Watching Crocodile flee, Kyle immediately searched for his next target.
The war could not wait. As time passed, the tide had gradually begun to turn toward the Pirate Allied Forces.
The Monster Legion alone, led by the Liger Mammoth, had inflicted untold losses on them.
And it was difficult to stop.
The Liger Mammoth, in particular, remained an unsolvable threat.
After all these years, Typhon's Monster Legion still numbered around five thousand, but its overall strength had continued to grow.
In the New World, that was a terrifying force. Under Monster Paradise's brutal, survival-of-the-fittest training, its members fought constantly. Even the most ordinary Monster-Men were elite fighters who had awakened Haki.
Many of the Monster-Men also had unusual abilities. One careless moment in battle was enough to fall into their traps.
The Demon-Level Monster-Men were especially dangerous. They were the Monster Legion's captain-level officers, and their strength was as strange as it was formidable.
Beyond simple beast transformations, one well-known example was Mosquito Girl, a fifteen-year-old girl from Monster Paradise who had already become a Demon-Level Monster-Man.
She possessed an ability similar to the Zoan Mosquito-Mosquito Fruit and could control countless mosquitoes to drain blood and kill her enemies.
She could also draw the blood her mosquitoes collected back into her own body.
By plundering Mutation Factors, she accelerated her own growth.
That ability had made her a freak others feared in a remarkably short time.
Her own combat strength was not great, but her ability to recover was extraordinary.
The countless mosquitoes she controlled were a nightmare for ordinary soldiers.
If Kuzan had not frozen all of Mosquito Girl's mosquitoes with his Ice-Ice Fruit ability, there was no telling how much damage she would have done.
Without her countless mosquitoes, Mosquito Girl was only a fifteen-year-old girl with a