Two days passed quickly.
Orange Town wasn't large, but the Buggy Pirates and Straw Hat Luffy didn't encounter each other.
Both sides intentionally avoided the other, not wanting them to interfere with their plans to complete their Contract Mission.
On the open sea, in the shallow waters very close to Orange Town.
Several pirate ships collided with each other, their Contract Missions setting each other as targets.
An intense battle erupted.
"Take this, Silver Stream Fall!"
A pirate with explosive muscles, wielding a toothpick-like newbie iron sword, leaped high into the air and descended towards the opposing pirate ship.
Bang.
The vibrating shockwave directly shattered the pirate ship's deck, sending countless pirates tumbling into the ship's hold.
Inside the hold were self-destructing robots glowing red.
The captain of the Blood Axe Pirates, after obtaining the contract fruit, had already discarded his heavy, giant axe and become an expert in controlling machinery.
The self-destructing robots were his ability after completing the Contract Mission.
Boom.
The Blood Axe Pirate ship exploded, sinking along with its former crew into the sea.
He leaped onto the swordsman pirate ship, where the Silver Stream Fall had just been unleashed, and said with a chilling gaze, "From now on, I am the captain of this ship. Do you have any objections?"
"Captain!"
Since the swordsman captain had been blown to bits, they naturally obeyed, with no one thinking of avenging their captain.
More and more pirates began to touch the power of the Reincarnation Game, pursuing Contract Missions in order to clear them and become permanent Reincarnation Game players.
At this moment,
A massive ship slowly approached.
"Who is that?"
The Blood Axe Captain, who had just acquired a new ship, looked at the somewhat familiar sawtooth-shaped bow.
A tall figure with purple skin and a sharp, sawtooth-like nose stood at the bow, grinning ferociously as he looked at the Blood Axe Captain.
"They are… the Arlong Pirates?"
Pirates who lived by the sword naturally knew the names of some pirates in the East Blue.
When they clearly saw the pirate crew's Jolly Roger and confirmed it was the Arlong Pirates, everyone couldn't help but tremble.
"Arlong… it's Arlong the Fish-Man!"
"Help, didn't they say the Arlong Pirates were all in Oycott Kingdom and wouldn't easily set sail? How could this be…"
"It must be because of the contract fruit!"
The human pirates were filled with terror, seemingly having been scared out of their wits by the Arlong Pirates.
In the entire East Blue,
Excluding the East Blue Admiral, Golden Armor Krieg, who had already reached the Grand Line, the most renowned name was probably the Arlong Pirates.
Composed entirely of Fish-Men, they possessed immense strength far exceeding ordinary humans, as well as the ability to breathe and fight underwater. Their captain, Arlong, was a great pirate with a bounty of twenty million.
The Arlong Pirates didn't frequently set sail, yet they managed to leave behind a notorious reputation due to their cruel combat methods.
For ordinary pirates, if the elite were defeated, they could still be spared, and the defeated would be absorbed into the victorious pirate crew.
But the Arlong Pirates had no such pirate rule; they killed all humans, leaving no survivors.
Therefore, the nearby pirates were so terrified.
"The Arlong Pirates, huh?"
A cold sweat trickled down Blood Axe's forehead, but he quickly adjusted his mindset and said, "Even if they're Fish-Men, they absolutely cannot withstand my Self-Destruct Pursuers."
He gradually calmed down, a cold sneer appearing at the corner of his mouth.
His Contract Mission was in its final step; the [RX-78 Pursuer] had already been upgraded to Lv.3 and could instantly blow up small pirate ships.
Fish-Men?
Their skin, which couldn't even withstand much sunlight, certainly couldn't endure the scorching flames of an explosion.
As the two ships gradually approached, the human pirates' hearts were in their throats, and they lowered their heads in fear, not daring to look directly at the Arlong Pirates.
"Inferior humans!"
Arlong disdainfully glanced at the Blood Axe Captain, letting out a sneer.
The Blood Axe Captain's face was cold. When the two ships were at their closest, he jumped onto the Arlong Pirate ship's railing and immediately unleashed his skill.
Robots with red wind-up keys appeared, their fuses burning like candles on their heads, rushing towards Arlong the Fish-Man, who stood at the very front.
Boom.
A violent explosion.
But there was no flame; the explosion's flames were completely crushed by Arlong's hands. His purple palms were only slightly scorched, with no other injuries.
"How is that possible!?"
"Why not?"
Arlong grinned menacingly, then suddenly charged forward like a torpedo, grabbing the Blood Axe Captain's neck and sneering, "Foolish human, you wouldn't think you're the only one who received a Contract Mission reward, would you?"
His arm gradually became covered in a grayish-black substance, looking like hard granite.
[Stone Skin].
It provided extremely strong defensive capabilities, even surpassing Arlong's proud iron teeth and steel jaw.
Initially,
the Arlong Pirates hadn't paid attention to these contracts, which resembled Devil Fruits. It was only after several consecutive riots occurred in the villages under their rule that they noticed the contract fruit.
They followed the guidance of the Contract Mission all the way to Orange Town in the Organ Islands.
[Mission complete, reward distributed]
As the Blood Axe Captain's throat was crushed, Arlong also received the reward for the Contract Mission.
His arm, covered by Stone Skin, became even more lustrous.
"Just one more mission! As long as I can become a player in the Reincarnation Game, in the future, even all the humans in the entire East Blue will have to submit to Fish-Man rule!"
Splash.
The Fish-Man officers jumped into the sea, clearing away the pirates who hadn't managed to escape, then continued towards their next mission location, Orange Town.
...
"So strong!"
Zoro, biting the hilt of his sword, mumbled indistinctly.
The massive King of the Near Sea, a Sea Kings, had its high-raised fish head fall onto the sea surface, splashing a salty sea rain.
Behind Zoro,
was a hazy, smoky black phantom.
The outline of the black phantom could vaguely be discerned, with a ferocious face, looking like a demon god that had crawled out of the underworld.
This was the effect of the [Ghost Affinity] skill.
Affinity with ghosts meant closeness to gods and control over their power.
This was the fourth Sea Kings he had slain, and Ghost Affinity had already been upgraded to Lv.4. He only needed a little more experience and proficiency to break through the bottleneck, allowing Ghost Affinity to summon a solidified ghost god instead of a mere phantom.
Zoro's spirit, will, and soul were all gravitating towards the power of the ghost god.
This power originated from certain swordsmen on the Arad Continent who actively summoned ghost gods, not suppressing them, but embracing and controlling them to the greatest extent.
"What a powerful ghost god."
The smoky phantom behind him dissipated, and Zoro, panting, swam back to shore.
His physical stamina consumption wasn't great, but after summoning the ghost god phantom, the insane and violent mental shock almost caused him, who had never trained his mental strength, to get lost within it, unable to extricate himself.
He could feel that
the phantom was an extremely powerful ghost god, willing to respond to the summons because it saw him as prey.
Zoro showed no fear; instead, he revealed an incredibly oppressive smile and muttered to himself, "This is perfect. Let's see who will break first!"
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