“This guy!”
A layer of cold sweat broke out on Monde’s face, and his eyes looking at Skyler were filled with extreme terror!
“Is this a newcomer who just arrived at the Grand Line?”
Although his bounty is relatively high at thirty-five million, besides him, there is a group of subordinates.
With their combined combat power, it is enough to rival a great pirate with a bounty of over forty million!
To think they couldn’t take down the target immediately.
“Why did the opponent’s strength suddenly surge so much?”
“Ah!”
Thoughts flashed wildly in Monde’s mind, and he quickly regained his sobriety.
Skyler’s gaze at this moment made even him shudder.
If they couldn’t slaughter this Demon skyler today, the ones who would die…
would be them.
With a loud shout, instead of retreating, Monde advanced.
His hind legs supported his body as he curled up into a ball, rolling like a speeding wheel to crash toward Skyler.
Losing an arm didn’t cause him too much of an impact.
Sizzling…
In an instant, Skyler held the blade in one hand, the edge touching the human flesh wheel.
Under the high-speed rotation, the hard scales and the sharp blade rubbed against each other, producing bursts of sparks.
The sand and stones under the feet of the two flew up.
Skyler’s feet sank deep into the ground, pushed dozens of meters away by the “wheel”, sliding out two deep gullies in the soil.
“Strike quickly!”
Monde shouted.
His body was curled into a ball, protecting his vital parts.
Although Skyler’s blade was fast and sharp, with his defense capability, he could withstand it for a few minutes.
These few minutes were the best opportunity for them to kill Skyler.
Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh…
The figures of the executives moved upon hearing the sound.
Seeing this, Skyler leaped into the air, dodging the move of Monde’s human flesh wheel.
But after the whizzing black wheel turned a circle, it rolled over to crush him again.
Both speed and strength were quite impressive.
“The scales only exist on his body surface.
Even with the genetic lock opened, my own strength is only on par with his…
However, the weakness of his Devil Fruit ability is too obvious.” In mid-air, Skyler looked at the charging Monde on the ground, his heart settling.
Judging from the physical changes, Monde’s Devil Fruit was similar to creatures like the pangolin.
The surface defense was very strong, but beneath the scales was all soft flesh.
With a pop, Skyler turned his blade body, knocking away a flying dagger.
Then he threw the blade body out.
The black blade rushed like a thunderbolt, instantly nailing the sneak attacker to the ground, the tip of the blade piercing right into this person’s heart without any deviation.
Another one taken care of!
After landing, Skyler ran quickly, not giving the enemy a chance to get close.
After retrieving the long blade, he abruptly stopped his footsteps, turned around, and faced the group of opponents sticking to his back.
“Battojutsu!”
His lips parted slightly, and he murmured a word.
The next second, the surrounding space fell into a stillness.
There was only the subtle sound of wind caused by the retraction of the blade.
Drawing the blade and sheathing it was done in one go!
Monde’s subordinates didn’t react at all, not even realizing that the blade light had already slashed onto their bodies.
Then they saw wisps of blood spurting out.
The chests of several people simultaneously burst open with extremely gorgeous red flowers, and they collapsed to the ground in unison, instantly losing their mobility.
Just as Skyler was about to deliver a finishing blow, the wheel turned by Monde rushed over!
“Battojutsu!”
Skyler repeated his old trick.
This time, the blade slashed onto Monde’s body.
But it only knocked off a patch of scales to the ground, failing to stop the wheel’s offensive.
“I am going to crush you into meat paste!”
Monde let out an angry roar.
“Battojutsu!”
The two were three or four meters apart.
Because Skyler drew his blade so fast, when Monde got close, this gap was enough for him to execute the same sword technique several times.
One meter, one slash!
A total of three slashes!
Every slash accurately hit the exact same body part.
“Ugh!”
By the time Monde and Skyler were only twenty or thirty centimeters apart, the former finally stopped moving forward.
His curled torso stretched out, kneeling on one knee, with his back to Skyler.
Streams of blood trickled down the blade, splashing drop by drop.
Skyler’s blade had severed his spine!
“Why?”
Monde’s eyes shook in disbelief.
“Although your scales are hard enough, they haven’t reached the point of being indestructible.
The scales in the same spot, after enduring massive trauma in a short time, will peel off, exposing the soft flesh beneath the armor pieces…
Wanting to kill you is very easy.” Behind him came Skyler’s voice.
In other words, the defense power of Monde’s Zoan Devil Fruit had a limit.
Whenever facing someone with decent lethal means, once his body surface scales were broken, Monde would be a fish on the chopping block, at the mercy of others.
Even if he protected all his vital parts, it was useless.
Monde froze.
His body was rolling at an ultra-high speed, yet every single blow from Skyler could still hit the exact same spot?
This was just like shooting, firing several shots in a row, and every bullet hitting the exact same bullseye.
The problem was that the target wasn’t a dead object, but a living creature with astonishing movement speed.
This was definitely not something an ordinary person could do!
“Monster!”
Monde muttered to himself.
Bang!
Just as he finished speaking, the back of his head was hit by a punch from Skyler, and his head slowly drooped down.
He lost his breath.
Skyler walked aside, grabbed an executive by the hair, and pulled him up from the ground.
This person’s injuries were not yet fatal; he was a living captive intentionally left behind by Skyler.
It was precisely the old man in the swallow-tailed coat who led people here at the beginning.
“Take me to sort out the property on this island.
Besides cash, get all the valuable things that can be taken away.”
“Yes.”
Facing his gaze, the old man’s face turned ashen as death.
On the way to Monde’s territory, Skyler opened the system panel and took a look; his actual combat points had already broken through three thousand.
A total of over three thousand three hundred points.
Today’s battle brought him nearly three thousand in earnings—a bumper harvest!
However, the battle wasn’t as easy as he portrayed it; it was still a bit dangerous…
After all, it made him open the genetic lock, and he also used Soaring Dragon Flash, which was Battojutsu.
Waving the blade at high frequency several times in a row made Skyler’s arm muscles somewhat sore and swollen now.
Physical stamina was also consumed quite a bit.
And people like Monde were everywhere on the Grand Line.
At the same time, it also made Skyler realize the importance of companions…
If he had his own crew, he wouldn’t face the situation of fighting outnumbered.
Although…
he was very confident in his own strength.
“Companions…
Let’s go to West Blue first…”
On the way to Long Whale Island, Skyler already had a preliminary plan for his future.
And for companions…
he already had some candidates in mind.
Rather than racking his brains searching everywhere on the vast sea for strong people with similar tastes, it was better to just go pick up ready-made ones.
He belonged to a prison-breaking fugitive, and he had wiped out a ship of Marines.
Marineford definitely wouldn’t remain indifferent…
They would definitely send people to pursue him.
Therefore, right now in the first half of the Grand Line, Skyler was not safe.
Not to mention being targeted by an Admiral, even some veteran Vice Admirals from Marineford stepping out would be trouble.
He might as well take this opportunity to build up his strength and establish his own force, which was a pirate crew.
A lawless pirate crew that fit his goal!