually both..."

"Run for your lives, or we'll be wiped out too!"

"Spare my life! I surrender! Don't kill me!"

The remaining Capone Gang subordinates either scattered like birds and beasts, or simply knelt to surrender, while quite a few chose to counterattack.

Facing this group of people, Adrian's attitude was extremely clear: "If they are enemies, kill them!"

Another wave of indiscriminate bombardment.

With this, the Capone Gang, which had dominated Oatfee Island for over a decade, was completely annihilated!

The panel prompted.

[B-rank quest [Capone Gang], completion rate 93%, quest ended, you obtained 1.8M experience.]

A 93% completion rate—it seemed there were still some residual members of the Capone Gang who hadn't been completely cleaned up, but it didn't matter.

Adrian understood inwardly.

[You have completed the objectives [Head-on Conflict 1: Kill at least 10 Capone Gang members], [Head-on Conflict 2: Kill at least a hundred Capone Gang members], [Decapitation 1: Kill Capone Bell], [Decapitation 2: Kill Capone Bege]]

[Quest is settling... Settlement complete, performance evaluation: Excellent]

[You obtained an Excellent-grade evaluation reward: extra 50% experience (900k), random reward x2]

"There's actually a random reward? My luck is really not bad!"

Adrian was slightly pleased. The experience reward was secondary; high-level quests would have corresponding quest completion evaluations upon completion, and quest evaluations of Good and above would also grant random rewards.

There were many types of random rewards, possibly including experience, items, skills, specialties, free attribute points, skill points, and so on. It encompassed almost everything, and what one drew depended entirely on luck.

[Randomizing reward type...]

[The reward types you obtained this time are: [Free Attribute Points], [Item]]

[You obtained 4 Free Attribute Points!]

[You obtained item [Paramecia-class Castle-Castle Fruit]!]

4 Free Attribute Points could be considered middle-of-the-road, neither good nor bad.

However, the item reward was somewhat unexpected...

Adrian raised his palm, and out of thin air, a dark gray Devil Fruit whose skin was covered with arabesque spiral patterns appeared in his palm, exactly the same as the appearance of the 'Castle-Castle Fruit' recorded in the "Devil Fruit Encyclopedia".

"A rather rare spatial-type Devil Fruit, and it integrates offense and defense. How should I use it?" Adrian fell into deep thought.

However, the panel's prompt information had not completely ended.

[In view of your previous killing of Second Treasure Navy pillar Hog, and now completely annihilating the Capone Gang, you obtained 1 point of Legend Degree! (+5% experience gain within a specific range)]

[West Blue Legend Degree: White Ghost--Legend has it that he is the messenger of death, the indestructible white ghost, and the terrifying nightmare from the spirit realm. He wanders the skies of West Blue, and no one knows when he will descend; only the corpses on the docks slowly recount his story.]