Pirate: I Loaded a Game Panel

The cloaked man opened and closed his mouth, but still couldn't get a word out.

In the Pirates' world, the strong ruled.

If he were strong enough, then the one sitting on the sofa right now would have been him!

"Tch, useless!" Holisa reverted to human form and spat onto the carpet. "Speak. What is it?"

The cloaked man was silent for a moment before saying, "It's [White Ghost]. Someone below received word that White Ghost has come to the Flower Country again."

The next second.

A hoarse, savage female roar nearly shook the entire hall into pieces.

"Tell me! Where is he?! I'm going to tear him apart!!!"

67. Chapter 67: Steel Tempest!

The sea breeze swept across the tidal flats, exceptionally cool and refreshing.

Most of the players gathered there wore delighted expressions. Every one of them was happily admiring the completely revamped skill panel, entirely unaware that they were being fleeced.

Boom, boom—

A burst of noisy sounds suddenly came from the distance. Adrian's eyes narrowed as he released Mini Hollow into the sky. Through its vision, he saw the Second Treasure Navy forces wearing green cloaks.

"Why are people from the Second Treasure Navy here?"

A brief flicker of doubt passed through his mind.

However, before he could warn the players, the Second Treasure Navy had already opened fire.

Flintlocks rattled, gravity cannons roared, bullets flew at high speed, and blazing cannonfire swept in fiercely, instantly killing all the players wandering around the outskirts!

"Holy crap! What happened?"

"Why is someone suddenly attacking us?"

"The system says the killers are people from the Second Treasure Navy, but aren't they a local force from the Flower Country?"

"Death costs experience! I was just about to save enough!"

A large number of players instantly turned into white light, while the survivors were badly startled by the suddenly appearing Second Treasure Navy.

Just then, Holisa leaped out from the Second Treasure Navy's ranks. Her hideously ugly face twisted into a vicious smile. With a powerful push of both legs, her tremendous physical strength sent her charging toward the players like a meteor.

One punch pierced through a player's chest; one kick shattered another player's body.

Many players tried to fight back with the fire pistols they had just bought, but they were dodged before they could even aim. Even when their shots struck Holisa's body, they dealt nothing more than negligible damage. The gunpowder bullets couldn't even pierce her skin.

Holisa rampaged through the players like a tiger among sheep, slaughtering to her heart's content.

First blood, double kill, triple kill, killing spree...

The relatively low-level players were utterly helpless before Holisa!

Taking advantage of the moment, many players also threw Detection at Holisa.

[?—Current Pillar of the Second Treasure Navy] (Red Name)

[Level: ?]

[Attributes: ?]

[??]

[Danger Level: Extremely Lethal!]

Another extremely lethal enemy!

Originally, the players had no concept of what this danger level meant. The only thing they knew was that 'Big Lethal,' when serious, had instantly killed another extremely lethal enemy.

Only a few minutes earlier, plenty of players from other seas had still been posting on the official game forum, urging the players of the Flower Country to test 'Big Lethal's' strength!

But there was no need to test it anymore.

The players now understood perfectly how huge the gap between them and an 'extremely lethal' enemy really was.

The fighting power of high-level NPCs was truly terrifying!

"But we still have Big Lethal!"

This thought flashed through the minds of many players who had yet to be approached by Holisa.

On the bloodstained battlefield, Holisa was currently grinning viciously as she stood on a male player, her right fist raised and ready to smash him into meat paste.

At that moment, Big Lethal suddenly exploded with terrifying speed, transforming into a faint streak of white light that shot straight toward Holisa.

"Big Lethal! I choose you!"

"He's here! Big Lethal's Dashing Slash!"

Many players watched expectantly.

However, Holisa was not the only one on the battlefield. A large number of Second Treasure Navy soldiers had also arrived and were harvesting the players' lives.

Several Second Treasure Navy underlings raised their long blades, intending to stop Adrian.

However, Yubashiri slid free of its sheath, and a white blade-light flashed.

The blade-light flickered, instantly reaping two or three navy underlings.

Blade-light flashed repeatedly through the crowd. Adrian charged straight toward Holisa along a direct line, and the dozens of navy underlings who barely managed to block his path were easily robbed of their lives.

Each streak of Sword Aura stretched more than a dozen meters, effortlessly tearing the underlings into pieces. The other navy soldiers preparing to rush forward were frightened.

"Holy crap! Sword Aura projection!"

"This is basically mowing down grass in a mowing-down game!"

The players sucked in a cold breath. In terms of battlefield performance, Big Lethal, enhanced by special effects, was far more impressive than Holisa, who could only fight hand-to-hand!

Adrian's blade never stopped moving, and his mind remained perfectly clear.

If he used the power of the Hollow-Hollow Fruit, there was no doubt he could instantly wipe out this suddenly appearing Second Treasure Navy force!

