Don Krieg frowned, an inexplicable hint of fear rising in his heart at the sight of Ages still so calm and composed.
Ages looked at the crowd preparing to scatter and flee and shouted,
"Today! None of you will escape! Come! Enjoy the feast I prepared for you!"
With that, Ages reached out his left hand and clenched it.
Rumble!!
As Ages clenched his fist, the entire island suddenly began to shake.
A series of low, muffled sounds followed.
Everyone felt the ground trembling beneath them.
Don Krieg steadied himself, a drop of cold sweat rolling down his temple, and shouted at Ages,
"What did you do?!"
Ages glanced at Don Krieg, then looked at the trembling ground and said calmly,
"Heh, nothing much. I just made a few little adjustments to make this place more suitable as your graveyard."
Just as Ages finished speaking,
Crack... crack...
A series of tearing sounds rang out.
Countless cracks suddenly split the trembling ground.
Boom!!
In an instant!
The mountain range at the center of the island spewed out thick black smoke.
Bang!!
Another tremendous explosion rang out.
At the summit of the mountain range at the island's center, dark red magma erupted amid billowing black smoke. A tremendous rumble rolled outward in waves, while red-hot rocks were hurled high into the air before plunging back down, leaving countless fiery streaks across the smoky sky.
Billowing black smoke slowly filled the sky, turning the bright blue heavens murky in an instant.
Thick, scorching magma surged through the cracks in the earth...
The peaceful, tranquil Changsiluobai Island became a hell on earth in an instant!
Whoosh... whoosh...
Countless scorching red-hot rocks fell from the sky through the billowing black smoke.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The island's forests were instantly devastated by the rain of fiery rocks, then swallowed by the magma flowing down from the mountain range...
The sea near the island suddenly boiled and churned as magma erupted from beneath it...
The pirates fled in every direction...
Some accidentally fell into cracks that suddenly opened in the ground.
Some were accidentally swallowed by magma erupting from the fissures.
Some failed to dodge the falling, scorching rocks and were crushed to death.
Some tried to swim away from the island, only to be scalded to death by the boiling seawater.
At that moment, nothing on Changsiluobai Island seemed able to escape; everything was caught up in this terrifying, apocalyptic disaster.
Don Krieg could no longer remain calm. Terror filled his face as he screamed at Ages at the top of his lungs.
"Ages! You're ruthless!!"
With his hands in his pockets, Ages strolled leisurely through the air, watching the apocalyptic scene. He glanced coldly at Don Krieg and spoke in a tone as frigid as ten-thousand-year-old profound ice.
"Don Krieg, when you became a pirate and slaughtered innocent civilians at will, did you ever think about how vicious you were? When you committed every imaginable evil, burning, killing, and pillaging, did you ever think about how vicious you were?"
"All I'm doing now is taking an eye for an eye."
"Come on, Don Krieg. Enjoy the last moments of your life. Enjoy them in this hell."
As soon as Ages finished speaking, he once again activated the small black spheres he had placed in the mountain range.
Boom!!
Boom!!...
Boom!!...
A dozen or so muffled booms rang out in succession.
Changsiluobai Volcano shook violently, then erupted even more fiercely than before, sending countless scorching rocks and torrents of molten magma pouring out.
Ages ignored the helpless pirates on the island, who were crying and screaming without cease, and flew swiftly into the distance, away from the island that resembled a hell on earth.
Rumble...
The volcanic mountain range on Changsiluobai Island suddenly erupted once again.
"Ah!! Help!!"
"Save us!!"...
Countless piercing screams echoed across the island, where the sun had been blotted out. Together with the successive volcanic eruptions, they formed a symphony of hell...
Several hours later...
Ages looked down from above the sea at Changsiluobai Island, which had been completely transformed.
Looking at the scorching magma giving off white steam, Ages murmured under his breath,
"Now all that's left is to clean up the aftermath."
With that, Ages slowly flew toward the island...
By now, the island was almost entirely covered in magma, with only a few scattered higher slopes left unscathed.
Ages was searching those slopes to see if any pirates had survived.
After searching for a long time, Ages finally found a pirate who had "more or less" survived on the last slope.
This pirate who had "more or less" survived was none other than Don Krieg, the leader of the Krieg Pirates.
Don Krieg was clinging desperately to the rocks on the slope with both hands, blood pouring from his mouth.
Why say Don Krieg had "more or less" survived?
Because!
All that remained of Don Krieg was his upper body; his lower body had long since been swallowed by the magma.
Blood kept pouring from Don Krieg's mouth, staining the rocks on the slope.
Don Krieg seemed to sense someone approaching and turned his head with difficulty to look to the side.
"Pfft... save... save... pfft... save... me."
Speaking aggravated Don Krieg's wounds, and he spat out another mouthful of blood with a pfft.
Ages looked at the wretched Don Krieg, his gaze cold as ice, and said,
"Save you? Heh, I'm not here to save you. I'm here to see you off."
With that, as Don Krieg watched with terror, unwillingness, and resentment in his eyes, Ages drew a long sword and cut off his head.
Don Krieg, overlord of the East Blue and leader of the Krieg Pirates, a crew of more than five thousand men, was dead!
His hands covered in blood, Ages looked at Don Krieg's head, its eyes still open in death, and murmured,
"If you have another life, don't commit every imaginable evil again."
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