Merely standing before him, they could not even muster the thought of resisting.
"Bullet! You bastard! Get back in there!"
Magellan roared, the purple venom on his body churning violently.
Three savage dragon heads emerged from behind him, their venom sizzling as they radiated heat and poison potent enough to melt steel.
"Poison Dragon!"
He was truly enraged.
A prisoner of Infinite Hell had attacked an Admiral appointed by the World Government right in front of him. This was a provocation against all of Impel Down.
Yet just as the three poison dragons were about to bite Bullet, a hand rested on Magellan's arm.
"Magellan, stand down."
Lin Xuan's voice did not waver, as though that Conqueror's Haki were nothing more than a breeze to him.
"Haki of this level hardly calls for you to step in."
He pulled his hand out of his trouser pocket and walked forward, passing Smoker, who could barely stay on his feet, to face Bullet's terrifying, stormlike presence head-on.
The immense pressure of that will silently dissolved the instant it touched his body.
Bullet's pupils abruptly contracted.
My Conqueror's Haki... doesn't work on him?
"That's a good look in your eyes." Lin Xuan stood before Bullet, the corners of his mouth lifting slightly with a hint of fighting spirit. "Finally, someone decent. But... if this is all there is to your so-called Qualities of a King..."
He paused, his gaze suddenly sharpening.
"Then it's far too cheap."
The next second, an entirely different presence emerged from within Lin Xuan.
Bullet's Conqueror's Haki was a gale sweeping through everything, while Lin Xuan's was the very sky enveloping the world.
There was no eruption, no impact.
It simply descended in silence.
But the instant that presence appeared, Bullet's raging domain of Conqueror's Haki froze.
All this