Pirate: It’s not a phantom beast, it’s a phantom god!

Chapter 174 New Year Ranking and Somen

"Dragon Fist!"

Bang! ! !
"Ugh!"

The best martial artist in the world... well, no.

On the Hundred Beasts Martial Arts Arena, Taolong's punch, faintly accompanied by a dragon's roar, hit the opponent's abdomen heavily, knocking his opponent Dirk out of the ring.

"Oh!"

"Boss Taolong won!"

"Too strong! Captain Taolong!"

"Quack! The Captain insulted Dirk. The Captain is invincible!"

"Taolong! Taolong! Taolong!"
"Hey!"

……

Listening to the loud cheers from everyone in the audience, Taolong took off the token with the word "Yi" engraved on his chest and held it high!
The golden single wing emits a dazzling and flamboyant light in the sun, announcing the victory of its holder to everyone!

"hu~hu~"

After adjusting his breathing, Taolong walked to the edge of the ring and said to Dirk, who was lying on the ground and unable to move:
"Sorry Dirk, I have no intention of handing over this token yet."

After saying this, he pinned the token back on his chest, which had become much stronger than it was six months ago.

Ever since he obtained this token and the cadre position, Taolong secretly vowed that he would never let anyone replace his number one position.

He would never let his No. 1 token fall into the hands of others.

To this end, he immediately quit drinking after being assigned to the island he was responsible for, and began to exercise day and night.

While other cadres were fast asleep, he was doing push-ups;
While other cadres were enjoying themselves, he was doing push-ups;
While other cadres were racking their brains to beg Burfat to take them out to sea for plunder, he was still doing push-ups.

He even set a record of doing push-ups for three consecutive days and three nights...

In this world, when a person's will is strong enough, he or she can break through the limitations of the body and bring himself or herself to a height that does not originally belong to him or her.

Now, after half a year of settling down and putting in 199 times more effort than an ordinary person, he has been completely transformed and has firmly established himself as the number one cadre stationed on the island.

"You, you have become so much stronger..."

Dirk, lying on the ground, tried to get up, but after seeing the other person's eyes without any confusion, he gave up and lay back down.

"Cough, cough, cough!"

"Really, really amazing..."

Although he followed La's instructions and did not slack off in his training while guarding the island, he was still far behind the most hardworking king of beasts in front of him.

He accepted his defeat with conviction.

From then on, the champion and runner-up of the Beasts Pirates' New Year's Ranking Tournament were decided.

Taolong successfully defended his number one token with unquestionable absolute strength.

Dirk fought his way through all the obstacles, climbing from the last place to the second place, and exchanged the token without a number.

The rankings of the remaining cadres did not change much.

After all, it's only half a year. Unless ordinary people have great perseverance like Taolong and Dirk or are lucky enough to obtain a devil fruit, it's really difficult for them to make any breakthroughs.

"It's really incredible...that Taolong."

"I remember when I was doing the cadre challenge, this guy was the last one standing."

"If the opponent had this strength at that time, I'm afraid I would not be able to win in the end."

Skygate, who was sitting in the audience, sighed.

At the beginning, the man named Taolong really left a deep impression on him. It seemed that no matter how many times he knocked him down, he would stand up again.

Although he was outnumbered at the time, the opponent was the first to come on the field and the last to leave, which showed his amazing perseverance.

"Who says it's not~"

"Captain, it seems like you've become lazy since Hati Island was allocated to you."

Wright looked at the man's slightly plump face and the increasingly polished and sleek afro, and warned him in a slightly serious tone:

"Although Boss Kaido gave us special treatment by not having to participate in the qualifying rounds, the Beast World is ultimately a place where strength speaks for itself."

"Once someone feels that your strength or worth is not worthy of this position, even if Governor Kaido doesn't say anything, others will definitely find ways to pull you down."

"Captain, you are far from being ready to retire~"

Wright said this, patting the other person's already obvious beer belly.

“I…I understand.” Skipgate nodded awkwardly.

He actually knows this problem himself.

Ever since his great revenge was achieved and the organization of the Fore Pirates was retained, he had obviously lost his goal.

In addition, Kaido and other core cadres would not go to him unless they had nothing to do, and there had not been any major wars in the past six months, which led to him really entering a retirement mode on Hati Island.

Even after his last transformation, the people below were curious about why he looked round like a sheep when he was the user of the goat fruit.

[I still have to practice when I get back...]
Patting his belly, Skygate made up his mind that after returning, he must run around the island every morning and evening, and he must not let his position as the number one affiliated pirate group be taken away.

Thinking this in his heart, he looked up at Kaido who was sitting in the main seat and found that he looked a little listless, probably because he drank too much last night.

Burfat next to him also looked like he was still sleepy and kept yawning.

Only Jhin was watching the qualifying match below seriously, and by the way, he ordered his subordinates to redistribute the islands according to this ranking.

"By the way, why don't I see Miss La and the others?"

After looking around, he didn't see the three benefactor sisters and felt a little confused.

"I don't know. I haven't seen them since the three of them left the party early yesterday. Maybe something happened?"

……

"Wake up in the morning and embrace the sun~"

Osi stayed up all night yesterday and went to bed in the early morning, but he was still full of energy when he got up.

"It's already noon."

"Come and eat."

"Oh~"

Hearing La's call, Osi quickly changed his clothes and ran to wash up.

"By the way, where's that Ouba girl? Why can't I see her?"

"She went straight back to her lab this morning. It seems she had some inspiration."

Since she had her own laboratory, Ou Bei rarely came back. She seemed to prefer staying in her own little space rather than at home.

"Ah~ It turns out that domestic flowers are not as fragrant as wild flowers~"

"The children have grown up and started to dislike us~"

After making plans for his sister behind her back, Oshi sat down at the dining table and looked at the lunch in the bowl in front of him... It was a bowl of clear somen noodles.

The noodles were white flour and the soup was clear water, without even any chopped green onions or oil.

[I hope there won’t be any hallucinogens added this time~]
Ossi picked up the chopsticks...

suck~

Hmm... the taste is just average, not bad but not particularly delicious either.

Ossi picked up another chopstick in confusion.

suck~

Ok……

The taste is still ordinary.

I didn't hear any sound of an old man suddenly beating gongs, drums or blowing suona, nor did I see any strange special effects.

[Could it be that the hallucinogenic effect has some kind of self-suppression that can only be used once per round?]
"Sister La, did you do this?"

Ossi asked doubtfully, still unable to believe that such an ordinary dish was the work of Ra.

"Yes."

“It tastes so ordinary~”

"Because it's just a 'normal' bowl of ramen."

"..."

I answered it, but it felt like I didn’t answer it.

But what can I say? Last night in the fantasy world, I ate too much delicacies from land and sea, and too much oil and spicy food. Now I feel that this tasteless vegetarian noodles are actually not bad.

suck~

(End of this chapter)