With a thunderous boom ringing through the sky, a ring of force suddenly descended from above. Layer upon layer of shockwaves spread outward in every direction, centered on the heavily wounded, winged monk on the ground.
"Urgh!" Armored Big Beard let out a muffled grunt and drove his twin swords fiercely into the ground, trying to stop himself from being swept away by the shockwave. But the force of the blast was simply too great. He was shoved backward, his swords carving two trenches through the ground as easily as if it were thin paper, and he was blasted away along with the other soldiers.
The surroundings were in utter ruin. Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of people who had surrounded the monk were all swept away by the shockwave. Within a hundred-meter radius around him, not a single person remained standing.
High in the sky, the golden radiance gradually faded. Uchiha Hikaru, dressed in white, slowly descended and landed lightly beside Mad Monk Urouge. He clasped his hands loosely before him, his indifferent gaze sweeping over the area. Combined with his expressionless face and the empty space created by that single strike, he carried the imposing air of an immortal descending to the mortal world.
Urouge clutched his severely wounded body and looked blankly at the short young man in white beside him. "887 Who are you?"
Hikaru glanced at Urouge's imposing physique. Even lying on the ground, Urouge was exceptionally massive. Hikaru could not help admiring the physiques of people in the pirate world. Compared to them, he really was being overconfident if he wanted to compete in size. "You're Mad Monk Urouge?"
Urouge nodded.
Hikaru's cold gaze swept over the people scattered in all directions by the shockwave. He said calmly, "I'm Uchiha Hikaru. I'm here to save you."