"Too slow."
Lin Xuan turned slightly sideways, casually flicking the Wooden Sword upward.
Yet that casual strike was wreathed in pitch-black Haki.
Splat!
The enormous wolf's head burst apart.
Before the sticky red-and-white matter could hit the ground, the violent sword pressure blasted it into a bloody mist.
[Template compatibility increased slightly...]
As the information flashed through his mind, the smile on Lin Xuan's lips instantly widened.
"Got any more? This isn't even enough for this blade to cut its teeth on!"
Laughing wildly, he stepped forward, as though planting his foot on the pulse of the entire forest.
The ground shook even more violently.
Straight ahead, a Mutant Giant Rhino covered in bone armor roared as it charged out of the dust, followed by countless red-eyed Ferocious Beasts, a torrent intent on drowning the human before them.
"Just what I wanted!"
Instead of retreating, Lin Xuan advanced, the Wooden Sword tracing a dark golden crescent through the air.
The giant rhino's charge, powerful enough to collapse a city wall, stopped abruptly before Lin Xuan-the Wooden Sword shattered its bone armor and hammered its massive body into the earth, the muffled crunch of rupturing organs enough to make anyone's scalp crawl.
Then came the second, the third...
Blood began pooling beneath Lin Xuan's feet, staining the surrounding vegetation dark red.
Severed limbs flew everywhere, every swing accompanied by the sharp crack of breaking bones.
The figure tearing through the beasts wielded the bluntest weapon, yet created the most brutal spectacle.
Several kilometers away, inside the surveillance room.
The pirates stared fixedly at the blood-soaked figure on the screen, their faces white as paper.
The Marine on the screen was drenched in blood, yet not a drop was his own.
He was smiling, and that smile of enjoyment in