Pirate: My Piltover technology is far ahead!

Chapter 64 The General Who Was Not Killed, Black Arm Zephyr

The silver tentacles are naturally part of Zach's body. As a gel-like life form, Zach's most notable characteristic is his ability to split his body and consciousness.

With its Logia-type Devil Fruit combined with Zaun's alchemy technology, Zach couldn't be killed even if it was divided into dozens of pieces; its vitality was extremely tenacious.

This Zach is just a clone, but it understands a principle: killing the elderly, weak, women, and children without cause is wrong and needs to be stopped, so it did just that.

"What is this thing? Hey! Help! Something's wrong with this thing."

The pirate tried to free his arm from Zack's restraints, but the unidentified silver object was as secure as handcuffs, and no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't budge it an inch.

The pirates tried to slash at Zack with their weapons, but the blades got stuck and they couldn't pull them out.

Zach's body is now composed of a very special substance. Mercury and alchemical agents have created this extremely unique gel, allowing Zach to make his body exhibit a wider variety of changes depending on the situation.

"A woman and a brat, you need to help guys like that? You're really useless."

The pirates nearby heard his shouts and walked over, cursing under their breath. But before the pirates could get close, the part of Zack that was in the pool suddenly loosened and bounced out like a spring.

The pirates who had been restrained by Zac lost their balance when Zac suddenly relaxed, and the two of them collided.

"Damn it! Ugh!"

A silvery, gelatinous substance grabbed their heads and slammed them together, then smeared it onto them like dough. Highly dense mercury blocked their mouths and noses, sealing off their breathing channels.

The pirates tried to grab it with their hands, but the highly elastic gelatinous substance turned into a fluid. This was Zack's elemental transformation mode; he had completely turned this part of his body into mercury.

No matter how hard they tried to grab it, the clump of mercury remained stuck on their heads. Their struggles increased their oxygen consumption, and a strong feeling of suffocation suddenly overwhelmed them.

"Yekrik, run!"

Zephyr's wife was unaware of what had happened. The remaining pirates were looting and preparing to set the place on fire. The fall of these two pirates gave this deadly place a new way out.

"Oh no! Stop them!"

The other pirates also noticed the situation and immediately took action. The leader threw his weapon, but it was knocked down by a silver whip.

"Essence person?!"

Oran appeared outside the gate; following the guidance of Zach's clone, he had already arrived.

"Help! We are the family of General Zephyr, please help us!"

Emphasizing Zephyr's identity is meaningless when facing pirates seeking revenge, but it's a different story when asking for help; this identity might be more useful now.

It was with this in mind that Zephyr's wife shouted that after seeing someone stop the attack.

"Zefa's family is interesting; there's a lot going on behind the scenes."

A few pirates could bully women and children, but when faced with stronger combat power, they were defeated in an instant. The silver tentacles that swung along with Oran's arm resolved these troubles in no time.

Thank you.

With the crisis over, Zefa's wife suddenly went limp, leaning against the door, panting heavily. The shock of the life-or-death crisis was too great, causing her body to trigger some stress responses.

"Fran, go and contact Vice Admiral Tsuru, and ask her to come and handle some matters within the Navy, Fran?"

"Father, it seemed like someone was watching this place just now, but he disappeared."

"Stay alert, contact the Navy at headquarters first."

Oran helped Zephat's wife back to her seat in the room and instructed Frankenstein to contact the Navy. Upon receiving the message, the Navy quickly dispatched a squad of soldiers to the scene.

However, one of the soldiers, after seeing what was happening, quietly slipped out of the ranks.

Oran didn't notice a soldier leaving; he was reminiscing about things related to Zefa.

In the original timeline, Zephyr's mindset underwent a significant change after the death of his family. Even though he was extremely unwilling, his only action was to imprison those pirates, rather than resorting to personal means to vent his anger.

But after that, instead of using his position as an admiral to launch a more intense attack on pirates, Zephyr, who hated pirates even more, chose to resign in despair.

His principle of not killing led him to arrest and imprison the pirates, but his act of resigning was very unusual.

It was clear that his family members had died in a place where there should have been no danger, which was why he was so disheartened.

Zephyr's superiors' strong pleas for him to stay led him to become the chief instructor, where he began training more marines behind the scenes until the World Government recruited the man who later cut off his arm as a Shichibukai.

The Navy is the Navy, and the World Government is the World Government. Although these two organizations are in a hierarchical relationship, the Navy, as a violent institution, has a great deal of independence. Zephyr's personality is not liked by the World Government.

The World Government needs a more decisive and swift sword that can resolutely carry out its orders. Therefore, between Akainu and Aokiji, they favor Akainu and advocate for him to succeed as Fleet Admiral.

Things were fine before, but as Zephyr was promoted to admiral, his policy of not killing people displeased the World Government. More importantly, some special groups of people began to dislike Zephyr more and more, such as the Celestial Dragons.

At this very moment, news of what was happening in Marineford had reached Mary Geoise through special channels.

"Did the operation fail?"

"Yes, Saint Satan, who was invited by the Navy to arrive at Marine Headquarters, happened to stop those pirates. The timing was quite coincidental."

In the familiar room, a CP0 officer knelt on the floor, reporting on the mission's progress.

Satan still acted as if he had everything under control; he was the one who orchestrated it all.

In the Five Elders' view, it is clearly the former that is more important, protecting the Celestial Dragons or protecting the sea.

Zephyr's ability to grow to the rank of Admiral undoubtedly demonstrates his competence, but his personality makes him unsuitable for serving the Celestial Dragons.

Some time ago, Zephyr interfered with the killing of a Celestial Dragon he was protecting because of his own sense of morality. This made the Celestial Dragon very unhappy, and he has been using his family's influence to protest Zephyr's behavior.

The World Government has no intention of giving up such a force, so it wants to urge him to make some changes, while also teaching him a lesson.

The plan was to have the pirates kill Zephyr's family, so that Zephyr would realize how foolish his refusal to kill and his disrespectful behavior were. The intention was to use this as a pretext to make him more extreme, to make him deeply hate pirates, and to turn him into a killing machine willing to serve the government.

Without their help, let alone taking action, it would be unrealistic for ordinary pirates to even find out where Zephyr's family is. Pirates don't have the World Government's intelligence network, and Zephyr wouldn't be so idle as to publish his family situation in the newspaper every day.

To be more precise, most ordinary soldiers in the Navy couldn't explain the family situations of high-ranking Navy officers, let alone these pirates.

"Satan Saint, what's next?"

"There's no need to continue. Once is a coincidence, but twice would be too deliberate. After this, the navy will probably strengthen its defenses on its own."

Although the person didn't die, the effect should be similar; we just need to observe his reaction to find out.

"By the way, how are those pirates doing?"

"Most of them were killed by Sidiriel, who seems to have become a Logia-type Devil Fruit user and is quite powerful. One of them was captured alive."

"Make the remaining person disappear, and that's the end of it."

"Yes."

This is Satan's consistent style. Apart from the Celestial Dragons, ordinary people are nothing but insects in his eyes. He doesn't care if a few die for his own purposes.

Even the navy is nothing more than hunting dogs. Untamable hunting dogs, no matter how strong they are, will be abandoned once their value is exhausted.

While Satan's casual words determined the fate of others, Zefa also appeared extremely agitated on a warship.

"Full speed ahead! Return to Marineford immediately!!"

(End of this chapter)