But if he did that, then even if he left a deep impression on the players, it would not bring any positive effect to his future business.

The power of the Hollow-Hollow Fruit could not be sold. The most attractive things Adrian sold to players were swordsmanship techniques!

That meant this battle had to be fought with Swordplay!

As it happened, Adrian had also developed quite a few Swordplay skills!

"You killed my father, and now you've killed my subordinates!"

Holisa stared at him from afar. Her eyes gradually turned yellow, while black-and-yellow fur sprouted from beneath her skin. Her entire body instantly entered beast form.

Zoan—Dog-Dog Fruit, Jackal Form!

"White Ghost! You're looking for death!!"

"Everyone, get him!"

Holisa pointed at Adrian, and more than a hundred elite Second Treasure Navy soldiers beside her charged toward him.

Adrian drew his sword in an instant.

Swish, swish, swish, swish—

Powerful air slashes shot out. In the blink of an eye, more than a hundred had been unleashed.

The densely packed crescent-shaped slashes were simply too fast. Empowered by the might of the Three Thousand Styles Specialty, they cut down most of the Second Treasure Navy elites in an instant. Only a dozen or so lucky underlings survived by sheer chance, and even they were too terrified to move.

"Get out of my way!"

Holisa roared and charged over like a mountain. Her enormous beast fist carried a tremendous force as it smashed toward Adrian, making the surrounding air howl.

"Die!"

Adrian's figure blurred as he avoided the enormous beast fist. At the same time, he swung his blade, slicing toward the jackalman's head.

But in beast form, Holisa had also gained an incredibly sharp animal instinct. She merely ducked sharply and evaded the attack.

When Adrian's blade missed, he remained completely calm.

With a single thought, he used Soru's Burst Technique. Only an illusory afterimage remained in place as he instantly leaped above Holisa's head.

Yubashiri rose high.

"Steel Tempest!"

Slice—

The blade-light condensed like water and swept directly across the jackalman's neck.

A huge beast head was sent flying. Its eyes, gradually fading back to black, still held an expression of disbelief. Holisa couldn't understand how her opponent had killed her with a single slash...

With the power of a Devil Fruit, shouldn't I have been invincible...?

With deep regret and confusion, the Second Treasure Navy's new pillar, [Holisa], died!

The Second Treasure Navy underlings who had followed their leader here were instantly terrified. But beneath Adrian's merciless blade, they all died, without a single survivor.

"Another extremely lethal enemy has fallen at Big Lethal's feet..."

"And it was another instant kill!"

"That's ridiculously powerful!!"

In the players' hearts, Adrian's image instantly grew even more imposing.

After cleaning up the wreckage of the battlefield, Adrian shook the beads of blood from Yubashiri and returned the sword to its sheath.

He looked at the players kindly and spoke in a calm, magnetic, gentle voice.

"The road ahead is long. Let the sword be your companion."

The devil's whisper often sounded like an angel's voice.

"Want to learn? I'll teach you."

68. Chapter 68: Matters in the West Blue Settled, Target: the North Blue

With the Second Treasure Navy sacrificing themselves to help, the players' enthusiasm for spending instantly ignited.

One hundred people, three hundred, five hundred...

Experience on the game panel accumulated wildly. As time passed, more and more players from the Flower Country began rushing over. It was foreseeable that another wave of explosive experience gains would soon arrive.

Adrian casually created some Mimic Ghosts to deal with the players, then silently browsed the game forum.

At the very top of the most eye-catching main page, a blazing-hot post had been prominently pinned by the administrators. Its title was "Big Lethal's Fighting Power!"

Adrian's mouth twitched faintly. Pretending he hadn't seen anything, he clicked into it.

The contents of the post were clearly footage from the battle just now. Quite a few players had uploaded their recorded videos, and after reviewing them, the administrators had chosen the version with the most complete and clearest footage.

Under this blazing-hot post, players were constantly replying. In the brief time since he opened it, dozens of replies had already piled up, while the video's scrolling comments were even denser.

When Holisa first appeared, the players had all complained.

"This woman is so ugly! She's absolutely the ugliest woman I've ever seen in the game! She's uglier than some old grannies!"

"Being ugly doesn't matter! As long as she's strong!"

"My hand has pierced through your chest!"

But when Adrian began displaying his strength, the tone of the scrolling comments abruptly changed.

"Bow down before Big Lethal!"

"Bring me the sword!"

"So handsome! So handsome!! So handsome!!!"

"White Ghost? Is that Big Lethal's nickname?"

Only in the final scene, when Adrian decapitated Holisa with one slash and calmly questioned the players, did the scrolling comments become completely frenzied.

"Damn it! He showed off again!"

"He's so good at this! I love it!"

"There should be applause here!"

"This is what an existence of such power is meant to describe!"

After reading these sincere comments, Adrian secretly smiled. His plan to display the strength of a high-level NPC had succeeded, and the effect was extremely obvious!