“Phew!” Lucas let out a long breath.
Unleashing a tornado and then spawning the Yarukiman Mangrove had actually left him feeling somewhat exhausted.
“As expected, I’m still too weak.
I wonder when I’ll be able to perform a true Deep Forest Emergence, or even a True Several Thousand Hands!” Lucas sighed.
As he spoke, his stamina began to rapidly recover thanks to his Photosynthesis Ability.
Meanwhile, the suddenly appearing trees had startled the Marines, who were now looking at Lucas with awe.
This Lieutenant Commander who had come from Marineford was simply a monster.
“What are you waiting for?
Go over and kill him,” Lucas said.
“Yes, yes, move in closer!” Ensign Zabu realized and hurriedly said.
Jango, tied to the Yarukiman Mangrove, watched the Marines approaching from afar, raising their guns, and hurriedly shouted:
“Don’t kill me!
I can help you boost soldier morale; I can help you hypnotize others.”
Bang!
Bang!
Bang!
Muskets fired, but only one shot hit Jango.
“Idiots, get closer!” Seeing his subordinates’ aim was so impressively terrible, Ensign Zabu shouted in anger.
“Bring him over!” Lucas’s voice came over at this moment.
Thump!
Soon, Jango was dragged before Lucas.
“From now on, you’re with me.” Lucas decided that Jango’s hypnosis skills still had plenty of market value.
At the very least, even the future main cast couldn’t escape his hypnosis.
“Lieutenant Commander, he’s a pirate.
Recruiting him isn’t a good idea, is it?” Ensign Zabu advised.
Hearing this, Lucas glanced at Ensign Zabu and said:
“My grandfather lived to be ninety-seven.
Do you know why he lived so long?”
“Good health?” Ensign Zabu guessed.
Lucas shook his head.
“Because my grandfather never talked too much and never meddled in other people’s business!”
“…” Ensign Zabu was speechless.
…
Having only been out for three or four days, he had already completed one-third of his mission.
This was a good omen.
Next, Lucas intended to go find Arlong, but he was disappointed.
At this time, Arlong might have just established the Arlong Pirates, or perhaps he hadn’t left the Sun Pirates yet; there was no trace of Arlong in Cocoyasi Village at all.
After sailing for a month, apart from taking care of three pirate crews, there were no other gains.
…
At this time, at the G5 Marine base, Base Commander Kadaru rubbed his head, his face full of despair.
“It’s been a month already.
Where on earth did he go to patrol?”
If anything happened to Lucas again, Base Commander Kadaru could forget about his wish to return to Marineford; he might as well just jump into the sea and feed the fish.
He was still counting on his relationship with Lucas, hoping Lucas would pull him up in the future!
“Lieutenant Commander Saris Lucas has returned.” Suddenly, a voice that sounded like a relative brought Base Commander Kadaru back to reality.
He hurriedly walked out.
He’s finally back.
I really want to…
he’s really mischievous!
Soon, the news of Lucas defeating Kuro of a Hundred Plans and wiping out the Black Cat Pirates spread throughout the base.
One had to know that the Captain of the Black Cat Pirates, Kuro, was a big-time pirate with a bounty of 16 million Berries.
Second only to the 17 million Berry bounty of Captain Krieg of the Krieg Pirates.
“As expected, the person I valued wouldn’t be wrong!” At this moment, Base Commander Kadaru felt that the time for him to return to Marineford was not far off.
Ensign Zabu, how did you guys deal with the Black Cat Pirates?” A Marine asked Ensign Zabu impatiently.
“Hahaha, at the time, under my…
under the leadership of Lieutenant Commander Lucas, and with my cooperation, we wiped out the Black Cat Pirates in one fell swoop,” Ensign Zabu said, hands on his hips.
“That…
that’s Jango with the 9 million Berry bounty, right?” A sharp-eyed Marine suddenly asked.
This sentence left Ensign Zabu stunned in embarrassment.
“That’s right, it is Jango.
I’ve seen him on a wanted poster,” another Marine soldier said.
“This…” Ensign Zabu’s brain spun rapidly, trying to figure out how to explain it.
“Damn it, how could you let a dirty pirate set foot in our sacred base!” This sentence immediately made the Marine soldiers angry.
Just then, Jango came to a high platform and said:
“Everyone, Marines, look over here.”
As he spoke, Jango took out two rings with strings and said:
“Next, I will count one, two, Jango, and you will know that I am a Marine, I am a Marine!”
“One”
“Two”
“Jango!”
This was a relatively large-scale hypnosis, and Jango had forgotten to pull his hat down to cover his eyes.
He had hypnotized himself as well…
From today on, he was the heroic Marine soldier Jango.
Watching Jango’s god-tier move, Lucas sighed.
“What a talent!”
Afterwards, he went to Base Commander Kadaru’s office.
First, to claim credit, and second, to get Jango the status of a Marine Third Class.
This Jango, in large-scale battles, one hypnosis could be a huge boost to morale.
I still remember when Jango failed to hypnotize the pirates and hypnotized Luffy instead, causing Luffy’s strength to soar and him to give the pirates a sound beating.
And there was also the time Jango hypnotized Luffy, and the two of them danced wildly until dark without stopping.
“This Jango…
claiming he was an undercover agent might pass,” Base Commander Kadaru thought for a moment and said.
Then he continued: “Next time you go on patrol, you can’t stay out for a month again.”
“Base Commander Kadaru, don’t worry.
Kuro is dead, and there aren’t many left in the East Blue who can threaten me,” Lucas said.
Hearing this, Base Commander Kadaru knew he couldn’t overly hinder Lucas, so he nodded in agreement.
Upon leaving Base Commander Kadaru’s office, Lucas had Ensign Zabu go get a Marine uniform for Jango and register his identity.
The next step, Lucas intended to go pursue the Krieg Pirates.
He had taken Jango in with the specific idea of using him to deal with Krieg.
Krieg had five thousand men and fifty ships.
With so many people, Lucas definitely couldn’t beat them, but if Jango could pull off a large-scale hypnosis, it might not be impossible.
However, to deal with Krieg, he would still need to use strategy.
…
Time passed slowly, and two months flew by in the blink of an eye.
By this time, Lucas’s reputation began to gradually spread throughout the East Blue.
In two months, including the Black Cat Pirates, nine pirate crews had been wiped out by Lucas.
And there were almost no survivors left.
This caused Lucas to gradually become known among pirates as a Shura, and he was referred to as the Shura Swordsman.
At first, when he heard this title for the first time, Lucas really wanted to complain.
Actually, he preferred the title Gale Swordsman.
The title of Swordsman was because, during this period, Lucas mainly used his sword and used his Devil Fruit ability relatively less, so outsiders thought Lucas’s swordsmanship was quite formidable.
But in fact, this was the period when Lucas’s Devil Fruit ability had increased the most; it was now at four stars, whereas it was only three stars when he was at Marineford.
Secondly, Lucas had been keeping an eye on news throughout the East Blue, especially news about the Krieg Pirates.
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