Gotti ordered everyone to scatter, using powerful firepower to suppress while sending men to flank Skyler and Laffitte’s position.
No matter where the two of them broke through, they would first have to deal with the terrifying hail of bullets.
Right at that moment, Gotti felt a chill on the back of his neck, and his heart pounded wildly.
His machine gun suddenly ceased fire, and the heavy firearm was swung backward like a weapon.
The moment he turned around, he saw a person.
Skyler.
This man had unexpectedly arrived behind him silently.
He was standing right in their own camp, yet no one noticed his presence.
Bang!
The triple-barreled machine gun smashed toward Skyler’s head.
If this powerful strike hit, Skyler might have been sent flying sideways.
However, Skyler merely raised one hand and steadily propped up the gun barrel, preventing the attack from extending even half an inch further.
Gotti stared with wide eyes, gritting his teeth as if exerting all his strength, yet he still failed to shake Skyler in the slightest.
Skyler’s five fingers gripped the gun barrel, making it impossible for Gotti to change his move for the moment.
Swish!
A water-like blade light flashed and vanished between Skyler and Gotti, and the latter’s metal plate shield, which he originally intended to use for defense, was also cut open.
Passive skill, Minds Eye.
Aside from enhancing the five senses and increasing the practitioner’s ability to foresee target attacks, this skill could also see through opponents’ moves and discern the weaknesses and openings in their methods, which could be said to have taken Skyler’s combat capability to another level.
Gotti didn’t know much about Skyler, with his limited information obtained only from media newspapers.
As for Skyler, while it couldn’t be said he knew everything about Gotti down to the roots, he was still crystal clear about him.
Gotti was a professional assassin.
Aside from using a machine gun, he relied on his impressive physique to fight enemies, and he was also a swordsman.
He was adept at using a curved saber.
But at such close range, and under the condition of a hasty block, the only thing he could do was turn sideways and rely on the shield on his left shoulder to resolve the crisis.
Skyler…
had already foreseen his movement.
The tip of the blade dropped, and Gotti fell backward.
His dilated pupils saw the blue sky and the blood petals floating up from his own body.
“Am I going to die?”
“Just a single slash…”
His numb brain echoed with a single thought.
“The Boss was right…
Fortunately, he didn’t come.”
With a thud, Gotti fell to the ground.
He still had breath left, but over half of his body had been cut off; it was beyond saving and he was dead for sure.
All of this seemed long, but in reality, it happened in the blink of an eye.
Until the second-in-command was lying in a pool of blood, the surrounding mafioso suddenly realized that the enemy had somehow entered their ranks.
In their eyes, Gotti had always been synonymous with power.
As long as the Godfather sent him out, there was nothing that couldn’t be done and no trouble that couldn’t be solved.
And now, Gotti was one-shotted by this Demon skyler.
With no power to resist whatsoever.
Swoosh!
When everyone was stunned, Skyler’s swordsmanship rose again, and a gray circular slash swept outward in all directions with him at the center.
For a moment, countless mafioso were dismembered by the blade radiance, and severed limbs flew all over the sky.
In a single breath, an open space appeared among the densely packed suit-wearing maniacs.
Blood soaked the ground, and there was a deathly silence.
In the distance, on the roof of a tall building, the wings that had sprouted from Laffitte’s back turned into pieces of haori and dissipated.
Both he and Skyler possessed flight abilities, so no matter how powerful the gangsters’ arsenal was, the two of them could easily evade it…
Unless they had means to deal with aerial combat, everything was in vain.
Gazing at the Captain standing in the crowd of mafioso, Laffitte’s eyes burst with brilliant light as he murmured, “Inborn power!
Too dazzling, he is simply a perfect piece of art created by the heavens!
Being able to rule the entire ocean together with him in the future is simply wonderful!”
Laffitte hadn’t told Skyler that the moment he first saw this Captain, goosebumps had broken out all over his body.
Being creatures of bloodlust alike, the savagery and frenzy hidden within Skyler’s body made Laffitte somewhat obsessed.
The creed of their Hell Pirates was unbridled lawlessness.
“Making such a person an Emperor of the Sea is, for me, also a supreme honor and affirmation!”
Laffitte smiled.
System: Congratulations to the host for successfully killing a B-rank plot character, obtaining one random draw turntable and eighteen hundred actual combat points!
(Including the first kill reward and the income multiplier of the plot character.)
Although Gotti was not yet dead, the system had already determined that the plot character could not survive and was already in a dead state.
Therefore, a prompt naturally sounded in Skyler’s mind.
His heart stirred, the rewards were actually this high!
He thought of a problem: whether it was Gotti now or other plot characters, their strength was not as strong as in later generations.
You must know that actual combat points were tied to the target’s ability.
If Gotti had been killed by him a few years later, the points might have multiplied several times.
“I somewhat overestimated Capone Bege…
The entire West Blue rumors that he is terrifying.
I originally thought a person like him wouldn’t be timid in his actions, nor would he avoid enemies.
Now it seems, it’s just an empty name.” Skyler glanced at Gotti on the ground and said this while he still retained a shred of consciousness.
Skyler genuinely thought Bege would come.
“Shoot!”
Someone reacted and let out a sharp cry.
Skyler waved his blade to cleave away several bullets and bolted straight into the firmament.
Preparing to leave.
Laffitte also used his ability again to grow wings, gliding close by and landing on a rooftop.
Looking at the panicking and constantly shouting mafioso, he smiled slightly, “Everyone, then…
Farewell!”
Having said that, he trailed after his Captain.
The two of them thus disappeared openly and grandly.
On the ground, there were still people shooting wildly at the black dot in the sky, but it was already a redundant effort.
“Captain…
Where are we going next?”
High up in the air, Laffitte flew over and asked.
“First to South Blue, then to North Blue…
Finally to East Blue.”
“Understood!”
Laffitte.
Their Hell Pirates were currently in the formation stage and urgently needed core members.
Furthermore, Laffitte had previously learned from Skyler’s mouth that the Captain already had an idea regarding the selection of executives.
Their trip to the Four Blues was to gather these people together.
The next day, Marineford.
On Fleet Admiral Sengoku’s desk appeared a compilation of the latest news regarding the Hell Pirates.
“Laffitte…
the Mafia family, it seems this Skyler is brewing his own core team.
Although the newcomer generation of the Four Blues cannot compare to the Grand Line, there are quite a few potential individuals…
Besides, he knows very well that if he stays on the Grand Line, his actions won’t be so easy, and he will definitely be targeted by us.” Sengoku said, looking at the two old friends sitting opposite him.
Marine Chief of Staff, Tsuru.
Marine Vice Admiral, the hero Garp.
“Hahahaha…
Sengoku, relax a bit, it’s just a newcomer, is it worth you spending so much effort?” Garp grinned broadly, holding a donut in his hand and eating with great relish.
Hearing this, seeing his heartless appearance, veins bulged on Sengoku’s forehead, looking irritated.
“Newcomer?!
Which of the old timers on the sea now didn’t grow from being newcomers?
Including you and me, if we don’t find a way to strangle them in the early stages of their voyage and let them act wantonly, how many enemies will they make for our Marines in the future?
You still have the mood to stay here, leisurely eating your snacks?!” Sengoku’s expression was gloomy.
“Hahahaha…
That’s true…
Pretend I didn’t say anything.”
Garp scratched his head and laughed loudly.
Seeing him like this, Sengoku grew even angrier.